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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... death may be preferable to a life of misery , poverty and the taunts of ... Roop Kanwar , an 18 year old widow , as a case study of how the forces of ... Kanwar's case , or rather national and international reaction 45 ETHNIC MINORITY ...
... death may be preferable to a life of misery , poverty and the taunts of ... Roop Kanwar , an 18 year old widow , as a case study of how the forces of ... Kanwar's case , or rather national and international reaction 45 ETHNIC MINORITY ...
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... Roop Kanwar's own attitude to the event , as so often in such cases , remains unrecorded . But even if it were , its authenticity would be questionable amidst the media interest such a case provoked . That over three hundred thousand ...
... Roop Kanwar's own attitude to the event , as so often in such cases , remains unrecorded . But even if it were , its authenticity would be questionable amidst the media interest such a case provoked . That over three hundred thousand ...
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... Roop Kanwar in India in 1987 , as with the incident a few years earlier of a woman stoned to death for adultery in a Middle Eastern country ( see Chapter 3 ) . These isolated events become emblems of " Third World ' barbarity enacted ...
... Roop Kanwar in India in 1987 , as with the incident a few years earlier of a woman stoned to death for adultery in a Middle Eastern country ( see Chapter 3 ) . These isolated events become emblems of " Third World ' barbarity enacted ...
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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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