Mana - Women's Studies 1

This book is not about hijab. It is about what happens when choice is taken away. Across countries, cultures, and political systems, women are repeatedly told that their bodies must represent order,……続きを見る

Manal Hamzeh’s book, Pedagogies of deveiling: muslim girls & the hijab discourse, presents an exploration of a gendering discourse, the hijab (veil) discourse, and how it was negotiated by four girl……続きを見る

Elles défendent les droits des femmes, la liberté d’expression, et critiquent sans ménagement l’intégrisme. Taslima Nasreen vit en exil, menacée de mort par les fous de Dieu. Caroline Fourest a subi……続きを見る

The real story of Saudi women, told through the remarkable life of the mother of Saudi feminism Born to a child bride at a time and place when the average life expectancy for a woman was just thirty……続きを見る

Have I not, having kept a man for years, learnt that it's/ like raising a snake?/ So many animals on this earth, why keep a man of all things?' writes one of the world's most celebrated writers, Tas……続きを見る

Das Buch untersucht die Ehedarstellung in deutscher Literatur der Jahrhundertwende und malischer Literatur von Frauen. Anhand eines gesellschaftstheoretischen Ansatzes und der literarischen Subversi……続きを見る

Internationally acclaimed Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasrin brings together for the first time in English a compelling collection of her work written over a period of thirty years. In this powerful ……続きを見る

Women Write Iran is the first full-length study on life narratives by Iranian women in the diaspora. Nima Naghibi investigates auto/biographical narratives across genresーincluding memoirs, document……続きを見る

This book visits modernism within a comparative, gendered, and third-world framework, questioning current scholarly categorisations of modernism and reframing our conception of what constitutes mode……続きを見る

This book examines the role of women bloggers in the Indian Blogosphere. It explores how women use new media technologies to create online spaces that share knowledge, raise awareness, and build com……続きを見る

Utopian writing offers a fascinating panorama of social visions; and the related forms of dystopia and anti-utopian satire extend this into the range of social nightmares. Originally published in 19……続きを見る

In Ancient Sumeria, a woman's desire for sexual sovereignty and radical vision of civic plurality draws the anger and outrage of the male status quo and unleashes catastrophe onto her city and her b……続きを見る

This timely and expansive multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary collection dissects precolonial, colonial, and post-independence issues of male dominance, power, and control over the female body i……続きを見る

Women were at the forefront of the Egyptian Revolution in 2011, with the Arab Spring protests providing an unprecedented opportunity to make their voices heard. But these women also faced an intense……続きを見る

Any city is a product of politics and economics, organizations and people. Yet, the life experiences of women uprooted from its poorest quarters seldom inform urban resettlement plans. In this ethno……続きを見る

Una psicologa interessata alle dinamiche sociali prova a raccontare la fase di transito in cui si trovano le donne. Oggi, dopo il Sessantotto, le donne si trovano a dovere ridefinire i confini di ge……続きを見る

A triumphant portrait of a fiery sisterhood changing the lives of India's women. In Uttar Pradeshーknown as the "badlands" of Indiaーa woman’s life is not entirely her own. This is one explanation f……続きを見る

Ask most people to imagine a philosopher and they probably think of someone like Socrates-absent-minded, perhaps, but with a sharp intellect and a thirst for the truth. A woman juggling car pools an……続きを見る

In Dusk in the Frog Pond, Rummana Chowdhury presents new narratives about the lived realities of Muslim women as they navigate life, be it in Bangladesh, on the shores of Lake Ontario in Toronto or ……続きを見る