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Lynne Welch has compiled 26 provocative essays representing the latest research findings on the topic of women in higher education.

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More women are receiving advanced degrees and ascending to the ranks of deans, provosts, and presidents, but despite gains in advancing gender equality, efforts at true empowerment are still met with significant resistance within academia.

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This comprehensive bibliography of the literature on women in Ireland presents over 2,300 annotated, classified listings in a one-volume format. Listings include books, chapters in books, articles, pamphlets, memoirs and biographies, travel accounts, and correspondence.

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This exhaustive bibliography contains more than 2,300 annotated entries on the lives of women in Japan. The volume lists works published in English from 1841 to the present, and a particularly significant feature is the inclusion of literary works by Japanese women.

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This discography is successful in its attempt to `present a complete picture of women instrumentalists' recording activity from 1913 to 1968.' Jan Leder also shows the significant contributions made by women in jazz and their involvement playing jazz since its beginnings.

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Women in Late Life explores thorny issues related to gender and aging, including ageism, cultural expectations, body image, caring at the end of life, chronic illness, Social Security, caregiving, and more. Blending personal narrative with current research, this interdisciplinary look at gender and aging is nuanced and beautifully written.

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Women in Late Life explores thorny issues related to gender and aging, including ageism, cultural expectations, body image, caring at the end of life, chronic illness, Social Security, caregiving, and more. Blending personal narrative with current research, this interdisciplinary look at gender and aging is nuanced and beautifully written.

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Forty-three women who have made major contributions to the law through their work in the legal profession, scholarly legal research, and political activism directed at socio-legal reforms are profiled in this bio-bibliographical sourcebook.

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Offering fresh insights and interpretations, this collection of 96 original essays examines the treatment of gender issues in traditional fiction as well as important contemporary works. It includes suggestions for teaching and reading these traditional works in new ways.

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The definitive compilation of the inspiring and educational stories of women in medicine through the ages and around the world.

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The recent democratization and renewed federalism have reshaped Mexican political representative institutions and affected womens representation. This book examines the conditions that influence the levels and practices of womens representation in a revitalized federal political structure.

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Entries appear in chapters devoted to agriculture and economy, national development, education and training, health, home and family, and labor force and workplace.

A valuable source of data on women in Nigeria, the book will be useful for researchers and planners interested in women in this country and women in general.

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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.