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Traditional, urban Egyptian women - baladi women - extol themselves with the proverb, A baladi woman can play with an egg and a stone without breaking the egg. Evelyn Early illustrates this and other expressions of baladi women's self-identity by observing and recording their everyday discourse and how these women - who consider themselves destitute yet savvy - handle such matters as housing, work, marriage, religion, health, and life in general.
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Baladi Women of Cairo, Evelyn A. Early
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- Released
- 1993
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- Title
- Baladi Women of Cairo
- Subtitle
- Playing with an Egg and a Stone
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Evelyn A. Early
- Publisher
- American University of Cairo Press
- Released
- 1993
- Format
- Other
- Pages
- 216
- ISBN10
- 9774243366
- ISBN13
- 9789774243363
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- Traditional, urban Egyptian women - baladi women - extol themselves with the proverb, A baladi woman can play with an egg and a stone without breaking the egg. Evelyn Early illustrates this and other expressions of baladi women's self-identity by observing and recording their everyday discourse and how these women - who consider themselves destitute yet savvy - handle such matters as housing, work, marriage, religion, health, and life in general.