TY  - BOOK
AU  - Abu-Lughod,Lila
TI  - Writing women's worlds: Bedouin stories 
SN  - 0520079469 (alk. paper)
U1  - 305.486971062 20
PY  - 1993///]
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Muslim women
KW  - Egypt
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Women, Bedouin
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - Biographical methods
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-266) and index; Patrilineality --
Polygyny --
Reproduction --
Patrilateral parallel-cousin marriage --
Honor and shame
N2  - 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
ER  -