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An interdisciplinary study of market women from all parts of Africa shows how, from historical times to the present, African women have used the economic power they have derived from market activities and commercial enterprises to improve their social and political status in a man's world.

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With the publication of this book, the Reverend Anna Howard Shaw assumes her rightful place in the pantheon of great American orators. Finally, Shaw's public speaking efforts after she resigned as president, including her work for the war effort and the League of Nations, are also analyzed.

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The Mad Men world is disappearing and the guys are struggling to figure out the altered parameters of manliness.
Maureen Dowd

Do women get anything from men being obsolete

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How can women create a meaningful and joyous life for themselves This book argues that women should transcend the quest for equality and focus on what she shows is a far more radical project: achieving freedom. It explores what it would mean for women politically, legally, and culturally, if we took this freedom seriously.

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When Verschuur-Basse, a French sociologist specializing in the family, was invited by the Academy of Social Sciences to Beijing in 1985, she interviewed women from three generations and a variety of professions about their lives as women, wives, mothers, and daughters-in-law.

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When Verschuur-Basse, a French sociologist specializing in the family, was invited by the Academy of Social Sciences to Beijing in 1985, she interviewed women from three generations and a variety of professions about their lives as women, wives, mothers, and daughters-in-law.

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As Japan shifted from an agricultural country before 1950 to an industrialized nation in less time than any other developed country, women felt the pressure of the shift.

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As Japan shifted from an agricultural country before 1950 to an industrialized nation in less time than any other developed country, women felt the pressure of the shift.

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Explores post colonial relationships with "the wild" in the US and Russia, using spaceships, horoscopes and dolphins as examples.

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Cultural theory has taken a 'performative turn', shifting its focus from textual nature of the world to how social world is narrated, its subjects are subjected and its relations are ritually enacted. This book explores the development and direction of notion of performativity. It explores ways of thinking political imaginations and possibilities.

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Cultural theory has taken a 'performative turn', shifting its focus from textual nature of the world to how social world is narrated, its subjects are subjected and its relations are ritually enacted. This book explores the development and direction of notion of performativity. It explores ways of thinking political imaginations and possibilities.

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This book investigates the way in which British widows of servicemen who died in the First World War were represented in society and explores the intertwining discourses of social welfare, national identity, and morality that can be identified in these texts.

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Updates Ariel Sallehs landmark exploration of the relationship between feminism and ecology.

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While there is a predominant celebration of mobility and instability metaphors in contemporary feminist discourse, concepts of home, rest or dwelling are frequently left unproblematized and perceived as simple, static and lacking in development potential.

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Women activists pursued improvement in educational opportunities, fought for suffrage, established journals, and sought to transform women's consciousness and establish women's studies programs and women's crises centers.

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A noted feminist psychologist takes a fascinating look at the lived and ordinary experience of women to present the first psychology of women that integrates all aspects of experience, from the physical to the sociocultural.

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This book profiles the political struggles of ten radical women active on the European scene from 1880 to the present, and contributes to the history of the role of women in twentieth century European politics.

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The never-before-reported story of a generation of Arab women, who are questioning authority, changing societies and leading revolutions.

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A collection of essays-plus interviews with well-known feminists-by Manifesta co-author Jennifer Baumgardner on everything from purity balls to Lady Gaga