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Author Gallagher, Sally K

Title Making do in Damascus : navigating a generation of change in family and work / Sally K. Gallagher
Edition First edition
Published Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2012
©2012

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Description 1 online resource (344 pages)
Series Contemporary issues in the middle east
Contemporary issues in the Middle East.
Contents Introduction : Getting beyond the stereotypes -- The Arab Republic of Syria -- Education, expectations, and opportunities -- Engagement, faith, and family -- Cutting the melon : choices in married life -- Paying for the honey : managing work and family -- Technology, security, and social change -- Crafting lives : agency and resources under Bashar al-Asad
Summary Drawing on fieldwork that spans nearly twenty years, this book offers a rare portrayal of ordinary family life in Damascus, Syria. It explores how women draw on cultural ideals around gender, religion, and family to negotiate a sense of collective and personal identity. Emphasizing the ability of women to manage family relationships creatively within mostly conservative Sunni Muslim households, the author highlights how personal and material resources shape women's choices and constraints concerning education, choice of marriage partner, employment, childrearing, relationships with kin, and the uses and risks of new information technologies. The author argues that taking a nuanced approach toward analyzing women's identity and authority in society allows us to think beyond dichotomies of Damascene women either as oppressed by class and patriarchy or as completely autonomous agents of their own lives. Tracing ordinary women's experiences and ideals across decades of social and economic change, this book highlights the salience of collective identity, place, and connection within families, as well as resources and regional politics, in shaping a generation of families in Damascus
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Women -- Syria -- Damascus -- Identity
Work and family -- Syria -- Damascus
Women -- Syria -- Damascus -- Economic conditions -- 21st century
Women -- Syria -- Damascus -- Social conditions -- 21st century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
Women -- Economic conditions
Women -- Identity
Women -- Social conditions
Work and family
Syria -- Damascus
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780815651901
0815651902