Women in the Material World
by Faith D'Aluisio
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A collection of 375 full-color photographs, accompanied by candid first-person chronicles, statistics, and insights, reflect the status of women around the world, offering a rich portrait of the lives, aspirations, feelings, and beliefs of women from a wide range of cultures. 50,000 first printing.Tags
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A companion to the internationally acclaimed bestseller Material World: A Global Family Portrait, this volume portrays a multicultural odyssey in words and images that illuminate the hopes, dreams, and sorrows of women of the world.
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A companion to the best-selling Material World: A Global Family Portrait, this unique book is a multicultural odyssey in words and 350 stunning images that illuminates the hopes, dreams, joys, and sorrows of women the world over. A testament to the imdomitable power of the human spirit, Women in the Material World portrays the startling differences and striking similarities in women's lives at the start of the twenty-first century.
A companion to the best-selling Material World: A Global Family Portrait, this unique book is a multicultural odyssey in words and 350 stunning images that illuminates the hopes, dreams, joys, and sorrows of women the world over. A testament to the imdomitable power of the human spirit, Women in the Material World portrays the startling differences and striking similarities in women's lives at the start of the twenty-first century.
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- Canonical title*
- Frauen dieser Welt
- Original title
- Women in the material world
- Original publication date
- 1996
- People/Characters
- Hanke Cakoni; Nalim; Maria dos Anjos Ferreira; Guo Yuxian; Eulina Costa Aluis; Zenebu Tulu (show all 21); Lucia Sicay Choguaj; Madame Dentes Delfoart; Misri Yadav; Ronit Zaks; Daniela Pellegrini; Sayo Ukita; Haifa Khaled Shobi; Pama Kondo; Fatoumata Toure; Carmen Balderas de Castillo; Lkhamsuren Oyuntsetseg; Zhanna Kapralove; Poppy Qampie; Buaphet Khuenkaew; Pattie Skeen
- Important places*
- Albanien; Bhutan; Brasilien; China; Kuba; Äthiopien (show all 20); Guatemala; Haiti; Indien; Israel; Italien; Japan; Jordanien; Mali; Mexiko; Mongolei; Russland; Südafrika; Thailand; USA
- Epigraph
- When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. -- Harriet Beec... (show all)her Stowe
- First words
- Fast überall auf der Welt stehen die Frauen im Schatten der Männer.
[Forward] All too often, the picture of the planet we carry around with us--a picture formed of our own experiences and the stream of information from the mass media--is at odds with what is real and important.
[Preface] This book is the offspring of my documentary photography project, "Material World: A Global Family Portrait."
Hanke Cakoni was told soon after her son Eli's birth that he was severely disabled.
[Afterword] During the course of our visits for this book, we gave each woman a copy of the Project's previous book--"Material World: A Global Family Portrait"-- and asked each woman how she though her life compared to the o... (show all)ther women's, and what she would like the others to know about her life. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Besonders gefallen hat mir ihr Sinn für Humor - Pattie und Rick lassen keine Gelegenheit aus, die Kinder, aber auch sich gegenseitig zum Lachen zu bringen.
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)[Forward] They are justly celebrated here.
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)[Preface] They are themselves, purely and simply; twenty-one of the almost three billion ways that human beings on the rapidly changing planet are inventing how to be women.
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)It happens all over.
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)[Afterword] Women from elsewhere and women her are alike.
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- Nonfiction, Sociology, Anthropology, General Nonfiction, Art & Design
- DDC/MDS
- 305.4 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social group - Age, Gender, Ethnicity Women
- LCC
- HQ1381 .D35 — Social sciences The family. Marriage, Women and Sexuality The Family. Marriage. Women Women. Feminism
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- English, German
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- Paper, Audiobook
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