Gender on the market : Moroccan women and the revoicing of tradition /
Kapchan, Deborah A.
Gender on the market : Moroccan women and the revoicing of tradition / Deborah A. Kapchan. - xvii, 325 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. - University of Pennsylvania Press new cultural studies. University of Pennylvania Press series in contemporary ethnography. University of Pennsylvania Press publications of the American Folklore Society. New series. . - New cultural studies. Series in contemporary ethnography. Publications of the American Folklore Society. New series (Unnumbered) .
Includes bibliographical references (pages [299]-320) and indexes.
-- Introduction : the dialogic enterprise of women in changing social contexts -- Women in the market -- In the place of the market -- Shtara : competence in cleverness -- Words of possession, possession of words : the Majduba -- Words about herbs : feminine performance of oratory in the marketplace -- Reporting the new, revoicing the past : marketplace oratory and the carnivalesque -- Gender on the market -- Women on the market : the subversive bride -- Catering to the sexual market : female performers defining the social body -- Property in the (other) person : mothers-in-law, working women, and maids -- Terms of talking back : women's discourse on magic -- Conclusion : hybridization and the marketplace.
0812231554 0812214269
95051427
Women merchants--Morocco.
Markets--Morocco.
Women--Economic conditions.--Morocco
Women--Social conditions.--Morocco
HF3882 / .K37 1996
Gender on the market : Moroccan women and the revoicing of tradition / Deborah A. Kapchan. - xvii, 325 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. - University of Pennsylvania Press new cultural studies. University of Pennylvania Press series in contemporary ethnography. University of Pennsylvania Press publications of the American Folklore Society. New series. . - New cultural studies. Series in contemporary ethnography. Publications of the American Folklore Society. New series (Unnumbered) .
Includes bibliographical references (pages [299]-320) and indexes.
-- Introduction : the dialogic enterprise of women in changing social contexts -- Women in the market -- In the place of the market -- Shtara : competence in cleverness -- Words of possession, possession of words : the Majduba -- Words about herbs : feminine performance of oratory in the marketplace -- Reporting the new, revoicing the past : marketplace oratory and the carnivalesque -- Gender on the market -- Women on the market : the subversive bride -- Catering to the sexual market : female performers defining the social body -- Property in the (other) person : mothers-in-law, working women, and maids -- Terms of talking back : women's discourse on magic -- Conclusion : hybridization and the marketplace.
0812231554 0812214269
95051427
Women merchants--Morocco.
Markets--Morocco.
Women--Economic conditions.--Morocco
Women--Social conditions.--Morocco
HF3882 / .K37 1996
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