Selection of papers presented at the 16th European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies, University of Edinburgh, September 2000; chiefly on Indian men.
"A significant contribution to our understanding of the varied experience of women in the Islamic Middle East, Tournaments of Value gives a careful description of a world of female socializing, and the velocity, energy, and elaborateness of this remarkable female social world."-…
Exploring the diversity of meanings ascribed to the turn-of-the-century New Woman in the context of cultural debates conducted within and across a wide range of national frameworks, this title scrutinizes the flow of ideas, images and textual parameters of New Woman discourses i…
This important volume by one of the leading scholars in the field examines and discusses how library professionals can meet the demands of policy makers to open up the public library service without destroying it.
