I G 1007
Adak, Hülya
So ist das, meine Schöne
Hülya Adak ; Ayse G. Altinay ; Esin Düzel ; Nilgün Bayraktar ; aus d. Türk. übers. von Constanze Letsch. - 1. Aufl.. - Berlin : Orlanda-Frauenverl., 2009. - 120 S. ; 190 mm x 118 mm ISBN 978-3-936937-65-7 Pb. : ca. sfr 24.00 (freier Pr.), ca. EUR 12.90, ca. EUR 13.30 (AT)
Türkei / Frau / Sexualverhalten / Erlebnisbericht ; Deutschland / Türkin / Sexualverhalten / Erlebnisbericht ; Deutschland BR ; (Te); Sexualität ; (Nc~Nd); Erfahrungsbericht ; (Kd)

Die 32 Erfahrungsberichte des Buches basieren auf Interviews der vier Autorinnen Hülya Adak, Ayse Gül Altinay, Esin Düzel und Nilgün Bayraktar mit Frauen, die in der Türkei und in Deutschland leben: Managerinnen, Studentinnen, Putzfrauen, Ärztinnen oder Künstlerinnen. Die Themen Begehren, Liebe und Sexualität ziehen sich als roter Faden durch die Berichte. Einige der Frauen schildern ihr Leben sehr emotional und bewegend, andere machen ihrer Wut über Sexismus und Diskriminierung hemmungslos Luft. Männer kommen dabei sowohl als Täter als auch als Partner, Objekte der Begierde, als Freunde und Familienmitglieder vor. "So ist das, meine Schöne" ist ein intimer und zugleich spannender Einblick in den Alltag, die Gedanken und Gefühle türkischer Frauen der Gegenwart.

I D 618
Osanloo, Arzoo
The politics of women's rights in Iran
Princeton, N.J. [u.a.] : Princeton Univ. Press, 2009. - 272 S. ISBN 0-691-13546-0 (hbk.) : GBP 40.95 - ISBN 978-0-691-13546-5
Iran ; (Tb); Moderne Kultur ; (Mb); Islam ; (Me); Frauenrechte ; (Gk); Familienrecht ; (Gf~Pf)

Arzoo Osanloo explores how Iranian women understand their rights. After the 1979 revolution, Iranian leaders transformed the state into an Islamic republic. At that time, the country's leaders used a renewed discourse of women's rights to symbolize a shift away from the excesses of Western liberalism. Osanloo reveals that the postrevolutionary republic blended practices of a liberal republic with Islamic principles of equality. Her ethnographic study illustrates how women's claims of rights emerge from a hybrid discourse that draws on both liberal individualism and Islamic ideals. Osanloo takes the reader on a journey through numerous sites where rights are being produced - including Qur'anic reading groups, Tehran's family court, and law offices - as she sheds light on the fluid and constructed nature of women's perceptions of rights. In doing so, Osanloo unravels simplistic dichotomies between so-called liberal, universal rights and insular, local culture. The "Politics of Women's Rights in Iran" casts light on a contemporary non-Western understanding of the meaning behind liberal rights, and raises questions about the misunderstood relationship between modernity and Islam.

I G 997
Ugresic, Dubravka
Baba Yaga legt ein Ei
Aus d. Kroat. von Mirjana und Klaus Wittmann. - Berlin : Berlin-Verl., 2008. - 364 S. ; 21 cm Einheitssacht.: Baba Jaga je snijela jaje <dt.> ISBN 978-3-8270-0748-3 Pp. : EUR 22.00 (DE), EUR 22.70 (AT)
Hexe / Belletristische Darstellung ; Roman ; Kroatien ; (Te); Literatur ; (Mc)

"Baba Jaga ist eine böse und hässliche Greisin, der man nachsagt, sie fresse kleine Kinder. Sie ist eine mythische Episodengestalt und hat oft eine Schlüssel-, nie jedoch eine Hauptrolle. Wer möchte sich schon mit einer solchen Figur befassen!? Und dennoch ist Baba Jaga eines der ältesten archetypischen Bilder in der Geschichte der Menschheit, das in uns allen, Frauen wie Männern, tief verwurzelt ist. Bei der Entscheidung, sie zu meinem Thema zu machen, ließ ich mich vielleicht von einem Gerechtigkeitsgefühl leiten oder aber auch von dem kindlichen Wunsch, in Baba Jagas Hütte hineinzuschauen, hinter den Spiegel zu sehen. In literarischer Hinsicht war dies eine anspruchsvolle Aufgabe." So Dubravka Ugresic. Resultat dieser Aufgabe ist ein komplexes Buch in drei Teilen, die sich wechselseitig bespiegeln und ergänzen, und mit einer Vielzahl von Verweisen, mit denen Ugresic ihr hintergründiges Spiel treibt. Auf einer weiteren Ebene geht es im Buch auch um eine Auseinandersetzung mit dem in westlichen Gesellschaften verlängerten Leben, mit dem Körper- und Gesundheitswahn, aber auch um eine Kritik am heutigen Umgang mit dem Alter.

