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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... event is always highly charged . It is difficult to disentangle the different threads to work out what was the reality and what the myth . The Sanskrit word sati appears to have derived from the verb root sat meaning ' real , true and ...
... event is always highly charged . It is difficult to disentangle the different threads to work out what was the reality and what the myth . The Sanskrit word sati appears to have derived from the verb root sat meaning ' real , true and ...
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... 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 people were reported to have ...
... 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 people were reported to have ...
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... events . Events which continue to shape their lives , across class divisions , through social institutions such as property inheritance , purdah , sati , marriage and divorce , ever since 3000BC . Their present position in the ...
... events . Events which continue to shape their lives , across class divisions , through social institutions such as property inheritance , purdah , sati , marriage and divorce , ever since 3000BC . Their present position in the ...
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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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