Veiled Sentiments by Lila Abu-Lughod

Veiled Sentiments by Lila Abu-Lughod

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Zusammenfassung

The author lived with a community of Bedouins in the Western Desert of Egypt, studying gender relations and the oral lyric poetry through which women and young men express personal feelings. This title reveals how deeply implicated poetry and sentiment are in the play of power and the maintenance of a system of social hierarchy.

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Veiled Sentiments by Lila Abu-Lughod

This updated edition is presented with a new Preface. Lila Abu-Lughod lived with a community of Bedouins in the Western Desert of Egypt for nearly two years, studying gender relations and the oral lyric poetry through which women and young men express personal feelings. The poems are haunting, the evocation of emotional life vivid. But her analysis also reveals how deeply implicated poetry and sentiment are in the play of power and the maintenance of a system of social hierarchy. What begins as a puzzle about a single poetic genre becomes a reflection on the politics of sentiment and the relationship between ideology and human experience.
Lila Abu-Lughod is Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies at Columbia University. She is the author of Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories (California, 1993) and editor of Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East (1998).
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ISBN 13 9780520224735
ISBN 10 0520224736
Titel Veiled Sentiments
Autor Lila Abu-Lughod
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Bindungsart Paperback
Verlag University of California Press
Erscheinungsjahr 2000-03-31
Seitenanzahl 356
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