Gender on the Market: Moroccan Women and the Revoicing of Tradition FROM THE PUBLISHER
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 role. In Morocco the last decade has seen a dramatic increase in women's public visibility and a major reorganization of the sexual division of labor. Beginning with women's emergence into what has been defined as the most paradigmatic of Moroccan male institutionsthe marketplace (suq) - the book elucidates how gender and commodity relations are experienced and interpreted in women's aesthetic practices.
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Examines Moroccan women's emergence into the formerly male-dominated marketplace, the expansion of their trade from foodstuffs to contraband, and their presence as orators in the performance section of the marketplace, paying particular attention to feminine discourse and the empirical and symbolic hybridization of feminine expressive forms. The study combines description, quoted texts, and analysis, and draws on the ludic, the dramatistic, and the textual idioms of ethnographic writing. Includes b&w photos and a glossary. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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