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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... sense of inferiority . Her mother had died when she was still a child and she was subjected to mental and physical abuse from her husband . Often women's educational advancement was hampered for financial reasons even when they were ...
... sense of inferiority . Her mother had died when she was still a child and she was subjected to mental and physical abuse from her husband . Often women's educational advancement was hampered for financial reasons even when they were ...
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... sense of achievement ' when other women come to me with their personal and financial problems , for example , opening up bank accounts without their husbands ' knowledge ' . Before her present post she had for seven years had an ...
... sense of achievement ' when other women come to me with their personal and financial problems , for example , opening up bank accounts without their husbands ' knowledge ' . Before her present post she had for seven years had an ...
Page 131
... sense morality . Notions of family honour are invoked to gain psychologi- cal control over women until ultimately they internalise ' respectable ' modes of behaviour . Even their family lives are not free from society's moralising and ...
... sense morality . Notions of family honour are invoked to gain psychologi- cal control over women until ultimately they internalise ' respectable ' modes of behaviour . Even their family lives are not free from society's moralising and ...
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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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