Bøger af Louise Brown

A first of its kind, this book explores child protection systems in non-Western, low- and middle-income countries, offering a descriptive, yet analytical, account of the development and current stage of practice in twelve different countries.

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The dancing girls of Lahore inhabit the Diamond Market in the shadow of a great mosque. The twenty-first century goes on outside the walls of this ancient quarter but scarcely registers within. Though their trade can be described with accuracy as prostitution, the dancing girls have an illustrious history: Beloved by emperors and nawabs, their sophisticated art encompassed the best of Mughal culture. The modern-day Bollywood aesthetic, with its love of gaudy spectacle, music, and dance, is their distant legacy. But the life of the pampered courtesan is not the one now being lived by Maha and her three girls. What they do is forbidden by Islam, though tolerated; but they are gandi, "unclean," and Maha's daughters, like her, are born into the business and will not leave it.Sociologist Louise Brown spent four years in the most intimate study of the family life of a Lahori dancing girl. With beautiful understatement, she turns a novelist's eye on a true story that beggars the imagination. Maha, a classically trained dancer of exquisite grace, had her virginity sold to a powerful Arab sheikh at the age of twelve; when her own daughter Nena comes of age and Maha cannot bring in the money she once did, she faces a terrible decision as the agents of the sheikh come calling once more.

Begleiten sie Louise Brown mit diesem Hörbuch auf eine Reise in die Welt des orientalischen Rotlichtviertels Heera Mandi in Pakistan. Seit Generationen wird dieser Teil der Altstadt von Lahore, das sogenannte Königsviertel, von Kurtisanen bewohnt. Im Zentrum der Erzählungen steht dabei die Geschichte der schönen Maha und ihrer Familie, die dort leben. Ein authentischer und bewegender Bericht, von der Autorin vor Ort recherchiert und von den Kritikern nach der Veröffentlichung hochgelobt. Louise Brown wurde im Jahr 1963 geboren und war lange als Dozentin für Soziologie und Orientalistik an der Universität Birmingham in England tätig. Sie lebte zudem bereits in Nepal und reiste mehrfach nach Indien und Pakistan. Besonders bekannt wurde Louise Brown durch die Veröffentlichung ihrer Sachbücher und Romane. Neben ihrer beruflichen Tätigkeit engagiert sie sich auch für Frauenorganisationen.

From the author of EDEN GARDENS, an Indian story of love, obsession and the quest to find a child - for all fans of THE TEA PLANTER'S WIFE.

British India. The heart of Calcutta. Two women searching for freedom. For fans of Dinah Jefferies and Victoria Hislop.