Making Do in Damascus - Navigating a Generation of Change in Family and Work

Informationen zum Autor Sally K. Gallagher is professor of sociology at Oregon State University. She is author of Evangelical Identity and Gendered Family Life and Older People Giving Care: Helping Family and Community as well as numerous journal articles on gender, family, and care. Klappentext Drawing on fieldwork that spans nearly twenty years, this offers a rare portrayal of ordinary family life in Damascus, Syria. It explores how women draw on cultural ideals around gender, religion, and family to negotiate a sense of collective and personal identity. Emphasising the ability of women to manage family relationships, Gallagher highlights how personal and material resources shape women's choices and constraints concerning education, choice of marriage partner, employment, childrearing, relationships with kin, and the uses and risks of new information technologies.

Product details

• Authors: Sally Gallagher, Sally K Gallagher, Sally K. Gallagher
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.10.2012
• EAN: 9780815632993
• ISBN: 978-0-8156-3299-3
• No. of pages: 344
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 235 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Contemporary Issues in the Mid; Contemporary Issues in the Mid; Contemporary Issues in the Middle East
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories