Download or read book The Land of Veiled Women written by John Foster Fraser and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Land of Veiled Women written by John Foster Fraser and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Veiled Empire written by Douglas T. Northrop and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-08 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on extensive research in the archives of Russia and Uzbekistan, Douglas Northrop here reconstructs the turbulent history of a Soviet campaign that sought to end the seclusion of Muslim women. In Uzbekistan it focused above all on a massive effort to eliminate the heavy horsehair-and-cotton veils worn by many women and girls. This campaign against the veil was, in Northrop's view, emblematic of the larger Soviet attempt to bring the proletarian revolution to Muslim Central Asia, a region Bolsheviks saw as primitive and backward. The Soviets focused on women and the family in an effort to forge a new, "liberated" social order.This unveiling campaign, however, took place in the context of a half-century of Russian colonization and the long-standing suspicion of rural Muslim peasants toward an urban, colonial state. Widespread resistance to the idea of unveiling quickly appeared and developed into a broader anti-Soviet animosity among Uzbeks of both sexes. Over the next quarter-century a bitter and often violent confrontation ensued, with battles being waged over indigenous practices of veiling and seclusion.New local and national identities coalesced around these very practices that had been placed under attack. Veils became powerful anticolonial symbols for the Uzbek nation as well as important markers of Muslim propriety. Bolshevik leaders, who had seen this campaign as an excellent way to enlist allies while proving their own European credentials as enlightened reformers, thus inadvertently strengthened the seclusion of Uzbek women—precisely the reverse of what they set out to do. Northrop's fascinating and evocative book shows both the fluidity of Central Asian cultural practices and the real limits that existed on Stalinist authority, even during the ostensibly totalitarian 1930s.

Download or read book Veiled Women of the Holy Land written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book In the Land of Invisible Women written by Qanta Ahmed MD and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A strikingly honest look into Islamic culture?—in particular women and Islam?—and what it takes for one woman to recreate herself in the land of invisible women. Unexpectedly denied a visa to remain in the United States, Qanta Ahmed, a young British Muslim doctor, becomes an outcast in motion. On a whim, she accepts an exciting position in Saudi Arabia. This is not just a new job; this is a chance at adventure in an exotic land she thinks she understands, a place she hopes she will belong. What she discovers is vastly different. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is a world apart, a land of unparalleled contrast. She finds rejection and scorn in the places she believed would most embrace her, but also humor, honesty, loyalty and love. And for Qanta, more than anything, it is a land of opportunity. Very few Islamic books for women give a firsthand account of what it's like to live in a place where Muslim women continue to be oppressed and treated as inferior to men. But if you want to learn more about the Islamic culture in an unflinchingly real way, this book is for you. "In this stunningly written book, a Western trained Muslim doctor brings alive what it means for a woman to live in the Saudi Kingdom. I've rarely experienced so vividly the shunning and shaming, racism and anti—Semitism, but the surprise is how Dr. Ahmed also finds tenderness at the tattered edges of extremism, and a life—changing pilgrimage back to her Muslim faith." — Gail Sheehy

Download or read book Veiled Half truths written by Judy Mabro and published by I. B. Tauris. This book was released on 1991 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Veiled Women written by Prem Chowdhry and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines The Position Of Women In Rural Haryana In North India. Covers Both Colonial And Postcolonial Periods. Explores Issues Such As-Production And Reproduction Exclusions Of Women Form Decision Making, Control Of Resources, Their Self-Assertion Etc. A New Preface Recounts The Few Recent Changes. Useful For Scholars Of Sociology, Gender Studies, History As Well As Lay Reader.

Download or read book The Land and the Book Or Biblical Illustrations Drawn from the Manners and Customs the Scenes and Scenery of the Holy Land written by William McClure Thomson and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Veiled Women written by Sarah Foot and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no published account of the history of religious women in England before the Norman Conquest. Yet, female saints and abbesses, such as Hild of Whitby or Edith of Wilton, are among the most celebrated women recorded in Anglo-Saxon sources and their stories are of popular interest. This book offers the first general and critical assessment of female religious communities in early medieval England. It transforms our understanding of the different modes of religious vocation and institutional provision and thereby gives early medieval women’s history a new foundation.

Download or read book Veiled Freedom written by Jeanette Windle and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2009-05-20 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Special Forces veteran Steve Wilson returns to Kabul as security chief to the minister of interior, he is disillusioned with the corriuption and violence that has overtaken the country he fought to free. Relief worker Amy Mallory arrives in Afghanistan ready to change the world. She soon discovers that as a Western woman, the challenges are monumental. Afghan native Jamil returns to his homeland seeking work, but a painful past continues to haunt him. All three are searching for truth and freedom when a suicide bombing brings them together on Kabul's dusty streets.--From publisher's description.

Download or read book The Veil written by Jennifer Heath and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Veiling is a globally polarizing issue, a locus for the struggle between Islam and the West and between contemporary and traditional interpretations of Islam. This book examines the vastly misunderstood and multi-layered world of the veil. It explores and analyzes the cultures, politics, and histories of veiling.

Download or read book The Land of Veiled Men written by Peter Fuchs and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Behind the Veils of Yemen written by Audra Grace Shelby and published by Chosen Books. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compelling memoir of an American woman and her family moving to Yemen, learning to live in the Islamic culture, and offering hope to Muslim women.

Download or read book The Land and the Book written by William McClure Thomson and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Sketch written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Production of the Muslim Woman written by Lamia Ben Youssef Zayzafoon and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author investigates the configurations of power implicated in the production of the discourses on the 'muslim woman' in the West and North Africa. She argues that as a single category, the 'muslim woman' is an 'invention', whether in the Western discourses of Orientalism (Isabelle Eberhardt) and psychoanalytic feminism (De Beauvoir, Irigaray, Cixous and Lacan), or in the discourses of islamic feminism (Djebar and Mernissi) and Maghrebian nationalism (Habib Bourguiba and Tahar al Haddad).

Download or read book Land of Veiled Women written by John Foster Fraser and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: