Tournaments of Value: Sociability and Hierarchy in a Yemeni Town

by Anne Meneley

Book Overview

A significant contribution to our understanding of the varied experience of women in the Islamic Middle East, Tournaments of Value gives a careful description of a world of female socializing, and the velocity, energy, and elaborateness of this remarkable female social world.

Meneley's data challenges assumptions about the cross-cultural validity of a division between household and community, between domestic and public domains...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1487521324
• ISBN13: 9781487521325
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.8"