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  • 1
    ISBN: 978-3-8487-6590-4 , 3-8487-6590-X , 978-3-7489-0667-4 /E-Book
    Language: German
    Pages: 378 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Schriftenreihe Studien zur Politischen Soziologie Band 39
    Keywords: Ghana Menschenrecht ; Kind ; Frau ; Frauenrecht ; Hexerei ; Zauberei ; Frau und Politik ; Recht ; Recht, traditionelles ; Recht, internationales ; Rechtsethnologie ; Rechtsgeschichte ; Kulturvergleich ; Soziologie
    Abstract: Throughout the world, human rights have grown in prominence over the years. Despite this feat, numerous global events in the past and in recent times, especially those driven by political interests, show that respect for the ideals of human rights are far from being realised in practice. With approaches largely state-centred in nature, these events fundamentally point to a marked gap between human rights norms and practice. What is unfortunately and clearly afforded a low priority or no priority at all in these state-based and politically vested contestations are missing links between international human rights norms and cultural or traditional belief systems and practices. Specifically, this thesis argues that when it comes to beliefs in witchcraft and its practices, there remains a sizeable gap between theory and practice, and this creates the thorny and contentious issue of the unpleasant conflict between international human rights and specific cultural belief systems, practices, norms and values. With a view to analysing the dichotomy between culture and human rights, this dissertation positions, explores and indeed questions beliefs in and practices of witchcraft in Ghana, and particularly Ghana`s alleged witches` camps, within the framework of international human rights. (Verlagsangabe)
    Note: Dissertation, Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, Faculty of Social Science and Cultural Studies, 2019
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  • 2
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    Jorhat : Women Study Center, Eastern Theological College
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    ISBN: 978-93-5148-406-6
    Language: English
    Pages: XIII, 226 Seiten
    Edition: first published
    Keywords: Indien Theologie ; Christentum ; Indigenität ; Adivasi ; Frau ; Frau und Religion
    Abstract: This volume as a whole has put in an excellent effort to contribute towards tribal theological discourse mainly through the voices of tribal women. The book encircles the empowerment and progress of tribal women. The articles contributed by various theologians will bear upon the readers a deeper sense of critical theological reflection as well as enrich tribal Christian faith-based lives.
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents Editorial 1. Tribal Women's Voices in Tribal Theological Discourse: Keynote Address / Zhodi Angami 2. Jesus Christ in Tribal Context Today: A Theological Exploration / Lovely Awomi James 3. A Contextual Reading of Paul's Haustafel Manifesto in Ephesians 5:21-33 with Special Reference to Husband-Wife Relationship: North East India Tribal Perspective / Razouselie Lasetso 4. The Song of Deborah (Judges 5) as a Riposte: A Women's Perspective / Akani Kinimi 5. Women in Pauline Writings: A Liberative Perspective Towards the Ministerial Role of Women / Manini Chuseote 6. Women's Work for Women: The Life and Work of Anna Hasseltine Kay Scott / Narola Imchen 7. The Participation of Women in the Society with Special Reference to Chakhesang Community; A Holistic-Missiological Approach / Mekronyi-U Thele 8. Reading the Nexus between the Domination of Women and the Dominination of Nature / Lovely Awomi James 9. Reclaiming Women's Spirituality / Esther Jish Rengma 10. Towards a Substantive Role of Women in the Naga Society / Akatoli Chishi 11. Construction of Gender Role in the Society / Vimeno Lasetso 12. Tribal Narrative Communication / Marlene Ch. Marak 13. Liberative Symbolism of the Spirit/s: A Tribal Feminist Pneumatology / Eyingbeni Humtsoe-Niemu 14. Tribal Understanding of Priesthood and Its Relevance for Today / S. Akatoli Chishi 15. Tribal Ecclesiology / Esther Jish Rengma 16. Reading Rizpah's Lament (2 Sam 21:1-14) vis-a-vis Tribal Women / Akani Kinimi 17. Hearing the Voices of Female Commercial Sex Workers (FCSWs) in Nagaland: Tribal Women's Perspective / Zuchobeni Ezung 18. Barrenness in Women: A Retrospect / Elivi Chishi This volume as a whole has put in an excellent effort to contribute towards tribal theological discourse mainly through the voices of tribal women. The book encircles the empowerment and progress of tribal women. The articles contributed by various theologians will bear upon the readers a deeper sense of critical theological reflection as well as enrich tribal Christian faith-based lives.
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  • 3
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    New Delhi : Christian World Imprints
    ISBN: 978-93-5148-421-9
    Language: English
    Pages: xviii, 170 Seiten
    Edition: First published
    Keywords: Indien Andhra Pradesh ; Religion und Gesellschaft ; Christentum ; Feminismus ; Frau und Religion ; Hermeneutik ; Frau
    Abstract: The present work is a study on the status and identity of Dalit women in India with special reference to South Andhra Lutheran Church (SALC). The experience of the struggles, sufferings, aspirations and victories of Dalit women, is the foundation in theologizing and constructing `Dalit Feminist Hermeneutics.` Using the concept of "identity" as a hermeneutical tool, the research is engaged in the basic theological issue, i.e., `Dalit women as the Image of God.` By drawing on the work of several Feminist and Dalit theologians, an attempt is made by the author to `depatriarchalize` the patriarchal ideology that boxed God; and to reconstruct God`s image in various metaphors which are empowering. This learned presentation contributes toward the said theology in line with understanding, reflection, interpretation and articulation of Indian Christian Theology at large. It contributes methodologically to the wider feminist movement in India. The theological enterprise in this research work, takes both the academic circles and the grassroots in to serious consideration, where the Bible becomes a major socio-religious context. (Klappentext)
    Description / Table of Contents: Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction: Journey Towards Dalit Feminist Hermeneutics -- 2. Theological Enterprise In India: A Dalit Feminist Assessment -- 3. Presentration of Data and Findings of the Status and Identity of South Andhra Lutheran Church Women -- 4. The Concept of Identity: Theoretical Perspectives in Search of a Dalit Feminist Identity -- 5. The Image of God: Dalit Feminist Hermeneutical Study Towards The Empowerment of Dalit Women -- Appendix 1: Questionnaire -- Bibliography
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [151]-170
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  • 4
    ISBN: 978-0-367-89396-5
    Language: English
    Pages: ix, 125 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Central Asian Studies Series 36
    DDC: 390.0958
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    Keywords: Zentral-Asien Tradition ; Kirgisien ; Geschlechterrolle ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Tadschikistan ; Frau ; Heirat ; Kasachstan ; Digitale Medien ; Nationalismus ; Arbeit ; Arbeiterklasse ; Universität ; Islam ; China ; Tibeter ; Qinghai 〈Provinz, Volksrepublik China〉 ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Practices of Traditionalization in Central Asia focuses on how tradition is `everyday-ified` in contemporary Central Asia, including Tatarstan and Tibet, and what people seek to achieve in its name. The case studies range from political demonstrations and industrial workers` gatherings to institutions of religious education, minority communities, weddings, and the Internet.In this volume we regard tradition as a practice that needs to be explored in its institutional and interactional context at a particular time, rather than as a reliable guide to the past: tradition can only be judged from the present; it is an interpretative concept, not a descriptive one. While the scholarly debate has so far centered on what tradition entails and what it does not, including the question of invention and ownership, less attention has been devoted to investigating how tradition is enacted, enforced, or motivated - in short, how it `gets done.` In Central Asia, practices of traditionalization are closely related to the transformation of the socialist order and the emergence of highly stratified societies. This volume asks: When does tradition emerge as a line of argumentation, who are the actors invoking it and how is it being (materially) manifested?Practices of Traditionalization in Central Asia will be of great interest to scholars of Central Asia, Anthropology, History, Political Science, and Sociology. The chapters were originally published as a special issue of Central Asian Survey. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: Citation information -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction: Practices of traditionalization in Central Asia, Judith Beyer and Peter Finke -- 1. Women of protest, men of applause: political activism, gender and tradition in Kyrgyzstan, Judith Beyer and Aijarkyn Kojobekova -- 2. Traditionalization, or the making of a reputation: women, weddings and expenditure in Tajikistan, Juliette Cleuziou -- 3. The body global and the body traditional: a digital ethnography of Instagram and nationalism in Kazakhstan and Russia, Diana T. Kudaibergenova -- 4. The veterans` gala: the use of tradition in an industrial labour conflict in contemporary Kazakhstan, Tommaso Trevisani -- 5. Appropriating and contesting `traditional Islam`: Central Asian students at the Russian Islamic University in Tatarstan, Dominik Müller -- 6. Traditionalization as a response to state-induced development in rural Tibetan areas of Qinghai, PRC, Jarmila Ptackova -- Index
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  • 5
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    London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
    ISBN: 978-0-367-27681-2 , 0-367-27681-X
    Language: English
    Pages: XIV, 245 Seiten , Illustrationen
    DDC: 305.420954
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    Keywords: Indien Unberührbarer ; Frau ; Kastenwesen ; Geschlechterforschung ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Feminismus ; Ambedkar, Bhimrao Ramji ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Dalit Feminist Theory: A Reader radically redefines feminism by introducing the category of Dalit into the core of feminist thought. It supplements feminism by adding caste to its study and praxis; it also re-examines and re-thinks Indian feminism by replacing it with a new paradigm, namely that caste-based feminist inquiry offers the only theoretical vantage point for comprehensively addressing gender-based injustices.Drawing on a variety of disciplines, the essays in the volume discuss key themes such as Indian Feminism versus Dalit Feminism; the emerging concept of Dalit patriarchy; the predecessors of Dalit feminism, such as Phule and Ambedkar; the meaning and value of lived experience; the concept of Difference; the analogical relationship between black feminism and Dalit feminism; the Intersectionality debate; and, the theory-versus-experience debate. They also provide a conceptual, historical, empirical and philosophical understanding of feminism in India today.Accessible, essential and ingenious in its approach, this book is for students, teachers, specialist scholars as well as activists and the interested general reader. It will be indispensable for those engaged in gender studies, women's studies, sociology of caste, political science and political theory, philosophy and feminism, Ambedkar studies, and anyone working in areas of caste, class or gender-based discrimination, exclusion, and inequality.
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  • 6
    ISBN: 978-3-496-01608-3 , 978-3-496-03042-3 /PDF
    Language: German
    Pages: 459 Seiten , Illustrationen (farbig), Karten
    Series Statement: Studien zur Kulturkunde Band 135
    Series Statement: Veröffentlichungen des Frobenius-Instituts an der Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main Band 135
    Keywords: Sansibar Ost-Afrika ; Swahili-Cluster ; Islam ; Muslime ; Frau ; Frau und Islam ; Frau und Kunst ; Schleier ; Ästhetik ; Konsum ; Materielle Kultur ; Ritual und Zeremonie ; Epistemologie
    Abstract: Swahili-Gesellschaften der ostafrikanischen Küste zeichnen sich durch ihre bemerkenswerte Offenheit für Menschen, Ideen und Güter, die von "außen" kommen, aus. Paola Ivanov wirft neues Licht darauf, wie in Sansibar äußere Welten zum Bestandteil der eigenen Person und Gesellschaft werden.In der Forschung werden häufig euronormative Konzepte wie "Kosmopolitismus", Aneignung der "Moderne" oder "Konsum" auf nicht-europäische (im-)materielle Praktiken der Inkorporierung der Welt projiziert. Der Fokus auf das Ästhetische ermöglicht es, den eigenständigen außengerichteten Verflechtungsmodus der Swahili in dessen existenziellen, epistomologischen und ontologischen Grundlagen zu erfassen. Die Studie trägt zu einem differenzierteren Verständnis von Prozessen der Grenzüberschreitung bei und zeigt die zentrale Rolle, die in der muslimischen Gesellschaft Sansibars der weiblichen Sphäre zukommt. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: Dank -- Vorwort -- 1. Einleitung. 1.1. Erste Schritte in das Forschungsfeld: Globalisierung, Translokalität und Konsum. 1.2. Eine (sehr) kurze Geschichte Sansibars und der "Swahili". 1.3. Zu Inhalt und Methodik: Konsum, Personbildung und Ästhetik in einem translokalen Kontext -- 2. Theorie und Forschungspraxis: materielle Kultur, Konsum und Ästhetik in der Ethnologie. 2.1. "Konsum": Vorannahmen und Theorien. 2.2. Ästhetik und aisthesis, Schönheit und Sinne: zu einer theoretischen Fundierung. 2.3. Die Erforschung materieller Kultur: Person und Dinge, Gesellschaft und (wieder) Konsum - Entwicklung eines theoretischen Zugangs -- 3. Der Habitus des Verhüllens als existentielle Grundlage für die Konstituierung von Person und Raum. 3.1. Theorien: Raumkonzepte und Islam. 3.2. Annäherung an die Orte und Räume von Zanzibar Town: Stadt, Nachbarschaft, Haus. 3.3. Konstitution von Raum und Person: Abschirmen und Verhüllen -- Abbildungen -- 4. Reziproker Austausch, die Produktion von Respekt und das in Schönheit verschleierte Zeigen. 4.1. Das Schöne und Reine: wider ideologische Vorannahmen. 4.2. Der Raum der Schönheit: die Hochzeit. 4.3. Ästhetik: Grundzüge, Wirksamkeit und Epistemologie -- 5. Schluss und Ausblick - zivilisierte Schönheit: Ästhetik der Translokalität, Exklusion und Kompetition. 5.1. Sansibars Kultur der Translokalität: Mimesis als Inkorporierung und Imagination von Beziehungen und äußeren Welten. 5.2. Ontologie der Personbildung und soziale Prozesse: Verhüllung, Ambiguität und der Kampf um Respekt. 5.3. Theoretischer Ausblick: That`s how the world goes! -- Anhang -- Abbildungsverzeichnis -- Literaturverzeichnis
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 395-459 , Habilitationsschrift, Universität Bayreuth, 2013
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  • 7
    ISBN: 978-3-86395-422-2
    ISSN: 2199-5346
    Language: English
    Pages: 392 Seiten, 2 Faltblätter , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: Göttingen Series in Social and Cultural Anthropology volume 16
    Keywords: Papua-Neuguinea Sepik ; Iatmul ; Frau ; Frau und sozio-ökonomische Rolle ; Lebenszyklus ; Initiation ; Heirat ; Geburt ; Ritual ; Ritual und Zeremonie ; Beziehungen Mann-Frau ; Mythos ; Geschlechterforschung
    Abstract: The book offers a glimpse back in time to a Middle Sepik society, the Iatmul, first investigated by the anthropologist Gregory Bateson in the late 1920s while the feminist anthropologist Margaret Mead worked on sex roles among the neighbouring Tchambuli (Chambri) people. The author lived in the Iatmul village of Kararau in 1972/3 where she studied women's lives, works, and knowledge in detail. She revisited the Sepik in 2015 and 2017. The book, the translation of a 1977 publication in German, is complemented by two chapters dealing with the life of the Iatmul in the 2010s. It presents rich quantitative and qualitative data on subsistence economy, marriage, and women's knowledge concerning myths and rituals. Besides, life histories and in-depth interviews convey deep insights into women's experiences and feelings, especially regarding their varied relationships with men in the early 1970s. Since then, Iatmul culture has changed in many respects, especially as far as the economy, religion, knowledge, and the relationship between men and women are concerned. In her afterword, the anthropologist Christiane Falck highlights some of the major topics raised in the book from a 2018 perspective, based on her own fieldwork which she commenced in 2012. Thus, the book provides the reader with detailed information about gendered lives in this riverine village of the 1970s and an understanding of the cultural processes and dynamics that have taken place since. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements --1 Introduction: After Almost 50 Years. 1.1 The Middle Sepik and previous anthropological studies. 1.2 A documentation of the past, and new studies. 1.3 A comparative glimpse back -- Part One: Women and Subsistence Economy -- 2 The Village -- 3 Sources of Subsistence. 3.1 Fishing. 3.2 Fish survey. 3.3 Overview of the most important trade relations with other villages. 3.4 Sago and the sago market with Gaikorobi. 3.5 Significance of the market with Gaikorobi for Kararau's subsistence. 3.6 Kararau's further trade relations. 3.7 Cultivation. 3.8 Hunting and animal husbandry -- Part Two: Women in Love and Marriage -- 4 Getting Married. 4.1 Run-up to marriage. 4.2 Ideal marriage relationships. 4.3 Marriage rules and actual marital relations in comparison. 4.4 Bridewealth. 4.5 The relationship between wife givers and wife takers. 4.6 Marriage as described in a myth. 4.7 Duties and rules of conduct after marriage. 4.8 The relationship between brother and sister and between husband and wife. 4.9 Spatial division of the house -- 5 Conception, Pregnancy and Birth: Concepts and Practices. 5.1 The significance of birth in Iatmul thought. 5.2 The post-partum period -- 6 The Relationship Between Husband and Wife. 6.1 Polygyny. 6.2 Divorce. 6.3 Changes in the course of a woman's life -- Part Three: Women, the Realm of Men, and the World Beyond -- 7 Sorcery and Witchcraft -- 8 Women and the Realm of Male Rituals -- 9 Familiarity with Kinship Terminology -- 10 Women and Headhunting -- 11 Women in Myths and the Mythologeme of the Inverted World -- 12 Women Who Became Initiated by Men. 12.1 Initiation as a mark of excellence. 12.2 Initiation as a means of stigmatization. 12.3 Memories of an earlier women's initiation. 12.4 Imitating male initiation scarification -- Part Four: Self-Portrayals -- 13 Life Histories of Women and Men. 13.1 Life histories of women. 13.2 Life histories of men. 13.3 Comparing the life histories of women and men -- Part Five: The Relationship Between Men and Women in Myths -- 14 Gender Relationships as Described in Myths and the Way in Which ese Are Narrated by Men and Women. 14.1 Findings from the myth analysis -- Concluding Summary (revised) -- Afterword -- "Cultural Change in the Sepik" by Christiane Falck -- Conclusion -- References -- Index -- Appendix: Kinship Terminology Chart
