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Offers an introduction to the key concepts and themes in French feminist thought, both the materialist and the linguistic/psychoanalytic traditions. This book outlines the philosophical and political diversity of French feminism, and traces the connections between French and Anglo-American feminist approaches and methodologies.

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Offering an introduction to the key concepts and themes in French feminist thought, this title explores the work of a wide range of theorists; outlines the philosophical and political diversity of French feminism and traces the connections between French and Anglo-American feminist approaches.

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Chronicles the interaction of public policies and private reproductive behaviour in the 28 formerly socialist countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the USSR successor states from 1917 to the present.

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The author explores the styles of teaching and learning that can promote resiliency among women from disadvantaged backgrounds.

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After women won the vote in the US in 1920, women's public activism shifted from a single-issue agenda to the myriad of social problems and public issues. This anthology documents women's activism during this period by introducing public speeches that address a wide array of topics.

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After women won the vote in the US in 1920, women's public activism shifted from a single-issue agenda to the myriad of social problems and public issues. This anthology documents women's activism during this period by introducing public speeches that address a wide array of topics.

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Provides a multidisciplinary analysis of the role of gender in the formation and dissemination of the American social sciences in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This volume draws attention to the ways in which changing gender relations shaped the development and organization of the social knowledge.

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Exploring the crisis in Counter-Reformation Spain, this book reveals the significance of gender for social order by portraying the lives of women who lived on the margins of respectability - prostitutes, healers, visionaries, and other deviants who provoked the concern of a growing central government linked closely to the church.

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International film has received some original impulses from German film makers. This work considers the spectrum of German cinema through the category of gender.

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Considers the broad spectrum of German cinema through the category of gender. This work is divided into two volumes: "Gender and Representation in New German Cinema"; and "German Film History/German History on Film".

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International film has received some original impulses from German film makers. This work considers the spectrum of German cinema through the category of gender.

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Considers the broad spectrum of German cinema through the category of gender. This work is divided into two volumes: "Gender and Representation in New German Cinema"; and "German Film History/German History on Film".

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Investigates the relationship of gender to home-based employment and family life. The chapters provide a range of gender considerations from the perspectives of the workers and the workers' families, with emphasis on either the workers, the family, or the work/business. Also included are recommendations for public policy considerations.

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In recent years, the topic of ancient Greek hero cult has been the focus of considerable discussion among classicists. Little attention, however, has been paid to female heroized figures. Here Deborah Lyons argues for the heroine as a distinct category in ancient Greek religious ideology and daily practice. The heroine, she believes, must be locate

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"An interdisciplinary study that brings together gender studies, media studies, Marxist thought, and literary theory to explore contemporary issues of precarity and the symbolic production of gender as a commodity"--

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Drawing on first-generation critical theory of Horkheimer, Adorno, and Marcuse and second-generation critical theory of Habermas, Agger argues for the priority of critical theory over the antitotality perspectives of postmodernism and feminism.

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Elizabeth Anne Larsen explores how harness horse racing has resisted gender equalization and excluded women from key roles. With stirring accounts of the strong women who are surviving and succeeding in this sport, Larsen provides insight for studies of gender and work, occupational sex segregation, and womens studies.

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