{"product_id":"accommodating-protest-arlene-macleod-9780231072816","title":"Accommodating Protest: Working Women, the New Veiling, and Change in Cairo","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Arlene MacLeod\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0231072813\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780231072816\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Columbia University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/08\/1993\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 206\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.66lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.96h x 6.03w x 0.62d","brand":"Arlene MacLeod","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47202111455487,"sku":"9780231072816","price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a6afd881-54eb-4743-b12c-77fde852d1fe.jpg?v=1756819673","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/accommodating-protest-arlene-macleod-9780231072816","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}