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 371-378 "translating my PhD thesis into English" (Acknowledgements, Seite 12) , PhD Thesis, Philosophisch-historische Fakultät, Universität Basel, 1975, entitled Frauen in Kararau: zur Rolle der Frau bei den Iatmul am Mittelsepik, Papua New Guinea
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  • 8
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    London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
    ISBN: 978-1-138-50512-4 , 978-1-351-37977-9 / (e-book) , 978-1-351-37978-6 / (e-book) , 978-1-351-37976-2 / (e-book)
    Language: English
    Pages: xiii, 247 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility
    Keywords: Iran Tourismus ; Wallfahrt ; kulturelles Eigentum ; Frau ; Frau und sozio-ökonomische Rolle ; Kulturanthropologie ; Soziokultureller Kontext ; Anthropologie, kulinarische
    Abstract: Iran has long been regarded as an international pariah state in some parts of the international community. However, its negative image in many countries disguises its history of tourism and rich cultural and natural heritage. Following the July 2015 nuclear deal and the reduction in sanctions, Iran is focusing on international tourism as a means to generate economic growth in addition to its substantial domestic tourism market. Given the significance of tourism in the Middle East and in international politics, as well as restrictions on international mobility, this volume brings together the first contemporary collection of research on tourism in Iran. Written by experts based both within and outside of Iran, the chapters engage with a number of crucial issues including the importance of religion, the role of women in society, sustaining Iran's cultural heritage, Iran's image and the resistive economy to provide a benchmark assessment of tourism and its potential future in a troubled political environment. The book will undoubtedly be of interest not only to those readers who focus specifically on Iran but also those who seek a wider understanding of Iran's role in the region and how tourism is utilised as part of national and regional economic development policies.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of figures, tables, boxes, contributors -- Preface and acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Part I Context -- 1 Tourism in Iran: an introduction / Siamak Seyfi and C. Michael Hall -- 2 Domestic tourism in Iran: development, directions and issues / Siamak Seyfi, Adel Nikjoo & Mohammad Sharifi-Tehrani -- 3 Sanctions, the 2015 agreement and Iran`s tourism industry / Zahed Ghaderi, Sahar Soltani, Joan Henderson and Afsaneh Zareei -- Part II Pilgrimage and religious tourism -- 4 Pilgrimage Tourism in Iran / Mahmood Ziaei & Somayeh Amiri -- Chapter 5 The Mutual Relationship Between Women`s Pilgrimage Tourism and the Religious City: A Case Study of Mashhad, Iran / Nina Khamsy and Fatemeh Vossughi -- 6 Mass faith tourism and life satisfaction of residents: evidence from Mashhad, Iran / Hossein G. T. Olya -- Part III Heritage and tourism -- 7 Cultural heritage management and heritage tourism development in Iran: opportunities and challenges for the future / Fabio Carbone, Anahita Malek & Anahita Lohrasbi -- 8 Residents` perceptions towards heritage tourism development: the case of the historical city of Kashan, Iran / S. Mostafa Rasoolimanesh and Hamid Ataeishad -- 9 The role of socio-cultural events in rebuilding Iran`s image / Bardia Shabani and Hazel Tucker -- 10 Food and tourism in Iran / Amir Sayadabdi and Saman Hassibi -- Part IV Emerging tourisms -- 11 Tourism and the empowerment of women in Iran / Banafsheh Farahani and Hamideh Dabbaghi -- 12 Participatory tourism development in Iran: implementing community based tourism within a migrating nomadic tribe / Fereshteh Fazel Bakhsheshi and Najmeh Hassanali -- 13 Effects of perceived quality and trust on behavioural intentions: an empirical study of health tourists in Mashhad, Iran / Shiva Hashemi, Masoumeh Tavangar, Azizan Marzuki, Moji Shahvali -- 14 The future(s) of tourism in Iran / C. Michael Hall and Siamak Seyfi -- Index
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  • 9
    ISBN: 978-1-84701-213-5 , 978-1-84701-215-9 , 978-1-7874-4430-0 /eBook
    Language: English
    Pages: xiii, 290 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Western Africa Series
    Keywords: Atlantischer Raum Brasilien ; Westafrika ; Angola ; Senegal ; Sierra Leone ; Ghana ; Afrikaner ; Sozialgeschichte ; Sklavenhandel, atlantischer ; Sklaverei ; Geschichte ; Frau ; Frau und sozialer Status ; Frau und sozio-ökonomische Rolle ; Heirat ; Grundeigentum ; Eigentum ; Malinke ; Akan ; Welthandel ; Migration ; Booker, Hope (um 1675-1707) ; Esperance (um 1675-1707) 〉 Booker, Hope (um 1675-1707)
    Abstract: While there have been studies of women's roles in African societies and of Atlantic history, the role of women in West and West Central Africa during the period of the Atlantic slave trade and its abolition remains relatively unexamined. This book brings together scholars from Africa, North and South America and Europe to show, for the first time, the ways in which African women participated in economic, social and political spaces in Atlantic coast societies. Focusing on diversity and change, and going beyond the study of wealthy merchant women, the contributors examine the role of petty traders and enslaved women in communities from Sierra Leone to Benguela. They analyse how women in Africa used the opportunities offered by relationships with European men, Christianity and Atlantic commerce to negotiate their social and economic positions; consider the limitations which early colonialism sought to impose on women and the strategies they employed to overcome them; the factors which fostered or restricted women's mobility, both spatially and socially; and women's economic power and its curtailment.
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements - List of illustrations - Contributors -- Introduction - Mariana P. Candido and Adam Jones - Part One: Property -- 1. Adaptation in the Aftermath of Slavery: Women, Trade and Property in Sierra Leone, c. 1790-1812 - Suzanne Schwarz -- 2. Women, Land and Power in the Lower Gambia River Region - Assan Sarr - 3. Women and Food Production: Agriculture, Demography and Access to Land in Late Eighteenth-century Catumbela - Esteban A. Salas - 4. Women's Material World In Nineteenth-Century Benguela - Mariana P. Candido - Part Two: Vulnerability - 5. Prostitution, Polyandry or Rape? On the Ambiguity of European Sources for the West African Coast, 1660-1860 - Adam Jones - 6. Parrying Palavers: Coastal Akan Women and the Search for Security in the Eighteenth Century - Natalie Everts - 7. To be Female and Free: Mapping Mobility and Emancipation in Lagos, Badagry and Abeokuta 1853-1865 - Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi - 8. Gendered Authority, Gendered Violence: Household and Identity in the Life and Death of a Brazilian Freed Woman in Lagos - Kristin Mann - Part Three: Mobility - 9. From Child Slave to Madam Esperance: One Woman's Career in the Anglo-African World c. 1675-1707 - Colleen E Kriger - 10. Writing the History of the Trans-African Woman in the Revolutionary French Atlantic - Lorelle Semley - 11. Spouses and Commercial Partners: Immigrant Men and Locally Born Women in Luanda 1831-1859 - Vanessa S. Oliveira - 12. Women, Family and Daily Life in Senegal's Nineteenth-century Atlantic Towns - Hilary Jones - Bibliography - Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 248 - 278 , Enthält eine Einführung und 12 Beiträge
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  • 10
    ISBN: 978-1-4780-0013-6 , 978-1-4780-0032-7
    Language: English
    Pages: 238 Seiten
    Series Statement: Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People
    Keywords: Afrika Afrikaner ; Frau ; Schwarze ; Pentecost ; Diaspora
    Abstract: The contributors to Spirit on the Move examine Pentecostalism's appeal to black women worldwide and the ways it provides them with a source of community, access to power, and way to challenge social inequalities.
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Saving Race -- 1 - Voices of God: Blackness and Gender in a Brazilian Black Gospel Music Scene -- 2 - Race, Gender, and Christian Diaspora: New Pentecostal Intersectionalities and Haiti -- Part II: Scrutinizing and Sanctifying the Body -- 3 - Women and the Afro-Brazilian Pentecostal War in Mozambique -- 4 - "Dressed as Becometh Holiness": Gender, Race, and the Body in a Storefront Sanctified Church -- Part III: Sonic Power -- 5 - West African and Caribbean Women Evangelists: The Wailing Women Worldwide Intercessors -- 6 - "The Kingdom in the Midst": Sounding Bodies, Aesthetic Labor, and the End Times -- Part IV: Modeling the State -- 7 - A Critical Approach to Concepts of "Power" and "Agency" in Ghana's Charismatic (or Neo-Pentecostal) Churches -- 8 - Bless Us with Children: Pregnancy, Prosperity, and Pragmatism in Nigeria's Christ Apostolic Church -- References -- Contributors -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 197-220
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  • 11
    ISBN: 978-92-64-52579-5
    Language: French
    Pages: 149 Seiten , Diagramme, Karten
    Series Statement: Cahiers de l'Afrique de l'Ouest
    Keywords: Afrika Westafrika ; Frau ; Frau und wirtschaftliche Rolle ; Handel ; Kleingewerbe ; Unternehmen ; Wirtschaft
    Abstract: Les femmes contribuent largement à l`économie alimentaire de l`Afrique de l`Ouest, perpétuant une longue tradition de commerce et participant aux échanges frontaliers et au rayonnement régional. Ces activités se heurtent à de nombreux obstacles mais présentent de fortes opportunités, que le rapport souligne par une analyse relationnelle et spatiale inédite des réseaux sociaux. Celle-ci est conduite au niveau de la filière du riz dans la zone du Dendi (Bénin, Niger et Nigéria) et des réseaux de gouvernance régionaux promouvant l`entrepreneuriat féminin. Le rapport confirme l`effet attracteur du Nigéria porté par sa démographie et son urbanisation croissante. Il propose le développement de politiques publiques innovantes fondées sur le renforcement du capital social féminin et des options politiques pour une meilleure intégration des diverses initiatives entreprises par les États, les organisations internationales et non gouvernementales en matière d`autonomisation et de renforcement de la résilience des femmes.
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  • 12
    ISBN: 978-3-492-05940-4 , 978-3-492-99349-4
    Language: German
    Pages: 335 Seiten
    Keywords: Syrien Krieg und Gesellschaft ; Presse ; Frau ; Erlebnisbericht ; Gefangener ; Radikalisierung ; Jihad ; Deutschland ; Islam und Politik
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    Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press
    ISBN: 978-94-6298-685-5 , 9789048538225/(eBook)
    Language: English
    Pages: 278 Seiten , Illustrationen
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    Keywords: Afrika Kenia ; Ruanda (Staat) ; Simbabwe ; Südafrika ; Digitale Medien ; Handy ; Internet ; Kommunikationstechnologie ; Information ; Soziale Medien ; Ländliches Gebiet ; Stadt ; Frau ; Sprache ; Film ; Fußball ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Despite issues associated with the digital divide, mobile telephony is growing on the continent and the rise of smartphones has given citizens easy access to social networking sites. But the digital divide, which mostly reflects on one's race, gender, socioeconomic status or geographical location, stands in the way of digital progress. What opportunities are available to tame digital disparities? How are different societies in Africa handling digital problems? What innovative methods are being used to provide citizens with access to critical information that can help improve their lives? Experiences from various locations in several sub-Saharan African countries have been carefully selected in this collection with the aim of providing an updated account on the digital divide and its impact in Africa.
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    Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press
    ISBN: 978-0-8263-6067-0 , 082636067X
    Language: English
    Pages: XVI, 396 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karte
    Keywords: USA Arizona ; Navaho ; Heilbehandlung ; Frau ; Ausbildung ; Mission, christliche ; Medizin, westliche ; Medizin, traditionelle
    Abstract: After the Indian wars, many Americans still believed that the only good Indian was a dead Indian. But at Ganado Mission in the Navajo country of northern Arizona, a group of missionaries and doctors--who cared less about saving souls and more about saving lives--chose a different way and persuaded the local parents and medicine men to allow them to educate their daughters as nurses. The young women struggled to step into the worlds of modern medicine, but they knew they might become nurses who build a bridge between the old ways and the new. Many doctors said "red women" could not wear the white uniform of a nurse. The Wild West doctors decided to settle the question at Ganado Mission, with the medicine women.In this detailed history Jim Kristofic traces the story of Ganado Mission on the Navajo Indian Reservation.
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgments -- Foreword: Ghosts in the Graveyard -- Prologue: The Last Night -- Chapter 1. Peace Time on Bad Soil -- Chapter 2. The Red House Man -- Chapter 3. Greenhorn Clergymen -- Chapter 4. Like Real Men -- Chapter 5. Mechanical Tendencies of Mind -- Chapter 6. The House with the Pointed Top -- Chapter 7. The Walking Doctor -- Chapter 8. Into a Large Place -- Chapter 9. Water from the Rock -- Chapter 10. These Dark-Minded Indians -- Chapter 11. A Miracle in Five Million Pounds of Gray Stone -- Chapter 12. Practicing Medicine in the Desert -- Chapter 13. Red Women in White -- Chapter 14. The Flying Lady -- Chapter 15. The Indian Child Is Not Capable -- Chapter 16. East Slipping Away -- Chapter 17. No Longer Feel Suspicion -- Chapter 18. Both Feet Out of the Grave -- Chapter 19. We Can Begin Yesterday Afternoon -- Chapter 20. A Nest of Stars -- Chapter 21. An Oasis in the Desert -- Chapter 22. Teenagers First, Navajos Second, Indians Incidentally -- Chapter 23. Adventurous, Challenging, and Enchanting -- Chapter 24. English Only -- Chapter 25. The Waste Places -- Chapter 26. Work With Them Day to Day -- Chapter 27. When She Leaves It the Task Is Done -- Chapter 28. A Slave Camp -- Chapter 29. A Flower of Our Civilization -- Chapter 30. Out Into the Country -- Chapter 31. This Situation Has Run the Length of Its Course -- Chapter 32. The Ganado Mission High School -- Chapter 33. The Had No Other Choice -- Chapter 34. We Have Reached a Critical Point -- Chapter 35. A Colorful Eroded Desert Place -- Epilogue: Chusk'eh Daa'-At the Bank's Edge -- Appendix: School of Nursing Graduates -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 381-384
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 1-108-47280-X , 978-1-108-47280-7 , 978-1-108-65928-4 /eBook
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 360 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karte
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 141
    DDC: 364.1532096875
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    Keywords: Südafrika Ethnie, Afrika ; Frau ; Frauenrecht ; Xhosa ; Gewalt, sexuelle ; Sexualität ; Recht ; Strafrecht ; Kolonialgeschichte
    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.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: writing the history of rape; 1. Custom and consent in Xhosaland; 2. Sex and spiritual power; 3. Liberalism and the colonial law of sexual violence; 4. Rape and racial boundaries; 5. Navigating the politics of consent; Conclusion: rape and the postcolony; Bibliography; Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 311 - 337
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    ISBN: 978-3-8376-4631-3 , 3-8376-4631-9 , 978-3-8394-4631-7/online-Ausgabe
    Language: German
    Pages: 410 Seiten
    Series Statement: Kultur und Soziale Praxis
    DDC: 305.30964
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    Keywords: Marokko Jugend ; Jugendlicher ; Frau ; Frau und Islam ; Frau und sozialer Status ; Ehre ; Geschlechterforschung ; Beziehungen Mann-Frau ; Geschlechterrolle ; Stadt ; Stadtforschung, ethnologische ; Tradition ; Sexualität ; Ehe ; Massenmedien ; Ethnographie ; Recht ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 377-410 , Dissertation, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, 2019
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-35407-4 , 978-90-04-36598-8 /eBook
    ISSN: 1568-1203
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 322 Seiten
    Series Statement: African Social Studies Series volume 37
    Keywords: Kenia Tansania ; Somalia ; Mosambik ; Sansibar ; Tanganjika ; Indischer Ozean ; Europa ; USA ; Suaheli ; Migration ; Flüchtling ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Sufismus ; Islam ; Poesie ; Frau ; Sklavenhandel ; Soziale Medien ; Anthropologie
    Abstract: The book describes the worlds where Swahili is spoken as multi-centred contexts that cannot be thought of as located in a specific coastal area of Kenya or Tanzania. The articles presented discuss a range of geographical areas where Swahili is spoken, from Somalia to Mozambique along the Indian Ocean, in Europe and the US. In an attempt to de-essentialize the concepts of translocality and cosmopolitanism, the emphasis of the book is on translocality as experienced by different social strata and by gender and cosmopolitanism as an acquired attitude.
