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The Handbook of Marriage in the Arab World
This open access handbook combines multiple theoretical and practical approaches for enabling a nuanced understanding of the phenomenon of marriage in the Arab world. Adopting a holistic, interdisciplinary approach, it provides a framework for the contextual and macro factors surrounding and affecting marriage in the Arab countries. It looks at the different types of marriage, whether tradition…
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- 1
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- 9789819776207
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- XXX, 436 ill; lamp
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- 17
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Sisters in Spirit: Christianity, Affect, and Community Building in East Afric…
In this pioneering study, historian Andreana Prichard presents an intimate history of a single mission organization, the Universities’ Mission to Central Africa (UMCA), told through the rich personal stories of a group of female African lay evangelists. Founded by British Anglican missionaries in the 1860s, the UMCA worked among refugees from the Indian Ocean slave trade on Zanzibar and among…
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- 9781628952926
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Gender and Sustainability: Lessons from Asia and Latin America
This is one of the first books to address how gender plays a role in helping to achieve the sustainable use of natural resources. The contributions collected here deal with the struggles of women and men to negotiate such forces as global environmental change, economic development pressures, discrimination and stereotyping about the roles of women and men, and diminishing access to natural reso…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9780816548439
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- 307 GEN g
Gender, Race, and Politics in the Midwest
During the thirty year period from 1890 to 1920, the African American club women in Illinois helped establish the largest national network of black club women in the country, The National Association of Colored Women, created hundreds of female associations, organized the only federation of its kind in the state, The Illinois Federation of Colored Women, and cast ballots for the first black ele…
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- 9780253069030
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Feminist Existentialism, Biopolitics, and Critical Phenomenology in a Time of…
This book explores the personal value of healthy behavior, arguing that our modern tendency to praise or blame individuals for their health is politically and economically motivated and has reinforced growing health disparities between the wealthy and poor under the guise of individual responsibility. We are awash in concerns about the state of our health and recommendations about how to improv…
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- 9781000480610
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The Evolution of Sexuality
Attraction, mating, reproduction: it is a given that as a species, human beings are concerned with sex. And whether the study compares sexual behaviors of men and women or considers the proportions between nature and nurture, most roads lead back to our distant ancestors and/or our fellow animals. The Evolution of Sexuality collects stimulating new empirical findings and theoretical concepts…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-09384-0
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- XX, 280, 7 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
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- Evolutionary Psychology
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Mission Life in Cree-Ojibwe Country Memories of a Mother and Son
In May of 1868, Elizabeth Bingham Young and her new husband, Egerton Ryerson Young, began a long journey from Hamilton, Ontario, to the Methodist mission of Rossville. For the next eight years, Elizabeth supported her husband’s work at two mission houses, Norway House and then Berens River. Unprepared for the difficult conditions and the “eight months long” winter, and unimpressed with …
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- Jennifer S. H. Brown
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- 9781771990035.01
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- Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters
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- 336 pages
Nightwood Theatre A Woman’s Work Is Always Done
In Nightwood Theatre, Scott describes the company’s journey toward defining itself as a feminist theatre establishment, highlighting its artistic leadership based on its relevance to diverse communities of women. She also traces Nightwood’s relationship with the media and places the theatre in an international context by comparing its history to that of like companies in the U.K. and the U.S.
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- 9781897425558.01
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- Canadian Plays
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- 344 pages
Female-to-Male (FtM) Transgender People’s Experiences in Australia A Natio…
This Briefs is the first national study on female-to-male (FtM) transgender people’s experiences in Australia. It describes an extensive study that fills the current gap in Australian research on the specific experiences and beliefs about transition for contemporary Australian FtM transgender people. Following an overview of current literature on the various aspects of and approaches to trans…
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- 978-3-319-13829-9
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- XIX, 154
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Without Apology
Without Apology seeks to address this issue by gathering the voices of activists, feminists, and scholars as well as abortion providers and clinic support staff alongside the stories of women whose experience with abortion is more personal. With the particular aim of moving beyond the polarizing rhetoric that has characterized the issue of abortion and reproductive justice for so long, Without …
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- 9781771991599.01
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- 366 pages
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