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Joining the Women Unbound Challenge
Since I am interested in a gender perspective in both anthropology and historical research, I decided to join the Women Unbound Challenge. I think this might stimulate me to get a little bit more well...
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Women Unbound nr. 1: Desert Flower
Desert Flower – Waris Dirie 3 out of 5 stars Buy: Amazon | Bookdepository * Who can ignore the subjection women still suffer in many parts of this world after reading this book? Reading about the...
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Women Unbound nr. 2: Theorizing Gender
Theorizing Gender – Rachel Alsop, Annette Fitzsimons, and Kathleen Lennon Polity Press, 2002 Buy: Amazon | Bookdepository * When I picked up this book at the library the normally ever so silent...
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Women Unbound nr. 3: Gender, Power and Politics – in honour of Women’s...
Or: not so much a review, but my thoughts on reading Gender and the Politics of History by Joan Wallach Scott When I signed up for the Women Unbound Challenge, this book was one of the first to make it...
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Dreams of Trespass – Fatima Mernissi
Dreams of Trespass. Tales of a Harem Girlhood – Fatima Mernissi 4 out of 5 stars Fatima Mernissi’s Dreams of Trespass is about her childhood growing up in a harem in Morocco. On the surface, this is an...
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The Awakening – Kate Chopin
The Awakening – Kate Chopin 4/4.5 out of 5 stars Buy: Amazon | Bookdepository * In The Awakening Kate Chopin tells the story of Mrs. Pontellier, or Edna, a married woman of 28 with several children....
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Things I’ve Been Silent About by Azar Nafisi
There is something very odd about reviewing a memoir. After all, you’re reviewing what are the memories of somebody else. These memories have been written and reconstructed for publication and so you...
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Journey From The Land Of No by Roya Hakakian
Journey From The Land Of No. A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran – Roya Hakakian Three Rivers Press, 2005 3.5 out of 5 stars Buy: Amazon | Bookdepository * Journey From The Land of No is about...
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Women Unbound nr. 8: Under Western Eyes by Chandra Talpade Mohanty
Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses – Chandra Talpade Mohanty Published in: Boundary 2 , nr. 3 page 333-358, 1984 When I started the Women Unbound challenge, I stated that...
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