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For many people, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia evokes images of deserts, camels, and oil, along with rich sheikh in white robes, oppressed women in black veils, and terrorists. But when Loring Danforth traveled through the country in 2012, he found a world much more complex and inspiring than he could have ever imagined. With vivid descriptions and moving personal narratives, Danforth takes us across the Kingdom, from the headquarters of Saudi Aramco, the country's national oil company on the Persian Gulf, to the centuries-old city of Jeddah on the Red Sea coast with its population of undocumented immigrants from all over the Muslim world. He presents detailed portraits of a young woman jailed for protesting the ban on women driving, a Sufi scholar encouraging Muslims and Christians to struggle together with love to know God, and an artist citing the Quran and using metal gears and chains to celebrate the diversity of the pilgrims who come to Mecca.Crossing the Kingdom paints a lucid portrait of contemporary Saudi culture and the lives of individuals, who like us all grapple with modernity at the dawn of the twenty-first century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social. --- Saudi Arabia --- Description and travel. --- 20th century. --- 21st century. --- ancient cities. --- ancient ruins. --- camel. --- contemporary. --- current affairs. --- desert. --- foreign country. --- immigrants. --- immigration. --- jeddah. --- kingdom. --- law and order. --- middle east. --- middle eastern culture. --- modern world. --- muslim world. --- muslim. --- natural resources. --- natural world. --- oil. --- oppressed women. --- persian gulf. --- personal narrative. --- prisons. --- protest. --- red sea. --- saudi arabia. --- saudi culture. --- social science. --- sufi. --- travel memoir. --- travel. --- traveler. --- true story. --- womens rights.
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Early modern Japan was a military-bureaucratic state governed by patriarchal and patrilineal principles and laws. During this time, however, women had considerable power to affect directly social structure, political practice, and economic production. This apparent contradiction between official norms and experienced realities lies at the heart of The Problem of Women in Early Modern Japan. Examining prescriptive literature and instructional manuals for women--as well as diaries, memoirs, and letters written by and about individual women from the late seventeenth century to the early nineteenth century--Marcia Yonemoto explores the dynamic nature of Japanese women's lives during the early modern era"--Provided by publisher
Women --- J4176.80 --- J4000.60 --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- History --- Social conditions --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- gender roles, women, feminism -- history --- Japan: Social history, history of civilization -- Kinsei, Edo, Tokugawa period, early modern (1600-1867) --- Japan --- Civilization --- History. --- bureaucracy. --- bureaucratic. --- early modern. --- economy. --- feminist. --- government. --- instruction manual. --- japan. --- japanese culture. --- japanese economy. --- japanese government. --- japanese history. --- japanese law. --- japanese literature. --- japanese politics. --- japanese society. --- japanese women. --- laws. --- legal issues. --- letter. --- literary analysis. --- literature. --- memoir. --- military. --- morals. --- patriarchy. --- patrilineal. --- politics. --- social norms. --- social structure. --- social studies. --- womens issues. --- womens lives. --- womens rights. --- womens studies.
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