Abstract
In 1998, I spent three months in Tunisia studying Arabic and taking a much-needed holiday from my Ph.D. studies. An Australian woman of mixed heritage (including Cherokee Indian), my multilingualism, physical smallness, black hair and eyes, and yellow-toned skin allow me to blend in or at least to defy categorisation, in a range of cultures. As a woman travelling alone in that region, I attracted an inordinate amount of attention but was also, perhaps due to my liminal status as an anomaly, privy to some insightful confessions and revelations from Tunisians and Algerians I met there.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Ladies and Gents: Public Toilets and Gender |
Editors | Olga Gershenson, Barbara Penner |
Place of Publication | U.S. |
Publisher | Temple University Press |
Pages | 105-125 |
Number of pages | 21 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781592139415 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781592139392 |
Publication status | Published - 2009 |