I D 619
Andrea, Bernadette
Women and Islam in early modern English literature
1. publ.. - Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2007. - X, 185 S. ; 24 cm ISBN 978-0-521-86764-1 (hbk.) : £45.00 - ISBN 0-521-86764-9
Englisch / Literatur / Frau <Motiv> / Islam <Motiv> / Geschichte 1500-1700 ; Wroth, Mary / <<The>> Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania / Islam <Motiv> Manley, Mary DeLaRivière / Polygamie <Motiv> Frauenbild Grossbritannien ; (Te); Islamische Welt ; (Tb); Kolonialismus ; (Be~Lb~Lc); Literaturgeschichte ; (Ma)

In this study, Bernadette Andrea focuses on the contributions of women and their writings in the early modern cultural encounters between England and the Islamic world. She examines previously neglected material, such as the diplomatic correspondence between Queen Elizabeth I and the Ottoman Queen Mother Safiye at the end of the sixteenth century, and resituates canonical accounts, including Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's travelogue of the Ottoman empire at the beginning of the eighteenth century. Her study advances our understanding of how women negotiated conflicting discourses of gender, orientalism, and imperialism at a time when the Ottoman empire was hugely powerful and England was still a marginal nation with limited global influence. This book is a contribution to critical and theoretical debates in literary and cultural, postcolonial, women's, and Middle Eastern studies.

I A 2385
Singh, Jaspal Kaur
Representation and resistance : South Asian and African women's texts at home and in the diaspora
Calgary : Univ. of Calgary Press, 2008. - XIV, 232 S. ; 22 cm ISBN 978-1-55238-245-5 (pbk) : £20.99 pbk
Literaturtheorie / Postkolonialismus / Schriftstellerin / Migrantin / Südasien ; (Tc); Indien ; (Tc); Burma; Afrika ; (Ta~Tb); Senegal ; (Ta); Simbabwe ; (Ta)

This book focuses on the work of Western-educated African and Indian women writers (Bharati Mukherjee, Aparna Sen, Mariama Ba, Myriam Warner-Vieyra, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Mira Nair, Gurinde Chadha, Agnes Sam, Farida Karodia, Shani Mootoo, Nisha Ganatra, Deepa Mehta, Meena Alexander, Gurinder Chadha, Zainab Ali, Samina Ali) resisting gender identity constructions at various points in history. Jaspal Singh examines colonial and national gender identity constructions in female-authored texts at 'home' and the continued deployment of and resistance to gender identity impositions in various spaces. Hoping to generate a greater understanding of and appreciation for the contributions of these diasporic women writers within postcolonial literature and analysis, Singh contextualises their work within social, political, and cultural conditions. Her study aids the empowerment of Indian and African women writers as important players in the emerging field of postcolonial studies. In particular, she argues for the importance of inclusion of texts from women of different classes, religions and castes, both in the developed and the under-developed world. Singh's analysis makes reference to texts by Indian and African women in India, the West, and in other Third World spaces with large Indian communities, namely Africa and Burma.

I C 879
Yoshikuni, Tsuneo
Elizabeth Musodzi and the birth of African feminism in early colonial Zimbabwe
Harare : Weaver Press, 2008. - xi, 32 S. : Ill. ; 25 cm ISBN 978-1-77922-074-5
Harare / Feministin / Geschichte 1885-1952 / Biographie ; Woman of Color / Schwarzer Feminismus ; Feminismus ; (Lc); Simbabwe ; (Ta)

Mai Musodzi was born in the Gomba area around 1885. As a child, she experienced the first chimurenga, losing her parents in this struggle, before subsequently receiving a mission education at Chishawasha. An orphan, she married Frank Ayema, a policeman originally from what was then called Barotseland (western Zambia), and they settled in Chizhanje (Mabvuku). With five children of her own, Musodzi worked hard to improve not only her life and that of her family, but through her initiative, leadership qualities, determination and hard work, did much to improve the lives of other women in the townships. She was a founder of the Harare African Womens Club, an instructor in the Red Cross society, and active in various welfare agencies. As a keen gardener and small farmer she inspired women to better themselves through their own efforts, acquiring a reputation of the uncrowned Queen of Harari. Yoshikuni provides the context in which to help us understand this remarkable woman, and in doing so gives a role to women often written out of early urban historiography. Written accessibly and drawing on written archives and memories of those who knew Elizabeth Musodzi, this is a book that everyone interested in the history of Harare must-read.

