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The Evolving Landscape: Homer Aschmann's Geography, Andrew Sluyter
The Evolving Landscape: Homer Aschmann's Geography, Andrew Sluyter
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A Favored Place: San Juan River Wetlands, Central Veracruz, Ad 500 To The Present. By Alfred H. Siemens, Andrew Sluyter
A Favored Place: San Juan River Wetlands, Central Veracruz, Ad 500 To The Present. By Alfred H. Siemens, Andrew Sluyter
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The Power Paradox In Muslim Women’S Majales: North-West Pakistani Mourning Rituals As Sites Of Contestation Over Religious Politics, Ethnicity, And Gender, Mary E. Hegland
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During revolutions, rebellions, and movements, women are often called on to serve contradictory roles. They are asked to perform workpolitical, communicative, networking, recruiting, military, manual - that generally goes beyond the society's usual gender restrictions. At the same time, women serve as symbols of movement identity, unity, commitment, and righteous entitlement. To fit into this idealized symbolic image, individual women must fulfill often "traditional" or even exaggerated "feminine" behavioral and attitudinal requirements, such as loyalty, obedience, selflessness, sacrifice, and "proper" deportment: all in all, they are to put aside any personal aspirations and wishes for self-fulfillment and give their all …
Women In The Invisible Economy In Tunis, Richard A. Lobban
Women In The Invisible Economy In Tunis, Richard A. Lobban
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This chapter turns to the theoretical and empirical aspects of the women's presence, or absence, in the economy of the greater metropolitan area of Tunis. It takes off from an earlier work 1 that focused on the informal economy in Tunis in general. However, this study is guided by the assumption that there is an integrated and unitary economy overall. While the overt public economic presence of women is not great in Tunis, this study of the invisible economy require s a model that articulates the role for both men and women. As described in the introduction, this research recognizes …