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Populism And Feminism In Iran - Womenâ€™S Struggle In A Male-Defined Revolutionary Movement

by Haideh Moghissi

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 The convergence of the Left's populism with Islamic populism, and the influence of the Iranian/Shiite political culture that promotes male authority and female submission, could not reconcile with women's claims to individual rights, choice, and personal freedom and their struggle for autonomy and self-determination in private or public life.
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Polish Women, Solidarity And Feminism

by Anna Reading

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 Examines Polish women''s oppression before, on the cusp and after the collapse of communism. The book analyzes the relationship between Solidarity, state capitalism, nationalism and feminism by drawing on a wide variety of source material.
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International Perspectives On Gender And Democratisation

by Na Na

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 International Perspectives on Gender and Democratization brings together the experience of women''s democratic movements in different countries and regions, North and South, and assesses how different discourses of democracy have been used by women''s groups to assert women''s rights. Sensitive to particular histories, ideologies, and cultural contexts, the contributors assess the strengths and the problems facing women''s democratic movements as they consolidate their gains and face new challenges.
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Women And Empowerment - Illustrations From The Third World

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 The authors in this volume address the questions 'What is empowerment?' Is it power over resources? Is it about access to resources and how they are controlled, politically, economically, by NGOs, by political parties, by the state? They evaluate how in different circumstances different political agents have been seen as provider of resources.
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Populism And Feminism In Iran - Women’S Struggle In A Male-Defined Revolutionary Movement

by Haideh Moghissi

29,14€ + 10% CARD

 The convergence of the Left's populism with Islamic populism, and the influence of the Iranian/Shiite political culture that promotes male authority and female submission, could not reconcile with women's claims to individual rights, choice, and personal freedom and their struggle for autonomy and self-determination in private or public life.
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Women'S Studies In The 1990s - Doing Things Differently?

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 This interdisciplinary collection is concerned with important theoretical and methodological issues facing women''s studies. Drawing on feminist theory and politics it addresses a range of questions raised for women''s studies by work conducted in history, literature, politics and sociology. The editors provide a context for these debates in their introductory essay which gives an overview of the development of women''s studies and reflects on its current position. In their concluding chapter they also suggest a framework from which women''s studies might move forward.
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Women And Adjustment Policies In The Third World

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 The Third World debt crisis, the International Monetary Fund and World Bank''s adjustment policies have compelled many countries to move towards a contraction of public sector expenditure in favour of market orientated development policies. Women in general and the poorest amongst them in particular have borne a disproportionate burden of the ensuing hardships. This book addresses the shortcomings in the current gender blind analytical frameworks of governments and financial organisations and offers alternative strategies for combating recession and poverty.
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Women And Agribusiness - Working Miracles In The Chilean Fruit Export Sector

by Ann Matear, Anna Bee, Isabel Vogel e Stephanie Barrientos

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 Fresh fruit exported from Chile has become commonplace in our supermarkets during the winter months. Women form a large part of the seasonal labour force in this branch of Chilean agribusiness. This book provides an in-depth examination of the ''fruit explosion'' in Chile, and the implications for rural women of working in agribusiness. It examines state policies to support seasonal workers, and asks whether supermarket codes of conduct will benefit these workers in the context of a global economy.
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Women, Identity And Private Life In Britain, 1900-50

by Andrew Gamble e Gillian Peele

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 Women, Identity and Private Life in Britain, 1900-50, explores the meanings and experience of home and private life for women who grew up in England before 1950.
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Women In The Middle East - Perceptions, Realities And Struggles For Liberation

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 This book offers both theoretical perspectives and detailed examples which provide the analytical frameworks chosen by the Middle Eastern women themselves to explain the strategies they have chosen for liberation. The studies deal with Islam and its impact on personal and public lives of women in the region as well as their political struggles for liberation both internally and internationally.
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Organising Feminisms - The Micropolitics Of The Academy

by L. Morley

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 This study of feminism, equity and change in the academy is based on interviews with 40 feminist academics and students in Britain, Sweden and Greece. Change is interrogated in relation to feminist pedagogy, equity, organizational culture, policies and discourses of New Right reform, mass expansion and new managerialism.
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Women And Revivalism In The West - Choosing ‘Fundamentalism’ In A Liberal Democracy

by M. Franks

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 Revivalist religions have a reputation for the policing of gender boundaries and roles and the blanket subjugation of women. This text explores why some western women choose to join Christian and Islamic revivalist movements.
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Women, Globalization And Fragmentation In The Developing World

