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This concise, content-rich volume provides an overview of women's roles in the Middle East and North Africa from the advent of Islam to the present.

Recent research shows that women in the Middle East and North Africa have played much larger roles in society than previously acknowledged.

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For the first time, a content-rich survey on Renaissance women for students and the general public is available. Women's Roles in the Renaissance examines the attitudes and practices that shaped the varied roles of women then, but also the important ways women shaped the world in which they lived.

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Students and general readers will trace the development of American women of different classes and ethnicities in education, the home, the law, politics, religion, work, and the arts from the Progressive Era to the new millennium.

The twentieth century was a time of great transformation in the roles of American women.

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This book discusses the causes of women's marginalization in Africa, addressing issues such as time poverty, lack of education, poor governance, human trafficking, and cultural practices such as early marriages and bride price. It provides recommendations on policies and initiatives that would elevate women's livelihood and societal standing in African countries.

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Analyzes the mass media's portrayal of women's sports with a focus on female Olympians.

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The tremendous recent growth of the women's movement as a political force has been accompanied by an event of equal import to the academic world--the development of the discipline of women's studies. Women's Studies is a classroom anthology designed for use in these newly-introduced courses.

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Addresses the following central questions: what are the major implications - for society, families, husbands, children and women themselves - of the substantial and progressive movement of American women into the labor force

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Addresses the following central questions: what are the major implications - for society, families, husbands, children and women themselves - of the substantial and progressive movement of American women into the labor force

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Significant because [it] traces the development process from the non-industrial societies to present-day socialist nations, includes scholars from the first and third worlds, and provides data for a comparative analysis of structural changes in gender relations, links production and reproduction, and redefines work to encompass women's `invisible' work.

Gender and Society

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Women had their lives transformed by the First World War. Writings by women as diverse as Sylvia Pankhurst, Virginia Woolf and Vesta Tilley are blended with extracts from the private diaries and letters of ordinary women. This anthology presents a picture of the First World War as it was lived and fought by women across Britain.

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This work explores concepts of body and space to understand the struggles of women with chronic illness. It shows how such women restructure physical and social environments through strategies to accommodate disabling illnesses such as chronic fatigue syndrome or multiple sclerosis.

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In response to isolation from their traditional communities, these women created a vital and successful strike culture that was characterized by cooperation, solidarity, and a variety of institutions to meet the economic, social, and spiritual needs of the 1,500 striking families.

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Written as an introductory textbook for the study of world politics and the analysis of gender, this work is suitable for courses in International Relations, international political economy, women's studies, gender studies, and Feminist studies.

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Written as an introductory textbook for the study of world politics and the analysis of gender, this work is suitable for courses in International Relations, international political economy, women's studies, gender studies, and Feminist studies.

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This volume examines the relationship between gender and immigration within the multi-ethnic society in France, also exploring the wider personal and political issues at stake for women of immigrant origin.

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With the rise of the women's movement during the last fifteen years, gender differences in the use of time have received increased attention.

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How have women used global institutions and the networking possible through them to assure women's emergence on the world stage

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This encyclopedia surveys the scientific research on gender throughout the ages-the people, experiments, and impact-of both legitimate and illegitimate findings on the scientific community, women scientists, and society at large.

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This book explores womens efforts to affect social change. Through the study of the past and present of local and global activism, the contributors explore the artistic, economic, educational, ethical, historical, literary, philosophical, political, psychological, religious, and social dimensions of womens lives and resistance.

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Women, Society, the State, and Abortion takes an unbiased look at the abortion issue, examining it from a cross-disciplinary perspective comprising history, politics, law, biology, philosophy, theology, and medicine.

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The chapters in this collection are based on qualitative fieldwork studies and collectively offer the reader a perspective on women, work, and gender relations that is at once multidisciplinary and feminist.