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Dismantling rape culture : the peacebuilding power of ‘Me Too’
This book analyses rape culture through the lens of the ‘me too’ era. Drawing feminist theory into conversation with peace studies and improvisation theory, it advocates for peace- building opportunities to transform culture and for the improvisatory resources of ‘culture- jamming’ as a mechanism to dismantle rape culture. The book’s key argument is that cultural attitudes and behavio…
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- 9781003124290
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- X, 209 p.
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- Interdisciplinary Research in Gender
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- 305.42 NIC d
Women’s activism and "second wave" feminism transnational histories
Women’s Activism and "Second Wave" Feminism situates late 20th century feminisms within a global framework of women’s activism. Its chapters, written by leading international scholars, demonstrate how issues of heterogeneity, transnationalism, and intersectionality have transformed understandings of historical feminism. It is no longer possible to imagine that feminism has ever fostered an …
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- 9781474250511
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- 344 p.; 22 cm.
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- 305.42 WOM w
Dangerous ideas: women's liberation, women's studies around the world
Dangerous Ideas explores sex and love, politics and performance, joy and anguish in a collection of essays focussed on the history and politics of the Women’s Liberation Movement and one of its offshoots, Women’s Studies, in Australia and around the world. These are serious matters: they are about tectonic changes in people’s lives and ideas in the late twentieth century, too little remem…
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- 9781922064950
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- 1 online resource (x, 310 pages)
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- 305.420994 MAG d
Mainstreaming Politics: Gendering Practices and Feminist Theory
This book offers an innovative rethinking of policy approaches to ‘gender equality’ and of the process of social change. It brings several new chapters together with a series of previously published articles to reflect on these topics. A particular focus is gender mainstreaming, a relatively recent development in equality policy in many industrialised and some industrialising countries, as …
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- 9780980672381
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- 305.42 BAC m
Gender in science and technology: interdisciplinary approaches
What role does gender play in scientific research and the development of technologies? This book provides methodological expertise, research experiences and empirical findings in the dynamic field of Science and Technology Studies. The authors, coming from computer science, social sciences, or cultural studies of science, discuss how to ask questions about gender and give examples for the appli…
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- 9783837624342
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- 1 electronic resource (262 pages)
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- 303.483 GEN g
The Gender-sensitive university : a contradiction in terms?
The Gender-Sensitive University explores the prevailing forces that pose obstacles to driving a gender-sensitive university, which include the emergence of far-right movements that seek to subvert advances towards gender equality and managerialism that promotes creeping corporatism. This book demonstrates that awareness of gender equality and gender sensitivity are essential for pulling contemp…
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- 9780367431174
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- 208 p.; 22 cm.
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- 378.1982 GEN g
The Youth of early modern women
Through fifteen varied case studies that draw on a rich array of primary sources, this collection of essays makes the novel claim that early modern European women, like men, had a youth. European culture recognized that, between childhood and full adulthood, early modern women experienced distinctive physiological, social, and psychological transformations. Drawing on two mutually shaped layers…
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- 9789462984325
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- 263 p.; 22 cm.
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- 305.235 YOU y
Tranformations of gender in Melanesia
Despite the plethora of research on gender and the many projects designed to improve their status in the Pacific region, women continue to be disadvantaged and marginalised in social, economic and political spheres. How are we to understand this and what does it mean for researchers, policy-makers and development practitioners? This book examines these questions, partly by looking back but also…
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- 9781760460891
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- 305.4 TRA t
EqualBITE : gender equality in higher education
Gender imbalances still exist across all areas of higher education. From salaries and promotion, to representation in the curriculum, formal approaches and good intentions rarely address the full complexity. EqualBITE digs into the messy reality of higher education gender issues, presenting people’s stories, experiences and frustrations and – more importantly – what can be done. Universit…
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- 9789463511438
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- xiii, 350p. : ill.
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- 378.0082 EQU e
Contemporary Irish women poets : memory and estrangement
This study examines the intersection of private and public spheres through the representation of memory in contemporary poetry by Irish women. Collins explores how memory shapes creativity in the work of well-known poets such as Eavan Boland, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and Medbh McGuckian as well as in that of an exciting group of younger poets. This book analyses, for the first time, the comple…
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- 9781781381878
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- xi, 241 p.; 22 cm.
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- 821.09928709415 COL c
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