Women Without Men
Author: Shahrnush Parsipur
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN: 9781558617537
Category: Fiction
Page: 192
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Language: en
Pages: 192
Pages: 192
A modern literary masterpiece, Women Without Men creates an evocative and powerfully drawn allegory of life in contemporary Iran. Internationally acclaimed writer Shahrnush Parsipur follows the interwoven destinies of five women including a prostitute, a wealthy middle-aged housewife and a schoolteacher as they arrive by different paths to live together
Language: en
Pages: 136
Pages: 136
Language: en
Pages: 275
Pages: 275
The story of thousands of Mennonite women who, having lost their husbands and fathers, assumed altered gender roles in their adopted homeland and created a culture of women refugees with its own distinctive historical narrative.
Language: en
Pages: 288
Pages: 288
Women without Men illuminates Russia’s "quiet revolution" in family life through the lens of single motherhood. Drawing on extensive ethnographic and interview data, Jennifer Utrata focuses on the puzzle of how single motherhood—frequently seen as a social problem in other contexts—became taken for granted in the New Russia. While most
Language: en
Pages: 303
Pages: 303
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