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Victims and heroines : women, welfare and the Egyptian state

Bibars, Iman author

2001

Overview

\"Poverty and inequality are on the increase in developing countries like Egypt struggling with economic stabilization. But though the poor are the victims of almost all governments carrying out liberalization, women suffer in particular. In this book Iman Bibars looks at women in charge of female-headed households, now comprising 15 to 30 per cent of urban Egyptian families. She investigates how these women cope with poverty and seek to extract benefits from both state agencies and religious welfare organizations. She finds that women forced by circumstance to head their own households encounter a serious gender bias.\" \"Giving insight into the gendered nature of the state and the consequent effects on service delivery, Victims and Heroines shows women's responses to an oppressive system and their strategies for changing their subordination to men.\"--Jacket.

• Publisher: Zed Books
• Subject: Women Egypt Social conditions 21st century / Poverty Sex differences Egypt / Egypt Social conditions 1981-
• ISBN: 1856499340, 1856499359, 9781856499354

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
HQ 1793 .B53 2001	2	BOOK	AUTOSTORE