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Title Women past and present : biographic and multidisciplinary studies / edited by Maria Zina GonYalves de Abreu, Steve Fleetwood
Published Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014

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Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; CHAPTER FOURTEEN; CHAPTER FIFTEEN; CHAPTER SIXTEEN; CHAPTER SEVENTEEN; CHAPTER EIGHTEEN; CHAPTER NINETEEN; CHAPTER TWENTY; CHAPTER TWENTY ONE; CHAPTER TWENTY TWO; CHAPTER TWENTY THREE
Summary In Western societies, many traditional feminist claims have already been fulfilled both in law and in official discourse. Indeed, legislative steps have already been taken towards securing civil and political rights and equal opportunities for women. This, of course, is not the case in many other regions of the world, as some of the chapters in this book clearly testify. Yet, notwithstanding the gains achieved in Western societies, residual forms of resistance and prejudice still persist in d ..
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Subject Women.
Feminism.
Women's rights.
feminism.
women (female humans)
Cultural studies.
Social issues & processes.
Gender studies: women.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Feminism
Women
Women's rights
Form Electronic book
Author Abreu, Maria Zina Gonçalves de, 1947- editor.
Fleetwood, Steve, 1955- editor.
ISBN 9781443861144
1443861146
130685900X
9781306859004