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Trade policy and gender equality
With a range of interdisciplinary contributions and national and regional case studies, this collection offers a systematic, up-to-date evaluation of the debate relating to international trade law, policy, and gender equality. It analyses recent trade negotiations and agreements through a gender lens. Available as Open Access on Cambridge Core
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- 9781009363716
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- xxvii, 402 pages
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- 343.08 BAH t
Gender and Sexuality Diversity in a Culture of Limitation : Student and Teach…
Gender and Sexuality Diversity in a Culture of Limitation provides an outstanding and insightful critique of the ways that contemporary education is impacted by a range of political, social and cultural influences that inform the approaches that schools take in relation to gender and sexuality diversity. By applying feminist poststructural and Foucauldian frameworks, the book examines the ongoi…
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- 9781138062313
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- xi, 174 p
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- Routledge Critical Studies in Gender and Sexuality in Education,
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- 370.81 FER
Aggression in Pornography : Myths and Realities
Aggression in Pornography focusses on the issue of violence in mainstream pornography and examines what we know, what we think we know, and what are some surprising research findings and insights about the place of violence within pornography today. The authors first review the modern pornography industry, theoretical claims about pornography as violence, and the ways in which aggression has be…
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- 9780429276125
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- xi, 140 p.
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- 306.771 AGG E
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
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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- 820.93522 CRI c
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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- 9781316911921
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- x, 305p. : ill.
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- 610.9 BRO b
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
Unequal family lives: causes and consequences in Europe and the Americas
Across the Americas and Europe, the family has changed and marriage is in retreat. To answer the question of what's driving these changes and how they impact social and economic inequality, progressives have typically focused on the economic causes of changing family structures, whereas conservatives tend to stress cultural and policy roots. In this illuminating book, an international group of …
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- 9781108415958
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- xix, 327 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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- 306.850973 CAH u
Looking for love in the legal discourse of marriage
This book examines the (in)visibility of romantic love in the legal discourse surrounding modern Australian marriage. It looks at how romantic love has become a core part of modernity, and a dominant part of the Western marriage discourse, and considers how the ideologies of romantic love are (or are not) replicated in the legal meaning of marriage. This examination raises two key issues. If lo…
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- 9781925021790
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- vii, 173 p.; 22 cm.
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- 306.872 GRO l
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
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