Writing womens's worlds
Subtitle: Bedouin stories
By: Lila Abu-Lughod.
Edition: 15th anniversary ed.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Berkeley, Calif; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9780520256514
Subjects: Muslim women -- Egypt -- Social conditions.; Women, Bedouin -- Egypt.; Women, Bedouin -- Egypt -- Social conditions.; Ethnology -- Egypt -- Biographical methods.
Description: A feminist ethnography Bedouin women; tells the stories of their lives in Egypt, and presents critical commentaries on anthropological modes of understanding human existence.
Notes: Previous ed.: 1993.
Table of contents: value: Patrilineality; value: Polygyny; value: Reproduction; value: Patrilateral parallel-cousin marriage; value: Honor and shame.