Gender on the Market: Moroccan Women and the Revoicing of Tradition (University of Pennsylvania Press New Cultural Studies) [Hardcover]

Deborah Kapchan (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1996 | Series: University of Pennsylvania Press New Cultural Studies

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.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"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

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 325 pages
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press (May 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0812231554
• ISBN-13: 978-0812231557
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,546,137 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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