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UNINA9910463094603321 |
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Autore |
Ghannam Farha <1963-> |
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Titolo |
Live and die like a man [[electronic resource] ] : gender dynamics in urban Egypt / / Farha Ghannam |
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Stanford, California, : Stanford University Press, 2013 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (238 p.) |
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Masculinity - Egypt |
Men - Socialization - Egypt |
Sex role - Egypt |
Social norms - Egypt |
Electronic books. |
Egypt Social conditions 1981- |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Masculinity in Urban Egypt -- 1. Uncertain Trajectories -- 2. Plans and Stands -- 3. Women and the Making of Proper Men -- 4. Gendered Violence -- 5. Sickness, Death, and a Good Ending -- Conclusion. Masculine Trajectories and National Paths -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Watching the revolution of January 2011, the world saw Egyptians, men and women, come together to fight for freedom and social justice. These events gave renewed urgency to the fraught topic of gender in the Middle East. The role of women in public life, the meaning of manhood, and the future of gender inequalities are hotly debated by religious figures, government officials, activists, scholars, and ordinary citizens throughout Egypt. Live and Die Like a Man presents a unique twist on traditional understandings of gender and gender roles, shifting the attention to men and exploring how they are collectively "produced" as gendered subjects. It traces how masculinity is continuously maintained and reaffirmed by both men and women under changing socio-economic and political conditions. Over a period of nearly twenty |
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years, Farha Ghannam lived and conducted research in al-Zawiya, a low-income neighborhood not far from Tahrir Square in northern Cairo. Detailing her daily encounters and ongoing interviews, she develops life stories that reveal the everyday practices and struggles of the neighborhood over the years. We meet Hiba and her husband as they celebrate the birth of their first son and begin to teach him how to become a man; Samer, a forty-year-old man trying to find a suitable wife; Abu Hosni, who struggled with different illnesses; and other local men and women who share their reactions to the uprising and the changing situation in Egypt. Against this backdrop of individual experiences, Ghannam develops the concept of masculine trajectories to account for the various paths men can take to embody social norms. In showing how men work to realize a "male ideal," she counters the prevalent dehumanizing stereotypes of Middle Eastern men all too frequently reproduced in media reports, and opens new spaces for rethinking patriarchal structures and their constraining effects on both men and women. |
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UNINA9910782834603321 |
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Autore |
Bachner Thomas |
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Creditor protection in private companies : Anglo-German perspectives for a European legal discourse / / Thomas Bachner [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2009 |
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1-107-20150-0 |
1-282-10389-X |
9786612103896 |
0-511-51745-9 |
0-511-57655-2 |
0-511-51547-2 |
0-511-51794-7 |
0-511-51440-9 |
0-511-51675-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xxxvi, 315 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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International corporate law and financial market regulation |
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Disciplina |
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Private companies - Germany - Finance |
Corporations - Finance - Law and legislation - Germany |
Debtor and creditor - Germany |
Corporation reserves - Law and legislation - Germany |
Directors of corporations - Legal status, laws, etc - Germany |
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Private companies - Great Britain - Finance |
Corporations - Finance - Law and legislation - Great Britain |
Debtor and creditor - Great Britain |
Corporation reserves - Law and legislation - Great Britain |
Directors of corporations - Legal status, laws, etc - Great Britain |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-304) and index. |
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Introduction -- Avoidance of acts that are detrimental to creditors -- Capital maintenance and unlawful distributions -- Directors' liability for contraventions of capital maintenance rules -- Directors' liability for conduct in the vicinity of insolvency. |
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Limited liability companies form the backbone of our modern economy. However, there is a persistent danger of moral hazard on the part of directors and shareholders, particularly in closely held or private companies. Like all developed legal systems, English and German law both provide mechanisms designed to protect creditors from such risks. This book investigates some of these mechanisms, including the avoidance of pre-insolvency acts, capital maintenance and creditor-regarding duties of directors. By analysing the different conceptual and doctrinal perspectives inherent in the English and German systems, this book seeks to advance a discourse between audiences with different legal backgrounds. It will be an invaluable guide for those wishing to understand how the protective mechanisms operate and interact with each other, and how they do so in quite different ways in the two jurisdictions. |
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