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The role of women in politics in the Gulf is a much-debated and often little-understood subject in the West. In this book the author sheds new light on the struggle of Kuwaiti women for political participation, examining both the positions women hold in society and politics, and the discourses surrounding feminism and civil rights.

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Gender and Sexuality in Critical Animal Studies explores nonhuman animals' experiences of gender, physiological sex, and sexuality while in nature and captivity. Each chapter applies disciplines like literary theory, disability studies, queer studies, ecocriticism, and more to investigate media that shape perceptions and treatment of nonhumans.

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This volume explores aspects of gender and sexuality in Kenya through the lens of humane scholarship, philosophies, politics, identities, cosmoses, literatures, languages, cultures, and more.

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Examining gender roles in social movements, this title shows how liberation struggles are viewed through women's eyes and how gender affects women's mobilization, strategies, and outcomes in social movement organizations. It is a suitable text to introduce a sophisticated view of race and gender into social movement courses.

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What does the portrayal of gender in film reveal about Spanish society To what extent and in what ways does cinema contribute to constructions of national and regional identity How does gender interact with ethnicity, class, politics and history This work addresses these questions, and more.

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What does the portrayal of gender in film reveal about Spanish society To what extent and in what ways does cinema contribute to constructions of national and regional identity How does gender interact with ethnicity, class, politics and history This work addresses these questions, and more.

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Gender and the American Presidency: Nine Presidential Women and the Barriers They Faced, by Theodore F. Sheckels, Nichola D. Gutgold, and Diana Bartelli Carlin, is a book that includes interviews with several of the subjects, inviting not only the reader, but the women themsel...

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Gender and the Politics of Possibilities explores the lesser-known side of globalization beyond the effects of national governments and multinational cooperations by taking a look at grassroots movements by women that have and continue to shape globalization today. Manisha Des...

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Public violence by the state in the MENA region often dominates headlines, but gender-based violence in both public and private forms is often ignored. This book is a wide range of examples of gender-based violence across the region, demonstrating that such violence is diverse in intensity and in the processes by which it is addressed.

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"An interdisciplinary study that brings together gender studies, media studies, Marxist thought, and literary theory to explore contemporary issues of precarity and the symbolic production of gender as a commodity"--

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This edited collection provides an interdisciplinary and multicultural perspective on gender within Hispanic film and literature.

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This edited collection provides an interdisciplinary and multicultural perspective on gender within Hispanic film and literature.

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Bringing together the work of distinguished China historians, anthropologists, and literary and film scholars, Gender in Motion raises provocative questions about the diversity of gender practices during the late imperial society and the persistence and transformation of older...

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This book provides a starting point for a long overdue movement to elevate applied gender studies, providing both a reference and guide for researchers, students, policymakers, funders, non-profit leaders, and grassroots advocates.

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This book provides a starting point for a long overdue movement to elevate applied gender studies, providing both a reference and guide for researchers, students, policymakers, funders, non-profit leaders, and grassroots advocates.

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Investigating the timing and nature of politicians' decisions to improve women's political representation, the author uses the case of the French Socialist Party to show that ideational and electoral factors have the biggest influence on party officials' decisions to adopt, increase, and implement gender-based quotas.

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What is practical feminism in a postmodern world Together, the 16 essays in this volume represent many different voices of feminists who boldly take up familiar, everyday concerns from unorthodox vantage points within new conceptual and theoretical frameworks.

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Demonstrates that modern theories of freedom are susceptible to gender and class analysis and they must be analyzed in terms of gender and class in order to be understood. Through readings of major and minor works of Hobbes, Locke, Kant, and Mill, this book examines the gender and class foundations of the modern understanding of freedom.

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Drawing on first-generation critical theory of Horkheimer, Adorno, and Marcuse and second-generation critical theory of Habermas, Agger argues for the priority of critical theory over the antitotality perspectives of postmodernism and feminism.