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UNINA9910822249503321 |
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Asian Muslim women : globalization and local realities / / edited by Huma Ahmed-Ghosh ; contributors, Huma Ahmed-Ghosh [and thirteen others] |
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Albany, New York : , : SUNY Press, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (293 p.) |
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SUNY series, Genders in the Global South |
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Muslim women - Asia - Social conditions |
Feminism - Asia |
Feminism - Religious aspects - Islam |
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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 at the end of each chapters and index. |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Why Muslim Women in Asia?6; Brief History of Islam in Asia; The Book; Part I: Globalization and Transnationalism: The Local Muslim Woman and Public Space; Part II. Muslim Women: Lived Realities, Resistance, and the State; Part III. Women's Voices and Agency: Challenging and Reclaiming Islam; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Part I: Globalization and Transnationalism: The Muslim Woman and Public Space; 1. "Just 6P on a T-shirt, or 12P on a pair of jeans": Bangladeshi Garment Workers Fight for a Livable Wage; Introduction |
From Import Substitution to Export-Led Growth and the Rise of a Female Labor ForceThe Failed Promise and Emergent Worker Consciousness; Ongoing Contestation and Worker Demands; Policies as Usual: The BGMEA Resists Worker Demands; Widespread Protest, Government Backlash, and the Struggle Goes Global; Improved Working Conditions- The Key to Bangladesh's Competitive Edge; Notes; Bibliography; 2. Dilemmas of Women's Movements in Turkey: Labor, Charity, and Neoliberal Patriarchy; Introduction; Traversing Varied Spaces: A Brief Note on Research |
Neoliberal Reform: Labor, Gender Inequality, and New Forms of |
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PovertyKemalist/Secularist Women: Modernization, Westernization, and the Ongoing Micropolitics of Attire and Representation; Conservative/Islamist/Pious Women: Micropolitics of Charity and Piety; Beyond Secular/Pious Dichotomy: Seeing Similarities and Embracing the Challenges Ahead; Notes; Bibliography; 3. Complicated Belonging: Gendered Empowerment and Anxieties about "Returning" among Internally Displaced Muslim Women in Puttalam, Sri Lanka; Pollution and Purity of Displacement; Humanitarian Work and Gender |
Class-Specific Identity PerformancesReproductive Health; Women as Border-Crossers; Ambivalent on "Imminent Peace"; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; 4. Women in Post-Conflict Swat, Pakistan; Historical Context; Notes on Agency, Resistance, and Survival; Resisting the Taliban; Supporting the Taliban; Working for Peace; Discussion; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Part II: Muslim Women: Lived Realities, Resistance, and the State; 5. Maintenance for Divorced Muslim Women after the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act 1986: A View from the Lower Courts; Introduction |
The Impact of the MWA: Contrasting ViewsWomens' Low Rate of Resort to the Courts; Limited Knowledge of the MWA within the Legal Profession; Maintenance Cases Under S125 in the Additional Family Court of Hyderabad; The MWA in the Mahila Court of Hyderabad; Judgments Against a Divorcée's Relatives; Judgments Against a State Waqf Board; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Laws Cited; Cases Cited; 6. Gender, Sharia, and the Politics of Punishment: A Contemporary Malaysian Case1; Islamization and Modernity in Malaysia; The Trials of Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno; Caning and Modernity; Screening Kartika |
The Gendered Politics of Punishment: Representation, Embodiment, and Effectivity |
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UNINA9910962892503321 |
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Newport Kenneth G. C |
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The Branch Davidians of Waco : the history and beliefs of an apocalyptic sect / / Kenneth G.C. Newport |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006 |
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0191514314 |
9780191514319 |
0-19-151431-4 |
1-280-90471-2 |
0-19-169749-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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Seventh-Day Adventists - Texas - Waco |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Intro -- Contents -- Plates -- Abbreviations -- 1. 'A Mad Man in Waco': David Koresh in Popular Perspective -- 2. 'A Sure Word of Prophecy': the Bible, Prophecy Belief, and the Seventh-day Adventist Church -- 3. 'Hear Ye the Rod': Victor T. Houteff, the Shepherd's Rod, and the Davidian Seventh-day Adventists -- 4. 'Thy Kingdom Come': the Theology of Victor Houteff and the Davidian Seventh-day Adventists -- 5. 'But the End is Not Yet': Florence Houteff and the End of the World -- 6. 'Behold the Man whose Name is ''The Branch'' ': Ben Roden and the Emergence of Branch Davidianism -- 7. 'The Branch He': Ben Roden and the Theology of Branch Davidianism -- 8. 'The Branch She': Lois Roden, Shekinah, and the Struggle for Leadership -- 9. 'A Pale Rider': Vernon Howell and the Branch Davidians, 1959-1985 -- 10. 'And Death Shall Follow in His Wake': Vernon Howell, David Koresh, and the Branch Davidians, 1986-1993 -- 11. 'The Seventh Angel': David Koresh and the Mystery of God -- 12. 'A Lamb-Like Beast': the Branch Davidians and the ATF -- 13. 'A Call for the Endurance of the Saints': Mt. Carmel, 28 February-19 April 1993 -- 14. 'An Ultimate Act of Faith'? The Cause of the Waco Fire -- 15. 'For Behold the Lord Will Come with Fire': Theology and the Waco Inferno -- 16. 'Prophecies shall Fail': Post-1993 |
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Branch Davidianism -- 17. Concluding Observations -- Appendix A: A Personal View: Derek Lovelock -- Appendix B: Davidian Seventh-day Adventists, 1961-2003 -- Appendix C: Deaths at Waco -- Appendix D: Waco Survivors -- Select Bibliography -- Film, Television, and Internet Sources -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z. |
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The first full, scholarly account of the history and beliefs of the Branch Davidians, the community that hit the world's headlines in 1993 when their buildings in Waco, Texas, burnt to the ground with great loss of life. |
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