I C 877
Gender, migration and remittances in Southern Africa
Belinda Dodson .... - Cape Town : Idasa, 2008. - 52 S. : graph. Darst. . - (Southern African Migration Project: Migration policy series ; 49) ISBN 978-1-920118-70-9
Südafrika / Migration / Frau / Mann / Zahlungsverkehr / Migrantin ; Heimatüberweisung ; (Rb~Rd); Südliches Afrika ; (Ta)

Migrant remittances have become an important source of income for many developing countries, exceeding official development assistance. As a result, migration and remittance behaviour are becoming a growing focus of international attention. Understanding the processes and patterns of remittance behaviour can help shed light on their usage and impact, both on recipient households and on wider socio-economic development in migrant-origin countries. One key aspect of such an understanding is the gender dynamics of migration and remittance practices. Globally, there is evidence of the feminization of migrant flows, with women increasingly migrating as independent migrants in their own right. Female migrants maintain strong ties to family members in their home countries. These include significant flows of remittances, of both cash and goods, sent to family members at home. Southern Africa has a long history of cross-border migration and associated flows of remittances. Although cross-border economic migration in the region has been dominated by male migrant labour to the South African mining industry, women have also engaged in movement across the regions borders for purposes of seeking work. Evidence suggests that female migration in the region, especially to South Africa, has increased significantly over the past 10-15 years. Little is known about the nature of migrant womens remittances and their impact on the households that receive them, nor about the changing patterns of male and female migration over the past decade.

I G 996
Tokarczuk, Olga
Unrast
Aus dem Poln. von Esther Kinsky. - Dt. Erstausg., 1. Aufl.. - Frankfurt am Main : Schöffling, 2009. - 456 S. : Kt. ; 22 cm Einheitssacht.: Bieguni <dt.> ISBN 978-3-89561-465-1 geb. : sfr 44.90 (freier Pr.), EUR 24.90, EUR 25.60 (AT)
Unrast / Reise / Heimat / Prosa / Anthologie ; Erzählung Polen ; (Te); Literatur ; (Mc)

"Die Reise ist wohl die größtmögliche Annäherung an das, was unsere moderne Welt zu sein scheint: Bewegung und Instabilität. Jede Epoche sieht sich versucht, den Zustand des zeitgenössischen Menschen mit irgendeinem schlauen Wort zu beschreiben. Mir scheint, dass für unsere Zeit 'Unrast' ein solches Wort sein könnte", schreibt Olga Tokarczuk. In ihrem Buch "Unrast" vereint sie eine Vielfalt von Textsorten - Aphorismen, Anekdoten, Fabeln, mythologische Geschichten, philosophische Lehrstücke sowie Fragmente eines historischen Romans. Tokarczuks Figuren sind Getriebene, Flüchtende vor der Starrheit der Zuordnung, der Verwurzelung, rastlos auf der Suche nach einer immateriellen Heimat. Der Weg dorthin führt durch ein dichtes Labyrinth von Geschichten über Menschen, Dinge, Orte und Zeiten, die das Buch zu einer wahren Welt machen.

I G 1002
Footpaths & bridges : voices from the Native American Women Playwrights Archive
ed. by Shirley A. Huston-Findley ; Rebecca Howard. - Ann Arbor, Mich. : Univ. of Michigan Press, 2008. - xii, 291 S. ; 24 cm ISBN 0-472-11613-4 acid-free paper - ISBN 978-0-472-11613-3 acid-free paper
Nordamerika / Indianerin / Drama / Anthologie ; Indigene Frau ; American drama / Indian authors ; Canadian drama / Indian authors ; American drama / Women authors ; Canadian drama / Women authors ; American drama / 20th century ; Canadian drama / 20th century ; Indians of North America / Drama ; Indigenous peoples / North America / Drama USA ; (Te); Kanada ; (Te); Theater ; (Mc)

"Footpaths and Bridges" presents eleven dramatic works that celebrate the vitality and diversity of Native American women. The collection presents a wide array of plays by leading contemporary playwrights - including JudyLee Oliva, Diane Glancy, and Monique Mojica, among others - in forms ranging from realism to dramatic poetry, from a children's story to a musical, and from full-length plays to one-acts. Alongside contributions from these award-winning playwrights is critical commentary that broadens understanding of Native American women's theater practices and perspectives, highlighting the issues of heritage, identity, and changing lifestyles that the plays imaginatively tackle. The collection affords access to voices previously unheard - voices that reveal the possibilities for communicating the complexity and the diversity of the Native American experience.

