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Writing Women's Worlds : Bedouin Stories. / Lila Abu-Lughod.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher number: ; International Book Distributors | : Flat No.- 17, Prakash Apartment, 4405/2,5 Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New DelhiPublication details: , London : University of California press , 2008.Description: xxxviii, 267p. : 24cmISBN:
  • 9780520256514
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.48 ABU
Summary: 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.
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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.

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