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The Status of Women under Islamic Law and Modern Islamic Legislation
BRILL 2009; US$ 148.00This is the third revised and updated edition of a work that provides a detailed and systematic account of the legal aspects of Islam and modern Arab Islamic legislation with specific regard to the rights and obligations of women. Addressing in particular the legislation of the arab world states, the study ontains essential information on a wide range... more...
Challenging Gender Inequality in Tax Policy Making
Hart Publishing Limited 2011; US$ 111.60This volume takes a critical look at the gender of tax policy around the world. Contributors based in eight different countries examine the profound effects that gender norms and practices have had in shaping tax law and policy, and how taxation in turn impacts upon the possibilities for equality along gender, race, class, sexuality and other lines.... more...
Women and Political Representation in Canada
University of Ottawa Press 1998; US$ 16.99This collection of essays explores the often antagonistic relationship between women and political life in Canada. While women make up little over half of the total population in Canada, they are in many ways conspicuous by their absence from the Canadian political scene. more...
Anarchism & Sexuality
Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 42.99Anarchism & Sexuality aims to bring the rich and diverse traditions of anarchist thought and practice into contact with contemporary questions about the politics and lived experience of sexuality. Both in style and in content, it is conceived as a book that aims to question, subvert and overflow authoritarian divisions between the personal and political;... more...
Gender, Law and Justice in a Global Market
Cambridge University Press 2011; US$ 34.00Considers how law interacts with economic and social processes to create global gender injustices. more...
Woman Suffrage and Womens Rights
NYU Press 1998; US$ 65.00In recent decades, the woman suffrage movement has taken on new significance for women's history. Ellen Carol DuBois has been a central figure in spurring renewed interest in woman suffrage and in realigning the debates which surround it. This volume gathers DuBois' most influential articles on woman suffrage and includes two new essays. The... more...
Familiale Generationensorge
Wallstein Verlag 2012; US$ 30.85Hauptbeschreibung Generationenbeziehungen im hohen Lebensalter: Beziehungsmuster der Sorge und der Wandel von Familie. Wie denken Menschen zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts über das eigene Altern und die Rolle der Generationenbeziehungen? Welche Subjektivitäten bringt die Lebensphase "Alter" und die Intimität familialer Generationenbeziehungen hervor?... more...
A Critical Analysis of the Efficacy of Law as a Tool to Achieve Gender Equality
University Press of America 2012; US$ 54.99In this book, Natalie Persadie explains that, among developing countries, the achievement of legal advances for women?at either the international or national levels?is particularly difficult where practical measures are not subsequently implemented. She examines the need for financial and human resources to make such legal measures effective. ... more...
Rechtsfragen im Alltag
Beobachter-Buchverlag 2012; Not AvailableEndlich lassen sich auch rechtliche Aspekte unseres vielseitigen Alltags klipp und klar erfassen: Der grosse Schweizer Rechtsratgeber leistet hierbei kompetente und kompakte Hilfe. Das Beobachter-Nachschlagewerk stützt sich auf den Erfahrungsschatz der Beobachter-Praxisexperten. Aktualisiert und vollständig überarbeitet, stellt «Rechtsfragen im Alltag»... more...
Class Action
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2003; US$ 14.00A petite single mother, Lois Jenson was among the first women hired by a northern Minnesota iron mine in 1975. In this brutal workplace, female miners were relentlessly threatened with pornographic graffiti, denigrating language, stalking, and physical assaults. Terrified of losing their jobs, the women kept their problems largely to themselves?until... more...









