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Regional development and womens empowerment
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ISBN: 1461904153 9781461904151 9789381274071 938127407X Year: 2012 Publisher: New Delhi New Delhi Publishers

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Papers presented at a national seminar held at University of North Bengal in 2011.


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Dimensionen der (Un-)Gleichheit : geschlechtsspezifische Ungleichheiten in den sozial- und beschäftigungspolitischen Debatten der EWG in den 1960er Jahren
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ISBN: 9783515107761 Year: 2014 Publisher: Stuttgart : Franz Steiner Verlag,


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The prism of human rights : seeking justice amid gender violence in rural Ecuador
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ISBN: 1978835353 Year: 2023 Publisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press,

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"Gender violence has been at the forefront of women's human rights struggles for decades, shaping political movements and NGO and government programs related to women's empowerment, community development, and public health. Drawing on over twenty years of research and activism in rural Ecuador, The Prism of Human Rights provides a remarkably intimate view of what these rights-based programs actually achieve over the long term. Friederic brings us into the lives of women, men, and children who find themselves entangled in intimate partner violence, structural violence, political economic change, and a global cultural project in which "rights" are associated with modernity, development, and democratic states. She details the multiple forms of violence that rural women experience; shows the diverse ways they make sense of, endure, and combat this violence; and helps us understand how people are grappling with new ideas of gender, rights, and even of violence itself. Ultimately, Friederic demonstrates that rights-based interventions provide important openings for women seeking a life free of violence, but they also unwittingly expose "liberated" women to more extreme dynamics of structural violence. Thus, these interventions often reduce women's room for maneuver and encourage communities to hide violence in order to appear "modern" and "developed." This analysis of human rights in practice is essential for anyone seeking to promote justice in a culturally responsible manner, and for anyone who hopes to understand how the globalization of rights, legal institutions, and moral visions is transforming distant locales and often perpetuating violence in the process"--


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A National Park for Women's Rights : The Campaign That Made It Happen
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ISBN: 1501771663 1501771671 Year: 2023 Publisher: Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press,

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"The story of the challenges faced in the creation of the Women's Rights National Historical Park in Seneca Falls, NY, as told by the founding superintendent of the park"--


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Teenage Dreams : Girlhood Sexualities in the U. S. Culture Wars
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ISBN: 9781978806832 Year: 2022 Publisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press,

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"Utilizing a breadth of archival sources from activists, artists, and policymakers, Teenage Dreams examines the race- and class-inflected battles over adolescent women's sexual and reproductive lives in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century United States. Charlie Jeffries finds that most adults in this period hesitated to advocate for adolescent sexual and reproductive rights, revealing a new culture war altogether--one between adults of various political stripes in the cultural mainstream who prioritized the desire to delay girlhood sexual experience at all costs, and adults who remained culturally underground in their support for teenagers' access to frank sexual information, and who would dare to advocate for this in public. The book tells the story of how the latter group of adults fought alongside teenagers themselves, who constituted a large and increasingly visible part of this activism. The history of the debates over teenage sexual behavior reveals unexpected alliances in American political battles, and sheds new light on the resurgence of the right in the US in recent years"--


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Women in action.
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ISSN: 20792476 Year: 1974 Publisher: Quezon City, Philippines : Isis International-Manila


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Murder on the mountain
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ISBN: 1978829167 9781978829169 Year: 2022 Publisher: New Brunswick, New Jersey

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"Murder on the Mountain tells the story of Margaret Meierhofer, the last woman executed by the State of New Jersey, who was hung - along with a farmhand drifter named Frank Lammens -- in Newark at the Essex County Jail in January 1881 for murdering her husband John. In September 1879, a Dutch immigrant named Frank Lammens who described himself as a "professional tramp" arrived at the Meierhofer farmhouse. Margaret hired him and, on October 9, her husband was found dead in the basement with a pistol shot wound in the back of the head. Margaret and Frank each blamed the other for killing John, and the subsequent trial became front-page news throughout the nation. The trial proved especially sensational, and at one point the judge discouraged women from attending owing to the salacious testimony surrounding Margaret's supposed affairs. Neither Margaret nor Frank ever confessed to the crime, and both protested their innocence as they went to the gallows. Governor George McClellan, a fellow West Orange resident, refused to commute their sentences to life imprisonment despite the fact that they were convicted on purely circumstantial evidence. Their story opens an interesting window on issues concerning immigration, family tensions, gender roles, class, capital punishment, incarceration, and community life during the depression decade of the 1870s. This book embeds the story within this larger social context, seeking to both relate a fascinating story and to tease out the larger implications of the murder and execution"--


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Childfree Across the Disciplines : Academic and Activist Perspectives on Not Choosing Children
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ISBN: 197882310X 1978823126 Year: 2022 Publisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press,

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"Recently, childfree people have been foregrounded in mainstream media. More than seven percent of Western women choose to remain childfree and this figure is increasing. Being childfree challenges the 'procreation imperative' residing at the center of our hetero-normative understandings, occupying an uneasy position in relation to-simultaneously-traditional academic ideologies and prevalent social norms. After all, as Adi Avivi recognizes, "if a woman is not a mother, the patriarchal social order is in danger." This collection engages with these (mis)perceptions about childfree people: in media representations, demographics, historical documents, and both psychological and philosophical models. Foundational pieces from established experts on the childfree choice--Rhonny Dam, Laura Lisle, Christopher Clausen, and Berenice Fisher--appear alongside both activist manifestos and original scholarly work, comprehensively brought together. Academics and activists in various disciplines and movements also riff on the childfree life: its implications, its challenges, its conversations, and its agency-all in relation to its inevitability in the 21st century. Childfree across the Disciplines unequivocally takes a stance supporting the subversive potential of the childfree choice, allowing readers to understand childfreedom as a sense of continuing potential in who-or what-a person can become"--

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