Search Results - Women in education

Female, Jewish, and educated the lives of Central European university women / by Freidenreich, Harriet Pass, 1947-

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An examination of the traditional, social, and moral values of the girls of North Imenti, Meru district as revealed through the education system and the changes brought about throu... by Ferry, Marian

Kenya after 50 : reconfiguring education, gender, and policy /

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Jewish women in fin de siècle Vienna by Rose, Alison

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Asian women, identity and migration experiences of transnational women of Indian origin / heritage /

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Empress Wu Zetian in fiction and in history female defiance in Confucian China / by Dien, Dora Shu-fang

Table of Contents: “…The ideological backdrop -- Destinies of the flowers in the mirror -- Li Ruzhen's commentary on Chinese society -- The rise and fall of the historical Empress Wu -- Empress Wu's achievements -- Gender distinctions in traditional China -- Defiant women in legend and fiction -- Overcoming the legacy of Confucianism: urban educated women today.…”
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Muslims and matriarchs cultural resilience in Indonesia through jihad and colonialism / by Hadler, Jeffrey

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Friendship and Politics in Post-Revolutionary France by Horowitz, Sarah, 1978-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : friendship in post-revolutionary France -- The sentimental education of the political -- The politics of anomie -- Friends with benefits -- Post-revolutionary social networks -- The politics of male friendship -- The bonds of concord : women and politics -- Epilogue -- Appendix A : Beranger, Chateaubriand, Guizot, and their friends -- Appendix B : detailed social networks in the 1820s and 1840s.…”
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Adivasi Rights and Exclusion in India /

Table of Contents: “…--Chapter 4 -- --Inclusions and Exclusions of Adivasi Women: Subsuming Challenges from the Past, present and Future in Chhattisgarh -- --Ilina Sen --…”
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Bundist counterculture in interwar Poland by Jacobs, Jack Lester, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…The youth Bund Tsukunft -- SKIF : the Bundist children's movement -- Morgnshtern : a Bundist movement for physical education -- The Medem sanatorium -- The Bundist women's organization.…”
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Pakistan at seventy : a handbook on developments in economics, politics and society /

Table of Contents: “…Mitra -- Evolution of politics / Shirin Tahir-Kheli -- Islam, society and politics in Pakistan / Riaz Hassan -- Sustained political progress : the supportive role of the military / Jehangir Karamat -- Media in Pakistan : idiom, ideology and the army / Khaled Ahmed -- Pakistan, power-play and a new South Asian paradigm / Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury -- Making of foreign policy : changing parameters / Aziz Ahmad Khan -- Taking stock : Pakistan-India relations / Khurshid Kasuri -- Living in a rapidly changing world / Shahid Javed Burki -- Defenders of the crescent : Pakistan-Saudi Arabia relations / Farah Jan -- Adversarial peace : India-Pakistan nuclear rivalry / Farah Jan -- A potential game changer : the China Pakistan economic corridor / Daud Ahmad -- Macroeconomic achievements and challenges / Masood Ahmed -- History of the development discourse in Pakistan / Asad Ejaz Butt -- Recent economic developments and prospects / Farrukh Iqbal -- Economic governance / Ishrat Husain -- Praetorian bureaucratization of political system and politicization of bureaucracy / Shahid Najam -- Getting technology to work for social development / Ayub Ghauri -- Akhwuat : new microcredit stories / Muhammad Saleem Ahmad Ranjha -- Private sector in education / Shahid Kardar -- Educating and employing women / Nasreen Kasuri -- The downward spiral of quality-of-life in Pakistan : is control possible, or even desired? …”
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Politics and culture in Victorian Britain essays in memory of Colin Matthew /

Table of Contents: “…A brief word on "politics" and "culture" / Peter Ghosh and Lawrence Goldman -- Colin Matthew (1941-1999) / Boyd Hilton -- Colin Matthew : a memoir / Ross McKibbin -- Colin Matthew : a bibliography / Peter Ghosh and Lawrence Goldman -- Gladstone and Peel / Peter Ghosh -- Gladstone and a liberal theory of international relations / Martin Ceadel -- The enfranchisement of the urban poor in late-Victorian Britain / John Davis -- The defection of the middle class : the Endowed Schools Act, the Liberal Party and the 1874 election / Lawrence Goldman -- Liberal passions : reason and emotion in late- and post-Victorian liberal thought / Michael Freeden -- The Church of England and women's higher education, c. 1840-1914 / Janet Howarth -- Protestant histories : James Anthony Froude, partisanship, and national identity / Jane Garnett -- Roman candles : Catholic converts among authors in late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain / Philip Waller -- Scenes from professional life : medicine, moral conduct, and interconnectedness in Middlemarch / Margaret Pelling -- Victorian interpretations of Thomas Hobbes / Jose Harris.…”
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New Zealand's Muslims and multiculturalism by Kolig, Erich

Table of Contents: “…Allah is everywhere, even in New Zealand -- Field research -- Community, identity, diversity -- The beginnings -- Muslim representation -- Organisational functions and aims -- Outreach programmes -- The myth of Muslim unity -- Living among infidels -- Orientalism and Islamophobia -- Converts -- Students -- The right to be different : Muslims in the public sphere -- The New Zealand state and multiculturalism -- Secularisation and the right to religion -- Legal instruments -- 'Racial' harmony through interfaith activity -- Education and policy framework -- Democratic participation and public visibility of Muslims -- The difficulty in standardisation of Islamic exceptionalism -- Rivals for custodianship of public morality -- Integration and conflict discourses -- 'When in Rome do as the Romans do' -- The necessity of minority integration -- Conflict discourses -- Blasphemous libel and Islam -- Danish cartoons rock the world -- The Pope's gaffe -- Gender issues : women are equal but different -- Of gender separation and inequality -- Concepts of decency and modesty -- The Burqa case -- Hijab versus Burqa -- Whose authority? …”
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Jewish culture and society in North Africa

Table of Contents: “…Holden -- A moment in Sephardi history : the reestablishment of the Jewish community of Oran, 1792-1831 / Saddek Benkada -- Crosscurrents : trajectories of Algerian Jewish artists and men of culture since the end of the nineteenth century / Hadj Miliani -- Sol Hachuel in the collective memory and folktales of Moroccan Jews / Yaëlle Azagury -- Sol Hachuel, "heroine of the nineteenth century" : gender, the Jewish question, and colonial discourse / Sharon Vance -- Searching for Suleika : a writer's journey / Ruth Knafo Setton -- Corresponding women : female educators of the Alliance israélite universelle in Tunisia, 1882-1914 / Joy A. …”
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Latina/os and World War II : mobility, agency, and ideology / by Rivas-Rodriguez, Maggie, Olguín, B. V., 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Haney -- "Con dolor de corazon" : militarization and transracial recognition among Mexican Americans and Filipinos in the Bataan Death March / Jordan Beltran Gonzales -- Tejanas on the home front : women, bombs, and the (re)gendering of war in Mexican American World War II literature / Patricia Portales -- Interrogating the soldado razo : masculinity, soldiering, and ideology in Mexican American World War II memoir and theater / B.V. …”
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