Notes from Source: The position of women in a Libyan oasis community is considered in relation to thirteen hundred years of Muslim Arab influence. The focus is the treatment of women in the ritual context of the wedding and wedding dance, where ambivalence, contradiction, and accommodation between the two sexual worlds are highlighted in action and symbol. There is an illusive quality in both the symbolic content of the wedding rite and the male-oriented ideology of female inferiority.

Further Notes: Edition: January 28, 1974, March 24, 1974 Place: Oxford, UK Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Ltd