Accommodating Protest
Title | Accommodating Protest PDF eBook |
Author | Arlene Elowe Macleod |
Publisher | |
Pages | 206 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780231072809 |
This book explores the puzzling phenomenon of new veiling practices among lower middle class women in Cairo, Egypt. Although these women are part of a modernizing middle class, they also voluntarily adopt a traditional symbol of female subordination. How can this paradox be explained? An explanation emerges which reconceptualizes what appears to be reactionary behavior as a new style of political struggle--as accommodating protest. These women, most of them clerical workers in the large government bureaucracy, are ambivalent about working outside the home, considering it a change which brings new burdens as well as some important benefits. At the same time they realize that leaving home and family is creating an intolerable situation of the erosion of their social status and the loss of their traditional identity. The new veiling expresses women's protest against this. MacLeod argues that the symbolism of the new veiling emerges from this tense subcultural dilemma, involving elements of both resistance and acquiescence.
Accommodating protest
Title | Accommodating protest PDF eBook |
Author | Arlene Elowe Macleod |
Publisher | |
Pages | 205 |
Release | 1987 |
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ISBN |
Accommodating Protest
Title | Accommodating Protest PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 205 |
Release | 1989 |
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ISBN |
Accommodating Protest
Title | Accommodating Protest PDF eBook |
Author | Arlene Elowe Macleod |
Publisher | |
Pages | 206 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780231072816 |
Accommodating Protest explores the subculture framing the behavior of lower-middle-class women in Cairo and evaluates their constraints and opportunities in a rapidly changing city. MacLeod examines the conflicting ideologies of the lower middle class, where economic pressures compel women to enter the workplace, even as traditional values encourage them to stay home as wives and mothers.
Protest, Repression and Political Regimes
Title | Protest, Repression and Political Regimes PDF eBook |
Author | Sabine C. Carey |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 151 |
Release | 2009-01-13 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 113409552X |
This book explores and tests different theories of how governments respond to dissent and how dissidents respond to repression using extensive empirical data and detailed studies on Latin America and Africa.
The Age of Protest
Title | The Age of Protest PDF eBook |
Author | Norman F. Cantor |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 327 |
Release | 2021-09-05 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1000423786 |
This book, first published in 1970, examines significant protest movements of the twentieth century and looks at the similarities and differences between the various dissents and rebellions. Beginning with the mood of weariness and dissatisfaction with the old regimes at the turn of the century, it discusses the emergence of protest as an ideal, a viable force for reform. From radical unionism, it traces the thread through bohemianism, international communism and anticolonialism in the twenties; fascism and Nazism and protest as a way of life up to 1945; the Afro-Asian and early civil rights movements of the fifties; and the agitating students and revolutionary movements of the sixties.
Theorizing Feminism
Title | Theorizing Feminism PDF eBook |
Author | Anne C. Herrmann |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 481 |
Release | 2018-05-04 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 042997390X |
In the past three decades, feminist scholars have produced an extraordinary rich body of theoretical writing in humanities and social science disciplines. This revised and updated second edition of Theorizing Feminism: Parallel Trends in the Humanities and Social Sciences, is a genuinely interdisciplinary anthology of significant contributions to feminist theory.This timely reader is creatively edited, and contains insightful introductory material. It illuminates the historical development of feminist theory as well as the current state of the field. Emphasizing common themes and interests in the humanities and social sciences, the editors have chosen topics that remain relevant to current debates, reflect the interests of a diverse community of thinkers, and have been central to feminist theory in many disciplines.The contributors include leading figures from the fields of psychology, literary criticism, sociology, philosophy, anthropology, art history, law, and economics. This is the ideal text for any advanced course on interdisciplinary feminist theory, one that fills a long-standing gap in feminist pedagogy.