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Anthropology

American University in Cairo

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2002

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Changes In Family Gender Roles Among The Southern Sudan Refugee Families In Cairo, James Wani-Kana Lino Lejukole Feb 2002

Changes In Family Gender Roles Among The Southern Sudan Refugee Families In Cairo, James Wani-Kana Lino Lejukole

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This work addresses changes in family gender roles among southern Sudanese refugee families in Cairo. Its objectives are to bring to light the feelings, perceptions and views mostly among married men about the experiences of their lives in exile, how they feel when they could not perform their male gender roles but are forced by circumstances to perform female gender roles in the family when their wives are away working as domestic servants to earn incomes for their families. Its also examines husband-wife relations, decision-making, authority and power in the family in relation to the role of breadwinner. The study …