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Women of the forest
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ISBN: 0231132328 0231132336 Year: 2004 Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press,


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Karen Blixen : une odyssée africaine
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ISBN: 2228898236 9782228898232 Year: 2004 Publisher: Paris: Payot,

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Leven tussen kunst en krant : Beata van Helsdingen-Schoevers (1886-1920) : journaliste en declamatrice in Indië
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ISBN: 9067182346 Year: 2004 Publisher: Leiden : KITLV Uitgeverij,

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Door bloed gezuiverd: eerwraak bij Turken in Nederland
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ISBN: 9035122836 Year: 2004 Publisher: Amsterdam Bakker

Aboriginal woman : sacred and profane
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ISBN: 1134362641 1280158166 0203987543 9780203987544 9781134362646 9780415319997 0415319994 0415319994 9781134362592 9781134362639 9781138151901 1134362633 Year: 2004 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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First published in 1939 by Routledge, this classic ethnography portrays the aboriginal woman as she really is - a complex social personality with her own prerogatives, duties, problems, beliefs, rituals and point of view. This groundbreaking and enduring study was researched in North-West Australia between 1935 and 1936 and was written by a woman who truly pioneered the study of gender in anthropology

Sex and manners : female emancipation in the West, 1890-2000
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ISBN: 1412929180 0803983697 1446222098 1446236293 1280370920 9786610370924 1412933870 9781412933872 9781412929189 9781446222096 9780803983694 9781446236291 9781280370922 6610370923 Year: 2004 Volume: *16 Publisher: London : SAGE,

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A cross-cultural study of manners, this text examines changing relationships between the sexes, with its focus on how women have asserted their social independence in American, British, Dutch & German society.

We real cool : Black men and masculinity
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ISBN: 0415969263 0203642201 9780203642207 0415969271 9780415969260 9780415969277 9786610046355 6610046352 1135880557 9781135880552 128004635X 9781135880507 9781135880545 1135880549 Year: 2004 Publisher: New York ; London : Routledge,

Feeding desire : fatness, beauty, and sexuality among a Saharan people.
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ISBN: 0415280958 0415280966 1135140855 1135140774 0203603524 1283845075 Year: 2004 Publisher: London Routledge

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While the Western world adheres to a beauty ideal that says women can never be too thin, the semi-nomadic Moors of the Sahara desert have for centuries cherished a feminine ideal of extreme fatness. Voluptuous immobility is thought to beautify girls' bodies, hasten the onset of puberty, heighten their sexuality and ripen them for marriage. From the time of the loss of their first milk teeth, girls are directed to eat huge bowls of milk and porridge in one of the world's few examples of active female fattening. Based on fieldwork in an Arab village in Niger, 'Feeding Desire' analyses the meanings of women's fatness as constituted by desire, kinship, concepts of health, Islam, and the crucial social need to manage sexuality. By demonstrating how a particular beauty ideal can only be understood within wider social structures and cultural logics, the book also implicitly provides a new way of thinking about the ideal of slimness in late Western capitalism. Offering a reminder that an estimated 80% of theworld's societies prefer plump women, this gracefully written book is both a fascinating exploration of the nature of bodily ideals and a highly readable ethnography of a Saharan people.

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