Work, Social Status, and Gender in Post-Slavery Mauritania /
Although slavery was legally abolished in 1981 in Mauritania, its legacy lives on in the political, economic, and social discriminationagainst ex-slaves and their descendants. Katherine Ann Wiley examines the shifting roles of Muslim 'ara'in (ex-slaves and their descendants) women, who pro...
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Bloomington, Indiana :
Indiana University Press,
[2018]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: I will make you my servant: social status, gender, and work
- From Black to Green: changing political economy and social status in Kankossa
- "We work for our lives": revaluing femininity and work in a post-slavery market
- Joking market women: critiquing and negotiating gender roles and social hierarchy
- Women's market strategies: building social networks, protecting resources, and managing credit
- Making people bigger: wedding exchange and the creation of social value
- Embodying and performing gender and social status through the malafa (Mauritanian veil)
- Conclusion: social rank in the neoliberal era.