[URBANTH-L]List Member: New Publication

[Rachel Newcomb]

Now Available from Penn Press
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*/Women of Fes: Ambiguities of Urban Life in Morocco/*
Rachel Newcomb
248 pages | 6 x 9 | 7 illus.
Cloth 2008 | ISBN  | $49.95 | £32.50
A volume in the Contemporary Ethnography series 

Based on extensive fieldwork, /Women of Fes/ shows how Moroccan women negotiate urban space and craft new identities through work, family, and society. The book also examines how women's lives are positioned vis-à-vis globalization, human rights, and the construction of national identity.

*Learn more about /Women of Fes/* at
<http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/14531.html>

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Book reviewers: to request a press copy, contact Ellen Trachtenberg at ellenpt at pobox.upenn.edu.
Educators: to request an exam copy for course use consideration, visit http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/review.html.




Dr. Rachel Newcomb
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Rollins College
1000 Holt Avenue Box 2761
Winter Park, FL 32789
(407) 691-1703
rnewcomb at rollins.edu
www.rachelnewcomb.net