Daughters of Tunis: Women, Family, and Networks in a Muslim City - Hardcover

Holmes-Eber, Paula

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 081333943X ISBN 13: 9780813339436

Publisher: Westview Press, 2002

Synopsis

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

About this title

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Westview Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 081333943X
• ISBN 13: 9780813339436
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192