Fear and Floating in Alexandria: The Economy, the Pound, and Women’s Sexual Health
This article discusses the implications and repercussions of contemporary economics on women’s sexual health on the basis of recent studies and a small-sized ethnographic field study conducted in Alexandria. It focuses on the regulation of women’s assumed (premarital) sexual activity, a topic linked...
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| প্রকাশিত: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ema, |
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| বিন্যাস: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| ভাষা: | Anglais |
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Égypte/Monde arabe
2018
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| অনলাইন ব্যবহার করুন: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| সংক্ষিপ্ত: | This article discusses the implications and repercussions of contemporary economics on women’s sexual health on the basis of recent studies and a small-sized ethnographic field study conducted in Alexandria. It focuses on the regulation of women’s assumed (premarital) sexual activity, a topic linked to the general economic challenge of marrying in Egypt. On the basis of the case study, paired with an online survey grounded within the Alexandrian social context, the article describes the situation before and after the floating of the pound, and repercussions this might have had with regard to women being able to make informed decisions regarding their sexual health. Linked to the financial or advisory challenges and the social and moral pressure regulating young women’s choices, the article introduces a fictitious media application as an example for an alternative coping strategy in relation to gendered structures of inequality in the city. |
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