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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... Social Contexts Part One : Women in the Market Chapter One : In the Place of the Market ix xi xiii I 29 Chapter Two : Shtara : Competence in Cleverness 50 Chapter Three : Words of Possession , Possession of Words : The Majduba 72 ...
... Social Contexts Part One : Women in the Market Chapter One : In the Place of the Market ix xi xiii I 29 Chapter Two : Shtara : Competence in Cleverness 50 Chapter Three : Words of Possession , Possession of Words : The Majduba 72 ...
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... Social Contexts The market : its pure product is relentless displacement — of traditions , beliefs , values , and natural objects , and it is through language that this awesome reconfiguration of humanity takes shape ; it endlessly ...
... Social Contexts The market : its pure product is relentless displacement — of traditions , beliefs , values , and natural objects , and it is through language that this awesome reconfiguration of humanity takes shape ; it endlessly ...
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... social license ; and ( 3 ) that in granting permis- sion for the opening of social boundaries and categories , license , in turn , provides the conditions for the hybridization of social and expressive forms.3 The performances analyzed ...
... social license ; and ( 3 ) that in granting permis- sion for the opening of social boundaries and categories , license , in turn , provides the conditions for the hybridization of social and expressive forms.3 The performances analyzed ...
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... social authority . This study posits marriage and mar- ket exchange as part of a unified field , one which is undergoing radical and pervasive change . One consequence of this change is seen in the reorgani- zation of socio - symbolic ...
... social authority . This study posits marriage and mar- ket exchange as part of a unified field , one which is undergoing radical and pervasive change . One consequence of this change is seen in the reorgani- zation of socio - symbolic ...
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... social contracts imbued with ideology . Our use of genre is thus a political , if not always a conscious , choice ... social change ( Briggs and Bauman 1992 ) . In the latter case , such generic reorientations , or " revoicings , " leave ...
... social contracts imbued with ideology . Our use of genre is thus a political , if not always a conscious , choice ... social change ( Briggs and Bauman 1992 ) . In the latter case , such generic reorientations , or " revoicings , " leave ...
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...