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In Addressing the Letter,
Laura A. Salsini
considers how the works
of authors including the
Marchesa Colombi,
Sibilla Aleramo, Gianna
Manzini, Natalia
Ginzburg, and Oriana
Fallaci highlight such
issues as love, the loss
of ideals, lack of
communication and
connection, and feminist
ideology.
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Indicates the many and
multi-layered ways in
which women's movements
have developed and the
challenges faced by the
women's movements.
Covering a broad range of
issues, this book
strives for re-narration
and re-location of one of
the social movements of
the 20th century.
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Being secure in heart is
about knowing who God is,
who Jesus is, who you
are, and being able to
apply this knowledge in a
way that sets you free.
This book shows how to
identify Satan's false
securities and then how
to overcome them by
understanding and
applying God's nature. It
also includes an in-depth
study guide to help
individuals and groups.
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The digital world, its
advertising machinery and
the popular media are
pushing women back into
traditional roles and
once again creating a
"superior" hypermacho
expert male. This work
explores power relations
in the digital world and
asks us to question what
is really going on. How
is technology shaping our
future?
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Comprising two themed
parts, 'Theorising the
First Wave Globally' and
'Mainstreamed or
Muzzled', this issue
contributes to current
debates on academic
feminism and makes
crucial interventions
about the importance of
feminism transnationally,
emphasising the
significance of academic
feminist readings of
history and academic
transformations.
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Presents a critical
examination of the
relationship between
gender and
transnationalism in the
context of war,
peace-building and
post-conflict
reconstruction in the
Middle East. This book
brings together some of
the foremost scholars in
the areas of feminist
international relations,
anthropology, sociology,
and history and Middle
East studies.
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Presents a critical
examination of the
relationship between
gender and
transnationalism in the
context of war,
peace-building and
post-conflict
reconstruction in the
Middle East. This book
brings together some of
the foremost scholars in
the areas of feminist
international relations,
anthropology, sociology,
history and Middle East
studies.
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Where are the women? In
traditional historical
and scholarly accounts of
the making and fighting
of wars, women are often
nowhere to be seen. With
few exceptions, war
stories are told as if
men were the only ones
who plan, fight, are
injured by, and
negotiate ends to wars.
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Where are the women? In
traditional historical
and scholarly accounts of
the making and fighting
of wars, women are often
nowhere to be seen. With
few exceptions, war
stories are told as if
men were the only ones
who plan, fight, are
injured by, and
negotiate ends to wars.
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This book focuses on rape
narratives as grounding
for western thinking
about community - from
the polis to
nation-states -
specifically in cultures
of thinking, reading,
and writing. The author
rethinks rape, or sexual
violence, through a
close examination of how
rape is a pedagogy that
has become canonized in
the form of rape stories.
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Hind draws on poetry,
short stories, plays,
novels, photographs,
personal correspondence,
advertising, and
interviews to make
visible the anti-feminine
tendencies in femmenism
and to imagine a
femmenism that will
appeal to the next
generation of women.
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Provides a re-examination
of the suffrage movement,
presenting perspectives
which challenge the
existing literature. The
book charts the history
of the movement in
Britain from the 19th
century to the postwar
period, assessing
figures such as: Emmeline
Pankhurst and the
militant wing.
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In this volume, Lebbady
has compiled and
translated seven Andalusi
women's tales from the
north of Morocco, and
analyzes them from a
postcolonial theoretical
perspective, finding in
the women far more wit
and agency than western
stereotypes would
suggest.
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In this work,
distinguished
demographers consider
whether recent changes in
women's roles are the
cause of such changes in
family life as rising
divorce rates and
declining marriage rates,
increases in
out-of-wedlock
childbearing, and a
growing disconnection
between the lives of men
and children.
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Drawing on international
and national data,
theory and research,
Gender and the Changing
Face of Higher Education
provides an accessible
but nuanced discussion of
the 'feminization' of
higher education for
postgraduates,
policy-makers and
academics working in the
field.
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Drawing on international
and national data,
theory and research,
Gender and the Changing
Face of Higher Education
provides an accessible
but nuanced discussion of
the 'feminization' of
higher education for
postgraduates,
policy-makers and
academics working in the
field.
