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Desire Across Boundaries: Marriage And Sexuality In A Transnational And Global Context, Mustafa Abdalla Jun 2003

Desire Across Boundaries: Marriage And Sexuality In A Transnational And Global Context, Mustafa Abdalla

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Nuptiality In Arab Countries: Changes And Implications, Hoda Rashad, Magued Osman Jan 2001

Nuptiality In Arab Countries: Changes And Implications, Hoda Rashad, Magued Osman

Faculty Book Chapters

This volume represents revised versions of a collection of papers presented at Cairo Papers Ninth Annual Symposium on ''The New Arab Family,'' held in May 2000. Marriage, divorce, and related topics were center stage, particularly in the demographic papers. Another focus was to combine two very different approaches to the study of the family -- on the one hand demographic, and on the other broadly sociological or anthropological, or as some would say, psychodynamic, that is to say focusing on dyadic or multi-member networks of relationships within the family. Some of these papers in turn focused on ''agency,'' the ways …


Age-Discrepant Marriages In Egypt, Magued I. Osman, Laila S. Shahd Jan 2001

Age-Discrepant Marriages In Egypt, Magued I. Osman, Laila S. Shahd

Faculty Book Chapters

This volume represents revised versions of a collection of papers presented at Cairo Papers Ninth Annual Symposium on ''The New Arab Family,'' held in May 2000. Marriage, divorce, and related topics were center stage, particularly in the demographic papers. Another focus was to combine two very different approaches to the study of the family -- on the one hand demographic, and on the other broadly sociological or anthropological, or as some would say, psychodynamic, that is to say focusing on dyadic or multi-member networks of relationships within the family. Some of these papers in turn focused on ''agency,'' the ways …


Rationales For Kin Marriages In Rural Upper Egypt, Hania Sholkamy Jan 2001

Rationales For Kin Marriages In Rural Upper Egypt, Hania Sholkamy

Faculty Book Chapters

This volume represents revised versions of a collection of papers presented at Cairo Papers Ninth Annual Symposium on ''The New Arab Family,'' held in May 2000. Marriage, divorce, and related topics were center stage, particularly in the demographic papers. Another focus was to combine two very different approaches to the study of the family -- on the one hand demographic, and on the other broadly sociological or anthropological, or as some would say, psychodynamic, that is to say focusing on dyadic or multi-member networks of relationships within the family. Some of these papers in turn focused on ''agency,'' the ways …


The Costs Of Marriage In Egypt: A Hidden Dimension In The New Arab Demography, Diane Singerman, Barbara Ibrahim Jan 2001

The Costs Of Marriage In Egypt: A Hidden Dimension In The New Arab Demography, Diane Singerman, Barbara Ibrahim

Faculty Book Chapters

This volume represents revised versions of a collection of papers presented at Cairo Papers Ninth Annual Symposium on ''The New Arab Family,'' held in May 2000. Marriage, divorce, and related topics were center stage, particularly in the demographic papers. Another focus was to combine two very different approaches to the study of the family -- on the one hand demographic, and on the other broadly sociological or anthropological, or as some would say, psychodynamic, that is to say focusing on dyadic or multi-member networks of relationships within the family. Some of these papers in turn focused on ''agency,'' the ways …


From Sexual Submission To Voluntary Commitment: The Transformationof Family Ties In Contemporary Tunisia, Lilia Labidi Jan 2001

From Sexual Submission To Voluntary Commitment: The Transformationof Family Ties In Contemporary Tunisia, Lilia Labidi

Faculty Book Chapters

This volume represents revised versions of a collection of papers presented at Cairo Papers Ninth Annual Symposium on ''The New Arab Family,'' held in May 2000. Marriage, divorce, and related topics were center stage, particularly in the demographic papers. Another focus was to combine two very different approaches to the study of the family -- on the one hand demographic, and on the other broadly sociological or anthropological, or as some would say, psychodynamic, that is to say focusing on dyadic or multi-member networks of relationships within the family. Some of these papers in turn focused on ''agency,'' the ways …


Sisterhood And Stewardship In Sister-Brother Relations In Saudi Arabia, Soraya Altorki Jan 2001

Sisterhood And Stewardship In Sister-Brother Relations In Saudi Arabia, Soraya Altorki

Faculty Book Chapters

This volume represents revised versions of a collection of papers presented at Cairo Papers Ninth Annual Symposium on ''The New Arab Family,'' held in May 2000. Marriage, divorce, and related topics were center stage, particularly in the demographic papers. Another focus was to combine two very different approaches to the study of the family -- on the one hand demographic, and on the other broadly sociological or anthropological, or as some would say, psychodynamic, that is to say focusing on dyadic or multi-member networks of relationships within the family. Some of these papers in turn focused on ''agency,'' the ways …


