Gender on the Market: Moroccan Women and the Revoicing of TraditionSelected 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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... come to Morocco to teach English , but had time to travel with two other Americans before beginning work . Our trek began at the foot of the High Atlas Mountains , about 65 kilometers south of Marrakech , in a place called Imlil . We had ...
... come to Morocco to teach English , but had time to travel with two other Americans before beginning work . Our trek began at the foot of the High Atlas Mountains , about 65 kilometers south of Marrakech , in a place called Imlil . We had ...
Page xiv
... come across young girls out shepherding and groups of women collecting wood , but this woman was alone . She was not dressed like a Berber in a belted tunic with a ḥayk pulled up over her head and shoulders , but wore a jəllaba , a ...
... come across young girls out shepherding and groups of women collecting wood , but this woman was alone . She was not dressed like a Berber in a belted tunic with a ḥayk pulled up over her head and shoulders , but wore a jəllaba , a ...
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... come into being . My final thanks go to my family , on both sides of the ocean . My parents - in - law in Morocco have welcomed me into their fold . The stillness of their company when we sit in the garden late on a summer evening , the ...
... come into being . My final thanks go to my family , on both sides of the ocean . My parents - in - law in Morocco have welcomed me into their fold . The stillness of their company when we sit in the garden late on a summer evening , the ...
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... come to do business . About a dozen people surround her , a few of them men . She caresses a small hedgehog and offers her audience samples of home- made remedy : black pellets , a mixture of ground animal parts , herbs , olive oil ...
... come to do business . About a dozen people surround her , a few of them men . She caresses a small hedgehog and offers her audience samples of home- made remedy : black pellets , a mixture of ground animal parts , herbs , olive oil ...
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... come together in any degree that challenges their socially constructed autonomy.20 More productive than definitions , however , is shifting the focus to the instru- mentality of hybrid genres — what do these inherently ambiguous and ...
... come together in any degree that challenges their socially constructed autonomy.20 More productive than definitions , however , is shifting the focus to the instru- mentality of hybrid genres — what do these inherently ambiguous and ...
Contents
In the Place of the Market | 29 |
Shtara Competence in Cleverness | 50 |
Words of Possession Possession of Words The Majduba | 72 |
Words About Herbs Feminine Performance of Oratory in the Marketplace | 103 |
Reporting the New Revoicing the Past Marketplace Oratory and the Carnivalesque | 138 |
Gender on the Market | 151 |
Women on the Market The Subversive Bride | 153 |
Catering to the Sexual Market Female Performers Defining the Social Body | 181 |
Terms of Talking Back Womens Discourse on Magic | 235 |
Conclusion Hybridization and the Marketplace | 275 |
Discourse of the Majduba | 280 |
Discourse of the Ashshaba | 290 |
Glossary | 297 |
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Gender on the Market: Moroccan Women and the Revoicing of Tradition Deborah Kapchan Limited preview - 2010 |
Gender on the Market: Moroccan Women and the Revoicing of Tradition Deborah Anne Kapchan No preview available - 1996 |
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Page 17 - These images of agency are increasingly distortions of a world of merchandising so subtle that the consumer is consistently helped to believe that he or she is an actor, where in fact he or she is at best a chooser.
Page 27 - Barthes ironically invites us to imagine someone (a kind of Monsieur Teste in reverse) who abolishes within himself all barriers, all classes, all exclusions, not by syncretism but by simple discard of that old specter: logical contradiction: who mixes every language, even those said to be incompatible...