A NEW BOOK TAKES A CAPTIVATING LOOK AT THE LIVES OF EGYPTIAN WOMEN

Description

From interview with Mette Toft Nielsen, who is co-authoring this book with and about women in post-revolutionary Egypt.

Nielsen, Mette Toft and Hervik, Peter. 2017. Can Behaviour Be Controlled? Women in Post-Revolutionary Egypt. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.

Subject

"Oftentimes, when Western scholars or academics study Egyptian women, their focus falls on one of two categories: well-educated women who speak perfect English and also tend to be civically engaged, and poor women who live in rural areas and are portrayed as dependent, and to a degree, submissive."