ISBN:
9781443827782
,
1443827789
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xi, 160 p.)
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DDC:
305.4896912
Keywords:
Women immigrants Social conditions
;
Women Identity
;
Women Identity
;
Women immigrants Social conditions
;
Women immigrants ; Social conditions
;
Literary studies: post-colonial literature
;
Migration, immigration & emigration
;
Gender studies, gender groups
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Women's Studies
;
Women ; Identity
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; INDEX
Abstract:
The present volume explores through cultural and literary representations the contributions of women to the construction of knowledge in an ever changing, global world as migrant subjects. The essays contained in this book also focus on the female body as a site of physical violence and abuse, fighting prevalent stereotypes about women's representations and identities. This collection intends to enter a forum of discussion in which the colonial past serves as a point of reference for the anal
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
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