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Augmented by
great"es and photos,
this inspiring
collection profiles
remarkable women --
heroines in science,
sport, preaching and
teaching, politics, war
and peace, arts and
entertainment, and more.
Profiles include
moutaineer Phyllis
Munday, activist Hide
Shimizu, unionist Lea
Roback, and movie mogul
Mary Pickford.
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Despite the inroads made
by women in the
professions, the glass
ceiling remains a
persistent barrier to
their career progression.
Using a range of
interactional
sociolinguistic data this
publication investigates
the crucial role that
gendered discourses play
in perpetuating workplace
gender inequalities.
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In the struggle for
women's equality, there
is one subject still
shrouded in silence -
women's compulsive
pursuit of beauty. The
author citing examples
confronts the beauty
industry and its
advertising and uncovers
the reasons why women are
consumed by this
destructive obsession.
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The first issue of the
2010 volume (Issue 94)
will feature some of the
many high-quality
submissions to the
Journal, which have been
accepted following
rigorous peer-review. It
brings together new
feminist writing that
intervenes in a range of
current debates and
issues.
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Focuses on the work of
Western-educated African
and Indian women writers
resisting gender identity
constructions at various
points in history. This
book examines colonial
and national gender
identity constructions in
female-authored texts at
'home' and the continued
deployment of and
resistance to gender
identity impositions in
various spaces.
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Drawing on a wide range
of perspectives from
media and communications,
sociology, cultural
studies and anthropology,
this volume provides an
empirically grounded and
theoretically insightful
investigation into the
mediated identies of
women in the East Asian
diaspora.--
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Much of the existing
scholarship on Nancy
Mairs has approached her
essays in the context of
disability studies. This
book seeks to broaden the
conversation through a
range of critical
perspectives and with
attention to
underrepresented aspects
of Mairs's oeuvre,
demonstrating her
provocative combination
of bold ethics and subtle
aesthetics.
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Much work done by women
theorists on traditional
social and political
topics such as
revolution, abolition of
slavery, public health
care, war and militarism
is little known or
difficult to obtain. This
anthology contains
significant excerpts from
the pens of women like
Stael, Wollstonecraft,
Nightingale, Chatelet
and others.
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This collection of
classic essays in
feminist body studies
investigates the history
of the image of the
female body; from the
medical "discovery" of
the clitoris, to the
"body politic" of Queen
Elizabeth I, to women
deprecated as "Hottentot
Venuses" in the 19th
century.
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This book highlights the
way in which contemporary
forms of governance,
policy and politics have
been reframed by women
'working the spaces of
power'. It shows how
links between activism
and work have generated
innovations that have
since become 'common
sense' forms of policy
and practice.
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Provides fresh insights
into themes such as race
and gender, writing and
memory, power and
ethics, feminist theory
and translation. This
collection explores the
breaking down of formal
barriers and the writing
across genres that has
been such an important
facet of this feminist
literary project.
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Disputes the widespread
stereotypes about Muslim
women prevalent in the
West, providing an
account of young women in
contemporary Iran. This
book presents the
experiences of these
young women who wield a
key if indirect political
influence on the
seemingly male dominated
politics of this society,
as they achieve a fresh
visibility.
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This collection of
articles by development
workers and researchers
focuses on learning
opportunities for women
offered by education and
training. There is a
continuing imbalance in
educational participation
- women make up an
estimated two-thirds of
the world's illiterate
people - and writers
reflect on the causes and
consequences of this.
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An examination of female
education in its
economical, political
and cultural contexts in
the developing world. The
authors approach the
education of women and
girls from a human rights
perspective, and offer
criticism of the World
Bank's views on the
subject.
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This timely collection of
essays, from an
international team of
authors, spans a wide
geographical and
chronological spectrum
and focuses on female
relationships with piety
and religious vocations.
Ideal for students, each
chapter introduces new
research and offers a
guide to
historiographical debates
and methodologies.
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Provides an
ethnographically rich
study of local politics
and gender in rural
India. It is based on her
extensive fieldwork in
Janta, a village near
Bishnupur in Bankura,
West Bengal, a state
where the Communist Party
of India (Marxist),
CPI(M), has been in
power since 1977.
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What can we learn about
the Chinese revolution by
placing a doubly
marginalized group -
rural women - at the
center of the inquiry?
