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Situating globalization : views from Egypt /

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The range of perspectives and original materials dealt with by each author highlights the renewed urgency of the struggle for cultural autonomy and voice within the context of globalization. In other words, each paper explores how the various processes at both the local and global level intersect to...

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Corporate Author: Walter de Gruyter & Co
Other Authors: Nelson, Cynthia, Rouse, Shahnaz J.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bielefeld : Transcript, [2000]
Subjects:
Globalization > Social aspects.
Egypt > Economic conditions > 1981-
Egypt > Social conditions > 1952-
Mondialisation > Aspect social.
Égypte > Conditions économiques > 1981-
Economic history
Globalization > Social aspects
Social conditions
Egypt
Internationalisatie.
Sekseverschillen.
Culturele identiteit.
Since 1952
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Globalization, Islam and the indigenization of knowledge / Philip Marfleet
  • The islamization of knowledge between particularism and globalization, Malaysia and Egypt / Mona Abaza
  • Gendering globalization, alternative languages of modernity / Cynthia Nelson and Shahnaz Rouse
  • Struggling and surviving, the trajectory of Sheikh Moubarak Abu Fadl / Didier Monciaud
  • Al-daght, pressures of modern life in Cairo / Mohammed Tabishat
  • Creating bodies, organizing selves, planning the family in Egypt / Kamran Asdar Ali
  • Death of a midwife / Petra Kuppinger
  • Problematizing marriage, minding my manners in my husband's community / Anita Häusermann Fábos
  • A tale of two contracts, towards a situated understanding of "women interests" in Egypt / Heba El-Kholy
  • "We are not feminists!" / Nadje Al-Ali.