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  • 1
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    Intimate entanglements in the ethnography of performance : race, gender, vulnerability (2023)
    Rochester : University of Rochester Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781800109520
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 252 pages)
    Series Statement: Eastman/Rochester studies in ethnomusicology 13
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    LS 48010
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    Keywords: Kolonialismus ; Unterdrückung ; Rassismus ; Diaspora ; Musikethnologie ; Tanz ; Ethnologie ; Ethnomusicology ; Music Performance ; Social aspects ; Intimacy (Psychology) ; Africans Music ; History and criticism ; African Americans Music ; History and criticism ; Music History and criticism ; Music History and criticism ; Music and race ; Afrika ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Offers expansive and intersecting understandings of erotic subjectivity, intimacy, and trauma in performance, in ethnography, and in institutional and disciplinary settings.
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  • 2
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    Women and society in the Roman world : a sourcebook of inscriptions from the Roman West (2020)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781316536087
    Language: English , Latin
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 345 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.40937
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    NH 8560
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    NW 8100
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    ND 4310
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    Keywords: Sozialgeschichte 100 v. Chr.-300 ; Frau ; Römisches Reich ; Quelle
    Note: Kommentare zu Inschriften veröffentlicht im CIL , Literaturverzeichnis Seite 331-341
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316536087
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    Gendering the Renaissance commonwealth (2020)
    Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781108765404
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 261 pages)
    Series Statement: Ideas in context
    DDC: 305.3094
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    Keywords: Frau ; Mann ; Geschlechterrolle ; Renaissance ; Europa
    Abstract: This pioneering and innovative study challenges modern assumptions of what constitutes the political and the public in Renaissance thought. Offering gendered readings of a wide array of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century political thinkers, with a particular focus on the two prime thinkers of the early modern state, Niccolò Machiavelli and Jean Bodin, Anna Becker reconstructs a neglected but important classical tradition in political thought. Exploring how 'the political' was incorporated into a wide array of 'private' or 'apolitical' topics by early modern thinkers, Becker demonstrates how both republican and absolutist thinkers - the two poles which organise early modern political thought - relied on gendered justifications. In doing so, she reveals how the foundations of the modern state were significantly shaped by gendered concerns.
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  • 4
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    Women and gender in early modern Europe (2019)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781108683524
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (390 pages)
    Edition: 4th ed.
    Series Statement: New approaches to European history 41
    DDC: 305.4094
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    NW 8100
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    MS 3000
    Keywords: Geschichte 1500-1800 ; Frau ; Geschlechterrolle ; Europa
    Abstract: This fourth edition of Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks's prize-winning survey features significant changes to every chapter, designed to reflect the newest scholarship. Global issues have been threaded throughout the book, while still preserving the clear thematic structure of previous editions. Thus readers will find expanded discussions of gendered racial hierarchies, migration, missionaries, and consumer goods. In addition, there is enhanced coverage of recent theoretical directions; the ideas, beliefs, and practices of ordinary people; early industrialization; women's learning, letter writing, and artistic activities; emotions and sentiments; single women and same-sex relations; masculinities; mixed-race and enslaved women; and the life course from birth to death. With geographically broad coverage, including Russia, Scandinavia, the Ottoman Empire, and the Iberian Peninsula, this remains the leading text on women and gender in Europe in this period. Accompanying this essential reading is a completely revised website featuring extensive updated bibliographies, web links, and primary source material.
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  • 5
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    Conspicuous consumption in Africa (2019)
    Johannesburg : Wits University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781776143658
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (240 pages)
    DDC: 306.3096
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    LC 10465
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    MS 5560
    Keywords: Soziale Identität ; Verbraucherverhalten ; Verbrauch ; Soziale Stellung ; Elite ; Consumption (Economics) ; Consumption (Economics) Social aspects ; Economic anthropology ; Material culture ; Afrika ; Südafrika ; Togo ; Angola ; Sambia ; Kamerun ; Niger
    Abstract: From early department stores in Cape Town to gendered histories of sartorial success in urban Togo, contestations over expense accounts at an apartheid state enterprise, elite wealth and political corruption in Angola and Zambia, the role of popular religion in the political intransigence of Jacob Zuma, funerals of big men in Cameroon, youth cultures of consumption in Niger and South Africa, queer consumption in Cape Town, middle-class food consumption in Durban and the consumption of luxury handcrafted beads, this collection of essays explores the ways in which conspicuous consumption is foregrounded in various African contexts and historical moments. In 1899, Thorstein Veblen coined the phrase 'conspicuous consumption' to describe status-seeking in the obscenely unequal world of late-nineteenth century America. Many of the aspects he described in The Theory of the Leisure Class are still evident in our world today. While Veblen's crude denunciation of material extravagance finds echoes in media exposés about the lifestyles of the rich worldwide, it is particularly recognisable in reporting on Africa. Here, images of conspicuous consumption have long circulated in local and global media as indictments of political corruption and signs of moral depravity. The essays in Conspicuous Consumption in Africa put Veblen's concept under robust critical scrutiny, drawing on theorists like Mbembe, Guyer and Bayart by way of critique or addition. They delve into the pleasures, stresses and challenges of consuming in its religious, generational, gendered and racialised aspects, revealing conspicuous consumption as a layered set of practices, textures and relations. The authors resist the trap of easy moralisation, pointing to more complex ethical and political registers of analysis and judgement. This volume shows how central and revealing conspicuous consumption can be to fathoming the history of Africa's projects of modernity, and their global lineages and legacies. In its grounded, up-close case studies, it is likely to feed into current public debates on the nature and future of African societies - South African society in particular.
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 01 Nov 2019)
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  • 6
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    Africa since 1940 : the past of the present (2019)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781108672214
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xix, 319 pages)
    Edition: Second edition.
    Series Statement: New approaches to African history 13
    DDC: 960.32
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1940-2018 ; Kolonialismus ; Entkolonialisierung ; Postkolonialismus ; Decolonization History 20th century ; Decolonization History 21st century ; Afrika ; Africa Politics and government 1945-1960 ; Africa Politics and government 1960- ; Africa Colonial influence ; Africa History 20th century ; Africa History 21st century
    Abstract: Africa since 1940 is the flagship textbook in Cambridge University Press' New Approaches to African History series. Now revised to include the history and scholarship of Africa since the turn of the millennium, this important book continues to help students understand the process out of which Africa's position in the world has emerged. A history of decolonisation and independence, it allows readers to see just what political independence did and did not signify, and how men and women, peasants and workers, religious and local leaders sought to refashion the way they lived, worked and interacted with each other. Covering the transformation of Africa from a continent marked by colonisation to one of independent states, Frederick Cooper follows the 'development question' across time, seeing how first colonial regimes and then African elites sought to transform African society in their own ways. He shows how people in cities and villages tried to make their way in an unequal world, through times of hope, despair, renewed possibilities, and continued uncertainties. Looking beyond the debate over what or who may be to blame, Cooper explores alternatives for the future.
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108672214
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    Colonizing consent : rape and governance in South Africa's Eastern Cape (2019)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781108659284
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 360 pages)
    Series Statement: African studies series
    DDC: 364.1532096875
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    LB 53550
    Keywords: Geschichte ; Kolonisation ; Vergewaltigung ; Kolonialismus ; Gewalt ; Xhosa ; Frau ; Südafrika ; Provinz Ostkap
    Abstract: Elizabeth Thornberry uses historical evidence to shed light on South Africa's contemporary epidemic of sexual violence. Drawing on over a thousand cases from a diverse set of courts, Thornberry reconstructs the history of rape in South Africa's Eastern Cape, from the precolonial era to the triumph of legal and sexual segregation, and digs deep into questions of conceptions of sexual consent. Through this process, Thornberry also demonstrates the political stakes of disputes over sexual consent, and the ways in which debates over the regulation of sexuality shaped both white and black politics in this period. From customary authority to missionary Christianity and humanitarian liberalism to segregationism, political claims implied theories of sexual consent, and enabled distinctive claims to control female sexuality. The political history of rape illuminates not only South Africa's contemporary crisis of sexual violence, but the entangled histories of law, sexuality, and politics across the globe.