This title explores
changes in the lives of
seventy-two elderly women
in rural Shaanxi province
during the revolutionary
decades of the 1950s and
1960s.
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In India, policies and
programmes of the
government at different
levels cover various
dimensions and strategies
of gender development.
Over the years, efforts
have been made to empower
women socially,
economically and
politically. This title
focuses on specific
gender-related issues
that contains 42 research
contributions related to
women issues.
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Provides the repository
of key articles, essays
and case studies for the
important area of gender
and sexuality in museums.
This book focuses on LGBT
issues and museums, and
collects articles which
focus on women and
museums. It is suitable
for students of museum
studies, women's'
studies, LGBT studies
and museum professionals.
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An examination of how
female same-sex desires
were represented in a
wide range of Italian and
British medical writings,
1870-1920. It shows how
the psychiatric category
of sexual inversion was
positioned alongside
other medical ideas of
same-sex desires, such
as the virago,
tribade-prostitute,
fiamma and gynaecological
explanations.
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Provides an analysis of
the abuses that took
place at Abu Ghraib in
terms of social theory,
gender and power, based
on first-hand
participant-observations
of the courts-martials of
Lynndie England and
Sabrina Harman. This book
examines the trials
themselves, including
interactions with
soldiers and defense
teams.
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Written by former BBC
correspondent Jane
Howard, whose experience
took her beyond the
headlines and horror
stories and into the
lives of everyday Iranian
women, this book
presents the story of
struggle and change,
documenting what it means
to be a woman in Iran.
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The role of women has
often been neglected in
studies of religious
culture and this book
fills an enormous gap,
restoring women to their
rightful historical and
cultural context. It will
be essential reading for
anyone with a serious
interest in the History
or Religion of Central
Asia or in Global Islam.
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Explores the interface
between women's writing
and politics and studies
gender identities in
their shifting
interrelations with other
categories of identity
like class and religion.
This title interrogates
the fashioning of
different kinds of
selfhood of women through
papers subscribing to
different ideologies.
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Millions of women
throughout the world
suffer from violence,
poverty and denial of
their human rights
because of their gender.
By exploring their
stories, and hearing the
views of both advocates
for and opponenets of
women's rights, in
Created Equal, Anna
Horsbrugh-Porter reveals
the real human costs of
the violation of these
rights.
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The role of women in the
recent history of Wales
is an area that has
received scant attention
from social scientists
and historians. This book
will therefore seek to
fill that gap by drawing
upon the family stories
told about women's roles
in education, the chapel
and the family to address
some of the important
gaps in the knowledge
base.
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Shahnaz Khan presents the
voices of Muslim women on
how they construct and
sustain their Islamic
identity. Khan
interviewed fourteen
Muslim women about their
sense of power,
authenticity and place.
Her critical analysis
challenges the Western
perception of Islam as
monolithic and static.
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Contains fourteen essays
which examine how
corporate ideology is
influencing academic
freedom, intellectual
property rights and
independent research,
employment equity,
workloads and teaching
conditions, professional
growth and development -
and how it is challenging
the future of feminist
pedagogy and Women's
Studies.
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Re-interprets the US
occupation of Japan from
1945 to 1952 as a
problematic instance of
Cold War feminist
mobilization rather than
a successful
democratization of
Japanese women. This
title argues that postwar
gender reform was part of
the Cold War containment
strategies that
undermined rather than
promoted women's
political and economic
rights.
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Presents a compilation of
Muslim women's stories
from around the world,
the voices of these
long-oppressed women ring
loud and clear as they
question ideology and
culture, patriarchal and
religious beliefs, and
demand the social and
political rights women
which lack in many Muslim
countries.
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What role did right-wing
women play in the Nazi
rise to power? This book
analyzes the work of
women in the German
Peoples Party and the
German National Peoples
Party - from the moderate
to the radical right
parties. Looking at
politics on both the
local and national level,
the author discusses
issues ranging from
social welfare to foreign
policy.
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Resources are of
particular interest from
a gender perspective,
and this book sheds light
on the importance of
resources for women's
struggles for political
rights. Highlighting the
financial strategies of
the first wave of Swedish
middle-class and
socialist women's
movements and comparing
them with similar
organizations around the
world.
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The author takes the
reader on a guided tour
'from head to toe' of
human female form.
