scholarly journals Sonallah Ibrahim and Miriam Naoum’s Zaat

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-40
Author(s):  
Sara Salem
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
Domestic Sphere ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
Masculinity And Femininity ◽  
Financial Pressure ◽  
And Gender

Abstract This article explores the television adaptation of Sonallah Ibrahim’s novel Zaat, arguing that the series provides us with an interesting representation of the various ways in which national projects in Egypt are gendered. It adds to feminist debates around nationalism, capitalism, and gender. In particular, the focus on the intimate in Zaat reveals how political projects are depicted in the domestic sphere through the lens of women’s work. The article explores two themes: one, the increasing financial pressure and its effects on constructs of masculinity and femininity, and two, the steady decay of infrastructure and social services and how it renders middle-class life an impossibility. The article argues that by focusing on the intimate, Ibrahim’s novel and the TV adaptation both reveal the various forms of work women perform and make use of women’s work to critique or celebrate national projects.

scholarly journals “Fishing Na Everybody Business”: Women's Work and Gender Relations in Sierra Leone's Fisheries

2014 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 53-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andy Thorpe ◽  
Nicky Pouw ◽  
Andrew Baio ◽  
Ranita Sandi ◽  
Ernest Tom Ndomahina ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gender Relations ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
And Gender

Anglican Women and Social Service in Hong Kong

2018 ◽  
pp. 239-252
Author(s):  
Jane Lee
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Women Leaders ◽  
Social Services ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
First Century ◽  
Leadership Roles ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
Women And Children

This chapter explores the contribution of Anglican women, Chinese and British, in the promotion of welfare for women and children in Hong Kong from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. The narrative covers four areas of progress in chronological order, which include: Elevating Social Status through Education, Advocating Women’s Rights through Social Movements, the establishment of the Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui Women’s League, and women leaders in social services. It presents an account of change and continuity in the development of women’s work for women: from British women’s work of charity and evangelism to Chinese women’s assumption of leadership roles; from protection of girls and women in the nineteenth century, to pioneering nursery and child care in postwar rehabilitation, and providing holistic care to the elderly and marginalised in twenty-first century.

scholarly journals Trabajo extradoméstico femenino y relaciones de género: una nueva mirada / Non Domestic Women’s Work and Gender Relations: a New Perspective

2004 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brígida García ◽  
Orlandina De Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Gender Relations ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
Social Origin ◽  
Logistic Regression Models ◽  
Freedom Of Movement ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
Las Mujeres ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Source Of Information

El objetivo de este artículo es precisar la influencia del trabajo femenino extradoméstico sobre diversas dimensiones de las relaciones de género en el interior de las familias, teniendo en cuenta un conjunto de características sociodemográficas y de origen social de las mujeres. Las dimensiones de las relaciones de género analizadas son la participación de los esposos en las tareas domésticas y el cuidado de los hijos/as, la presencia de las mujeres en las decisiones importantes, su libertad de movimiento y la presencia o ausencia de violencia doméstica. La fuente de información utilizada es la Encuesta sobre Dinámica Familiar (Dinaf) llevada a cabo en la Ciudad de México y Monterrey hacia finales de los años noventa. El principal resultado de los modelos de regresión logística aplicados es que la experiencia laboral de las esposas después de casarse o unirse es la única variable que contribuye a explicar de manera significativa la presencia de relaciones más igualitarias en todas las dimensiones consideradas. AbstractThe aim of this paper is to determine the influence of non domestic women’s work on various aspects of gender relations within families, taking into account women’s sociodemographic characteristics and their social origin. The aspects of the gender relations analyzed include men’s participation in housework and child raising, the presence of women in key decisions, their freedom of movement and the presence or absence of domestic violence. The source of information used is the Survey on Family Dynamics (Dinaf) carried out in Mexico City and Monterrey in the late 1990s. The main result of the logistic regression models applied is that wives’ working experience after they marry or begin living with their partners is the only variable that significantly helps to explain the presence of more egalitarian relationships in all the aspects considered.

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