Author: Amrit Wilson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788125031963
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
This book testifies to a multiplicity of struggles, individual and collective, through which South Asian women, across divisions of class, community, age and religion, are seeking to take control of their lives. It looks at the role of the British state, of relentless pressures of the market, and of the politics of South Asia on shaping gender relations over the last thirty years; and discusses how South Asian masculinities have been reconfigured by multicultural policies and by politicised religion. It explores the interaction of institutionalised racism and South Asian patriarchy in the context of immigration policy, state interventions such as Forced Marriage Intiative, and psychiatry. It analyses the experiences of low-paid Asian women workers in the global market; and looks at how dominant representations of South Asian women have and have not changed.
Dreams, Questions, Struggles (Pul)
Author: Amrit Wilson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788125031963
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
This book testifies to a multiplicity of struggles, individual and collective, through which South Asian women, across divisions of class, community, age and religion, are seeking to take control of their lives. It looks at the role of the British state, of relentless pressures of the market, and of the politics of South Asia on shaping gender relations over the last thirty years; and discusses how South Asian masculinities have been reconfigured by multicultural policies and by politicised religion. It explores the interaction of institutionalised racism and South Asian patriarchy in the context of immigration policy, state interventions such as Forced Marriage Intiative, and psychiatry. It analyses the experiences of low-paid Asian women workers in the global market; and looks at how dominant representations of South Asian women have and have not changed.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788125031963
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
This book testifies to a multiplicity of struggles, individual and collective, through which South Asian women, across divisions of class, community, age and religion, are seeking to take control of their lives. It looks at the role of the British state, of relentless pressures of the market, and of the politics of South Asia on shaping gender relations over the last thirty years; and discusses how South Asian masculinities have been reconfigured by multicultural policies and by politicised religion. It explores the interaction of institutionalised racism and South Asian patriarchy in the context of immigration policy, state interventions such as Forced Marriage Intiative, and psychiatry. It analyses the experiences of low-paid Asian women workers in the global market; and looks at how dominant representations of South Asian women have and have not changed.
Dreams, Questions, Struggles
Author: Amrit Wilson
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
A political account of the lives and struggles of British Asian women.
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
A political account of the lives and struggles of British Asian women.
Dream, Struggle, Victory
Author: Gabriela Gonzalez
Publisher: Olympia Press Limited
ISBN: 9780975554753
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
What can you learn from over 80 Olympic athletes about Goal Setting, Planning, Attitude, Success and Fighting for your dream? Learn the secrets of success from top achievers from around the world. Foreword by Scott Hamilton.
Publisher: Olympia Press Limited
ISBN: 9780975554753
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
What can you learn from over 80 Olympic athletes about Goal Setting, Planning, Attitude, Success and Fighting for your dream? Learn the secrets of success from top achievers from around the world. Foreword by Scott Hamilton.
Finding a Voice
Author: Amrit Wilson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781988832012
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
First published in 1978, and winning the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize for that year, Finding a Voice established a new discourse on South Asian women's lives and struggles in Britain. This new edition includes a preface by Meena Kandasamy, some historic photographs, and a remarkable new chapter by young South Asian women.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781988832012
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
First published in 1978, and winning the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize for that year, Finding a Voice established a new discourse on South Asian women's lives and struggles in Britain. This new edition includes a preface by Meena Kandasamy, some historic photographs, and a remarkable new chapter by young South Asian women.