The Absent Father, Josette Abdalla Jan 2001

The Absent Father, Josette Abdalla

Faculty Book Chapters

This volume represents revised versions of a collection of papers presented at Cairo Papers Ninth Annual Symposium on ''The New Arab Family,'' held in May 2000. Marriage, divorce, and related topics were center stage, particularly in the demographic papers. Another focus was to combine two very different approaches to the study of the family -- on the one hand demographic, and on the other broadly sociological or anthropological, or as some would say, psychodynamic, that is to say focusing on dyadic or multi-member networks of relationships within the family. Some of these papers in turn focused on ''agency,'' the ways …


Terminating Marriage, Philippe Fargues Jan 2001

Terminating Marriage, Philippe Fargues

Faculty Book Chapters

This volume represents revised versions of a collection of papers presented at Cairo Papers Ninth Annual Symposium on ''The New Arab Family,'' held in May 2000. Marriage, divorce, and related topics were center stage, particularly in the demographic papers. Another focus was to combine two very different approaches to the study of the family -- on the one hand demographic, and on the other broadly sociological or anthropological, or as some would say, psychodynamic, that is to say focusing on dyadic or multi-member networks of relationships within the family. Some of these papers in turn focused on ''agency,'' the ways …


Among Brothers: Patriarchal Connectivity And Brotherly Deference In Lebanon, Suad Joseph Jan 2001

Among Brothers: Patriarchal Connectivity And Brotherly Deference In Lebanon, Suad Joseph

Faculty Book Chapters

This volume represents revised versions of a collection of papers presented at Cairo Papers Ninth Annual Symposium on ''The New Arab Family,'' held in May 2000. Marriage, divorce, and related topics were center stage, particularly in the demographic papers. Another focus was to combine two very different approaches to the study of the family -- on the one hand demographic, and on the other broadly sociological or anthropological, or as some would say, psychodynamic, that is to say focusing on dyadic or multi-member networks of relationships within the family. Some of these papers in turn focused on ''agency,'' the ways …


Families And Households: Headship And Co-Residence, Zeinab Khedr, Laila El Zeini Jan 2001

Families And Households: Headship And Co-Residence, Zeinab Khedr, Laila El Zeini

Faculty Book Chapters

This volume represents revised versions of a collection of papers presented at Cairo Papers Ninth Annual Symposium on ''The New Arab Family,'' held in May 2000. Marriage, divorce, and related topics were center stage, particularly in the demographic papers. Another focus was to combine two very different approaches to the study of the family -- on the one hand demographic, and on the other broadly sociological or anthropological, or as some would say, psychodynamic, that is to say focusing on dyadic or multi-member networks of relationships within the family. Some of these papers in turn focused on ''agency,'' the ways …


Frameworks For Studying Families In The 21st Century, Carol B. Stack Jan 2001

Frameworks For Studying Families In The 21st Century, Carol B. Stack

Faculty Book Chapters

This volume represents revised versions of a collection of papers presented at Cairo Papers Ninth Annual Symposium on ''The New Arab Family,'' held in May 2000. Marriage, divorce, and related topics were center stage, particularly in the demographic papers. Another focus was to combine two very different approaches to the study of the family -- on the one hand demographic, and on the other broadly sociological or anthropological, or as some would say, psychodynamic, that is to say focusing on dyadic or multi-member networks of relationships within the family. Some of these papers in turn focused on ''agency,'' the ways …


Social Change And Parent Adolescent Dynamics In Egypt, Sahar El Tawila, Barbara Ibrahim, Hind Wassef Jan 2001

Social Change And Parent Adolescent Dynamics In Egypt, Sahar El Tawila, Barbara Ibrahim, Hind Wassef

Faculty Book Chapters

This volume represents revised versions of a collection of papers presented at Cairo Papers Ninth Annual Symposium on ''The New Arab Family,'' held in May 2000. Marriage, divorce, and related topics were center stage, particularly in the demographic papers. Another focus was to combine two very different approaches to the study of the family -- on the one hand demographic, and on the other broadly sociological or anthropological, or as some would say, psychodynamic, that is to say focusing on dyadic or multi-member networks of relationships within the family. Some of these papers in turn focused on ''agency,'' the ways …


Disability, Gender And Marriage, Heba Hagrass Feb 1999

Disability, Gender And Marriage, Heba Hagrass

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Ghagar Of Sett Guiranha: A Study Of A Gypsy Community In Egypt, Nabil Sobhi Hanna Apr 1982

Ghagar Of Sett Guiranha: A Study Of A Gypsy Community In Egypt, Nabil Sobhi Hanna

Faculty Books

This monograph is the result of a field study of one of the gypsy groups in Egypt known as the "Ghagar of Sett Guiran'ha'i" which lives within the boundaries of the Arab Republic of Egypt, in a rural area, close to main centers. Apart from giving a detailed description of this group, the study attempts to reveal the dynamics of integration of this group with the society around it through the examination of forms of social contact and avoidance; the expioration of similarities and contrasts between the gypsy group and the local community; and the investigation of some aspects of …