241 research outputs found

    Women in environmental disasters: the 1991 cyclone in Bangladesh

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    The author is a female relief worker who has seen first-hand how women are more vulnerable than men to natural disasters, and in their aftermath. She explores why women are more likely to die in environmental disasters, and why emergency relief aid often fails to benefit women. Begum makes recommendations for ensuring that women's needs are taken into account when planning and delivering relief work. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis. For the full table of contents for this and previous issues of this journal, please visit the Gender and Development website

    Bras are not for burning: the bra and young urban women in Delhi and Bombay

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    Scholars have analysed the meanings of western outer-clothes worn by women in India, however these studies seldom discuss the semi-hidden bra. Whereas the panty through the ‘Pink Chaddis’ campaign has been used as a symbolic tool of female power and resistance in India, the power meanings of the bra remain ambiguous. Bras have not been discussed as symbolic markers of female empowerment like chaddis, nor can be assumed objects of male oppression as in the history of western feminism.This chapter explores the bra and its proximity to young (18–24 year old) urban Indian women’s bodies; the ambiguity of its hidden yet publicly viewed nature which discloses tensions of the sexualised female body and changing ideals of Indian femininities that outer western garments cannot always reveal. I discuss how the bra lends insight into Indian women’s bodies as paradoxical spaces of public and private power as India begins to rapidly urbanise. A power-play between that of an increase in the moral policing of urban Indian women’s sartorial identities and the emerging bi-cultural youth identities resisting these moral codes of dressing.Taken from a qualitative study between 2010–2014, the author discusses how the bra in India centres on the discourse of shame and the anxieties of western modernity recycled from the Indian independence movement. Author reveals how patriarchal codes of shame are questioned by the symbolic meanings of power that young urban Indian women attach to their bras

    GULBADAN BEGUM : KONTRIBUSINYA DALAM KESULTANAN MUGHAL (929-1011 H/1523-1603 M)

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    This study aims to analyze and see how Gulbadan Begum\u27s contribution to the Mughal Sultanate. This research is a qualitative research and uses a historical methodology through library research based on a comparison of the data obtained and processed by the author, and describes what Gulbadan Begum did during the reign of Sultan Humayun and Sultan Akbar, and contributions to science. knowledge. The results of this study resulted in some of the best policies for the palace of the Mughal Sultanate. In addition, several scientists appeared in the Mughal Sultanate who made when Sultan Akbar ruled it was written that his era was the era of the pride of the Mughal SultanatePenelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis serta melihat  bagaimana Kontribusi Gulbadan Begum dalam Kesultanan Mughal. Penelitian ini adalah penelitian Kualitatif dan menggunakan metodologi sejarah melalui studi pustaka (Library Research) berdasarkan perbandingan data-data yang telah di didapatkan dan diolah oleh penulis, dan memaparkan apa saja yang telah Gulbadan Begum semasa ketika Sultan Humayun, dan Sultan Akbar berkuasa, dan kontribusi dalam ilmu pengetahuan. Adapun hasil dari penelitian ini menghasilkan beberapa kebijakan yang terbaik untuk istana Kesultanan Mughal. Selain itu juga muncul beberapa ilmuwan-ilmuwan di Kesultanan Mughal yang membuat ketika Sultan Akbar memimpin dituliskan bahwa era nya adalah era keemasan Kesultanan Mugha

    Correction: Feasibility and acceptability of implementing the Global Scales for Early Development (GSED) package for children 0–3 years across three countries

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    Following publication of the original article [1], the authors reported an error in the author names of Magdalena Janus, Yvonne Schönbeck, Abdullah H. Baqui and Rasheda Khanam, and an error to the affiliations of authors Tarun Dua, Romuald Kouadio E. Anago, Michelle Perez Maillard and Gillian Lancaster. The incorrect author name is: Magdalana Janus. The correct author name is: Magdalena Janus. The incorrect author name is: Yvonne Schonbeck. The correct author name is: Yvonne Schönbeck. The incorrect author name is: Abdullah Baqui. The correct author name is: Abdullah H. Baqui. The incorrect author name is: Rasheda Khanum. The correct author name is: Rasheda Khanam. Authors Tarun Dua and Michelle Perez Maillard should be affiliated to “Department of Mental Health and Substance Use, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland”, author Romuald Kouadio E. Anago should be affiliated to “Innovations for Poverty Action, IPA Côte d’Ivoire, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire”, and author Gillian Lancaster should be affiliated to “School of Medicine, Keele University, Keele, UK”. The author group has been updated above and the original article [1] has been corrected