    Description / Table of Contents: Transliteration, Orthography and Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors - Introduction -- Translocality in the Past -- Vectors (Carriers) of Translocality --Reflections (Representations) of Translocal Connections -- Experiencing Translocality: Translocality from the Bottom - Translocality in Daily Experience -- Index
    Note: Enthält eine Einführung und 11 Beiträge
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    New Delhi : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 978-0-19-947742-5 , 0-19-947742-6
    Language: English
    Pages: IX, 256 Seiten
    Edition: first published
    Keywords: Indien Telangana ; Mittelklasse ; Frau ; Frau und sozialer Status ; Wertvorstellung ; Stadtforschung, ethnologische ; Soziale Klasse ; Sozialer Status ; Geschlechterrolle ; Geschlechterforschung ; Moral ; Kosmopolitismus ; Lebensstil ; Kastenwesen ; Kulturwandel ; Sozialer Wandel ; Neoliberalismus ; Gesellschaft, moderne ; Hyderabad 〈Indien〉
    Abstract: Drawing on twelve months of fieldwork in suburban Hyderabad, India, this thesis contributes to emerging debates on the Indian new middle classes and postcolonial middle classes more generally. I challenge images of a homogenous middle class enjoying the benefits of liberalization by highlighting the diversity in wealth, lifestyle and access to opportunities within this class sector. Contrary to the pervasive image of a hedonistic and morally corrupt new middle class, I assert the centrality of moral discourses to the construction of middle-class identity in Hyderabad. Middle-class Hyderabadis engage in moral discourses of 'respectability' and 'open- mindedness' in relation to caste, consumption, education, and women's public and domestic roles. These discourses of morality are central to the reproduction of class and gender inequality as successfully balancing the demands of respectability and open-mindedness is particularly difficult for those with fewer resources such as the lower middle class and for women who are expected to embody authentic Indianness in their demure comportment, 'traditional' attire and commitment to 'Indian' family values, but are also liable to being judged 'backward' if their clothing and lack of education and paid employment are seen to be in conflict with fashion and open-mindedness. The focus on balance and compromise in middle-class Hyderabadis' narratives echoes other work on postcolonial middle classes that has emphasised people's efforts to adhere to local notions of respectable behaviour that are central to national identities while also attempting to align themselves with a 'modern' global consumer culture. In contrast to much of this literature, however, I challenge the notion that modernity and tradition, the local and the global are objects of desire in and of themselves and instead argue that they function as important reference points in discourses that legitimate the dominant position of men and those of upper class-caste status.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 206-226 , Thesis (Ph.D.), Oxford University, 2012
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    ISBN: 978-1-78707-993-9 , 1-78707-993-7 , 978-1-78707-994-6 /ePDF , 978-1-78707-995-3 /ePub , 978-1-78707-996-0 /mobi
    ISSN: 2235-1809
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 326 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: New Comparative Criticism 6
    Keywords: Osthorn Äthiopien ; Eritrea ; Somalia ; Italien ; Postkolonialismus ; Kolonialgeschichte ; Kolonie, italienisch ; Recht ; Literatur, afrikanische ; Held ; Widerstandsbewegung ; Migration ; Sport ; Photographie ; Film, ethnographischer ; Diaspora ; Grenze ; Libyen ; Nationalismus ; Rassismus ; Frau ; Hassan, Muhammad Abdulle 〉 Mohammed Abdulle Hassan ; Mohammed Abdulle Hassan [Leben und Werk] ; Omar al-Mukhtar [Leben und Werk] ; Mengiste, Maaza [Leben und Werk] ; Scego, Igiaba [Leben und Werk] ; Mohamed, Nadifa [Leben und Werk] ; Addis Abeba 〈Äthiopien〉 ; Mogadischu 〈Stadt, Somalia〉 ; AFIS 〉 Amministrazione Fiduciaria Italiana della Somalia ; Amministrazione Fiduciaria Italiana della Somalia
    Abstract: This multidisciplinary volume analyses key themes and topics related to the cultural encounters between Italy and its former colonies in the Horn of Africa (Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia). The multi-faceted relations between the Horn of Africa and Italy were initiated during the colonial period but have also been shaped more recently through migration. In eleven chapters by experts in comparative literature, cultural studies, history, migration studies, political philosophy and postcolonial theory, the volume highlights how the legacy of colonialism permeates Italian society as well as influencing the construction of national identities in the Horn of Africa. The analysis of this transnational encounter opens up new possibilities for comparative research and critical synergies in Italian studies, African studies and beyond.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- a note on the text -- Introduction -- Part 1. Colonialism -- Part 2. Post-colonialism -- Part 3. Transnationalism -- Notes on contributors -- Index
    Note: Enthält ein Einführung und 11 Beiträge
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    ISBN: 978-1-316-62586-6 , 978-1-107-17365-1 /Hb.
    Language: English
    Pages: xxiii, 583 Seiten
    Edition: First paperback edition
    Keywords: Afrika Afrika, Subsahara ; Südafrika ; Kenia ; Angola ; Mosambik ; Senegal ; Äthiopien ; Uganda ; Ghana ; Nigeria ; Kamerun ; Frau ; Frauenrecht ; Kind ; Alter ; Behinderung ; Menschenrecht ; Recht ; Recht, internationales ; Rechtsethnologie ; Gerichtsbarkeit ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: The Protection of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Africa critiques the three main models of constitutionally protecting economic, social and cultural rights in Africa - direct, indirect and hybrid models. It examines the choices that states have made, how the models have worked, whether they have been tested in litigation and the jurisprudence that has arisen. The book analyses the protection of the economic, social and cultural rights in a range of African countries: Angola, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa and Uganda. Leading legal academics explore how these rights feature at the regional and sub-regional levels, as well as the link between domestic and international mechanisms of enforcement.
    Description / Table of Contents: Notes on contributors -- Foreword by Kate O'Regan -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Part I. Introduction -- Part II. International Protection -- Part III. African Regional and Sub-Regional Protection -- Part IV. Domestic Constitutional Protection Models and Jurisprudence -- Index
    Note: Enthält 19 Beiträge
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    Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. Press
    ISBN: 978-1-316-61513-3 , 978-1-107-16333-1 , 978-1-316-68106-0 /eBook
    Language: English
    Pages: xiv, 437 Seiten
    Edition: First paperback edition
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
    Keywords: Kultur Recht ; Recht, westliches ; Recht, traditionelles ; Soziologie ; Soziokultureller Kontext ; Großbritannien ; Scheidung ; Frau und Islam ; Beschneidung ; Frankreich ; Kolonie, französisch ; Differenzierung ; Recht, koloniales ; Frau ; Kanada ; Indianer, Kanada ; Beziehungen Indigenes Volk-Regierung ; USA ; Indianer, Nordamerika ; Hopi ; Ruanda (Staat) ; Sierra Leone ; Kannibalismus
    Abstract: "What does it mean for courts and other legal institutions to be culturally sensitive? What are the institutional implications and consequences of such an aspiration? To what extent is legal discourse capable of accommodating multiple cultural narratives without losing its claim to normative specificity? And how are we to understand meetings of law and culture in the context of formal and informal legal processes, when demands are made to accommodate cultural difference? The encounter of law and culture is a polycentric relation, but these questions draw our attention to law and legal institutions as one site of encounter warranting further investigation, to map out the place of culture in the domains of law by relying on the insights of law, anthropology, politics, and philosophy. Culture in the Domains of Law seeks to examine and answer these questions resulting in a richer outlook on both law and culture"--What does it mean for courts and other legal institutions to be culturally sensitive? What are the institutional implications and consequences of such an aspiration? To what extent is legal discourse capable of accommodating multiple cultural narratives without losing its claim to normative specificity? And how are we to understand meetings of law and culture in the context of formal and informal legal processes, when demands are made to accommodate cultural difference? The encounter of law and culture is a polycentric relation, but these questions draw our attention to law and legal institutions as one site of encounter warranting further investigation, to map out the place of culture in the domains of law by relying on the insights of law, anthropology, politics, and philosophy. Culture in the Domains of Law seeks to examine and answer these questions, resulting in a richer outlook on both law and culture.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 369 - 419; Enthält 13 Beiträge
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    ISBN: 978-99944-50-67-1
    Language: English
    Pages: VII, 252 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Keywords: Äthiopien Entwicklung ; Entwicklung, sozio-ökonomische ; Frau ; Jugendlicher ; Administration ; Migration ; Arbeit ; Tagungsbericht
    Abstract: As part of its on-going public dialogue program on progress in Ethiopia`s development and public policy the Forum for Social Studies is undertaking a project of research and public dialogue on a number of selected topics on the theme of 'Prospects and Challenges for Inclusive and Participatory Development in Ethiopia'. The aim is to enable researchers and professionals to present evidence-based papers to stimulate debate and reflection. This first book in the program looks at the impact of development or lack of it, on specific social groups, namely women, young people and vulnerable groups that should be entitled to decent social care.
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-38711-9 , 978-90-04-38744-7/Online
    Language: English
    Pages: xx, 448 Seiten
    Series Statement: Studies of Religion in Africa 47
    Keywords: Westafrika Sierra Leone ; Mission, christliche ; Frau ; Kolonie, britisch ; Missionsgeschichte ; Abolition ; Sklavenhandel ; Biographie ; Winsor, Sarah ; Richards, Elizabeth ; Klein, Suzanna
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    London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
    ISBN: 978-1-138-01933-1 , 978-0-203-73282-3/ebook
    Language: English
    Pages: XXVII, 236 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: revised edition
    Keywords: Indien Heirat ; Heiratsvermittlung ; Kaste ; Liebe ; Ehe ; Familie ; Verwandtschaft ; Städtisches Gebiet ; Frau ; Armut ; Frau und sozialer Status ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Alltag ; Unberührbarer ; Recht, traditionelles ; Konfliktmanagement ; Delhi 〈Indien〉
    Abstract: This book makes use of interesting case studies and photographs to describe everyday life in a squatter settlement in Delhi. The book helps to understand the marital experiences of these people most of whom belong to the Scheduled Caste and live in one identified geographical space. The author describes the shifts within their marriages, remarriages and other kinds of unions and their striking diversities, which have been described with care. Shalini Grover also examines the close ties of married women with their mothers and natal families. An important contribution of the book lies in the unfolding of the role of women-led informal courts, Mahila Panchayats and their influence in conflict resolution. This takes place in a distinctly different mode of community-based arbitration against the backdrop of mainstream legal structures and male-dominated caste associations. The book will be of interest to students of sociology and social anthropology, gender studies, development studies, law and psychology. Activists and family counsellors will also find the book useful.
    Description / Table of Contents: Foreword by Professor Patricia Uberoi 1. Mapping the Debate on Marriage 2. Revisiting Arranged Marriages: Marital Roles, Conflict and Kinship Support 3. Courtships and Love Marriages 4. Secondary Unions and Other Conjugal Arrangements 5. Informal Dispute Settlement: The Mahila Panchayats 6. Towards the Democratization of Marriage and Relationships: Conclusion
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis Seite 220-231
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    Seattle : University of Washington Press
    ISBN: 978-0-295-74357-8 , 978-0-295-74357-8 / (falsche ISBN) , 978-0-295-74359-2 / (e-book)
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 294 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Series in Western History and Biography
    Keywords: Nordamerika USA ; Oregon ; Indianer, Nordamerika ; Grundeigentum ; Regierung ; Beziehungen Indigenes Volk-Regierung ; Indianerpolitik ; Umsiedlung ; Frau ; Biographie ; Beziehungen Indianer-Weiße ; Geschichte ; McKeown, Martha Ferguson ; Thompson, Flora Cushinway ; Columbia River 〈USA〉 ; Celilo Falls Indian Relocation Project
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- A Note on Terminology and Sources -- Acknowledgments -- ONE Homelands in Transition -- TWO Maintaining/Making Home -- THREE Growing Up -- FOUR Converging Paths of Leadership -- FIVE Protecting Home -- SIX New Narratives in an Ancient Land -- SEVEN Aftermath -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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    ISBN: 978-3-643-90923-7
    Language: English
    Pages: vii, 228 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Ethnologie 65
    Keywords: Deutschland Afghanistan ; Ethnie, Vorderasien ; Hazara ; Migration ; Frau ; Soziokultureller Kontext ; Sozialer Wandel ; Beziehungen, interkulturelle ; Identität ; Ethnizität
    Abstract: Migration has been a life event for many Afghans during the past decades, with mass exoduses due to war, insecurity, and poverty. This book explores how Hazara migrant women reinterpret their narration of "self", ventilates opinions of their migratory lives and analyses ways Afghan immigrant women experience life in Germany. It presents an understanding how they experience sociocultural change as a consequence of their migratory experiences. It identifies contradictions in how Afghan immigrant women negotiate identity, belonging to and acquire status in the new society.
    Description / Table of Contents: Theoretical and conceptual framework -- Afghanistan social structure -- Destination: Germany -- Sociocultural change and power shift among Afghan families in Germany -- The experience of Afghan immigrant women in Germany: between social involvement and sense of belonging -- Conclusions -- Bibliography
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 202 - 228 , Ph.D. Dissertation, Universität Bremen, 2016
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    ISBN: 978-93-86552-84-6 , 978-93-86552-85-3
    Language: English
    Pages: XIX, 306 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Keywords: Süd-Asien Religion ; Reform ; Frau ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Islam ; Kultur ; Geschichte ; Literatur ; Pakistan ; Indien
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    ISBN: 978-1-78831-269-1 , 978-1-84885-427-7 , 1-84885-427-7 , 978-1-78672-947-7 / (e-book) , 978-0-85771-918-8 / (e-book)
    Language: English
    Pages: XIV, 274 Seiten
    Edition: New paperback edition
    Series Statement: Library of Development Studies 2
    Keywords: Indien Rajasthan ; Frau ; Frau und Religion ; Feminismus ; Frauenforschung ; Geschlechterforschung ; Ungleichheit ; Religion ; Ländliches Gebiet ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Nichtregierungsorganisation ; Entwicklungsländer ; Entwicklung, soziale ; Entwicklung, wirtschaftliche ; Entwicklungsethnologie
    Abstract: Faith-based development organizations have become a central part of the lives of the women of rural Rajasthan, and have come to represent important providers of social development. And yet, religious teachings continue to be used to exclude women from public decision making forums and render them vulnerable to increasing levels of domestic violence. In a multi-disciplinary approach, combining a range of subjects, Tamsin Bradley provides a unique study of the role of secular and faith organizations in the lives of women in rural Rajasthan. Religion and Gender in the Developing World shows how many religious spaces exist which afford women opportunities to interact with one another and create an identity for themselves. However, faith proves not just to be a positive sphere in which women are able to assert themselves. Its ambiguity becomes clear as the author explains that religious women often find their visions of social justice and equality marginalised by the dominance of male leadership. Nevertheless, Bradley also looks at how religious women challenge male dominance, drawing on their beliefs and practices in creative and innovative ways. Thus a complex picture emerges, and by including insights from gender studies and anthropology, Bradley argues that religion can both empower and disempower local communities, and the women who live within them. By analysing development through a prism of different disciplines, Bradley highlights the complex nature of power relations that are at the very heart of development agendas and organizations and offers an invaluable contribution to the analysis of varied disciplines in the analysis of women and religion in Rajasthan. This book will be of interest to students, reseachers and policy makers involved in various fields, including those of Development Studies, Religion, Gender Studies and Social Anthropology. --Book Jacket.
    Description / Table of Contents: Reviewing the links between religion, gender and development -- Understanding global development through religion and gender -- Gender, mothering and development: case studies of three Hindu transnational movements -- What is a faith-based organization? -- Can compassion bring results? Reflections on the work of an intermediary FBO -- Competing visions of development: the story of a faith-based partnership -- Gender, Gandhi and community organizations -- Physical religious spaces in the lives of Rajasthani village women -- Positioning religion in research and activism to end domestic violence in Rajasthan -- Puja as an approach to health care.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 249-267
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    New Delhi : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 978-0-19-948422-5 , 0-19-948422-8 , 978-0-19-909206-2 / (falsche ISBN) , 0-19-909206-0 / (falsche ISBN)
    Language: English
    Pages: xiv, 326 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First Edition
    DDC: 378.0770954
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    Keywords: Indien Islam ; Koran-Schule ; Koran ; Frau ; Schule ; Frau und Islam ; Soziales Leben ; Alltag ; Geschlechterforschung
    Abstract: This in-depth ethnography looks at the everyday lives of Muslim students in a girls' madrasa in India. Highlighting the ambiguities between the students' espousal of madrasa norms and everyday practice, Borker illustrates how young Muslim girls tactically invoke the virtues of safety, modesty, and piety learnt in the madrasa to reconfigure normative social expectations around marriage, education, and employment. Amongst the few ethnographies on girls' madrasas in India, this volume focuses on unfolding of young women's lives as they journey from their home to madrasa and beyond, and thereby problematizes the idealized and coherent notions of piety presented by anthropological literature on female participation in Islamic piety projects. The author uses ethnographic portraits to introduce us to an array of students, many of whom find their aspirational horizon expanded as a result of the madrasa experience. Such stories challenge the dominant media's representations of madrasas as outmoded religious institutions. Further, the author illustrates how the processes of learning-unlearning and alternate visions of the future emerge as an unanticipated consequence of young women's engagement with madrasa education.
