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The Political Economy of Education in Central Asia: Evidence from the Field
This open access book is intended as an original contribution to the conversation on the role and challenges of education in Central Asia to promote social cohesion by looking at Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Examining education challenges within the countries’ wider historical, social, political, and cultural context, the contributions explore existing discourses concerning national…
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- 9789819985173
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- XXIII, 251 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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Toxic Parliaments
This open access book shows how the #MeToo movement and revelations of sexual harassment and bullying have spurred on reform of the parliamentary workplace in four Westminster countries – Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the UK. Long-standing conventions included extreme power imbalances between parliamentarians and staff and a lack of professionalised employment practices. Codes of conduc…
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- 978-3-031-48328-8
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- Gender and Politics
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- 324
Migration, Gender and Social Justice : Perspectives on Human Insecurity
This book is the product of a collaborative effort involving partners from Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America who were funded by the International Development Research Centre Programme on Women and Migration (2006-2011). The International Institute of Social Studies at Erasmus University Rotterdam spearheaded a project intended to distill and refine the research findings, connecting them to…
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- 978-3-642-28012-2
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- XII, 408
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- Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace (HSHES, volume 9)
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- 305 MIG
Cultural Representations of Gender Vulnerability and Resistance
This Open Access book considers the cultural representation of gender violence, vulnerability and resistance with a focus on the transnational dimension of our contemporary visual and literary cultures in English. Contributors address concepts such as vulnerability, resilience, precarity and resistance in the Anglophone world through an analysis of memoirs, films, TV series, and crime and liter…
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- 978-3-030-95508-3
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- Thinking Gender in Transnational Times
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Euphorias in Gender, Sex and Sexuality Variations
This Open Access book uses the concept of ‘euphoria’ to investigate when, why and how marginal gender, sex and sexuality groups have positive experiences of their diverse variations even within repressive and disordering contexts. Drawing on data from multiple online surveys including a study of 2,407 LGBTQ+ people and a study of 272 people with intersex variations, it names and offers a ne…
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- 978-3-031-23756-0
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- XV, 202
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Measuring Gender Equality: A Multidisciplinary Analysis of Some EU Countries
In this open access book, the editors explicitly address the issue of measuring gender equality. The book introduces readers to basic concepts of gender equality, equity and equal opportunities, then discusses measuring these phenomena, the methods of constructing indicators, and reviews the main indicators that have been proposed at the international level to measure gender equality. It then s…
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- 9783031414862
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- IX, 205
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Agential Realism als Basis queer(end)er Experimentalpsychologie: Eine wis…
Zentrale These des Open-Access-Buchs von Julia Scholz ist, dass eine queer(end)e Experimentalpsychologie mit der Herangehensweise des Agential Realism kein Widerspruch in sich ist, obwohl verbreitete Verständnisweisen von Queertheorien und von Experimentalpsychologie(n) dies berechtigterweise zunächst nahelegen. Die Autorin konfrontiert experimentalpsychologische Wissensproduktion mit queerth…
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- 9783658226442
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- XI, 299 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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Feeling Gender
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book explores how feelings about gender have changed over three interrelated generations of women and men of different social classes during the twentieth century. The author explores the ways in which generational experiences are connected, what is continued, what triggers gradual or abrupt changes between generations - and between wo…
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- 978-1-349-95082-9
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- Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
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- XIII, 336
Men's Experien
This open access book draws on a broad study on violence against men, from both male and female partners in Norway, to contribute to the research on intimate partner violence. It identifies similarities in men's experiences and backgrounds, including in their perceptions of their own victimisation. Marianne Inez Lien and Jørgen Lorentzen argue that the traditional gender power model should be …
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- 978-3-030-03994-3
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- Palgrave Studies in Victims and Victimology
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- XI, 174
Environmental Humanities in India
This open access book offers an introduction to the field of the environmental humanities in India. The environmental humanities, often referred to as ‘EH’, are a multifaceted, relatively new, and swiftly evolving field of scholarship that integrates the theories and approaches of various disciplines - from anthropology, art, communications, cultural studies, philosophy and ecology to histo…
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- 978-981-97-3932-5
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- -
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- Asia in Transition
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- X, 234
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