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Author : Lakshmīkumārī Cūṇḍāvata
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book From Purdah to the People written by Lakshmīkumārī Cūṇḍāvata and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiography of a former member of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly.
Author : Alison Wearing
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307374718
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Honeymoon in Purdah written by Alison Wearing and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-01-29 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To go beyond the legacy of revolution, religious fundamentalism and veiled women and find the real people of Iran, a young Canadian dons the cloak of Islam. The result of Alison Wearing's journey is a warm, funny and shocking collection of riveting portraits and stories about the generous, irrepressible people she met. With a novelist's love of language and eye for detail, she takes the reader into the homes and hearts of people whose spirit, intelligence and laughter enlighten and impress. Beautifully written, engaging, fascinating at every turn, Honeymoon in Purdah reveals an Iran rarely seen by Westerners and leads this exceptional bestselling young writer across new literary borders.
Author : Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
Download or read book From Purdah to Parliament written by Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Simple And Absorbing Narrative Of The Life And Times Of Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah. The Account Covers The Days Of The British Raj And Its Aftermath.
Author : David G. Mandelbaum
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816514007
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Women's Seclusion and Men's Honor written by David G. Mandelbaum and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hindus and Muslims of northern South Asia share the belief that women should seclude themselves from men and that men must supervise the conduct of women so that their behavior will not sully men's honor. While these practices are well known, until now no book has attempted to explain why they are so crucially important to so many people.
Author : Cornelia Sorabji
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Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Love and Life Behind the Purdah written by Cornelia Sorabji and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cornelia Sorabji (1866-1952) was a pioneer in the tradition of Indian-Parsee women's literature in English. This collection of Sorabji's short stories reflects her fascination with orthodox Hindu women and her frustrated feminist ambitions to liberate them from their enforced or self-willeddomesticity.
Author : Kathleen Jamie
Publisher : Seal Press (CA)
ISBN 13 : 9781580050869
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (58 download)
Download or read book Among Muslims written by Kathleen Jamie and published by Seal Press (CA). This book was released on 2002 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Western woman shares her adventures in Northern Pakistan, where she visited romote villages and befriended local people. Original.
Author : Syed Abul ʻAla Maudoodi
Publisher : Library of Islam, Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780934905008
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Purdah and the Status of Women in Islam written by Syed Abul ʻAla Maudoodi and published by Library of Islam, Limited. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ramananda Chatterjee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 874 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Modern Review written by Ramananda Chatterjee and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes section "Reviews and notices of books".
Author : Miranda Seymour
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1847377378
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (473 download)
Download or read book Chaplin's Girl written by Miranda Seymour and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-05-05 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1931, City Lightsintroduced Charlie Chaplin's new female star to the world. The film - defiantly silent in the age of talkies - was an immediate and international hit. The actress who played the romantic lead had never been on screen or stage before. Chaplin's film turned her into the most famous girl in the world. And, like Rhett Butler, the most famous girl in the world didn't give a damn. Virginia Cherrill was the beautiful daughter of an Illinois rancher, who ran away to live through some of Hollywood's wildest years. She was the adoring first wife who broke Cary Grant's heart when she left him; who turned down the gloriously eligible Maharajah of Jaipur to befriend his wife and rescue her from purdah. Virginia Cherrill presided, during the thirties, over one of England's loveliest houses, as the Countess of Jersey. Everybody sought her friendship. All that eluded her was love. And when she found it, she gave up all she had to marry a handsome and penniless Polish flying ace, whose dream it was to become a cowboy. In this glorious, and undiscovered story of Hollywood, international high society, wartime drama and romance, Miranda Seymour works from unpublished sources to recapture the personality of a woman so vividly enchanting that none could resist her. This is the story of Cinderalla in reverse: of the poor girl who won everything - and gave up all for love. Breathtakingly romantic, exquisitely written, this is the stuff that dreams are made of . . .
