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Writing women's worlds : Bedouin stories / Lila Abu-Lughod.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, [1993]Copyright date: ©1993. Description: xxiii, 266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0520079469 (alk. paper)
  • 0520083040
  • 9780520083042
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.486971062 20 L.L.W
Contents:
Summary: 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.
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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.

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