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  • The State of Feminist Social Work The State of Feminist Social Work
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    The State of Feminist Social Work

    Social work is currently undergoing major change in its policies, organization and day-to-day practice and much has been written about the feminist presence in social work. In particular, feminist social work has focused on the role of women social...
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  • Women's Health and Social Change Women's Health and Social Change
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    Women's Health and Social Change

    Shortlisted for the BSA Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize 2009 Traditional distinctions between the experiences of women and men are breaking down and being reconfigured in new, more complex ways. The long-established life expectancy gap between...
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  • The Somatechnics of Life and Death The Somatechnics of Life and Death
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    The Somatechnics of Life and Death

    This volume explores points of intersection and divergence between critical conceptions of time and technology, drawing on a range of perspectives and approaches to examine our mediated and material embodied entanglements with key questions about life...
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  • Nonviolent Resistances in the Contemporary World Nonviolent Resistances in the Contemporary World
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    Nonviolent Resistances in the Contemporary World

    This volume studies nonviolent movements as instruments of change in contemporary global politics. It presents case studies of civilian-led nonviolent efforts in India, Poland, and Turkey and analyzes how they have enabled people's voices, influenced...
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  • Writing Gender Writing Self Writing Gender Writing Self
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    Writing Gender Writing Self

    Life Writings/Narratives and studies in gender have been posing critical challenges to fetishizing the manner of canon formations and curriculum propriety. This book engages with these and other challenges turning our customary gaze towards women...
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  • Abortion and Democracy Abortion and Democracy
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    Abortion and Democracy

    Abortion and Democracy offers critical analyses of abortion politics in Latin America's Southern Cone, with lessons and insights of wider significance. Drawing on the region's recent history of military dictatorship and democratic transition, this edited...
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  • Empowering Women in Bangladesh Empowering Women in Bangladesh
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    Empowering Women in Bangladesh

    This book investigates the deep linkages between gender and grassroots politics. It studies how women candidates in Bangladesh are elected in reserved seats in the local government bodies and explores the challenges that they face both from within the...
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  • Women's Utopias in British and American Fiction Women's Utopias in British and American Fiction
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    Women's Utopias in British and American Fiction

    Utopian writing offers a fascinating panorama of social visions; and the related forms of dystopia and anti-utopian satire extend this into the range of social nightmares. Originally published in 1988, this comparative study of utopian fiction by British...
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  • Women's Education and Empowerment in Rural India Women's Education and Empowerment in Rural India
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    Women's Education and Empowerment in Rural India

    This is a book about understanding women's empowerment and pathways as well as roadblocks to women's economic empowerment in rural India, as understood through an evaluation-based research of a state-funded social sector programme located in the...
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  • Forging People Forging People
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    Forging People

    Explores how Hispanic American thinkers in Latin America and Latino/a philosophers in the USA have posed and thought about questions of race, ethnicity, and nationality.
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  • They Called Me 33 They Called Me 33
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    They Called Me 33

    Karen longed for acceptance, validation and love, but had no ability to form healthy, meaningful relationships. Born into a large family already suffering the effects of two generations of residential school, and surviving her own nine years at St...
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  • My Life With an Enigma My Life With an Enigma
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    My Life With an Enigma

    From England to Wyoming via Germany and New York.  Yramiris Paul Tracy rebelled against traditional norms to forge the life she wanted to live—life on a ranch in the west. As she told her NYC lawyer in 1957, “My children will know the...
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  • Nutrition For Your Soul Nutrition For Your Soul
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    Nutrition For Your Soul

    "This book, a profound willingness, a pen and paper is all you need to find yourself in God." Information overload. This describes a situation when the amount of data input to a system exceeds its processing capacity. When this occurs, the system shuts...
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  • Suck It Up, Princess Suck It Up, Princess
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    Suck It Up, Princess

    Suck It Up, Princess is for women the world over who want to get over your excuses and get on with living a rich, fulfilling and rewarding life, on your own damn terms. Refreshingly direct and inspiring, this book will show how to finally develop...
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  • Chick Lit Chick Lit
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    Chick Lit

    From the bestselling Bridget Jones's Diary that started the trend to the television sensation Sex and the City that captured it on screen, "chick lit" has become a major pop culture phenomenon. Banking on female audiences' identification with single,...
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  • Gender and Diversity in the Middle East and North Africa Gender and Diversity in the Middle East and North Africa
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    Gender and Diversity in the Middle East and North Africa

    The images of women in chadors or burqas as contrasted with images of belly dancers which circulate today as representations of Muslim/Middle Eastern women do not fluctuate from the images propagated by Orientalist paintings and colonial photographs...
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  • Difficult Women on Television Drama Difficult Women on Television Drama
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    Difficult Women on Television Drama

    Difficult Women on Television Drama analyses select case studies from international TV dramas to examine the unresolved feminist issues they raise or address: equal labor force participation, the demand for sexual pleasure and freedom, opposition to...
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  • Girls, Performance, and Activism Girls, Performance, and Activism
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    Girls, Performance, and Activism

    Girls, Performance, and Activism offers artists, activists, educators, and scholars a comprehensive analysis, celebration, and critique of the ways in which teenage girls create and perform activist theater. Girls, particularly Black and Latinx...
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  • Women's Writing In Latin America Women's Writing In Latin America
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    Women's Writing In Latin America

    In the last two decades Latin American literature has received great critical acclaim in the English-speaking world, although attention has been focused primarily on the classic works of male literary figures such as Borges, Paz, and Cortázar. More...
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  • Where Did All The Men Go? Where Did All The Men Go?
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    Where Did All The Men Go?

