Catalogue 2012 - GB Gerakbudaya

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Women and Gender Studies
New New
Women, Violence and Tradition
Taking FGM and Other Practices to a Secular
State
Edited by Tamsin Bradley
Women, Violence and Tradition is a
fascinating look into the life histories of
women from ethnic minority communities
in the West, focusing specifically on their
experiences of under researched cultural
practices. It illuminates areas of tension
and difficulty when women actively try
to reform aspects of their tradition whilst
remaining fiercely loyal to their cultural
identity. Other examples highlight how young women
choose to endorse traditional practices as a way of
legitimizing their religion and culture in the face of
increasing hostility. This brave and original book tackles
the sensitive and controversial issue of female genital
mutilation, as well as surveying changing attitudes
and practices around marriage and divorce. Using
a cross-cultural perspective, Women, Violence and
Tradition draws on the views of activists and community
organizations that work with women to confront injustice.
Publisher: Zed Books
2011: 213 pp
ISBN: 9781848139589: RM110.00 / S$47.85
New
The Essential Nawal El Saadawi
A Reader
Edited by Adele Newson-Horst
The writings of Nawal El Saadawi are
essential to anyone wishing to understand
the contemporary Arab world. Her
dissident voice has stayed as consistent in
its critique of neo-imperialist international
politics as it has in its denunciation of
women’s oppression, both in her native
Egypt and in the wider world. Saadawi is
a figure of international significance, and her work has
a central place in Arabic history and culture of the last
half century. Featuring work never before translated into
English, The Essential Nawal El Saadawi gathers together
a wide range of Saadawi’s writing. From novellas and short
stories to essays on politics, culture, religion and sex;
from extensive interviews to her work as a dramatist; from
poetry to autobiography, this book is essential for anyone
wishing to gain a sense of the breadth of Saadawi’s work.
Publisher: Zed Books
2009: 346 pp
ISBN: 9781848133358: RM95.00 / S$41.30
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Catalogue 2012
The Headman was a Woman
The Gender Egalitarian Batek of Malaysia
Kirk M. Endicott and Karen L. Endicott
A comprehensive ethnography of
one of the few remaining hunting and
gathering peoples of Southeast Asia,
The Headman Was A Women presents
the gender concepts, roles and
relations of the highly egalitarian Batek
of Peninsular Malaysia. Based on
longtime fieldwork, the book describes
the lives of Batek men and women in
the tropical rainforest, and includes
discussuins of fieldwork, hunting and
gathering, social organization, religion, gender,
nonviolence, and cultural persistence in the face of a
changing landscape. Rich in detail yet clearly written,
The Headman Was a Woman introduces readers to an
egalitarian people whose way of life is both thoughtprovoking
and rare. The ethnography is accompanied
by a 37-minute DVD, The Batek: Rainforest Foragers
of Kelantan, Malaysia. Footage shows vivid highlights
of camp life and social activities as well as all of the
important economic processes described in the book.
Publisher: COAC
2012: 249 pp
ISBN: 9789834324889: RM30.00 / S$21.00
New
The New Maids
Transnational Women and the Care Economy
Helma Lutz
The New Maids is a pioneering study,
grounded in rich empirical evidence,
which expertly addresses the thorny
questions surrounding the growing
number of migrant cleaners and
caregivers who maintain modern
Western households. Supported by
an ethnographic study of immigrant
domestic workers and their German
employers, the author argues that
domestic work plays the defining
role in global ethnic and gender hierarchies. This exciting
book not only will enhance the reader’s understanding
of the new care economy, it also sets a new standard for
feminist methodology.
Publisher: Zed Books
2011: 241 pp
ISBN: 9781848132887: RM95.00 / S$41.30