Gender on the Market: Moroccan Women and the Revoicing of Tradition by Mary Frances Wack

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Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book, 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.

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Examines Moroccan women's emergence into the formerly male-dominated marketplace, the expansion of their trade from foodstuffs to contraband, and their presence as orators in the performance section of the marketplace, paying particular attention to feminine discourse and the empirical and symbolic hybridization of feminine expressive forms. The study combines description, quoted texts, and analysis, and draws on the ludic, the dramatistic, and the textual idioms of ethnographic writing. Includes b&w photos and a glossary. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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