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  • 8
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    African women in the atlantic world : property, vulnerability & mobility, 1660-1880 (2019)
    Woodbridge, Suffolk : James Currey | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781787444300
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Western Africa series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als African women in the Atlantic world
    DDC: 305.42096
    RVK:
    NW 2570
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    NW 8100
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    NW 8295
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1660-1880 ; Schwarze Frau ; Sklavenhandel ; Atlantischer Raum ; Afrika ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: An innovative and valuable resource for understanding women's roles in changing societies, this book brings together the history of Africa, the Atlantic and gender before the 20th century. It explores trade, slavery and migration in the context of the Euro-African encounter.
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 26 Mar 2019)
    DOI: 10.1017/9781787444300
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    Realities and fantasies of German female leadership : from Maria Antonia of Saxony to Angela Merkel (2019)
    Rochester, New York : Camden House | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781787445628
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vi, 392 pages)
    Series Statement: Women and gender in German studies
    DDC: 305.420943
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    MS 3150
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    NK 1800
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    NW 8100
    Keywords: Geschichte ; Geschichte 1700-2019 ; Frau ; Macht ; Geschlechterverhältnis ; Aktivismus ; Politikerin ; Politische Führung ; Deutsch ; Literatur ; Weibliche Führungskraft ; Widerstand ; Deutschland ; Deutsches Sprachgebiet
    Abstract: A collection of essays achieving a deeper understanding of the historical roots and theoretical assumptions that inform the realities and fantasies of German female leadership.
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Oct 2019)
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    A history of African popular culture (2018)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781139061766
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 201 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: New approaches to African history 11
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Barber, Karin 1949- A history of African popular culture
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Barber, Karin 1949- A history of African popular culture
    DDC: 306.0967
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    LB 40465
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    EP 20007
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Alltagskultur ; Geschichtswissenschaft ; Afrika
    Abstract: Popular culture in Africa is the product of everyday life: the unofficial, the non-canonical. And it is the dynamism of this culture that makes Africa what it is. In this book, Karin Barber offers a journey through the history of music, theatre, fiction, song, dance, poetry, and film from the seventeenth century to the present day. From satires created by those living in West African coastal towns in the era of the slave trade, to the poetry and fiction of townships and mine compounds in South Africa, and from today's East African streets where Swahili hip hop artists gather to the juggernaut of the Nollywood film industry, this book weaves together a wealth of sites and scenes of cultural production. In doing so, it provides an ideal text for students and researchers seeking to learn more about the diversity, specificity and vibrancy of popular cultural forms in African history.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis Seite 181 - 194
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139061766
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    The woman question in France, 1400-1870 (2017)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781316946367
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 286 pages)
    DDC: 305.40944
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1400-1870 ; Frau ; Frankreich
    Abstract: This is a revolutionary reinterpretation of the French past from the early fifteenth century to the establishment of the Third Republic, focused on public challenges and defenses of masculine hierarchy in relations between women and men. Karen Offen surveys heated exchanges around women's 'influence'; their exclusion from 'authority'; the increasing prominence of biomedical thinking and population issues; concerns about education, intellect, and the sexual politics of knowledge; and the politics of women's work. Initially, the majority of commentators were literate and influential men. However, as more and more women attained literacy, they too began to analyze their situation in print and to contest men's claims about who women were and should be, and what they should be restrained from doing, and why. As urban print culture exploded and revolutionary ideas of 'equality' fuelled women's claims for emancipation, this question resonated throughout francophone Europe and, ultimately, across the seas.
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Oct 2017)
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  • 12
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    The political economy of everyday life in Africa : beyond the margins (2017)
    Suffolk : James Currey | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781787440517
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 364 pages)
    DDC: 338.96
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    MI 10020
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    Keywords: Alltag ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Politische Ökonomie ; Afrika ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: What are the fundamental issues, processes, agency and dynamics that shape the political economy of life in modern Africa? In this book, the contributors - experts in anthropology, history, political science, economics, conflict and peace studies, philosophy and language - examine the opportunities and constraints placed on living, livelihoods and sustainable life on the continent. Reflecting on why and how the political economy of life approach is essential for understanding the social process in modern Africa, they engage with the intellectual oeuvre of the influential Africanist economic anthropologist Jane Guyer, who provides an Afterword. The contributors analyse the political economy of everyday life as it relates to money and currency; migrant labour forces and informal and formal economies; dispossession of land; debt and indebtedness; socio-economic marginality; and the entrenchment of colonial and apartheid pasts. Wale Adebanwi is the Rhodes Professor of Race Relations at the University of Oxford. He is author of Nation as Grand Narrative: The Nigerian Press and the Politics of Meaning (University of Rochester Press). ...
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Sep 2018)
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    Slavery hinterland : transatlantic slavery and continental Europe, 1680-1850 (2016)
    Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK : Boydell Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781782047032
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 262 pages)
    Series Statement: People, markets, goods : economies and societies in history v.7
    DDC: 306.3/62094
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1680-1850 ; Sklaverei ; Sklavenhandel ; Slave trade History ; Slavery History ; Europa ; Afrika ; Amerika ; Konferenzschrift 2012 ; Konferenzschrift 2012
    Abstract: 〈I〉Slavery Hinterland〈/I〉 explores a neglected aspect of transatlantic slavery: the implication of a continental European hinterland. It focuses on historical actors in territories that were not directly involved in the traffic in Africans but linked in various ways with the transatlantic slave business, the plantation economies that it fed and the consequences of its abolition. The volume unearths material entanglements of the Continental and Atlantic economies and also proposes a new agenda for the historical study of the relationship between business and morality. Contributors from the US,Britain and continental Europe examine the ways in which the slave economy touched on individual lives and economic developments in German-speaking Europe, Switzerland, Denmark and Italy. They reveal how these 'hinterlands' served as suppliers of investment, labour and trade goods for the slave trade and of materials for the plantation economies, and how involvement in trade networks contributed in turn to key economic developments in the 'hinterlands'. The chapters range in time from the first, short-lived attempt at establishing a German slave-trading operation in the 1680s to the involvement of textile manufacturers in transatlantic trade in the first quarter of the nineteenth century. A key theme of the volume is the question of conscience, or awareness of being morally implicated in an immoral enterprise. Evidence for subjective understandings of the moral challenge of slavery is found in individual actions and statements and also in post-abolition colonisation and missionary projects. FELIX BRAHM is Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute in London.〈BR〉〈BR〉 EVE ROSENHAFT is Professor of German Historical Studies, University of Liverpool.CONTRIBUTORS: Felix Brahm, Peter Haenger, Catherine Hall, Daniel P. Hopkins, Craig Koslofsky, Sarah Lentz, Rebekka von Mallinckrodt, Anne Sophie Overkamp, Alexandra Robinson, Eve Rosenhaft, Anka Steffen, Klaus Weber, Roberto Zaugg...
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    Language and development in Africa : perceptions, ideologies and challenges (2016)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781316105023
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 358 pages)
    DDC: 306.4496
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    Keywords: Afrikanische Sprachen ; Soziolinguistik ; Sprachpolitik ; Afrika
    Abstract: Development is based on communication through language. With more than two thousand languages being used in Africa, language becomes a highly relevant factor in all sectors of political, social, cultural and economic life. This important sociolinguistic dimension hitherto remains underrated and under-researched in 'Western' mainstream development studies. The book discusses the resourcefulness of languages, both local and global, in view of the ongoing transformation of African societies as much as for economic development. From a novel 'applied African sociolinguistics' perspective it analyses the continuing effects of linguistic imperialism on postcolonial African societies, in particular regarding the educational sector, through imposed hegemonic languages such as Arabic and the ex-colonial languages of European provenance. It offers a broad interdisciplinary scientific approach to the linguistic dimensions of sociocultural modernisation and economic development in Africa, written for both the non-linguistically trained reader as much as for the linguistically trained researcher and language practitioner.
