Baladi Women of Cairo

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Baladi Women of Cairo is written by Evelyn A. Early and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1555872689 (ISBN 10) and 9781555872687 (ISBN 13).

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.