Highlighting the
evolutionary functions of
biological features that
all women share, he
explores the enhancements
and constraints that
human societies have
developed in the quest
for control and
perfection of the female
form, with a zoologist's
perspective.
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Opposed to both
authoritarianism and
instrumental reformism,
an advocate of radical
democracy and individual
responsibility, Rosa
Luxemburg (1871-1919) is
an eminent representative
of the libertarian
socialist tradition, and
her work sparks political
and scholarly debate.
This volume offers a
collection of Rosa's
letters available in
English.
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The study of anatomical,
physiological and
psychological aspects of
human beings in their
working environment is
important to ensure that
the work fits the job to
the man rather than the
man to the job. In a
semi-industrialised
country like India, the
working class is one of
the weakest sections of
society.
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The subject of this book
is the lives of three
very different
17th-century women. They
were not queens or
noblewomen, one was a
Jewish merchant, one a
Catholic mystic
visionary, and one a
Protestant painter. From
their writings and
memoirs the author has
retrieved their lives
from obscurity.
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Presents a study that
considers cultural
representations of
'brown' people in Jamaica
and England alongside the
determinations of race by
statute from the
Abolition era onwards.
This title explores the
extent to which colonial
ideologies may have been
underpinned by what might
be called
subject-constituting
statutes.
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Drawing on a range of
different genres, this
issue asks how we
understand and
conceptualize the city,
exploring gender,
sexuality and urban
space. Analyzing
representations from the
late 16th century to
modern day, the articles
produce different ways of
imagining the city and
different conceptual and
sensory frameworks for
experiencing it.
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Looking at women's power
in the home, in the
workplace, and in
politics from a political
economy perspective, the
authors demonstrate that
equality is tied to
demand for women's labour
outside the home, which
is a function of
structural, political,
and institutional
conditions. It presents a
fresh approach to gender
inequality.
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Looking at women's power
in the home, in the
workplace, and in
politics from a political
economy perspective,
this title demonstrates
that equality is tied to
demand for women's labour
outside the home, which
is a function of
structural, political,
and institutional
conditions.
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Examines women's movement
in Iran and their role in
contesting gender
relations since the 1979
revolution. Looking at
examples from politics,
law, employment,
environment, media and
religion to the struggle
for democracy, this book
demonstrates how material
conditions have important
social and political
consequences on the lives
of women in Iran.
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Islamic law is often
misrepresented as a
single monolithic
concept, rather than a
collection of different
interpretations and
practices. This book
explores what conditions
sustain the most liberal
interpretation of Islamic
law on gender issues. It
examines the various
interpretations,
histories and practices
of Islamic law in
different countries.
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This book provides
significant insight into
the experiences and
dispositions of 20 women
professors of varied
background and age who
work in a range of
academic disciplines in
the UK academy, and of
the factors and
influences which shape
the capacity of some
women to achieve high
positions in a setting
where they have
historically been
excluded.
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Moving beyond the burqa
controversy, Silvestri
examines the complicated
identity of Muslim women
in Europe. The book is
drawn from interviews in
Britain, Belgium,
France, Italy and Spain.
The author focuses on
Muslim women's
experiences within Europe
(as opposed to the Middle
East, Asia or North
Africa).
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Moving beyond the burqa
controversy, Silvestri
examines the complicated
identity of Muslim women
in Europe. The book is
drawn from interviews in
Britain, Belgium,
France, Italy and Spain.
The author looks at
Muslim women's
experiences within Europe
(as opposed to the Middle
East, Asia or North
Africa)
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So long as women are
considered inferior human
beings, crimes against
women will not be
considered as crimes
against humanity. When
women are tortured, it
is dismissed as a custom,
a part of the tradition.
This book explores the
cultural aspects of
injustices against women
and the general
exploitation by a
male-oriented society.
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Studies the fiction of
twenty-five contemporary
Italian women writers.
Arguing for a notion of
gender and genre, the
author runs counter to
many Anglo-American and
French feminist theorists
who contend that
traditional genres cannot
readily serve as vehicles
for feminist expression.
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Does Islam call for the
oppression of women? This
book takes readers into
the heart of Islamic
teachings on women,
gender, and patriarchy,
allowing them to
understand Islam through
its sacred scripture,
rather than through
Muslim cultural practices
or Western media
stereotypes.
