By Sally K. Gallagher

ISBN-10: 0815632991

ISBN-13: 9780815632993

Drawing on fieldwork that spans approximately 20 years, Making Do in Damascus bargains a unprecedented portrayal of standard relatives existence in Damascus, Syria. It explores how ladies draw on cultural beliefs round gender, faith, and family members to barter a feeling of collective and private identification. Emphasizing the power of girls to control relations relationships creatively inside more often than not conservative Sunni Muslim families, Gallagher highlights how own and fabric assets form women's offerings and constraints bearing on schooling, selection of marriage accomplice, employment, childrearing, relationships with relatives, and the makes use of and dangers of latest details applied sciences.

Gallagher argues that taking a nuanced strategy towards reading women's identification and authority in society permits us to imagine past dichotomies of Damascene girls both as oppressed by way of category and patriarchy or as thoroughly self sufficient brokers in their personal lives. Tracing traditional women's reviews and beliefs throughout a long time of social and fiscal switch, Making Do in Damascus highlights the salience of collective identification, position, and connection inside of households, in addition to assets and local politics, in shaping a new release of households in Damascus.

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