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

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for 1996Gender 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 roles. Beginning with women's emergence into what has been d...

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Main Author: Kapchan, Deborah A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: 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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Table of 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.