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While gender has become
increasingly important in
development policies,
there is less awareness
that policies and the
consequences of
structural adjustment are
never gender-neutral.
This title examines what
happens once these macro
policies affect women at
the micro level,
especially the poorer
women in urban slums and
rural villages.
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Entrepreneurship is a key
element in the
development of market
based economies. This
book describes and
assesses the nature and
extent of female
entrepreneurship in
European economies that
until 1990 were operating
under central planning.
It provides an overview
of the development of
entrepreneurship and
small firms since 1990.
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Drawing on a wealth of
oral histories from
pioneering Chicana
activists, as well as
the vibrant print culture
through which they
articulated their agenda
and built community,
this book presents the
first full-scale
investigation of the
social and political
factors that led to the
development of Chicana
feminism.
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Drawn from various
disciplines and a broad
spectrum of research
interests, these essays
reflect on the
challenging issues
confronting women in
Ukraine today. The
contributors are an
interdisciplinary,
transnational group of
scholars from gender
studies, feminist
theory, history,
anthropology, sociology,
women's studies, and
literature.
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Addresses the causes,
prevalence, and
consequences of violence
against women (VAW)
nationally and
internationally. This
book provides examples of
completed and ongoing US
activities that address
violence against women
(VAW) directly or include
anti-VAW components.
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Talks about women's lived
experience. Drawing from
diaries, oral history,
letters, organizational
records, paintings,
dressmaking patterns,
milliners' records, and
posters, this work
offers fresh
interpretations of this
historical material and
insights into the lives
of individual Canadian
women who expanded the
boundaries of traditional
roles.
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Twenty-three women,
teaching at colleges and
universities throughout
Canada, explore how
traditional views of
motherhood have been
influenced by changing
social and cultural
conditions. Their essays
unravel patriarchal
constructions of
motherhood and re-present
new definitions drawn
from women's lived
experiences.
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Explores how older women
in a rural town use
literacy to shape their
lives and community.
Combining the elements of
memoir with scholarly
theory, this title
describes the lives of
the author's grandmother
and other women in her
hometown of Paxton,
Nebraska.
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Explores the role played
by the Female Section of
the Spanish Fascist Party
(Seccion Femenina de la
Falange - SF) in
promoting women's
political and
professional rights
within the authoritarian
Franco regime in Spain.
This title demonstrates
how the SF's national
leadership promoted an
autonomous social and
political agenda.
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A compilation of primary
documents (diaries,
letters, advertisements,
essays, photographs)
that provides a forum for
the voices of women in
Canada. It is organised
chronologically,
documenting the decades
of the 20th century. End
of chapter activities and
selected resources
provide support for using
the documents.
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Explores the complex
roles played by white
women in Australian
Indigenous histories.
This book showcases some
works in Australia on
gender and cross-cultural
history. It highlights
the work of a woman
involved in Aboriginal
issues, and with
Aboriginal people.
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Six respected experts in
the field of strength
training and athlete
development come together
to create this
comprehensive and
user-friendly guide to
increasing female
athletic performance.
This book is free from
the technical jargon that
makes many serious
training books
unpalatable to the
average reader.
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Features a critical set
of essays that advances
the argument of
centrality of gender to
nationalism by locating
it in the context of the
ethnic or communal
policisation of a society
that predisposes it
towards violence; and
finally in the
juxtaposition of
nationalism and freedom
itself.
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A collection that stems
from a conference at
University of Calgary
that included some of the
most established names in
the field of women's
history in the US &
Canada, as well as
younger scholars,
activists in the
Aboriginal community & in
farm women's
organisations,
volunteers in historical
societies working to
preserve women's voices.
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From its founding in
1974, Studio D produced
several documentaries on
issues that ranged from
sexuality and pornography
to women's work and
feminist identity to
nuclear war and
environmental
destruction. This book
introduces the Studio,
the reasons they chose to
make the films they did,
and, the challenges they
faced.
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Nancy Lieberman-Cline
grew up in Queens and
learned to play
basketball on the streets
and playgrounds of New
York. Overcoming a
difficult childhood, she
found confidence and
acceptance on the
basketball court. This is
her story of passion for
sport and her intense
drive to be the best.
