Writing women's worlds : Bedouin stories /
Abu-Lughod, Lila.
Writing women's worlds : Bedouin stories / Lila Abu-Lughod. - xxiii, 266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-266) and index.
Patrilineality --
Polygyny --
Reproduction --
Patrilateral parallel-cousin marriage --
Honor and shame.
The author draws on anthropological and feminist insights to construct a critical ethnography of a small Awlad 'Ali Bedouin community in Egypt. She explores how the telling of stories of everyday life challenges the power of anthropological theory to render adequately the lives of others and the way feminist theory appropriates Third World women.
0520079469 (alk. paper) 0520083040 9780520083042
Muslim women--Social conditions.--Egypt
Women, Bedouin--Egypt.
Ethnology--Biographical methods.--Egypt
305.486971062 / L.L.W
Writing women's worlds : Bedouin stories / Lila Abu-Lughod. - xxiii, 266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-266) and index.
Patrilineality --
Polygyny --
Reproduction --
Patrilateral parallel-cousin marriage --
Honor and shame.
The author draws on anthropological and feminist insights to construct a critical ethnography of a small Awlad 'Ali Bedouin community in Egypt. She explores how the telling of stories of everyday life challenges the power of anthropological theory to render adequately the lives of others and the way feminist theory appropriates Third World women.
0520079469 (alk. paper) 0520083040 9780520083042
Muslim women--Social conditions.--Egypt
Women, Bedouin--Egypt.
Ethnology--Biographical methods.--Egypt
305.486971062 / L.L.W