I G 1001
Pates, Rebecca
Die Verwaltung der Prostitution : eine vergleichende Studie am Beispiel deutscher, polnischer und tschechischer Kommunen
Rebecca Pates ; Daniel Schmidt. Unter Mitarb. von Elena Buck .... - Bielefeld : transcript, 2009. - 231 S. : graph. Darst ; 225 mm x 135 mm, 312 gr.. - (Gender Studies) ISBN 978-3-8376-1117-5 Pb. : ca. sfr 42.80 (freier Pr.), ca. EUR 23.80
Deutschland / Prostitution / Verwaltungsrecht / Sozialarbeit / Polen / Tschechische Republik ; Deutschland BR ; (Te); Verwaltung ; (Ll)

Prostitution wird häufig als moralisches oder rechtliches Problem diskutiert. Sie ist aber auch eine Herausforderung für die (lokale) Verwaltung: die Polizei bekämpft den Menschenhandel, Gesundheitsämter fürchten um die öffentliche Hygiene, Ordnungsbehörden mahnen Kunden auf dem Straßenstrich ab, Bauämter überwachen die Einrichtung von Bordellen, Vereine betreiben Aufklärung und HIV-Prävention. Auf welches Wissen sie dabei zurückgreifen und wie sie die Subjekte ihres Tuns herstellen - das zeigt diese staatsethnografische Studie erstmals am Beispiel deutscher, polnischer und tschechischer Kommunen.

I F 1007
Nettles, Kimberly D.
Guyana diaries : women's lives across difference
Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, 2008. - 316 S. : Ill. . - (Writing lives) ISBN 978-1-59874-195-7 - ISBN 978-1-59874-194-0
Guyana / Frau / Soziale Situation ; Guyana / Frau / Biographie ; Frauenorganisation ; (Gn~Lg)

"Guyana Diaries" narrates the life histories of members of the Red Thread Development Corporation, a group of women activists in the Caribbean. Kimberly Nettles, an African American researcher, explores the impact of their work on these women's lives and, in the process, discovers differences of class and nation that overshadow the gender and race she shares with her subjects. Blending feminist ethnography, critical autobiography, and literary narratives, Nettles examines both the collective and her own experiences in studying its members, producing an illuminating, evocative work of self and other.

I F 1008
Peri Rossi, Cristina
State of exile
Transl. from the Spanish by Marilyn Buck. - San Francisco, Calif. : City Lights Books, 2008. - 149 S. ; 16cm. - (The pocket poets series ; no. 58) ISBN 0-87286-463-4 (pbk)
Lyrik ; Uruguay ; (Td); Spanien ; (Te); Literatur ; (Mc)

The author, Cristina Peri Rossi, was born in Montevideo, Uruguay. She was forced to leave her country at the age of thirty-one when her work was banned and her life was threatened by a repressive military dictatorship, and in 1972 she moved to Spain, where she still lives. This collection of poems, written during her journey to Spain and over the first years of her self-exile, was so personal that it remained unpublished for almost thirty years. State of Exile is infused with the tremendous sense loss and alienation, the terrible doubt, sorrow and remorse that come with the abandonment of one's country, family and friends. And yet, the work is inspired, both by the knowledge that survival is a political, social and human imperative, and by the creative process that occurs when one searches for new reference points, new family and new relationships in the face of persistent nostalgia. The poems are accompanied here by two essays on exile, one by Peri Rossi, written upon their Spanish publication in 2003, and the other by translator Marilyn Buck, an American political prisoner, exiled in her own country.

I E 891
Yan, Hairong
New masters, new servants : development, migration, and women workers in China
Durham [u.a.] : Duke Univ. Pr., 2008. - IX, 314 S. ; 24cm ISBN 0-8223-4304-5
China / Landflucht / Hauswirtschaftsgehilfin ; Arbeitsmigrantin ; Hausangestellte ; (Gb); China VR ; (Tc)

