The Surplus Woman

The Surplus WomanThe first German womens movement embraced the belief in a demographic surplus of unwed women, known as the Frauenberschu, as a central leitmotif in the campaign for reform. Proponents of the female surplus held that the advances of industry and urbanization had upset traditional marriage patterns and left too many bourgeois women without a husband. This book explores the ways in which the realms of literature, sexology, demography, socialism, and

its limits and effective futures

Lin discusses Peking University's spirit of openness and how the school both encouraged the synthesis of Chinese and Western knowledge and promoted Western learning for the national good

An anthropological study of the health system of the Dagara people of northern Ghana and southern Burkina Faso

they are taken less and less seriously

Redesigned as a practical guide to common legal principles

Sakis Gekas shows that the impasse engendered de- pendency upon and ambivalence toward Western Europe

The various historical synchronisms between Kabir and his leading contemporaries

the work extends our understanding of the shaping of national identity and the evolution of national imagining in modern Egypt

and hypotheses for future research

January 1952

Presents abundant new examples addressing the most common DNP projects

cultural and economic factors that influence the circulation