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Showing results under subject: 'gender and development'

Theocritus's urban mimes: mobility, gender, and patronage 

Author: Burton, Joan B 1951-
Publisher: University of California Press,  1995
Abstract: Drawing on current literary, cultural, and historical approaches, Joan Burton presents sophisticat…

Passions of the tongue: language devotion in Tamil India, 1891-1970 

Author: Ramaswamy, Sumathi
Publisher: University of California Press,  1997
Abstract: Why would love for their language lead several men in southern India to burn themselves alive in i…

May her likes be multiplied: biography and gender politics in Egypt 

Author: Booth, Marilyn
Publisher: University of California Press,  2001
Abstract: Marilyn Booth's elegantly conceived study reveals the Arabic tradition of life-writing in an entir…

The limits of realism: Chinese fiction in the revolutionary period 

Author: Anderson, Marston
Publisher: University of California Press,  1990
Abstract: Chinese intellectuals of the early twentieth century were attracted to realism primarily as a tool…

Practicing virtues: moral traditions at Quaker and military boarding schools 

Author: Hays, Kim
Publisher: University of California Press,  1994
Abstract: Practicing Virtues is about learning to be good in the distinct moral worlds of Quaker and militar…

Trials of authorship: anterior forms and poetic reconstruction from Wyatt to Shakespeare 

Author: Crewe, Jonathan V
Publisher: University of California Press,  1990
Abstract: For more than a decade, the English Renaissance has been the scene of trial for the critical metho…

A marriage made in heaven: the sexual politics of Hebrew and Yiddish 

Author: Seidman, Naomi
Publisher: University of California Press,  1997
Abstract: With remarkably original formulations, Naomi Seidman examines the ways that Hebrew, the Holy Tongu…

Fifteen jugglers, five believers: literary politics and the poetics of American social movements 

Author: Reed, T. V. (Thomas Vernon)
Publisher: University of California Press,  1992
Abstract: T.V. Reed urges an affiliation between literary theory and political action - and between politica…

A nationality of her own: women, marriage, and the law of citizenship 

Author: Bredbenner, Candice Lewis 1955-
Publisher: University of California Press,  1998
Abstract: In 1907, the federal government declared that any American woman marrying a foreigner had to assum…

Indian traffic: identities in question in colonial and postcolonial India 

Author: Roy, Parama
Publisher: University of California Press,  1998
Abstract: The continual, unpredictable, and often violent "traffic" between identities in colonial and postc…
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