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...Manju Parikh May You be a Mother of a Hundred Sons: A Journey Among Women of India by Elisabeth Bumiller (Random House, New York, 1990) $19.95 Hardcover. Copyright 1990: South Asia Bulletin 1989 power at the end of 19 sentences passed by special military cause she entered Britain...

... civilizations. Duke University Press 2011 The Indo-­Mediterranean Caduceus and the Worship of the Tree, the Serpent, and the Mother Goddess in the South of India Patrizia...

...Sandhya Shetty Abstract Long read in relation to public health and gender/sexual mores, Katherine Mayo's Mother India (1927) has rarely been viewed from an animal studies perspective. This article proposes that the animal, tethered to the woman question and to the figure of the Muslim, is integral...

...Fatemeh Keshavarz Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2003 Pregnant with God: The Poetic Art of Mothering the Sacred In Rumi’s Fihi Ma Fih Fatemeh Keshavarz Studies of Rumi can no longer stay on the fringes of ing, much remains unsaid. Many feel...

...Parama Roy Abstract This article is an examination of the career of the “wolf child”—a human child lost or sacrificed by human parents but nurtured by wolf mothers—in imperial South Asia. Notably, wolf children become a particular concern of evangelical Protestant missionaries in the nineteenth...

... market structures characterized by “segmented feminization” is being witnessed in which richer households contain women working in the paid labor force in professional jobs, while poorer households contain mothers, wives, and adult daughters with lower amounts of formal education who do not work outside...

... of agonistic feminist politics is Mrinalini Sinha's revealing analysis in Specters of Mother India (2006) of the circumstances surrounding the mobilization of Indian women around the passage of the Child Marriage Restraint Act in colonial India in 1929, which constitutes the second part of my essay. Duke...

... of Armenians living in territories claimed by the Turkish nationalist movement in 1922; the second was issued by a Kurdish Peace Mother in Diyarbakır, as a plea for an end to state violence in late 2015. Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 Turkey Kurds Armenians friendship the political...

... mother, who was born into it. The interview also touches on how Asad draws on the concept of tradition in his own work and examines the relationship between his early polemics on Elie Keddourie with his later disagreements with Salman Rushdie. The interview is preceded by a short preface that situates...

..., reflected in one’s mother being the Turkish context. It is no surprise that both covered or not covered, exerts the largest impact support and opposition regarding the turban on women’s head...

.... Their first pamphlet included the tragic but true few of which were later printed and others which were stories of two mothers - a Sinhala woman and a Tamil modified and printed as cards. On these occasions, the parti- woman - who had lost their sons at war. Both mothers ended cipants...

... research. Although now a strengthening the mother’s role as intermediary and woman who bridges two countries, she grew up pon- communication gate-keeper. Such a relationship gave dering the same questions she raises in her book. She the mothers, otherwise relatively powerless, some power does...

... as benevolence, emerges the figure of the chaste upper-caste, upper- while women’s rights to self-determination regarding and middle-class Hindu woman. And in her role ini- their future domiciles (and citizenship) were obliter- tially as Wife, and later as Mother, it was a figure ated. The process...

... days of the 18th century, Untouchables wore pots around their necks to keep their spit from polluting the ground and brooms to obliterate their footprints. The Untouchable Mahar caste used a greeting, Johar Mayhap (Hail Mother-and-Father) which differed from those used by high caste Hindus...

... with her rapist. Fadwa Laroui, The Single Mother a single mother of two, burned herself to protest “They destroyed my shack and called me crazy.” her exclusion from social housing. Both deaths “Where do I go now?” “I have nowhere to go.” “I (or rather suicides) hit...

... “Father Turk,” by the TBMM on November family (fig. Depicted are a mother and two as a result of the Soyadı Kanunu (Surname flag- waving children at a public gathering wel- Law) that was passed several months earlier on coming the great leader to Istanbul...

... Agha: The Biographical Significance of Flight and Exile 167 would like to illustrate how the decision to flee in the that followed too, she describes how she was often context of a life story tends to be a multidimensional rejected and hurt by her mother. She tries to justify...

... It is your troubles listening to their mothers and other female elders, And the inconveniences of the [dhibad] ceremonies then compose new lullabies in addition to reciting And your constant whimpering cries traditional ones passed from generation to generation. And your the-husband-has-beaten-me...

..., h ecflrps fhrmte’ ol We soul. mother’s her of for repose prayer peaceful a she the offering her!” and herself forgive crossing God said, Margarita, “Here me: Kyria to is, out it she held then picked it, L. kissed her. and up seen it last had I picture as recent exactly smiling looking faintly...

... father and implications of these representations will be discussed mother, would lean toward my father rather to see if there are significant changes over the decades. than my mother, and ask softly what it meant. And he would explain. In the second part...