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    ISBN: 978-0-295-74343-1 , 978-0-295-74344-8
    Language: English
    Pages: XVI, 193 Seiten
    Series Statement: Indigenous Confluences
    DDC: 305.897/20794
    Keywords: USA Kalifornien ; Hupa ; Frau ; Ritual und Zeremonie ; Ritual ; Tanz ; Feminismus ; Initiation ; Menstruation ; Soziale Bedingungen
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    Toronto : University of Toronto Press
    ISBN: 978-1-4875-0307-9 , 978-1-4875-2244-5
    Language: English
    Pages: XXV, 318 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: Anthropological Horizons
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    Keywords: Senegal Islam ; Sufismus ; Muslime ; Frau ; Frau und Islam ; Führer, religiöse ; Mystik ; Bewegung, islamische ; Religiöse Bewegung ; Jugend ; Dakar 〈Stadt, Senegal〉
    Abstract: Since around 2000, a growing number of women in Dakar, Senegal have come to act openly as spiritual leaders for both men and women. As urban youth turn to the Fayda Tijaniyya Sufi Islamic movement in search of direction and community, these women provide guidance in practicing Islam and cultivating mystical knowledge of God. While women Islamic leaders may appear radical in a context where women have rarely exercised Islamic authority, they have provoked surprisingly little controversy. Wrapping Authority tells these women's stories and explores how they have developed ways of leading that feel natural to themselves and those around them. Addressing the dominant perceptions of Islam as a conservative practise, with stringent regulations for women in particular, Joseph Hill reveals how women integrate values typically associated with pious Muslim women into their leadership. These female leaders present spiritual guidance as a form of nurturing motherhood; they turn acts of devotional cooking into a basis of religious authority and prestige; they connect shyness, concealing clothing, and other forms of feminine "self-wrapping" to exemplary piety, hidden knowledge, and charismatic mystique. Yet like Sufi mystical discourse, their self-presentations are profoundly ambiguous, insisting simultaneously on gender distinctions and on the transcendence of gender through mystical unity with God.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. An Emerging Urban Youth Movement. 2. The New Muqaddamas. 3. Wrapping. 4. Motherhood Metamorphosis Metaphors. 5. Cooking up Spiritual Leadership. 6. "They Say a Woman's Voice Is 'Awra" 7. The Ascetic and the Mother of the Knowers. Epilogue: Islam as a Numinous, Performative Tradition
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis Seite 271-298
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    ISBN: 978-3-319-77970-6 , 978-3-319-77971-3/(eBook)
    Language: English
    Pages: xxiii, 253 Seiten , Karten
    DDC: 305.894823
    Keywords: Indien Gond ; Rajputs ; Methodologie ; Nationalpark ; Wald ; Konflikt, wirtschaftlicher ; Siedlung ; Dorf ; Tradition ; Gesellschaft, moderne ; Postkolonialismus ; Kaste ; Besiedlungsgeschichte ; Politische Ökonomie ; Landwirtschaft ; Arbeit, informelle ; Wirtschaft, informelle ; Anarchie ; Schamanismus ; Besessenheit ; Indigenität ; Medizin, traditionelle ; Abstammung ; Heirat ; Frau ; Witwenschaft ; Migration ; Staat und Gesellschaft ; Schule ; Technologie, moderne
    Abstract: This book is an empirical account of anarchy among one of India`s largest indigenous populationsthe Gondsin the face of displacement and a lack of social welfare. Over the past few decades, the government has become entangled with the wildlife conservationists over control of forests, which has stunted social development in the region. Yadav conceives of precarious forms of work and withdrawal from the state as expressions of anarchy by the marginalised people against the authorities whose control over the region has crippled their economy. Remarkably, instead of protesting and expecting state intervention to improve their lives, the Gonds have turned toward the informal economy, where they are not only engaging with flexible forms of work, but also bargaining for higher wages and building wealth. The book provides rich details of the Gonds' working livesintegrating practices of work, labour, and social relations with ideologies of family, debt, and dignity in the lives of poor in the global south. It shows the strength that people must acquire when a welfare state fails, and how they maintain their dignity in the process.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis Seite 229-249
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    London and New York : Routledge
    ISBN: 978-1-13820070-8
    Language: English
    Pages: VII, 252 S. , Illustration
    Series Statement: Routledge Library Editions. Women in Islamic Societies Volume 4
    Keywords: Islamische Staaten Albanien ; Sahel ; Malaysia ; Lombok ; Palästina ; Algerien ; Türkei ; Frau ; Frau und Islam ; Frau und sozialer Status ; Fundamentalismus, islamischer ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Recht, traditionelles ; Mystik ; Tagungsbericht
    Note: This vol. is the result of a conference on "Women in Islam" ... at Holte, Copenhagen, 26-28 Nov. 1979
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    ISBN: 1-4875-9347-3 , 978-1-4875-9347-6 , 1-4875-9348-1 , 978-1-4875-9348-3 , 978-1-4875-9349-0 /epub , 978-1-4875-9350-6 /PDF
    Language: English
    Pages: 302 Seiten , überwiegend Illustrationen
    Series Statement: ethnoGRAPHIC [1]
    Keywords: Ägypten Arabischer Frühling ; Freundschaft ; Frau ; Krankheit ; Beziehungen, interkulturelle ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Comic ; Belletristische Darstellung
    Abstract: Anna is the daughter of an American couple working in Cairo. Layla is the daughter of the doorman in Anna's apartment building. Together they strike up an unlikely friendship that is put to the test when both girls are faced with family health crises at home and revolutionary unrest on the streets. As Anna and Layla reckon with illness, risk, and loss in different ways, they learn the power of friendship and the importance of hope. Ultimately, they must recognize that there is still time to fight for a better tomorrow, together.
    Description / Table of Contents: Part 1. Cairo -- Part 2. Five years later -- Part 3. Revolution -- Appendices: Timeline of the 2011 Egyptian revolution ; Creating Lissa : concepts, collaboration, and craft : Teaching guide.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 288 - 302
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    Acton : Australian National University Press
    ISBN: 978-1-76046-088-4
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 189 Seiten
    Series Statement: Pacific Series
    Keywords: Melanesien Salomonen ; Ozeanien ; Geschlechterforschung ; Frau ; Frau und sozio-ökonomische Rolle ; Frau und wirtschaftliche Rolle ; Frau und sozialer Status ; Mutterschaft
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  • 36
    ISBN: 978-81-316-0873-9
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 244 Seiten , Karte
    Keywords: Indien Arunachal Pradesh ; Assam ; Manipur ; Meghalaya ; Mizoram ; Nagaland ; Tripura ; Indigenität ; Adivasi ; Khasi ; Naga ; Jaintias ; Lushei ; Frau ; Frauenrecht ; Beziehungen Mann-Frau ; Geschlechterforschung ; Frau und sozialer Status ; Tagungsbericht
    Note: Gender Implications of Customary Law in Northeast India (Seminar) (2015 : Gauhati, India)"This volume is an outcome of seminar entitled Gender Implication of Customary Law in Northeast India. The seminar was organized by the North Eastern Social Research Centre, Guwahati, with the collaboration between Cotton College State University and Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) ib 20-21 March 2015 at NIPCCD, Guwahati"Contents: part 1. Theoretical perspectives -- part II. Customary laws of some tribal communities of North-East India.
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  • 37
    ISBN: 978-0-295-74612-8 , 978-0-295-74166-6 , 0-295-74166-X , 9780295741659 / (falsche ISBN)
    Language: English
    Pages: XVII, 182 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Keywords: USA Indianer, Nordamerika ; Shahaptin ; Indianer-Sprache ; Sprachwissenschaft ; Soziales Leben ; Frau ; Geschichte ; Biographie
    Abstract: "The Gift of Knowledge / Ttnuwit Atawish Nch'inch'imamí is a treasure trove of material for those interested in Native American culture. Author Virginia Beavert grew up in a traditional, Indian-speaking household. Both her parents and her maternal grandmother were shamans, and her childhood was populated by people who spoke tribal dialects and languages: Nez Perce, Umatilla, Klikatat, and Yakima Ichishkíin. Her work on Native languages began at age twelve, when she met linguist Melville Jacobs while working for his student, Margaret Kendell. When Jacobs realized that Beavert was a fluent speaker of the Klikatat language, he taught her to read and write the orthography he had developed to record Klikatat myths. After a stint in the U.S. Air Force during World War II, Beavert went on to earn graduate degrees in education and linguistics, and she has contributed to numerous projects for the preservation of Native language and teachings. Beavert narrates highlights from her own life and presents cultural teachings, oral history, and stories (many in bilingual Ishishkíin-English format) about family life, religion, ceremonies, food gathering, and other aspects of traditional culture."--Provided by publisher
    Description / Table of Contents: The culture that made me who I am now / Inmí Tiinwít Wapítat -- My story / Inmí Ttáwaxt -- Life circles / Wyá'uyt Wak_'íshwit -- Experiences and reflections / Pina'ititámat Wak_'íshwit -- Conclusion / Wának_'i -- Appendix: Guidance for academic researchers -- Icshishkíin / English glossary.
    Note: Ichishkíin-English glossary S. 171-174
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    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
    ISBN: 978-0-226-49117-2 , 978-0-226-49103-5
    Language: English
    Pages: 315 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Keywords: Ost-Afrika Kenia ; Europa ; Samburu ; Ethnizität ; Mann ; Frau ; Beziehungen, zwischenmenschliche ; Heirat ; Familie ; Sexualität ; Wirtschaftlicher Aspekt
    Abstract: Ethno-erotic Economies explores a fascinating case of tourism focused on sex and culture in coastal Kenya, where young men deploy stereotypes of African warriors to help them establish transactional sexual relationships with European women. In bars and on beaches, young men deliberately cultivate their images as sexually potent African men to attract women, sometimes for a night, in other cases for long-term relationships.George Paul Meiu uses his deep familiarity with the communities these men come from to explore the long-term effects of markets of ethnic culture and sexuality on a wide range of aspects of life in rural Kenya, including kinship, ritual, gender, intimate affection, and conceptions of aging. What happens to these communities when young men return with such surprising wealth? And how do they use it to improve their social standing locally? By answering these questions, Ethno-erotic Economies offers a complex look at how intimacy and ethnicity come together to shape the pathways of global and local trade in the postcolonial world.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [279]-295
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    ISBN: 978-93-51-0239-5
    Language: English
    Pages: 380 Seiten
    Edition: 8th printing
    Keywords: Humanitäre Hilfe Naturkatastrophe ; Frau ; Krisenbewältigung ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Geschlechterrolle ; Beziehungen Mann-Frau ; Risiko
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    Language: German
    Pages: 97 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Keywords: Chile Jugendlicher ; Frau ; Alternativbewegung ; Identität ; Beziehungen Mann-Frau ; Geschlechterforschung ; Santiago de Chile 〈Chile〉 ; Hochschulschrift
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 92-96 , Magisterarbeit, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, 2017
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    Stanford, California : Stanford University Press
    ISBN: 978-1-5036-0204-5 , 978-1-5036-0288-5 , 978-1-5036-0295-3/(eBook)
    Language: English
    Pages: XX, 190 Seiten , Illustrationen
    DDC: 306.874/5097285
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    Keywords: Nicaragua Migration ; Arbeitsmigration ; Familie ; Altenpflege ; Verwandtschaft ; Frau ; Kind ; Beziehungen zwischen den Generationen ; Beziehungen, zwischenmenschliche ; Beziehungen, transnationale ; Beziehungen Vater-Kind ; Beziehungen Mutter-Kind
    Abstract: Global inequalities make it difficult for parents in developing nations to provide for their children. Some determine that migration in search of higher wages is their only hope. Many studies have looked at how migration transforms the child-parent relationship. But what happens to other generational relationships when mothers migrate? Care Across Generations takes a close look at grandmother care in Nicaraguan transnational families, examining both the structural and gendered inequalities that motivate migration and caregiving as well as the cultural values that sustain intergenerational care. Kristin E. Yarris broadens the transnational migrant story beyond the parent-child relationship, situating care across generations and embedded within the kin networks in sending countries. Rather than casting the consequences of women's migration in migrant sending countries solely in terms of a "care deficit," Yarris shows how intergenerational reconfigurations of care serve as a resource for the wellbeing of children and other family members who stay behind after transnational migration. Moving our perspective across borders and over generations, Care Across Generations shows the social and moral value of intergenerational care for contemporary transnational families.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction : solidaridad : Nicaraguan migration and intergenerational care -- "Tenemos que hacerlo" : responsibility and sacrifice in grandmother care -- "No se ajustan" : remittances and moral economies of migration -- "Pensando mucho" : transnational care and grandmothers' distress -- Care and responsibility across generations : a family migration portrait -- Conclusion : valuing care across borders and generations.
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    Oakland, California : University of California Press
    ISBN: 978-0-520-29199-7 , 978-0-520-29198-0 , 978-0-520-96557-7
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 400 Seiten , Illustrationen
    DDC: 392/.109667
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    Keywords: Ghana Mutilation ; Beschneidung ; Frau ; Kritik ; Feminismus ; Nichtregierungsorganisation ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Politik
    Abstract: "The last three decades have witnessed a proliferation of NGOs engaging in new campaigns to end the practice of female genital cutting across Africa. These campaigns have in turn spurred new institutions, discourses, and political projects, bringing about unexpected social transformations, both intended and unintended. Consequently, cutting is waning across the continent. At the same time, these endings are being disavowed by cross-continental discourses that argue that cutting has become an object of a neocolonial, racist gaze and Western interventionist zeal. What does it mean to say that while cutting is ending, the Western discourse surrounding it is on the rise? And what kind of a feminist anthropology is needed in such a moment? The Twilight of Cutting examines these and other questions from the vantage point of Ghanaian feminist and reproductive health NGOs that have organized campaigns against cutting for over thirty years. The book looks at these NGOs not as solutions but as sites of 'problematization.' The purpose of understanding Ghanaian campaigns, their transnational and regional encounters, and the forms of governmentality they produce is not to charge them with providing answers to the question, how do we end cutting? Instead, it is to account for their work, their historicity, the life worlds and subjectivities they engender, and the modes of reflection, imminent critique, and opposition they set in motion"--Provided by publisher
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface : coming to questions -- Introduction : governmentality against itself -- Colonial reason, sensibility, and the ethnographic style -- Making harmful traditional practices -- When cutting did and did not end -- Mistaken by design : biopolitics in practice -- Blood loss and slow harm in times of scarcity -- The feminist fetish : legal advocacy -- Against sovereign violence.
