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Women's approaches to problem-solving, leading, public policy positions, and relationships with people are different from men's. This is a practical how-to book written for women who are involved in the process, either elected or appointed to office, who wish to stay in office, be re-elected or move onto higher office.

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This multi-faceted collection of women's perspectives on the renaissance in philosophical practices provides an international overview on the professional practice of philosophical counseling as rooted in the ancient philosophical discipline of life and its essential difference from modern mainstream philosophy.

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"This book will be useful to those who want to know what reading materials are available on particular topics. Selections have been carefully made and the essays painstakingly summarize the contents of books and articles." Reference Books Bulletin

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Presents profiles of 22 women who have been world leaders since 1960. This work contains biographies of the political leaders, embedded within regional analyses that reveal the personal circumstances that each woman faced in her quest for power, and also the political milieu from which she emerged.

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A concise survey of the treatment of jailed women in America since the early 1800s, their unique problems, the effect on their families, and the state of prisons today.

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This book is an intimate journey into the experiences and insights of 79 Australian women in relationships with bisexual men. The research, revelations, and reflections in this book tell us much about global constructions and understandings of intimate relationships, sexual desires, and love, and the socio-cultural representations and labeling of genders and sexualities.

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Presents an A-Z of over 350 entries which explore the role of women within Shakespearean drama, how women were represented on the Shakespearean stage, and the role of women in Shakespeare's personal and professional lives. This is a guide to Shakespeare's women for students and scholars of Shakespeare.

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Thus, scholars in disciplines other than sociology, including American studies, criminology, economics, history, literature, political science, law, psychology, social psychology, social work, women's studies, and urban studies, will find this volume of significant interest.

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This index identifies some 1,000 female characters who appear in novels, short stories, and plays about the American South. (Authors who wrote about the South but who were not born or raised there are excluded.) All characters are listed alphabetically, followed by a short description of their character traits and/or role.

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Statistics show that women outnumber men at most universities and that women's pay still lags behind men's, but numbers can only hint at the broader story. This edited collection fills that gap with the stories of twelve women-from part-time faculty members to college preside...

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This book offers a look at the lives of Elizabethan era women in the context of the great female characters in the works of William Shakespeare.

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This engaging narrative synthesizes more than 20 years of historical writing on the history of women in the American West.

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Biology textbooks and books on the history of science generally give a limited picture of the roles women have played in the growth and development of the biological sciences, mentioning primarily the Nobel laureates. This book provides an archival collection of essays on a larger group of women, profiling both their work and their lives.

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This third edition provides thoroughly updated information on the status of women in all aspects of the U.S. criminal justice system, from incarcerated women to professionals in the legal, law enforcement, and correctional fields.

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This third edition provides thoroughly updated information on the status of women in all aspects of the U.S. criminal justice system, from incarcerated women to professionals in the legal, law enforcement, and correctional fields.

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As millions of young men marched off to war, they left behind mothers, wives and sisters who were determined to contribute to the British cause. They were first enrolled as nurses to treat wounded soldiers. Later in the war they were accepted into the armed services. This book looks at the realities and myths of the women's role in the war effort.

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This book presents a comprehensive account of how queens, bourgeois women, and ordinary female laborers, and peasants reacted to, and at times claimed agency in the dramatic, and at times perilous politics of the modern European Revolutions.

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An investigation into the leadership roles of women within the model of mutuality in Pauline churches, as specified in Romans 16:1-16.