Between marriage and the market
Subtitle: intimate politics and survival in Cairo
By: Homa Hoodfar.
Series: Comparative studies on Muslim societies ;; 24
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
Subjects: Households -- Economic aspects -- Egypt -- Cairo Region; Home economics -- Egypt -- Cairo Region; Poor -- Egypt -- Cairo Region; Sex role -- Egypt -- Cairo Region
Description: Between Marriage and the Market takes the reader into the Muslim home for a rare and intimate glimpse of the modern-day Muslim family. An Iranian Muslim by birth, Homa Hoodfar investigates the lives of poor families in Cairo over the course of a decade's research, documenting an Arab culture seldom understood by outsiders. She goes beyond ideology and religion to show how marital politics and survival strategies play a key role in maintaining the cohesiveness of low-income families.

Poor women and their households, by adopting strategies to enhance marital security and by exercising control over their labor, consumption patterns, and fertility, achieve and maintain socioeconomic status. In this way, they also exercise far-reaching influence on Egyptian economy and society.
Notes: A digital reproduction is available from E-Editions, a collaboration of the University of California Press and the California Digital Library's eScholarship program.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-297) and index.