Her memoirs (1934 and 1936) demonstrate her determination to rescue the zenana (women's quarters) and purdahnashin (secluded women) from the recesses of the orthodox home in order to counter the emancipationist claims of Gandhian nationalism. Last but not least, Attia Hosain's 1961 novel, ...
Bourget found that a homicide–suicide dynamic was found in nearly three quarters of the cases (Bourget et al., 2010). Similarly the Ontario Domestic Violence Death Review Committee (DVDRC) has seen in recent years an increase of cases of domestic homicide involving older couples with ...
According to Jing Pianpians 114 LOVE, LITERACY AND LAMENTS biography, she was in fact redeemed from the courtesan quarters by marriage, after at least one broken engagement. But her life ended tragically just the same, for when her husband was arrested and taken away to the magistrate...
In this thoroughly original work, one of the most respected scholars of premodern China brings to life what it was like to be a woman in Sung times, from having a marriage arranged, serving parents-in-law, rearing children, and coping with concubines, to deciding what to do if widowed....
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on February 4 at noon EST. The Ida B. Wells quarter is the 16th coin in the American Women Quarters™Program, a four-year program that celebrates the accomplishments and contributions made by women who have shaped our Nation’s history and helped ...
as wells as in a wider array of cultural landscapes ranging from nurses' residences in Montreal to prostitutes' quarters in Los Angeles. The book includes essays on six exemplary projects that have advanced the integration of women's history into historic preservation and closes with three perspecti...
sense, but did suffer intense emotional strain. “The Japanese guard would walk in our quarters at any hour of the day or night. This caused much distress because we never knew what they had in mind, and we never stayed alone in a room and kept our clothes on at all times,” she ...
"Women, Money, and Class: Ssu-ma Kuang and NeoConfucian Views on Women," in Zhongguo jinshi shehui wenhua shilun wenji. Taipei: Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica. ---. 1993a. The Inner Quarters: Marriage and the Lives of Chinese Women in the Sung Period. Berkeley: Uni...
Tan’s book on the literary life of Chinese women prefers a May-Fourth approach to promote popular literature such astancior lyric storytelling, novels, vernacular and erotic literature. Widmer, Ellen, and Kang-i Sun Chang, eds.Writing Women in Late Imperial China. Stanford, CA: Stanford Unive...