Many Pious Women

Author : Harry Fox
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110262088
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Many Pious Women written by Harry Fox and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is of importance to anyone with an interest in whether women, especially Jewish Ashkenazic women, had a Renaissance. It details the participation in the Querelle des Femmes and Power of Women topos as expressed in this hagiographic work on the lives of biblical women including the apocryphal Judith. The Power of Women topos is discussed in the context of the reception of the Amazon myth in Jewish literature and the domestication of powerful female figures. In the Querelle our author pleads with husbands for generosity and respect for their wives’ piety. Whether women living in the Renaissance experienced a renaissance is a debate raging since Joan Kelly raised the possibility that this historic phenomenon essentially did not affect women. The question is raised with reference to the women depicted in Many Pious Women. These topics find their expression in a richly annotated translation with extensive introductory essays of a unique 16th–century manuscript in Western Yiddish (Judeo–German) written in Italy. The text will also be useful to scholars of the history of Yiddish and theorists of its development. Women everywhere, gender and Renaissance scholars, Yiddishists and linguists will all welcome this work now available for the very first time in the original text with an English translation.

Author : Elizabeth M. Bucar
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674976169
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pious Fashion written by Elizabeth M. Bucar and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-04 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many Westerners, the veil is the ultimate sign of women’s oppression. But Elizabeth Bucar’s take on Muslim women’s clothing is a far cry from this attitude. She invites readers to join her in three Muslim-majority nations as she surveys pious fashion from head to toe and shows how Muslim women approach the question “What to wear?” with style.

Author : Avraham Grossman
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 1611683947
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pious and Rebellious written by Avraham Grossman and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first complete look at the social status and daily life of medieval Jewish women.

Author : Samuel Burder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 746 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of Eminently Pious Women written by Samuel Burder and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Francis Bacon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of Eminently Pious Women of Britain and America written by David Francis Bacon and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sonia Ahsan-Tirmizi
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503614727
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pious Peripheries written by Sonia Ahsan-Tirmizi and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Taliban made piety a business of the state, and thereby intervened in the daily lives and social interactions of Afghan women. Pious Peripheries examines women's resistance through groundbreaking fieldwork at a women's shelter in Kabul, home to runaway wives, daughters, mothers, and sisters of the Taliban. Whether running to seek marriage or divorce, enduring or escaping abuse, or even accused of singing sexually explicit songs in public, "promiscuous" women challenge the status quo—and once marked as promiscuous, women have few resources. This book provides a window into the everyday struggles of Afghan women as they develop new ways to challenge historical patriarchal practices. Sonia Ahsan-Tirmizi explores how women negotiate gendered power mechanisms, notably those of Islam and Pashtunwali. Sometimes defined as an honor code, Pashtunwali is a discursive and material practice that women embody through praying, fasting, oral and written poetry, and participation in rituals of hospitality and refuge. In taking ownership of Pashtunwali and Islamic knowledge, in both textual and oral forms, women create a new supportive community, finding friendship and solidarity in the margins of Afghan society. So doing, these women redefine the meanings of equality, honor, piety, and promiscuity in Afghanistan.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of Pious Women written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : Adam Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9788174355461
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pious Woman written by and published by Adam Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Samuel Burder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of Eminently Pious Women written by Samuel Burder and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Aihwa Ong
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520915348
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bewitching Women, Pious Men written by Aihwa Ong and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1995-09-07 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This impressive array of essays considers the contingent and shifting meanings of gender and the body in contemporary Southeast Asia. By analyzing femininity and masculinity as fluid processes rather than social or biological givens, the authors provide new ways of understanding how gender intersects with local, national, and transnational forms of knowledge and power. Contributors cut across disciplinary boundaries and draw on fresh fieldwork and textual analysis, including newspaper accounts, radio reports, and feminist writing. Their subjects range widely: the writings of feminist Filipinas; Thai stories of widow ghosts; eye-witness accounts of a beheading; narratives of bewitching genitals, recalcitrant husbands, and market women as femmes fatales. Geographically, the essays cover Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines. The essays bring to this region the theoretical insights of gender theory, political economy, and cultural studies. Gender and other forms of inequality and difference emerge as changing systems of symbols and meanings. Bodies are explored as sites of political, economic, and cultural transformation. The issues raised in these pages make important connections between behavior, bodies, domination, and resistance in this dynamic and vibrant region.