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"Out of Africa": Lady Margaret Herschel's Letters from the Cape, 1834-38 (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Easton, K. (2009, September). "Out of Africa": Lady Margaret Herschel's Letters from the Cape, 1834-38. Paper presented at Locating African Culture, University of Stirling

This chapter considers how we might locate ‘Africa’ or ‘African Culture’ in the letters Lady Margaret Herschel wrote from the Cape of Good Hope between 1834 and 1838. In her four-year residency with her famous astronomer husband, Sir John Herschel,... Read More about "Out of Africa": Lady Margaret Herschel's Letters from the Cape, 1834-38.

Building a Grassroots Based Movement: GROOTS Kenya (2009)
Journal Article
Okech, A. (2009). Building a Grassroots Based Movement: GROOTS Kenya. Development, 52(2), 224-229. https://doi.org/10.1057/dev.2009.27

Awino Okech describes the work of GROOTS Kenya. She argues there is need for deeper problematizing of what a feminist organization is. In looking critically at whether GROOTS is a grassroots feminist organization and how it links with other women's g... Read More about Building a Grassroots Based Movement: GROOTS Kenya.

The codification of personal law and secular citizenship: revisiting the history of law reform in late colonial India (2009)
Journal Article
Newbigin, E. (2009). The codification of personal law and secular citizenship: revisiting the history of law reform in late colonial India. Indian Economic and Social History Review, 46(1), 83-104. https://doi.org/10.1177/001946460804600105

Recent debates about personal law and a uniform civil code in India have seen both Hindu and Muslim leaders insist on the ‘religious’ status of Muslim law vis-à-vis a more secular or ‘civil’ Hindu legal system. This article argues that such claims ob... Read More about The codification of personal law and secular citizenship: revisiting the history of law reform in late colonial India.

Gender, Travel, Cape: British Women Writing Colonial South Africa, 1797-1931 (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Easton, K. (2009, April). Gender, Travel, Cape: British Women Writing Colonial South Africa, 1797-1931. Paper presented at Dept of English seminar series, University of Stellenbosch, Dept of English

Alan Lester and Elleke Boehmer have both written on imperial networks, but what happens when our case studies are linked across history, generationally and by gender – regionally rather than globally? To move on from Sara Mills’s substantial and inf... Read More about Gender, Travel, Cape: British Women Writing Colonial South Africa, 1797-1931.

What kind of Liberation? Women and the Occupation in Iraq (2009)
Book
Al-Ali, N., & Pratt, N. (2009). What kind of Liberation? Women and the Occupation in Iraq. University of California Press. https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520942172

Has U.S military action liberated Iraqi women? What role have women played in the “new Iraq”? How has the occupation impacted upon women? This book addresses these questions and illustrates the big gap between the official rhetoric that put Iraqi wom... Read More about What kind of Liberation? Women and the Occupation in Iraq.

Irakli Kadinlarin: Anlatilmayan Öyküsü 1948'Den Bugüne (2009)
Book
Al-Ali, N. (2009). Irakli Kadinlarin: Anlatilmayan Öyküsü 1948'Den Bugüne. ILETIŞIM

Iraklı Kadınların Anlatılmayan Öyküsü, son yetmiş yıldır Irak’ta yaşananları, kadınların deneyim ve tanıklıklarıyla anlatan alternatif bir tarih çalışması. Nadje Sadig Al-Ali, farklı kimlik ve aidiyetler taşıyan genç-yaşlı çok sayıda Iraklı kadınla g... Read More about Irakli Kadinlarin: Anlatilmayan Öyküsü 1948'Den Bugüne.

Mujeres iraquíes. Historias nunca contadas desde 1948 hasta la actualidad (2009)
Book
Al-Ali, N. (2009). Mujeres iraquíes. Historias nunca contadas desde 1948 hasta la actualidad. Sirpus

Nadje Al-Ali cuestiona los mitos y prejuicios que han dominado los debates sobre las mujeres iraquíes, aportando una necesaria perspectiva de género al enfoque de uno de los temas políticos centrales de nuestro tiempo. Basándose en historias de vida... Read More about Mujeres iraquíes. Historias nunca contadas desde 1948 hasta la actualidad.

The Ties That Bind: Multiculturalism and Secularism Reconsidered (2009)
Journal Article
Bhandar, B. (2009). The Ties That Bind: Multiculturalism and Secularism Reconsidered. Journal of Law and Society, 36(3), 301-326. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6478.2009.00469.x

This article examines contemporary controversies over the rights of Muslim women to wear various forms of the veil, both in France and the United Kingdom and argues that despite their differences as political ideologies, both multiculturalism and sec... Read More about The Ties That Bind: Multiculturalism and Secularism Reconsidered.