... The Hammam through Time and Space , Julie   Peteet ( Syracuse University Press , 2024 ) hammam baths Turkey Jordan Islam women health heritage The hammam ( hamam in Turkish) is a specific building type that steams with the bathing bodies and heated water within. This steam has clouded...

...Sandra E. Greene In Mauritania, where slavery remained legal until 1981, women descended from slaves are taking charge of their lives and redefining their identities. Work, Social Status, and Gender in Post-Slavery Mauritania , by Katherine Ann Wiley Indiana University Press , 2018...

... of California Jeff Kingston Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe economic reforms Liberal Democratic Party tsunami Fukushima nuclear power free press World War II comfort women self-defense forces 233 One of the great conundrums of Abe s second term is how he has managed to retain...

...Indrani Bagchi As more women get educated and move to the cities, they become the face of a society in transition. Tragically, they also become targets in the conflict that accompanies this transition. © 2014 Current History. All rights reserved. 2014 The Regents of the University of California...

... young Swedes from entering the profession. Sweden has 3.5 physicians per 1,000 people, approximately 50 percent more than the United States. The status of women in numerous sectors of Swedish society is on par with that of their male counterparts. Sweden has not yet had a female prime minister; many...

... revulsion against ag- gression on smaller scales, including violence against ethnic minorities, women, children, ho- mosexuals, and animals. These spinoffs from the concept of human rights civil rights, women s rights, children s rights, gay rights, and animal rights were asserted in a cascade of movements...

...Nikki R. Keddie Women's struggles, along with the forces of modernization, have increased the public roles open to women in the Muslim world despite the growing power of Islamism, and this expansion of women's roles constitutes in itself a force for democratization. © 2001 Current History. All...