“A Trade Like any other”: Female Singers and Dancers in Egypt, by Karin van Nieuwkerk. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995. xiv + 226 pp., introduction, photographs, appendix, notes, glossary, bibliography, index. $35.00 hardbound; $15.95 paperbound.

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Acknowledgments Note on Transcription One. Introduction Two. Female Entertainment in Nineteenth-Century Egypt Three. Female Entertainment in The Twentieth Century Four. Life Stories of Female Entertainers Five. Marginality Six. Honor and Shame Seven. Gender Eight. Female Entertainers: Feminine and Masculine Nine. Conclusions Appendix: Methodological Notes Notes Glossary Bibliography Index