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A diverse range of topics is addressed including, adolescent sexuality and the effects of early childbearing on later fertility, the impact of development programs on fertility and the association between social organization, social diffusion, and reproductive regime.

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Every woman in the world has the right to control her own body, plan her family, receive good quality medical care, and give birth to a healthy baby. This book takes a comprehensive look at the status of women's reproductive rights from a transnational, human-rights perspective.

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The book analyses how demographic knowledge production and states grip to the variable of population intertwine. It introduces the concept of the Malthusian matrix in order to understand how class-selective and racist hierarchies within population narratives are combined with gendered policies of reproductive bodies and behaviours.

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My audience is of dreamers, those that can understand the reasons why. Those that can feel the beauty because of the pain and rise above the shadows of hypocrisy. The ones that know change is needed. The goddess is the one, blamed, abused, bullied the onslaught of male impregnation of division.

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This unique research tool will lead researchers and practitioners to published materials and documents that can provide answers needed for making informed decisions regarding issues related to today's children.

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This text is the result of a project to locate the surviving documentation of the Turner movement, a secular organization in German immigrant communities in America, from the mid-19th century to World War I. It shows the extent of the movement and the range of its interests and activities.

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This is a multifaceted approach to understanding one of the nation's largest ethnic communities. The use of the Chicana feminist perspective lends not only a gender role analysis, but also demonstrates the structure and function of the balance of personal and social control within the context of the community.

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This is a multifaceted approach to understanding one of the nation's largest ethnic communities. The use of the Chicana feminist perspective lends not only a gender role analysis, but also demonstrates the structure and function of the balance of personal and social control within the context of the community.

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This unique book investigates the history and future of American Indian economic activities and explains why tribal governments and reservation communities must focus on creating sustainable privately and tribally owned businesses if reservation communities and tribal cultures are to continue to exist.

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This original book argues that non-sectarian LGBTQ and feminist movements are powerful agents of political and social change in postwar Lebanon

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This original book argues that non-sectarian LGBTQ and feminist movements are powerful agents of political and social change in postwar Lebanon

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Critically examines modern day views and practices related to children and childhood. This book discusses how Western society conceptualizes and often idealizes children as being fragile, innocent and 'incompetent' (or 'immature').

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Critically examines modern day views and practices related to children and childhood. This book discusses how Western society conceptualizes and often idealizes children as being fragile, innocent and 'incompetent' (or 'immature').

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German Jews represent the fastest growing Jewish community in the contemporary world. Charlotte Kahn explores the development of relations between Jews and non-Jewish Germans, drawing on 70 interviews with people from all age groups and many different walks of life.

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Looks at the way we approach the complex the relationship between childhood, families and the state, and explores the contested nature of the terms 'childhood', 'family' and 'state'. This book discusses theoretical and practice-based perspectives within the context of key developments.

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What is a "de facto" feminist What might the phenomenon of de facto feminism have to say about social and political change in the U.S. The work employs an interdisciplinary approach to this question and draws arguments from philosophy, history, and American politics to underscore the non-ideological character of feminism.

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This text revisits the main arguments and explanatory frameworks that have been used since the 1970s to understand Islamic activism, moderate as well as militant and violent, and proposes a rethinking of Islamist politics.

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This insightful re-examination of the nature of old age presents a unique theoretical account of the fourth age as the embodiment of the most feared and marginalized aspects of old age, addressing contemporary society's anxieties and offering opportunities for re-framing conceptions of old age.