Quest for love in central Morocco: young women and the dynamics of intimate lives

"This ethnography focuses on young women whose lives unfold in the low-income and lower-middle-class neighborhoods of a midsized town in Central Morocco, far from the overt influence of city life. It explores the creative ways young women navigate desire and morality, drawing upon ideas of &quo...

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Main Author: Menin, Laura (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Syracuse, New York Syracuse University Press [2024]
Edition:First edition
Series:Gender, culture, and politics in the Middle East
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Summary:"This ethnography focuses on young women whose lives unfold in the low-income and lower-middle-class neighborhoods of a midsized town in Central Morocco, far from the overt influence of city life. It explores the creative ways young women navigate desire and morality, drawing upon ideas of "love" as an ethnographic object and source of theoretical examination to show how love is shaped just as much through complex cultural and historical phenomena as through intersecting socioeconomic and political developments"--
Physical Description:xvi, 253 Seiten
ISBN:9780815638308
0815638302
9780815638292
0815638299

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