This book begins with a 'cautionary tale' about a development wide area in rural Zambia, with the purpose of lessening the burden of labour on women who previously had to fetch water from faraway streams.
This book takes a hermeneutic approach toward reading the writings of Jamal al-Banna and Tariq al-Bishri across several decades in order to explore contemporary Islamic political thought under authoritarianism.
Yakshini – mystische Göttinnen und Hüterinnen der Natur, deren Kraft und Symbolik über Jahrtausende hinweg die spirituelle und kulturelle Landschaft Indiens geprägt haben.
This book aims to expand and enrich understandings of violences by focusing on gendered continuities, interconnections and intersections across multiple forms and manifestations of men's violence.
For more than three decades, the percentage of people who married someone of a different race, ethnicity, culture, or linguistic background has been on the rise in the United States, but the communication practices of such couples have remained understudied.
We live in a moment rife with mixed emotions-existential anxieties about catastrophic climate change, presumptuous confidence in planet-hacking geoengineering technologies, and hopefulness of youth climate activism.
Mulki Al-Sharmani undertakes a close textual analysis of the hermeneutics of selected Islamic feminism scholars as they engage with the Qur'an, Hadith, and different textual genres in Islamic interpretive tradition.
Political Prayer in Nineteenth-Century American Literature explores how American women writers such as Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Rebecca Harding Davis, and Emily Dickinson translated petitioning - a political form for redress of grievances with religious resonance, or what Strand calls "e;political prayer"e; - in their literary works.
To what extent can the leaky, porous bodies in Philip Roth's fiction be read as symbols of resistance against anti-Semitism, white supremacy, and racism?
You Can Overcome Your Feelings of Aloneness In our age of increased social isolation and growing reliance on technology, genuine connection can feel more difficult than ever.
You Can Overcome Your Feelings of Aloneness In our age of increased social isolation and growing reliance on technology, genuine connection can feel more difficult than ever.
Von den Macherinnen der weltweiten Mediensensation «Shit You Should Care About»Wie soll ich als junger Mensch mit den zahlreichen Negativmeldungen in der Welt umgehen?
Daniel Tubau nos acerca en Maldita Helena a este fascinante personaje admirado y odiado por poetas, dramaturgos, filosofos y eruditos, que la han considerado el simbolo de la belleza y la pasion, pero que tambien la han acusado de adultera, traidora a su patria y causante de una guerra espantosa.
Around the middle of the 19th century, woman emerges as a new sign disrupting the cultural economy of Bengal and reversing and realigning conventional notions and expectations of woman's agency and power.
La videoensayista Alice Cappelle radiografia el auge del antifeminismo en la sociedad contemporanea y del discurso conservador en Internet a traves de las tendencias y algoritmos, con figuras como Ben Shapiro o Jordan Peterson.
Bringing together twenty-seven established and emerging scholars, The Routledge Companion to Queer Literary Studies discusses the historical development, current state, future directions, and political stakes of queer literary studies as a field of research and pedagogy.
An incisive and insightful celebrity memoir by Jaleel White, one of the most beloved icons of nineties pop culture and TV history, renowned for his portrayal of Steven Urkel on the hit sitcom Family Matters.
First published in 1980, The Double Standard is a powerfully written book challenging the logic of much of the feminist literature in the social sciences.
This book provides insight into the relationship between embodied processes and products of remembering and belonging among British Bangladeshi women in Tower Hamlets, London.
This book provides insight into the relationship between embodied processes and products of remembering and belonging among British Bangladeshi women in Tower Hamlets, London.
Dieses Buch ist ein Leitfaden für Kliniker zum Verständnis, zur Diagnose, Behandlung und Heilung der komplexen posttraumatischen Belastungsstörung (C-PTSD).
This study argues that photographs from Qajar Iran (1785-1925) of harem women, royal women, and public women, such as sex workers, musicians, singers, and dancers, make profound statements on the institution of the harem in a time of flux and modernization.