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• W210503207 abstract "Between Marriage and the Market: Intimate Politics and Survival in Cairo, by Homa Hoodfar. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1997. xiii + 275 pages. Bibl. to p. 297. Index to p. 302. $54 cloth; $16.95 paper. Reviewed by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea Household economy is not a common subject for most scholars of the Middle East. One could argue that such intimate data is difficult to obtain and requires a long-term commitment on the part of the researcher. One could also argue that the everyday minutiae of ordinary people's lives may not be perceived as crucial in the decision-making process of funding agencies, or by government policy planners. Yet, such data exists in some profusion for Latin America. Why not, then, for the Middle East? Homa Hoodfar, author of Between Marriage and the Market, notes that what little empirically based research on the Middle East does exist deals with issues such as gender, the role of Islam, and, more recently, veiling and fundamentalism. As she states in the introduction to this remarkable book, It was as though Muslims and in particular Middle Eastern people, lived in the realm of ideology and religion while the rest of the world lived within the economic structure (p. 15). Such a situation is clearly unrealistic, she continues, for people of all cultures live ... with influences of ideology and economy simultaneously as they try to satisfy their emotional and material needs (p. 15). Thus the author sets out to redress this imbalance in Middle East scholarship by looking directly at the most basic of all economic units, the family household. Her work adds to our general knowledge of the area, but also provides an important re-assessment of women's economic contributions to the household, a subject often dismissed or stereotyped. How did she manage to do this? By keeping her sights focused on a sample of 60 families in three newly urbanized Cairo neighborhoods. She utilized the approaches of several fields: gender theory, development, and political economy. But her major effort was through the participant-observer approach of social/cultural anthropology. Her field work took more than two-and-a-half years-15 months in 1983, a year in 1985, and shorter visits in 1988, 1992, 1993, and 1994. She lived with one of the families in the core sample. Thus, over a period of some time, she was involved closely with family dynamics and struggles to make ends meet in the increasingly difficult financial situation of urban Cairo. Here government subsidies of basic goods like oil, sugar, meat, and cloth have been reduced, inflation spirals upward, the labor market has shifted and shrunk, and men's migration to oil-rich countries in search of work continues. Lower middleclass and working-class Caienes have survived, Hoodfar found, by utilizing a variety of strategies. These include women's assistance in small, family owned businesses; neighborhood cooperation in child care and the search for lower food prices; joining savings clubs, or jam `iyyas; and purchasing durable goods such as television sets on the installment plan and re-selling them in times of crisis (see, particularly, the cases of Um Habiba and Um Sa`id (p. …" @default.
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