Gender on the Market by Deborah Kapchan
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for 1996 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 roles. Beginning with women's emergence into what has been defined as the most paradigmatic of Moroccan male institutions-the marketplace-the book elucidates how gender and commodity relations are experienced and interpreted in women's aesthetic practices. Deborah Kapchan compellingly demonstrates that Moroccan women challenge some of the most basic cultural assumptions of their society-especially ones concerning power and authority.
"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. . . Through the idiom of social performance, Kapchan paints a vivid picture of the changing domains of household and family. . . . This book will be useful to a broad audience, including those concerned with discourse analysis, the anthropology of gender, and the contemporary Middle East and North Africa." * Choice *
Deborah Kapchan is Associate Professor of Performance Studies and author of Gender on the Market: Moroccan Women and the Revoicing of Tradition, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press, and Traveling Spirit Masters: Moroccan Gnawa Trance and Music in the Global Marketplace.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780812214260 |
| ISBN 10 | 0812214269 |
| Title | Gender on the Market |
| Author | Deborah Kapchan |
| Series | Contemporary Ethnography |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Year published | 1996-03-01 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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