Hegemonic Relations and Gender Resistance: The New Veiling as Accommodating Protest in Cairo

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Previous articleNext article No AccessHegemonic Relations and Gender Resistance: The New Veiling as Accommodating Protest in CairoArlene Elowe MacLeodArlene Elowe MacLeod Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Signs Volume 17, Number 3Spring, 1992 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/494748 Views: 53Total views on this site Citations: 97Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1992 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Neekee Chaturvedi Indispensable for dispensation: The agency and experience of Buddhist nuns in the early history of the bhikkhunī saṅgha, Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 20 (Aug 2022): 000842982211168.https://doi.org/10.1177/00084298221116886Sonalde Desai, Feinian Chen, Shilpa Reddy, Amy McLaughlin Measuring Women's Empowerment in the Global South, Annual Review of Sociology 48, no.11 (Apr 2022).https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-soc-030420-015018Esha Chatterjee, Reeve D. 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