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This fully updated edition provides a comprehensive overview of two centuries of transnational feminist efforts to produce a just global order. Hawkesworth analyzes continuities and changes in the nature and scope of gendered inequities and power dynamics within national and international regimes and weighs strategies for social transformation.

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This fully updated edition provides a comprehensive overview of two centuries of transnational feminist efforts to produce a just global order. Hawkesworth analyzes continuities and changes in the nature and scope of gendered inequities and power dynamics within national and international regimes and weighs strategies for social transformation.

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Combining feminist media studies, sociology, and development studies, this book argues for feminist theory and media studies to become more inclusive, strengthening international feminisms and transnational networks of solidarity and support.

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Combining feminist media studies, sociology, and development studies, this book argues for feminist theory and media studies to become more inclusive, strengthening international feminisms and transnational networks of solidarity and support.

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Gloria Steinem represents second-wave American feminism. Steinem was destined to succeed and showed extraordinary strength dealing with difficult family circumstances, a peripatetic upbringing, and financial straights that forced her as a teenager to support herself and her divorced, emotionally troubled mother.

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Challenges dominant accounts of gender and sexuality in Gothic literature by demonstrating the complexities of the incest thematic through interdisciplinary readings of incest in texts from 1764-1847. -- .

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Governing Sexuality explores issues of sexual citizenship and law reform in the United Kingdom and Continental Europe today.

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Counsellors, psychotherapists, mental health professionals, and all those working with teenage males will find this study of sex and gender issues, male bonding, psychosexual adjustment, situational ethics, and sexuality illuminating.

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A radical reinterpretation of womens freedom and an indispensable intervention into scholarship on abortion and reproductive rights.

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A radical reinterpretation of womens freedom and an indispensable intervention into scholarship on abortion and reproductive rights.

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A comprehensive study of Harrison Fords stardom in relation to changing ideals of masculinity in Hollywood.

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The concept of hegemonic masculinity, formulated by Raewyn Connell more than three decades ago, has been the driving force behind the expanding field of masculinities studies. This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the conceptfrom its original conception to how it has evolved over time.

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The concept of hegemonic masculinity, formulated by Raewyn Connell more than three decades ago, has been the driving force behind the expanding field of masculinities studies. This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the conceptfrom its original conception to how it has evolved over time.

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This text is concerned with issues of sexual and gender representation, and the intersections of sexual difference and life-writing. Alex Hughes discusses such figures as Jean-Paul Sartre, Herve guibert, Marguerite Duras, Andre Gide, Marie Cardinal, Simone de Beauvoir, and Serge Dubrovsky.

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Why, as Dhruvarajan asks, do most rural Hindu women continue to accept, sometimes even cherish, household arrangements that humiliate, dominate, and depersonalize them

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"Reproductive rights" refers to a range of claims concerning whether, when and how to have children. Involving the self, the family, and the State, women's reproductive rights generate much argument but little agreement. This A-Z reference covers court cases, health, religion, and laws.

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This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Women in Sub-Saharan Africa contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and a bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on individual African women in history, politics, religion, and the arts; on important events, organizations, and publications.

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This encyclopedia contains the biographies of over 100 women, from Clara Barton to Oprah Winfrey, who come from diverse backgrounds, races, age groups, ethnicities, religious backgrounds, and geographic locations.

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Social ills from drug addiction to unwed mothering is laid at the door of the working woman. As Gloria H. Albrecht shows, this dismal situation is not merely a cultural irony; it is a potential social tragedy, which symbolizes the new face of family life in America's post-industrial economy.

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