Contains reflections on body, sexuality, and gender in African literary texts. While the sections 'Gifted Bodies' and 'Queered Bodies' show new developments in viewing body and sexuality as creative powers, the sections 'Tainted Bodies' and 'Violated Bodies' comprise essays that…
A reader on world history that emphasises the centrality of raced, sexed & classed bodies as sites on which imperial power was imagined & exercised, this book examines the effects of global politics, capital & culture on everyday spaces & local cultural encounters.
A reader on world history that emphasises the centrality of raced, sexed & classed bodies as sites on which imperial power was imagined & exercised, this book examines the effects of global politics, capital & culture on everyday spaces & local cultural encounters. From portray…
Somali refugees arrived in Johannesburg, South Africa following apartheid’s official end in 1994 and have since established a well-organized “Little Mogadishu” in Mayfair, a suburb just west of the city center, which continues to grow as Somalis migrate to the country in search …
This study explored factors contributing to Indonesians' perceptions and attitudes toward violence against wives. A total of 181 individuals (91 males and 90 females) living in rural and urban households in Kota Bandung (Bandung City) and Kabupaten Bandung (Bandung Regency), Wes…
My study attempts to provide a picture of the relationship between choices about childbearing in Saudi Arabia, the position of certain women in the social structure of Saudi Arabian society, and their family formation attitudes. The assumption of the study was that a woman's soc…
This study focuses on the socioeconomic integration of female migrants and political refugees from Iran over the past several decades. Their decision to leave Iran depended not only on the economic opportunities available in the host country, but also on the prevailing political…
The main focus of the research is to study the impact of various development interventions on gender relations among the Cholistani pastoralists. Since the 1970s, many pastoralists have given up their subsistence oriented nomadic adaptation and become increasingly sedentary and …
This study examined the novel by Nahjib Mahfouz, Awlad Haratina, or Children of the Alley. The goal of this examination was to reveal how gender relations are rhetorically created within the Arab cultural context. This study found that two rhetorical strategies mediated gender r…
The fourth edition of Youth and Society remains the most comprehensive and accessible textbook on the sociology of youth. Led by an expert author team, the text takes a holistic approach to the concept of youth, providing an engaging and authoritative overview of the key debates…