    The Begum\u27s Millions

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    Verne\u27s first cautionary tale about the dangers of science ― first modern and corrected English translation. When two European scientists unexpectedly inherit an Indian rajah\u27s fortune, each builds an experimental city of his dreams in the wilds of the American Northwest. France-Ville is a harmonious urban community devoted to health and hygiene, the specialty of its French founder, Dr. François Sarrasin. Stahlstadt, or City of Steel, is a fortress-like factory town devoted to the manufacture of high-tech weapons of war. Its German creator, the fanatically pro-Aryan Herr Schultze, is Verne\u27s first truly evil scientist. In his quest for world domination and racial supremacy, Schultze decides to showcase his deadly wares by destroying France-Ville and all its inhabitants. Both prescient and cautionary, The Begum\u27s Millions is a masterpiece of scientific and political speculation and constitutes one of the earliest technological utopia/dystopias in Western literature. This Wesleyan edition features notes, appendices, and a critical introduction as well as all the illustrations from the original French edition.https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/worldlanguages_books/1018/thumbnail.jp

    Book - Imrana Begum, The Impact of the Afghan-Soviet War on Pakistan, Oxford, 2017

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    Imrana Begum, The Impact of the Afghan-Soviet War on Pakistan, Oxford, 2017 Since December 1979, when Soviet troops first entered Afghanistan, the country has remained a focal point in regional and global politics. With a focus on the 1980s, The Impact of the Afghan-Soviet War on Pakistan delves into both Afghanistan’s history and the involvement of superpowers in shaping its present situation. Through the investigation of a complex and highly politicized war, the author demonstrates the di..

    Customer relationship management system

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    The thesis aims to offer an insight into the customer relationship management methods and how it can be utilized. It aims to bring out the effectiveness of the utilization of CRM, which can further help to achieve customer loyalty and customer satisfaction and overall better performance of an organization. The technique that is used to carry out the research is a mixed method research approach. It would involve a survey to gain further information on how the business operates to achieve the objectives of customer satisfaction and loyalty and what they think of customer relationship management. The theoretical framework consists of the origins of customer relationship management, its effectiveness and different ways of implementation. It also highlighted the frequent mistakes made in relation to Customer Relationship Management. There was also some enlightment on Customer Relationship Marketing as a component of Customer Relationship Management. The conclusion of the thesis discusses the practicability and key findings from the study. The research method used to get insights related to CRM in the Itsudemo Sushibar. It also discussed the limitations of the research conducted due to lack of samples. It also mentioned the type of businesses that can benefit from the thesis. It shed light on the possibility of small business models to be able to implement CRM

    Concerning Begum Akhtar: ''Queen of Ghazal''

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    Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Howard Ding ([email protected]) on 2011-05-07T14:53:57Z Item is restricted indefinitely.Restriction data tranferred 2014-07-01T11:25:01-05:00 Original Data Group with Access UIUC Users [automated] Release Date: none Reason: ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permissionThis thesis focusses on the life and work of one of India's most famous female singers, Begum Akhtar (1914-1974). On the one hand, it provides a brief biography and a summary of her musical accomplishments; particular attention is paid to her contributions to the genre for which she was most renowned, a musical-poetic form known as the underbar ghazal. Further to this, however, the thesis examines the manner in which the establishment of and alterations in gender roles and hierarchies, in coordination with other power relationships-- particularly those involving class and patronage shifts, moral issues, ethnic/religious concerns, and nationalist versus colonialist ideologies--affected her life and work, as well as attitudes regarding the woman and her art.Akhtar lived through a period of rapid and structural change in Indian society. Her life overlapped the transitional period in India from the pre-independence era of anti-colonial struggle to the early years of independence. Like other professional women of her class she was, coincidentally, a product of these changing times, an agent of transformation, and one of the victims. Throughout the latter part of her life Begum Akhtar bore the anguish of being caught between two moral standards, one consistent with her early role as a bai (courtesan singer) under nawabi feudal patronage, and the other with her later status as a begam in democratic India. Her dilemma, while personal, was at the same time that of a nation which, under the burden of colonial influence--in the quest for a new image and a socio-cultural, political, economic and moral restructuring--was attempting the excision of a crucial component of its own artistic self."This work presents both the dominant discourse and an alternate reading regarding a transitional period in the history of modern India, and the role that women (and particularly ""professional"" women) played within that; and it does so through a focus on the life and art of one of the leading female musical figures of the era."Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T13:22:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4922 bytes, checksum: 910b249b4beec47e7ab768910c8f966f (MD5) 9717320.pdf: 21348474 bytes, checksum: 4b8376c47c3a25930b6c35fb1b90718d (MD5) Previous issue date: 1996ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permissionU of I Onl

    R (on the application of Begum (By her litigation friend, Rahman)) v Headteacher, Governors of Denbigh High School [2006] UKHL 15, House of Lords

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    Essential Cases: Public Law provides a bridge between course textbooks and key case judgments. This case document summarizes the facts and decision in R (on the application of Begum (By her litigation friend, Rahman)) v Headteacher, Governors of Denbigh High School [2006] UKHL 15, House of Lords. The document also includes supporting commentary from author Thomas Webb.</p
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