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Women Who Stay Behind : Pedagogies of Survival in Rural Transmigrant Mexico
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ISBN: 0816539243 081650198X 0816531455 1322879958 Year: 2015 Publisher: University of Arizona Press

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"The book uncovers the social, educational, and cultural tools rural Mexican women employ to creatively survive the conditions created by migration. It addresses the material conditions that lead to the migration of adults from the area, but at the core are the educational and personal endeavors of women to get ahead without the men in their families"--Provided by publisher.


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COVID and Gender in the Middle East
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ISBN: 1477326545 1477326537 Year: 2023 Publisher: Austin, Texas : University of Texas Press,

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As the coronavirus ravages the globe, its aftermaths have brought gender inequalities to the forefront of many conversations. Countries in the Middle East and North Africa have been slow to prepare for, adapt to, and mitigate the COVID-19 health crisis and its impacts on governance, economics, security, and rights. Women’s physical well-being, social safety nets, and economic participation have been disproportionately affected, and with widespread shutdowns and capricious social welfare programs, women are exiting the workplace and the classroom, carrying the caregiving burden. With feminist foregrounding, Rita Stephan's collection COVID and Gender in the Middle East gathers an impressive group of local scholars, activists, and policy experts. The book examines a range of national and localized responses to gender-specific issues around COVID’s health impact and the economic fallout and resulting social vulnerabilities, including the magnified marginalization of Syrian refugees; the inequitable treatment of migrant workers in Bahrain; and the inadequate implementation of gender-based violence legislation in Morocco. An essential global resource, this book is the first to provide empirical evidence of COVID’s gendered effects.


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Fashion and Beauty in the Time of Asia
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ISBN: 1479861731 Year: 2020 Publisher: New York : New York University Press,

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'Fashion and Beauty in the Time of Asia' centralizes fashion and beauty in the shaping of Asian modernities and the formation of the so-called Asian Century. The authors assembled here train our eyes on sites as far-flung and varied and yet as intimate and intimately connected as Guangzhou and Los Angeles, Saigon and Seoul, New York and Toronto, in order to map the transnational and transregional connections that have made new worlds and life paths possible.


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Women Rising : In and Beyond the Arab Spring
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ISBN: 1479856967 Year: 2020 Publisher: New York : New York University Press,

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Groundbreaking essays by female activists and scholars documenting women's resistance before, during, and after the Arab SpringImages of women protesting in the Arab Spring, from Tahrir Square to the streets of Tunisia and Syria, have become emblematic of the political upheaval sweeping the Middle East and North Africa. In Women Rising, Rita Stephan and Mounira M. Charrad bring together a provocative group of scholars, activists, artists, and more, highlighting the first-hand experiences of these remarkable women. In this relevant and timely volume, Stephan and Charrad paint a picture of women's political resistance in sixteen countries before, during, and since the Arab Spring protests first began in 2011. Contributors provide insight into a diverse range of perspectives across the entire movement, focusing on often-marginalized voices, including rural women, housewives, students, and artists. Women Rising offers an on-the-ground understanding of an important twenty-first century movement, telling the story of Arab women's activism.


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Cultures in motion
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ISBN: 9780691176178 9780691159096 0691159092 1306168236 1400849896 0691176175 Year: 2013 Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press,

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In the wide-ranging and innovative essays of Cultures in Motion, a dozen distinguished historians offer new conceptual vocabularies for understanding how cultures have trespassed across geography and social space. From the transformations of the meanings and practices of charity during late antiquity and the transit of medical knowledge between early modern China and Europe, to the fusion of Irish and African dance forms in early nineteenth-century New York, these essays follow a wide array of cultural practices through the lens of motion, translation, itinerancy, and exchange, extending the insights of transnational and translocal history. Cultures in Motion challenges the premise of fixed, stable cultural systems by showing that cultural practices have always been moving, crossing borders and locations with often surprising effect. The essays offer striking examples from early to modern times of intrusion, translation, resistance, and adaptation. These are histories where nothing--dance rhythms, alchemical formulas, musical practices, feminist aspirations, sewing machines, streamlined metals, or labor networks--remains stationary. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Celia Applegate, Peter Brown, Harold Cook, April Masten, Mae Ngai, Jocelyn Olcott, Mimi Sheller, Pamela Smith, and Nira Wickramasinghe.Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.

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Culture --- Culture diffusion. --- Diffusion culturelle --- History. --- Histoire --- Études transculturelles --- Labor relations. --- Social & Cultural Anthropology --- Culture populaire --- Politique culturelle --- Études transculturelles. --- Culture populaire. --- Politique culturelle. --- Society. --- Kulturspridning. --- Kultur. --- Culture. --- Cultural sociology --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Cultural diffusion --- Diffusion of culture --- Social change --- Social aspects --- Cross-cultural studies. --- Civilization. --- Barbarism --- Civilisation --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- World Decade for Cultural Development, 1988-1997 --- Comparison of cultures --- Inter-cultural studies --- Intercultural studies --- Trans-cultural studies --- Transcultural studies --- Ethnology --- Social sciences --- Methodology --- African dance. --- African emigrants. --- Ah Jake. --- Alcoa. --- Andreas Cleyer. --- Betty Friedan. --- California. --- Caribbean. --- Chinese medicine. --- Chinese workers. --- Domitila Barrios de Chungara. --- Europe. --- Germany. --- International Women's Year. --- Irish dance. --- Irish emigrants. --- Lanka. --- Latin West. --- Mexico City. --- Michel Boym. --- New York City. --- Niklas Luhmann. --- North American feminism. --- Singer Sewing Machine Company. --- Singer sewing machine. --- Sir John Floyer. --- Third World feminine Leftism. --- William Wotton. --- air power. --- alchemical formula. --- aluminum. --- bauxite mining. --- blood. --- challenge dance competitions. --- challenge dance. --- charity. --- choral festivals. --- choral societies. --- civic charity. --- civilizing mission. --- collective identity. --- consumer market. --- cross-cultural relations. --- cultural exchange. --- cultural motion. --- cultural nationalism. --- cultural practices. --- cultural space. --- culture. --- cultures. --- dance. --- early modern Europe. --- empire. --- gift-giving. --- globalization. --- gold. --- immobility. --- itinerancy. --- justice. --- knowledge transmission. --- labor network. --- labor. --- language. --- lizards. --- market imaginary. --- marketing. --- matter. --- medical knowledge. --- misunderstandings. --- mo. --- mobility. --- modernity. --- murder trial. --- music. --- musical culture. --- musical itinerancy. --- nation building. --- nationalism. --- pastoral power. --- pidgin. --- place. --- poverty. --- power. --- pulse. --- race. --- red pigments. --- science. --- sewing machine. --- social imagination. --- social relations. --- society. --- taverns. --- temporality. --- tourism. --- translation. --- transnational feminism. --- traveling musicians. --- vermillion. --- wealth.

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