The Informationist
Author: Taylor Stevens
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307717119
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Governments pay her. Criminals fear her. Nobody sees her coming. Vanessa “Michael” Munroe deals in information—expensive information—working for corporations, heads of state, private clients, and anyone else who can pay for her unique brand of expertise. Born to missionary parents in lawless central Africa, Munroe took up with an infamous gunrunner and his mercenary crew when she was just fourteen. As his protégé, she earned the respect of the jungle's most dangerous men, cultivating her own reputation for years until something sent her running. After almost a decade building a new life and lucrative career from her home base in Dallas, she's never looked back. Until now. A Texas oil billionaire has hired her to find his daughter who vanished in Africa four years ago. It’s not her usual line of work, but she can’t resist the challenge. Pulled deep into the mystery of the missing girl, Munroe finds herself back in the lands of her childhood, betrayed, cut off from civilization, and left for dead. If she has any hope of escaping the jungle and the demons that drive her, she must come face-to-face with the past that she’s tried for so long to forget. The first book in the Vanessa Michael Munroe series, gripping, ingenious, and impeccably paced, The Informationist marks the arrival or a thrilling new talent. “Stevens’s blazingly brilliant debut introduces a great new action heroine, Vanessa Michael Munroe, who doesn’t have to kick over a hornet’s nest to get attention, though her feral, take-no-prisoners attitude reflects the fire of Stieg Larsson’s Lisbeth Salander….Thriller fans will eagerly await the sequel to this high-octane page-turner.” —Publishers Weekly, starred, boxed review
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307717119
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Governments pay her. Criminals fear her. Nobody sees her coming. Vanessa “Michael” Munroe deals in information—expensive information—working for corporations, heads of state, private clients, and anyone else who can pay for her unique brand of expertise. Born to missionary parents in lawless central Africa, Munroe took up with an infamous gunrunner and his mercenary crew when she was just fourteen. As his protégé, she earned the respect of the jungle's most dangerous men, cultivating her own reputation for years until something sent her running. After almost a decade building a new life and lucrative career from her home base in Dallas, she's never looked back. Until now. A Texas oil billionaire has hired her to find his daughter who vanished in Africa four years ago. It’s not her usual line of work, but she can’t resist the challenge. Pulled deep into the mystery of the missing girl, Munroe finds herself back in the lands of her childhood, betrayed, cut off from civilization, and left for dead. If she has any hope of escaping the jungle and the demons that drive her, she must come face-to-face with the past that she’s tried for so long to forget. The first book in the Vanessa Michael Munroe series, gripping, ingenious, and impeccably paced, The Informationist marks the arrival or a thrilling new talent. “Stevens’s blazingly brilliant debut introduces a great new action heroine, Vanessa Michael Munroe, who doesn’t have to kick over a hornet’s nest to get attention, though her feral, take-no-prisoners attitude reflects the fire of Stieg Larsson’s Lisbeth Salander….Thriller fans will eagerly await the sequel to this high-octane page-turner.” —Publishers Weekly, starred, boxed review
It Is Not a Dream to Change Your Past
Author: Dr. Shirli Regev
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1543482384
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 141
Book Description
If you only had three wishes that you think can change your current life dramatically, what would they be? Will you then be happy and satisfied, knowing that you can go back into your past and change your present life or even make your dreams come true? We are growing in a world that provides us with the resources and knowledge of how to make it all better. We strive to be and feel happy and fulfilled, searching outwardly for answers, not knowing that all the answers and our sought-after treasures lie and are already available to us within us. The book It Is Not a Dream to Change Your Past is an eye-opener and an exploration for all you spiritual seekers who wish to know and explore past life regression, as well as dreams and their interpretations, therapies, and benefits. This book is intended for you to give you a direction, a new point of view, tools, and a road map that will be useful for your own private life. We are going to learn together how to empower yourself to be able to change your lifethat is, with grace, harmony, and peace of mind to know how to be able to navigate our own ship to quiet waters and embrace lifes challenges with inner quietude and knowledge that, yes, you can. Join us for a great journey.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1543482384
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 141
Book Description
If you only had three wishes that you think can change your current life dramatically, what would they be? Will you then be happy and satisfied, knowing that you can go back into your past and change your present life or even make your dreams come true? We are growing in a world that provides us with the resources and knowledge of how to make it all better. We strive to be and feel happy and fulfilled, searching outwardly for answers, not knowing that all the answers and our sought-after treasures lie and are already available to us within us. The book It Is Not a Dream to Change Your Past is an eye-opener and an exploration for all you spiritual seekers who wish to know and explore past life regression, as well as dreams and their interpretations, therapies, and benefits. This book is intended for you to give you a direction, a new point of view, tools, and a road map that will be useful for your own private life. We are going to learn together how to empower yourself to be able to change your lifethat is, with grace, harmony, and peace of mind to know how to be able to navigate our own ship to quiet waters and embrace lifes challenges with inner quietude and knowledge that, yes, you can. Join us for a great journey.