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Explores the knowledge
and history of resistance
of Caribbean women in
Canada. This book
investigates the stories
of 45 Caribbean women of
different backgrounds and
heritages. It presents
their conceptualisation
of the experiences of
racism and sexism in
their everyday lives and
their strategizing
resistance.
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Mary Chung, founder of
the National Asian
Women's Health
Organization (NAWHO),
shatters the myth that
Asians are the model
minority group in the US
and reveals the hidden
health crisis that
endangers 11 million
people in the Asian
American community. NAWHO
has worked to establish
the facts to demonstrate
how serious the problems
are.
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Through a gendered
division of labour and a
rigidly defined
sexuality, Catholic
culture can foster sexual
abuse within Catholic
families. Working from
the premise that sexual
justice for girls and
women is attainable,
this book exposes the
power relationships that
promote female obedience
to the male head within
families and the church.
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War is a coherent
collection of essays and
articles, which speak
urgently and eloquently
to one of the most
persistently vexing
themes of human history:
war. By viewing large
scale collective war and
violence through the
prism of gender, the
issue aims to contribute
to the larger debate in a
variety of disciplines.
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States that women's
bodies needn't be made
bigger or smaller or
otherwise fixed,
changed, starved,
buffed, clipped,
nipped, or tucked. The
author's personal stories
of self discovery are
combined with research on
body image and"es
from female writers and
celebrities, intended to
help women break free
from body obsession.
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Women have achieved
lasting social change
since the Sixties, but
not because of Feminist
politics. The vast
majority of women have
been empowered instead by
popular culture, which
gave them vital economic
power and political
significance as
consumers.
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Presents the political
history of middle-class
African American women
during World War I,
focusing on their
patriotic activity and
social work. This work
argues that black women
approached the war from
the nexus of the private
sphere of home and family
and the public sphere of
community and labour
activism.
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Provides an overview of
women's role and place in
western Europe, spanning
the era from the
beginning of the
eighteenth century until
the twentieth century.
This book features
countering of the notion
of 'national' histories
by various women's
historians. It is useful
for student of women's
studies or European
history.
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When Josephine Roche
challenged Big Ed Johnson
for the Colorado
governorship in 1934, an
editorialist wrote: "Miss
Roche has proved beyond a
doubt that a wide-awake
woman is more valuable
than a drowsy man." She
lost the election, but
the sentiment remained
true. As a mining
executive, Roche helped
end decades of labour
strife.
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Women may be warriors in
World of Warcraft, but
they are also scantily
clad "both babes" whose
sex appeal is used to
promote games at trade
shows. This title looks
at how gender intersects
with the broader contexts
of digital games: gaming,
game industry and
design, and serious
games.
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A review of the factors
that affect women's
health, from low
socioeconomic status and
the impact of the debt
crisis, to medical
determinants such as poor
nutrition, haemorrhage,
eclampsia and infection.
It includes the
perspectives of
policy-makers,
practitioners,
researchers and
academics.
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The writing of Nawal el
Saadawi is essential to
anyone wishing to
understand the
contemporary Middle East.
This book gathers the
range of Saadawi's
writing - from fiction -
novellas and short
stories - to essays on
politics, culture,
religion and sex, from
interviews to her work as
a dramatist, and from
poetry to selections of
her travel writing.
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The dissident voice of
the author has stayed as
consistent in its
critique of the
neo-imperialist
international politics as
it has of the oppression
of women both in her
native Egypt and in the
world beyond. From
fiction to essays on
politics, culture,
religion and sex, this
book is suitable for
those wishing to gain a
sense of the author's
work.
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Examines gender
dimensions of orality in
German culture and
thought around 1800. This
book reveals oral
resonances in the
philosophy of Immanuel
Kant, demonstrates that
pedagogical and didactic
literature about women
and girls is based on a
suppression of female
orality, and contrasts
medicalized models of
(open) female and
(closed) male bodies.
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A collection of essays
which focuses on the
representation of women's
bodies in historical and
contemporary cultures.
This book compares the
two different approaches
to the body adopted by
the soft-porn magazine
"For Women", and the
women's monthly
"Cosmopolitan", and also
examines TV cult figures.
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Deals with the problems
of women in the
unorganised sector of
India. This book
discusses the policies
and programmes of the
Government to address
these problems. It
includes a case study of
women in the embroidery
industry of Surat city of
the Indian state of
Gujarat.
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