The house of falling women:
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Sprache: | English |
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Mankon, Bamenda, Cameroon
Langaa Research & Pub. CIG
2008
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Beschreibung: | House of Falling Women is the story of a young woman with quixotic ideas about improving the lot of women who finds out that the crusader's cloak is an uncomfortable one. Martha Elive, armed with a university education and a substantial legacy from a Dutchwoman she meets while studying abroad on a scholarship, decides to create an institute for the empowerment of women, only to find that the contradictions to be resolved are more firmly anchored in her psyche than elsewhere. In addition to her unexorcised ghosts and the legacies of a chequered love life, she has to contend with recalcitrant public opinion and moral inertia, the opposition of old-guard reactionaries, and the incomprehension of her small-town parents. House of Falling Women is a poignant, often hilarious story of the search by a group of women for a new place in society in a world where women are dissatisfied with the old values and bewildered by the new |
Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (318 p.) |
ISBN: | 9789956558254 9789956717248 9956558257 995671724X |
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