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  • Iranian Romance in the Digital Age

    From Arranged Marriage to White Marriage

    Edición de Janet Afary, Jesilyn Faust ...
    Series series Sex, Family and Culture in the Middle East
    Following the 1979 Islamic Revolution, there was a dramatic reversal of women'srights, and the state revived many premodern social conventions throughmodern means and institutions. Customs such as the enforced veiling of women,easy divorce for men, child marriage, and polygamy were robustly reintroducedand those who did not conform to societal strictures were severely punished. Atthe same time, ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD

  • Sexual Politics in Modern Iran

    de Janet Afary ...
    Janet Afary is a native of Iran and a leading historian. Her work focuses on gender and sexuality and draws on her experience of growing up in Iran and her involvement with Iranian women of different ages and social strata. These observations, and a wealth of historical documents, form the kernel of this book, which charts the history of the nation's sexual revolution from the nineteenth century ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • Charand-o Parand

    Revolutionary Satire from Iran, 1907-1909

    de Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda ...
    Traducido por Janet Afary, John R. Perry ...
    Series series World Thought in Translation
    A classic of Modern Persian literature, Charand-o Parand (Stuff and Nonsense) is a work familiar to every literate Iranian. Originally a series of newspaper columns written by scholar and satirist Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda, the pieces poke fun at mullahs, the shah, and the old religious and political order during the Constitutional Revolution in Iran (1906–11). The essays were the Daily Show of their era ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD

  • Spoils of War

    Women of Color, Cultures, and Revolutions

    de Berenice A. Carroll, Joy A. James, Jacqueline M. Martinez, Shahrzad Mojab, Marjorie Salvodon, Janet Afary, Professor Lewis R. Gordon, Valérie K. Orlando, T Denean Sharpley-Whiting ...
    Women of color remain arguably the most economically, politically, and socially marginalized group in the United States and the Third World. In Spoils of War, a diverse group of distinguished contributors suggest that acts of aggression resulting from the racism and sexism inherent in social institutions can be viewed as a sort of "war," experienced daily by women of color. ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

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  • Culture and Dignity

    Dialogues Between the Middle East and the West

    de Laura Nader ...
    In Culture and Dignity - Dialogues between the Middle East and the West, renowned cultural anthropologist Laura Nader examines the historical and ethnographic roots of the complex relationship between the East and the West, revealing how cultural differences can lead to violence or a more peaceful co-existence.Outlines an anthropology for the 21st century that focuses on the myriad connections ... Leer más

    $42.00 USD

  • Anthropology Matters, Third Edition

    de Shirley A. Fedorak ...
    The third edition of this bestselling book introduces readers to anthropology, and the world around it, by connecting important concepts to current global issues. A question-based approach encourages readers to understand specific issues in a broader cross-cultural context while building an appreciation for anthropology’s role in developing global citizenship.This edition has been updated and ... Leer más

    $41.99 USD

  • Muslim Nationalism and the New Turks

    Updated Edition

    de Jenny White, Jenny White ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics
    Turkey has leapt to international prominence as an economic and political powerhouse under its elected Muslim government, and is looked on by many as a model for other Muslim countries in the wake of the Arab Spring. In this book, Jenny White reveals how Turkish national identity and the meanings of Islam and secularism have undergone radical changes in today's Turkey, and asks whether the Turkish ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • The Power of Identity

    de Manuel Castells ...
    Series Libro 14 - Information Age Series
    In this second volume of The Information Age trilogy, with an extensive new preface following the recent global economic crisis, Manuel Castells deals with the social, political, and cultural dynamics associated with the technological transformation of our societies and with the globalization of the economy.Extensive new preface examines how dramatic recent events have transformed the socio ... Leer más

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  • Vulnerability in Resistance

    Edición de Judith Butler, Zeynep Gambetti, Leticia Sabsay ...
    Vulnerability and resistance have often been seen as opposites, with the assumption that vulnerability requires protection and the strengthening of paternalistic power at the expense of collective resistance. Focusing on political movements and cultural practices in different global locations, including Turkey, Palestine, France, and the former Yugoslavia, the contributors to Vulnerability in ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Life as Politics

    How Ordinary People Change the Middle East, Second Edition

    de Asef Bayat ...
    Prior to 2011, popular imagination perceived the Muslim Middle East as unchanging and unchangeable, frozen in its own traditions and history. In Life as Politics, Asef Bayat argues that such presumptions fail to recognize the routine, yet important, ways in which ordinary people make meaningful change through everyday actions. First published just months before the Arab Spring swept across the ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • An Analysis of Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth

    de Riley Quinn ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Frantz Fanon is one of the most important figures in the history of what is now known as postcolonial studies – the field that examines the meaning and impacts of European colonialism across the world.Born in the French colony of Martinique, Fanon worked as a psychiatrist in Algeria, another French colony that saw brutal violence during its revolution against French rule. His experiences power the ... Leer más

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  • Nation-Building, State and the Genderframing of Women's Rights in the United Arab Emirates

    de Vania Carvalho Pinto ...
    The extensive changes to Emirati women's traditional rights and roles have been one of the most visible transformations taking place in the United Arab Emirates throughout its almost forty years of modern history. This book offers an interpretation of why and how these modifications came about. Its aim is to analyse the promotion of educational, employment and political rights for women as ... Leer más

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