| Gender on the Market Contributor(s): Kapchan, Deborah (Author) |
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ISBN: 0812214269 ISBN-13: 9780812214260 Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1996 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Industries - Retailing - History | Africa - General - Social Science | Anthropology - General |
| Dewey: 381.180 |
| LCCN: 95051427 |
| Lexile Measure: 1250 |
| Series: Contemporary Ethnography |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.9" W x 8.8" (1.15 lbs) 352 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |