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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... believe monarchies to be un - Islamic . But even within this gender - separated society , there are 3,000 women members of the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce . At a seminar held in the City of London in September 1995 to bring together ...
... believe monarchies to be un - Islamic . But even within this gender - separated society , there are 3,000 women members of the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce . At a seminar held in the City of London in September 1995 to bring together ...
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... believe it to be a religious rite worthy of deifica- tion , and the liberal school , which views it as the epitome of male vanity in destroy- ing female life . Roop Kanwar's own attitude to the event , as so often in such cases ...
... believe it to be a religious rite worthy of deifica- tion , and the liberal school , which views it as the epitome of male vanity in destroy- ing female life . Roop Kanwar's own attitude to the event , as so often in such cases ...
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... believe that people in the Subcontinent live in makeshift dwellings and the girls have no educational or career chances . For example , a group of girls from a secon- dary school in Bradford who visited Islamabad on a school exchange ...
... believe that people in the Subcontinent live in makeshift dwellings and the girls have no educational or career chances . For example , a group of girls from a secon- dary school in Bradford who visited Islamabad on a school exchange ...
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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 |
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