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Women, power and politics
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ISBN: 0230507808 9780230507814 0230507816 9780230507807 Year: 2007 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Palgrave Macmillan

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aWomen are increasingly present and active in public policy-making with females leaders no longer a rarity in major Western countries. However, the achievements of a few outstanding individuals can obscure the continuing limits to the role that women in general play in political life. Focusing primarily on a range of economically advanced liberal democracies, Anne Stevens looks at women's political behavior as citizens, voters, representatives, activists and leaders, and asks what impact they have on political outcomes. Supporting her argument with substantial evidence from a range of countries, [the author] concludes that the changes that have enhanced women's political status have never been easy. Women do not necessarily agree about the outcomes to be achieved and what they can do is profoundly affected by the context within which they act. -- Book cover.

Multiculturalism without culture
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ISBN: 9780691129440 0691129444 1282157159 9786612157158 1400827736 0691141150 9781400827732 9781282157156 9780691141152 9780691141152 Year: 2007 Publisher: Princeton Princeton University Press

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Public opinion in recent years has soured on multiculturalism, due in large part to fears of radical Islam. In Multiculturalism without Culture, Anne Phillips contends that critics misrepresent culture as the explanation of everything individuals from minority and non-Western groups do. She puts forward a defense of multiculturalism that dispenses with notions of culture, instead placing individuals themselves at its core. Multiculturalism has been blamed for encouraging the oppression of women--forced marriages, female genital cutting, school girls wearing the hijab. Many critics opportunistically deploy gender equality to justify the retreat from multiculturalism, hijacking the equality agenda to perpetuate cultural stereotypes. Phillips informs her argument with the feminist insistence on recognizing women as agents, and defends her position using an unusually broad range of literature, including political theory, philosophy, feminist theory, law, and anthropology. She argues that critics and proponents alike exaggerate the unity, distinctness, and intractability of cultures, thereby encouraging a perception of men and women as dupes constrained by cultural dictates. Opponents of multiculturalism may think the argument against accommodating cultural difference is over and won, but they are wrong. Phillips believes multiculturalism still has an important role to play in achieving greater social equality. In this book, she offers a new way of addressing dilemmas of justice and equality in multiethnic, multicultural societies, intervening at this critical moment when so many Western countries are poised to abandon multiculturalism.

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Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Feminism. --- Multiculturalism. --- Culture conflict. --- Sex discrimination against women. --- Féminisme --- Multiculturalisme --- Conflit culturel --- Discrimination à l'égard des femmes --- Cultural conflict. --- Discrimination against women --- Subordination of women --- Women, Discrimination against --- Feminism --- Sex discrimination --- Women's rights --- Male domination (Social structure) --- Cultural diversity policy --- Cultural pluralism --- Cultural pluralism policy --- Ethnic diversity policy --- Multiculturalism --- Social policy --- Anti-racism --- Ethnicity --- Cultural fusion --- Emancipation of women --- Feminist movement --- Women --- Women's lib --- Women's liberation --- Women's liberation movement --- Women's movement --- Social movements --- Anti-feminism --- Cultural conflict --- Culture wars --- Conflict of cultures --- Intercultural conflict --- Social conflict --- Government policy --- Emancipation --- Multiculturaliteit --- Multiculturaliteit. --- Féminisme --- Discrimination à l'égard des femmes --- Sociology of culture --- Sociology of minorities --- Culture conflict --- Sex discrimination against women --- #SBIB:316.346H10 --- #SBIB:316.346H20 --- #SBIB:316.7C140 --- Vrouwenproblematiek, feminisme: algemeen --- Positie van de vrouw in de samenleving: algemeen --- Cultuursociologie: cultuur en globale samenlevingen --- Theory --- Book --- Culture --- Discrimination

Sex and suits
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ISBN: 0679430962 9780679430964 Year: 1994 Publisher: New York Knopf

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Dress was equally showy for men and women until the late eighteenth century, when natural simplicity and understatement on the model of the Classical Greek nude became fashionable, but for men's clothes only. After that, obvious sexual display in dress was left to women - and it came to seem both shameful and esthetically inferior by comparison, despite its variety. Hollander shows how modern women adapted men's tailoring to their richer scheme of display, making suits do for women what they had long done for men: show their sexuality to be central, serious and interesting, rather than irrational, shallow and dangerous. She shows us, too, how men - now that women have adopted every element of male style - are recapturing the color and ornament they long found taboo, without giving up the potent beauty of tailored suits, which women have made universal.


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Donor insemination : family relationships and child development in lesbian and heterosexual families
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ISBN: 9090105522 Year: 1997 Publisher: Katwijk "All in" BV

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Het boek is gebaseerd op het doctoraal proefschrift van Brewaeys. Daarin wordt de empirische kennis over de psychologische ontwikkeling van DI-kinderen (Donorinseminatie) nagegaan én verrijkt. In de eerste plaats wordt de psychologische theorievorming over lesbisch ouderschap op een rijtje gezet. In het tweede hoofdstuk wordt een overzicht gegeven van het schaars empirisch onderzoek naar de psychologische gevolgen van DI, ook bij heterokoppels. De situatie is bij die laatste alarmerender, omdat zij meestal het donorschap geheim houden voor hun kinderen. Hoofdbrok van het boek is follow-up studie waarbij 50 lesbische koppels ondervraagd werden op twee momenten. Dit onderzoek is enig in zijn soort in Vlaanderen. Een eerste interview werd gedaan toen hun kinderen tussen 1 en 2 jaar oud waren, een tweede toen ze tussen 4 en 8 jaar oud waren. Met de controlegroepen (heteroseksuele families die een kind kregen op de natuurlijke manier of via DI) werd geen verschil in de kwaliteit van de ouder-kindrelatie vastgesteld. Meemoeders hadden over het algemeen zelfs een betere relatie met de kinderen dan vaders in een heterorelatie. Ook het sekserolgedrag van de kinderen was niet afwijkend.

Demons of domesticity: women and the English gas industry, 1889-1939
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ISBN: 0754606929 Year: 2004 Volume: *3 Publisher: Aldershot Ashgate


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La violence féminine, du vécu au transmis
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ISBN: 2747570924 9782747570923 Year: 2004 Publisher: Paris L'Harmattan


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L'interdite : Camille Claudel 1864-1943
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ISBN: 2903144230 Year: 1983 Publisher: Parijs Tierce

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