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Gendering Late Ottoman Society and Reconstructing Gender in the Women's Press

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyses the construction of gender differences in the late Ottoman Empire through women's periodicals, which acted as a key medium in the redefinition of gender roles. It examines how new understandings of gender roles emerged amid rapid transformations in traditional societal structures, particularly in the women’s press.
Tuğba Karaman
wiley   +1 more source

Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
wiley   +1 more source

"Book review". Decolonialising feminism: Decolonial Islamic thinking

open access: yesRevista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals, 2018
Review of the book: Adlbi Sibai, Sirin La cárcel del feminismo: hacia un pensamiento islámico decolonial Akal, 2016, 320 págs.
Ana González Navarro
doaj   +1 more source

PERKEMBANGAN NOVEL ISLAM PRESPEKTIF GENDER

open access: yesMagistra Andalusia, 2020
The development of Islamic novel is increasingly diverse. Gender is one of the topics that writers often pick up. The closeness of the theme with the reader is one of the reasons for the development of gender perspective Islamic novel. This study aims to
Iis Suwartini, Ariesty Fujiastuti
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‘The Good Couscous That Pleases Us!’: The Meanings of Enduring Imperialist Imagery in Postcolonial French Food Advertising, 1970–2000

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines a wave of Orientalism‐inspired food commercials that appeared on television in France between 1975 and 2000. Older commercials for couscous were more banal, emphasizing a given product's superiority or affordability. Around 1975, however, there was a concerted shift in the advertising; new spots contained exoticized ...
Kelly Ricciardi Colvin
wiley   +1 more source

From Multiculturalism to Technique: Feminism, Culture and the Conflict of Laws Style [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The German chancellor, the French president and the British prime minister have each grabbed world headlines with pronouncements that their state’s policy of multiculturalism has failed.
Knop, Karen   +2 more
core   +3 more sources

Navigating the Berber Culture/Islamic Feminism Intersection

open access: yesJournal of World Philosophies, 2017
This essay is an autobiographical journey through my intellectual career. It is a reflection on how my mother tongue Berber and my identity as a woman have impacted my career to the extent that they are interlocked in my research agenda.
Fatima Sadiqi
doaj   +1 more source

The Politics of Location and Sexuality in Leila Ahmed’s and Nawal El Saadawi’s Life Narratives [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This article explores Leila Ahmed’s A Border Passage, and Nawal El Saadawi’s Memoirs from the Women’s Prison, A Daughter of Isis, and Walking Through Fire. It contrasts their works and argues that location and genderawareness play an important role in
Aouadi, Leila
core   +2 more sources

Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
wiley   +1 more source

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