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A startling look at the Muslim world, through the eyes of a Western Christian in a Muslim family. For Christians who work with, live with, or minister to Muslims, this book helps explain the world of Muslim women. Topics include role models, segregation, restrictions, opportunities, family life, and unwritten rules. (20060301).
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Ronnie and Phil Spector made music history with the Ronettes, but as Phil's creative powers began to wane, their marriage soured. He became increasingly reclusive and violent, and Ronnie's life became a constant battle to fend off madness-both his and her own..
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Dr. Handa uses her own narrative and that of South Asian teenage girls to explore the ways identity is imagined and constructed by second generation immigrant youth in Toronto. Using feedback from interviews, the author examines how South Asian women are constructed and represented through discourses of race, nation, culture, and community. Handa suggests that young South Asian women find themselves caught between fragmented aspects of the self. She draws on a poignant memory from her own experience to describe such states of being: I do not remember when the marvel of being part of something larger began to fade. I don't remember when it began, me getting smaller than my body, the darkness of my steps, the shallowness of my voice or the fear. This is where I am caught--not between two cultures, but between omissions, between fragments of myself. Dr. Handa discusses the community's struggle with the threat of the erosion of their "authentic" cultural practice. Her critical theoretical perspective illuminates how young women move within the boundaries of cultural preservation at the same time that they embrace aspects of the communities in which they live. She examines conflicts with parents, fashion, "bhangra" music and dance in her discussion of Canadian, South Asian, and diasporic fusion. Handa explores whether these young women both desire inclusion in and are excluded from Canadian cultural begemony. She also examines the theoretical implications of exclusion and, conversely, the problematic of "cultural preservation.".
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50-year-old Alan Fletcher has been thinking about his sexy, flirtatious tenth-grade teacher for 35 years. When Patty, the teenager who lives across the hall, encourages him to find Miss Shellagh, Alan develops an awkward friendship with the girl, and finds himself alternately attracted to his 60-year-old former teacher and his 15-year-old neighbor. Meanwhile, Alan has ongoing, secret encounters with the mysterious girl across the courtyard, and the voyeuristic woman who peeps into her window with him. Simultaneously sad and funny, "Miss Shellagh's Miniskirt" explores the problematic boundaries of human sexuality, which afflicts us too early to be legal and sticks with us too long to be practical..
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This digital document is an article from Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal, published by Canadian Ethnic Studies Association on June 22, 2003. The length of the article is 877 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Of Silk Saris and Mini-Skirts: South Asian Girls Walk the Tightrope of Culture.(Book Review)
Author: Mythili Rajiva
Publication:Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 2003
Publisher: Canadian Ethnic Studies Association
Volume: 35 Issue: 2 Page: 150(2)

Article Type: Book Review

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