Salem, Sarah Mamdouh Ibrahim 
ORCID: 0000-0002-7872-5613 and Malak, Karim
(2017)
How far does neoliberalism go in Egypt?: Gender, citizenship and the making of the 'rural' woman.
Review of African Political Economy, 44 (154).
pp. 541-558.
ISSN 0305-6244
Abstract
This paper focuses on civil society in Egypt as a site in which the ‘Egyptian rural woman’ is made by looking at processes of microfinance which often ‘fail’ to realise their stated goals of ‘empowerment’, ‘poverty alleviation’ or ‘social mobility’. Using ethnographic material from a microfinance programme in the Egyptian governorate of al-Minya, such programmes are problematised beyond their stated goals. Instead, such initiatives put in place an infrastructure that links micro-borrowers to the market. Thus, what it means to be a ‘liberated’ woman in the Egyptian context is built on access, participation in and creation of ‘the market’.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Official URL: | https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/crea20/current |
| Additional Information: | © 2017 ROAPE Publications Ltd |
| Divisions: | Sociology |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman H Social Sciences > HG Finance H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Sep 2019 11:24 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Sep 2024 07:55 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/101545 |
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