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A cultural history of women in the age of enlightenment
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- Pollak, Ellen > (ed.)
A cultural history of women in the age of enlightenment
This publication examines the ways in which women in differing national and social contexts negotiated the cultural terrain of emergent modernity. The volume presents essays on women's life cycle, bodies and sexuality, religion and popular beliefs, medicine and disease, public and private realms, education and work, power, and artistic representation.- Creator
- Pollak, Ellen > (ed.)
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Toward an intellectual history of black women
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- Bay, Mia > (ed.)
- Griffin, Farah J. > (ed.)
- Jones, Martha S. > (ed.)
- [et al.]
Toward an intellectual history of black women
This collection of essays by fifteen scholars of history and literature establishes black women's places in intellectual history by engaging the work of writers, educators, activists, religious leaders, and social reformers in the United States, Africa, and the Caribbean. The result is a volume that addresses topics ranging from religion and slavery to the politicized and gendered reappraisal of the black female body in contemporary culture. Contributors are Mia E. Bay, Judith Byfield, Alexandra Cornelius, Thadious Davis, Corinne T. Field, Arlette Frund, Kaiama L. Glover, Farah J. Griffin, Martha S. Jones, Natasha Lightfoot, Sherie Randolph, Barbara D. Savage, Jon Sensbach, Maboula Soumahoro, and Cheryl Wall.- Creator
- Bay, Mia > (ed.)
- Griffin, Farah J. > (ed.)
- Jones, Martha S. > (ed.)
- [et al.]
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The material culture of sex, procreation, and marriage in premodern Europe
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- McClapan, Anne L. > (ed.)
- Encarnacion, Karen Rosoff > (ed.)
The material culture of sex, procreation, and marriage in premodern Europe
This collection of essays examines the wide range of objects that surrounded sexual activity in premodern Europe.- Creator
- McClapan, Anne L. > (ed.)
- Encarnacion, Karen Rosoff > (ed.)
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Women and gender in contemporary Chinese societies
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- Du, Shanshan > (ed.)
- Chen, Ya-chen > (ed.)
- [et al.]
Women and gender in contemporary Chinese societies
In this volume the contributors try to bridge the gap between understanding the majority Han and ethnic minorities in regard to women and gender in contemporary Chinese societies. The first section focuses on gender traditions among ethnic minorities which compete with the norms of Han patriarchy. The second section emphasizes the impact of radical social transformation on gender systems and practices among both Han and ethnic minorities. The third section underscores socio-cultural diversity and complexity in resistance to Han patriarchal norms from a broad perspective.- Creator
- Du, Shanshan > (ed.)
- Chen, Ya-chen > (ed.)
- [et al.]
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Off with her head!
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- Eilberg-Schwartz, Howard > (ed.)
- Doniger, Wendy > (ed.)
Off with her head!
Description of how women's heads are represented in religions and cultures. The contributors argue that the objectification of women as sexual and reproductive bodies results in their symbolic beheading. They explore how similar treatments of the female head find their articulation in diverse religious traditions and cultures: in Hindu myths of beheading, in Buddhist and Tantric practices and poetry about the hair of female nuns, in the symbolic language of women's hair in ancient Greece, in the resistance to veiling by early Christian women at Corinth, in contemporary veiling practices in a Turkish village, in the eroticization of the female mouth in ancient Judaism, and in Greek and Roman cosmetic practices.- Creator
- Eilberg-Schwartz, Howard > (ed.)
- Doniger, Wendy > (ed.)
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Women's rights
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- Lockwood, Bert B. > (ed.)
Women's rights
This interdisciplinary collection from the Human Rights Quarterly brings together nineteen articles written on women's human rights. This reader focuses specifically on the challenges that women face and the efforts by individuals and organizations alike to ensure the protection of women under international law. The articles are organized into five sections that discuss the history and evolution of women's human rights, religion, violence, economic rights, and reproductive rights. The essays address such topics as the rights of women in the Middle East, rape camps in the former Yugoslavia, and abortion law in Ireland.- Creator
- Lockwood, Bert B. > (ed.)
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Jewish intellectual women in Central Europe 1860-2000
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- Szapor, Judith > (ed.)
- Petö, Andrea > (ed.)
- Hametz, Maura > (ed.)
- Calloni, Marina > (ed.)
- Meyer, Imke > (forew.)
Jewish intellectual women in Central Europe 1860-2000
The essays collected in this volume show the complex lives and identities of Central European Jewish women, born between 1860 and the early 20th century. Their Jewishness was more often identified with culture or community rather than ritual or religion. Most traveled around Europe and fled Europe during the time of the Nazi persecution.- Creator
- Szapor, Judith > (ed.)
