Gender on the market : Moroccan women and the revoicing of tradition / / Deborah Kapchan

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910817695003321
• Autore: Kapchan Deborah
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Philadelphia : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2010]; ©1996
• ISBN: 1-283-21178-5; 9786613211781; 0-8122-0243-0; 0-585-17272-2
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (344 p.)
• Collana: Contemporary Ethnography
• Disciplina: 381.18082
• Soggetti: Women merchants - Economic conditions - Morocco; Markets - Social conditions - Morocco; Women - Morocco
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Content -- List of Figures -- Transcription and Transliteration -- Acknowledgments: Possession by Three Spirits -- Introduction: The Dialogic Enterprise of Women in Changing Social Contexts -- 1. In the Place of the Market -- 2. Shṭara: Competence in Cleverness -- 3. Words of Possession, Possession of Words: The Majduba -- 4. Words About Herbs: Feminine Performance of Oratory in the Marketplace -- 5. Reporting the New, Revoicing the Past: Marketplace Oratory and the Carnivalesque -- 6. Women on the Market: The Subversive Bride -- 7. Catering to the Sexual Market: Female Performers Defining the Social Body -- 8. Property in the (Other) Person: Mothers-in- Law, Working Women, and Maids -- 9. Terms of Talking Back: Women's Discourse on Magic -- 10. Conclusion: Hybridization and the Marketplace -- Appendix I: Discourse of the Majduba -- Appendix 2: Discourse of the 'Ashshaba -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Subject Index -- Author Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for 1996Gender 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.