Dreams of the Overworked
Author: Christine M. Beckman
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 1503612333
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
A riveting look at the real reasons Americans feel inadequate in the face of their dreams, and a call to celebrate how we support one another in the service of family and work in our daily life. Jay's days are filled with back-to-back meetings, but he always leaves work in time to pick his daughter up from swimming at 7pm, knowing he'll be back on his laptop later that night. Linda thinks wistfully of the treadmill in her garage as she finishes folding the laundry that's been in the dryer for the last week. Rebecca sits with one child in front of a packet of math homework, while three others clamor for her attention. In Dreams of the Overworked, Christine M. Beckman and Melissa Mazmanian offer vivid sketches of daily life for nine families, capturing what it means to live, work, and parent in a world of impossible expectations, now amplified unlike ever before by smart devices. We are invited into homes and offices, where we recognize the crushing pressure of unraveling plans, and the healing warmth of being together. Moreover, we witness the constant planning that goes into a "good" day, often with the aid of phones and apps. Yet, as technologies empower us to do more, they also promise limitless availability and connection. Checking email on the weekend, monitoring screen time, and counting steps are all part of the daily routine. The stories in this book challenge the seductive myth of the phone-clad individual, by showing that beneath the plastic veneer of technology is a complex, hidden system of support—our dreams being scaffolded by retired in-laws, friendly neighbors, spouses, and paid help. This book makes a compelling case for celebrating the structures that allow us to strive for our dreams, by supporting public policies and community organizations, challenging workplace norms, reimagining family, and valuing the joy of human connection.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 1503612333
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
A riveting look at the real reasons Americans feel inadequate in the face of their dreams, and a call to celebrate how we support one another in the service of family and work in our daily life. Jay's days are filled with back-to-back meetings, but he always leaves work in time to pick his daughter up from swimming at 7pm, knowing he'll be back on his laptop later that night. Linda thinks wistfully of the treadmill in her garage as she finishes folding the laundry that's been in the dryer for the last week. Rebecca sits with one child in front of a packet of math homework, while three others clamor for her attention. In Dreams of the Overworked, Christine M. Beckman and Melissa Mazmanian offer vivid sketches of daily life for nine families, capturing what it means to live, work, and parent in a world of impossible expectations, now amplified unlike ever before by smart devices. We are invited into homes and offices, where we recognize the crushing pressure of unraveling plans, and the healing warmth of being together. Moreover, we witness the constant planning that goes into a "good" day, often with the aid of phones and apps. Yet, as technologies empower us to do more, they also promise limitless availability and connection. Checking email on the weekend, monitoring screen time, and counting steps are all part of the daily routine. The stories in this book challenge the seductive myth of the phone-clad individual, by showing that beneath the plastic veneer of technology is a complex, hidden system of support—our dreams being scaffolded by retired in-laws, friendly neighbors, spouses, and paid help. This book makes a compelling case for celebrating the structures that allow us to strive for our dreams, by supporting public policies and community organizations, challenging workplace norms, reimagining family, and valuing the joy of human connection.
Writing the City in British Asian Diasporas
Author: Sean McLoughlin
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317679660
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
In 1962, the Commonwealth Immigrants Act hastened the process of South Asian migration to postcolonial Britain. Half a decade later, now is an opportune moment to revisit the accumulated writing about the diasporas formed through subsequent settlement, and to probe the ways in which the South Asian diaspora can be re-conceptualised. Writing the City in British Asian Diasporas takes a fresh look at such matters and will have multi-disciplinary resonance worldwide. The meaning and importance of local, multi-local and trans-local dynamics is explored through a devolved and regionally-accented comparison of five British Asian cities: Bradford, the East End of London, Manchester, Leicester and Birmingham. Analysing the ‘writing’ of these differently configured cities since the 1960s, its main focus is the significant discrepancies in representation between differently-positioned texts reflecting both dominant institutional discourses and everyday lived experiences of a locality. Part I offers a comprehensive, yet still highly contested, reading of each city’s archives. Part II examines how the arts and humanities fields of History, Religion, Gender and Literary/Cultural Studies have all written British Asian diasporas, and how their perspectives might complement the better-established agendas of the social sciences. Providing an innovative analysis of South Asian communities and their multi-local identities in Britain today, this interdisciplinary book will be of interest to scholars of South Asian Studies, Migration, Ethnic and Diaspora Studies, as well as Sociology, Anthropology, and Geography.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317679660
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
In 1962, the Commonwealth Immigrants Act hastened the process of South Asian migration to postcolonial Britain. Half a decade later, now is an opportune moment to revisit the accumulated writing about the diasporas formed through subsequent settlement, and to probe the ways in which the South Asian diaspora can be re-conceptualised. Writing the City in British Asian Diasporas takes a fresh look at such matters and will have multi-disciplinary resonance worldwide. The meaning and importance of local, multi-local and trans-local dynamics is explored through a devolved and regionally-accented comparison of five British Asian cities: Bradford, the East End of London, Manchester, Leicester and Birmingham. Analysing the ‘writing’ of these differently configured cities since the 1960s, its main focus is the significant discrepancies in representation between differently-positioned texts reflecting both dominant institutional discourses and everyday lived experiences of a locality. Part I offers a comprehensive, yet still highly contested, reading of each city’s archives. Part II examines how the arts and humanities fields of History, Religion, Gender and Literary/Cultural Studies have all written British Asian diasporas, and how their perspectives might complement the better-established agendas of the social sciences. Providing an innovative analysis of South Asian communities and their multi-local identities in Britain today, this interdisciplinary book will be of interest to scholars of South Asian Studies, Migration, Ethnic and Diaspora Studies, as well as Sociology, Anthropology, and Geography.
