This volume challenges the assumption that Muslims in India constitute a homogeneous community. Focusing specifically on gender issues, the contributors instead locate the Muslim womens community within the social, economic, and political developments that have taken place in the subcontinent, pre- and post-Independence, in order to examine how the

Unlike many social movements, the gay and lesbian struggle for visibility and rights has succeeded in combining a unified group identity with the celebration of individual differences. Forging Gay Identities explores how this happened, tracing the evolution of gay life and organizations in San Francisco from the 1950s to the mid-1990s.

Brings together 11 essays (two previously published) that began as individual papers delivered to the Australian Historical Association conference in 1994. While underpinned by a broad thematic coherence around the body and the construction of identity, the contributions illustrate that there is no

Presents the experiences of two burgeoning cities and the Irish people that helped to establish what it is 'to be Irish' within them

This book presents a synthesis of the prehistory of South East, Central and Eastern Europe (7000 - 3000 BC).

Unlike many social movements, the gay and lesbian struggle for visibility and rights has succeeded in combining a unified group identity with the celebration of individual differences. Forging Gay Identities explores how this happened, tracing the evolution of gay life and organizations in San Francisco from the 1950s to the mid-1990s.