Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for 1996
Gender on the Market is a study of Moroccan women's expressive culture
and the ways in which it both determines and responds to current
transformations in gender roles. Beginning with women's emergence into
what has been defined as the most paradigmatic of Moroccan male
institutions--the marketplace--the book elucidates how gender and
commodity relations are experienced and interpreted in women's aesthetic
practices.
Deborah Kapchan compellingly demonstrates that Moroccan women challenge
some of the most basic cultural assumptions of their society--especially
ones concerning power and authority.