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 May 2016)
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    Women in twentieth-century Africa (2016)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511979972
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 233 pages)
    Series Statement: New approaches to African history 10
    DDC: 305.409609/04
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Frau ; Soziale Situation ; Afrika
    Abstract: During a turbulent colonial and postcolonial century, African women struggled to control their own marital, sexual and economic lives and to gain a significant voice in local and national politics. This book introduces students to many remarkable women, who organized religious and political movements, fought in anti-colonial wars, ran away to escape arranged marriages, and during the 1990s began successful campaigns for gender parity in national legislatures. The book also explores the apparent paradox in the conflicting images of African women - as singularly oppressed and dominated by men, but also as strong, resourceful, and willing to challenge governments and local traditions to protect themselves and their families. Understanding the tension between women's power and their oppression, between their strength and their vulnerability, offers a new lens for understanding the relationship between the state and society in the twentieth century.
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    Essays on sources and methods (2016)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781139043359
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 206 pages)
    DDC: 306.362096
    Keywords: Sklaverei ; Sklavenhandel ; Oral history ; Afrika
    Abstract: What were the experiences of those in Africa who suffered from the practice of slavery, those who found themselves captured and sold from person to person, those who died on the trails, those who were forced to live in fear? And what of those Africans who profited from the slave trade and slavery? What were their perspectives? How do we access any of these experiences and views? This volume explores diverse sources such as oral testimonies, possession rituals, Arabic language sources, European missionary, administrative and court records and African intellectual writings to discover what they can tell us about slavery and the slave trade in Africa. Also discussed are the methodologies that can be used to uncover the often hidden experiences of Africans embedded in these sources. This book will be invaluable for students and researchers interested in the history of slavery, the slave trade and post-slavery in Africa.
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    Islamic reform in twentieth-century Africa (2016)
    Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780748695447
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xx, 540 pages)
    DDC: 297.096
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    BE 8607
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    BE 8624
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Islam ; Politik ; Politische Reform ; Erneuerung ; Subsaharisches Afrika ; Afrika
    Abstract: The first comprehensive analysis of Muslim movements of reform in modern sub-Saharan Africa.〈p〉Based on twelve case studies (Senegal, Mali, Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Zanzibar and the Comoros), this book looks at patterns and peculiarities of different traditions of Islamic reform. Considering both Sufi- and Salafi-oriented movements in their respective historical contexts, it stresses the importance of the local context to explain the different trajectories of development.〈/p〉〈p〉The book studies the social, religious and political impact of these reform movements in both historical and contemporary times and asks why some have become successful as popular mass movements, while others failed to attract substantial audiences. It also considers jihad-minded movements in contemporary Mali, northern Nigeria and Somalia and looks at modes of transnational entanglement of movements of reform. Against the background of a general inquiry into what constitutes 'reform', the text responds to the question of what 'reform' actually means for Muslims in contemporary Africa.〈/p〉Key features〈ul〉〈li〉Biographies of reformist scholars complement the text〈/li〉〈li〉Case studies are placed in the context of the dynamics of 'reform' in the larger world of Islam〈/li〉〈li〉Addresses the importance of trans-national entanglements and their formative power〈/li〉〈li〉Focuses on the dynamics of social and religious development, the political dynamics of Islamic 'reform' and issues of youth, generational change and gender〈/li〉〈/ul〉...
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    The women of colonial Latin America (2015)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781139031189
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 259 pages)
    Edition: Second edition.
    Series Statement: New approaches to the Americas
    DDC: 305.4098
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Frau ; Lateinamerika
    Abstract: In this second edition of her acclaimed volume, The Women of Colonial Latin America, Susan Migden Socolow has revised substantial portions of the book - incorporating new topics and illustrative cases that significantly expand topics addressed in the first edition; updating historiography; and adding new material on poor, rural, indigenous and slave women.
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    The female voice of Myanmar : Khin Myo Chit to Aung San Suu Kyi (2015)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781316342916
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxvii, 383 pages)
    DDC: 305.4209591
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    Keywords: Frau ; Politisches Handeln ; Myanmar
    Abstract: The Female Voice of Myanmar seeks to offer a female perspective on the history and political evolution of Myanmar. It delves into the lives and works of four of Myanmar's remarkable women who set aside their lives to answer the call of their country: Khin Myo Chit, who spoke about latent sexual politics in pre-Independent Burma; Ludu Daw Amar, who as the editor of the leftist Ludu Daily, was deemed anti-establishment and was witness to the socialist government's abortive efforts at ethnic reconciliation; Ma Thida, whose writing bears testimony to the impact the authoritative military rule had on the individual psyche; and Aung San Suu Kyi, who has re-articulated Burmese nationalism. This book breaks new ground in exploring their writing, both published and hitherto unexamined, some in English and much in Burmese, while the intimate biographical sketches offer a glimpse into the Burmese home and the shifting feminine image.
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    Slavery and slaving in African history (2014)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781139034999
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: New approaches to African history 8
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Stilwell, Sean Slavery and slaving in African history
    DDC: 306.3/62096
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Sklaverei ; Sklavenhandel ; Afrika
    Abstract: This book is a comprehensive history of slavery in Africa from the earliest times to the end of the twentieth century, when slavery in most parts of the continent ceased to exist. It connects the emergence and consolidation of slavery to specific historical forces both internal and external to the African continent. Sean Stilwell pays special attention to the development of settled agriculture, the invention of kinship, 'big men' and centralized states, the role of African economic production and exchange, the interaction of local structures of dependence with the external slave trades (transatlantic, trans-Saharan, Indian Ocean), and the impact of colonialism on slavery in the twentieth century. He also provides an introduction to the central debates that have shaped current understanding of slavery in Africa. The book examines different forms of slavery that developed over time in Africa and introduces readers to the lives, work, and struggles of slaves themselves.
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    A most masculine state : gender, politics and religion in Saudi Arabia (2013)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781139015363
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 333 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge Middle East studies 43
    DDC: 305.4209538
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    Keywords: Islam ; Frau ; Soziale Situation ; Geschlechterrolle ; Saudi-Arabien
    Abstract: Women in Saudi Arabia are often described as either victims of patriarchal religion and society or successful survivors of discrimination imposed on them by others. Madawi Al-Rasheed's new book goes beyond these conventional tropes to probe the historical, political and religious forces that have, across the years, delayed and thwarted their emancipation. The book demonstrates how, under the patronage of the state and its religious nationalism, women have become hostage to contradictory political projects that on the one hand demand female piety, and on the other hand encourage modernity. Drawing on state documents, media sources and interviews with women from across Saudi society, the book examines the intersection between gender, religion and politics to explain these contradictions and to show that, despite these restraints, vibrant debates on the question of women are opening up as the struggle for recognition and equality finally gets under way.
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    Commercial Agriculture, the Slave Trade and Slavery in Atlantic Africa (2013)
    Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781782041788
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 272 pages)
    DDC: 306.362096609033
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1500-1930 ; Sklavenhandel ; Agrarhandel ; Afrika ; Atlantischer Raum ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This book presents a new perspective on the trans-Atlantic slave trade and slavery in Western Africa itself, through its examination of the role of commercial agriculture. The idea of promoting the export of agricultural produce from Africa first became central to European thought in the context of the campaign to end the trans-Atlantic slave trade from the late eighteenth century. The eleven essays in this book explore this issue, re-appraising the links between slavery and colonialism and the rise of 'legitimate commerce' which marked the beginnings of economic 'modernity' in West Africa. The development of commercial agriculture in West Africa began with Danish attempts to establish plantations on the Gold Coast (Ghana) from 1788, followed by the British colony of Sierra Leone, after it was taken over by the Sierra Leone Company in 1791. The slave trade itself is also seen to have stimulated commercial agriculture in West Africa, to supply provisions for slave ships in the Middle Passage, and the experience of this trade in provisions may have facilitated the development of other export crops from the nineteenth century onwards. Commercial agriculture was also linked to slavery within Africa, since slaves were widely employed there in agricultural production. Although Abolitionists expected or hoped production of export crops in Africa would be based on free labour, in practice it often tended to promote more extensive and intensive use of slave labour, so that the institution of slavery in Africa persisted into the early colonial period. Robin Law is Emeritus Professor of African History, University of Stirling; Suzanne Schwarz is Professor of History, University of Worcester; Silke Strickrodt is Research Fellow in Colonial History, German Institute of Historical Research, London.
