ANTA02H3 : Feeding Desire Ch. 5
14 Apr 2011
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Slavery: light skin color is a sign of status for former slaves. white arabs hate that they become dark b. c of illness, bad food, lack of milk: green instead of black female haratin wear black hawlis. quasi-relatives = sense of mutual obligation btw masters and slaves. life of fattened: immobile leisure is the ideal of female existences. entirely dependent on the forced wrker caste. existence of a servant class enables a life of conspicuous leisure, by those at the top and particularly by women at the top (b. c they get to exempted from labor first) boys wrk in head work: girls is stomach work, girls work = anit-work = to get fat. b. c slaves are reducing woman fear the may lose their men to more obliging brides. women have limited control over their body and can make their own sort of contribution to their families and society.