Author : Deborah Baker
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555970281
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (559 download)
Download or read book The Convert written by Deborah Baker and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2011-05-10 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *A 2011 National Book Award Finalist* A spellbinding story of renunciation, conversion, and radicalism from Pulitzer Prize-finalist biographer Deborah Baker What drives a young woman raised in a postwar New York City suburb to convert to Islam, abandon her country and Jewish faith, and embrace a life of exile in Pakistan? The Convert tells the story of how Margaret Marcus of Larchmont became Maryam Jameelah of Lahore, one of the most trenchant and celebrated voices of Islam's argument with the West. A cache of Maryam's letters to her parents in the archives of the New York Public Library sends the acclaimed biographer Deborah Baker on her own odyssey into the labyrinthine heart of twentieth-century Islam. Casting a shadow over these letters is the mysterious figure of Mawlana Abul Ala Mawdudi, both Maryam's adoptive father and the man who laid the intellectual foundations for militant Islam. As she assembles the pieces of a singularly perplexing life, Baker finds herself captive to questions raised by Maryam's journey. Is her story just another bleak chapter in a so-called clash of civilizations? Or does it signify something else entirely? And then there's this: Is the life depicted in Maryam's letters home and in her books an honest reflection of the one she lived? Like many compelling and true tales, The Convert is stranger than fiction. It is a gripping account of a life lived on the radical edge and a profound meditation on the cultural conflicts that frustrate mutual understanding.
Author : Muhammad Yunus
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1586485466
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Banker To The Poor written by Muhammad Yunus and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2007-03-31 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspirational story of how Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus invented microcredit, founded the Grameen Bank, and transformed the fortunes of millions of poor people around the world. Muhammad Yunus was a professor of economics in Bangladesh, who realized that the most impoverished members of his community were systematically neglected by the banking system -- no one would loan them any money. Yunus conceived of a new form of banking -- microcredit -- that would offer very small loans to the poorest people without collateral, and teach them how to manage and use their loans to create successful small businesses. He founded Grameen Bank based on the belief that credit is a basic human right, not the privilege of a fortunate few, and it now provides $24 billion of micro-loans to more than nine million families. Ninety-seven percent of its clients are women, and repayment rates are over 90 percent. Outside of Bangladesh, micro-lending programs inspired by Grameen have blossomed, and serve hundreds of millions of people around the world. The definitive history of micro-credit direct from the man that conceived of it, Banker to the Poor is the moving story of someone who dreamed of changing the world -- and did.
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Total Pages : 880 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
Download or read book The Spectator written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Imtiaz Dharker
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Postcards from God written by Imtiaz Dharker and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anguished god surveys a world stricken by fundamentalism in these powerful poems by a writer whose cultural experience spans three countries: Pakistan, the country of her birth, and Britain and India, her countries of adoption. Her main themes are drawn from a life of transitions: childhood, exile, journeying, home, displacement, religious strife and terror, and latterly, grief. She is also an accomplished artist, and all her collections are illustrated with her drawings, which form an integral part of her books. Postcards from god was her first book from Bloodaxe. It combines two collections published separately in India, Purdah (1989) and Postcards from god (1994). In Purdah she memorialises the betweenness of a traveller between cultures, exploring the dilemmas of negotiation among countries, lovers, children. Postcards from god meditates upon disquietudes in the poet's chosen society: its sudden acts of violence, its feuds and insanities, forcing her into a permanent wakefulness that fits her eyes with glass lids. If the poems collected in Purdah are windows shuttered upon a private world, those gathered into Postcards from god are doorways leading out into the lanes and shanties where strangers huddle, bereft of the tender grace of attention.