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    ISBN: 978-1-4742-3962-2
    Language: English
    Pages: XIX, 259 Seiten
    Series Statement: Home
    DDC: 306.7
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    Keywords: Privatheit Soziales Leben ; Geschlechterforschung ; Geschlechterrolle ; Mann ; Frau ; Sexualität ; Identität, sexuelle ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Sexuality and Gender at Home is the first book to explore the meanings and experiences of home through the framework of sexuality. Looking at a broad spectrum of sexuality, gender and domesticity, it examines the many ways in which home is constructed, performed and experienced in relation to sexuality and gender. Considering identity issues such as age, class, ethnicity and gender, the authors problematize intimacy and question conventional ways of thinking about allegedly `private' home space. Comprehensive introductions to each of the book's three sections - on Intimacy and Home, Queering Home, Beyond Home - provide a coherent overview of the existing literature as well as additional historical and cultural context. Fourteen chapters present ground-breaking research and insights into sexuality, gender and home across culture, time and space. Written by academics from a range of subject disciplines, chapters are based on research covering countries including Australia, France, Sweden, the UK, the USA, Guyana, Israel, and Singapore. This highly original text is the ideal starting point for anyone wishing to get to grips with the emerging field of sexuality, gender and home and will particularly appeal to researchers and students in anthropology, architecture, gender studies, sociology, and human geography.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Contributors. Series Preface: Why Home? Victor Buchli, University College London, UK, and Rosie Cox, Birkbeck, University of London, UK. Preface Tom Boellstorff, University of California, Irvine, USA. Introduction Ben Campkin, Barbara Penner, and Brent Pilkey, University College London, UK, and Rachael M. Scicluna, University of Kent, UK. Part I: Making Home. Introduction: Making Home Barbara Penner, University College London, UK, and Rachel M.Scicluna, University of Kent, UK. 1. Class, Sexuality and Home in Inter-War London Elizabeth Darling, Oxford Brookes University, UK. 2. Unhousing Sexuality: Sexuality and Singlehood in Singapore's Public Housing Lilian Chee, National University of Singapore, Singapore. 3. Negotiating Sexual Relationships and Alternative Domesticities in Shared Households in England Sue Heath, University of Manchester, UK, and Rachael M.Scicluna, University of Kent, UK. 4. Making a House a Home: Children and the Meanings of Home among Gay Men in the US Ellen Lewin, University of Iowa, USA. Part II: Queering Home. Introduction: Queering Home Ben Campkin and Brent Pilkey, University College London, UK. 5. F the U-Haul: Janet Flanner's Paris and the Varieties of Lesbian Domesticity Alice T. Friedman, Wellesley College, USA. 6. Queering the Historic House: Destabilising Heteronormativity in the National Trust Matt Smith, University of Brighton, UK. 7. A Bend in the River: Queer Home and Heritage in a House in Hammersmith Matt Cook, Birkbeck, University of London, UK. 8. The Living Room and Sexuality: Lesbian Homes as Political Places Rachael M. Scicluna, University of Kent, UK. 9. Que(e)rying Homonormativity: The Everyday Politics of Lesbian and Gay Homemaking Andrew Gorman-Murray, University of Western Sydney, Australia. Part III: Beyond Home. Introduction: Beyond Home Barbara Penner and Ben Campkin, University College London, UK. 10. Crossing the Domestic Threshold: LGBTQ-Marketed Tradespeople Working in London's Homes Brent Pilkey, University College London, UK. 11. Castle and Cell: Exploring Intersections between Sexuality and Gender in the Domestic Lives of Men with Trans Identities and Histories Laura Marshall, University College London, UK. 12. Relational Persons of the Home: Intimacy, Transgressions and Boundary-Making Narmala Halstead, University of East London, UK. 13. Recreational Sex Not-at-Home: The Atmospheres of Sex Work in Tel Aviv Dana Kaplan, The Open University, Israel. 14. Letters Home Ben Campkin, University College London, UK, and R. Justin Hunt, Syracuse University, London, UK. Index
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    Acton, A.C.T : Australian National University Press
    ISBN: 978-1-76046-133-1 , 978-1-76046-134-8/online
    Language: English
    Pages: xxix, 292 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Pacific Series
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    Keywords: Pazifischer Raum Ozeanien ; Frau ; Materielle Kultur ; Handwerk ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Soziales Leben ; Eigentum ; Reichtum ; Gabe ; Tausch ; Geschlechterforschung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
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    ISBN: 978-1-4742-8332-8 , 978-1-4742-8330-4/epub , 978-1-4742-8331-1/PDF eBook
    Language: English
    Pages: xxi, 227 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    DDC: 306.4/6099612
    Keywords: Südpazifik Tonga-Insel ; Baststoff ; Sachkultur ; Frau ; Kreativität ; Mode ; Materielle Kultur ; Soziale Bedingungen
    Abstract: Tongan barkcloth, made from the inner bark of the paper mulberry tree, still features lavishly in Polynesian ceremonies all over the world. Yet despite the attention paid to this textile by anthropologists and art historians alike, little is known about its history. Providing a unique insight into Polynesian material culture, this book explores barkcloth's rich cultural history, and argues that its manufacture, decoration and use are vehicles of creativity and female agency. Based on twelve years of extensive ethnographic and archival research, the book uncovers stories of ceremony, gender, the senses, religion and nationhood, from the 17th century up to the present-day. Placing the materiality of textiles at the heart of Tongan culture, Veys reveals not only how barkcloth was and continues to be made, but also how it defines what it means to be Tongan. Extending the study to explore the place of barkcloth in the European imagination, she examines international museum collections of Tongan barkcloth, from the UK and Italy to Switzerland and the USA, addressing the bias of the European `gaze' and challenging traditional gendered understandings of the cloth. A nuanced narrative of past and present barkcloth manufacture, designs and use, Unwrapping Tongan Barkcloth demonstrates the importance of the textile to both historical and contemporary Polynesian culture.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction. ENCOUNTERS 2. Awakening European Minds 3. Creating Barkcloth 4. Collecting Barkcloth. CREATIVITY 5. Creativity in Shapes and Forms 6. Between the Cross and the Cloth. FEMALE AGENCY 7. Capturing the `Female Essence'? 8. A Feast for the Senses. 9. Conclusion: Encounters, Creativity and Female Agency. Appendix Glossary Bibliography Index
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    ISBN: 978-1-78699-145-4 , 978-1-78699-146-1
    Language: English
    Pages: XVII, 270 Seiten
    Series Statement: African Arguments
    Keywords: Nigeria Terrorismus ; Gewalt ; Frau ; Opfer ; Chibok ; Fundamentalismus, islamischer ; Konflikt, politischer ; Konflikt ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Boko Haram
    Abstract: For over a decade, Boko Haram has waged a campaign of terror across northeastern Nigeria. In 2014, the kidnapping of 276 girls in Chibok shocked the world, giving rise to the #BringBackOurGirls movement. Yet Boko Haram's campaign of violence against women and girls goes far beyond the Chibok abductions. From its inception, the group has systematically exploited women to advance its aims. Perhaps more disturbing still, some Nigerian women have chosen to become active supporters of the group, even sacrificing their lives as suicide bombers. These events cannot be understood without first acknowledging the long-running marginalisation of women in Nigerian society. Having conducted extensive fieldwork throughout the region, Hilary Matfess provides a vivid and thought-provoking account of Boko Haram's impact on the lives of Nigerian women, as well as the wider social and political context that fuels the group's violence.
    Description / Table of Contents: Glossary and list of acronyms -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Understanding Boko Haram -- 2. Precursors to the insurgency and the sharia debates -- 3. Being a girl in Nigeria and the gender politics of Boko Haram -- 4. Girls as symbols : the Chibok abductions and the silent majority -- 5. Women at war : wives and weapons in the insurgency -- 6. Rescued to what? : displacement, vulnerability, and the dark side of 'heroism' -- 7. The way forward -- 8. Lessons learned : applying best practice to Boko Haram -- Conclusion. Nigeria at a crossroads -- Notes -- References -- Index.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis Seite 249-262
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    ISBN: 978-1-78360-908-6 , 978-1-78360-909-3
    Language: English
    Pages: 250 Seiten
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    Keywords: Afrika Sierra Leone ; Ghana ; Tunesien ; Marokko ; Sudan ; Tansania ; Kenia ; Südafrika ; Frau ; Frauenrecht ; Politik ; Aktivismus ; Soziale Bewegung ; Politische Bewegung ; Feminismus ; Recht ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
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    Sydney : Monash Univ. Publishing
    ISBN: 978-1-925377-04-0
    Language: English
    Pages: 165 Seiten
    Keywords: Menstruation Kulturvergleich ; Frau ; Lebenszyklus ; Religion
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    ISBN: 978-1-942876-07-6
    Language: English
    Keywords: Afrika Afrika, Subsahara ; Geschlechterrolle ; Geschlechterforschung ; Frau ; Frau und Politik ; Frau und Islam ; Frauenforschung ; Mann ; Männlichkeit ; Identität ; Identität, sexuelle
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    ISBN: 978-3-643-90699-1
    Language: English
    Pages: 293 S.
    Series Statement: Ethnologie 63
    Keywords: Großbritannien Chinese ; Migration ; Frau ; Diaspora ; Umsiedlung ; Soziokultureller Kontext ; Politik ; Geschlechterforschung ; Beziehungen, internationale ; China ; Wirtschaft ; Wirtschaftlicher Wandel
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    Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publ.
    ISBN: 978-1-4438-8677-2 , 1-4438-8677-7
    Language: English
    Pages: 305 S.
    Keywords: Simbabwe Musik ; Geschlechterrolle ; Frau ; Identität ; Ethnizität ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Soziales Leben ; Folklore ; Politik
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    Chicago and London : Univ. of Chicago Press
    ISBN: 978-0-226-38988-2 , 978-0-226-38974-5 , 978-0-226-38991-2/ebk
    Language: English
    Pages: XVI, 243 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karte
    Keywords: Deutschland Afrika ; Kamerun ; Identität ; Migration ; Psychologie ; Afrikaner ; Frau ; Mutterschaft ; Integration ; Familie
    Abstract: The massive scale and complexity of international migration today tends to obscure the nuanced ways migrant families seek a sense of belonging. In this book, Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg takes readers back and forth between Cameroon and Germany to explore how migrant mothers through the careful and at times difficult management of relationships juggle belonging in multiple places at once: their new country, their old country, and the diasporic community that bridges them.Feldman-Savelsberg introduces readers to several Cameroonian mothers, each with her own unique history, concerns, and voice. Through scenes of their lives at a hometown association s year-end party, a celebration for a new baby, a visit to the Foreigners Office, and many others as well as the stories they tell one another, Feldman-Savelsberg enlivens our thinking about migrants lives and the networks and repertoires that they draw on to find stability and, ultimately, belonging. Placing women s individual voices within international social contexts, this book unveils new, intimate links between the geographical and the generational as they intersect in the dreams, frustrations, uncertainties, and resolve of strong women holding families together across continents.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 219-237
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    ISBN: 978-3-643-13289-5
    Language: German
    Pages: 152 Seiten.
    Series Statement: Spektrum 113
    Keywords: Algerien Migration ; Frau ; Frau und sozialer Status ; Flüchtling ; Alltag ; Beziehungen Mann-Frau ; Ethnizität ; Identität ; Ethnographie
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    ISBN: 978-2-343-08597-5
    ISSN: 1276-2458
    Language: French
    Pages: 321 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Africultures 103-104
    Keywords: Afrika Theater ; Frau ; Kreativität ; Kunst, afrikanische ; Darstellende Kunst ; Frau und Kunst
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    Cape Town : BestRed
    ISBN: 978-1-92824-612-1
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 12, 266 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: first published
    Keywords: Tansania Massai ; Frau ; Diskriminierung ; Soziales Leben ; Stickerei ; Perlstickerei ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen ; Polygamie ; Sozialer Wandel ; Klimawandel ; Kolonialgeschichte ; Postkolonialismus
    Abstract: In and Out of the Maasai Steppe looks at the Maasai women in the Maasai Steppe of Tanzania. The book explores their current plight - threatened by climate change - in the light of colonial history and post-independence history of land seizures. The book documents the struggles of a group of women to develop new livelihood income through their traditional beadwork. Voices of the women are shared as they talk about how it feels to share their husband with many co-wives, and the book examines gender, their beliefs, social hierarchy, social changes and in particular the interface between the Maasai and colonials.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis Seite 252-261
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    [New Delhi] : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 0-19-945971-1 , 978-0-19-945971-1
    Language: English
    Pages: xviii, 640 Seiten.
    Edition: First edition
    Series Statement: Oxford in India Readings in Sociology and Social Anthropology
    Keywords: Indien Adivasi ; Khasi ; Odisha ; Bhil ; Gond ; Munda ; Landwirtschaft ; Landreform ; Rohstoff ; Vertreibung ; Umsiedlung ; Migration ; Hunger ; Wald ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Identität ; Ethnizität ; Minorität ; Sozialpolitik ; Arbeit ; Schule ; Bildungspolitik ; Kaste ; Kastenwesen ; Beziehungen Indigenes Volk-Regierung ; Soziales Leben ; Frau
    Abstract: A people in need of quick modernization and mainstreaming, or a powerful defense against the advancing march of capitalist growth--these are the two most prominent and stereotypical images of Adivasis in contemporary India, and both do grave injustice to the ground realities. The category Scheduled Tribes, which is purely an administrative category, and does not reflect the immense diversity among the 500 different communities of tribals in India, comprising 8.6 per cent of Indias population, has acquired over a period of time, a distinct political and discursive salience. This collection of essays, divided in three parts, brings together a range of predominantly sociological and anthropological but broadly social science writing that reflects on and illuminates the jungle of dilemmas and conflicts that the scheduled tribes face as they navigate their way through everyday life. It highlights the enormity of social, cultural, linguistic, and politico-economic diversity among the so-called Scheduled Tribes in India, and aims to provide an intellectual platform for an engagement between the scheduled tribes and their India, as also to map the state of current sociological/anthropological writing and debate on the scheduled tribes.
    Note: Literaturangaben; [23 of 26 articles in this book were already included in other books or periolicals]
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    Sydney : Newsouth
    ISBN: 1458791629 , 9781742231204 , 978-1458791627
    Language: English
    Pages: 212 Seiten
    Keywords: Australien Muslime ; Frau ; Islam und Politik ; Islamophobie ; Terrorismus ; Opfer ; Vorurteil
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    Bonn : Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung
    ISBN: 978-3-8389-0690-4
    Language: German
    Pages: 296 Seiten
    Series Statement: Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung 1690
    Keywords: Geschlechterrolle Beziehungen Mann-Frau ; Konflikt ; Arbeit ; Geld ; Mann ; Männlichkeit ; Frau ; Emanzipation, Frau ; Weiblichkeit ; Familie ; Arbeitslosigkeit ; Sexualität
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    Athens : Othio University Press
    ISBN: 978-0-89680-309-1 , 978-0-89680-310-7
    Language: English
    Pages: xix, 311 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: Ohio University Research in International Studies. Africa Series 93
    Keywords: Kenia Kuria ; Mutilation ; Beschneidung ; Frau ; Ritual
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  • 60
    ISBN: 978-1-78491-470-7
    Language: English
    Pages: X, 319 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten, Portraits
    Series Statement: Archaeopress Archaeology
    Uniform Title: La _dame blanche et l'Atlantide
    Keywords: Zimbabwe-Kultur Simbabwe ; Felsbild ; Felsbildforschung ; Felsbild-Stil ; Frau ; Weiße ; Mythenforschung ; Mythisches Wesen ; Maack, Reinhard ; Haggard, Henry Rider ; Khun de Prorok, Byron ; Weyersberg, Maria ; Obermeier, Hugo
    Abstract: This meticulous investigation, based around a famous rock image, the 'White Lady', makes it possible to take stock of the mythical presuppositions that infuse a great deal of scientific research, especially in the case of rock art studies. It also highlights the existence of some surprising bridges between scholarly works and literary or artistic productions (novels, films, comic strips, adventure tales). The examination of the abbe Breuil's archives and correspondence shows that the primary motivation of the work he carried out in southern Africa like that of his pupil Henri Lhote in the Tassili was the search for ancient, vanished 'white' colonies which were established, in prehistory, in the heart of the dark continent. Both Breuil and Lhote found paintings on African rocks that, in their view, depicted 'white women' who were immediately interpreted as goddesses or queens of the ancient kingdoms of which they believed they had found the vestiges. In doing this, they were reviving and nourishing two myths at the same time: that of a Saharan Atlantis for Henri Lhote and, for the abbe, that of the identification of the great ruins of Zimbabwe with the mythical city of Ophir from which, according to the Bible, King Solomon derived his fabulous wealth. With hindsight we can now see very clearly that their theories were merely a clumsy reflection of the ideas of their time, particularly in the colonial context of the Sahara and in the apartheid of South Africa. Without their knowledge, these two scholars' scientific production was used to justify the white presence in Africa, and it was widely manipulated to that end. And yet recent studies have demonstrated that the 'White Lady' who so fascinated the abbe Breuil was in reality neither white nor even a woman. One question remains: if such an interpenetration of science and myth in the service of politics was possible in the mid-20th century, could it happen today?
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 281-317
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    ISBN: 978-93-5195-134-6
    Language: English
    Pages: 219 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published in India
    Keywords: Indien Sport ; Erziehung ; Frau ; Diskriminierung ; Beziehungen Vater-Kind ; Beziehungen zwischen den Generationen ; Dorfgemeinschaft ; Nationalismus ; Phogat, Mahavir Singh ; Phogat, Geeta Kumari (1988- ) ; Phogat, Babita Kumari (1989- )
    Abstract: In 2000, after the Olympic Games closed with much fanfare in Sydney, legendary wrestler Mahavir Singh Phogat watched, dejected and heartbroken, as the prize reserved by his state government for winners of Olympic medals in wrestling was left unclaimed. Determined to never see this instance repeated, Phogat decided to do the unthinkable. Much to his neighbours` curiosity he spent two days digging a pit in his courtyard and asked his young daughters and nieces to join him there at the break of dawn one day. Little did they know that this unusual command from him would change their lives forever.Yet, each of their wins in the ring, every ambition he had for them, came at great personal cost. In the small village of Balali in Haryana, a state infamous for its practice of female foeticide and low literacy rates, Phogat had to battle not just deep social stigma and an apathetic government, but also a disapproving family and personal tragedy, to train the girls in his sport. Due to his efforts, the girls have all gone on to win medals and acclaim at the national and international levels, including at the Olympics and the Commonwealth Games.Akhada tells the remarkable story of a man of tremendous fortitude, of a father who fought against all odds to give his daughters a future they could not have dreamed for themselves.
    Description / Table of Contents: Prologue -- Part 1. Early days -- Part 2. The training years -- Part 3. Excellence -- Epilogue -- Asknowledgements -- Photo credits
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    Lanham, MD : Lexington Books
    ISBN: 978-0-7391-7344-2
    Language: English
    Pages: xiv, 207 S.
    Series Statement: The _Africana Experience and Critical Leadership Studies
    DDC: 297.8/7
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    Keywords: USA Afro-Amerikaner ; Schwarze ; Muslime ; Islam ; Geschlechterforschung ; Frau ; Frau und Islam ; Bildung ; Politik ; Soziologie ; Elijah Muhammad ; Nation of Islam ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Africana Islamic Studies explores the diverse contributions that African Americans have made to the formation of Islam in the United States. Chapter contributors cover a wide range of topics that add to the discourse in areas such as women's studies, education, critical race theory, politics, history, and sociology.
