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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... issue for both groups . Women in India and Pakistan who other- wise would not have worked outside the home were encouraged to do so by the availability of a ' safe environment ' . The institution of purdah then , is neither a pre ...
... issue for both groups . Women in India and Pakistan who other- wise would not have worked outside the home were encouraged to do so by the availability of a ' safe environment ' . The institution of purdah then , is neither a pre ...
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... issue to which I now turn . Women at work in England since 1800 Both the role of women and the way in which work is organised have changed greatly over the past two hundred years , and most significantly in the last twenty . Before the ...
... issue to which I now turn . Women at work in England since 1800 Both the role of women and the way in which work is organised have changed greatly over the past two hundred years , and most significantly in the last twenty . Before the ...
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... issue fails to secure the support of Asian parents generally , and political parties pay it no attention . On the ... issues in Britain have always been subordinated to nationalism , to the greater cause of fighting the common enemy ...
... issue fails to secure the support of Asian parents generally , and political parties pay it no attention . On the ... issues in Britain have always been subordinated to nationalism , to the greater cause of fighting the common enemy ...
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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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