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  • - Women's Indigenous Knowledge and Cosmopolitanism in South Asian Poetry
    af Anita Anantharam
    408,95 kr.

    An informative and engaging exploration of four prominent female poets writing in Hindi and Urdu over the course of the twentieth century in India and Pakistan. Anantharam follows the authors Mahadevi Varma, Kishwar Naheed, Fahmida Riaz and Gagen Gill and their works, as both countries undergo profound political and social transformations.

  • af Amy Young Evrard
    463,95 kr.

    This ethnography of the Moroccan womens rights movement describes the history and activists of the Moroccan womens rights movement through the development and use of three frames: equality, womens human rights, and the harmonious family.

  • - Vanguard of a New Modernity?
    af Amina Jamal
    463,95 kr.

    "Vanguard of a New Modernity" draws feminist scholarly and political attention towards the women activists of the Jamaat-e-Islami, a major movement of Islamic renewal and reform in South Asia.

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    1.030,95 kr.

    In this timely volume, Zhu and Xiao offer an examination of the ways in which Chinese feminist ideas have developed since the mid-1990s. By juxtaposing the plural "feminisms" with "Chinese characteristics", they both underline the importance of integrating Chinese culture, history, and tradition in the discussions of Chinese feminisms.

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    520,95 kr.

    In this timely volume, Zhu and Xiao offer an examination of the ways in which Chinese feminist ideas have developed since the mid-1990s. By juxtaposing the plural "feminisms" with "Chinese characteristics", they both underline the importance of integrating Chinese culture, history, and tradition in the discussions of Chinese feminisms.

  • - Resistance and Survival in America
    af Shobha Hamal Gurung
    282,95 - 353,95 kr.

  • - The Story of Al-Huda and Islamic Revivalism among Urban Pakistani Women
    af Sadaf Ahmad
    438,95 kr.

    There is an increasing number of middle- and upper-class urban Pakistani women turning toward Islam via Al-Huda, an Islamic school for women aiming to transform the women who absorb its message into 'pious' subjects. This title explores how Al-Huda is fostering a new generation of educated, urban, middle-class women to become veiled conservatives.

  • - Marriage and Citizenship in the Ottoman Frontier Provinces of Iraq
    af Karen M. Kern
    353,95 kr.

    Examines the intersection between Ottoman colonialism, control of the Iraqi frontier through centralization policies, and the impact of those policies on Ottoman citizenship laws and on the institution of marriage. This fascinating account offers an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the Ottoman Iraqi frontier and its passage to modernity.

  • - Women's Participation, Movements, and Rights in the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia
    af Valentine Moghadam
    532,95 kr.

    Offers twenty studies on instances of emerging social justice and women's empowerment in the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia. This book shows how changes are occurring as flood tides of capital, people, and information erode entrenched gender regimes, giving birth to energetic and forward-thinking women's movements.

  • af Kenneth M. Cuno
    532,95 kr.

    Collects essays that examine issues of gender, family, and law in the Middle East and South Asia. This title addresses the role of religious politics in writing family law and the implications for gender relations, and the tension between international standards emerging from UN conferences and conventions and various nationalist projects.

  • - Family, Ideology, and Law in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Egypt
    af Kenneth M. Cuno
    298,95 - 463,95 kr.

  • - Public Life in Private Spaces in Uzbekistan
    af Svetlana Peshkova
    532,95 kr.

    This pioneering ethnographic work centres on the dynamics of female authority within the religious life of a conservative Muslim community in the Fergana Valley of Uzbekistan. Peshkova draws upon several years of field research to chronicle the daily lives of women religious leaders, known as otinchalar, and the ways in which they exert a powerful influence in the religious life of the community.

  • af Bronwyn Winter
    463,95 - 822,95 kr.

    Nearly all discussions of world politics today include a tacit, if not overt, reference to 9/11. A decade and a half on, Winter considers the impact of 9/11 on women around the world. Based on theoretical reflection, empirical research, and field work in different parts of the world, each chapter of the book considers a different post-9/11 issue in relation to women.

  • - Sex, Law, and Medicine in Khedival Egypt
    af Liat Kozma
    353,95 kr.

    Delineates the intricate manner in which the modern state in Egypt monitored, controlled, and "policed" the bodies of subaltern women. Some of these women were runaway slaves, others were deflowered outside of marriage, and still others were prostitutes. Kozma traces the effects of nineteenth-century developments on these women who lived at the margins of society.

  • - Constructing Gender, Power, and the Nation in Postliberalization India
    af Susan Dewey
    333,95 kr.

    Miss India competition has become a prominent feature of Indian popular culture, influencing, over time, the conventional standard for female beauty. Through the lens of the 2003 beauty pageant, the author examines what feminine beauty has come to mean in a country transformed by political, economic, and cultural developments.

  • - Uncovering the French Headscarf Debate
    af Bronwyn Winter
    316,95 - 587,95 kr.

    The hijab is the controversial item of women's clothing. It has become the primary global symbol of female Muslim identity for Muslims and non-Muslims alike. This title provides an account of the controversial 2003 French law to ban Islamic headscarves and other religious signs from public schools.

  • - Gender, Migration, and the Family in Andean Ecuador and New York City
    af Jason Pribilsky
    347,95 - 617,95 kr.

    Chronicling the experience of young Andean families as their lives extend between the Ecuadorian highlands and New York City, this book takes an in-depth look at transnational labor migration and gender identities. It offers an account of the ways in which young men and women in these two locales navigate their lives.

  • - Gender and Modernity in Global Youth Culture
    af Susan Dewey
    497,95 kr.

    A compelling look at the ways in which youth, gender and gender identities are being transformed around the globe.

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