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 The process of globalization has had a dramatic impact on the lives of women in developing countries in the past decade.
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Women And Revivalism In The West - Choosing Â€˜Fundamentalismâ€™ In A Liberal Democracy

by M. Franks

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 Why do some Western women choose to join Christian and Islamic revivalist movements in the present day? This study aims particularly to establish what the attractions might be for women who choose to swim against the prevailing consumerist current and affiliate themselves with such groups in a liberal democracy.
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Gender And The Politics Of Rights And Democracy In Latin America

by Maxine Molyneux

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 The country-based chapters analyse specific bodies of rights: rights and representation, domestic violence, labour rights, reproductive rights, legal advocacy, socio-economic rights, rights and ethnicity, and rights, the state and autonomy.
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Working-Class Lesbian Life - Classed Outsiders

by Yvette Taylor

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 This is an original study of women self-identified as working-class and lesbian, showing the significance of class and sexuality in their biographies, everyday lives and identities. It provides insight, a critique of queer theory and an empirical interrogation of the embodied, spatial and material intersection of class and sexuality.
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Women'S Rights And Religious Practice - Claims In Conflict

by A. Boden

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 The author looks at conflicts between human rights for women and religious integrity, through family religious ideology and questions of relativism, privacy and agency. The study shows that theological resistance and political and social inhibitors can, ironically, make the human rights concept inappropriate for gaining rights for religious women.
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What Women Want From Work - Gender And Occupational Choice In The 21st Century

by R. Woodfield

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 Are current patterns within women's occupations a function of external limitations on initial ambitions, or do women simply prefer distinct types of work? Including case studies of fire fighting and teaching, this book offers a qualitative exploration of girls' and women's reported journeys towards their work choices.
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Women, Identity And Private Life In Britain, 1900â€“50

by Andrew Gamble e Gillian Peele

121,66€ + 10% CARD

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 Women, Identity and Private Life in Britain, 1900-50, explores the meanings and experience of home and private life for women who grew up in England before 1950.
ENGLISH

Women And Empowerment - Illustrations From The Third World

121,66€ + 10% CARD

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 The authors in this volume address the questions 'What is empowerment?' Is it power over resources? Is it about access to resources and how they are controlled, politically, economically, by NGOs, by political parties, by the state? They evaluate how in different circumstances different political agents have been seen as provider of resources.
ENGLISH

Gender And The Politics Of Rights And Democracy In Latin America

by Maxine Molyneux

121,66€ + 10% CARD

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 The country-based chapters analyse specific bodies of rights: rights and representation, domestic violence, labour rights, reproductive rights, legal advocacy, socio-economic rights, rights and ethnicity, and rights, the state and autonomy.
ENGLISH

Organising Feminisms - The Micropolitics Of The Academy

by L. Morley

121,66€ + 10% CARD

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 This study of feminism, equity and change in the academy is based on interviews with 40 feminist academics and students in Britain, Sweden and Greece. Change is interrogated in relation to feminist pedagogy, equity, organizational culture, policies and discourses of New Right reform, mass expansion and new managerialism.
ENGLISH

Women'S Studies In The 1990s - Doing Things Differently?

121,66€ + 10% CARD

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 This interdisciplinary collection is concerned with important theoretical and methodological issues facing women's studies. Drawing on feminist theory and politics it addresses a range of questions raised for women's studies by work conducted in history, literature, politics and sociology.
ENGLISH

Women And Empowerment - Illustrations From The Third World

121,66€ + 10% CARD

free shipping

 The authors in this volume address the questions 'What is empowerment?' Is it power over resources? Is it about access to resources and how they are controlled, politically, economically, by NGOs, by political parties, by the state? They evaluate how in different circumstances different political agents have been seen as provider of resources.
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