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    African hosts & their guests : cultural dynamics of tourism (2012)
    Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781782040248
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 340 pages)
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    Keywords: Tourismus ; Kultursoziologe ; Afrika ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Tourism is important for Africa: international tourist arrivals to Africa continue to grow, income from tourism is crucial to national economies, and tourism investments are considered among the most profitable. This edited volume deals with the interaction of local communities with tourists coming into their areas and villages. Based upon a common theoretical approach, fourteen cases of African tourism are discussed which involve direct contact between 'hosts' and 'guests'. The viewpoint throughout is from the side of the locals, establishing how the processes of interaction shape each small scale destination. Crucial in Africa is the fact that the large majority of tourism is game oriented and the interaction between locals and visitors is very much 'tainted' by this fact. Central is the notion of the tourist bubble - the infrastructure that is generated locally (and internationally) for hosting tourists, as it is this institutional interface that tends to impact on the local society and culture, not the tourists themselves directly. The examples come from all over Africa, from the Sahara to the Eastern Cape, and from Kenya to Ghana. All contributions are based upon original fieldwork. Walter van Beek is professor of anthropology at Tilburg University and Senior Researcher at the African Studies Centre, Leiden; Annette Schmidt is curator of the African department at the National Museum of Ethnology in Leiden, and is an archaeologist with a long experience in cultural management projects.
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    Ethnic diversity and economic instability in Africa : interdisciplinary perspectives (2012)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781139198998
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 335 pages)
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    Keywords: Ethnizität ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Afrika ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: There is growing consensus in the development economics literature that ethnic diversity is a very significant factor in explaining Africa's poor economic performance. Ethnic Diversity and Economic Instability in Africa challenges this conventional wisdom. Drawing on the insights of historians, anthropologists and political scientists as well as development economists, this book questions whether ethnicity is the most useful organising principle by which to examine the economic development of Africa, arguing that it is a more fluid and contingent concept than economic models allow. Instead, the authors explore the actual experience of ethnicity in Africa and propose new methods of measuring ethnic diversity and inequalities. Finally some tentative conclusions are reached regarding appropriate policy reforms.
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    Middle-aged women in the Middle Ages (2011)
    Cambridge, U.K. | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781846157936
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 153 pages)
    Series Statement: Gender in the Middle Ages volume 7
    DDC: 305.24420902
    Keywords: Geschichte 500-1500 ; Frau ; Mittleres Lebensalter ; Soziale Situation ; Middle-aged women History To 1500 ; Europa ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: New research into medieval women from the Anglo-Saxon to the late medieval period demonstrates their energy, defiance and wit. The phenomenon of medieval women's middle age is a stage in the lifecycle that has been frequently overlooked in preference for the examination of female youth and old age. The essays collected here, ranging from the Anglo-Saxon to the late medieval period, and drawing variously from literary studies, history, law, art and theology, address this lacuna. Taking a variety of critical approaches, the contributors consider medieval definitions, paradigms andexperiences of female middle age, analysing how the middle-aged woman perceived herself subjectively, as well as how she was perceived by others. They seek to challenge the received wisdom that in the middle ages, at forty, womenwere deemed "old" and, from that point onwards, their thoughts should be focused on preparing for death. On the contrary, this collection demonstrates their energy, defiance and wit. Sue Niebrzydowski is Lecturer in English, Bangor University, Wales. Contributors: Jane Geddes, Clare A. Lees, Carol M. Meale, Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker, Sue Niebrzydowski, Raluca L. Radulescu, Sara Elin Roberts, Corinne Saunders, Diane Watt.
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    The front line runs through every woman : women & local resistance in the Zimbabwean Liberation War (2011)
    Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781846159923
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 192 pages)
    DDC: 968.91
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    MI 67094
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1966-1980 ; Frau ; Widerstand ; Simbabwe
    Abstract: A Zimbabwe-specific study, focusing on the lives of women in a small locale (Chiweshe) during the anti-colonial insurgency, this book is also a challenge to established and still current modes of thought and research orientations which over-simplify the complex realities women face in the full range of violent conflicts, both past and present. By contextualizing the voices of women of Chiweshe, not only is an important and under-developed aspect of Zimbabwean and African history revealed, but a new approach to comprehending the highly-tensioned lives of women in war is presented, which is characterized here as Gendered Localised Resistance. This is examined through the prism of life in the Protected Villages in Chiweshe experienced in everyday social relations, revolutionary roles, and food security. It traces how women forged strategies of survival and resistance in the middle of guerrilla warfare pitted between the forces of the state and the revolutionary resistance movements. The book can be read as a unique and richly detailed account of the lives of women during the Zimbabwe civil war and liberation struggle; as a wider argument about how researchers can approach and incorporate lived experience into accounts of larger dynamics (war/revolution); and as a substantial and important contribution to feminist historiography and writings on women and war. Eleanor O' Gorman is Senior Associate at the Gender Studies Centre and a Research Associate at the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge; an independent consultant who has advised the UN, the UK Government (DFID and FCO), the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs, the European Commission, and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
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    Women's authority and society in early East-Central Africa (2010)
    Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781580467575
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 187 pages)
    DDC: 305.40967
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Frau ; Ostafrika ; Zentralafrika
    Abstract: This study of more than two thousand years of African social history weaves together evidence from historical linguistics, archaeology, comparative ethnography, oral tradition, and art history to challenge the assumptions that all African societies were patriarchal and that the status of women in precolonial Africa is beyond the scope of historical research. In East-Central Africa, women played key roles in technological and economic developments during the long precolonial period. Female political leaders were as common as male rulers, and women, especially mothers, were central to religious ceremonies and beliefs. These conclusions contribute a new and critical element to our understanding of Africa's precolonial history. Christine Saidi is assistant professor of history at Kutztown University.
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    Africans and the politics of popular culture (2009)
    Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781580467094
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 333 pages)
    DDC: 306.2096
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    Keywords: Massenkultur ; Kultur ; Politik ; Afrika ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift
    Abstract: This anthology provides insightful data on and discussions of a wide array of popular cultural manifestations and theoretical perspectives, covering such issues as kinship, religion, conflict resolution, music, cinema, drama, and literary texts. The issues cohere around the understanding that culture is situational and political. Going beyond merely challenging popular stereotypes and representations of Africans and African related practices in various outlets, the book reveals how popular cultural practices are instruments that have been manipulated for personal and collective survival. The book is distinctive in its codification and explication of aspects of popular practices that are based on data from countries in Africa, Europe, and the Americas that showcase cultural negotiations either with reference to how notions, values, norms, and images of Africans have been packaged and exploited over the years or how popular cultures are used as tools of resistance and agitation by the various focal groups that are discussed. The topics are presented and illustrated in ways easily accessible to readers of all backgrounds. Toyin Falola is the Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professor in History at the University of Texas at Austin as well as a University Distinguished Teaching Professor. Augustine Agwuele is an assistant professor of linguistics in the Department of Anthropology, Texas State University, San Marcos. Contributors: Arinpe Adejumo, Augustine Agwuele, Antoinette Tidjani Alou, Maurice N. Amutabi, Tokunbo A. Ayoola, Nicholas M. Creary, Toyin Falola, Celeste A. Fisher, Denise Amy-Rose Forbes-Erickson, Hetty ter Haar, Debra L. Klein, Emmanuel M. Mbah, Sarah Steinbock-Pratt, and Asonzeh Ukah.
