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- catalog abstract "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.".
- catalog alternative "Anthropology online. net".
- catalog alternative "Project Muse UPCC books net".
- catalog contributor b9098989.
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description "Acknowledgments: Possession by Three Spirits -- Introduction: The Dialogic Enterprise of Women in Changing Social Contexts -- pt. 1. Women in the Market. Ch. 1. In the Place of the Market. Ch. 2. Shtara: Competence in Cleverness. Ch. 3. Words of Possession, Possession of Words: The Majduba. Ch. 4. Words About Herbs: Feminine Performance of Oratory in the Marketplace. Ch. 5. Reporting the New, Revoicing the Past: Marketplace Oratory and the Carnivalesque -- pt. 2. Gender on the Market. Ch. 6. Women on the Market: The Subversive Bride. Ch. 7. Catering to the Sexual Market: Female Performers Defining the Social Body. Ch. 8. Property in the (Other) Person: Mothers-in-Law, Working Women, and Maids. Ch. 9. Terms of Talking Back: Women's Discourse on Magic. Ch. 10. Conclusion: Hybridization and the Marketplace -- Appendix 1: Discourse of the Majduba -- Appendix 2: Discourse of the 'Ashshaba.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-320) and indexes.".
- catalog extent "xvii, 325 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0812214269 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0812231554 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "New cultural studies.".
- catalog isPartOf "Publications of the American Folklore Society. New series (Unnumbered)".
- catalog isPartOf "Series in contemporary ethnography.".
- catalog isPartOf "University of Pennsylvania Press new cultural studies".
- catalog isPartOf "University of Pennsylvania Press publications of the American Folklore Society. New series".
- catalog isPartOf "University of Pennylvania Press series in contemporary ethnography".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press,".
- catalog spatial "Morocco".
- catalog spatial "Morocco.".
- catalog subject "381/.18/082 20".
- catalog subject "HF3882 .K37 1996".
- catalog subject "Markets Morocco.".
- catalog subject "Women Morocco Economic conditions.".
- catalog subject "Women Morocco Social conditions.".
- catalog subject "Women merchants Morocco.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Acknowledgments: Possession by Three Spirits -- Introduction: The Dialogic Enterprise of Women in Changing Social Contexts -- pt. 1. Women in the Market. Ch. 1. In the Place of the Market. Ch. 2. Shtara: Competence in Cleverness. Ch. 3. Words of Possession, Possession of Words: The Majduba. Ch. 4. Words About Herbs: Feminine Performance of Oratory in the Marketplace. Ch. 5. Reporting the New, Revoicing the Past: Marketplace Oratory and the Carnivalesque -- pt. 2. Gender on the Market. Ch. 6. Women on the Market: The Subversive Bride. Ch. 7. Catering to the Sexual Market: Female Performers Defining the Social Body. Ch. 8. Property in the (Other) Person: Mothers-in-Law, Working Women, and Maids. Ch. 9. Terms of Talking Back: Women's Discourse on Magic. Ch. 10. Conclusion: Hybridization and the Marketplace -- Appendix 1: Discourse of the Majduba -- Appendix 2: Discourse of the 'Ashshaba.".
- catalog title "Gender on the market : Moroccan women and the revoicing of tradition / Deborah A. Kapchan.".
- catalog type "text".