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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... secular literature of the later period can be traced to the patronage of the courts , especially the Moghul courts , which by all accounts had space for artists of various kinds in their entourages . The women's folk songs ' in nearly ...
... secular literature of the later period can be traced to the patronage of the courts , especially the Moghul courts , which by all accounts had space for artists of various kinds in their entourages . The women's folk songs ' in nearly ...
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... secular , agnostic or atheist ; but ethnic minority women can only be religious , for that is an inherent part of their culture and their being . The assumption is that ' we ' are white Westerners , who by a quirk of history live where ...
... secular , agnostic or atheist ; but ethnic minority women can only be religious , for that is an inherent part of their culture and their being . The assumption is that ' we ' are white Westerners , who by a quirk of history live where ...
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... secular constraints which did not disappear when Islamic teaching attained widespread influence . In the Qazi Court , the highest authority of Islamic jurisprudence in Pakistan , the federal Shariat court has held that there was no ...
... secular constraints which did not disappear when Islamic teaching attained widespread influence . In the Qazi Court , the highest authority of Islamic jurisprudence in Pakistan , the federal Shariat court has held that there was no ...
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