Pacific women in politics

Violence against Women in Politics

Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Women in Politics and Media

Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Women, Language and Politics

This book addresses the problem of underrepresentation of women in politics, by examining how language maintains inequalities. Drawing on case studies

Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Women and Politics in a Global World

Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Politics and Affect in Black Women's Fiction

This book offers original readings of classic and contemporary black texts, highlighting the pain of racism and love-based strategies of antiracist re

Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Sexual Politics

A new edition of the earthshaking work that exposed the subjugation of women in culture and life.

Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Women in State Politics in India Taylor & Francis Ltd

The dynamics of Indian politics is reflected in the flexible and fluctuating relations between the centre and the states as well as in the equations within the multiparty political system. This book is one of the first to explore the participation of women in state and local politics in India and how women navigate the dynamic spaces and hierarchies of the Indian politica...

Dostupnost: do 90 dnů

Women, Work And Sexual Politics In Eighteenth-Century England

A reassessment of women's experience of work in 18th-century England, and the effects it had on industrialization and other economic, social and techn

Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Rhetoric, Women and Politics in Early Modern England

Drawing upon a wide range of literary texts including poetry, drama, letters and prose, this incisive book sheds new and important light on the early

Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

New World Politics of the Indo-Pacific

The book offers vivid analysis of new geopolitics in the Indo-Pacific in terms of big power rivalry between US-China and country wise perspectives sit

Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Women and the Judiciary in the Asia-Pacific

The courts can play a role in addressing issues of inequality, discrimination and gender injustice for women. The feminisation of the judiciary is a k

Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Politics of Passion

Centers on an old institution among the Afro-Surinamese working class in which women have multiple sexual relationships with both men and women. These

Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Politics of Piety

Provides an analysis of Islamist cultural politics through the ethnography of a thriving, grassroots women's piety movement in the mosques of Cairo, E

Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Politics of Humiliation

The story of how humiliation has been used as a means of coercion and control in the modern age - from the shaving of the heads of alleged women colla

Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Africa in World Politics Taylor & Francis Ltd

This bookprovides advanced undergraduate and graduate students with the perfect introduction to the challenges faced by African states on an increasingly turbulent world stage. Updated throughout, this new edition includes new chapters on the unprecedented challenges the continent faces from climate change and the fallout of the Covid-19 global pandemic. Adding to existin...

Dostupnost: do 90 dnů

Africa in World Politics Taylor & Francis Ltd

This bookprovides advanced undergraduate and graduate students with the perfect introduction to the challenges faced by African states on an increasingly turbulent world stage. Updated throughout, this new edition includes new chapters on the unprecedented challenges the continent faces from climate change and the fallout of the Covid-19 global pandemic. Adding to existin...

Dostupnost: do 90 dnů

Women in Performance

Women in Performance charts the renewed popularity of intersectional feminism, gender, race and identity politics in contemporary Western experimental

Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Women Architects and Politics – Intersections between Gender, Power Structures, and Architecture in the Long Twentieth Century

Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Purple Color of Kurdish Politics

Prison writings from 22 Kurdish women who were elected to office in Turkey and then imprisoned by the state on political grounds

Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Postfeminism, Postrace and Digital Politics in Asian American Food Blogs

This book examines how Asian American women bloggers challenge dominant race and gender discourses through the practice of food blogging.

Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Poetics and Politics of the Veil in Iran

This volume explores the lives of women in Iran through the social, political and aesthetic contexts of veiling, unveiling and re-veiling. Through poe

Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Routledge Handbook of Populism in the Asia Pacific

This handbook brings national and thematic case studies together to examine a variety of populist politics from local and comparative perspectives in

Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Analysis of Saba Mahmood's Politics of Piety

In this original and controversial 2005 book, Mahmood argues that Muslim women can show independence even while assuming traditional Islamic roles.

Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Understanding Violence Against Women in Africa

This textbook provides students across Social Sciences, Humanities, Politics, and International Studies with an in-depth understanding of the issues,

Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Women - neuveden

Anotace: Re-examining history from a female perspective, this book celebrates the numerous important roles women have played in culture and society that are less often told. Packed full of evocative images, this gloriously illustrated book reveals the key events in women`s history - from early matriarchal societies through women`s suffrage, the Suffragette movement, 20th...

Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Affect, Narratives and Politics of Southeast Asian Migration

This book explores the politics of gendered labour migration in Southeast Asia through the stories and perspectives of Indonesian and Filipina women p

Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Century of Women

Global in reach, this innovative text offers a thematic examination of the unprecedented changes in the realms of politics, demography, economics, cul

Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Women in the Digital World Taylor & Francis Ltd

Women in the Digital World brings together the latest academic research on women online and includes chapters on political speech, gendered online violence, dealing with sexual assaults, marginalization of women politicians, and how women participate (or don’t) via online environments. The inter-disciplinary research in this volume brings together communications studies, ...