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    New York : Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 978-1-137-52047-0
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 325 Seiten
    Series Statement: Comparative Feminist Studies Series
    Keywords: Nordafrika Arabischer Frühling ; Frau ; Frau und sozialer Status ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Politische Bewegung ; Feminismus ; Emanzipation, Frau ; Frau und Islam ; Bevölkerungsbewegung ; Geschichte
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    New Brunswick, NJ [u.a.] : Rutgers University Press
    ISBN: 978-0-8135-7428-8
    Language: English
    Pages: X, 298 Seiten
    DDC: 305.42
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    Keywords: Feminismus Anthropologie ; Geschlechterforschung ; Frau ; Frau und sozio-ökonomische Rolle ; Frauenforschung ; Frauenrecht ; Frau und sozialer Status ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
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  • 65
    ISBN: 978-93-84082-15-4
    Language: English
    Pages: XIV, 257 Seiten , Illustrationen
    DDC: 305.42095414
    Keywords: Westbengalen Tradition ; Geschlechterforschung ; Frau ; Diskriminierung ; Frau und sozialer Status ; Beziehungen Mann-Frau ; Beziehungen, interethnische ; Distrikt Bankura
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    Cambridge : Polity
    ISBN: 978-0-7456-8788-9 , 0-7456-8788-1 , 978-0-7456-8789-6 , 0-7456-8789-X
    Language: English
    Pages: viii, 219 Seiten.
    Series Statement: Immigration and Society
    Series Statement: Immigration & Society Series 〉 Immigration and Society
    DDC: 304.8/730082
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    Keywords: USA Migration ; Frau ; Geschlechterrolle ; Beziehungen Mann-Frau ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Politik ; Arbeit ; Demographie ; Familie
    Abstract: Gender roles, relations, and ideologies are major aspects of migration. This timely book argues that understanding gender relations is vital to a full and more nuanced explanation of both the causes and the consequences of migration, in the past and at present. Through an exploration of gendered labor markets, laws and policies, and the transnational model of migration, Caroline Brettell tackles a variety of issues such as how gender shapes the roles that men and women play in the construction of immigrant family and community life, debates concerning transnational motherhood, and how gender structures the immigrant experience for men and women more broadly. This book will appeal to students and scholars of immigration, race and ethnicity, and gender studies and offers a definitive guide to the key conceptual issues surrounding gender and migration.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction : engendering the study of immigration -- The gendered demography of U.S. immigration history -- The gendering of law, policy, citizenship, and political practice -- Gendered labor markets -- Gender and the immigrant family -- Concluding thoughts : a gendered theory of migration.
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    Seattle, WA : University of Washington Press
    ISBN: 978-0-295-99531-1 , 0295995319 , 978-0-295-99532-8 , 0295995327
    Language: English
    Pages: XVII, 330 Seiten
    Series Statement: Decolonizing Feminisms
    DDC: 305.4209595
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    Keywords: Asien Malaysia ; Feminismus ; Islam ; Muslime ; Frau ; Recht ; Frau und Islam ; Frau und Religion ; Geschlechterforschung
    Abstract: In recent years, global attention has focused on how women in communities of Muslims are revitalizing Islam by linking interpretation of religious ideas to the protection of rights and freedoms. Humanizing the Sacred demonstrates how Sunni women activists in Malaysia are fracturing institutionalized Islamic authority by generating new understandings of rights and redefining the moral obligations of their community. Based on ethnographic research of Sisters in Islam (SIS), a nongovernmental organization of professional women promoting justice and equality, Basarudin examines SIS members' involvement in the production and transmission of Islamic knowledge to reformulate legal codes and reconceptualize gender discourses. By weaving together women's lived realities, feminist interpretations of Islamic texts, and Malaysian cultural politics, this book illuminates how a localized struggle of claiming rights takes shape within a transnational landscape. It provides a vital understanding of how women "live" Islam through the integration of piety and reason and the implications of women's political activism for the transformation of Islamic tradition itself.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: faith, self, and community -- Islam, the state, and gender: the malaysian experiment -- The politics of the sacred: returning to the fundamentals of Islam -- In the path of the faithful: activism for social and legal reforms -- Who speaks for Islam? Religious authority and contested justice -- Negotiating lives, crafting selves: narratives of belonging -- The local in the transnational: gender justice and feminist solidarities -- Conclusion.
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  • 68
    ISBN: 978-0-8032-8680-1 , 978-0-8032-8694-8 , 978-0-8032-8695-5 , 978-0-8032-8696-2
    Language: English
    Pages: xv, 288 Seiten , 1 Karte
    Series Statement: Expanding Frontiers
    DDC: 305.409667
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    Keywords: Ghana Beschneidung ; Kind ; Frau ; Gesundheit ; Hygiene ; Körper ; Prostitution ; Adoption ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Postkolonialismus ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift
    Abstract: Undesirable Practices examines both the intended and the unintended consequences of "imperial feminism" and British colonial interventions in "undesirable" cultural practices in northern Ghana. Jessica Cammaert addresses the state management of social practices such as female circumcision, nudity, prostitution, and "illicit" adoption as well as the hesitation to impose severe punishments for the slave dealing of females, particularly female children. She examines the gendered power relations and colonial attitudes that targeted women and children spanning pre- and postcolonial periods, the early postindependence years, and post-Nkrumah policies. In particular, Cammaert examines the limits of the male colonial gaze and argues that the power lay not in the gaze itself but in the act of "looking away," a calculated aversion of attention intended to maintain the tribal community and retain control over the movement, sexuality, and labor of women and children. With its examination of broader time periods and topics and its complex analytical arguments, Undesirable Practices makes a valuable contribution to literature in African studies, contemporary advocacy discourse, women and gender studies, and critical postcolonial studies.
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    ISBN: 0-9861325-3-5 , 978-0-9861325-3-7
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xlv, 311 Seiten)
    DDC: 305.3
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    Keywords: Geschlechterrolle Geschlechterforschung ; Feminismus ; Sexualität ; Verhalten, sexuelles ; Frau ; Gleichheit ; Frauenforschung
    Abstract: Written in the early 1970s amidst widespread debate over the causes of gender inequality, Marilyn Strathern s "Before and After Gender" was intended as a widely accessible analysis of gender as a powerful cultural code and sex as a defining mythology. But when the series for which it was written unexpectedly folded, the manuscript went into storage, where it remained for more than four decades. This book finally brings it to light, giving the long-lost feminist work accompanied here by an afterword from Judith Butler an overdue spot in feminist history. Strathern incisively engages some of the leading feminist thinkers of the time, including Shulamith Firestone, Simone de Beauvoir, Ann Oakley, and Kate Millett. Building with characteristic precision toward a bold conclusion in which she argues that we underestimate the materializing grammars of sex and gender at our own peril, she offers a powerful challenge to the intransigent mythologies of sex that still plague contemporary society. The result is a sweeping display of Strathern s vivid critical thought and an important contribution to feminist studies that has gone unpublished for far too long.
    Description / Table of Contents: Original Acknowledgments -- Editorial Note -- Editor`s introduction "The Riddle of Gender" by Sarah Franklin -- Preface "Concepts in Transition" by Marilyn Strathern -- chapter one The Seductive Symbol -- chapter two Stereotypes -- chapter three Families and Housewives -- chapter four The World Outside -- chapter five Dependency -- chapter six Sex and the Concept of the Person -- chapter seven Sex and the Social Order -- Afterword by Judith Butler -- References -- Index of Names
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [303]-307
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    ISBN: 978-1-77258-004-4
    Language: English
    Pages: ix, 317 Seiten , Illustrationen
    DDC: 305.42096
    Keywords: Afrika Ozeanien ; Frau ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Gesundheit ; Medizin ; Hygiene ; Geburt ; Mutterschaft
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    ISBN: 0-9861325-3-5 , 978-0-9861325-3-7
    Language: English
    Pages: xlv, 311 Seiten
    DDC: 305.3
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    Keywords: Geschlechterrolle Geschlechterforschung ; Feminismus ; Sexualität ; Verhalten, sexuelles ; Frau ; Gleichheit ; Frauenforschung
    Abstract: Written in the early 1970s amidst widespread debate over the causes of gender inequality, Marilyn Strathern s "Before and After Gender" was intended as a widely accessible analysis of gender as a powerful cultural code and sex as a defining mythology. But when the series for which it was written unexpectedly folded, the manuscript went into storage, where it remained for more than four decades. This book finally brings it to light, giving the long-lost feminist work accompanied here by an afterword from Judith Butler an overdue spot in feminist history. Strathern incisively engages some of the leading feminist thinkers of the time, including Shulamith Firestone, Simone de Beauvoir, Ann Oakley, and Kate Millett. Building with characteristic precision toward a bold conclusion in which she argues that we underestimate the materializing grammars of sex and gender at our own peril, she offers a powerful challenge to the intransigent mythologies of sex that still plague contemporary society. The result is a sweeping display of Strathern s vivid critical thought and an important contribution to feminist studies that has gone unpublished for far too long.
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    ISBN: 978-0-415-74173-6 , 978-1-315-81511-4/e-book
    Language: English
    Pages: XI, 192 S.
    Series Statement: Routledge Sufi Series
    Keywords: Marokko Sufismus ; Islam ; Frau ; Frau und Islam ; Heilbehandlung ; Ritual, religiöses ; Wallfahrt ; Qadiriya 〈Orden, islam.〉
    Abstract: "The book is a comparative study of the Budshishiyya Order in Morocco and Western Europe. It examines the embodied expressions of Sufism by looking at the ways in which religious discourses are bodily endorsed, by exploring the religious body in movement, in performance and in relation to the social order"--"Exploring the diverse myriad of female religious identities that exist within the various branches of the Moroccan Sufi Order, Qariyya B.Exploring the diverse myriad of female religious identities that exist within the various branches of the Moroccan Sufi Order, Qadiriyya Budshishiyya, today, this book evidences a wide array of religious identities, from those more typical of Berber culture, to those characterised by a 'sober' approach to Sufism, as well as those that denote New Age eclecticism. The book researches the ways in which religious discourses are corporeally endorsed. After providing an overview of the Order historically and today, enunciating the processes by which this local tariqa from North-eastern Morocco has become the international organization that it is now, the book explores the religious body in movement, in performance, and in relation to the social order. It analyses pilgrimage by assessing the annual visit that followers of Hamza Budshish make to the central lodge of the Order in Madagh; it explores bodily religious enactments in ritual performance, by discussing the central practices of Sufi ritual as manifested in the Budshishiyya, and delves attention into diverse understandings of faith healing and health issues. Gender and Sufism provides a detailed insight into religious healing, sufi rituals and sufi pilgrimage, and is essential reading for those seeking to understand Islam in Morocco, or those with an interest in Anthropology and Middle East studies more generally.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1 Introduction 2 A Historical Overview 3 The Budshishiyya Today 4 The Budshishiyya Online 5 Ziyara 6 Ritual 7 Healing 8 Final Caveats
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    ISBN: 978-3-945340-02-8
    Language: German
    Pages: 320 S.
    Keywords: Bosnien und Herzegowina Flucht ; Flüchtling ; Frau ; Erlebnisbericht ; Krise ; Interview ; Hessen
    Note: Zugl.: Frankfurt/Main, Universität, Diss, 2015
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    Minnesota, Minn. : Univ. of Minnesota Press
    ISBN: 978-0-8166-9217-0
    Language: English
    Pages: XVI, 241 S.
    Keywords: Islamische Staaten Republik Niger ; Frau ; Recht ; Bewegung, islamische ; Organisation, internationale ; Politik ; Islam ; Soziale Bewegung
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    Paris, France : UNESCO Publishing
    ISBN: 978-92-3-100115-4
    Language: English
    Pages: 90 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: UNESCO Series on Women in African History
    Keywords: Benin Dahomey ; Frau ; Krieger ; Comic ; Geschichte
    Abstract: A short history of the Women Soldiers of Dahomey, a group of incredible women highlighted in UNESCO's Women in African History series
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  • 76
    ISBN: 978-1-4742-3828-1
    Language: English
    Pages: XXVI 178 S.
    Series Statement: Globalizing Sport Studies
    Keywords: Sport Sozialer Aspekt ; Soziale Bewegung ; Soziale Gerechtigkeit ; Globalisierung ; Freizeit ; Frau ; Popular Culture
    Abstract: From neighborhood coalitions organizing against the building of a sport facility for professional sports teams subsidized by public funds, to global campaigns for equity for women in sport, to worldwide bans of apartheid regimes, sites and levels of protest, resistance and activism have been present throughout the history of sport. Contentious forms of collective actions are now ever more present in various forms at the local, the national and the global levels. Sport and Social Movements: From the Local to the Global is the first book-length treatment of the way social movements have intersected and continue to intersect with sport. It traces the history of various social movements associated with labour, women, peace, the environment and rights (civil, racial, disability and sexual), and their relationship to sport and sports mega-events such as the Olympic Games. Based on research conducted by a multinational team of authors that draws on theories of social movements and new social movements, the book includes a valuable chronology of social movements, illustrations of key episodes in the development of the relationships between sport and different social movements and an agenda for future research and scholarship. Written in a clear and comprehensive style it is suitable for all levels of higher education, researchers and the general reader who want to know more about the role that sport has played in the development of social movements and campaigns for social justice.
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements Contents page List of Tables Chronology List of Acronyms Introduction Chapter 1 Analyzing Sport and (Global) Social Movements Chapter 2 From Workers Sport to Alter Sport and Global Workers Rights Chapter 3 Women's Movements and Sport Chapter 4 Rights Movements and Sport Chapter 5 Sport and the Global Peace Movement Chapter 6 Sport and the Environmental Movement Conclusion References
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    London and New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
    ISBN: 978-1-138-86248-7 , 0-7007-1354-9
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 203 Seiten, 4 Seiten Tafeln , Illustrationen; Musik
    Edition: First publ. 2001 by Curzon Press
    Series Statement: Central Asia Research Forum
    Keywords: Turkmenistan Gesellschaft, traditionelle ; Frau ; Frau und Kunst ; Ehe ; Geschlechterrolle ; Orale Tradition ; Oralität ; Lied ; Poesie ; Lebenszyklus ; Gebet ; Verwandtschaft ; Fauna ; Übergangsritual
    Abstract: This unique study of Turkmen women is based on the findings of interviews in rural and urban areas throughout Turkmenistan and a detailed examination of several hundred folksongs, translated and published for the first time in English. These songs, sung by women at various stages of their lives - childhood, young womanhood, marriage, child-rearing and mourning - express the concerns and dreams of women whose silence and submission have often been deemed more important than their opinions. Created in different tribes, locations and historical eras, the songs have a timeless quality that still resonates with women today. After a brief introduction to the history, geography and people of Turkmenistan, the book considers the varied roles played by women in their families and wider society and the influence of religion and ritual in their lives. In particular, it considers connections between Islam, Zoroastrianism, and the ancient folk beliefs and traditions that still permeate the thinking of many Turkmen women. It describes family relationships and seeks to explain why women seem to have a special love for their daughters but an overwhelming desire to bear sons. The book analyses some widely held images of the Turkmen woman, including the silent bride, the powerful mother-in-law, and the evil woman. Most importantly, it reveals ways in which Turkmen women perceive themselves. The final section of the book contains transcripts and annotated translations of 350 of the songs. The book will be of interest to those working in a wide range of academic disciplines, notably Central Asian studies, women's studies, folklore and anthropology. The Turkmen versions of the songs will be of particular interest to scholars of Turkic language, literature and music. The book will also be of interest to those who have travelled or lived in Turkmenistan.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 184-190 , Texte der Lieder in englischer und turkmenischer Sprache
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    Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. Press
    ISBN: 978-1-107-69697-6
    Language: English
    Pages: 240 S. , Ill., Kt.
    Keywords: Afrika Kamerun ; Kolonie, französisch ; Frankreich ; Geschichte ; Zweiter Weltkrieg ; Freiheit ; Krieger ; Frau
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    ISBN: 978-1-4985-1004-2 , 1-4985-1004-3 , 978-1498-51005-9
    Language: English
    Pages: IX, 206 S.
    Series Statement: Native American Literary Studies
    DDC: 305.800922
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    Keywords: Nordamerika Indianer, Nordamerika ; Frau ; Ethnologe ; Feldforschung ; Orale Tradition ; Erzähltradition ; Biographie ; Biografie ; Biografie
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  • 80
    ISBN: 978-1-4985-0903-9 , 1-4985-0903-7 , 978-1-4985-0904-6
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 214 Seiten , Illustrationen
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    Keywords: Beziehungen Mann-Frau Geschlechterrolle ; Konflikt ; Konflikt, sozialer ; Gewalt ; Kulturvergleich ; Frau ; Familie ; Anthropologie, angewandte ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Applying Anthropology to Gender-Based Violence: Global Responses, Local Practices addresses the gaps in theory, methods, and practices that are currently used to engage the problem of gender-based violence. This book complements the work carried out in the legal, human services, and health fields by demonstrating how a focus on local issues and responses can better inform a collaborative global response to the problem of gender-based violence. With chapters covering Africa, Asia, Latin and North America, and Oceania, the volume illustrates the various ways scholars, practitioners, frontline workers, and policy makers can work together to end violence in their local communities. The chapters in this volume provide ample evidence that top-down responses to violence have been inadequate, and that solutions are available when the local historical, political, and social context is taken into consideration. Applying Anthropology to Gender-Based Violence contains useful insights that, when combined with the efforts of other disciplines, offer solutions to the problem of gender-based violence.
