Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for 1996
Gender 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.
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"Kapchan's splendid enthnographic study of women's performance genres in Beni Mellal, Morocco, is an outstanding contribution to gender studies and to the understanding of Middle Eastern society. . . . Through the idiom of social performance, Kapchan paints a vivid picture of the changing domains of household and family. . . . This book will be useful to a broad audience, including those concerned with discourse analysis, the anthropology of gender, and the contemporary Middle East and North Africa."—Choice
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When I first went to Beni Mellal in 1982 there were plenty of women in the marketplace. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ioo riyals, marketplace oratory, woman vendor, marketplace speech, marketplace relations, sea onion, commodity relations, magical intervention Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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When I first went to Beni Mellal in 1982 there were plenty of women in the marketplace. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ioo riyals, marketplace oratory, woman vendor, marketplace speech, marketplace relations, sea onion, commodity relations, magical intervention Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Beni Mellal, Moulay Ibrahim, Sidi Abderahman, Moroccan Arabic, Words About Herbs, North African, Say Amen, Moulay Bouazza, Ouled Ayyad New!
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- The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays (University of Texas Press Slavic Series) by M.M. Bakhtin on page 64, and page 210
- Folktales of Egypt (Folktales of the World) by Hasan M. El-Shamy in Back Matter
- Wit and Wisdom in Morocco: A Study of Native Proverbs by Edward Westermarck on page 272
- Moroccan Islam by Dale F. Eickelman in Back Matter
- Saints of the Atlas by Ernest Gellner in Back Matter
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- Eight Words for the Study of Expressive Culture by Burt Feintuch on page 142, and Back Matter
- Music and Gender: Perspectives from the Mediterranean (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology) by Tullia Magrini on page 143, and page 273
- Performing Women in the Middle Ages: Sex, Gender, and the Iberian Lyric (New Middle Ages) by Denise K. Filios in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Translating Cultures: Perspectives on Translation and Anthropology by Paula G. Rubel in Front Matter, and page 195
- Women on the Verge of Home by Bilinda Straight on page 23
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