This volume brings together 14 essays by feminist thinkers from different part of the world reflecting on the flaws in the current patterns of development, and arguing for political, economic, and...
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By: Devaki Jain
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By: Phyllis Chesler
In her cathartic book, Chesler addresses the double standards in psychology. She draws on studies, various theories as well as on many interviews and on her own personal experience. She argues...
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By: Debbie Budlender, Eileen Alma
This book focuses on recent findings from sub-Saharan Africa where researchers in 12 countries explored the topic of women and land from many angles - legal, customary, political, and economic....
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By: Kira Cochrane
This book is a collection of key articles and interviews which have appeared in the Guardian newspaper since the 1970s to date beginning with the first women’s liberation conference in the UK and...
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By: Margot Badran & Miriam Cooke
This is the second edition of this volume and includes a generous selection of texts produced by Arab women challenging the widely accepted view of Middle Easter women as submissive non-thinkers...
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By: Shulamith Firestone
This book was a best seller when it was first published in 1970. The book is one of the first on the women’s liberation movements to put forth a feminist theory of politics. The book begins with...
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By: Walter, Natasha
This book is about empowerment, liberation and choice. Once the watchwords of feminism, these terms have now been co-opted by a society that sells women an airbrushed, highly sexualized and...
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By: Karima Bennoune
Bennoune, an activist and law professor, interviews Muslims who are bravely standing up to fundamentalist Islamist groups. The geographic range of the book is vast, including France, Egypt,...
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By: Amy Louise Erickson
This book reveals the economic reality of ordinary women between the late 16th and early 18th centuries. Drawing on little-known sources, the author reconstructs day-to-day lives, showing how...
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By: Lisa Fishbayn Joffe
This anthology brings together scholars and activists who are involved in work on Jewish law, Muslim law, Christian law and African customary law. Using examples for several countries and...