Women's Laboring Practices: Egypt

Women's Laboring Practices: Egypt

Department

Sociology, Egyptology & Anthropology Department

Program

Anthropology

Abstract

Women’s participation in the labor force whether public, private, informal or home-based productive activities is a challenge to outdated constructions of gender roles. There are few women in Egypt who do not work, yet society still construes this work as problematic and contingent.

Publication Date

2012

Document Type

Encyclopedia Entry

Book Title

Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures

ISBN

1872-5309

Publisher

Brill

City

Leiden

Keywords

Gender Studies, Egypt

Disciplines

Anthropology | Social and Cultural Anthropology

Women's Laboring Practices: Egypt

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