Gender on the Market: Moroccan Women and the Revoicing of Tradition

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University of Pennsylvania Press, Nov 24, 2010 - Social Science - 352 pages

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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Contents

The Dialogic Enterprise of Wolnen in Changing Social Contexts
1
Women in the Market
27
Gender on the Market
151
Discourse of the Majduba
280
Discourse of the Ashshaba
290
Glossary
297
Bibliography
299
Subject Index
321
Author Index
323
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