On March 9, 1996, tens of thousands of readers of a daily newspaper in China's Anhui province saw a photograph of two young women at a local long-distance bus station. Dressed in fashionable new winter coats and carrying luggage printed with Roman letters, the women were returning home from their jobs in one of China's large cities. As the photo caption indicated, the image represented the 'transformation of migrant women'. The women's 'transformation' was signalled by their status as consumers. "New Masters, New Servants" is an ethnography of class dynamics and the subject formation of migrant domestic workers.Based on her interviews with young women who migrated from China's Anhui province to the city of Beijing to undertake domestic service for middle-class families - and with employers, job placement agencies, and government officials - Yan Hairong explores what these migrant domestic workers mean to the families that hire them, to urban economies, to rural provinces such as Anhui, and to the Chinese state. Above all, Yan focuses on the domestic worker's self-conceptions, desires, and struggles. Yan analyzes how the migrant women workers are subjected to, make sense of, and reflect on a range of state and neoliberal discourses about development, modernity, consumption, self-worth, quality, and individual and collective longing and struggle. She offers keen insight into the workers' desire and efforts to achieve suzhi (quality) through self-improvement, the way the workers are treated by their employers, and representations of migrant domestic workers on television and the Internet and in newspapers and magazines. In so doing, Yan demonstrates that contestations over the meanings of domestic service workers raise broad questions about the nature of wage labour, market economy, sociality, and post-socialism in contemporary China.

I E 894
Samarasan, Preeta
Abend ist der ganze Tag : Roman
Preeta Samarasan. Aus dem Amerikan. von Sabine Hübner .... - Berlin : Ullstein, 2008. - 478 S. Einheitssacht.: Evening is the Whole Day <dt.> ISBN 978-3-550-08735-6 Gb. : sfr 35.90 (freier Pr.), EUR 19.90, EUR 20.50 (AT)
Englisch / Roman / Quelle ; Malaysia ; (Tc)

Der Roman spielt in Malaysia, auf der Halbinsel Malakka. Hier lebt schon seit langer Zeit die Familie Rajasekharan aus Indien. Die Geschichte dieser Familie anhand von drei Generationen, die alle unter einem Dach wohnen, wird in diesem Roman erzählt.

I A 2384
Fluid bonds : views on gender and water
ed. by Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt. - Kolkata : Stree, 2006. - XL, 464 S. ; 23 cm ISBN 81-85604-70-3 : £40.00
Indigene Frau ; Entwicklungsländer ; (Te); Andenländer ; (Td); Australien ; (Te); Nepal ; (Tc); Indien ; (Tc); Vietnam ; (Tc); USA ; (Te); Südafrikanische Republik ; (Ta); Bangladesch ; (Tc); Wasserversorgung ; (Na~Od); Nachhaltigkeit ; (Cb); Fischindustrie ; (Ig); Sanitäre Einrichtung ; (If~Na); Staudamm ; (Od); Landwirtschaft ; (Eg); Bewässerung ; (Ea); Umweltverschmutzung ; (Na~Oe)

The book makes gender visible in the various ways water is dealt with, and questions how these ways affect gender and how gender affects the views on water. The connections between gender and water are multifaceted, contingent and heterogeneous. Through a rich offering of case studies, it identifies the multiple and changing relationships between the two, and notes some commonalities whilst gendering the use and management of water. The streams of hydrofeminisms converging in "Fluid Bonds" create a common terrain for the scholars and experts from the North and the South representing a wide range of methodological approaches, backgrounds and understandings, from where to reappraise water as a gendered substance. Collectively, the contributors consider the problematic fluidity and indefinite categories of gender and water, tracing the bonds as well as drawing out some differences, focusing on the gendered nature of water in life, of which women and men, at all times, constitute a part.

I C 874
Nkabinde, Nkunzi Zandile
Black Bull, ancestors and me : my life as a lesbian sangoma
Auckland Park : Jacana, 2008. - 162 S. ; 21cm ISBN 978-1-920196-06-6
Südafrika / Heilerin / Lesbierin / Erlebnisbericht / Lesbe / Autobiographie ; Südafrikanische Republik ; (Ta)

Describing the dichotomy of being both revered and reviled, this memoir traces the story of a sangoma - traditional healer - who is also a lesbian. Descriptions of traditional African healing practices and rituals are provided alongside the personalized account of one woman acting as a mirror to the daily hardships and indignities felt by members of the lesbian and gay community in Africa.

I C 873
Reiterer, Joana Adesuwa
Die Wassergöttin : wie ich den Bann des Voodoo brach
Joana A. Reiterer. Mit Johanna Tschautscher. Vollst. Taschenbuchausg.. - München : Knaur-Taschenbuch-Verl., 2009. - 319 S. ; 19 cm. - (Knaur ; 78183) ISBN 978-3-426-78183-8 kart. : EUR 8.95
Nigeria / Junge Frau / Christin / Wodu / Erlebnisbericht Autobiographie Österreich ; (Te); Kult ; (Mb~Me)