- Petö, Andrea > (ed.)
- Hametz, Maura > (ed.)
- Calloni, Marina > (ed.)
- Meyer, Imke > (forew.)
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Communities of women in Assam
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- Dutta, Nandana > (ed.)
Communities of women in Assam
This book uses communities of women as a framework for reading women’s experience, rights and aspirations in Assam and Northeast India. It explores the varying roles played by such communities in the formation of society, the emergence of a women’s public sphere and the representation of these communities in culture. The essays in the volume study a host of women’s communities including the Mahila Samiti, Jain women’s organisations, Lekhika Sanstha, lesbian communities, religious gatherings, scientific and environmental groups, women’s collaborations through cookbooks, as well as nebulous communities of victims of persecution. They examine how women’s communities are both empowering and transformational but may paradoxically also be regressive and static. Table of Contents: Part 1: Society: 1. ‘Great Sensation in Guwahati’: Mini’s marriage, Assam Mahila Samiti and the Sarda Act in late colonial Assam / Hemjyoti Medhi: 2. Witch-hunting and resistance to the formation of women’s community / Anjali Daimari: 3. Participation in and access to the public ‘sacred’ space: sisterhood and the Naamghar in Assam / Juanita Kakoty: 4. Questions of space, autonomy and identity: a study of the communities of Jain women in Dibrugarh / Payal Jain: 5. Lesbian women and the politics of community formation: changing discourses on citizenship / Poonam Kakoti Borah. Part II: Culture : 6. Media representing women - women in the media : exploring possibilities of community / Asha Kuthari Chaudhuri: 7. Woman Writing Woman: a study of Pushpalata Das’ ‘Agnisnata Chandraprava’: 8. The Assam Lekhika Sanstha: A community of Women Writers / Dolikajyoti Sharma: 9. Nature, Science and women’s community /Sutopa Raichaudhury: 10. Women, community and the material culture of food / Uttara Debi.- Creator
- Dutta, Nandana > (ed.)
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Gendered encounters
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- Grosz-Ngate, Maria > (ed.)
- Kokole, Omari H. > (ed.)
Gendered encounters
Onderzoek naar de veranderende positie van vrouwen in Afrika, met aandacht voor de historische ontwikkeling in de 19e en 20e eeuw, de slavernij, de diaspora, de urbanisatie, religie en gender, migratie en seksindustrie.- Creator
- Grosz-Ngate, Maria > (ed.)
- Kokole, Omari H. > (ed.)
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Masculinity and femininity
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- Hofstede, Geert
- [et al.]
Masculinity and femininity
Bundel essays over mannelijkheid en vrouwelijkheid als componenten van de vorming van nationale cultuur. Bevat de volgende bijdragen: Masculinity/Femininity as a dimension of culture / door Geert Hofstede: Validating the masculinity/femininity dimension on elites from 19 countries / door Michael H. Hoppe: Femininity and subjective well-being / door Willem A. Arrindell: Masculinity/femininity and consumer behavior / door Marieke de Mooij: The cultural construction of gender / door Geert Hofstede: Masculinity and femininity in the self and ideal self descriptions of university students in 14 countries / door Deborah L. Best en John E. Williams: Gender role gaps, competitiveness, and temperature / door Evert van de Vliert: Why children play: American versus Dutch boys and girls / door Jacques H.A. van Rossum: Femininity shock: American students in the Netherlands / door Mieke Vunderink en Geert Hofstede: Comparative studies of sexual behavior: sex as achievement or as relationship / door Geert Hofstede: The importance of femininity in explaining cross-national differences in secularization / door Johan Verweij: Religion, masculinity, and sex / door Geert Hofstede.- Creator
- Hofstede, Geert
- [et al.]
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American jewish women's history
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- Nadell, Pamela Susan
American jewish women's history
A collection of classic and recent essays in American Jewish women's history. It covers colonial times to the present to illuminate American Jewish women's historical diversity. It shows women shaping Judaism and their American Jewish communities as they engaged in volunteer activities and political crusades, battled stereotypes, and constructed relationships with their Christian neighbours.- Creator
- Nadell, Pamela Susan
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Nederland multicultureel en pluriform?
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- Lucassen, Jan > (red.)
- Ruijter, Arie de > (red.)
Nederland multicultureel en pluriform?
Auteurs vragen zich af waaruit de multiculturele samenleving bestaat, onder welke condities en in welke situaties de grote verscheidenheid in de samenleving als problematisch wordt ervaren, onder welke voorwarden de huidige vorm van pluriformiteit en multiculturaliteit negatieve effecten heeft op de sociale cohesie van de samenleving.- Creator
- Lucassen, Jan > (red.)
- Ruijter, Arie de > (red.)
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