Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories - Brossura

Abu-Lughod, Lila

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0520083040 ISBN 13: 9780520083042

Casa editrice: Univ of California Pr, 1993

Riassunto

In 1978 Lila Abu-Lughod climbed out of a dusty van to meet members of a small Awlad 'Ali Bedouin community. Living in this Egyptian Bedouin settlement for extended periods during the following decade, Abu-Lughod took part in family life, with its moments of humor, affection, and anger. She witnessed striking changes, both cultural and economic, and she recorded the stories of the women.Writing Women's Worlds is Abu-Lughod's telling of those stories; it is also about what happens in bringing the stories to others.

As the new teller of these tales Abu-Lughod draws on anthropological and feminist insights to construct a critical ethnography. She explores how the telling of these stories challenges the power of anthropological theory to render adequately the lives of others and the way feminist theory appropriates Third World women. Writing Women's Worlds is thus at once a vivid set of stories and a study in the politics of representation.

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L'autore:

Lila Abu-Lughod is Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies at Columbia University. She is the author ofVeiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society (California, 1986) and the co-editor, with C. Lutz, ofLanguage and the Politics of Emotion (1990).

Product Description:

Book by Lila AbuLughod

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of California Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0520083040
• ISBN 13: 9780520083042
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 244