{"product_id":"9781856499354","title":"Victims and Heroines Women, Welfare and the Egyptian State","description":"\u003ch1\u003eVictims and Heroines\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eWomen, Welfare and the Egyptian State\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eIman Bibars\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eSocial Science \/ Women's Studies\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoverty and inequality are on the increase in developing countries forced to struggle with economic stabilization programmes. But, as this book shows, in addition to an anti-poor bias (despite rhetoric to the contrary), which almost all governments carrying out liberalization now display, women in particular suffer. Dr Bibars looks at one very large category of socially deprived women in Egypt: those who support and manage their own households. These households now comprise something like 18-30 per cent of all urban Egyptian families. Bibars investigates how these women cope with poverty and how they seek to extract benefits, welfare payments and pensions in particular, from both state agencies and religious (Coptic as well as Muslim) welfare organizations. In both cases, she finds that Egyptian women encounter a serious gender bias which is especially directed against those women forced by circumstance to head their own households.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis work is a profoundly insightful investigation into the gendered nature of the state. Iman Bibars shows how this bias distorts not only the delivery of social services but also the response of women. However much women may wish to oppose their oppressive conditions and try to manipulate an oppressive system, they are severely limited in their efforts and strategies for changing their subordination to men. This finding, reached in spite of the author's own commitment to women's equality, is an important corrective to any undue optimism about gender relations and the direction in which they are moving.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eIman Bibars is a co-founder and chairwoman of the Association for the Development and Enhancement of Women, an NGO providing credit and legal aid for poor women who head their households. As an officer at UNICEF for six years, Dr Bibars managed the 'Urban Community Development' and 'Children in Difficult Circumstances' projects.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn independent consultant since March 1998, she has worked with a number of international and multinational organisations such as the World Bank, UNDP Kuwait, UNDP Lebanon, UNIFEM, UNICEF Cairo, the Population Council MENA Offiice and the European Commission in Cairo.\u003cbr\u003eIman Bibars is a co-founder and chairwoman of the Association for the Development and Enhancement of Women, an NGO providing credit and legal aid for poor women who head their households. As an officer at UNICEF for six years, Dr Bibars managed the 'Urban Community Development' and 'Children in Difficult Circumstances' projects.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn independent consultant since March 1998, she has worked with a number of international and multinational organisations such as the World Bank, UNDP Kuwait, UNDP Lebanon, UNIFEM, UNICEF Cairo, the Population Council MENA Offiice and the European Commission in Cairo.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e01 June 2001\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eZed Books\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781856499354\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePaperback softback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e224\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9.92\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51369149890700,"sku":"9781856499354","price":38.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_46d72419-9a41-4a51-a69a-5007a13874bf.jpg?v=1783878110","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9781856499354","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}