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

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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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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.

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Thus, scholars in disciplines other than sociology, including American studies, criminology, economics, history, literature, political science, law, psychology, social psychology, social work, women's studies, and urban studies, will find this volume of significant interest.

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Erin Solaro delivers a wake-up call on the damage and repercussions of government neglect, rightist fervor, and feminist ambivalence about women in the military

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Written by a pioneer in the field of Middle Eastern women's history, this book presents a concise and comprehensive history of the lives of the region's women since the rise of Islam. It shows why hostile or apologetic responses are completely inadequate to the diversity and richness of the lives of Middle Eastern women.

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Provides a balanced survey of existing literature on women throughout the third world.

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This study examines the experiences of East German women and their transition into the capitalist order in reunited Germany, attempting to make a valuable contribution to the understanding of the gendered contexts in transitional societies.

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This latest Seal Studies title explores a new discourse of feminism within ethnic studies

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The book also focuses on the place of women of color in higher education, including chapters on women of color and the women's studies curriculum, and the role of librarians in shaping women's studies programs.

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Explores a series of questions about the family and work lives of Italian and Jewish women who immigrated to New York City in the early 1900s. After World War I, a diverse group of women emigrated from Europe to the United States. Based on interviews with 100 Italian and Jewish women who immigrated to the New York City areas in the early 1900s.

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Combining firsthand accounts of five differently situated Portuguese women, who describe their lives in a rural fishing community on the north coast of Portugal with cultural and economic analysis, this work radically departs from the picture of women as sexual beings that prevails in the anthropological literature on Europe and the Mediterranean.

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The first study of how a group of diverse women spread, built and sustained a national network of branches supporting the militant suffrage campaign in Britain in the years before the First World War -- .

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Selecting thirty-seven key orators, Karlyn Kohrs Campbell provides entries on a diverse group of women. Entries conclude with information on primary sources, critical works, key rhetorical documents, and selected sources of historical and biographical information.

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Gives voice to the women of the Egyptian Revolution, and reveals their courage and resilience in the face of sexual violence.

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Applying theory to practice, Women Teaching for Change reveals the complexity of being a feminist teacher in a public school setting, in which the forces of sexism, racism, and classism, which so characterize society as a whole, are played out in multiracial, multicultural classrooms.