The veiled women : shifting gender equations in rural Haryana, 1880-1990

Anxiety Veiled: Euripides and the Traffic in Women 9781501737565

Tracking the relationship between male anxiety and female desire in his drama, she demonstrates in this rich and incisiv

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Veiled Empire: Gender and Power in Stalinist Central Asia 9781501702976

Drawing on extensive research in the archives of Russia and Uzbekistan, Douglas Northrop here reconstructs the turbulent

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Women in Middle Eastern History: Shifting Boundaries in Sex and Gender 9780300157468

This history of Middle Eastern women is the first to survey gender relations in the Middle East from the earliest Islami

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Veiled Figures: Women, Modernity, and the Spectres of Orientalism 9781442624917

In Veiled Figures, Teresa Heffernan explores how the clash of civilizations is perpetuated by the rhetoric of veiling an

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Out to Work: Migration, Gender, and the Changing Lives of Rural Women in Contemporary China 9780824854768

Out to Work is a fresh, engaging account of the lives of a group of migrant women who, while in their teens, moved from

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Gender and Power in Rural Greece 9780691196220

Women in contemporary Greek society have been conventionally depicted as oppressed and socially inferior, circumscribed

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Patrons of Women: Literacy Projects and Gender Development in Rural Nepal 9781845459857

Assuming that women’s empowerment would accelerate the pace of social change in rural Nepal, the World Bank urged the Ne

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The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China’s Collective Past 9780520950344

What can we learn about the Chinese revolution by placing a doubly marginalized group—rural women—at the center of the i

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Shifting body politics : gender, nation, state in Pakistan 9788188965038, 8188965030

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The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China’s Collective Past [Hardcover ed.] 0520267702, 9780520267701

What can we learn about the Chinese revolution by placing a doubly marginalized group—rural women—at the center of the i

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