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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... leave her body , to pacify them , or to convert them to Islam . We watched her as she continued up the mountain with the ease and speed of a bobcat . Soon she had left us far behind . By the time we arrived at the marabout , a white ...
... leave her body , to pacify them , or to convert them to Islam . We watched her as she continued up the mountain with the ease and speed of a bobcat . Soon she had left us far behind . By the time we arrived at the marabout , a white ...
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... leave the hedgehog with its needles , with its bones , with its head , with its meat , and with its blood , because that is what the book said to do . Take this hedgehog and fry it in a clay pot until it burns . When the hedgehog is ...
... leave the hedgehog with its needles , with its bones , with its head , with its meat , and with its blood , because that is what the book said to do . Take this hedgehog and fry it in a clay pot until it burns . When the hedgehog is ...
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... leave the yoke here on my shoulders . There's nothing more difficult than respon- sibility . Here , woman , even my family eats them in the morning and in the afternoon . I have brought up five children on them , by God I swear . " How ...
... leave the yoke here on my shoulders . There's nothing more difficult than respon- sibility . Here , woman , even my family eats them in the morning and in the afternoon . I have brought up five children on them , by God I swear . " How ...
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... leave their impress on the larger social imaginary ( Kapchan 1993b ) . The extent to which expressive hybridizations effect social transformation depends on the density of their performativity — that is , on the degree to which they are ...
... leave their impress on the larger social imaginary ( Kapchan 1993b ) . The extent to which expressive hybridizations effect social transformation depends on the density of their performativity — that is , on the degree to which they are ...
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... leave the body through foul - smelling perspiration or pain in the intestine or a cold in the intestines , here you are , sir . If God gave you the intelligence of day , and if God makes it possible for you to find a hedgehog , take it ...
... leave the body through foul - smelling perspiration or pain in the intestine or a cold in the intestines , here you are , sir . If God gave you the intelligence of day , and if God makes it possible for you to find a hedgehog , take it ...
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...