TY - BOOK AU - Kapchan,Deborah A. ED - Pennsylvania State University Press TI - Gender on the market: Moroccan women and the revoicing of tradition T2 - University of Pennsylvania Press new cultural studies SN - 0812231554 AV - HF3882 .K37 1996 PY - 1996///] CY - Philadelphia PB - University of Pennsylvania Press KW - Women merchants KW - Morocco KW - Markets KW - Women KW - Economic conditions KW - Social conditions N1 - 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 ER -