Ways to Survive, Battles to Win: Iranian Women Exiles in the Netherlands and the United States
ISBN-13:
9781590335529
ISBN-10:
159033552X
Edition:
UK ed.
Author:
Halleh Ghorashi
Publication date:
2002
Publisher:
Nova Science Pub Inc
Format:
Paperback
279 pages
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ISBN-13:
9781590335529
ISBN-10:
159033552X
Edition:
UK ed.
Author:
Halleh Ghorashi
Publication date:
2002
Publisher:
Nova Science Pub Inc
Format:
Paperback
279 pages
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Ways to Survive, Battles to Win: Iranian Women Exiles in the Netherlands and the United States (ISBN-13: 9781590335529 and ISBN-10: 159033552X), written by authors
Halleh Ghorashi, was published by Nova Science Pub Inc in 2002.
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Contemporary debates in social sciences are replete with metaphors of displacement such as diaspora, exile, hybridity, and nomadism. Halleh Ghorashi explores the cultural and political implications of such terms and demonstrates how the social and political contexts of the host countries play a crucial role in influencing the experiences of diasporic communities. Focusing on the life stories of Iranian women whose leftist political activism has led them to exile in the West, she offers at once powerful narratives of cultural dislocation and a compelling critique of social theories that privilege ethnicity over social location. Addressing a wide range of theoretical positions and social discourses, Ghorashi shows how a community of women in exile with the same cultural and political background differ markedly in the way they come to define themselves in the Netherlands and the United States. Through interviews with Iranian women exiles in Amsterdam and Southern California, Ghorashi shows the dynamic and complex process of cultural identification. In presenting the stories of politically leftist women who became homeless in their own country, this book touches upon the question of ho
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