    Description / Table of Contents: Return to the local : lessons for global change / Jennifer R. Wies and Hillary J. Haldane -- Women, embodiment, and domestic violence in northern Vietnam / Lynn Kwiatkowski -- Bureaucratic bindings : refugee resettlement and intimate partner abuse / Elizabeth Wirtz -- Munted : rebuilding community after disaster / Hillary J. Haldane -- Gender-based violence and the state in Guatemala's genocide and beyond / M. Gabriela Torres -- Prostitution diversion programs and structural violence / Yasmina Katsulis -- Sex trafficking of native peoples : history, race, and law / April D.J. Petillo -- Pa manyen fanm nan konsa : understanding violence against women after Haiti's earthquake / Mark Schuller -- Campus sexual violence policies and practices : a holistic and historical approach to research and practice / Jennifer R. Wies -- "I'm a real father now!" : using applied anthropology to promote positive masculinities to reduce family violence in northern Uganda / Rebecka Lundgren and Kimberly Ashburn -- Employing scholar-activist anthropology to counter gender-based intimate partner violence in Belize / Melissa Beske -- Intimate partner violence, social change, and scholar-activism in coastal Ecuador / Karin Friederic.
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    ISBN: 978-3-87997-719-2
    Language: English
    Pages: 550 S. , 8 Seiten mit Farbfotografien
    Series Statement: Studien. Zentrum Moderner Orient 34
    Keywords: Kurdistan Irak ; Kurde ; Frau ; Opfer ; Krieg ; Gewalt ; Krieg und Gesellschaft ; Psychologie ; Krankheit
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  • 82
    ISBN: 978-3-8376-3094-7 , 3-8376-3094-3
    Language: German
    Pages: 238 S.
    Series Statement: Globaler Lokaler Islam
    Keywords: Diskriminierung Schleier ; Frau ; Frau und Religion ; Fremdwahrnehmung ; Rassismus ; Gesellschaft, moderne ; Interview
    Abstract: Die stereotype Stigmatisierung des Kopftuchs ist eine Praxis des antimuslimischen Rassismus!Auf der Basis qualitativer Interviewdaten legt Florian Kreutzer alltägliche Praktiken rassistischer Diskriminierung, des Doing Race and Racial Othering offen - und ebenso die Praktiken und Möglichkeiten des Undoing Race, des Durchkreuzens, Unterlaufens, Überwindens und Ungeschehen-Machens der rassistischen Produktion von Andersheit. Die Erzählungen verschleierter Frauen machen deutlich, dass sie sich in ihrer Art und Weise, Familie und Beruf zu vereinbaren, nicht wesentlich von anderen Frauen unterscheiden. Die rassistische Produktion von Andersheit wird so als eine soziale Praxis und strukturelle Dimension moderner Gesellschaften erkennbar.
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    London [u.a.] : Routledge
    ISBN: 978-1848724471
    Language: English
    Pages: XXIII, 189 S.
    Edition: 2nd ed.
    DDC: 305.42
    Keywords: Schönheit, persönliche Wertvorstellung, ästhetische ; Kritik ; Gesellschaftskritik ; Frau ; Ästhetik ; Körper ; Gesundheit ; Feminismus ; Mode ; Pornographie ; Geschlechterforschung ; Gesellschaft, westliche
    Abstract: The new edition of Beauty and Misogyny revisits and updates Sheila Jeffreys' uncompromising critique of Western beauty practice and the industries and ideologies behind it. Jeffreys argues that beauty practices are not related to individual female choice or creative expression, but represent instead an important aspect of women's oppression. As these practices have become increasingly brutal and pervasive, the need to scrutinize and dismantle them is if anything more urgent now as it was in 2005 when the first edition of the book was published. The United Nations concept of "harmful traditional/cultural practices" provides a useful lens for the author to advance her critique. She makes the case for including Western beauty practices within this definition, examining their role in damaging women's health, creating sexual difference and enforcing female deference. First-wave feminists of the 1970s criticized pervasive beauty regimes such as dieting and depilation, but a later argument took hold that beauty practices were no longer oppressive now that women could "choose" them. In recent years the reality of Western beauty practices has become much more bloody and severe, requiring the breaking of skin and the rearrangement or amputation of body parts. Beauty and Misogyny seeks to make sense of why beauty practices have not only persisted but become more extreme. It examines the pervasive use of makeup, the misogyny of fashion and high-heeled shoes, and looks at the role of pornography in the creation of increasingly popular beauty practices such as breast implants, genital waxing, surgical alteration of the labia and other forms of self-mutilation. The book concludes by considering how a culture of resistance to these practices can be created. A new and thoroughly updated edition of this essential work will appeal to all levels of students and teachers of gender studies, cultural studies and feminist psychology, and to anyone with an interest in feminism, women and beauty, and women's health.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction 1. The 'grip of culture on the body': beauty practices as women's agency or women's subordination 2. Harmful beauty practices and western culture 3. Transfemininity: 'Dressed' men reveal the naked reality of male power 4. Pornochic: prostitution constructs beauty 5. Fashion and Misogyny 6. Making up is hard to do 7. Men's foot and shoe fetishism and the disabling of women 8. Cutting Up Women: beauty practices as self-mutilation by proxy Conclusion: A culture of resistance
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    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
    ISBN: 978-0-226-25304-6
    Language: English
    Pages: XI, 217 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: South Asia Across the Disciplines
    Keywords: Indien Oraon ; Adivasi ; Ethnie, Indien ; Frau ; Kulturwandel ; Ethnologie ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Stammesgesellschaft
    Abstract: In We Were Adivasis, anthropologist Megan Moodie examines the Indian state's relationship to "Scheduled Tribes," or adivasis-historically oppressed groups that are now entitled to affirmative action quotas in educational and political institutions. Through a deep ethnography of the Dhanka in Jaipur, Moodie brings readers inside the creative imaginative work of these long-marginalized tribal communities. She shows how they must simultaneously affirm and refute their tribal status on a range of levels, from domestic interactions to historical representation, by relegating their status to the past: we were adivasis. Moodie takes readers to a diversity of settings, including households, tribal council meetings, and wedding festivals, to reveal the aspirations that are expressed in each. Crucially, she demonstrates how such aspiration and identity-building are strongly gendered, requiring different dispositions of men and women in the pursuit of collective social uplift. The Dhanka strategy for occupying the role of adivasi in urban India comes at a cost: young women must relinquish dreams of education and employment in favor of community-sanctioned marriage and domestic life. Ultimately, We Were Adivasis explores how such groups negotiate their pasts to articulate different visions of a yet uncertain future in the increasingly liberalized world.
    Description / Table of Contents: Who are the Dhanka? -- What it takes -- A good woman -- A traffic in marriage -- Wedding ambivalence -- Of contracts and Kaliyuga -- Conclusion : on collective aspiration.
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  • 85
    ISBN: 978-0-8214-2187-1
    Language: English
    Pages: vii, 406 Seiten
    Series Statement: Indian Ocean Studies Series
    DDC: 305.4096781
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    Keywords: Tansania Swahili-Cluster ; Islam ; Heirat ; Sexualität ; Frau ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Familie ; Muslime ; Religion ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Muslim communities throughout the Indian Ocean have long questioned what it means to be a "good Muslim." Much recent scholarship on Islam in the Indian Ocean considers debates among Muslims about authenticity, authority, and propriety. Despite the centrality of this topic within studies of Indian Ocean, African, and other Muslim communities, little of the existing scholarship has addressed such debates in relation to women, gender, or sexuality. Yet women are deeply involved with ideas about what it means to be a "good Muslim." In Gendered Lives in the Western Indian Ocean, anthropologists, historians, linguists, and gender studies scholars examine Islam, sexuality, gender, and marriage on the Swahili coast and elsewhere in the Indian Ocean. The book examines diverse sites of empowerment, contradiction, and resistance affecting cultural norms, Islam and ideas of Islamic authenticity, gender expectations, ideologies of modernity, and British education. The book's attention to both masculinity and femininity, broad examination of the transnational space of the Swahili coast, and inclusion of research on non-Swahili groups on the East African coast makes it a unique and indispensable resource. Contributors: Nadine Beckmann, Pat Caplan, Corrie Decker, Rebecca Gearhart, Linda Giles, Meghan Halley, Susan Hirsch, Susi Keefe, Kjersti Larsen, Elisabeth McMahon, Erin Stiles, and Katrina Daly Thompson
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Schoolgirls and Women Teachers: Colonial Education and the Shifting Boundaries between Girls and Women in Zanzibar / Corrie Decker -- 2. The Value of a Marriage: Missionaries, Ex-slaves, and the Legal Debates over Marriage in Colonial Pemba Island / Elisabeth McMahon -- 3. Two Weddings in Northern Mafia: Changes in Women's Lives since the 1960s / Pat Caplan -- 4. Pleasure and Danger: Muslim Views on Sex and Gender in Zanzibar / Nadine Beckmann -- 5. Sex and School on the Southern Swahili Coast: Adolescent Sexuality in the Context of Expanding Education in Rural Mtwara, Tanzania / Meghan Halley -- 6. Learning to Use Swahili Profanity and Sacred Speech: The Embodied Socialization of a Muslim Bride in Zanzibar Town / Katrina Daly Thompson -- 7. Pleasure and Prohibitions: Reflections on Gender, Knowledge, and Sexuality in Zanzibar Town / Kjersti Larsen -- 8. Unsuitable Husbands: Allegations of Impotence in Zanzibari Divorce Suits / Erin E. Stiles -- 9. Forming and Performing Swahili Manhood: Wedding Rituals of a Groom in Lamu Town / Rebecca Gearhart -- 10. Spirit Possession and Masculinity in Swahili Society / Linda L. Giles -- 11. Being a Good Muslim Man: Modern Aspirations and Polygynous Intentions in a Swahili Muslim Village / Susi Krehbiel Keefe -- Afterword: Understanding Gendered Lives through Intimate and Global Perspectives / Susan F. Hirsch -- Glossary -- References -- Contributors -- Index.
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  • 86
    ISBN: 978-3-447-10512-5
    Language: English
    Pages: 199 Seiten
    Series Statement: Studies on Islamic Cultural and Intellectual History Volume 1
    Keywords: Deutschland Indonesien ; Islam ; Frau ; Frauenrecht ; Bürgerrecht ; Recht ; Recht, islamisches ; Wahrnehmung ; Frau und Islam ; Geschlechterforschung
    Description / Table of Contents: The concept of sharia in the Qur'an and its relevance with gender discourse -- Gender, the problem of patriarchy and ma?la?a in Indonesian Islam : from fiqh al-'abawi to fiqh al-nisa' -- Gender as a social regime in the Islamic context : a case study of the Muhammadiyah -- Indonesian tafsir on polygamy, qawwam and nushuz : the examples of Hamka and Quraish Shibab -- Debating gender, women, and Islam : Indonesia's marriage law of 1974 revisited -- Apostasy as grounds in divorce cases and child custody disputes in Indonesia -- Fatwa of the Indonesian Council of Ulama (MUI) on Ahamdiyah and its impact on women and children -- Participation, legal discourse and constitutional rights : the 'Allah' issue in Malaysia -- Translational turn and international law : gender discourses in the Islamic Republic of Iran -- Personal status law in Lebanon -- Post-marriage law and public policy : some remarks on how German courts deal with Islamic rules on divorce -- Religiosity in medical law of the secular modern age
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    Farnham [u.a.] : Ashgate
    ISBN: 978-1-4724-1452-6
    Language: English
    Pages: XV, 392 S.
    DDC: 305.3091767
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    Keywords: Geschlechterrolle Islam ; Geschlechterforschung ; Sexualität ; Männlichkeit ; Mann ; Vaterschaft ; Feminismus ; Frau ; Frau und Islam ; Beschneidung ; Mutilation ; Literatur ; Asien ; Mittlerer Osten ; Türkei ; Ägypten ; Pakistan ; Syrien ; Iran ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: A must-read for anyone interested in Muslim cultures, this volume not only explores Muslim identities through the lens of sexuality and gender - their historical and contemporary transformations and local and global articulations - but also interrogates our understanding of what constitutes a 'Muslim' identity in selected Muslim-majority countries at this pivotal historical moment, characterized by transformative destabilizations in which national, ethnic, and religious boundaries are being re-imagined and re-made. Contributors take on the most fundamental questions at the intersections of gender, sexuality, and the body. Several overarching questions frame the volume: How does studying gender and sexuality expand and enrich our understanding of Muslim-majority countries, historically and at present? How does the embodiment of 'Muslim' identity get reconfigured in the context of twenty-first-century globalism? What analytical questions are raised about 'Islam' when its diverse meanings and multifaceted expressions are closely examined? What roles do gender and sexuality play in the construction of cultural, religious, nationalistic, communal, and militaristic identities? How have power struggles been signified in and on the bodies of women and sexuality? How have global dynamics, such as the intensification and spread of neoliberal ideologies and policies, affected changing dynamics of gender and sexuality in specific locales? Here global dynamics touch down in diverse contexts, from masculinity crises around war disabilities, transnational marriages, and fathering in Turkey, Egypt, and Pakistan; to Muslim femininity narratives around female genital cutting, sexuality in divorce proceedings, and spouse selection; to gender crossing practices as well as protesting bodies, queering voices, and claims of authenticity in literary and political discourse. This book brings exciting research on these and other topics together in one place, allowing the essays to speak to one another across time, cultural locales, and disciplines, and enables the reader to engage the volume in comparative and cross-disciplinary fashion. Review: 'This is a welcome collection on sexualities and gender ideologies in Muslim majority contexts by established and emerging scholars. It fills a scholarly gap on body-focused regulations, intimacies, masculinities, and queerness. Authors focus on the "crises" produced when everyday forms of sociality challenge dominant sexual and gender ideologies and regulatory practices. This is a fresh and teachable text.' Frances S. Hasso, Duke University, USA
    Description / Table of Contents: Foreword, Deniz Kandiyoti; Introduction, Gul Ozyegin. Part 1 Challenged Masculinities: In vitro nationalism: masculinity, disability, and assisted reproduction in war-torn Turkey, Salih Can AcA+-ksoz; Challenged masculinities: sexuality, a /Urfi marriage, and the state in Dahab, Egypt, Mustafa Abdalla; Of migration, marriage, and men: rethinking the masculinity of transnational husbands from rural Pakistan, Aisha Anees Malik; 'Men are less manly, women are more feminine': the shopping mall as a site for gender crisis in Istanbul, Cenk Ozbay; Between ideals and enactments: the experience of 'new fatherhood' among middle-class men in Turkey, Fatma Umut BeAYpA+-nar; The Janissaries and their bedfellows: masculinity and male friendship in eighteenth-century Ottoman Istanbul, Serkan Delice. Part 2 Producing Muslim Femininities, Sexualities, and Gender Relations: The continuous making of pure womanhood among Muslim women in Cairo: cooking, depilating, and circumcising, Maria Frederika Malmstrom; Introduction to 'In conversation on female genital cutting': a pedagogical perspective, Victoria A. Castillo; In conversation on female genital cutting, Goran A. Sabir Zangana, Maria Frederika Malmstrom and Faith Barton; 'I've had to be the man in this marriage': claims about gender roles and sexual practices during judicial divorce cases in Damascus Shari'a Court One in 2005-2006, Jessica Carlisle; Negotiating courtship practices and redefining tradition: discourses of urban, Syrian youth, Lindsey A. Conklin and Sandra Nasser El-Dine. Part 3 Mahrem, the Gaze, and Intimate Gender and Sexual Crossings: Identity in alterity: burqa and madrassah education in Pakistan, Saadia Abid; The daring mahrem: changing dynamics of public sexuality in Turkey, Sertac Sehlikoglu; Sexing the hammam: gender crossings in the Ottoman bathhouse, Elyse Semerdjian. Part 4 The Desiring, Protesting Body and Muslim Authenticity in Fiction and Political Discourses: Women's writing in the land of prohibitions: a study of Alifa Rifaat and female body protest as a tool for rebellion, Miral Mahgoub Al-Tahawy; Rewriting the body in the novels of contemporary Syrian women writers, Martina Censi; The virgin trials: piety, femininity, and authenticity in Muslim brotherhood discourse, Sherine Hafez. Part 5 Re-theorizing Iranian Diaspora and 'Islamic Feminism' in Iran: Can the secular Iranian women's activist speak?: caught between political power and the 'Islamic feminist', Leila Mouri and Kristin Soraya Batmanghelichi; Queering the 'Iranian' and the 'diaspora' of the Iranian diaspora, Farhang Rouhani. Index.