Joana Adesuwa Reiterer kommt aus Benin City in Nigeria. Als kleines Mädchen sagt ihr eine Dorfpriesterin, sie sei eine "Wassergöttin" und werde ihren Mann einmal reich machen - daher der Titel des Buches. Für ihren Vater bedeutet diese Aussage aber, dass seine Tochter eine Hexe ist. Daher verstößt er Joana, die nun ganz auf sich alleine gestellt ums Überleben kämpft. Eines Tages begegnet sie dem charismatischen Tony, in den sie sich auf Anhieb verliebt. Doch Tony verlangt von ihr ein Zeichen ihrer Liebe: Sie soll an einem geheimnisvollen Voodoo-Ritual teilnehmen, das sie "zur Frau" machen wird. Sieben Tage dauert die magische Zeremonie - Tage zwischen Trance und Besinnung, zwischen Phantasie und Realität. Zutiefst verstört kehrt Adesuwa davon zurück und erkennt, dass es nur einen Weg gibt, sich vom Fluch, der auf ihr lastet, zu befreien: Sie muss die magischen Gesetze des Voodoo brechen. Joana bricht nach Österreich auf, wo sie seitdem lebt.

I E 887
Luo, Lingyuan
Die Sterne von Shenzhen : Roman
Orig.-Ausg.. - München : Dt. Taschenbuch-Verl., 2008. - 412 S. ; 21 cm. - (Dtv ; 24689 : premium) ISBN 978-3-423-24689-7 Pb. : sfr 25.80 (freier Pr.), EUR 14.90, EUR 15.40 (AT)
Shenzhen / Hochhaus / Bauvorhaben / Unternehmer / Interpersonaler Konflikt / Belletristische Darstellung ; Roman ; China VR ; (Tc)

"Aufsteigender Drache" heißt die Firma des jungen Unternehmers Dai Xinkong, und bei der Neujahrsfeier kann er seinen Angestellten von neuen Erfolgen berichten: Der Umsatz mit dem "Gehirnmarschall", einem Kräuterelixier, das angeblich die Lern- und Denkfähigkeit steigert, entwickelt sich glänzend. Alle chinesischen Eltern wollen für ihre Kinder das Beste. Jetzt gilt es, eine repräsentative Firmenzentrale zu schaffen. In der rasend wachsenden Sonderwirtschaftszone Shenzhen soll ein Wolkenkratzer gebaut werden. Aber so wie Dais Firma auf zwei verschiedenen Produkten beruht (neben dem Kräuterelixier vertreibt die Firma auch Laptops), ist auch der Baugrund nicht einheitlich: Neben weichem Sand findet sich steinharter Fels. Und das ist nicht das einzige Problem: Dais Bruder wird von Produktpiraten getötet, und er selbst gerät in die Mühlen der Politik. Immer wichtiger werden die Frauen, die ihn unterstützen: Jian Roula, die seine beste Verkäuferin ist ("Wenn sie den Mund aufmacht, regnet es Rosenblütenblätter vom Himmel") und sich ihm gleich bei ihrer ersten Begegnung bereitwillig hingibt, und die scheue Tang Anqui, die Werbetexte für Dai Xinkong schreibt.

I F 1010
Sikkink, Lynn
New cures, old medicines : women and the commercialization of traditional medicine in Bolivia
Belmont, Calif. : Wadsworth, [2009]. - 194 S. : Ill. ; 24cm. - (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology) ISBN 978-0-495-83711-4
Bolivien / Naturheilkunde / Medizin / Frau / Kommerzialisierung ; Traditionelle Medizin ; (Gg~Nc)

This case study, set in the Bolivian Andes, explores the fascinating world of collection, use, and commercialization of traditional medicinesall pursued mainly by Bolivian women. The author offers a rich ethnographic survey of Bolivian female culture and describes each market venuefrom rural to cityin detail, including activities of vendors and customers. She discusses gender as an organizing principle in the commercialization of traditional medicines. She also includes material on uses of various plants and their part in the healing practices of natural medicine doctors, or naturopaths. Of particular interest is Sikkink's exploration of how pharmaceutical companies search for drug patents based on herbal remedies originating in systems of traditional medicine. Linking these topics is the theme of commercialization - an economic force - and how it is changing traditional medicine and healing in Bolivia.

