Defiance and Compliance

Negotiating Gender in Low-Income Cairo

By: Heba El-Kholy

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Paperback | 1 February 2003

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Defiance and Compliance is a thought-provoking look into the lives of low-income women living and working in Cairo. Often confronted with economic and political discrimination, these women not only manage to survive, but to thrive. Although there's a prevailing attitude that Middle Eastern women are oppressed and devoid of agency, this study demonstrates the opposite by showing the complex and diverse ways in which they improve their situations by circumventing existing gender arrangements. Largely derived from in-depth interviews and observations, Defiance and Compliance is the result of fifteen months of research in several low-income communities in Cairo. The book aims to create debate, in both the anthropological and the broader feminist literature, regarding the ways in which women's gender interests are formed, and how their strategies for expressing discontent and negotiating gender-based power relations, are modified and inflected by their specific socio-economic locations. An insightful read, Defiance and Compliance challenges prevailing, unexamined assumptions about male and female relations, contributing significantly to current debates about poverty, gender, power and resistance.

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"[This book] is commended as being a thoughtful and thought-provoking survey which offers much-needed insights on economic ramifications and their lasting effects." · Midwest Book Review

"The 13th volume in the outstanding 'New Directions in Anthropology' series...is a collection of insightful observations and cogent interviews ... and commended as being a thoughtful and thought-provoking survey which offers much-needed insights on economic ramifications and their lasting effects." · The Bookwatch

"Dr.El-Kholy's powerful study of labouring women in four Cairo neighbourhoods shows them vigorously confronting gender inequalities. Mindful of their sexual reputations, they see marriage less as oppression, more as a risky entry into the 'real' world of womanhood. These women can be strong in negotiations over marriage contracts, and wage-rates. Crystal-clear analysis, persuasive writing, and contextualised ethnography combine to make this book an intellectual and political challenge." · Peter Loizos, London School of Economics

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Non-Fiction Society & Culture Social Groups Gender Studies Gender Studies: Women and Girls Sociology & Anthropology Sociology Sociology & Customs & Traditions Ethnic Studies Social Issues & Processes Feminism & Feminist Theory Poverty & Unemployment

Anthropology Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

Dedication
Acknowledgement
A Note on Transliteration
Introduction: A Personal Trajectory	p. 1
Rethinking Approaches to Resistance, Power and Gender Relations: Towards a Theoretical Framework	p. 12
The Macrocontext: an Overview of Sociopolitical and Economic Transformations in Egypt	p. 31
The Research Setting and Characteristics of the Study Community	p. 46
Ethnography in One's Native City: Research Approach, Methods, and Fieldwork Encounters	p. 62
Premarital Standards and Expectations	p. 84
Marriage Transactions and Negotiations	p. 101
Defiance and Acquiescence in The Labor Market	p. 131
Conjugal Arrangements and Sexuality	p. 167
Intrahousehold Decisions and Extrahousehold Networks	p. 192
Conclusion: Toward an "Organic Feminism"	p. 217
Tables	p. 230
Map of Cairo	p. 231
App. 1: Description of Study Population	p. 232
App. 2: Guiding Research Questions	p. 235
Bibliography	p. 237
Index	p. 259
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