What proposal do you have to RE-RELAY this ethnography beyond the monograph?

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Isabelle Soifer's picture
October 15, 2019

I would propose including a more detailed outline of the themes that each chapter of the ethnography covers, that way a prospective audience can gain a sense of which chapters might be relevant to them and their work. While it is good to know that each chapter has a distinctive story that is connected to broader histories/practices, I would like to gain a better sense of what that actually looks like in the text. I would also expand a bit more on how the author connects the local stories to the broader discussions of gender politics in Muslim countries: how does patriarchy work across national lines? Which nations are examined in the text? How does the author manage to make these connections without grouping women under the broad categories of "Muslim woman," "Arab woman," and so on? In order to re-relay this ethnography, I would also provide a bit more detail about the specific theories/theorists brought up in the text, such that audiences get a sense of the theoretical genealogy from which Inhorn's text has drawn.

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