Popular Music and Human Rights
Author: Professor Ian Peddie
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1409494489
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Popular music has long understood that human rights, if attainable at all, involve a struggle without end. The right to imagine an individual will, the right to some form of self-determination, and the right to self-legislation have long been at the forefront of popular music's approach to human rights. In Eastern Europe, where states often tried to control music, the hundreds of thousands of Estonians who gathered in Tallinn between 1987 and 1991 are a part of the "singing revolutions" that encouraged a sense of national consciousness, which had years earlier been crushed when Soviet policy declared Baltic folk music dead and ordered its replacement with mass song. Examples of this nature, where music has the power to enlighten, to mobilize, and perhaps even to change, suggest that popular music's response to issues of human rights has and will continue to be profound and sustained. This is the second volume published by Ashgate on popular music and human rights (the first volume covered British and American music). Contributors to this significant volume cover topics such as Movimento 77, Nepal's heavy metal scene, music and memory in Mozambique and Swaziland, hybrid metal in the muslim world, folksong in Latvia, popular music in the former Yugoslavia, indigenous human rights in Australia, Víctor Jara, protest and gender in Ireland, rock and roll in China, and the anti-rock campaigns and the Orange Revolution in Ukraine.
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1409494489
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Popular music has long understood that human rights, if attainable at all, involve a struggle without end. The right to imagine an individual will, the right to some form of self-determination, and the right to self-legislation have long been at the forefront of popular music's approach to human rights. In Eastern Europe, where states often tried to control music, the hundreds of thousands of Estonians who gathered in Tallinn between 1987 and 1991 are a part of the "singing revolutions" that encouraged a sense of national consciousness, which had years earlier been crushed when Soviet policy declared Baltic folk music dead and ordered its replacement with mass song. Examples of this nature, where music has the power to enlighten, to mobilize, and perhaps even to change, suggest that popular music's response to issues of human rights has and will continue to be profound and sustained. This is the second volume published by Ashgate on popular music and human rights (the first volume covered British and American music). Contributors to this significant volume cover topics such as Movimento 77, Nepal's heavy metal scene, music and memory in Mozambique and Swaziland, hybrid metal in the muslim world, folksong in Latvia, popular music in the former Yugoslavia, indigenous human rights in Australia, Víctor Jara, protest and gender in Ireland, rock and roll in China, and the anti-rock campaigns and the Orange Revolution in Ukraine.
Later Life, Sex and Intimacy in the Majority World
Author: Krystal Nandini Ghisyawan
Publisher: Policy Press
ISBN: 1447368436
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Literature on sex, intimacy and sexuality in later life has been heavily influenced by perspectives from more affluent regions, perpetuating the belief that the West is more sexually progressive and liberal than other cultures. This book challenges this belief by exploring diverse cultures and perspectives from the majority world, which are often overlooked. It highlights the importance of learning from cultures in the global South and East, dismantling stereotypes that frame them as sexually conservative or inferior. Variously drawing on structuralist, postcolonial and decolonial theory as well as social anthropology, the book critically examines binaries related to culture, age, sex and intimacy, highlighting the need to decentre Western perspectives as the benchmark while other cultures and practices are misunderstood.
Publisher: Policy Press
ISBN: 1447368436
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Literature on sex, intimacy and sexuality in later life has been heavily influenced by perspectives from more affluent regions, perpetuating the belief that the West is more sexually progressive and liberal than other cultures. This book challenges this belief by exploring diverse cultures and perspectives from the majority world, which are often overlooked. It highlights the importance of learning from cultures in the global South and East, dismantling stereotypes that frame them as sexually conservative or inferior. Variously drawing on structuralist, postcolonial and decolonial theory as well as social anthropology, the book critically examines binaries related to culture, age, sex and intimacy, highlighting the need to decentre Western perspectives as the benchmark while other cultures and practices are misunderstood.