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    Athens, Ohio : Ohio Univ. Press
    ISBN: 978-0-8214-2144-4 , 978-0-8214-2145-1
    Language: English
    Pages: XIV, 239 S. , Ill., Kt.
    Series Statement: New African Histories
    DDC: 306.810966230904
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    Keywords: Mali Heirat ; Geschichte ; Kolonie ; Kolonie, französisch ; Frau ; Frauenrecht ; Recht ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Kolonialgeschichte ; Kolonialpolitik ; Kolonialismus
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  • 89
    ISBN: 3-643-90605-6 , 978-3-643-90605-2
    Language: English
    Pages: 140 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Iranian Studies (Wien) Vol. 1
    DDC: 305.48697
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    Keywords: Iran Islam ; Frau ; Frau und Islam ; Ritual ; Volksglaube ; Soziales Leben ; Tagungsbericht ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift 2007 ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift 2007 ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift 2007 ; Kongress
    Abstract: In this volume the authors present and discuss different aspects of their field research and experience in regard to women's rituals and devotional practices. One of the main aims of this book is to broaden our understanding of women's devotional lives, as well as calling attention to its relation to general social change. Most of the contributions are based on field research, direct observation and participation in rituals. This gives the reader a unique opportunity to better understand methodological challenges related to gender issues and field research among Muslim communities. (Verlagsangabe)
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Reenacting the past, negotiating the present : Arus-i Qonraysh ritual of Iranian women / Sabine Kalinock -- Sofrih and walima : food as ritual in the Islamic Republic of Iran / Faegheh Shirazi -- Gageriveh, Bakhtiari women's lamentation : between self-suffering and tribal identity / Pedram Khosronejad -- Healing rituals among female Turkmans of Iran / Manijeh Maghsudi -- Feelings, funerals and female Muslim-Hui in southwest Shandong China / Su Min -- Methodological implications of the researcher's gender and religion : reflections on fieldwork with Sufi women in Istanbul / Anna Neubauer -- Women transferring Shia rituals in western Migrancy / Ingvild Flaskerud -- Index
    Note: "international workshop on Women, Rituals and Ceremonies in the Contemporary Muslim Communities and Islamic World in Monte Verità (Ascona, Switzerland) between 8-10 Juni 2007" (Seite 2)Enthält 7 Beiträge
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  • 90
    ISBN: 978-3-8376-2296-6
    Language: German
    Pages: 264 S. , Ill., graph. Darst
    Series Statement: Kultur und Soziale Praxis
    Keywords: Deutschland Kurde ; Frau ; Flüchtling ; Türkei ; Widerstand ; Politik ; Autobiographie ; Gewalt ; Opfer
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  • 91
    Language: English
    Pages: 544 S.
    Edition: whole6.pdf
    Keywords: Asien Indigenität ; Frau ; Mission
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  • 92
    ISBN: 978-90-04-27692-5
    Language: English
    Pages: XIII, 200 S.
    Series Statement: Studies in Global Social History 16
    Series Statement: Studies in Global Migration History 16
    Keywords: Niederlande Italien ; Haushalt ; Migration ; Kolonie ; Frau ; Frau und sozialer Status ; Schwarze
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  • 93
    ISBN: 978-1-4725-6925-7
    Language: English
    Pages: XXIII, 255 S.
    Keywords: Stillen Mutterschaft ; Ethnologie ; Frau ; Frau und sozialer Status ; Ethnographie ; Kulturvergleich ; Soziale Bedingungen
    Abstract: "Studies of breastfeeding have proliferated over the last decade. Breastfeeding is an intimate and deep-rooted bodily practice and yet also a highly controversial sociocultural process, invoking strong reactions from advocates and opponents. Whilst breastfeeding practices and experiences vary greatly in different parts of the world, reducing infant mortality is a pressing international goal for governments and societies. Representing cross-cultural concerns of researchers, policy-makers and mothers, this important book takes a rich ethnographic survey of breastfeeding all over the world. Breastfeeding is shown to highlight various links between gender, power and resources in culture. Each chapter covers a new topic and ethnic or national group, and major topical themes of research such as the rise of milk banks, mother-to-mother sharing networks facilitated by social media, breast milk and HIV are explored"--Breastfeeding is an intimate and deeply-rooted bodily practice, as well as a highly controversial sociocultural process which invokes strong reactions from advocates and opponents. Touching on a wide range of issues such as reproduction, sexuality, power and resources, and maternal and infant health, the controversies and cultural complexities underlying breastfeeding are immense. Ethnographies of Breastfeeding features the latest research on the topic. Some of the leading scholars in the field explore variations in breastfeeding practices from around the world. Based on empirical work in areas such as Brazil, West Africa, Darfur, Ireland, Italy, France, the UK and the US, they examine the cross-cultural challenges facing mothers feeding their infants. Reframing the traditional nature/culture debate, the book moves beyond existing approaches to consider themes such as surrogacy, the risk of milk banks, mother-to-mother sharing networks facilitated by social media, and the increasing bio-medicalization of breast milk, which is leading its transformation from process to product. A highly important contribution to global debates on breast milk and breastfeeding.
    Description / Table of Contents: Notes on Contributors Foreword Penny Van Esterik, York University, Canada Introduction Tanya Cassidy and Abdullahi El Tom, both of National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland 1. The Embodied Experience of Breastfeeding and the Product/Process Dichotomy in S o Paolo, Brazil Alanna E. F. Rudzik, Durham University, UK 2. Demedicalizing Breast Milk: The Discourses, Practices and Identities of Informal Milk Sharing Aunchalee Palmquist, Elon University, USA 3. Historical Ethnography and the Meanings of Human Milk in Ireland Tanya Cassidy, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland 4. Between 'le corps maternel et le corps rotique': Exploring Women's Experiences of Breastfeeding and Expressing in the UK and France Charlotte Faircloth, University of Kent, UK 5. The Naturalist Discourse Surrounding Breastfeeding among French Mothers Gervaise Debucquet, Audencia Nantes School of Management, France, and Val rie Adt, L'Institut Interdisciplinaire du Contemporain, France 6. 'Who knows if one day, in the future, they will get married...?': Considerations about Breast Milk, Migration and Milk Banking in Italy Rossella Cevese, Universit degli Studi di Verona, Italy 7. Religion, Wet-nursing and Laying the Ground for Breast Milk Banking in Darfur, Sudan Abdullahi El Tom, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland 8. Between Proscription and Control of Breastfeeding in West Africa: Women's Strategies Regarding Prevention of HIV Transmission Alice Desclaux and Chiara Alfieri, both of Universit d'Aix-Marseille, France 9. 'Impersonal Perspectives' on Public Health Guidelines on Infant Feeding and HIV in Malawi Anne Matthews, Dublin City University, Ireland 10. Breast Feeding and Bonding: Issues and Dilemmas in Surrogacy Sunita Reddy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India, Tulsi Patel, University of Delhi, India, Birgitte Bruun Nielsen, Aarhus University, Denmark, and Malene Tanderup, Aarhus University, Denmark 11. Breast Milk Donation as Care Work Katherine Carroll, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia 12. Women and Children First?: Gender, Power and Resources, and Their Implications Vanessa Maher, University of Verona, Italy Bibliography Index
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  • 94
    ISBN: 978-0-8214-2089-8 , 0-8214-2089-5 , 978-0-8214-4487-0
    Language: English
    Pages: xxi, 328 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: New African Histories
    Keywords: Deutsch-Ostafrika Kolonie, deutsch ; Kolonialismus ; Kolonialgeschichte ; Imperialismus ; Afrikaner ; Krieger ; Kolonialtruppe ; Maji-Maji ; Frau ; Lettow-Vorbeck, Paul von [Leben und Werk] ; Wissmann, Hermann von [Leben und Werk]
    Abstract: The askari, African soldiers recruited in the 1890s to fill the ranks of the German East African colonial army, occupy a unique space at the intersection of East African history, German colonial history, and military history. Violent Intermediaries recovers and reconsiders the origin and role of these men, and of colonial soldiers more generally. Lauded by Germans for their loyalty during the East Africa campaign of World War I, but reviled by Tanzanians for the violence they committed during the making of the colonial state between 1890 and 1918, the askari have been poorly understood as historical agents. Violent Intermediaries situates them in their everyday household, community, military, and constabulary contexts, as men who helped make colonialism in German East Africa. By linking microhistories with wider nineteenth-century African historical processes, Michelle Moyd shows that the construction of the German East African colonial army resulted from convergences and collisions among differing conceptions of masculinity, radical reconfigurations of socioeconomic, political, and military structures, and European imperial incursions. As soldiers and colonial intermediaries, the askari built the colonial state while simultaneously carving out paths to respectability, becoming men of influence within their local contexts. Yet their positions as clients of German officer-patrons also exposed their dependency on a particular political order, which in the case of German East Africa proved ephemeral. Through its focus on the making of empire from the ground up, Violent Intermediaries offers a fresh perspective on African colonial troops as state-making agents and critiques the mythologies surrounding the askari by focusing on the nature of colonial violence.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations --Preface --Acknowledgments --A Note on Spellings, Currency, and Measurements --Introduction: Reconstructing Askari Realities -- Chapter 1. Becoming Askari Narratives of Early Schutztruppe Recruitment in Context -- Chapter 2. Making Askari Ways of War Military Training and Socialization -- Chapter 3. The Askari Way of War -- Chapter 4. Station Life -- Chapter 5. Askari as Agents of Everyday Colonialism -- Conclusion: Making Askari Myths -- Chronology -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 289-322
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    London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
    ISBN: 978-1-138-86999-8 , 978-0-710-30599-2 , 0-7103-0599-0
    Language: English
    Pages: VII, 203 Seiten
    Edition: First issued in paperback
    Keywords: Iran Islam ; Muslime ; Frau ; Frau und Islam ; Frau und Religion ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Schia ; Geschlechterrolle ; Alltag ; Wallfahrt ; Schleier ; Ritual ; Geschichte
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgments; 1.Inrroduction; At my father's home; The religious life of women; Islamic knowledge: text or practice; 2. Female religious meeting: rowzeh-e zananeh; Inrroduction; The structure and organisation of women's religious meetings; Going to rowzeh; The symbolic construction of home Islamic rituals; Network of religious friendship and sisterhood: ham-jales'i; Conclusion; 3.Ritual exchanges and morality; Inrroduction; Shi'i cosmology and food feast; Conclusion; 4.The female preacher; Inrroduction; The girls' religious schoolThe female preachersBecoming a preacher; Dissemination of Islamic knowledge and learning; The economic position of the female preachers; Conclusion; 5.The concept of martyrs and its symbolic application; Political nature of Islamic rituals; Conclusion; 6.The passage of the dead; Female mortuary rituals: from death to burial; Conclusion; 7.Women making the pilgrimage; The local and international shrines; Gender dynamics of pilgrimage; Conclusion; 8.Reproduction of the Islamic social order and disorder; Introduction; Ethical and political aspects of Islamic ritualsQur'anic commentary and religious lessonsWomen's prayer lessons; Political content of prayers; Conclusion; 9. Hejab: Islamic modesty and veiling; Introduction: hejab as discourse; Veiling, modernisation and revolution; Veiling in the Islamic state; Modesty and sexual taboos; Hejab as a strategic behaviour; Conclusion; 10.Family management in the context of change; Introduction; Household management: micro-macro economics and ideological concerns; Life of lower- and middle-class families; Open market and petty trading; Households and families with more capital: economic mobility; Conclusion11. Conclusion: Women, Islam, and ritualGlossary; Bibliography; Author Index; Subject Index
    Note: Dissertation, Universtiät Bergen, 1996
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    London and New York : Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
    ISBN: 978-0-415-61773-4 , 978-0-203-80758-3/ebook
    Language: English
    Pages: XIV, 236 Seiten
    Edition: First issued in paperback
    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics 37
    Keywords: Arabische Staaten Jemen ; Syrien ; Kuwait ; Frau ; Frau und Islam ; Diskriminierung ; Recht ; Recht, islamisches ; Sozialer Status ; Soziale Bedingungen
    Abstract: Researchers studying gender politics in Arab societies have been puzzled by a phenomenon common in many Arab states - while women are granted suffrage rights, they are often discriminated against by the state in their private lives. This book addresses this phenomenon, maintaining that the Arab state functions according to a certain 'logic' and 'patterns' which have direct consequences on its gender policies, in both the public and private spheres. Using the features of the Arab Authoritarian state as a basis for a theoretical framework of analysis, the author draws on detailed fieldwork and first-hand interviews to study women's rights in three countries - Yemen, Syria, and Kuwait. She argues that the puzzle may be resolved once we focus on the features of the Arab state, and its stage of development. Offering a new approach to the study of gender and politics in Arab states, this book will be of great interest to scholars and students of gender studies, international politics and Middle East studies.
    Description / Table of Contents: Part 1: Theoretical Framework 1. Suffrage Rights vs Personal Status Rights in Arab States 2. State and Gender Politics in Comparative Politics and Middle Eastern Studies 3. The Arab Authoritarian State and Women's Rights: A Framework for Analysis Part 2: Arab State Formation, Social Fragmentation and Gender Politics 4. State Formation in the Pre-Independence Periods 5. Family Laws and Suffrage Rights in the Pre-Independence Periods Part 3: The Arab Authoritarian State and Women's Rights 6. Features of the Post-Colonial Arab Authoritarian State and Gender Politics: An Approach 7. First Case Study: Yemen 8. Second Case Study: Kuwait 9. Third Case Study: Syria 10. Conclusion
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    New York, NY : Routledge
    ISBN: 978-1-138-82154-5
    Language: English
    Pages: 308 S.
    Keywords: Beziehungen Afrika-Amerika Schwarze ; Rasse ; Rassismus ; Frau ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Popular Culture ; Sexualität ; Identität ; Kultur
    Abstract: In the critical essays collected in Black Looks, bell hooks interrogates old narratives and argues for alternative ways to look at blackness, black subjectivity, and whiteness. Her focus is on spectatorship-in particular, the way blackness and black people are experienced in literature, music, television, and especially film-and her aim is to create a radical intervention into the way we talk about race and representation. As she describes: "the essays in Black Looks are meant to challenge and unsettle, to disrupt and subvert."In the critical essays collected in Black Looks, bell hooks interrogates old narratives and argues for alternative ways to look at blackness, black subjectivity, and whiteness. Her focus is on spectatorship-in particular, the way blackness and black people are experienced in literature, music, television, and especially film-and her aim is to create a radical intervention into the way we talk about race and representation. As she describes: "the essays in Black Looks are meant to challenge and unsettle, to disrupt and subvert." As students, scholars, activists, intellectuals, and any other readers who have engaged with the book since its original release in 1992 can attest, that's exactly what these pieces do.
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; preface to the new edition; introduction revolutionary attitude; 1. loving blackness as political resistance; 2. eating the other desire and resistance; 3. revolutionary black women making ourselves subject; 4. selling hot pussy representations of black female sexuality in the cultural marketplace; 5. a feminist challenge must we call every woman sister?; 6. reconstructing black masculinity; 7. the oppositional gaze black female spectators; 8. micheaux's films celebrating blackness; 9. is paris burning? 10. madonna plantation mistress or soul sister?11. representations of whiteness in the black imagination; 12. revolutionary "renegades" native americans, african americans, and black indians; selected bibliography.
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  • 98
    Language: German
    Pages: 130 S.
    Keywords: Westsahara Haushalt ; Frau ; Flüchtling ; Identität ; Alltag ; Mobilität ; Hochschulschrift
    Note: Frankfurt, Univ., Mag.-Arb., 2014
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  • 99
    ISBN: 978-0-19-809545-3 , 0-19-809545-7
    Language: English
    Pages: XIII, 295 Seiten , Karten
    Edition: first edition
    Keywords: Indien Süd-Indien ; Tamil Nadu ; Unberührbarer ; Frau ; Frau und sozialer Status ; Frau und sozio-ökonomische Rolle ; Frau und wirtschaftliche Rolle ; Menschenrecht ; Aktivismus ; Feminismus ; Soziale Bewegung ; Recht ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen ; Soziale Bedingungen
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis Seite 255-284
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    Princeton, NJ : Markus Wiener Publishers
    ISBN: 978-1-55876-576-4
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 359 S. , Ill.
    Keywords: Afrika Südafrika ; Frau ; Entwicklung ; Geschichte ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Imperialismus ; Krieg
    Abstract: This is a survey of the roles women have played in Africa south of the Sahara, from the Queen of Sheba in Ethiopia to the present-day presidents of Liberia and Malawi. Romero discusses education and religion; the occult and power; diseases and treatment; women and war; and women's increasing presence on the political stage, including their roles as environmental activists. Drawing on the latest research, the book comprises documents, travellers' accounts, and case studies in its coverage of pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial Africa.
    Description / Table of Contents: Pre-colonial queens and powerful women -- At the Cape of Good Hope : European interactions with the Khoe/San -- Women and slavery -- Transitioning -- The South African body: defiled, devastated, and destroyed -- Women and colonialism in Africa -- Women and war : protests to activism -- Post-independence : conflict and health -- The march of the women.
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