Writing women's worlds : Bedouin stories

Author(s)

• Abu-Lughod, Lila

Bibliographic Information

Writing women's worlds : Bedouin stories

Lila Abu-Lughod

University of California Press, 2008

15th anniversary ed

• : pbk

Note

Previous ed.: 1993

Bibliography: p257-267

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Lila Abu-Lughod 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.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Preface to the Fifteenth Anniversary Edition Preface to the First Edition Acknowledgments Keeping the Names Straight Introduction ONE Patrilineality TWO Polygyny THREE Reproduction FOUR Patrilateral Parallel-Cousin Marriage FIVE Honor and Shame Transcriptions of Arabic Poems and Songs Bibliography

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Details

• NCID: BA89286552
• ISBN:
  • 9780520256514
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Berkeley, Calif. ; London
• Pages/Volumes: xxxvii, 267 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • DC22 : 305.486970962
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Muslim women -- Egypt -- Social conditions
  • LCSH : Women, Bedouin -- Egypt
  • LCSH : Women, Bedouin -- Egypt -- Social conditions
  • LCSH : Ethnology -- Egypt -- Biographical methods