I F 1009
Staudt, Kathleen
Violence and activism at the border : gender, fear, and everyday life in Ciudad Juárez
1. ed. - Austin, Tex. : Univ. of Texas Press, c2008, 2008. - XVI, 184 S., [8 Bl.] : Ill., Kt. ; 24cm. - (Inter-America series) ISBN 978-0-292-71824-1
Ciudad Juárez / Gewalt / Mord / Frau ; Frauenmord ; Gewalt gegen Frauen ; Femicid ; Mexiko ; (Td)

Between 1993 and 2003, more than 370 girls and women were murdered and their often-mutilated bodies dumped outside Ciudad Juarez in Chihuahua, Mexico. The murders have continued at a rate of approximately thirty per year, yet law enforcement officials have made no breakthroughs in finding the perpetrator(s). Drawing on in-depth surveys, workshops, and interviews of Juarez women and border activists, "Violence and Activism at the Border" provides crucial links between these disturbing crimes and a broader history of violence against women in Mexico. In addition, the ways in which local feminist activists used the Juarez murders to create international publicity and expose police impunity provides a unique case study of social movements in the borderlands, especially as statistics reveal that the rates of femicide in Juarez are actually similar to other regions of Mexico. It also examines how non-governmental organizations have responded in the face of Mexican law enforcement's "normalization" of domestic violence.

I E 898
Chang, Leslie T.
Factory girls : from village to city in a changing China
1. ed.. - New York : Spiegel & Grau, 2008. - 420 S. : Kt. ISBN 978-0-385-52017-1
Arbeitsmigrantin ; China VR ; (Tc); Fabrik ; (Ri); Frauenarbeit ; (Ga)

China has 130 million migrant workers - the largest migration in human history. In Factory Girls, Leslie T. Chang tells the story of these workers primarily through the lives of two young women, whom she follows over the course of three years as they attempt to rise from the assembly lines of Dongguan, an industrial city in Chinas Pearl River Delta. As she tracks their lives, Chang paints a picture of migrant life - a world where nearly everyone is under thirty; where you can lose your friends with the loss of a mobile phone; where a few computer or English lessons can catapult you into a completely different social class. Chang takes us inside a sneaker factory so large that it has its own hospital, movie theater, and fire department; to posh karaoke bars that are fronts for prostitution; to makeshift English classes where students shave their heads in monklike devotion and sit day after day in front of machines watching English words flash by; and back to a farming village for the Chinese New Year, revealing the poverty and idleness of rural life that drive young girls to leave home in the first place. Throughout this portrait, Chang also interweaves the story of her own familys migrations, within China and to the West, providing historical and personal frames of reference for her investigation.

I A 2386
Alcoff, Linda
Visible identities : race, gender, and the self
Linda Martin Alcoff. - New York [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2006. - XVIII, 326 S. ; 23 cm. - (Studies in feminist philosophy) ISBN 0-19-513734-5 - ISBN 0-19-513735-3 (pbk) : £14.99
Rasse / Geschlecht / Gruppenidentität ; Lateinamerikaner / Diskriminierung / Lateinamerikanerin ; Identität / Race-class-gender-relations / Differenz / Feministische Theorie

Drawing on both philosophical sources as well as theories and empirical studies in the social sciences, Martin Alcoff makes a strong case that identities are not like special interests, nor are they doomed to oppositional politics, nor do they inevitably lead to conformism, essentialism, or reductive approaches to judging others. Identities are historical formations and their political implications are open to interpretation. But identities such as race and gender also have a powerful visual and material aspect that eliminativists and social constructionists often underestimate. "Visible Identities" offers a analysis of the political and philosophical worries about identity and argues that these worries are neither supported by the empirical data nor grounded in realistic understandings of what identities are. Martin Alcoff develops a more realistic characterization of identity in general through combining phenomenological approaches to embodiment with hermeneutic concepts of the interpretive horizon. Besides addressing the general contours of social identity, Martin Alcoff develops an account of the material infrastructure of gendered identity, compares and contrasts gender identities with racialized ones, and explores the experiential aspects of racial subjectivity for both whites and non-whites. In several chapters she looks specifically at Latino identity as well, including its relationship to concepts of race, the specific forms of anti-Latino racism, and the politics of mestizo or hybrid identity.

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Bantebya Kyomuhendo, Grace
Women, work & domestic virtue in Uganda : 1900-2003
Grace Bantebya Kyomuhendo ; Marjorie Keniston McIntosh. - 1. publ.. - Oxford [u.a.] : Currey [u.a.], 2006. - XII, 308 S. : Ill., Kt. ; 23 cm. - (Eastern African Studies) ISBN 978-0-85255-988-8 (James Currey : hbk) : £50.00 - ISBN 979-0-85255-987-1 (James Currey : pbk) : £17.95
Uganda / Frau / Arbeit / Häuslichkeit / Soziale Situation ; Frauenbildung ; Frauenarbeit ; (Ga); Frauenorganisation ; (Gn~Lg); AIDS ; (Nb); Geschichte ; (F)

