Veiled sentiments
Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society
Bedouins
Arabic poetry
Honor
Sociale situatie
Vie sexuelle
Historia y crítica
Sex customs
Sexualité
Moeurs et coutumes
Vrouwen
Femmes
Histoire et critique
Folklore
New York Times reviewed
Women
Social life and customs
History and criticism
Lila Abu-Lughod lived with a community of Bedouins in the Western Desert of Egypt for nearly two years, studying gender relations and the oral lyric poetry through which women and young men express personal feelings. The poems are haunting, the evocation of emotional life vivid. But her analysis als…
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