Krieger L
Health Care Women Int. 1989;10(2-3):181-93. doi: 10.1080/07399338909515849.
Belief in the unity of mind and body among poor working class women in metropolitan Cairo is exemplified by the "state of being upset." The Egyptian women of this study use physical symptoms that they believe derive from emotional causes to negotiate and give meaning to relationships with neighbors, friends, and relatives; to jockey for power; to fill emotional needs; to manage presentation of self; and to weave the political fabric of interpersonal life. A detailed case study of Um Ramadan, a woman whose misuse by her husband made her nerfiza, illustrates the relationship between emotional upset and physical illness and the use of psychosomatic illness to gain sympathy and exact revenge. The expression of Um Ramadan's symptoms is further analyzed in terms of the underlying cultural constraints placed on Muslim women and the tensions inherent in local gender role relations.
开罗大都市贫困工人阶级女性身心统一的观念在“心烦意乱的状态”中得到体现。本研究中的埃及女性利用她们认为源于情感原因的身体症状来协商并赋予与邻居、朋友和亲戚的关系以意义；争夺权力；满足情感需求；管理自我形象；以及编织人际生活的政治结构。对Um Ramadan的详细案例研究说明了情感困扰与身体疾病之间的关系，以及利用身心疾病来获得同情和报复。根据对穆斯林女性的潜在文化限制以及当地性别角色关系中固有的紧张关系，进一步分析了Um Ramadan症状的表现。
