Gender on the Market: Moroccan Women and the Revoicing of Tradition
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...
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"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."—Choice Booknews 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)
List of FiguresTranscription and TransliterationAcknowledgments: Possession by Three SpiritsIntroduction: The Dialogic Enterprise of Women in Changing Social Contexts1Pt. 1Women in the MarketCh. 1In the Place of the Market29Ch. 2Shtara: Competence in Cleverness50Ch. 3Words of Possession, Possession of Words: The Majduba72Ch. 4Words About Herbs: Feminine Performance of Oratory in the Marketplace103Ch. 5Reporting the New, Revoicing the Past: Marketplace Oratory and the Carnivalesque138Pt. 2Gender on the MarketCh. 6Women on the Market: The Subversive Bride153Ch. 7Catering to the Sexual Market: Female Performers Defining the Social Body181Ch. 8Property in the (Other) Person: Mothers-in-Law, Working Women, and Maids212Ch. 9Terms of Talking Back: Women's Discourse on Magic235Ch. 10Conclusion: Hybridization and the Marketplace275Appendix 1: Discourse of the Majduba280Appendix 2: Discourse of the 'Ashshaba290Glossary297Bibliography299Subject Index321Author Index323
\ From the Publisher"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\ \ \ \ \ \ BooknewsExamines 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)\ \
