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Surveys of county party chairs and potential women legislative candidates were used to investigate the interaction between party leaders and women candidates and to assess its importance in the women's candidacy equation.

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A young British woman defines, or redefines, feminism, and sets the agenda for the 21st century.

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Retrieves the forgotten feminism of the working women, illuminating the ideas that inspired them and the reforms they secured from employers and the state. This book contains stories of labor reformers who wanted equality and "special benefits," and who argued that gender differences must be accommodated.

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Classic accounts of modernity have generally ignored or marginalized women, relegating them to the private sphere of home, sexuality and personal relationships. This book discusses the highly gendered nature of the concept of modernity which has, to date, marginalized the domestic space and women's traditional role as 'homemakers'.

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Challenges stereotypes about domesticity with a reevaluation of women's roles in the 'private' sphere. This book discusses the highly gendered nature of the concept of modernity which has, to date, marginalized the domestic space and women's traditional role as 'homemakers'.

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Olfa Youssef investigates the rulings about inheritance, marriage, and homosexuality in the Quranic text itself and compares them with the androcentric interpretations provided by male Muslim theologians and legal scholars from medieval times to the present, which today inform the body of the sharia law in the Muslim world.

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A radical new collection addressing violence against women in conflict zones across the global South.

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In 2004, the French government instituted a ban on the wearing of 'conspicuous signs' of religious affiliation in public schools. Though the ban applies to everyone, it is aimed at Muslim girls wearing headscarves. This book argues that the law is symptomatic of France's failure to integrate its former colonial subjects as full citizens.

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Argues that abstinence-only education in schools injure women's physical and psychological health, violate the Constitution, and flout the will of the majority of Americans. This title details what abstinence programs teach students and exposes the political and religious agendas behind them.

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Traces the application of US immigration and naturalization law to women from the 1870s to the late 1960s. This book explores how racialized, gendered, and historical anxieties shaped our understandings of the histories of immigrant women.

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Sadlier's study of women writers in Portugal after the 1974 revolution is a useful contribution to a neglected European literature, in which women are making a forceful contribution;

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This edition of Melich's "powerful, provocative" ("The Washington Post") indictment of the Republican Party's bigoted, divisive politics against women calls for a new agenda that will bring disaffected voters back to active participation in the nation's politics.

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The Risky Business of French Feminism: Publishing, Politics, and Artistry examines the women-owned publishing house Editions des Femmes and its rivals in order to understand how the French Womens Liberation Movement used print media to transform French culture and society from the 1970s through the 1990s.

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This text explores written representations of First World War experience by a variety of women. It investigates the interface between such writing and the development of literary modernisms, focusing on an engagement with issues of gender which remains topical today.

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This book gives voice to womens experiences and perceptions regarding their participation in infidelity and how they navigate outside partnerships concurrent to their primary partnerships. These interviews offer a glimpse into the ways women negotiate marriages that fall short of their expectations.

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