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Paperback. Combining scholarship from a range of disciplines, this title presents a collection of essays that offer comprehensive examination of the role of women in Iranian society and culture, from pre-Islamic times to 1800. It includes essays that show that women have had significant influence in almost every area of Iranian life. Editor(s): Nashat, Guity; Beck, Lois. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBN; HBJF1; JFSJ1; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780252071218
- ISBN
- 9780252071218
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.52
€ 31.99
€ 28.52
Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 214 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Manohar Publishers and Distributors India
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788173043826
- ISBN
- 9788173043826
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.25
€ 24.25
Hardcover. Editor(s): Akhtar, Shaheen; Bhowmik, Moushumi. Num Pages: 396 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; DQ; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 146 x 28. Weight in Grams: 582.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Bhatkal & Sen India
- Number of pages
- 396
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788185604572
- ISBN
- 9788185604572
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 57.54€ 44.58
€ 57.54
€ 44.58
Hardcover. Editor(s): Ahmed, Jaynal Ud-Din; Singh, Khundrakpam Devananda. Num Pages: 210 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFSJ1; KC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 148 x 227 x 22. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Publisher
- New Century Publications
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788177084252
- ISBN
- 9788177084252
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.77€ 37.05
€ 51.77
€ 37.05
Hardcover. Num Pages: 214 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFSJ1; KJH; KJVS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 147 x 22. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Publisher
- New Century Publications India
- Number of pages
- 214
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788177083033
- ISBN
- 9788177083033
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 26.51
€ 40.99
€ 26.51
Hardcover. Editor(s): Das, Kartick. Num Pages: 186 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFSJ1; JHB; KC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 149 x 227 x 21. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- New Century Publications
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788177084238
- ISBN
- 9788177084238
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 33.28
€ 51.99
€ 33.28
paperback. In 1900, Baron von Ketteler, the German Minister, was assassinated in a Peking street. By 4pm the first shots were fired and a siege by Boxers and imperial troops had begun. Among the besieged were 148 women from around the world and Maud, the Baron's widow. This book tells their story. Num Pages: 430 pages, 4 maps, 44 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJC; HBJF; HBLW; JFSJ1; JPWL1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 32. Weight in Grams: 771.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Holo Books United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st.ed.
- Number of pages
- 430
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780953773060
- ISBN
- 9780953773060
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 17.85
€ 19.99
€ 17.85
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; 1FCA; 3JMC; HBJF; HBLX; HBWS4; HBWS5; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 13154th
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231141918
- ISBN
- 9780231141918
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 21.44
€ 29.99
€ 21.44
hardcover. Using a theoretical approach that utilizes work in literary studies, anthropology, feminist theory, and cultural studies, this book investigates how, in twentieth century China, the modern concepts of the new woman and the new writing developed into a protracted cultural debate over what and how women should and could write. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 21. Weight in Grams: 505.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804731294
- ISBN
- 9780804731294
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 90.19
€ 90.19
Paperback. This text charts women's contributions to what the author calls the "War Story". It concentrates on the contemporary literature of the Arab world, showing how women who write themselves and their experiences into the "War Story" undo the masculine contract with violence, sexuality and glory. Num Pages: 309 pages, 32 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1DVWYB; 1FB; 1FMV; DSA; DSBH; JFC; JFSJ1; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 25. Weight in Grams: 606.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 309
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520206137
- ISBN
- 9780520206137
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.12
€ 38.99
€ 28.12
Paperback. This collection of autobiographical essays offers a vivid and harrowing picture of war and its impact on daily life, as seen by two distinct perspectives. Israeli and Palestinian. Editor(s): Lentin, Ronit; Abdo, Nahla; Abdo-Zubi, Nahla. Num Pages: 338 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 1FBP; BG; HBJF1; HBLW3; JFFK; JP; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books, Incorporated United States
- Number of pages
- 338
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571814593
- ISBN
- 9781571814593
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.17
€ 45.17