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    Identity before identity politics (2008)
    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0511508158 , 0511506406 , 9780511508158 , 9780511506406
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 192 pages)
    Edition: [S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library 2011 Electronic reproduction
    Series Statement: Cambridge cultural social studies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Nicholson, Linda J Identity before identity politics
    DDC: 305.48/896073
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    Keywords: Group identity History ; Identity politics History ; Women Identity ; History ; African Americans Race identity ; History ; Women's rights History ; Civil rights movements History ; African Americans ; Race identity ; Civil rights movements ; Group identity ; Identity politics ; Women ; Identity ; Women's rights ; Identität ; Rassische Identität ; Frauenbewegung ; Gruppenidentität ; Frau ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Women's Studies ; History ; United States ; USA ; Schwarze
    Abstract: "In the late 1960s identity politics emerged on the political landscape and challenged prevailing ideas about social justice. These politics brought forth a new attention to social identity, an attention that continues to divide people today. While previous studies have focused on the political movements of this period, they have neglected the conceptual prehistory of this political turn. Linda Nicholson's book situates this critical moment in its historical framework, analyzing the concepts and traditions of racial and gender identity that can be traced back to late eighteenth-century Europe and America. She examines how changing ideas about social identity over the last several centuries both helped and hindered successive social movements, and explores the consequences of this historical legacy for the women's and black movements of the 1960s. This study will be of particular interest to students and scholars of political history, identity politics and US history."--Jacket
    Abstract: The politics of identity : race and sex before the twentieth century -- Freud and the rise of the psychological self -- The culture concept and social identity -- Before black power : constructing an African American identity -- Women's identity/women's politics.
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    The anthropology of texts, persons and publics : oral and written culture in Africa and beyond (2007)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511619656
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 276 pages)
    Series Statement: New departures in anthropology
    DDC: 302.2
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    Keywords: Mündliche Überlieferung ; Schriftlichkeit ; Afrika
    Abstract: What can texts - both written and oral - tell us about the societies that produce them? How are texts constituted in different cultures, and how do they shape societies and individuals? How can we understand the people who compose them? Drawing on examples from Africa and other countries, this original study sets out to answer these questions, by exploring textuality from a variety of angles. Topics covered include the importance of genre, the ways in which oral genres transcend the here-and-now, and the complex relationship between texts and the material world. Barber considers the ways in which personhood is evoked, both in oral poetry and in written diaries and letters, discusses the audience's role in creating the meaning of texts, and shows textual creativity to be a universal human capacity expressed in myriad forms. Engaging and thought-provoking, this book will be welcomed by anyone interested in anthropology, literature and cultural studies.
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    Maiden Voyages : Eastern Indonesian Women on the Move (2007)
    Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9789812305688
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 211 pages)
    DDC: 305.420959868
    Keywords: Frau ; Indonesien
    Abstract: Maiden Voyages is a fascinating, unusual study of the centrality, impact and place of sea travel on the lives of women in Eastern Indonesia. It shows how women there travel constantly by sea, to move between islands, to urban centres and even overseas. In doing so, they negotiate and cross and re-make their social boundaries. In contrast to the dominant economic approach to migration, this book uses Eastern Indonesian women's own travel accounts to show how sea voyages recreate their identities. The book is based on research of contemporary rural and semi-rural women in the East Nusa Tenggara province of Indonesia. This book is an original and valuable contribution to the debates on gender, subjectivity, and the local specificity. It aims to contribute to an understanding of women's mobility and spatial relations in Eastern Indonesia. It will be of interest to scholars of geography, migration, gender and microeconomics as well as of appeal to general readers.
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    The women's movement against sexual harassment (2007)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511840067
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 276 pages)
    DDC: 305.420973/09047
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    MS 3150
    Keywords: Geschichte 1970-1990 ; Frau ; Sexuelle Belästigung ; Feminismus ; USA
    Abstract: This book recounts the story of how a diverse social movement placed sexual harassment on the public agenda in the 1970s and 1980s. The collaboration of women from varying racial, economic, and geographic backgrounds strengthened the movement by representing the experiences and perspectives of a broad range of women, and incorporating their resources and strategies for social change. Black women; middle-class feminists; women breaking into construction, coal mining, and other non-traditional occupations; and women in pink-collar and working-class white-collar jobs all helped to convince governments to adopt public policies against sexual harassment in the United States. Based on interviews and original research, this book shows how the movement against sexual harassment fundamentally changed American life in ways that continue to advance women's opportunities today.
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    Early American women critics : performance, religion, race (2006)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511486104
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 241 pages)
    DDC: 820.9
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    NK 5270
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1730-1830 ; Gesellschaftskritik ; Frau ; Kulturkritik ; Nordamerika ; USA
    Abstract: Early American Women Critics demonstrates that performances of various kinds - religious, political and cultural - enabled women to enter the human rights debates that roiled the American colonies and young republic. Black and white women staked their claims on American citizenship through disparate performances of spirit possession, patriotism, poetic and theatrical production. They protected themselves within various shields which allowed them to speak openly while keeping the individual basis of their identities invisible. Cima shows that between the First and Second Great Religious Awakenings (1730s–1830s), women from West Africa, Europe, and various corners of the American colonies self-consciously adopted performance strategies that enabled them to critique American culture and establish their own diverse and contradictory claims on the body politic. This book restores the primacy of religious performances - Christian, Yoruban, Bantu and Muslim - to the study of early American cultural and political histories, revealing that religion and race are inseparable.
