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The Problematic Of Generating Anthropological Knowledge: A Case Study Of A Health And Gender Development Project In Rural Egypt, Tonje Holm
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This thesis explores how boarder guards limits the amount of knowledge an anthropologist really can obtain doing research. The research is based upon a concrete case study in Egypt where local and national government bodies "border guard" how knowledge is gained within a development project. This research shows how although anthropological knowledge and research provide a body of theory within which policy is created the policy should come with a "health warning". Field research undoubtedly give more information than so called "armchair" research, but it is far from giving the policy makers the full picture of the society, or project …
The Marginaliztion Of Women In The Political Participation Process In Egypt, Nouran Ezz El Din El Shabrawy
The Marginaliztion Of Women In The Political Participation Process In Egypt, Nouran Ezz El Din El Shabrawy
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This article examines the current situation of women in the political participation process in Egypt while highlighting cultural, social, economic, political and legal restrictions that are preventing women from having a chance to be more politically involved.
Poverty, Gender, And Religion: A Reflection On The Status Of Coptic Women In Poor Areas, Ereeny Talaat Zaki
Poverty, Gender, And Religion: A Reflection On The Status Of Coptic Women In Poor Areas, Ereeny Talaat Zaki
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The objective of this thesis is to explore the reasons behind the oppression of poor Coptic women. It examines the factors that position Coptic women in inferior status. It analyzes these factors at the intersections of lack of resources, poverty consequences, and gender inequalities that shape life experiences of this segment of the Egyptian society. Central to my argument is the influence of religion on the lives of those women. In the light of fieldwork conducted in the poor area of El Salaam city, the main finding is that religion affiliation, especially if this religion is adopted by a minority …
Image Of Women As Portrayed In The Egyptian Media, Rasha Nabil Allam
Image Of Women As Portrayed In The Egyptian Media, Rasha Nabil Allam
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This study examines the image of women as portrayed in the newly independent two Egyptian newspapers, Nahdet Misr or (Egyptian Renissance ), and Al-Masry Al-Youm or (The New Egyptian). The study aims to identify to what extent these two newspapers promote a developmental image about women's roles in society. It is very significant to examine the phenomena of individual newspapers as a new press in addition to the governmental and party press. This is considered a pioneer research for addressing the issue of women in the independent media.
The Mass Media reflects the society it exists in. The mass media …
The Search For A New Islamic Identity: Middle Aged Elite Women, Noha Ali Abou Gazia
The Search For A New Islamic Identity: Middle Aged Elite Women, Noha Ali Abou Gazia
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This thesis investigates the construction of a new Islamic identity by middle aged elite women in Egypt. I argue that the search for a new Islamic identity by elite women should be viewed as a redefinition of identity fully autonomous from the current codes imposed by the media. For them, the search for meaning takes place in the reconstruction of defensive identities informed by Islamic notions. The construction of a new Islamic identity by elite women should be viewed in terms the conflicts they face in society. The conflict arises from the society's endeavor to impose certain codes and the …
Gender, Forced Migration And Paid Domestic Work: Case Studies On Refugee Women Domestic Workers In Cairo, Amira Abderahman Ahmed
Gender, Forced Migration And Paid Domestic Work: Case Studies On Refugee Women Domestic Workers In Cairo, Amira Abderahman Ahmed
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The main aim of this thesis is to be able to fill a research gap with regard to women and their survival strategies with emphasis on refugee women, mostly from the Hom of Africa, who have fled to Cairo during the 1990s. The presence of refugee women in the domestic labor sector in Egypt is a relatively recent phenomenon. Cairo, as a large urban setting in the developing world, provides an interesting site where all of these distinct actors play the same role and share at least two structural factors: being migrant women and domestics. The basic argument of this …
The Cultural Construction Of Disability: An Ethnographical Approach To Women With Disabilities In Egypt, Amira Mahmoud Said Abd El-Khalek
The Cultural Construction Of Disability: An Ethnographical Approach To Women With Disabilities In Egypt, Amira Mahmoud Said Abd El-Khalek
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Women And Inheritance Laws: The Case Of Egypt, Hedayat Labib
Women And Inheritance Laws: The Case Of Egypt, Hedayat Labib
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This work is a study of the discrepancy between the law and practice of inheritance. Since inheritance problems are confronted by both sexes, examples will involve men and women but with the main focus on the latter. Economic dependence on men results in powerlessness and passivity on the part of women. Men utilize cultural capital in their attempt to justify their unjust disinheritance of their female kin. This is used to mystify and justify to themselves their material possession of the shares of women. Whether they accept this situation or not, women are socialized into perceiving men in a certain …
Disability, Gender And Marriage, Heba Hagrass
Disability, Gender And Marriage, Heba Hagrass
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Coping Amidst Crisis: The Narrative Of Five Sudanese Women, Nada Mustafa Mohamed Ali
Coping Amidst Crisis: The Narrative Of Five Sudanese Women, Nada Mustafa Mohamed Ali
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By My Honor! Women's Lives In A South Sinai Bedouin Community, Deborah Jane Wickering
By My Honor! Women's Lives In A South Sinai Bedouin Community, Deborah Jane Wickering
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In the context of broad historical, political and economic influences, this thesis examines how Tarabiin Bedouin women of the the South· Sinai perceive themselves in the complex of social relations that make up their daily lives. Through the methods of life history and participant observation the research finds that women value behavior and attitudes that conform with ideals of honor and yet express contadictory sentiments through poetry and in close emotional relationships . This research takes a reflexive approach. The author's participat·ion in the community, and how the results of the study are a product of the encounter between self …
Women's Political Interest Groups In Egypt, Iman M Diaa El Din Bibars
Women's Political Interest Groups In Egypt, Iman M Diaa El Din Bibars
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Mirrors Of Minds: Images Of Nine Nigerian Women, Dolapo Adeniji-Neill
Mirrors Of Minds: Images Of Nine Nigerian Women, Dolapo Adeniji-Neill
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Changing Women In A Changing Society: A Study Of Emergent Consciousness Of Young Women In The City Of Akhmim In Upper-Egypt, Hoda Fahmy
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Conformists, Manipulators And Rebels: Problems Of Self-Conception Among Women In A Changing Culture, Zeinab Mohamad Shahin
Conformists, Manipulators And Rebels: Problems Of Self-Conception Among Women In A Changing Culture, Zeinab Mohamad Shahin
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