Victims and Heroines: Women, Welfare and the Egyptian State by Iman Bibars (Engl
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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN-13
- 9781856499354
- Book Title
- Victims and Heroines
- ISBN
- 9781856499354
- Subject Area
- Political Science, Social Science
- Publication Name
- Victims and Heroines : Women, Welfare and the Egyptian State
- Publisher
- ZED Books, The Limited
- Item Length
- 8.5 in
- Subject
- Poverty & Homelessness, Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare, Women's Studies
- Publication Year
- 2001
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.5 in
- Item Weight
- 9.9 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 224 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
ZED Books, The Limited
ISBN-10
1856499359
ISBN-13
9781856499354
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2276099
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Publication Name
Victims and Heroines : Women, Welfare and the Egyptian State
Language
English
Subject
Poverty & Homelessness, Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare, Women's Studies
Publication Year
2001
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Political Science, Social Science
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
9.9 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
Reviews
'It is both original and sensitively researched and a must for all those interested in what is happening to women in societies in transition in the Middle East. Also very relevant to those teaching courses on women, the state and the feminization of poverty.'Cynthia Nelson, American University in Cairo'Raises important and thought provoking questions on the interface between state policies and the social construction of gender in Egypt. By focusing on female-headed households, it highlights both mechanisms of resistance and survival and processes of discrimination and exclusion.Its implications reach far beyond the Egyptian context.'Deniz Kandiyoti'A gripping investigation into the causes and conditions of female household headship in low-income communities in Egypt. This is what social science should be: careful, committed, and courageous.'Anne-Marie Goetz, "A gripping investigation into the causes and conditions of female household headship in low-income communities in Egypt. This is what social science should be: careful, committed, and courageous." -- Anne-Marie Goetz "It is both original and sensitively researched and a must for all those interested in what is happening to women in societies in transition in the Middle East. Also very relevant to those teaching courses on women, the state and the feminization of poverty." -- Cynthia Nelson, American University in Cairo "Raises important and thought provoking questions on the interface between state policies and the social construction of gender in Egypt. By focusing on female-headed households, it highlights both mechanisms of resistance and survival and processes of discrimination and exclusion.Its implications reach far beyond the Egyptian context." -- Deniz Kandiyoti, ' By giving voice to those very women who are at most risk and vulnerable during Egypt's restructuralization policies, the reader gets a wonderfully nuanced understanding of how the state's welfare system works from the perspective of those who are its intended recipients... It is both original and sensitively researched and a must for all those interested in what is happening to women in societies in transition in the Middle East. Also very relevant to those teaching coures on women, the state and the feminization of poverty' - Cynthia Nelson, Director of the Institute for Gender and Women's Studies at the American University in Cairo'This volume raises important and thought provoking questions on the interface between state policies and the social construction of gender in Egypt. By focusing on female-headed households, it highlights both mechanisms of resistance and survival and processes of discrimination and exclusion.Its implications reach far beyond the Egyptian context.' - Deniz Kandiyoti'Dr. Bibars' book is a gripping investigation into the causes and conditions of female household headship in low-income communities in Egypt. Her case studies reveal fascinating details about the lives of women and adolescent girls who try to reconcile the contradictions between norms of male provision, traditions of female subservience, and the brutal facts of male unemployment and women's need to fend for their own families. In analysing women's efforts to resist patriarchal and class domination, Dr. Bibars bravely challenges the current post-modern orthodoxy which, in the name of cultural sensitivity, makes much more of women's everyday forms of resistance than is really there. This is what social science should be: careful, committed, and courageous. This book will be of interest not just to those concerned about the poverty of female headed-households, but anyone interested in modern social policy in a context of economic liberalisation, feminist analyses of the state, and the relationship between conservative religious groups and modern state power as it affects the survival chances of women and children outside of the conventional male-governed family.' - Anne-Marie Goetz
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
305.4/2/0962
Table Of Content
1. Introduction: Gendering the State 2. The Feminist Researcher Among the Women 3. Defining Female Headship 4. Women, Welfare and the State 5. The Politics of Exclusion 6. Beyond the Veil: Religion and Welfare 7. Women as Victims, Women as Survivors? 8. Conclusion
Synopsis
Poverty and inequality are on the increase in developing countries forced to struggle with economic stabilization programmes. But, as this book shows, in addition to an anti-poor bias (despite rhetoric to the contrary), which almost all governments carrying out liberalization now display, women in particular suffer. Dr Bibars looks at one very large category of socially deprived women in Egypt: those who support and manage their own households. These households now comprise something like 18-30 per cent of all urban Egyptian families. Bibars investigates how these women cope with poverty and how they seek to extract benefits, welfare payments and pensions in particular, from both state agencies and religious (Coptic as well as Muslim) welfare organizations. In both cases, she finds that Egyptian women encounter a serious gender bias which is especially directed against those women forced by circumstance to head their own households. This work is a profoundly insightful investigation into the gendered nature of the state. Iman Bibars shows how this bias distorts not only the delivery of social services but also the response of women. However much women may wish to oppose their oppressive conditions and try to manipulate an oppressive system, they are severely limited in their efforts and strategies for changing their subordination to men. This finding, reached in spite of the author's own commitment to women's equality, is an important corrective to any undue optimism about gender relations and the direction in which they are moving., Poverty and inequality are on the increase in developing countries such as Egypt. Almost all governments carrying out liberalization now display an anti-poor bias, while women suffer in particular. Those in charge of female headed households comprise a very large category of socially deprived women- something like 15 to 30% of all urban Egyptian families. The way in which these women cope with poverty is examined and their sources of benefit from both state agencies and religious welfare organizations. The investigation encompasses a variety of sources including Islamic and Coptic Christian welfare programmes. An insight is given into gender relations and the direction in which they are moving while drawing on issues such as poverty and development, Middle East and Islamic studies., Poverty and inequality are on the increase in developing countries forced to struggle with economic stabilization programmes. But, as this book shows, in addition to an anti-poor bias (despite rhetoric to the contrary), which almost all governments carrying out liberalization now display, women in particular suffer. Dr Bibars looks at one very large category of socially deprived women in Egypt: those who support and manage their own households. These households now comprise something like 18-30 per cent of all urban Egyptian families. Bibars investigates how these women cope with poverty and how they seek to extract benefits, welfare payments and pensions in particular, from both state agencies and religious (Coptic as well as Muslim) welfare organizations. In both cases, she finds that Egyptian women encounter a serious gender bias which is especially directed against those women forced by circumstance to head their own households.This work is a profoundly insightful investigation into the gendered nature of the state. Iman Bibars shows how this bias distorts not only the delivery of social services but also the response of women. However much women may wish to oppose their oppressive conditions and try to manipulate an oppressive system, they are severely limited in their efforts and strategies for changing their subordination to men. This finding, reached in spite of the author's own commitment to women's equality, is an important corrective to any undue optimism about gender relations and the direction in which they are moving., Based upon the fact that poverty and inequality are on the increase in developing countries like Egypt, this work shows that women suffer in particular, and that this is especially the case where women head households. Dr Bibars looks at their coping strategies (welfare, pensions).
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