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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... context of white European colonialism / neo - colonialism and also against the back- drop of patriarchal and ... contexts : historical , religious , societal and economic . Notions surrounding purdah are also examined : that it exists to ...
... context of white European colonialism / neo - colonialism and also against the back- drop of patriarchal and ... contexts : historical , religious , societal and economic . Notions surrounding purdah are also examined : that it exists to ...
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... context of the family . Ideologically , women are defined largely in terms of their familial relationship , whereas men frequently are not . Women as mothers , daughters , sisters are con- strained by an ideology that works as a form of ...
... context of the family . Ideologically , women are defined largely in terms of their familial relationship , whereas men frequently are not . Women as mothers , daughters , sisters are con- strained by an ideology that works as a form of ...
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Asian Women : the Myth and the Reality Sitara Khan. context of the position of Asian women in British society . However , Asian working women also have to be considered in the context of the overall position of working women in Britain ...
Asian Women : the Myth and the Reality Sitara Khan. context of the position of Asian women in British society . However , Asian working women also have to be considered in the context of the overall position of working women in Britain ...
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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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