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Women in Arab society : work patterns and gender relations in Egypt, Jordan, and Sudan
- Title
- Women in Arab society : work patterns and gender relations in Egypt, Jordan, and Sudan / Seteney Shami [and others].
- Publication
- Providence, R.I., USA : Berg ; Paris, France : Unesco, 1990.
- ©1990
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- Description
- xix, 217 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Summary
- Based on the results of a non-governmental research project sponsored by UNESCO, this volume examines the impact of social and economic changes on patterns of women's work and on value systems concerning their social position in Arab societies. Case studies are drawn from Egypt, Jordan and Sudan.
- Series Statement
- Berg/Unesco comparative studies
- Uniform Title
- Berg/Unesco comparative studies.
- Subject
- Rural women > Employment > Arab countries > Case studies
- Rural women > Employment > Egypt > Case studies
- Women in agriculture > Egypt > Case studies
- Rural women > Employment > Jordan > Case studies
- Women in agriculture > Jordan > Case studies
- Rural women > Employment > Sudan > Case studies
- Women in agriculture > Sudan > Case studies
- Rural women > Employment
- Women in agriculture
- Vrouwen
- Sociale situatie
- women
- women workers
- rural women
- economic role
- social role
- rural area
- urban area
- trend
- labour force participation
- employment
- sex discrimination
- state intervention
- agricultural development
- subsistence farming
- household production
- political aspect
- community participation
- statistical table
- femmes
- travailleuses
- femmes rurales
- rôle économique
- rôle social
- zone rurale
- zone urbaine
- tendance
- taux d'activité
- emploi
- discrimination fondée sur le sexe
- intervention de l'Etat
- développement agricole
- agriculture de subsistance
- production domestique
- aspect politique
- participation de la communauté
- tableau statistique
- mujeres
- trabajadoras
- mujeres rurales
- papel económico
- papel social
- zona rural
- zona urbana
- tendencia
- tasa de actividad de mano de obra
- empleo
- discriminación por razones de sexo
- intervención estatal
- desarrollo agrícola
- agricultura de subsistencia
- producción doméstica
- aspecto político
- participación comunitaria
- cuadros estadísticos
- Arab countries
- Egypt
- Jordan
- Sudan
- Egypt
- Jordan
- Sudan
- Egypte
- Jordanie
- Soudan
- Egipto
- Jordania
- Sudán
- Genre/Form
- Case studies
- case study.
- UNESCO pub.
- bibliography.
- Case studies.
- Études de cas.
- étude de cas.
- pub UNESCO.
- bibliographie.
- estudio de casos.
- bibliografía.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Women's participation in the Jordanian labour force : a comparison of rural and urban patterns / Seteney Shami and Lucine Taminian -- Rural women, work and gender ideology : a study in Egyptian political economic transformation / Soheir A. Morsy -- Women's participation in economic, social and political life in Sudanese urban and rural communities : the case of Saganna in Khartoum and Wad al-'Asha Village in the Gezira area / Zeinab B. El Bakri and El-Wathig M. Kameir -- Appendix: Report of the Unesco Regional Working Group on Women's Participation in Public Life in the Arab States Region, organized in co-operation with the Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Yarmouk (Irbid, Jordan, 13 to 16 December 1986).
- ISBN
- 0854967249
- 9780854967247
- 9231026550
- 9789231026553
- LCCN
- 90039662
- OCLC
- ocm21763526
- 21763526
- SCSB-1906922
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library