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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... Western sensibilities and exploiting Western curiosity about the grotesque and bar- barian , the sati's existence satisfied European nostalgia for the East or lost inno- cence ' . ( Dorothy Figueira in Hawley , 1994 ) Rajan ( 1993 ) ...
... Western sensibilities and exploiting Western curiosity about the grotesque and bar- barian , the sati's existence satisfied European nostalgia for the East or lost inno- cence ' . ( Dorothy Figueira in Hawley , 1994 ) Rajan ( 1993 ) ...
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... Western nuclear family , consisting of a married couple with children , has been in decline . In the US between 1960 and 1980 , the percentage of such families fell from 44 per cent to 29 per cent . In other industrialised countries ...
... Western nuclear family , consisting of a married couple with children , has been in decline . In the US between 1960 and 1980 , the percentage of such families fell from 44 per cent to 29 per cent . In other industrialised countries ...
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... Western research has focused in detail on women in an English town of high settlement from the Subcontinent , the broad principles have been shaped by the Western belief system of racio - cultural superiority derived from Europe's ...
... Western research has focused in detail on women in an English town of high settlement from the Subcontinent , the broad principles have been shaped by the Western belief system of racio - cultural superiority derived from Europe's ...
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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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