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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... colonial and neo - colonial period has largely remained untold . Their striving to support their families and challenge British colonialism in the Subcontinent and racist practices in Britain often goes unrecorded . It is important that ...
... colonial and neo - colonial period has largely remained untold . Their striving to support their families and challenge British colonialism in the Subcontinent and racist practices in Britain often goes unrecorded . It is important that ...
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... colonial legacy Western perceptions during colonial and post - colonial periods have woven a web of contradictory images around the notion of female seclusion . Because of the ways in which our concepts are culturally constructed , in ...
... colonial legacy Western perceptions during colonial and post - colonial periods have woven a web of contradictory images around the notion of female seclusion . Because of the ways in which our concepts are culturally constructed , in ...
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... colonial legacy During the colonial period Hindu reformists and Christian missionaries joined forces to bring about changes in the practice of sati ; Christian missionaries in parti- cular had portrayed the widow as a powerless and ...
... colonial legacy During the colonial period Hindu reformists and Christian missionaries joined forces to bring about changes in the practice of sati ; Christian missionaries in parti- cular had portrayed the widow as a powerless and ...
Autres éditions - Tout afficher
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
areas arranged marriage Asian community Asian families Asian women aspirations attitudes became behaviour Bengal Britain British British Asians British Raj burqua Calderdale career century clothing colonial cultural custom daughter divorce domestic dowry dress earn economic educational system empire employment English ensure ethnic minority example factory father female gender girls harem hejjab Hindu Hinduism household husband immigration income India Indian Subcontinent Islam Karachi labour language lives male married Meena Bazaar middle-class Moghul Moghul empire mother Muslim Muslim women needs oppressive organisations Pakistan parents Parsi patriarchy political position of Asian practice professional purdah racial Radia relationship religion religious role Roop Kanwar sati seclusion sexual Sikhs situation social society socio-economic status stereotypes struggle teachers teaching tradition Urdu veil wanted wear West Western whilst widow wife woman women in Britain women interviewed workers workplace Zainib