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Gender on the market : Moroccan women and the revoicing of tradition

Author: Deborah A Kapchan
Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©1996.
Series: New cultural studies.; Series in contemporary ethnography.; Publications of the American Folklore Society., New series (Unnumbered)
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Gender on the Market is a study of Moroccan women's expressive culture and the ways in which it both determines and responds to current transformations in gender role. In Morocco the last decade has seen a dramatic increase in women's public visibility and a major reorganization of the sexual division of labor. Beginning with women's emergence into what has been defined as the most paradigmatic of Moroccan male  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Deborah A Kapchan
ISBN: 0812231554 9780812231557 0812214269 9780812214260
OCLC Number: 33972116
Description: xvii, 325 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents: Acknowledgments: Possession by Three Spirits --
Introduction: The Dialogic Enterprise of Women in Changing Social Contexts --
Pt. 1. Women in the Market. Ch. 1. In the Place of the Market. Ch. 2. Shtara: Competence in Cleverness. Ch. 3. Words of Possession, Possession of Words: The Majduba. Ch. 4. Words About Herbs: Feminine Performance of Oratory in the Marketplace. Ch. 5. Reporting the New, Revoicing the Past: Marketplace Oratory and the Carnivalesque --
Pt. 2. Gender on the Market. Ch. 6. Women on the Market: The Subversive Bride. Ch. 7. Catering to the Sexual Market: Female Performers Defining the Social Body. Ch. 8. Property in the (Other) Person: Mothers-in-Law, Working Women, and Maids. Ch. 9. Terms of Talking Back: Women's Discourse on Magic. Ch. 10. Conclusion: Hybridization and the Marketplace --
Appendix 1: Discourse of the Majduba --
Appendix 2: Discourse of the 'Ashshaba.
Series Title: New cultural studies.; Series in contemporary ethnography.; Publications of the American Folklore Society., New series (Unnumbered)
Responsibility: Deborah A. Kapchan.

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Gender on the Market is a study of Moroccan women's expressive culture and the ways in which it both determines and responds to current transformations in gender role. In Morocco the last decade has seen a dramatic increase in women's public visibility and a major reorganization of the sexual division of labor. Beginning with women's emergence into what has been defined as the most paradigmatic of Moroccan male institutionsthe marketplace (suq) - the book elucidates how gender and commodity relations are experienced and interpreted in women's aesthetic practices.

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