Veiled Sentiments
Veiled Sentiments
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Summary
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).
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780520224735 |
| ISBN 10 | 0520224736 |
| Title | Veiled Sentiments |
| Author | Lila Abu-Lughod |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of California Press |
| Year published | 2000-03-31 |
| Number of pages | 356 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |