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Book Reviews BOOK REVIEWS HOODFAR, Homa, Between Marriage and Market: Intimate Politics and Survival in Cairo . University of California Press, 1997, 302 pp. (Note: a portion of the book is adapted in part from “Household Budgeting and Financial Management in a Lower-Income Cairo Neighborhood” by Homa Hoodfar in A Home Divided: Women and Income in the Third World , edited by Daisy Dwyer and Judith Bruce, reproduced with permission of the publishers, Stanford University Press @ 1988.) With the historical and resurgent tendency to portray family life among Middle Easterners as driven by religious ideology, Hoodfar’s Between Marriage and Market is a candid and systematic account of household economies, and of women’s con- tributions to them, among lower middle-class Egyptians in three neighborhoods in Greater Cairo. Hoodfar details the range of women’s contributions to the sur- vival and maintenance of Egyptian households, debunks persistent stereotypes of the “passive” Arab woman, and situates women’s agency within the broader con- text of shifting political and economic circumstances at the national, regional, and global levels. Interviews with male and female residents of these neighborhoods poignantly illustrate the micro-level impacts of these larger social forces on the survival strategies of women, men, and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Hawwa Brill

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Fay, Mary Ann
Hawwa , Volume 2 (3): 364 – Jan 1, 2004
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Brill
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© 2004 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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1569-2078
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10.1163/1569208043077279
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BOOK REVIEWS HOODFAR, Homa, Between Marriage and Market: Intimate Politics and Survival in Cairo . University of California Press, 1997, 302 pp. (Note: a portion of the book is adapted in part from “Household Budgeting and Financial Management in a Lower-Income Cairo Neighborhood” by Homa Hoodfar in A Home Divided: Women and Income in the Third World , edited by Daisy Dwyer and Judith Bruce, reproduced with permission of the publishers, Stanford University Press @ 1988.) With the historical and resurgent tendency to portray family life among Middle Easterners as driven by religious ideology, Hoodfar’s Between Marriage and Market is a candid and systematic account of household economies, and of women’s con- tributions to them, among lower middle-class Egyptians in three neighborhoods in Greater Cairo. Hoodfar details the range of women’s contributions to the sur- vival and maintenance of Egyptian households, debunks persistent stereotypes of the “passive” Arab woman, and situates women’s agency within the broader con- text of shifting political and economic circumstances at the national, regional, and global levels. Interviews with male and female residents of these neighborhoods poignantly illustrate the micro-level impacts of these larger social forces on the survival strategies of women, men, and

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