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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Published in:	Middle East - Topics & Arguments
Main Author:	Birkholz, Sina
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Philipps-Universität Marburg 2014
Subjects:	Youth Cosmopolitan Capital Distinction Milieu Upper Middle Class Westernization Egypt
Online Access:	Online Access
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