Dostupnost: do 90 dnů

Psychoanalysis and Euripides' Suppliant Women

Psychoanalysis and Euripides' Suppliant Women applies the â€tragic’ reading of politics, presented by Euripides in his play, The Suppliant Wome

Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Women Our History - Lucy Worsleyová

<p>Re-examining history from a female perspective, this book celebrates the numerous important roles women have played in culture and society that are less often told. Packed full of evocative images, this gloriously illustrated book reveals the key events in women's history - from early matriarchal societies through women's suffrage, the Suffragette movement, 20t...

Dostupnost: do 4 dnů

Women of Color Political Elites in the U.S. Taylor & Francis Ltd

This volume presents a detailed and in-depth examination of women of color political elites in the United States in varying levels of office and non-elected positions. Through innovative data, novel theoretical frameworks, and compelling arguments, the chapters explore how women of color political elites are changing, challenging, or upending the status quo in American po...

Dostupnost: do 90 dnů

In the Shadow of Jezebel – A Novel

Set in Israel in the days of Elisha and Jezebel, this story weaves a tale of powerful women, kingdom politics, and the protection and restoration of t

Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

History of Ancient Greece in 50 Lives

Tells the Greek story through the interconnecting lives of the men and women who shaped its politics and literature, its science and philosophy, its a

Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Unfolding Feminism in India Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book examines various gender-based power politics in the Indian society. It studies gender intersectionality and feminism as a socio-political philosophy by understanding how power structures deeply rooted in and are supported by our patriarchal societies.This book will be of interest and use to students, teachers, scholars of women’s and gender studies, intersection...

Dostupnost: do 90 dnů

Florence in Ecstasy - Jessie Chaffeeová

<p>A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2017 "Chaffee's fierce debut brings Hannah's struggles, discoveries, and sweet triumphs to life." --Claire Messud, author of The Burning Girl and The Woman Upstairs "There's an absorbing story here, a love story, a coming-of-age story, a gorgeous portrait of the city itself, its beauty and its decadence, but t...

Dostupnost: do 20 dnů

Hood Feminism : Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot - Kendall Mikki

Anotace: A potent and electrifying critique of today`s feminist movement announcing a fresh new voice in black feminismToday`s feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women. Mainstream feminists rarely talk about meeting basic needs as a feminist issue, argues Mikki Kendall, but food insecurity, access to quality education, safe neighborhoods...

Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Hood Feminism : Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot - Mikki Kendall

<p>A potent and electrifying critique of today's feminist movement announcing a fresh new voice in black feminism Today's feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women. Mainstream feminists rarely talk about meeting basic needs as a feminist issue, argues Mikki Kendall, but food insecurity, access to quality education, safe neighborhood...

Dostupnost: skladem

On Women: A new collection of feminist essays from the influential writer, activist and critic, Susan Sontag - Susan Sontag

‘A brilliant, glittering intelligence’ Sunday TimesOn Women brings together Susan Sontag's most fearless and incisive writing on women, a crucial aspect of her work that has not until now received the attention it deservesWritten during the height of second-wave feminism, Sontag's essays remain strikingly relevant to our contemporary conversations. At times powerfully in ...

Dostupnost: do 15 dnů

The Dark Queens: A gripping tale of power, ambition and murderous rivalry in early medieval France - Puhak Shelley

Anotace: A vivid double biography of two fearless early medieval queens. `Brings the Merovingian empire to thrilling, bewildering, horrifying life` Helen Castor `Restores two half-forgotten and much-mythologized queens to their proper place in medieval history` Dan Jones `Fredegund and Brunhild have finally found a worthy champion` Literary ReviewBrunhild was a Visigothi...

Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

The Dark Queens: A gripping tale of power, ambition and murderous rivalry in early medieval France - Shelley Puhak

<p>A vivid double biography of two fearless early medieval queens. 'Brings the Merovingian empire to thrilling, bewildering, horrifying life' Helen Castor 'Restores two half-forgotten and much-mythologized queens to their proper place in medieval history' Dan Jones 'Fredegund and Brunhild have finally found a worthy champion' Literary Review Brunhild was a Vis...

Dostupnost: skladem

Patriarchal Political Order

Why do women participate in politics less than men? This book examines the political participation of women in rural India to deepen our understanding

Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Promise of a Dream

A sparkling portrait of when women were breaking all the rules about sex, politics and their place in the world.

Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Prime Ministers We Never Had

A fascinating history of the almost men and women in UK politics by a seasoned political journalist.

Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Tunisia's Modern Woman

Looking at women, politics, and culture in Tunisia from 1950s independence to the 1970s, this book focuses on the notion of modern womanhood in order

Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Marcia Williams

The first ever biography of one of the most influential and maligned women in British politics in the 1960s and 1970s.

Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Beyond Compassion

This Element shows how humanitarianism has allowed women to participate in international politics by claiming their rights as citizens, struggling aga

Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Beyond Compassion

This Element shows how humanitarianism has allowed women to participate in international politics by claiming their rights as citizens, struggling aga

Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Staking Their Claim Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book focuses on the variety of strategies developed by women athletes in the Pacific Islands to claim contested sporting spaces – in particular, rugby union, soccer, beach volleyball, recreational sports and exercise – as a prism to explore grassroots women’s engagement with heavily entrenched postcolonial (hetero)patriarchy. Staking Their Claim: Pacific Island Women...

