Work, social status, and gender in post-slavery Mauritania / Katherine Ann Wiley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wiley, Katherine Ann, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Muslim women--Mauritania--Social conditions.

Muslim women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (210 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2018]

Summary:

1. This book is unique in the marketplace as the author is one of only a very few researchers doing work in Mauritania. It offers In-depth insight into the lives of female slave descendants in Mauritania and the work that gives their lives meaning, power, and agency. 2. This work looks at the lives of female descendants of slaves and how they negotiate their social and economic positions. It counteracts many of the negative images of Muslim women that have been reported in U.S. and European media. It gives a more nuanced view of a post-slavery society in Northwest Africa and complicates our existing understanding of this institution. 3. This research introduces readers to a part of the world that remains relatively off the U.S.'s map but is of strategic interest (given the increasing threat of terrorism in this region) and that has important overlap with other countries in West and North Africa.

Contents:

Intro

Cover

Half Title

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Note on Transliteration and Language

Introduction: I Will Make You My Servant: Social Status, Gender, and Work

1 From Black to Green: Changing Political Economy and Social Status in Kankossa

2 "We Work for Our Lives": Revaluing Femininity and Work in a Post-slavery Market

3 Joking Market Women: Critiquing and Negotiating Gender Roles and Social Hierarchy

4 Women's Market Strategies: Building Social Networks, Protecting Resources, and Managing Credit

5 Making People Bigger: Wedding Exchange and the Creation of Social Value

6 Embodying and Performing Gender and Social Status Through the Malaḥfa (Mauritanian veil)

Conclusion: Social Rank in the Neoliberal Era

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780253036230

0253036232