Daughters of Tunis: Women, Family, and Networks in a Muslim City / Edition 1

by Paula Holmes-Eber

Overview

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 development, Daughters of Tunis is an exciting new approach to ethnography: merging the historically disparate methods of both qualitative and quantitative analysis.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813339443
Publisher:	Westview Press
Publication date:	08/14/2002
Series:	Case Studies in Anthropology
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Paula Holmes-Eber is a visiting scholar in Middle East Studies and the Department of Anthropology at the University of Washington. She holds a PhD from Northwestern University and was formerly an assistant professor in anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has taught courses in peoples and cultures of the Islamic Middle East, gender and family in the Middle East, and women and development, among other courses.

Table of Contents

Series Editor Preface — Preface — Notes on Language Use and Transliteration of Tunisian Arabic — Introduction — Men's and Women's Spaces in Tunis — Tea and Visits: Weaving the Web of Exchange — Marriage and Family: Miriam's Kin Exclusive Network — Sherifa's Street: Migration, Residence Patterns, and Kin Networks — Intimate Economies: Nura's Neighbor Network — Women's Religious Celebrations: Status, Class, and Hannan's Friendship Pattern — Conclusions — The Survey — Tables