| Description |
xiv, 298 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
| Series |
Innovations in feminist studies
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Haworth innovations in feminist studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-288) and index. |
| Contents |
Seclusion at work -- A return to the Taliban -- Ancient veiling -- Artistic representation -- Written evidence -- Domestic architecture -- Architecture : the sacred -- In the sacred storehouse -- Sacred pegs -- "HRM" -- Balance in the paleolithic : sacred time, space, and persons -- Evolution -- Biology -- The clan -- Environment for seclusion -- Trade -- Capital and land -- The British parallel : enclosure -- Liberation of the individual -- The hunger for the individual -- The urban Mesopotamian clan -- How Mesopotamian culture effected individual alienation -- The personal god -- Cities of power -- Vernacular gender -- Slavery -- Honor -- Masscult -- Women's tongue -- For men only -- The fate of seclusion in the west -- Conclusion. |
| Subject |
Women -- Middle East -- Social conditions.
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Women. |
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Middle East. |
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Social conditions. |
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Women -- Middle East -- History.
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History. |
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Women's rights -- Middle East.
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Women's rights. |
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
| ISBN |
0789029839 hardcover alkaline paper |
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9780789029836 hardcover alkaline paper |
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0789029847 soft alkaline paper |
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9780789029843 soft alkaline paper |
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