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Cynthia Nelson <cynthia@aucegypt.edu> American University in Cairo Transnationalism and Gender South-South Relations and Gender Border Crossings and Identity Globalization Issues and Gender Biography and Auto/biography Sociology of Knowledge |
| Address: | American University in Cairo 113 Sharia Kasr el-Aini Institute for Gender and Women's Studies Cairo, Middle East/Africa P.O. Box 2511 Egypt |
| Secondary Phone: | [20-2 ]797-6776 |
| Fax Number: | [20-2 ]795-7565 |
| List Affiliations: | Advisory Board Member for H-Gender-MidEast |
| Interests: | Anthropology Intellectual History Research and Methodology Women, Gender, and Sexuality World History / Studies |
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Bio: Ph.D Anthropology [UCBerkeley] MA Human Development [UChicago] BA Sociology and History [UMaine] Books: The Waiting Village: Social Change in Rural Mexico. Boston: Little and Brown, 1971 Desert and the Sown:Nomads in the Greater Society. Berkeley: UC IIS Series, 1973 Doria Shafik,Egyptian Feminist: A Woman Apart. Gainseville:UFlorida Press, 1996 Situating Globalization: Views from Egypt.Bielefeld: transcript /Verlag, 2000. Monographs: Women,Health and Development , AUC Cairo Papers in Social Science, 1977 Law and Social change in Egypt, AUC Cairo Papers in Social Science, 1979 Articles and Chapters: "Gendering Globalization: Alternative Languages of Modernity," co-author S. Rouse in Situating Globalization: Views from Egypt. Bielefeld: transcript/ Verlag, 2000. "Crisis and Critique:Reflections on an Alternative Construction of Knowledge," in The Gulf Crisis:Socal, Political and Economic Dimensions of the Gulf Crisis D.Tschirgui ed. Boulder: Lynne Reiner, 1993. "Old Wine, New Bottle: Reflections and Projections on Research on Women in the Middle East," in Contemporary Study of the Arab World. ed. E.L. Sullivan and J. Ismael. Edmonton:University of Alberta Press.1991. "Anthropology and the Call for the 'Indigenization' of Social Science in the Arab World," in Contemporary Study of the Arab World. ed. E.L. Sullivan and J. Ismael. Emonton: University of Alberta Press, 1991 |
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