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Changing narratives of sexuality : contestations, compliance and women's empowerment / edited by Charmaine Pereira.

Contributor(s): Series: Feminisms and developmentPublication details: London ; New York : Zed Books, 2014.Description: x, 260 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 1783600128 (pbk.)
  • 9781783600120 (pbk.)
  • 9781783600137
  • 1783600136
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 305.4
LOC classification:
  • HQ1870.9 .C45 2014
Contents:
PART 1 Negotiating desire? -- Rewriting desire as empowerment in the Women and Memory Forum's storytelling project / Mona I. Ali -- Islam in urban Bangladesh: Changing worldviews and reconfigured sexuality / Samia Huq -- Loving and fearing: Township girls' agency amidst sexual risk / Deevia Bhana -- PART 2 Body politics and sexualities -- Reporting Anita: Nudity in Nigerian newspapers / Charmaine Periera and Bibi Bakare-Yusuf -- Ageing women and the culture of eternal youth: Personal and theoretical reflections from a feminist over sixty in Brazil / Cecilia M. B. Sardenberg -- Unmarried in Palestine: Embodiment and (dis)empowerment in the lives of single Palestinian women / Penny Johnson -- PART 3 Changing institutions? -- Narratives of Egyptian marriages / Mulki Al-Sharmani -- Gender and sexuality activism in Beijing: Negotiating international influences and national and local processes / Susie Jolly.
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Book Book Ayesha Abed Library General Stacks Ayesha Abed Library General Stacks 305.4 CHA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 3010030807
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

PART 1 Negotiating desire? -- Rewriting desire as empowerment in the Women and Memory Forum's storytelling project / Mona I. Ali -- Islam in urban Bangladesh: Changing worldviews and reconfigured sexuality / Samia Huq -- Loving and fearing: Township girls' agency amidst sexual risk / Deevia Bhana -- PART 2 Body politics and sexualities -- Reporting Anita: Nudity in Nigerian newspapers / Charmaine Periera and Bibi Bakare-Yusuf -- Ageing women and the culture of eternal youth: Personal and theoretical reflections from a feminist over sixty in Brazil / Cecilia M. B. Sardenberg -- Unmarried in Palestine: Embodiment and (dis)empowerment in the lives of single Palestinian women / Penny Johnson -- PART 3 Changing institutions? -- Narratives of Egyptian marriages / Mulki Al-Sharmani -- Gender and sexuality activism in Beijing: Negotiating international influences and national and local processes / Susie Jolly.

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