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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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Women's Careers explores contexts and strategies that advance or hinder women's career development. Part II discusses planning and preparation and includes insights into topics such as mentors' roles, cultural differences, women and leadership, and career versus family conflicts.

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"Shows how women film directors in Portugal have made a significant and highly distinctive gender mark on the emergence of Portuguese cinema, both nationally following the 1974 Revolution and African decolonisation, and increasingly internationally, on the art cinema and festival circuit, in the last four decades"--

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Essential characteristics of women's decision-making have long been ignored or, if considered at all, have been viewed in relationship to male-based factors.

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Volume II lists and summarizes nearly 4,000 important reports, dissertations, monographs, and books in English on women's education and training.

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Organised around each decade of the post war period, this book analyses novels written by and for women from 1945 onwards. Each chapter identifies a specific genre in popular fiction for women which marked that period and provides case studies focusing on writers and texts which enjoyed a wide readership.

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Rather than accept that there is a single body of literature that can be labeled womens writing, this volume explores the ways in which twenty-first-century crises have problematized identity, literature, and narration.

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Students, researchers, readers advisors, and womens fiction fans will find a starting point for researching popular womens fiction authors and to find new ones with this practical guide.

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Naglost we finally hear the voices of the Russian women on what it means to be female and Russian in the tumultuous climate that is modern Russia. The founder of the Russian women's movement, Tatyana Mamonova was the first Russian woman exiled from the Soviet Union for publishing the underground samizdat, Woman and Russia.

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Naglost we finally hear the voices of the Russian women on what it means to be female and Russian in the tumultuous climate that is modern Russia. The founder of the Russian women's movement, Tatyana Mamonova was the first Russian woman exiled from the Soviet Union for publishing the underground samizdat, Woman and Russia.

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"Anyone who has ever tried to assist a patron doing research in this field will welcome this bibliographic essay. . . . Most libraries will want and use this book." Library Journal

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A comprehensive historical review of the debates surrounding women's contributions and roles in science, with emphasis on women's access to education, training, and professional careers.

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Describing over 300 research collections, this guide reinterprets Hagley's collections within the context of women's history.

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This edited volume examines mass media portrayals of women leaders and other powerful women in popular culture. Contributors argue that increased media visibility and representation can lead to more widespread acceptance of women as societal leaders.

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Although the economic status of American women has been somewhat higher than that of women globally, it is increasingly apparent that the United States is facing the emerging social problem of women's economic insecurity in the midst of growing affluence.

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Although the economic status of American women has been somewhat higher than that of women globally, it is increasingly apparent that the United States is facing the emerging social problem of women's economic insecurity in the midst of growing affluence.