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Written by parliamentarians and researchers, this second version of the IDEA Handbook on Women in Parliament examines the obstacles women face in ... More

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As women increasingly play a role and gain ever greater prominence in congressional politics, they need to navigate the at times conflicting demands ... More

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Sex, Gender and the Conservative Party provides a comprehensive gendered analysis of the contemporary UK Conservative Party. The modernization of the ... More

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Women in public office are often assumed to "make a difference" for women, as women--in other words, to represent their female constituents better ... More

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Considers how law interacts with economic and social processes to create global gender injustices.

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This book by one of the pioneers of the contemporary women s rights movement in India combines insights gathered from deep engagement with the lives ... More

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The book opens with a description of female circumcision/female genital mutilation, its history and its consequences for health. The authors look at ... More

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"Contemporary Cases in Women's Rights" is an introduction to the most important recent court decisions affecting women in the United States. Abortion ... More

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America's top women lawyers were polled about what they really think about their firms, and the responses are addressed in "Presumed Equal". The book ... More

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Studies historical constitutional development in relation to protective laws for women in the U.S. during the Progressive Era and early New Deal ... More

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Women's Movements in Asia is a comprehensive study of women s activism across Asia. With chapters written by leading international experts, it ... More

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"This book is an important effort to tease out women's political consciousness in a particularly volatile colonial setting. . . . It adopts an ... More

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Women and Politics in the Third World provides a feminist analytical perspective on the specific forms of resistance, organisation and negotiation by ... More

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Since the publication of the first edition of this book, former U.S. Senator Carol Moseley Braun's campaign for the presidency in 2004 and the ... More

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This book uses the Anglophone Caribbean as its site of critique to explore two important questions within development studies. First, to what extent ... More

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This book evaluates the major debates around which the discipline of international relations has developed in the light of contemporary feminist ... More

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Features: -- Foreword by former Texas governor Ann W. Richards -- Biographies of every female U.S. representative, senator, and cabinet member -- ... More

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"Gendering Religion and Politics" explores the multi-dimensional nature and inherently contingent qualities of modernity as they are revealed in the ... More

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In 1936, Goebbels stated that 'a government that controls art will remain forever', and the German film industry became inextricably linked with ... More

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The number of women elected to Latin American legislatures has grown significantly over the past thirty years. This increase in the number of women ... More

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Why has the integration of women into Congress been so slow? Is there a "political glass ceiling" for women? Although women use the same strategic ... More

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In the run-up to the 2012 presidential election, Democrats and Republicans were locked in a fierce battle for the female vote. Democrats charged ... More

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In a cold and grueling iron mine, a group of women endured a shocking degree of sexual harassment, until one of them found the courage to file the ... More

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