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Daughters Of Tunis : Women, Family, And Networks In A Muslim City.

Daughters of Tunis is an innovative ethnography that carefully weaves the words and intimate, personal stories of four Tunisian women and their families with a statistical analysis of women's survival strategies in a rapidly urbanizing, industrializing Muslim nation. Delineating three distinct...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Holmes-Eber, Paula
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boulder : Taylor and Francis, 2002.
Colección:Westview case studies in anthropology.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Daughters of Tunis is an innovative ethnography that carefully weaves the words and intimate, personal stories of four Tunisian women and their families with a statistical analysis of women's survival strategies in a rapidly urbanizing, industrializing Muslim nation. Delineating three distinct network strategies, Holmes-Eber demonstrates the ?public" role of neighborhoods as informal social security systems, and the impact of women's education, class and migration on women's resources and networks. An engaging, warm, and oftentimes humorous portrait of Muslim women's responses to d.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (191 pages).
ISBN:9780429980749
0429980744