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Women's Empowerment and Public Policy in the Arab Gulf States :Exploring Chal…
This open access book explores the various dimensions of women’s empowerment in public policy in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region, with a particular focus on Qatar, comparing the country to the other Gulf states. Through its rich compilation of empirical qualitative research, the text unpacks the various ways in which women’s empowerment materializes in the GCC context, providing i…
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- 9789819960064
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- XIV, 210: ill; lamp
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- 11
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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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- 9789819776207
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- XXX, 436 ill; lamp
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- 17
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Negotiating Gendered Identities in Primary School = Children’s Lives with T…
This open access book explores young children’s lives in their later years at primary school, from their own point of view. It focuses on how girls and boys experience life in their informal peer group and explores the dynamics of friendships and social hierarchies, identities and how time is spent outside of lessons, including the use of social media. The author interrogates how children mak…
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- 1
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- 9783031691843
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- XIX, 281 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Extended Working Life Policies = International Gender and Health Perspectives
This open access book addresses the current debate on extended working life policy by considering the influence of gender and health on the experiences of older workers. Bringing together an international team of scholars, it tackles issues as gender, health status and job/ occupational characteristics that structure the capacity and outcomes associated with working longer. The volume starts wi…
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- 9783030409852
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- XXIV, 515 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies
This open access handbook, the first of its kind, provides a comprehensive and carefully curated multidisciplinary and genre-spanning view of the state of the field of Critical Menstruation Studies, opening up new directions in research and advocacy. It is animated by the central question: ‘“what new lines of inquiry are possible when we center our attention on menstrual health and politics…
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- 1
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- 9789811506147
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- L, 1037 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Towards Gender Equality in Law
This Open Access book aims to find out how and why states in various regions and of diverse cultural backgrounds fail in their gender equality laws and policies. In doing this, the book maps out states’ failures in their legal systems and unpacks the clashes between different levels and forms of law—namely domestic laws, local regulations, or the implementation of international law, individ…
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- 978-3-030-98072-6
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- -
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- XIX, 250
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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- 1
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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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- 1
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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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