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Empowering adolescent girls in developing countries : gender justice and norm…
Adolescence is a pivotal time in a girl's life. The development of educational, physical, psychosocial, familial, political and economic capabilities enable girls to reach their full potential and contribute to the wellbeing of their families and society. However, progress is still significantly constrained by discriminatory gender norms and the related attitudes and practices which restrict gi…
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- 9781315180250
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- 228p.
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- 362.83 HAR e
No truth without beauty : god, the Quran, and women's rights
In this comprehensive open access book, written for readers from any or no religious background, Leena El-Ali does something remarkable. Never before has anyone taken on every last claim relating to Islam and women and countered it not just with Qur’anic evidence to the contrary, but with easy-to-use tools available to all. How can a woman’s testimony be worth half of a man’s? How can men…
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- 4
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- 9783030835828
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- xxxii, 306 p.
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- -
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- 297.082 ELA n
Bread, cement, cactus : a memoir of belonging and dislocation
In this exploration of the meaning of home, Annie Zaidi reflects on the places in India from which she derives her sense of identity. She looks back on the now renamed city of her birth and the impossibility of belonging in the industrial township where she grew up. From her ancestral village, in a region notorious for its gangsters, to the mega-city where she now lives, Zaidi provides a nuance…
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- 9781108886932
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- vi, 159 p. : ill
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- -
- Call Number
- 828.9208 ZAI b
Living for the city : social change and knowledge production in the Central A…
Living for the City is a social history of the Central African Copperbelt, considered as a single region encompassing the neighbouring mining regions of Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Haut Katanga and Zambian Copperbelt mine towns have been understood as the vanguard of urban 'modernity' in Africa. Observers found in these towns new African communities that were experiencing w…
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- 9781108973120
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- xiii, 380 p. : ill
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- Call Number
- 967 LAR l
Critical alliances : economics and feminism in English women's writing, 1880-…
Critical Alliances argues that late-Victorian and modernist feminist authors saw in literary representations of female collaboration an opportunity to produce new gender and economic roles for women. It is not often that one thinks of female allegiances – such as kinship networks, cultural inheritance, or lesbian marriage – as influencing the marketplace; nor does one often think of economi…
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- 9781442625600
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- x, 297p.
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- Call Number
- 820.93522 CRI c
Chivalry, reading, and women's culture in early modern Spain: from Amadís de…
The Iberian chivalric romance has long been thought of as an archaic, masculine genre and its popularity as an aberration in European literary history. Chivalry, Reading, and Women’s Culture in Early Modern Spain contests this view, arguing that the surprisingly egalitarian gender politics of Spain’s most famous romance of chivalry has guaranteed it a long afterlife. Amadís de Gaula had a …
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- 9789048536641
- Collation
- 281 p.
- Series Title
- Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World, 3
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- 860.93522 TRI c
Women's choices in Europe : influence of gender on education, occupational ca…
The options women have to shape their lives have dramatically increased in the last decades, and this is true for all European countries. Changes in their societies with respect to women’s rights have been fundamental, amongst other things as a result of the women’s movement, which caused one of the greatest social revolutions of the 20th century. But considering the different starting poin…
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- 9783830977438
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- vi, 229 p. : ill
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- -
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- 305.4094 QUA w
Female employment and gender gaps in China
This open access book investigates female employment and the gender gap in the labor market and households during China’s economic transition period. It provides the reader with academic evidence for understanding the mechanism of female labor force participation, the determinants of the gender gap in the labor market, and the impact of policy transformation on women’s wages and employment …
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789813369047
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- xix, 180p. : ill.
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- -
- Call Number
- 331.40951 MA f
A table for one: a critical reading of singlehood, gender and time
A Table for One explores the links between female singlehood and social time, juxtaposing two theoretical fields that are rarely linked: the social study of time and the study of singlehood. By adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this book paves the way for a new theorisation of singlehood which will put it at the fore of deconstructive critical thinking and on the feminist agenda. Although…
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- 9781526116352
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- viii, 153 pages ; 24 cm
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- -
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- 306.8153 LAH t
British women surgeons and their patients, 1860-1918
When women agitated to join the medical profession in Britain during the 1860s, the practice of surgery proved both a help (women were neat, patient and used to needlework) and a hindrance (surgery was brutal, bloody and distinctly unfeminine). In this major new study, Claire Brock examines the cultural, social and self-representation of the woman surgeon from the second half of the nineteenth …
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781316911921
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- x, 305p. : ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 610.9 BRO b
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