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    Luther on women : a sourcebook (2003)
    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0511066317 , 0521650917 , 9780521650915 , 0521658845 , 9780521658843 , 0511060009 , 9780511060007 , 0511068441 , 9780511068447 , 0511117574 , 9780511117572 , 9780511810367 , 0511810369 , 9780511066313
    Language: English
    Pages: vii, 246 p , 24 cm
    Edition: Boulder, Colo NetLibrary 2004 Online-Ressource E-Books von NetLibrary
    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Haemig, Mary Jane [Rezension von: Karant-Nunn, Susan, Luther on Women: A Sourcebook] 2005
    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Methuen, Charlotte Luther on women. A sourcebook. Edited and translated by Susan C. Karant-Nunn and Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks. Pp. viii+246. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. £42.50 (cloth), £15.95 (paper). 0 521 65091 7; 0 521 65884 5 2005
    Series Statement: EBSCOhost eBook Collection
    Parallel Title: Print version Luther on women
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    GG 6811
    Keywords: Luther, Martin, ; Luther, Martin 1483-1546 Luther, Martin 1483-1546 ; Luther, Martin ; Luther, Martin ; Luther, Martin ; Luther, Martin, ; Luther, Martin ; Luther, Martin ; Luther, Martin ; Women Sources. Religious aspects 16th century ; Christianity ; History of doctrines ; Women Sources ; Religious aspects ; Christianity ; History of doctrines ; 16th century ; Women Sources Religious aspects 16th century ; Christianity ; History of doctrines ; Women Sources Religious aspects 16th century ; Christianity ; History of doctrines ; Women Sources. Religious aspects 16th century ; Christianity ; History of doctrines ; Women Religious aspects ; Christianity ; History of doctrines ; 16th century ; Electronic books ; RELIGION ; Christian Church ; History ; RELIGION ; Christianity ; History ; Women ; Religious aspects ; Christianity ; History of doctrines ; Vrouwen ; Reformatie ; Christianisme ; Femme ; Réforme (Christianisme) ; 16e siècle ; Frau ; Sources ; Frauenbild ; Quelle ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books Quelle ; Quelle ; Luther, Martin 1483-1546 ; Frauenbild ; Luther, Martin 1483-1546 ; Frauenbild
    Abstract: This collection brings together a wide selection of Martin Luther's extensive writings on women, the vast majority of them translated into English for the first time. The book makes Luther's sermons, lectures, pamphlets, polemic writings, letters and informal 'table talk' accessible to English-speaking scholars, students and general readers
    Abstract: This collection brings together a wide selection of Martin Luther's extensive writings on women, the vast majority of them translated into English for the first time. The book makes Luther's sermons, lectures, pamphlets, polemic writings, letters and informal 'table talk' accessible to English-speaking scholars, students and general readers
    Description / Table of Contents: IntroductionEve and the nature of women -- Mary -- Biblical women other than Eve and Mary -- Marriage and the family -- Sexuality -- Childbirth -- Katharina von Bora, Luther's wife -- Luther and other contemporary women -- Witchcraft and magic.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 238-241) and index , Electronic reproduction, Boulder, Colo : NetLibrary, 2004
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    Women, property, and Confucian reaction in Sung and Yüan China (960-1368) (2002)
    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 051103976X , 9780511039768 , 0511116594 , 9780511116599 , 9780511511950 , 0511511957
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xxi, 345 p.) , ill., maps.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in Chinese history, literature, and institutions
    Parallel Title: Print version Women, property, and Confucian reaction in Sung and Yüan China (960-1368)
    DDC: 306.0951
    Keywords: Women Social conditions ; Femmes Conditions sociales ; 500-1500 (Moyen Âge) ; Chine ; Femmes Droit ; Histoire ; 500-1500 (Moyen Âge) ; Chine ; Femmes dans le confucianisme Histoire ; 500-1500 (Moyen Âge) ; Chine ; Biens (Droit) Histoire ; 500-1500 (Moyen Âge) ; Chine ; Women Social conditions ; Women Social conditions ; Women Social conditions ; China ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; Social conditions ; Women ; Social conditions ; Eigentum ; Konfuzianismus ; Besitzrecht ; Songdynastie ; Geschichte ; Yuandynastie ; Frau ; Kvinnor ; sociala förhållanden ; historia ; Kina ; före 1500 ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; History ; China Social conditions ; 960-1644 ; Chine Histoire ; 1260-1368 (Dynastie des Yuan) ; Chine Histoire ; 960-1279 (Dynastie des Song) ; China ; China ; China Social conditions 960-1644 ; China Social conditions 960-1644 ; China ; China ; Electronic books
    Abstract: 1.Women and Property before the Sung: Evolution and Continuity --Chou Feudalism and Confucian Ideals --Han Dynasty Developments: Communal Living, Common Property --Dowry versus Betrothal Gifts --T'ang Inheritance and Property Law --2.Women and Property in the Sung: Legal Innovation in Changing Times --Sung Law and the Legal System --Transmission of Wealth to Women --Daughters and Sons in Family Division --Daughters' Inheritance by Testament and Legal Protection of the Property of Minors --Inheritance by Daughters without Surviving Brothers --New Provisions for Daughters in Cut-off Households --Intervention of the State --Daughters and Posthumous Heirs --Women's Property within Marriage --Taking Property out of a Marriage after the Husband's Death --Remarriage and the Law --Separate Property within Marriage While the Husband Was Alive --Divorce --Disposition of Dowry When a Wife Died without Heirs --Conclusion: Property, Gender, and the Law --3.Women's Property and Confucian Reaction in the Sung --Patrilineality and Daughters' Inheritance --Opposition to Private Property within Marriage --Chu Hsi's Encouragement of Dowry Donation --Dowry Donation and the Learning of the Way Fellowship --Growing Concern over Dowry during the Sung --Learning of the Way Ideals and Women as Household Bursars --Northern Sung Discourse on Women as Household Managers --Chu Hsi and Women's Roles in the Household --Chu Hsi's Contemporaries and Followers --Huang Kan's Enforcement of Learning of the Way Ideals --4.Transformation of Marriage and Property Law in the Yuan --Marriage and the Levirate in Mongol and Chinese Society --Law in the Yuan Dynasty --Family Property and Daughters' Inheritance --Inheritance in Cut-off Households --Women's Separate Property in Marriage --Changing Laws on Marriage and Property in the Yuan --Stage 1.Separation of Mongol and Chinese Law, 1260 to the End of 1271 --Stage 2.Mongolization of the Law and Universal Application of the Levirate, 1271-1276 --Stage 3.Reassertion of Chinese Values and Lenient Enforcement of the Levirate, 1276-1294 --Stage 4.Confucian Transformation of Marriage and Property Law, 1294-1320 --Stage 5.Exaltation of Chastity in the Late Yuan --Post-Yuan Developments.Conclusion: Gender, Mongols, and Confucian Ideals.
    Abstract: This book, originally published in 2002, argues that the Mongol invasion of the thirteenth century precipitated a transformation of marriage and property law in China that deprived women of their property rights and reduced their legal and economic autonomy. It describes how after a period during which women's property rights were steadily improving, and laws and practices affecting marriage and property were moving away from Confucian ideals, the Mongol occupation created a new constellation of property and gender relations that persisted to the end of the imperial era. It shows how the Mongol-Yüan rule in China ironically created the conditions for radical changes in the law, which for the first time brought it into line with the goals of Learning the Way Confucians and which curtailed women's financial and personal autonomy. The book evaluates the Mongol invasion and its influence on Chinese law and society
    Description / Table of Contents: 1.Women and Property before the Sung: Evolution and ContinuityChou Feudalism and Confucian IdealsHan Dynasty Developments: Communal Living, Common PropertyDowry versus Betrothal GiftsT'ang Inheritance and Property Law2.Women and Property in the Sung: Legal Innovation in Changing TimesSung Law and the Legal SystemTransmission of Wealth to WomenDaughters and Sons in Family DivisionDaughters' Inheritance by Testament and Legal Protection of the Property of MinorsInheritance by Daughters without Surviving BrothersNew Provisions for Daughters in Cut-off HouseholdsIntervention of the StateDaughters and Posthumous HeirsWomen's Property within MarriageTaking Property out of a Marriage after the Husband's DeathRemarriage and the LawSeparate Property within Marriage While the Husband Was AliveDivorceDisposition of Dowry When a Wife Died without HeirsConclusion: Property, Gender, and the Law3.Women's Property and Confucian Reaction in the SungPatrilineality and Daughters' InheritanceOpposition to Private Property within MarriageChu Hsi's Encouragement of Dowry DonationDowry Donation and the Learning of the Way FellowshipGrowing Concern over Dowry during the SungLearning of the Way Ideals and Women as Household BursarsNorthern Sung Discourse on Women as Household ManagersChu Hsi and Women's Roles in the HouseholdChu Hsi's Contemporaries and FollowersHuang Kan's Enforcement of Learning of the Way Ideals4.Transformation of Marriage and Property Law in the YuanMarriage and the Levirate in Mongol and Chinese SocietyLaw in the Yuan DynastyFamily Property and Daughters' InheritanceInheritance in Cut-off HouseholdsWomen's Separate Property in MarriageChanging Laws on Marriage and Property in the YuanStage 1.Separation of Mongol and Chinese Law, 1260 to the End of 1271Stage 2.Mongolization of the Law and Universal Application of the Levirate, 1271-1276Stage 3.Reassertion of Chinese Values and Lenient Enforcement of the Levirate, 1276-1294Stage 4.Confucian Transformation of Marriage and Property Law, 1294-1320Stage 5.Exaltation of Chastity in the Late YuanPost-Yuan Developments.Conclusion: Gender, Mongols, and Confucian Ideals.
