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The History of Feminism in the Arab World
This paper investigates the history of Arab feminism. It traces how those women came from different parts of Arab world and how they developed their awareness towards women's issues, though they do not call themselves as 'feminists' at the beginning. The
Ahmed Saeed Ahmed Mocbil
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Mapiranje zenskih studijev in studijev spola v akademskem polju v Sloveniji [PDF]
The aim of the present paper is to map the development of women’s and gender studies (WGS) in the academic field in Slovenia. Slovenia is the first of the former Yugoslav state republics in which WGS have succeeded in entering the academic field and ...
Antić, Gaber, Milica
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Introduction: British Civilization Studies and the “Woman Question”
This is the first themed issue in the Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique’s twenty-eight-year history to be entirely devoted to what was once called “the woman question”.
Marc Calvini-Lefebvre, Laura Schwartz
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"This is a Business Transaction, fundamentally": Surrogate Motherhood in Meera Syal's The House of Hidden Mothers [PDF]
Meera Syal’s latest novel, The House of Hidden Mothers (2015), depicts the current practice of international surrogacy and raises questions about this form of reproduction which commodifies babies and constructs poor women’s bodies in India and elsewhere
Pérez Fernández, Irene
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The interview to Asunción Lavrin is about his intellectual trajectory. This paper details how she became interested in the issue of women's history in Latin America, and the importance of studying the manuscripts of nuns as a way of understanding women's
Rafael Castañeda García
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Women and Intertextuality: On the Example of Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad [PDF]
The aim of the study is to consider feminist retellings of myths and legends. As an example, Margaret Atwood’s book The Penelopiad is analyzed. The interpretation is situated in a broader context of intertextual practices characteristic of the feminist
Lisowska, Katarzyna
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Women in Britain’s First Muslim Mosques:Hidden from History, but Not Without Influence [PDF]
Two of the earliest Muslim communities in Britain evolved around the first mosques in Liverpool and Woking (both—1889). The history of these early British Muslims is being recovered but little is known about the women (usually converts) in these ...
Cheruvallil-Contractor, Sariya
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8th Britain-Nepal Academic Council Annual Lecture [PDF]
Dr Rajendra Pradhan is currently Dean of Nepâ School of Social Sciences and Humanities and was a founding member and the Chair of Social Science Baha (January 2002 - June 2010).
Pradhan, Rajendra
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Film Editing as Women’s Work: Ėsfir’ Shub, Elizaveta Svilova, and the Culture of Soviet Montage
This study takes as its point of departure the history and contributions of two Soviet editors/directors – Ėsfir’ Shub and Elizaveta Svilova – in order to make visible what has largely remained invisible: film editing as “women’s” work.
Lilya Kaganovsky
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FOUCAULT’S THEORY OF POWER AND THE CRITIQUE OF THE NOTION OF GENDER [PDF]
Autor prikazuje Foucaultovu koncepciju moći i njezin utjecaj na metodološku problematiku ženske i rodne povijest. Problematiku ženske povijesti i rodne teorije autor prikazuje na osnovi radova Joan Wallach Scott i Judith Butler. Posebnu pažnju autor daje
Dinko Župan
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