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Mary and Early Christian Women : Hidden Leadership
This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND license. This book reveals exciting early Christian evidence that Mary was remembered as a powerful role model for women leaders—women apostles, baptizers, and presiders at the ritual meal. Early Christian art portrays Mary and other women clergy serving as deacon, presbyter/priest, and bishop. In addition, the two oldest surviving artifacts to…
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- 9783030111113
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- XVII, 295p. : ill.
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- 232.91 ALL m
Violence against women's health in international law
Violence against women is characterised by its universality, the multiplicity of its forms, and the intersectionality of diverse kinds of discrimination against women. Great emphasis in legal analysis has been placed on sex-based discrimination; however, in investigations of violence, one aspect has been overlooked: violence may severely affect women's health and access to reproductive health, …
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- 9781526124975
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Women, Love and Learning : The Double Bind
This book tells the story of a generation of American and Australian women who embodied – and challenged – the prescriptions of their times. In the 1950s and early 60s they went to colleges and universities, trained for professions and developed a life of the mind. They were also urged to embrace their femininity, to marry young, to devote themselves to husbands, children and communities. C…
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- 1st ed.
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- 9783035101133
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- 254p.
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- 305.40973 ALI w
Hidden Hunger : Gender and the Politics of Smarter Foods
For decades, NGOs targeting world hunger focused on ensuring that adequate quantities of food were being sent to those in need. In the 1990s, the international food policy community turned its focus to the “hidden hunger” of micronutrient deficiencies, a problem that resulted in two scientific solutions: fortification, the addition of nutrients to processed foods, and biofortification, the …
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- 25
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- 9780801467691
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- xiii, 219 p . : ill
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- 362.19639009598 AYA h
Changing gender norms in Islam between reason and revelation
Women‘s movements in Islamic countries have had a long and arduous journey in their quest for the realization of human rights and genuine equality. The author examines whether discriminatory laws against women do in fact originate from Islam and, ultimately, if there is any interpretation of Islam compatible with gender equality. She investigates women’s rights in Iran since the 1979 Revolu…
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- 9783863882983
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- 247p
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- 305.48697 MAR c
Reaching for Health : The Australian women’s health movement and public policy
The women’s health movement shocked and scandalised when it burst into Australian politics in the early 1970s. It cast the light of day onto taboo subjects such as sexual assault, abortion and domestic violence, provoking outrage and condemnation. Some of the services women created for themselves were subjected to police raids; sex education material was branded ‘indecent’. Moreover, wome…
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- 9781921862687
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- 394p. : ill
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- 362.1982 JAM r
MILLICENT GARRETT FAWCETT : selected writings
‘Courage calls to courage everywhere’ is the best-known phrase associated with Millicent Garrett Fawcett (1847-1929), the leading UK suffragist and campaigner of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. But what is the source of her quote, and what is its context? This book reproduces Fawcett’s essential speeches, pamphlets and newspaper columns to tell the story of her dynamic contribu…
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- 9781787358638
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- xi, 476 p.
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- 324.623092 MIL M
Negotiating Nursing
Negotiating nursing explores how the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service (Q.A.s) salvaged men within the sensitive gender negotiations of what should and could constitute nursing work and where that work could occur. The book argues that the Q.A.s, an entirely female force during the Second World War, were essential to recovering men physically, emotionally and spiritually …
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- 9781526147257
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Veiled threats : representing 'the Muslim woman' in UK public policy discourses
As Muslim women continue to be a focus of media-led debate, Naaz Rashid uses original scholarship and empirical research to examine how Muslim women are represented in policy discourse and how the trope of the Muslim woman is situated within national debates about Britishness, the death of multiculturalism and global concerns over international terrorism.
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- 9781447325192
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- xiii, 218p.
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- 305.486970941 RAS v
The economics of gender in China : women, work, and the glass ceiling
China's rapid socio-economic development has achieved remarkable equalizing conditions between men and women in the aspects of health, education and labor force participation, but the glass ceiling phenomenon has become more prominent. The book develops a cross-disciplinary paradigm, with economics at its core, to better understand gender in China and women in management in the Chinese business…
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- 9781003307563
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- xi, 229p.
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- Routledge studies in gender and economics
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- 331.40951 SUN t
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