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Informationen zum Autor Deborah Kapchan Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung "Kapchan's splendid enthnographic study of women's performance genres in Beni Mellal, Morocco, is an outstanding contribution to gender studies and to the understanding of Middle Eastern society."-Choice Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures Transcription and Transliteration Acknowledgments: Possession by Three Spirits Introduction: The Dialogic Enterprise of Women in Changing Social Contexts PART ONE. WOMEN IN THE MARKET 1. In the Place of the Market 2. Shtara: 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 PART TWO. GENDER ON THE MARKET 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 1: Discourse of the Majduba Appendix 2: Discourse of the 'Ashshaba Glossary Bibliography Subject Index Author Index