Paperback. In a challenging and authoritative analysis, Parvin Paidar considers how Iranian women have been affected, and their position redefined, by the political transformations of twentieth-century Iran. Editor(s): Tripp, Charles. Series Editor(s): Clancy-Smith, Julia A.; Gershoni, Israel; Owen, Roger; Sayigh, Yezid; Tucker, Judith E. Series: Cambridge Middle East Studies. Num Pages: 424 pages, 7 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1FBN; HBJF1; HBLW; JFFK; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521595728
- ISBN
- 9780521595728
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.30
€ 39.30
Paperback. Throughout South and Southeast Asia, groups battle over definitions of identity. This volume explores the intricate, dynamic relationships that pertain between women's agency and the state-making institutions and armed forces of Kashmir, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Burma (Myanmar). It also addresses the complex roles of Islam and Hinduism. Editor(s): Skidmore, Monique; Lawrence, Patricia. Series: Kroc Institute Series on Religion, Conflict, and Peacebuilding. Num Pages: 312 pages, 4 illustrated maps, 19 illustrated halftones. BIC Classification: 1FM; GTJ; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 14. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268041267
- ISBN
- 9780268041267
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.65
€ 33.99
€ 30.65
Hardcover. Throughout South and Southeast Asia, groups battle over definitions of identity. This volume explores the intricate, dynamic relationships that pertain between women's agency and the state-making institutions and armed forces of Kashmir, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Burma (Myanmar). It also addresses the complex roles of Islam, and Hinduism. Editor(s): Skidmore, Monique; Lawrence, Patricia. Series: Kroc Institute Series on Religion, Conflict, and Peacebuilding. Num Pages: 312 pages, 4 illustrated maps, 19 illustrated halftones. BIC Classification: 1FM; GTJ; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 161 x 20. Weight in Grams: 581.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268041250
- ISBN
- 9780268041250
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.10
€ 112.10
Paperback. Since the early 1980s sex and sexuality have become prominent themes of public debate in China, after three decades during which discourses on sexuality were subject to stringent ideological controls. This book analyses the ways in which sex and sexuality have been discussed in The People's Republic of China since 1949. Num Pages: 280 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJP; HBJF; HBLW3; JFSJ; JMU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 160 x 16. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745613987
- ISBN
- 9780745613987
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.04
€ 26.04
hardcover. Drawing on newly available archival case records, this book demonstrates that Chinese women's rights to property changed substantially from the Song through the Qing dynasties, and even more dramatically under the Republican Civil Code of 1929-30. Series: Law, Society & Culture in China. Num Pages: 256 pages, references, index. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3H; 3J; HBJF; HBTB; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 535.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804735261
- ISBN
- 9780804735261
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.30
€ 133.30
Paperback. Contains essays which analyze the social, political, economic, and cultural forces that shape gender systems in the Middle East and North Africa. This volume includes essays that also analyze Arab disillusionment with the radical nationalisms of the 1950s and 1960s and with leftist ideologies, as well as the rise of political Islamist movements. Editor(s): Joseph, Suad; Slyomovics, Susan. Num Pages: 256 pages, 22 illus. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1HB; 3JJPG; JFSJ; JHM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 179 x 228 x 15. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780812217490
- ISBN
- 9780812217490
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 34.92
€ 38.99
€ 34.92
Hardcover. Wai-yee Li examines the discursive space of women in seventeenth-century China. Using texts written by women or by men writing in a feminine voice, as well as writings that turn women into signifiers of lamentation or nostalgia, Li probes the emotional and psychological turmoil of the Ming-Qing transition and subsequent moments of national trauma. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 625 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSB; HBJF; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 55. Weight in Grams: 1342.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Harvard University Asia Center
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674492042
- ISBN
- 9780674492042
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.71€ 61.15
€ 67.71
€ 61.15
Paperback. Is today's changing media landscape in the Middle East empowering women? This is the first book to address the dynamics of media ecology and women's advancement in the contemporary Middle East. Editor(s): Sakr, Naomi. Series: Library of Modern Middle East Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; JFD; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Publisher
- I. B. Tauris
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781850435457
- ISBN
- 9781850435457
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.59
€ 36.59
Paperback. The most comprehensive analysis available on the link between ICT and women's empowerment. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1H; GTF; JFD; JFSJ1; KNT. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 138 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781783600427
- ISBN
- 9781783600427
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 30.55
€ 30.99
€ 30.55