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What role did right-wing women play in the Nazi rise to power This book analyzes the work of women in the German Peoples Party and the German National Peoples Party - from the moderate to the radical right parties. Looking at politics on both the local and national level, the author discusses issues ranging from social welfare to foreign policy.

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What role did right-wing women play in the Nazi rise to power This book analyzes the work of women in the German Peoples Party and the German National Peoples Party - from the moderate to the radical right parties. Looking at politics on both the local and national level, the author discusses issues ranging from social welfare to foreign policy.

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An exploration of powerful Muslim women covering issues of gender, culture and politics in Islam.

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An exploration of powerful Muslim women covering issues of gender, culture and politics in Islam.

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Nancy Friday shows that the key to a woman's character lies in her relationship with her mother - that first binding relationship which becomes the model for so much of a woman's adult relationships with men, and whose fetters constrain her sexuality, independence, and very selfhood.

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Reconstructing an important but little-known chapter of Islamic spirituality, Schimmel shows the clear equality of women and men in the conception of the prophet Muhammad; the feminine language of the mystical tradition, and the role of holy mothers and unmarried women as manifestations of God.

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By carefully examining the biological, genetic, evolutionary, and psychological evidence, a noted biologist finds a shocking lack of substance behind ideas about biologically based sex differences. Features a new chapter and afterward on recent biological breakthroughs.

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A collection of biographical essays on 72 notable 20th-century Latin American women. It covers a broad range of women excelling in the fields of politics, art, religion, government, education, literature, popular culture, and the sciences. Each entry includes a further reading section.

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This reference book has entries for some 300 women in American theater, ranging from actors, directors, choreographers, playwrights, and designers, to critics, agents, and managers, and should provide focus for future scholars of women's studies and theater.

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Although interest in mother/daughter relationships has led to a plethora of books on the subject, these books all consider situations found in the mainstream white population.

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These essay in honour of Professor Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza draw on international feminist scholarship indebted to her ground-breaking achievements in the areas of biblical studies, feminist thought and social justice.

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A contribution to the history of Australian women and the family. This book traces the struggle of Australian women to change approaches to childbirth, to claim their right to choices in childbirth, and to educate themselves about birth and breastfeeding. It explores the movement which radically changed our maternity care practices.

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The author's investigations were concentrated on the Muslim women of northern India - on their family life, their marriage customs, and their education in relation to their various socio-economic backgrounds in a rapidly changing world that had transformed their lives abruptly with the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947.

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In a book as provocative and insightful as Deborah Tannen's You Just Don't Understand, Barreca explores the new politics of marriage. "Feminist humor maven Regina Barreca takes on marriage with her characteristic wit and wisdom, demystifying the institution's roles and expectations clearly and usefully".--Ms.

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Kuhlman explores the reasons so many antiwar progressive reformers ended up forming the most vocal faction favoring U.S. intervention in World War I. Some suffragists supported war because they saw war relief work as a way to prove themselves manly enough to withstand the rigors of citizenship during war, and therefore worthy of the vote.

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