Dostupnost: do 90 dnů

East Central Europe and Communism Taylor & Francis Ltd

Except for Yugoslavia after 1949, the communists sought to plan and control not only politics and the economy, but also the media and information, religious organizations, culture, and the promotion of women, which they understood in the first place as involving putting women to work. Inspired by the groundbreaking work of Robert K. Merton on functionalist theory, this bo...

Dostupnost: do 90 dnů

East Central Europe and Communism Taylor & Francis Ltd

Except for Yugoslavia after 1949, the communists sought to plan and control not only politics and the economy, but also the media and information, religious organizations, culture, and the promotion of women, which they understood in the first place as involving putting women to work. Inspired by the groundbreaking work of Robert K. Merton on functionalist theory, this bo...

Dostupnost: do 90 dnů

Essays and Aphorisms, 1. vydání - Arthur Schopenhauer

<p>A selection of Schopenhauer's writings on religion, ethics, politics, women, suicide, books and other themes taken from his last work, "Parerga and Paralipomena". It depicts humanity as locked in a struggle beyond good and evil, and each individual absolutely free within a Godless world, in which morality and self-awareness are our only salvation.</p...

Dostupnost: do 22 dnů

The International Who´s Who 2024 Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published annually since 1935, The International Who’s Who is now in its eighty-seventh edition. Providing hard-to-find biographical details on over 25,000 of the world’s most prominent and influential personalities, this authoritative reference work records the lives and achievements of men and women from almost every profession and activity – from politics, finance and ...

Dostupnost: do 90 dnů

Tribalism

Unearthing the most primal motivations behind the fear politics movements sweeping across the USA and Europe, Stevan E. Hobfoll examines how the establishment of the political and cultural "other" or "outsider" engenders an evolutionary "defend and aggress" response. This mentality in turn elicits "tribalism," allowing for the rise of propaganda, extremist politics, and u...

Dostupnost: skladem

The Gloom Between Stars - Piper C. J.

Anotace: In the third installment of the TikTok sensation The Night and Its Moon, Nox and Amaris are about to learn the high cost of getting everything they`ve dreamed.Passion and politics become one in the same as the two women, torn apart and brought back together, learn to navigate life in a new kingdom. Victory means more than battles and bloodshed as they develop th...

Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Hags: Shortlisted for the Nero Book Awards 2023 - Smith Victoria

Anotace: SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO PRIZE 2023`A book that could not be more necessary` Observer`Eloquent, clever and devastating` The Times`Deftly illustrates how ageist misogyny remains an acceptable prejudice` GuardianWhat is about women in middle-age and beyond that seems to enrage - almost everyone?In the last few years, as identity politics has taken hold, middle-age...

Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

A Room of One´s Own, 1. vydání - Virginia Woolf

<p>Based on lectures given at Cambridge colleges and first published by the Hogarth Press in 1929, A Room of One's Own is an extended essay about the predicament of female writers and a stirring call for autonomy and recognition. As well as settling scores with reactionary critics and laying the foundations of a history of women's literature, the text is also a triu...

Dostupnost: do 25 dnů

As You Like It (Collins Classics) - William Shakespeare

<p>HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'All the world's a stage,And all the men and women merely players.' Featuring Rosalind, one of Shakespeare's most likeable and strong female protagonists, As You Like It is a comedic play centred around concealed identity, love, exile and artifice. Banished from...

Dostupnost: do 20 dnů

The Weavers of Alamaxa - Elsbai Hadeer

Anotace: `Hadeer Elsbai has written a powerful story of sisterhood, love, and struggle within a rich, vibrant world with complicated characters that leap from the page to smash the patriarchy!` P. Djeli Clark, author of A Master of Djinn, on The Daughters of IzdiharFollowing up on one of the most exciting fantasy debuts, The Daughters of Izdihar, Hadeer Elsbai concludes ...

Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

The Undying: A Meditation on Modern Illness (0141990856)

Kniha - 308 stran, anglicky, Brožovaná bez přebalu matná - autor Anne Boyer, 308 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Blending memoir with critique, an award-winning poet and essayist's devastating exploration of sickness and health, cancer and the cancer industry, in the modern world A week after her 41st birthday, Anne Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggressi...

Dostupnost: skladem

Hard Times Create Strong Men: Why the World Craves Leadership and How You Can Step Up to Fill the Need - Stefan Aarnio

<p>What does it mean to be a man in the modern world? Throughout history, being a man has meant different things. Maybe being a man was about being a good hunter, or a good soldier, a good businessman or maybe good with women. Hard Times Creates Strong Men examines what it means to be a man in the modern world relative to money, sex, religion and politics. This book...

Dostupnost: do 20 dnů