Author : Women of South Asian Descent Collective
Publisher :
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,4 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Fiction and non-fiction on South Asians living in the U.S. In Anu Murgai's A Marriage Proposal, a woman reprimands her future daughter-in-law for not appearing shy, in Zinab Ali's Daddy, a daughter reproaches her father for taking a second wife.
Author : Uma Narayan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 16,94 MB
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1135025061
Dislocating Cultures takes aim at the related notions of nation, identity, and tradition to show how Western and Third World scholars have misrepresented Third World cultures and feminist agendas. Drawing attention to the political forces that have spawned, shaped, and perpetuated these misrepresentations since colonial times, Uma Narayan inspects the underlying problems which "culture" poses for the respect of difference and cross-cultural understanding. Questioning the problematic roles assigned to Third World subjects within multiculturalism, Narayan examines ways in which the flow of information across national contexts affects our understanding of issues. Dislocating Cultures contributes a philosophical perspective on areas of ongoing interest such as nationalism, post-colonial studies, and the cultural politics of debates over tradition and "westernization" in Third World contexts.
Author : Sally A. Lloyd
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 30,48 MB
Release : 2009-04-14
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1412960827
The Handbook of Feminist Family Studies presents the important theories, methodologies, and practices in feminist family studies. The editors showcase feminist family scholarship, providing both a retrospective and a prospective overview of the field and creating a scholarly forum for interpretation and dissemination of feminist work.
Author : Lavina Dhingra Shankar
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,45 MB
Release :
Category :
ISBN : 9781439904558
Author : Cameron McCarthy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 37,24 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Curriculum change
ISBN : 0415949920
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Warren Crichlow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 19,32 MB
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 113676447X
This stunning new edition retains the book's broad aims, intended audience, and multidisciplinary approach. New chapters take into account the more current backdrop of globalization, particularly events such as 9/11, and attendant developments that make a reconsideration of race relations in education quite urgent.
Author : Lisa Fiedler
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 26,34 MB
Release : 2019-07-02
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0451480813
A stunning, multigenerational story about two teenagers: Victoria, who joins the circus in 1965, and her granddaughter, Callie, who leaves the circus fifty years later. Perfect for fans of This is Us. In 1965 seventeen-year-old Victoria, having just escaped an unstable home, flees to the ultimate place for dreamers and runaways--the circus. Specifically, the VanDrexel Family Circus where, among the lion tamers, roustabouts, and trapeze artists, Victoria hopes to start a better life. Fifty years later, Victoria's sixteen-year-old granddaughter Callie is thriving. A gifted and focused tightrope walker with dreams of being a VanDrexel high wire legend just like her grandmother, Callie can't imagine herself anywhere but the circus. But when Callie's mother accepts her dream job at an animal sanctuary in Florida just months after Victoria's death, Callie is forced to leave her lifelong home behind. Feeling unmoored and out of her element, Callie pores over memorabilia from her family's days on the road, including a box that belonged to Victoria when she was Callie's age. In the box, Callie finds notes that Victoria wrote to herself with tips and tricks for navigating her new world. Inspired by this piece of her grandmother's life, Callie decides to use Victoria's circus prowess to navigate the uncharted waters of public high school. Across generations, Victoria and Callie embrace the challenges of starting over, letting go, and finding new families in unexpected places.
Author : Jaspal Kaur Singh
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 42,58 MB
Release : 2008
Category : African diaspora in literature
ISBN : 1552382451
Representation and Resistance: South Asian and African Women's Texts at Home and in the Diaspora compares colonial and national constructions of gender identity in Western-educated African and South Asian women's texts. Jaspal Kaur Singh argues that, while some writers conceptualize women's equality in terms of educational and professional opportunity, sexual liberation, and individualism, others recognize the limitations of a paradigm of liberation that focuses only on individual freedom. Certain diasporic artists and writers assert that transformation of gender identity construction occurs, but only in transnational cultural spaces of the first world-spaces which have emerged in an era of rampant globalization and market liberalism. In particular, Singh advocates the inclusion of texts from women of different classes, religions, and castes, both in the Global North and in the South.
Author : Meenakshi Thapan
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 48,21 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9788125012214
This collection of papers raises methodological issues and questions concerning the traditional nature of anthropology, and addresses current issues and debates in sociology and social anthropology. The essays in this volume, by well-known anthropologists take up these and other issues arising out of their own fieldwork experience. The result is a rigorous and deeply moving analysis that leads to an unlearning of inappropriate and insensitive methods that obscure rather than explain the lives of people.
Author : Roshni Rustomji-kerns
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 27,41 MB
Release : 2018-02-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0429967705
This anthology shows the influences of Western literature and the Western literary traditions, especially as they exist in world literature written in English. It contains stories and poems dealing with South Asian American experiences and presents the evocative themes of love, loss, and exile.
