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Schooling the nation: education and everyday politics in Egypt
Ramadan, Hania Sobhy,

Telling the story of the Egyptian uprising through the lens of education, Hania Sobhy explores the everyday realities of citizens in the years before and after the so-called 'Arab Spring'. With vivid narratives from students and staff from Egyptian schools, Sobhy offers novel insights on the years that led to and followed the unrest of 2011. Drawing a holistic portrait of education in Egypt, sh…

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ISBN/ISSN
9781108956031
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xii, 270 pages; illustration
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370.962 RAM s
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Knowing Women : Same-Sex Intimacy, Gender, and Identity in Postcolonial Ghana
Dankwa, Serena Owusua

Knowing Women is a study of same-sex desire in West Africa, which explores the lives and friendships of working-class women in southern Ghana who are intimately involved with each other. Based on in-depth research of the life histories of women in the region, Serena O. Dankwa highlights the vibrancy of everyday same-sex intimacies that have not been captured in a globally pervasive language of …

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ISBN/ISSN
9781108863575
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ix, 332 p ; ill
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306.766309667 KNO S
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Pandemic Kinship : Families, Intervention, and Social Change in Botswana's Ti…
Reece, Koreen M.

Shaped around the stories of one extended family, their friends, neighbours, and community, Pandemic Kinship provides an intimate portrait of everyday life in Botswana's time of AIDS. It challenges assumptions about a 'crisis of care' unfolding in the wake of the pandemic, showing that care - like other aspects of Tswana kinship - is routinely in crisis, and that the creative ways families navi…

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ISBN/ISSN
9781009150200
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xiii, 328p, : ill
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306.85096883 KOR