Writing Women''s Worlds - Bedouin Stories

Informationen zum Autor Lila Abu-Lughod is Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies at Columbia University. She is the author of Veiled Sentiments (UC Press) and Dramas of Nationhood: The Politics of Television in Egypt . She is the editor of Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East and the coeditor! most recently! of Nakba: Palestine! 1948! and the Claims of Memory . Klappentext Lila Abu-Lughod draws on anthropological and feminist insights to construct a critical ethnography of a small Awlad 'Ali Bedouin community in Egypt. She explores how the telling of stories of everyday life challenges the power of anthropological theory to render adequately the lives of others and the way feminist theory appropriates Third World women. Zusammenfassung Lila Abu-Lughod draws on anthropological and feminist insights to construct a critical ethnography of a small Awlad 'Ali Bedouin community in Egypt. She explores how the telling of stories of everyday life challenges the power of anthropological theory to render adequately the lives of others and the way feminist theory appropriates Third World women. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Preface to the Fifteenth Anniversary Edition Preface to the First Edition Acknowledgments Keeping the Names Straight Introduction ONE Patrilineality TWO Polygyny THREE Reproduction FOUR Patrilateral Parallel-Cousin Marriage FIVE Honor and Shame Transcriptions of Arabic Poems and Songs Bibliography

Product details

• Authors: L Abu-Lughod, Lila Abu-Lughod, Abu-Lughod Lila
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.04.2008
• EAN: 9780520256514
• ISBN: 978-0-520-25651-4
• No. of pages: 306
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, Indigenous Peoples, Relating to indigenous peoples, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls