A Glimpse Through Purdah: Asian Women - The Myth and the Reality - Hardcover
Sitara Khan explores the issues of purdah, harem and sati and describes how these traditions shape the lives of Asian women. She examines the ways that women themselves cope with or resist the restrictions placed on their lives by these practices and how women are liberating themselves, in both the Subcontinent and the West.
A Glimpse through Purdah traces the vast array of cultural influences on India from ancient times through partition to the present day.
The interviews with women living in Karachi, Delhi and other cities on the Subcontinent and working as teachers, or in finance, retailing and the garment industry, make illuminating reading. Interviews with Asian women in a northern English town illustrate that migration has created more new problems for Asian women than it has solved.
A Glimpse through Purdah traces the vast array of cultural influences on India from ancient times through partition to the present day.
The interviews with women living in Karachi, Delhi and other cities on the Subcontinent and working as teachers, or in finance, retailing and the garment industry, make illuminating reading. Interviews with Asian women in a northern English town illustrate that migration has created more new problems for Asian women than it has solved.
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Synopsis:
This study explores how "purdah", "suti" and "hareem" shape the lives of women and how they themselves cope with or resist these restrictions. The author's interview with women in Delhi, in Karachi - where we meet women who work in a vast women-only mall,with its banks and shops - and in the north of England illustrate their attitudes to work, the management of family finances and the valuing of education as a way to liberation.
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- PublisherTrentham Books Ltd
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 1858561175
- ISBN 13 9781858561172
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages160
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