Struggles of Distinction: Young Women Constructing Their Class Identity in Egypt’s Americanized Milieu

In urban Egypt, class is omnipresent in structuring people’s lives and the social sphere as well as being operative in selfdescription. For understanding an individual’s position within the horizontally and vertically stratified society, however, the usual distinction of three classes needs to be re...

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Main Author: Sina Birkholz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies 2014-05-01
Series:Middle East : Topics & Arguments
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Online Access:http://meta-journal.net/article/view/1318