Village Women

Author : Laura J. Olson
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299290336
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Worlds of Russian Village Women written by Laura J. Olson and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2013-01-10 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russian rural women have been depicted as victims of oppressive patriarchy, celebrated as symbols of inherent female strength, and extolled as the original source of a great world culture. Throughout the years of collectivization, industrialization, and World War II, women played major roles in the evolution of the Russian village. But how do they see themselves? What do their stories, songs, and customs reveal about their values, desires, and motivations? Based upon nearly three decades of fieldwork, from 1983 to 2010, The Worlds of Russian Rural Women follows three generations of Russian women and shows how they alternately preserve, discard, and rework the cultural traditions of their forebears to suit changing needs and self-conceptions. In a major contribution to the study of folklore, Laura J. Olson and Svetlana Adonyeva document the ways that women’s tales of traditional practices associated with marriage, childbirth, and death reflect both upholding and transgression of social norms. Their romance songs, satirical ditties, and healing and harmful magic reveal the complexity of power relations in the Russian villages.

Author : Ann Baer
Publisher : Michael O'Mara Books
ISBN 13 : 178243058X
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medieval Woman written by Ann Baer and published by Michael O'Mara Books. This book was released on 2012-12-14 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a unique approach to history, compressing decades of in-depth research on the Middle Ages into one single, immersive, compelling narrative.

Author : Akemi Johnson
Publisher : The New Press
ISBN 13 : 1620973324
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Night in the American Village written by Akemi Johnson and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A lively encounter with identity and American military history in Okinawa. Night in the American Village is by turns intellectual, hip, and sexy. I admire it for its ferocity, style, and vigor. A wonderful book." —Anthony Swofford, author of Jarhead A beautifully written examination of the complex relationship between the women living near the U.S. bases in Okinawa and the servicemen who are stationed there At the southern end of the Japanese archipelago lies Okinawa, host to a vast complex of U.S. military bases. A legacy of World War II, these bases have been a fraught issue in Japan for decades—with tensions exacerbated by the often volatile relationship between islanders and the military, especially after the brutal rape of a twelve-year-old girl by three servicemen in the 1990s. But the situation is more complex than it seems. In Night in the American Village, journalist Akemi Johnson takes readers deep into the "border towns" surrounding the bases—a world where cultural and political fault lines compel individuals, both Japanese and American, to continually renegotiate their own identities. Focusing on the women there, she follows the complex fallout of the murder of an Okinawan woman by an ex–U.S. serviceman in 2016 and speaks to protesters, to women who date and marry American men and groups that help them when problems arise, and to Okinawans whose family members survived World War II. Thought-provoking and timely, Night in the American Village is a vivid look at the enduring wounds of U.S.-Japanese history and the cultural and sexual politics of the American military empire.

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN 13 : 9251097801
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Qualitative research on the impacts of social protection on rural women’s economic empowerment written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of the impacts of Malawi's Social Cash Transfer Programme, notably regarding economic advancement. The programme led to income-generating opportunities but women's bargaining power remained limited.

Author : Cleofe M. Kuhonta
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN 13 : 9789251010471
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Introducing Population Concepts in Rural Women's Programmes written by Cleofe M. Kuhonta and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 1981 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : P. Obeng
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137320761
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rural Women’s Power in South Asia: written by P. Obeng and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-22 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates how women's power and caste cleavages often continue to transcend and crosscut the boundaries of caste/tribe, gender, age, class and religion in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh It examines the gendered divisions of labor in rural communities and how countervailing forces have restricted women's status and roles in South Asia.

Author : Nadia Agha
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811668590
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kinship, Patriarchal Structure and Women’s Bargaining with Patriarchy in Rural Sindh, Pakistan written by Nadia Agha and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book provides insights into the prevailing patriarchal system in rural Pakistan. It elaborates on the kinship system in rural Sindh and explores how young married women strategize and negotiate with patriarchy. Drawing on qualitative methodologies, the book reveals the strong relationship between poverty and the perpetuation of patriarchy. Women’s strategies help elevate their position in their families, such as attention to household tasks, producing children, and doing handicraft work for their well-being. These conditions are usually seen as evidence of women’s subordination, but these are also strategies for survival where accommodation to patriarchy wins them approval. The book concludes that women’s life-long struggle is, in fact, a technique of negotiating with patriarchy. In so doing, they internalize the culture that rests on their subordination and reproduce it in older age in exercising power by oppressing other junior women.

Author : Tamara Jacka
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131746060X
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rural Women in Urban China written by Tamara Jacka and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on in-depth ethnographic research - and using an approach that seeks to understand how migration is experienced by the migrants themselves - this is a fascinating study of the experiences of women in rural China who joined the vast migration to Beijing and other cities at the end of the twentieth century. It focuses on the experiences of rural-urban migrants, the particular ways in which they talk about those experiences, and how those experiences affect their sense of identity. Through first-hand accounts of actual migrant workers, the author provides valuable insights into how rural women negotiate rural/urban experiences; how they respond to migration and life in the city; and how that experience shapes their world view, values, and relations with others. The book makes a major contribution to our understanding of the relationship between gender and social change, and of the ways in which globalization and modernity are experienced at the most personal level.

Author : M. P. Boraian
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9788180695261
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empowerment of Rural Women written by M. P. Boraian and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With special reference to Dindigul District in Tamil Nadu, India.

Author : Vanita Viswanath
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429714718
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ngos And Women's Development In Rural South India written by Vanita Viswanath and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years scholars have paid increasing attention to the role of women in development and to non-governmental organizations (NGOs) as effective vehicles for change. Although there are a great many published studies dealing with each of these subjects separately there are few on NGOs and their work with women. Studies that combine a theoreti