Gender on the market
Subtitle: Moroccan women and the revoicing of tradition
By: Deborah A. Kapchan.
Series: University of Pennsylvania Press new cultural studies; University of Pennsylvania Press series in contemporary ethnography; University of Pennsylvania Press publications of the American Folklore Society. New series; New cultural studies.; Series in contemporary ethnography.; Publications of the American Folklore Society.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
Subjects: Women merchants -- Morocco.; Markets -- Morocco.; Women -- Morocco -- Economic conditions.; Women -- Morocco -- Social conditions.
Description: 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 institutions the marketplace (suq) - the book elucidates how gender and commodity relations are experienced and interpreted in women's aesthetic practices.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-320) and indexes.