A Glimpse Through Purdah: Asian Women : the Myth and the RealityTrentham Books, 1999 - 150 pages "The interviews with women living in Karachi, Delhi and other cities on the Subcontinent and working as teachers, or in finance, retailing and the garment industry, make illuminating reading. Interviews with Asian women in a northern English town illustrate that migration has created more new problems for Asian women than it has solved."--BOOK JACKET. |
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... British colonisation From the sixteenth century onward Europeans began to arrive in the Subcontinent , including the Portuguese , British , Dutch and French , all initially as traders , then as conquerors of territory . The British were ...
... British colonisation From the sixteenth century onward Europeans began to arrive in the Subcontinent , including the Portuguese , British , Dutch and French , all initially as traders , then as conquerors of territory . The British were ...
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... British women , who could not own property in their own right until 1870 is often omitted by British historians . As Maila Stevens ( 1975 ) , writing about women's land rights in Malaysia , records : ... In South East Asia , European ...
... British women , who could not own property in their own right until 1870 is often omitted by British historians . As Maila Stevens ( 1975 ) , writing about women's land rights in Malaysia , records : ... In South East Asia , European ...
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... British men , not all sanctified by formal marriage . Some civil marriages contracted between an Indian woman and a British man were not recognised . Almost inevitably these unrecognised marriages were abandoned , to be superseded by an ...
... British men , not all sanctified by formal marriage . Some civil marriages contracted between an Indian woman and a British man were not recognised . Almost inevitably these unrecognised marriages were abandoned , to be superseded by an ...
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A Glimpse Through Purdah: Asian Women--the Myth and the Reality Sitara Khan Affichage d'extraits - 1999 |
A Glimpse Through Purdah: Asian Women : the Myth and the Reality Sitara Khan Affichage d'extraits - 1999 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
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