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purdah
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
purdah literally means curtain or veil , and refers...family) in the South Asian subcontinent. Purdah can refer to the veiling or covering of...inside their homes. In the sense of attire, purdah can denote the practice of completely covering...
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Sociology and Anthropology of Childhood
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society
...s contributions to sustaining the religious institution of purdah, which involves the spatial seclusion of women. Among the...to sell at the local market. Confined to their households by purdah, income-earning women depended on children to purchase materials...
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Cornelia Sorabji
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...responsible for the interests of women property holders who lived in purdah. In 1923 she was called to the English bar, but continued...lived in London. Her writings include Love and Life behind the Purdah (1901), Sun Babies (1904; 2d series, 1909), Indian Tales...
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Feminism
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...initial spark. In other nations, cultural and religious constrictions such as suttee (self-immolation by Hindu widows), purdah (isolation of women, shielding them from public view), child marriage, and foot binding provided the initial focus for...
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Muslim
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...other non-Muslim communities of South Asia, with the Modern exceptions of Christian and Parsi women. Muslims themselves see purdah and other restrictions placed on female activities as protective and thus in the best interests of the women themselves. Despite...
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Mogul
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...exact and probably "descent group" would be more appropriate. Moguls are highly regarded, and their womenfolk still practice purdah. The name "Mogul" is derived from the Persian word for "Mongol." Of the main Muslim groups in Pakistan and India, Sayyids...
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Somalis
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...However, Somalis are not as traditionally religious as Muslims in many other cultures. For example, women do not practice purdah, or seclusion. They do not wear veils or cover their entire bodies when outside the home. Somalis incorporate a belief in...
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Kalasha
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...possession. Women have relative social freedom, as compared with the Muslim women of Pakistan, and there is certainly no purdah. There are many cases of marriage by elopement, involving already-married women. Much feuding and negotiation have to take...
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Sindhi
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...India after the partition in 1947. Sindhi women are secluded behind the clay walls of house and compound; this practice of purdah is strict among landlords and other families who claim respectability accordingly. In some rural areas, when women leave their...
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harem
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...hundred women, all subject to the control of the sultan's mother and guarded by eunuchs. In India the harem is called a purdah or zenana; in Iran, andarun. Although the harem is rapidly disappearing in the 20th cent., there nevertheless are still...
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