Egyptian made

"Through deep reporting over two years in farming villages and on factory floors, Chang shows how women [in Egypt] resist the pressure to give up, despite living in a country where history and tradition confine them to narrow roles and a globalizing economy has led, counterintuitively, to a conservative turn of society that discourages women from entering the workforce at all. She shares with us the rarely heard voices of ordinary women in Egypt and why its economic history continues to fail them"--Provided by publisher.