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THE PRIVATE WORLD OF OTTOMAN WOMEN
₨ 4,840Recovering the oft-neglected role of women in Ottoman high society and power politics, this book brings to life the women who made their mark in a male domain. Though historical records tend to favour the glitter of palaces over the trials of daily life, Goodwin also reconstructs ordinary women’s domestic toil. As the Ottoman Empire first expanded and then shrank, women travelled its width and breadth whether out of necessity or merely for pleasure. Some women owned slaves while others suffered the misfortune of being enslaved. Goodwin examines the laws, which governed women’s lives from the harem to the humblest tasks. This perceptive study of Ottoman life culminates with the nineteenth century and explores the advent of modernity and its impact on women at a time of imperial decline.
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WOMEN IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
₨ 870For decades, researchers and policymakers have examined the impact of development programs on womenâand evidence of sustained gender discrimination has inspired local, national, and international policy reforms. But has the empowerment movement increased womenâs control of resources? Has it had the desired effect on gender relations traditionally defined by patriarchal ideology and institutions?
Addressing these questions, this study explores international, national, and local empowerment efforts in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. The result is a nuanced account of empowerment goals and strategies at all levels of initiative.
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MODERNIZING WOMEN: GENDER AND SOCIAL CHANGE, 2ND EDITION
₨ 1,220Moghadamâs influential study of gender dynamics and social processes in the Middle East has been fully updated to reflect a decade of major changesâincluding shifts in development strategy and population policy, the rise of a reform movement in Iran incorporating both Islamic and secular feminists, and the rise and fall of the Taliban in Afghanistan. New data and analysis of emerging trends make this second edition a welcome successor. Contents: Recasting the Middle East, North Africa, and Afghanistan; Economic Development, State Policy, and Womenâs Employment; Reforms, Revolutions, and “the Woman Question.” ; Patriarchy and the Changing Family; Islamist Movements and Womenâs Responses; Iran: From Islamization to Islamic Feminismâand Beyond?; Afghanistan: Revolution, Reaction, and Attempted Reconstruction; All That Is Solid Melts into Air
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WOMEN OF AFGHANISTAN
₨ 770Women of Afghanistan is an important work of social history, allowing previously silenced subjects to speak without judgment. More than that, it presents a personal glimpse into the highs and lows of daily life in a nation where threats of war, starvation and natural disaster coexist with deep family ties and love for the land.
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KNOWING OUR RIGHTS
₨ 2,260In much of the Muslim world, womenâs lack of knowledge about statutory provisions and about the sources of customs and practices applied in their immediate community obstructs their ability to change their circumstances. This understanding was the basis for the Women & Law in the Muslim World Programme of the international solidarity network, Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML). Knowing our rights forms part of the international synthesis of the Women & Law in the Muslim World Programme and is based on some 10 years of field experience, research and analysis by multi-disciplinary teams of networkers in over 20 countries across Asia, Africa and the Middle East. These include majority and minority Muslim communities; communities which are governed by family laws based on Muslim laws and those which are subject to a general law applicable to all communities; legal systems that formally recognize customary laws, and those that do not; as well as diverse (and changing) political situations.
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THE IMPACT OF ARMED CONFLICTS ON WOMEN IN SOUTH ASIA
₨ 2,000This book exposes the different ways in which violent conflicts increase patriarchal controls on women and the impact of militarization on women and men, on masculinities and femininities. In all the societies and communities under discussion in the five countries, the authors point to the different ways in which women react and respond to the conflict. They become victims of various acts of repression and abuse. The book exposes that even armed militant women choose to respond to violence with violence. On the other side militants mothers respond to violence with non-violent means of political agitation. The authors articulate a general position on the need to redefine democracy within the South Asian context, in a way which recognizes minority rights and acknowledges the nature of all South Asian states as multicultural and multinational. Within this overarching framework, the authors see womenâs involvement in militancy and in peace building as enabling a new construction of democracy, human rights and citizenship. The need for a reconceptualization of security to mean human security and peace with justice, rights and equality is both advocated and emphasized. In this process, the authors address the need to begin to deconstruct the exercise of masculinity power in its different forms, especially as played out in war and conflict.
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