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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kapchan, Deborah, Author.

Series:

Contemporary Ethnography

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women merchants--Economic conditions--Morocco.

Women merchants.

Markets--Social conditions--Morocco.

Markets.

Women--Morocco.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (344 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2010]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 defined as the most paradigmatic of Moroccan male institutions—the marketplace—the book elucidates how gender and commodity relations are experienced and interpreted in women's aesthetic practices. Deborah Kapchan compellingly demonstrates that Moroccan women challenge some of the most basic cultural assumptions of their society—especially ones concerning power and authority.

Contents:

Front matter

Content

List of Figures

Transcription and Transliteration

Acknowledgments: Possession by Three Spirits

Introduction: The Dialogic Enterprise of Women in Changing Social Contexts

1. In the Place of the Market

2. Shṭara: Competence in Cleverness

3. Words of Possession, Possession of Words: The Majduba

4. Words About Herbs: Feminine Performance of Oratory in the Marketplace

5. Reporting the New, Revoicing the Past: Marketplace Oratory and the Carnivalesque

6. Women on the Market: The Subversive Bride

7. Catering to the Sexual Market: Female Performers Defining the Social Body

8. Property in the (Other) Person: Mothers-in- Law, Working Women, and Maids

9. Terms of Talking Back: Women's Discourse on Magic

10. Conclusion: Hybridization and the Marketplace

Appendix I: Discourse of the Majduba

Appendix 2: Discourse of the 'Ashshaba

Glossary

Bibliography

Subject Index

Author Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)

ISBN:

1-283-21178-5

9786613211781

0-8122-0243-0

0-585-17272-2

OCLC:

44965381