Cairo Papers in Social Science
1 primary work • 2 total works
Book 3
The proceedings of the Arab Regional Women's Studies Workshop held at the American University in Cairo in May 1997. This book discusses theoretical and practical issues such as: the importance of introducing gender studies in order to achieve social equality in the Arab World; rethinking political and research priorities in order to give more attention to gender issues; and comparing gender programmes in some Arab countries.
Pioneering Feminist Anthropology in Egypt: Selected Writings from Cynthia Nelson
by Cynthia Nelson
Published 7 September 2007
Cynthia Nelson was an outstanding professor of anthropology at AUC and the founding director of the Institute of Gender and Women’s Studies. This collection of her essays, which highlight her distinguished scholarly career, is grouped under three main themes: phenomenology and the meaning of religious phenomena in Egypt; women, power, and politics in the Middle East; and the politics and ethics of location. Cynthia Nelson was the editor of the first Cairo Papers monograph in 1977: thirty years later, this issue marks her legacy to the humanistic and social scientific understanding of Egypt, a legacy balanced by the enormous institutional contributions she made to establishing feminist anthropology in Egypt. Cairo Papers Vol. 28, No. 2