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    Henry James and the imagination of pleasure (2002)
    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0511019033 , 9780511045202 , 9780521811699 , 0521811694 , 0511045204 , 0511485115 , 9780511019036 , 0511120281 , 9780511120282 , 9780511485114
    Language: English
    Pages: viii, 205 p , 24 cm
    Edition: Boulder, Colo NetLibrary 2003 Online-Ressource E-Books von NetLibrary
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    Parallel Title: Print version Henry James and the imagination of pleasure
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    Keywords: James, Henry, Criticism and interpretation. ; James, Henry 1843-1916 Criticism and interpretation ; James, Henry 1843-1916 Thèmes, motifs ; James, Henry ; James, Henry Criticism and interpretation ; James, Henry Criticism and interpretation ; James, Henry, Criticism and interpretation. ; James, Henry 1843-1916 ; James, Henry ; James, Henry ; Imagination in literature. ; Pleasure in literature. ; Plaisir dans la littérature ; Imagination dans la littérature ; Imagination in literature ; Pleasure in literature ; Pleasure in literature ; Imagination in literature ; Imagination in literature. ; Pleasure in literature. ; LITERARY CRITICISM ; American ; General ; Imagination in literature ; Pleasure in literature ; Verbeelding ; Genot ; Criticism, interpretation, etc ; Erotik ; Vergnügen ; Frau ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books ; James, Henry 1843-1916 ; Erotik ; Vergnügen ; Frau ; James, Henry 1843-1916 ; Erotik ; Vergnügen ; Frau
    Abstract: Hadley examines how James disentangles himself from the moralizing frame through which English-language novels in the nineteenth century had imagined sexual passion. She shows how he pursues his ambitious enterprise to represent the privileges and the pains of turn-of-the-century leisure-class society
    Abstract: Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 'Just you wait!': reflections on the last chapters of The Portrait of a Lady -- As charming as a charming story': governesses in What Maisie Knew and 'The Turn of the Screw' -- 'The sacred terror': The Awkward Age and James's men of the world -- Blushing in the dark: language and sex in The Ambassadors -- Poor girls with their rent to pay: class in 'In the Cage'and The Wings of the Dove -- 'A house of quiet': privileges and pleasures in The Golden Bowl -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
    Description / Table of Contents: AcknowledgementsIntroduction -- 'Just you wait!': reflections on the last chapters of The Portrait of a Lady -- As charming as a charming story': governesses in What Maisie Knew and 'The Turn of the Screw' -- 'The sacred terror': The Awkward Age and James's men of the world -- Blushing in the dark: language and sex in The Ambassadors -- Poor girls with their rent to pay: class in 'In the Cage'and The Wings of the Dove -- 'A house of quiet': privileges and pleasures in The Golden Bowl -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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    Intervention and transnationalism in Africa : global-local networks of power (2001)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511558788
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 322 pages)
    DDC: 320.96
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    ML 9300
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    MS 9600
    Keywords: Politik ; Regionalpolitik ; Internationale Wirtschaftspolitik ; Afrika ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: As the idea of globalization emerges as a key concept in social sciences in the twenty-first century, understanding how external forces and phenomena shape the politics of nation-states and communities is imperative. This 2001 volume calls attention to 'transboundary formations' - intersections of cross-border, national and local forces that produce, destroy or transform local order and political authority, significantly impacting on ordinary people's lives. It analyzes the intervention of external forces in political life, both deepening and broadening the concept of international 'intervention' and the complex contexts within which it unfolds. While transboundary formations can emerge anywhere, they have a particular salience in sub-Saharan Africa where the limits to state power make them especially pervasive and consequential. Including conceptual contributions and theoretically-informed case studies, the volume considers global-local connections, taking a fresh perspective on contemporary Africa's political constraints and possibilities, with important implications for other parts of the world.
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    Gender and citizenship : politics and agency in France, Britain, and Denmark (2000)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781139106672
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 220 pages)
    DDC: 305.42/094
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    MF 2850
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    Keywords: Frauenbewegung ; Politisches Recht ; Soziale Situation ; Frau ; Staatsangehörigkeit ; Frankreich ; Großbritannien ; Dänemark
    Abstract: Feminist analysis shows that the prevailing concepts of citizenship often assume a male citizen. How, then, does this affect the agency and participation of women in modern democracies? This insightful book, first published in 2000, presents a systematic comparison of the links between women's social rights and democratic citizenship in three different citizenship models: republican citizenship in France, liberal citizenship in Britain, and social citizenship in Denmark. Birte Siim argues that France still suffers from the contradictions of pro-natalist policy, and that Britain is only just starting to re-conceptualise the male-breadwinner model that is still a dominant feature. In her examination of the dual-breadwinner model in Denmark, Siim presents research about Scandinavian social policy and makes an important and timely contribution to debates in political sociology, social policy and gender studies.
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    Beyond chiefdoms : pathways to complexity in Africa (1999)
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    ISBN: 9780511558238
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 176 pages)
    Series Statement: New directions in archaeology
    DDC: 306.2/096
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    Keywords: Politische Anthropologie ; Sozialarchäologie ; Afrika ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Recent critiques of neoevolutionary formulations that focus primarily on the development of powerful hierarchies have called for broadening the empirical base for complex society studies. Redressing the neglect of sub-Saharan examples in comparative discussions on complex society, this book considers how case material from the region can enhance our understanding of the nature, origins and development of complexity. The archaeological, historical and anthropological case materials are relevant to a number of recent concerns, revealing how complexity has emerged and developed in a variety of ways. Contributors engage important theoretical issues, including the continuing influence of deeply embedded evolutionary notions in archaeological concepts of complexity, the importance of alternative modes of complex organization such as flexible hierarchies, multiple overlapping hierarchies, and horizontal differentiation, and the significance of different forms of power. The distinguished list of contributors include historians, archaeologists and anthropologists.
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    Writing, gender, and state in early modern England : identity formation and the female subject (1998)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511582745
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 247 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture 26
    DDC: 820.9/9287
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1450-1600 ; Frau ; Englisch ; Schriftstellerin ; Soziale Stellung ; Identitätsfindung ; England
    Abstract: The period from the Reformation to the English Civil War saw an evolving understanding of social identity in England. This book uses four illuminating case studies to chart a discursive shift from mid-sixteenth-century notions of an individually generated, spiritually motivated sense of identity, to Civil War perceptions of the self as inscribed by the state and inflected according to gender, a site of civil and sexual invigilation and control. Each centres on the work of an early modern woman writer in the act of self-definition and authorization, in relation to external powers such as the Church and the monarchy. Megan Matchinske's study illustrates the evolving relationships between public and private selves and the increasing role of gender in determining different identities for men and women. The conjunction of gender and statehood in Matchinske's analysis represents an original contribution to the study of early modern identity.
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    Women's work in rural China : change and continuity in an era of reform (1997)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511518157
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 264 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge modern China series
    DDC: 306.3/615/0951
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    PO 8024
    Keywords: Geschichte 1976-1997 ; Frau ; Ländlicher Raum ; Soziale Situation ; China
    Abstract: Since 1978, reform policies introduced in rural China have had a profound impact on women's work and gender divisions of labour. This book provides detailed information on shifts in women's work patterns. It explains how and why these shifts have come about, and how they relate to women's position in society. While other aspects of reform in rural China have been analysed extensively, this is one of very few, and to date the most comprehensive studies of the effects of reform on rural women.
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    Gender in mystical and occult thought : Behmenism and its development in England (1996)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511581878
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 247 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in early modern British history
    DDC: 305.3/0942
    Keywords: Böhme, Jakob ; Geschichte 1650-1850 ; Rezeption ; Okkultismus ; Frau ; Geschlechterrolle ; England
    Abstract: This is the first comprehensive account of the development of the ideas on gender of Jacob Boehme (1575–1624) among his English followers, tracing the changes in gender and sexuality in such esoteric traditions as alchemy, hermeticism and the Cabala. The book argues that Behmenist thought in these areas is a neglected aspect of the revision in the moral status of women during the early modern period, contributing significantly to the rise of the Romantic notion of womanhood and 'Victorian' sexual ideology. It deals with English Behmenism from its reception during the Interregnum through to its impact upon William Blake and the Swedenborgians in the eighteenth century. The book also strongly challenges received opinions on the relationship of Behmenism to the English radical tradition. ...
