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Feminisms With Chinese Characteristics

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 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 â€œfeminismsâ€ with â€œChinese characteristicsâ€, they both underline the importance of integrating Chinese culture, history, and tradition in the discussions of Chinese feminisms.
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Feminisms With Chinese Characteristics

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 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 â€œfeminismsâ€ with â€œChinese characteristicsâ€, they both underline the importance of integrating Chinese culture, history, and tradition in the discussions of Chinese feminisms.
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Moroccan Women'S Rights Movement

by Amy Young Evrard

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 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.
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Modernizing Marriage - Family, Ideology, And Law In Nineteenth- And Early Twentieth-Century Egypt

by Kenneth M. Cuno

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 Examines Egyptian family history in a comparative and transnational context, addressing issues of colonial modernity and colonial knowledge, Islamic law and legal reform, social history, and the history of women and gender.
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Women, Insecurity, And Violence In A Post-9/11 World

by Bronwyn Winter

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 A decade and a half on, Winter considers the impact of 9/11 on women around the world.
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Women, Insecurity, And Violence In A Post-9/11 World

by Bronwyn Winter

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 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.
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Modernizing Marriage - Family, Ideology, And Law In Nineteenth- And Early Twentieth-Century Egypt

by Kenneth M. Cuno

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 In 1910, when Khedive Abbas II married a second wife surreptitiously, the contrast with his openly polygamous grandfather, Ismail, whose multiple wives and concubines signified his grandeur and masculinity, could not have been greater. That contrast reflected the spread of new ideals of family life that accompanied the development of Egypt’s modern marriage system. <i>Modernizing Marriage</i> explores the evolution of marriage and marital relations, shedding new light on the social and cultural history of Egypt. Family is central to modern Egyptian history and in the ruling court did the "political work." Indeed, the modern state began as a household government in which members of the ruler’s household served in the military and civil service. Cuno discusses political and sociodemographic changes that affected marriage and family life and the production of a family ideology by modernist intellectuals, who identified the family as a site crucial to social improvement, and for whom the reform and codification of Muslim family law was a principal aim. Throughout <i>Modernizing Marriage</i>, Cuno examines Egyptian family history in a comparative and transnational context, addressing issues of colonial modernity and colonial knowledge, Islamic law and legal reform, social history, and the history of women and gender.
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Nepali Migrant Women - Resistance And Survival In America

by Shobha Hamal Gurung

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 In this pathbreaking and timely work, Hamal Gurung gives voice to the growing number of Nepali women who migrate to the United States to work in the informal economy. Highlighting the experiences of thirty-five women, mostly college educated and middle class, who take on domestic service and unskilled labor jobs, Hamal Gurung challenges conventional portraits of Third World women as victims forced into low-wage employment. Instead, she sheds light on Nepali women’s strategic decisions to accept downwardly mobile positions in order to earn more income, thereby achieving greater agency in their home countries as well as in their diasporic communities in the United States. These women are not only investing in themselves and their families—they are building transnational communities through formal participation in NGOs and informal networks of migrant workers. In great detail, Hamal Gurung documents Nepali migrant women’s lives, making visible the profound and far-reaching effects of their civic, economic, and political engagement.
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Nepali Migrant Women - Resistance And Survival In America

by Shobha Hamal Gurung

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Women, Islam, And Identity - Public Life In Private Spaces In Uzbekistan

by Svetlana Peshkova

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 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.
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Transforming Faith - The Story Of Al-Huda And Islamic Revivalism Among Urban Pakistani Women

by Sadaf Ahmad

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 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.
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Imagined Identities - Identity Formation In The Age Of Globalism

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Ecumenism, Memory, And German Nationalism, 1817-1917

by Stan M. Landry

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 Explores the relationship among the German confessional divide, collective memories of religion, and the construction of German national identity and difference.
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Policing Egyptian Women - Sex, Law And Medicine In Khedival Egypt

by Liat Kozma

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 Historical treatament of slaves, prostitutes and adolescent girls in Egyptian society
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Hijab And The Republic - Uncovering The French Headscarf Debate

by Bronwyn Winter

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 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.
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Making Miss India Miss World - Constructing Gender, Power, And The Nation In Postliberalization India

by Susan Dewey

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 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.
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Hijab And The Republic - Uncovering The French Headscarf Debate

by Bronwyn Winter

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 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.
La Chulla Vida - Gender, Migration, And The Family In Andean Ecuador And New York City

by Jason Pribilsky

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 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.
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"In Old Friendship" - The Correspondence Of Lewis Mumford And Henry A. Murray, 1928-1981

by Frank Novak

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 Between 1928 and 1981, architectural and cultural critic Lewis Mumford exchanged nearly six hundred letters with Melville scholar and Harvard psychologist Henry A Murray. This book documents that interaction. It covers fifty years of devoted camaraderie between two exceptional minds, offering profound insights into their careers and lives.
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Promoting The General Welfare - New Perspectives On Government Performance

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 The US Constitution calls on the government to "promote the general welfare." Here, a distinguished roster of political scientists and economists evaluates its ability to carry out this task.
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Promoting The General Welfare - New Perspectives On Government Performance

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 The U.S. Constitution calls on the government to ""promote the general welfare."" In this provocative and innovative book, a distinguished roster of political scientists and economists evaluates its ability to carry out this task.
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Imperial Citizen - Marriage And Citizenship In The Ottoman Frontier Provinces Of Iraq

by Karen M Kern

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 Imperial Citizen considers the geopolitical necessities of Ottoman-Iranian/Sunni-Shiite relations in the Iraqi frontier provinces in the late 19th-early 20th century through an examination of Ottoman centralization policies, and the impact of those policies on Ottoman citizenship laws and on the institution of marriage.
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The Urban Colonists - Italian American Identity And Politics In Utica, New York

by Philip A. Bean

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 Detailing the history of Italian Americans in Utica, New York, charting the rise of Uticaâ€™s ""colonia"" in the mid-nineteenth century to its contemporary identity at the beginning of the twenty-first century, the author probes the multiple facets of this ethnic community.
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Family, Gender, And Law In A Globalizing Middle East And South Asia

by Kenneth M. Cuno

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 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.
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