This book offers a historical picture of women and their work in Uganda, tracing developments from pre-colonial times to the present and into the future. Setting women's economic activities into a broader political, social, and cultural context, it provides a general account of women's experiences amidst the changes that shaped the country. Prior to the 1970s, relatively few Ugandan women brought in their own income, despite producing most of the food and craftwork that was taken to local markets. Educational expansion in the 1950s and 1960s were years of gradual evolution for women and their work, with many employed as lower level teachers or nurses. Since the 1970s, there have been a number of dramatic changes which have led to many more women earning their own income: high mortality of men from conflict and HIV/AIDS, increased migration of women into urban areas, the collapse of the state-controlled economy and the emergence of a magendo economy, the development of a free market economy within a system of global capitalism, deepening poverty through Structural Adjustment Programmes, and the expansion of women's roles in many areas. This book traces the origins of the current situation, highlighting the challenges working women now face, and recommending strategies that will improve their circumstances in the future.

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Reproductive health in India : new evidence
ed. by Michael A. Koenig ; Shireen Jejeebhoy ; John C. Cleland ; Bela Ganatra. - Jaipur [u.a.] : Rawat Publ., 2008. - VIII, 383 S. : graph. Darst. ; 25 cm ISBN 81-316-0104-8
Indien / Sexualität / Gesundheit / Aufsatzsammlung Slum ; (Gi~Gk); Reproduktive Gesundheit ; (Gf/Na); Geschlechtskrankheit ; (Nb); Müttersterblichkeit ; (Gc); Frauengesundheit ; (Na/Nc); Empfängnisverhütung ; (Gf~Nc); Fertilität ; (Gc); Schwangerschaftsabbruch ; (Gc~Gf)

This volume presents 19 studies, each offering insights that enhance our understanding of a broad range of sexual and reproductive health issues in the Indian context. Topics range from maternal reproductive health, infertility, abortion and treatment-seeking behaviour to sexual relationship formation, mens sexual health, coercive sex, and spousal communication. Findings also highlight the situation and needs of such vulnerable populations as adolescents, street children and the urban and rural poor. By maintaining an emphasis on community and client perspectives, these studies provide crucial information on colloquial understandings of symptoms and treatment-seeking along with experiences of morbidity and public versus private service utilization. The book provides insights for health policy development and public and NGO sector programming as well as highlights gaps in evidence and priority issues that remain to be researched.

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Women and the contested state : religion, violence, and agency in South and Southeast Asia
ed. by Monique Skidmore ; Patricia Lawrence. - Notre Dame, Ind. : Univ. of Notre Dame Press, 2007. - XI, 260 S. : Ill., Kt. . - (Kroc Institute series on religion, conflict, and peacebuilding) ISBN 978-0-268-04125-0 - ISBN 978-0-268-04126-7
Südasien / Frau / Staat / Aufsatzsammlung ; Birma / Frau / Staat / Aufsatzsammlung ; Gewalt gegen Frauen ; Südostasien ; (Tc); Bangladesch ; (Tc); Sri Lanka ; (Tc); Myanmar ; (Tc); Religion ; (Me); Krieg ; (Bf)

Throughout South and Southeast Asia, groups battle over definitions of identity for their state, a struggle complicated by the legacy of colonialism. The contributors to this volume explore the intricate, dynamic relationships that pertain between womens agency and the state-making institutions and armed forces of Kashmir, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Burma (Myanmar). They also address the complex roles of Islam, Hinduism, and Theravada Buddhism in these postcolonial dynamics. In particular, the contributors examine religion as a way of understanding how womens agency is constituted, created, and constrained during times of conflict with the state and other armed actors, such as guerilla groups and paramilitaries.

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Prostitution and beyond : an analysis of sex work in India
Ed. by Rohini Sahni ; V. Kalyan Shankar : Hemant Apte. - New Delhi [u.a.] : Sage, 2008. - 369 S. ; 22 cm ISBN 978-0-7619-3638-1 pbk. pbk.
Indien / Prostitution / Aufsatzsammlung / Prostituierte

Prostitution and Beyond is an edited volume that discusses a spectrum of issues that are pertinent to sex workers in India. These issues have been dealt with on various research platforms before. By collectively presenting these diverse research conclusions, this volume explores the broader interconnectivity of issues that affect women in prostitution. Its objective is to reach a wider audience consisting of both women who are initiated, and those as yet uninitiated into prostitution. This volume takes on the responsibility of countering the negativity that has come to be indelibly associated with any mention of sex workers. This is reflected in the construction of the sections and the choice of papers, group discussions, interviews and commentaries included in this volume. Throughout its four sections of feminist discourse, ethnographic studies, socio-economic legal-health frameworks and cultural reflections, this book draws on the experiences of academicians, activists, researchers and scholars with varied backgrounds.

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