We Share Walls: Language, Land, and Gender in Berber Morocco explores how political economic shifts over the last century have reshaped the language practices and ideologies of women (and men) in the plains and mountains of rural Morocco.
Contemporary African Literature and the Politics of Gender
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The influence of colonialism and race on the development of African literature has been the subject of a number of studies. The effect of patriarchy and gender, however, and indeed the contributions of African women, have up until now been largely ignored by the critics.
Contemporary African Literature and the Politics of Gender is the first extensive account of African literature from a feminist perspective.
This book is an original contribution to the increasing body of knowledge about gender and organizations. It investigates and theorizes gender and culture, and gender relations and gender-based inequality in organizations: how sexual and social relations between women and men, relations based on sexuality, and relations of power and control based on sex, determine the cultures, structures and practices of organizations and the experience of women and men in organizations.
Covering societies from classical times to the twenty first century, Gender in World History is a fascinating exploration of what happens to established ideas about men and ideas about men and women, and their roles, when different cultural systems come into contact. This book breaks new ground to facilitate a consistent approach to gender in a world history context.
A Companion to American Fiction 1780 - 1865 (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)
Added by: dovesnake | Karma: 1384.51 | Fiction literature | 25 August 2008
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This Companion presents the current state of criticism in the field of American fiction from the earliest declarations of nationhood to secession and civil war. Draws heavily on historical and cultural contexts in its consideration of American fiction, relates the fiction of the period to conflicts about territory and sovereignty and to issues of gender, race, ethnicity and identity and covers different forms of fiction.
