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Man's Dominion: Women and the Rise of Religion in World Politics
By Sheila Jeffreys
The Sacred Men’s Club examines the global struggle of religious conservatism against women’s rights, and the ways in which a rise in the power of organised religions in western countries in the last two decades affects the lives of women. Institutionalised religion is, as feminist theorist Mary...
August 2011 | 978-0-415-59674-9 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Gender and Health
Edited by Kate Hunt, Ellen Annandale
Life expectancy is higher for women than men in almost every country, leading the World Health Organization to suggest that ‘their innate constitution’ gives women ‘an advantage over men’. However, this differential is far greater in some countries (e.g. Japan) than others (e.g. Qatar and Botswana)...
August 2011 | 978-0-415-56976-7 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Domesticity and Consumer Culture in Iran: Interior Revolutions of the Modern Era
By Pamela Karimi
Since 1979 the focus on Iran’s internal politics and its foreign relations has distracted attention from more subtle transformations, which took place prior to and in the aftermath of the Islamic Revolution. This book explores Iranian domesticity and consumer culture from before the revolution...
July 2011 | 978-0-415-78183-1 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Sex, Culpability and the Defence of Provocation
By Danielle Tyson
Dealing with the complex case law concerning the use of the provocation defence in cases of intimate killings, Sex, Culpability and the Defence of Provocation considers the construction and representation of subjectivity and sexual difference in legal narrations of homicide. Undeniably, the...
July 2011 | 978-0-415-56020-7 | Paperback (Routledge-Cavendish)
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Heterosexuality in Theory and Practice
By Chris Beasley, Heather Brook, Mary Holmes
This project seeks to improve the context of critical inquiry into human sexualities and social change. Contributing to broader debates about sexualities, and to knowledge concerning the nature and experience of heterosexualities, it envisages possibilities for theorizing and practicing...
July 2011 | 978-0-415-89009-0 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Hopeful Girls, Troubled Boys: Race and Gender Inequality in Urban Education, 2nd Edition
By Nancy Lopez
An exciting revision of a classic book. Hopeful Girls, Troubled Boys focuses on the life histories of the largest immigrant group in New York City – the youth from the Dominican Republic, the West Indies, and Haiti – to explain why girls of colour are succeeding at higher rates than their male...
June 2011 | 978-0-415-87423-6 | Paperback (Routledge)
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The Politics of Women's Integration: Voices from the Margins
By Leah Bassel
Does accommodating Islam violate women’s rights? This book breaks from scholarship that focuses upon whether accommodation of culture and religion harms women. Instead, it claims that this debate ignores the realities of the women at its heart. The book contrasts debates in France over the...
June 2011 | 978-0-415-60360-7 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Women, Judging and the Judiciary: From Difference to Diversity
By Erika Rackley
Women, Judging and the Judiciary explores continuing debates about gender representation in the judiciary and, more specifically, the importance of judicial diversity, in order to provide a fresh look at the role of the (woman) judge and the process of judging. There has been considerable...
June 2011 | 978-0-415-54861-8 | Hardback (Routledge-Cavendish)
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The Politics of Moral Sin: Abortion and Divorce in Spain, Chile and Argentina
By Merike Blofield
This book analyzes the problems that arise when women's rights conflict with the views of conservative organized religion. Specifically, it addresses the legalization – or lack thereof – of divorce and abortion in three recently democratized Catholic countries: Spain, Chile, and...
June 2011 | 978-0-415-80596-4 | Paperback (Routledge)