Author : Isobel Coleman
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0812978552
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Paradise Beneath Her Feet written by Isobel Coleman and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now with a new Preface and Afterword by the author “Outstanding . . . [Isobel Coleman] takes us into remote villages and urban bureaucracies to find the brave men and women working to create change in the Middle East.”—Los Angeles Times In this timely and important book, Isobel Coleman shows how Muslim women and men across the Middle East are working within Islam to fight for women’s rights in a growing movement of Islamic feminism. Journeying through Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, Coleman introduces the reader to influential Islamic feminist thinkers and successful grassroots activists working to create economic, political, and educational opportunities for women. Their advocacy for women’s rights based on more progressive interpretations of Islam are critical to bridging the conflict between those championing reform and those seeking to oppress women in the name of religious tradition. Socially, culturally, economically, and politically, the future of the region depends on finding ways to accommodate human rights, and in particular women’s rights, with Islamic law. These reformers—and thousands of others—are the people leading the way forward. Featuring new material that addresses how the Arab uprisings and other recent events have affected the social and political landscape of the region, Paradise Beneath Her Feet offers a message of hope: Change is coming to the Middle East—and more often than not, it is being led by women. Praise for Paradise Beneath Her Feet “Clearly written, deeply moving, and wonderfully enlightening.”—Reza Aslan, author of No god but God “[An] engrossing portrait of real Muslim women that reveals how Islamic feminists . . . are working with and within the culture, rather than against it . . . to forge ‘a legitimate Islamic alternative to the current repressive system.’ Coleman doesn’t diminish the enormity of the struggle, but she argues convincingly that it might yet rewrite Islam’s future.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “A nuanced view of Islam’s role in public life that is cautiously hopeful.”—The Economist “Eye-opening . . . Deeply religious, profoundly determined and modern in every way, these are twenty-first-century women bent on change. Hear them roar and see a future being born before our eyes.”—Booklist
Author : Leigh Minturn
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195080353
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Sita's Daughters written by Leigh Minturn and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sita's Daughters vividly recounts the dramatic changes in role and status experienced by Rajput caste women in the Indian village Khalapur between 1955 and 1975. In the 20 years between her now-classic original field study and her follow-up with the same families, Leigh Minturn witnessed a significant decline in the women's observance of a complex system of customs collectively called purdah, which includes the wearing of veils, silence in the presence of senior men and women, the adoption of subservient postures when speaking to men, and the separation of husbands and wives. Her interviews with mothers- and daughters-in-law reveal how changes in purdah customs and religious traditions have allowed them increased access to education and health facilities, control of finances, and autonomy inside and mobility outside of their husbands' households. This work is unprecedented in its depth, scope, and exposition of the intimate details of the lives of Indian women. Minturn's return to her original subjects allowed her to observe firsthand the changes that had transpired during the interim, resulting in the only Indian village field study to span two generations. Having won the trust and confidence of her subjects, the author poignantly conveys their individuality, along with their stories of heroism, loyalty, infidelity, rape, incest, theft, and even murder. With even-handedness and detailed scholarship, Minturn makes use of methods such as systematic sampling and structured interviewing that are effective in capturing the richness of Indian village life, though they are uncommon in anthropological studies. The wide range of issues addressed here will be of interest to students and researchers in women's studies, South Asian studies, anthropology, and cross-cultural psychology, as well as to interested laypersons.
Author : Mariam MAGSI
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781389743221
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)
Download or read book Purdah written by Mariam MAGSI and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purdah is an MFA thesis that records the diversity in the readings, meanings and interpretations of veiling practices associated with Islam.
Author : Patrick Krayer
Publisher : William Carey Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1645081125
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (45 download)
Download or read book My Mother's Sons written by Patrick Krayer and published by William Carey Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-09 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Mother’s Sons provides a thoughtful model for how Western Christian workers can respectfully negotiate sexual boundaries and norms in Muslim contexts. Westerners are inclined to impose their own culturally shaped notions of gender equality and justice on non-egalitarian communities, alienating the very people they are seeking to serve. The author draws on his own research among Pakistani Pashtuns, intercultural theory, and exegesis of Christian and Islamic sacred texts to show that it is possible to work for transformational change without offending those who live within a patriarchal system.