    This book examines female-headed/female-supported households in a wide variety of local contexts and links them to wider economic, social, and political processes. It focuses on the importance of culture and the ways in which culture interacts with race,...
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  • Women's Music for the Screen Women's Music for the Screen
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    Women's Music for the Screen

    Women's Music for the Screen: Diverse Narratives in Sound shines a long-overdue light on the works and lives of female-identifying screen composers. Bringing together composer profiles, exclusive interview excerpts, and industry case studies, this volume...
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  • Women, Microfinance and the State in Neo-liberal India Women, Microfinance and the State in Neo-liberal India
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    Women, Microfinance and the State in Neo-liberal India

    This book discusses women-oriented microfinance initiatives in India and their articulation vis-is state developmentalism and contemporary neo-liberal capitalism. It examines how these initiatives encourage economically disadvantaged rural women to make...
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  • Beyond Spain's Borders Beyond Spain's Borders
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    Beyond Spain's Borders

    The prolific theatrical activity that abounded on the stages of early modern Europe demonstrates that drama was a genre that transcended national borders. The transnational character of early modern theater reflects the rich admixture of various dramatic...
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  • Of Colonial Bungalows and Piano Lessons Of Colonial Bungalows and Piano Lessons
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    Of Colonial Bungalows and Piano Lessons

    Of Colonial Bungalows and Piano Lessons can be read as a metaphor - as an icon - of the encounter between cultures. The memoir is based on Monica Chanda's recollections between about 1913 and 1927, of life in Calcutta, districts of undivided Bengal,...
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  • Turning 50 on El Camino de Santiago Turning 50 on El Camino de Santiago
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    Turning 50 on El Camino de Santiago

    Ready to rove? In Turning 50 on El Camino de Santiago, Janine Harrison fosters wanderlust in armchair travelers and prepares trekkers about to tackle the French Way from St.-Jean-Pied-de-Port, France, over the Pyrenees, into Spain. Through personal...
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  • Take Action Take Action
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    Take Action

    A well sourced and important workbook/toolkit, Take Action: Fighting for Women & Girls covers the basics of activism and advocacy and gives the reader specific information about four issues related to girls, women, and gender equality. The power and...
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  • Too Pretty to be Good Too Pretty to be Good
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    Too Pretty to be Good

    A half-orphan, the town slut, unlovable by all. The one the boys liked enough to touch, but not enough to claim. Hands clasped in the dark of closets, but not in the hallway at school. Did you know you can get paid for touching boys in closets?Saddled...
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  • The Way of Men The Way of Men
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    The Way of Men

    The Way of Men is the book that cracked the code of masculinity. Advertisers create the illusion that masculinity can be bought. States and institutions want men to believe that masculinity is the product of obedience. Some say that masculinity is a...
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  • Don't Ask Permission to Fly Don't Ask Permission to Fly
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    Don't Ask Permission to Fly

    Creating a force called lift, counteracting the outside energy that would otherwise pull her down, that is the way Anna Gouker spends her days. Anna understands the importance of an elevated focus. This enables her to reach higher than the outside world...
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  • Coming From Cumberland Coming From Cumberland
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    Coming From Cumberland

    Coming from Cumberland reframes the story of a child being born at home and living off- the-grid deep in a back-country woods in Cumberland County, Tennessee in the early1940's. The first years of her life have shown her nothing about a life...
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  • CUANDO EL MILAGRO LLEGA LENTAMENTE CUANDO EL MILAGRO LLEGA LENTAMENTE
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    CUANDO EL MILAGRO LLEGA LENTAMENTE

    ¡Esta es la extraordinaria historia de una mujer extraordinaria! Beatriz Benestad enfrentó artritis reumatoide paralizante cuando era niña y tuvo que someterse a decenas de operaciones, pero no dejó que su discapacidad destruyera su visión. En su vida...
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    Tie Dyed

    In this hilarious account of her high school and college years in Alabama during the sixties and seventies, Kathie Farnell's wry observations, her excellent portraits of family and friends, her willingness to laugh at herself, and her placing her own...
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  • Progressive Black Masculinities? Progressive Black Masculinities?
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    Progressive Black Masculinities?

    Progressive Black Masculinities brings together leading black cultural critics including Michael Eric Dyson, Mark Anthony Neal, and Patricia Hill Collins to examine an alternatively demonized and mythologized black masculinity.
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  • Gender and Neoliberalism Gender and Neoliberalism
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    Gender and Neoliberalism

    This book describes the changing landscape of women's politics for equality and liberation during the rise of neoliberalism in India. Between 1991 and 2006, the doctrine of liberalization guided Indian politics and economic policy. These neoliberal...
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  • Pinay Power Pinay Power
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    Pinay Power

    This volume brings together for the first time critical work by Pinays of different generations and varying political and personal perspectives to chart the history of the Filipina experience.
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