QR Challenge: Urban Egyptian Muslim Women Info

Created using the ClassTools QR Treasure Hunt Generator

Teacher Notes

A. Prior to the lesson:

1. Arrange students into groups. Each group needs at least ONE person who has a mobile device.

2. If their phone camera doesn't automatically detect and decode QR codes, ask students to

• Download a QR reader (e.g. I-Nigma | NeoReader | Kaywa) onto their mobile devices
• Bring these devices into the lesson.

3. Print out the QR codes.

4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.

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B. The lesson:

1. Give each group a clipboard and a piece of paper so they can write down the decoded questions and their answers to them.

2. Explain to the students that the codes are hidden around the school. Each team will get ONE point for each question they correctly decode and copy down onto their sheet, and a further TWO points if they can then provide the correct answer and write this down underneath the question.

3. Away they go! The winner is the first team to return with the most correct answers in the time available. This could be within a lesson, or during a lunchbreak, or even over several days!

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C. TIPS / OTHER IDEAS

4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.

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Questions / Answers (teacher reference)

Question	Answer
1. Information: The young bride becomes a subordinate to her husband’s father, her husband, and her mother-in-law (Inhorn 1996:4). In the future, she will only have the opportunity to gain power over her future daughter-in-laws (Inhorn 1996:4). Therefore, to acquire power it is imperative that a woman give birth to a son who, in time, will become married and provide a daughter-in-law to his mother (Kandiyoti 1991:33).
2. Information: In Egypt, infertility is viewed as a woman’s fault rather than a man’s (Inhorn 1996:46). In this patriarchal society, a woman without children will lose her identity because she will never be viewed as “a complete woman, who has fulfilled her God-given adult role in life” (Inhorn 1996:10).
3. Information: In many cases when infertile women cannot produce descendants, husbands replace them with a fertile cowife (Inhorn 1996:16). However, if the husband is infertile, a wife will choose to stay with her husband because she is grateful for her marriage and security (Inhorn 1996:30).
4. Information: Additionally, many potentially profound social transformations show evidence that an urban Egyptian Muslim woman may have the ability to attain freedom. “Such potentially positive changes include: the erosion of patriarchal extended family and traditional kinship systems, particularly in urban areas through the process of residential nuclearization (Barakat 1985; Joseph 1994; Moghadam 1993; Rassam 1987; Sharabi 1988); entrance of vast numbers of women (usually of specific classes) into educational facilities and workplaces (Moghadam 1993; Rassam 1987); reform of Muslim family law, including in some Middle Eastern states the abolition of male repudiation and polygyny … (Moghadam 1993; White 1978); and the rise of potentially revolutionary women’s movement throughout the region” (Sharabi 1988).
5. “Overall, “the women’s mosque movement has affected changes in a range of social behaviors among contemporary Egyptians, including how one dresses and speaks, what is deemed proper entertainment for adults and children, where one invests one’s money, and how one takes care of the poor, and what are the terms by which public debate is conducted” (Mahmood 2001:204).

 

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