Women's Perceptions of Environmental Change in Egypt
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Department
Cairo Papers in Social Science
Program
Cairo Papers in Social Science
Description
This research focuses on exploring and explaining women's perceptions of and social responses to environmental change. Viewing risk selection and perception as ‘dynamic processes’ that are continuously changing and being reinterpreted through people's ‘worldviews,’ it examines how pollution and decline of environmental conditions come to be regarded by Egyptian women as ‘risky.’ The research was conducted in three structurally different urban settings with different levels of exposure to pollution and different socio-economic levels of their residents. Data were generated by means of in-depth interviews with forty-four women from different walks of life. The research is gender specific, given the primary role of women as health care managers of their families. Thus, for women, environmental issues and health issues are closely related.
ISBN
9774246306
Publication Date
Winter 2000
Publisher
American University in Cairo Press
City
Cairo
Keywords
women studies, environmental change, Egypt
Series
Cairo Papers in Social Science 23(4)
Disciplines
Environmental Studies | Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | Near and Middle Eastern Studies
Recommended Citation
APA Citation
el-Ramly, E.
(2000). Women's Perceptions of Environmental Change in Egypt. American University in Cairo Press.
MLA Citation
el-Ramly, Eman.
Women's Perceptions of Environmental Change in Egypt. American University in Cairo Press, 2000.