Gender on the market : Moroccan women and the revoicing of tradition / Deborah A. Kapchan.

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.