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    Power, marginality and African oral literature (1995)
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    ISBN: 9780511521164
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 285 pages)
    DDC: 398.2/096
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    EP 20223
    Keywords: Mündliche Literatur ; Afrika ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift 1991 ; Konferenzschrift 1991
    Abstract: African oral literature, like other forms of popular culture, is not merely folksy, domestic entertainment but a domain in which individuals in a variety of social roles are free to comment on power relations in society. It can also be a significant agent of change capable of directing, provoking, preventing, overturning and recasting social reality. This collection examines the way in which oral texts both reflect and affect contemporary social and political life in Africa. It addresses questions of power, gender, the dynamics of language use, the representation of social structures and the relation between culture and the state. The contributors are linguists, anthropologists, folklorists, ethnomusicologists and historians, who present fresh material and ideas to paint a lively picture of current real-life situations. The book is an important contribution to the study of African culture and literature, and to the anthropological study of oral literature in particular.
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    The expansive moment : the rise of social anthropology in Britain and Africa, 1918-1970 (1995)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511557927
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vii, 235 pages)
    DDC: 306/.0941
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    MS 9600
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    LB 25465
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1918-1970 ; Ethnologie ; Afrika ; Großbritannien
    Abstract: Jack Goody's book explores the development of the discipline of social anthropology through its key practitioners and how far its concerns interacted with the political and ideological debate of the interwar years. It is a study of the different ideological and intellectual approaches adopted by the emerging subject of social anthropology and how far these views were incorporated into and defined by the structures and institutions in which they developed. However it is also an analysis of how far the subject was created by its own response to key issues of the time: colonialism - specifically Africa, anti-Semitism and communism. Goody's approach is characteristically personal: Malinowski dominates the discussion, as well as Fortes, Radcliffe-Brown and Evans-Pritchard, and his own experience, gathered over a wide-ranging life of fieldwork informs the conclusion of the book.
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    Language repertoires and state construction in Africa (1992)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511666759
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 205 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in comparative politics
    DDC: 306.4/49/096
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    RS 10817
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    MI 10968
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    EP 13070
    Keywords: Gründung ; Sprachpolitik ; Sprache ; Staat ; Afrika
    Abstract: Most African countries have a population composed of a multitude of language groups and most African citizens have a varied repertoire allowing them to rely on different languages for use in the home, at school, in the market, at work and in communicating with political authorities. Language Repertoires and State Construction in Africa analyses the complex language scene in Africa today and asks whether this distinctive web of language use is symptomatic of the early stage of state construction. If so, one would expect that as each of these states develops there will be a rationalisation of language use and agreement on a common language within the country's borders. Alternately, Africa's language scene may be the result of a particular historical context of state construction, with the implication that political development will not lead to the one-state, one-language outcome typical of the idealised nation-state.
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    Bartered brides : politics, gender, and marriage in an Afghan tribal society (1991)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511521157
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xx, 309 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology 74
    DDC: 306.81
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    EV 500
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    Keywords: Stamm ; Frau ; Familie ; Islam ; Maduzai ; Eheschließung ; Afghanistan
    Abstract: Bartered Brides is a detailed study of marriage among the Maduzai, a tribal society in Afghan Turkistan. It is the first study of the area which looks in depth at both the domestic aspects of marriage and its relation to the productive and reproductive activities of women, as well as marriage as a means of managing political and economic conflict and competition. The fieldwork was carried out in the early 1970s before the 1978 coup and Soviet invasion. In this respect the book offers a unique account of a world that has disappeared. Nancy Tapper presents both male and female perspectives, detailed case studies and historical and statistical material. As an ethnographic and historical record, Bartered Brides breaks new ground in the study of Islam, the Middle East and South-west Asia. As the most detailed and extensive discussion of a Middle Eastern marriage system to date, it contributes to wider anthropological studies of marriage, politics and gender.
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    Family and gender in the Pacific : domestic contradictions and the colonial impact (1989)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781139084864
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 296 pages)
    DDC: 306.8/099
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    LB 41690
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    NW 8100
    Keywords: Frau ; Akkulturation ; Sozialer Wandel ; Familie ; Familiensoziologie ; Pazifischer Raum ; Ozeanien ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: The combined forces of mission evangelism and colonial intervention have transformed the everyday family life of Pacific peoples. The dramatic changes that affected the political and economic autonomy of indigenous people in the region also had significant effects on domestic life. This book, originally published in 1989, examines the ways in which this happened. Using the insights of history and anthropology, chapters cover a wide range of geographical range, extending from Hawaii to Australia. The authors examine changes in medicine and health, religious beliefs, architecture and settlement, and the restructuring of the domestic realm. The book raises issues of concern to a wide range of interests: the peoples and history of the Pacific, the broader questions of colonialism and missionary endeavour, and the changing structure of the family.
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    Womanpower : the Arab debate on women at work (1988)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511628115
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 176 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge Middle East library 16
    DDC: 305.4/0917/4927
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    MS 3000
    Keywords: Frau ; Beruf ; Islam ; Berufstätigkeit ; Gleichberechtigung ; Öffentliche Meinung ; Arabische Staaten
    Abstract: Womanpower unveils the lively but little-reported debate on women's position in the modern Arab world. It paints a picture drawn from individual stories as well as from national development programmes and attempts to explain why the process of social change in the region has been slow and uneven by linking it to political and economic developments. By illustrating particular themes - personal status laws, development policies, political rights - with examples from specific countries, Nadia Hijab builds up an informative overview of the Arab world today. The title sums up the two-pronged approach: the process of integrating women into the modern work-force and of empowering them to enjoy equal rights and opportunities. The book argues that those seeking equal rights for Arab women cannot isolate this aim from the search to liberate Arab potential and resources and for democratic political systems. The Arab world is a region in search of an identity. The book discusses the differing views of liberals and conservatives, most of whom are concerned that Arab identity be developed in an indigenous context rather than by slavish imitation.
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    Spinners and weavers of Auffay : rural industry and the sexual division of labor in a French village, 1750-1850 (1986)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511528859
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 256 pages)
    DDC: 331.4/877/02822094425
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1750-1850 ; Sozialgeschichte 1750-1850 ; Frau ; Textilindustrie ; Weberei ; Arbeiter ; Ländlicher Raum ; Auffay ; Frankreich
    Abstract: The cottage industry of France enjoyed enormous growth from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century. Through an intensive analysis of the social and economic impact of the expansion of this female-dominated industry, Gay Gullickson broadens our understanding of the variety and complexity of proto-industrial regions and of the proto-industrial processes. Focusing on the village of Auffay, located in the pays de Caux, a thriving agricultural region, Gullickson recreates the experiences of the women and men who spun and wove for the urban putting-out merchants. Social analysis of local memoirs, government reports, notarial and judicial records, and village cahiers de doléances, enables Gullickson to offer a more nuanced and accurate view of the causes and consequences of the expansion of the cottage textile industry in the pre-factory era. Her 1987 study is further enhanced by a quantitative analysis based primarily on the reconstitution of the families of the 727 couples who married in Auffay between 1750 and 1850.
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    Population and development projects in Africa (1985)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511898402
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 329 pages)
    DDC: 304.6/096
    RVK:
    MS 4200
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    QG 720
    Keywords: Demographie ; Afrika ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: The urgent needs of economic development and of specific development projects throughout Africa have marked effects on the mobility, distribution and demography of local populations. In this wide-ranging volume, professional geographers and others examine the problems of relating development goals to their potential impact on populations and population change. Attention is paid to developments in Mozambique, Zambia, South Africa, Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, and particularly to the Republic of the Sudan, where there is concern for the balance between urgent needs for the economic development of the Nile's waters, and the effects on patterns of human settlement. This book, brought together for the Commission on Population Geography of the International Geographical Union, will be of value to all concerned with the economic, social and political development of Africa.
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