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Leila Khaled
Fighting for Palestine
Revolutionary Lives

Pluto Press
Dubbed "the poster girl of Palestinian militancy," Leila Khaled's image flashed across the world after she hijacked a passenger jet in 1969. The picture of a...
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Women In Business
Navigating Career Success

Palgrave Macmillan
Much has been written about equal opportunity issues, but little has been published about how organizations might provide more structure and support to ensure...
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Spivak and Postcolonialism
Exploring Allegations of Textuality

Palgrave Macmillan
This book explores several fundamental issues in postcolonial studies through the work of one of its most authoritative, if contentious, figures: Gayatri...
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The Demands of Motherhood
Agents, Roles and Recognitions
Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life

Palgrave Macmillan
Drawing on qualitative interviews with forty middle-class mothers living in Northern Ireland and the US, this book explores the strategies women adopt, as...
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Intersections between Feminist and Queer Theory
Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences

Palgrave Macmillan
The emergence of queer ideas has unsettled other forms of exploring gender and sexuality, in particular, feminism. In response, feminists have been significant...
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Palestinians in Jordan
The Politics of Identity
Library of Modern Middle East Studies

I.B. Tauris
Sixty percent of Jordanians are of Palestinian origin, a statistic which has propelled Jordan into the role of both player and pawn in regional issues such as...
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Womanism Against Socially-Constructed Matriarchal Images
A Theoretical Model Towards a Therapeutic Goal
Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice

Palgrave Macmillan
Womanism Against Socially-Constructed Matriarchal Images provides a powerful and accurate definition of the social construct of the African-American female in...
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Gendered Spaces in Argentine Women's Literature

Palgrave Macmillan
Gendered Spaces in Argentine Women's Literature addresses the largely understudied issue of how gendered spatial relations impact the production of literary...
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Plays and Performance Texts by Women 1880-1930
An anthology of plays by British and American women from the Modernist period
Women, Theatre and Performance

Manchester University Press
This groundbreaking anthology, part of the Women, Theatre and Performance series, brings together an extraordinary mix of one-act and full length plays and...
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Gender, Agency and Political Violence
Rethinking Political Violence

Palgrave Macmillan
Gender is not a 'security issue', but it tells us a lot about how, why and when certain subjects are written as security concerns. Thirteen case studies on...

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Visual and Other Pleasures
Language, Discourse, Society

Palgrave Macmillan
This new edition of Laura Mulvey's first collection of essays contains a new introduction in which she re-assesses her essay "Visual Pleasure and Narrative...
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Wicked Women of Tudor England
Queens, Aristocrats, Commoners
Queenship and Power

Palgrave Macmillan
This book delves into the lives of six Tudor women celebrated for their reputed 'wickedness'— Anne Boleyn and Katherine Howard, the two consorts of Henry VIII...
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Your Daughter's Bedroom
Insights for Raising Confident Women

Palgrave Macmillan
Your Daughter’s Healthy Identity Starts With You After psychoanalyst Joyce McFadden treated countless women who felt alone and isolated in experiences that...
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Feminist Popular Education in Transnational Debates
Building Pedagogies of Possibility
Comparative Feminist Studies

Palgrave Macmillan
This book is a collection of grounded accounts by feminist popular educators reflecting critically on processes of collective learning and self- and social...
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Marriage, Property, and Women's Narratives
The New Middle Ages

Palgrave Macmillan
Marriage, Property, and Women's Narratives addresses Virginia Woolf's question, 'Why are women poor?' Drawing from three different time periods and three...
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Women and Madness
Revised and Updated

Palgrave Macmillan
Feminist icon Phyllis Chesler's pioneering work--2.5 million copies sold--revised and updated for the first time in over thirty years
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Gay Rights and Moral Panic
The Origins of America's Debate on Homosexuality

Palgrave Macmillan
In 1977 and 1978, voters across the country went to the polls in a series of referenda to decide whether lesbians and gay men were citizens deserving equal...
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Sport, Rhetoric, and Gender
Historical Perspectives and Media Representations

Palgrave Macmillan
Interested in the nexus between sport, gender, and language, Sport, Rhetoric, and Gender deconstructs the role of rhetoric in the multi-billion dollar popular...
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Brutality and Desire
War and Sexuality in Europe's Twentieth Century
Genders and Sexualities in History

Palgrave Macmillan
Tracing sexual violence in Europe's twentieth century from the Armenian genocide to Auschwitz and Algeria to Bosnia, this pathbreaking volume expands military...
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Sisterhood, Interrupted
From Radical Women to Grrls Gone Wild

Palgrave Macmillan
In the vein of Manifesta, an illuminating look at the evolution of contemporary feminism
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Vigilante Women in Contemporary American Fiction
American Literature Readings in the Twenty-First Century

Palgrave Macmillan
Gun-toting, rough-riding, crack-shot women; train-robbing female bandits; blood-thirsty mothers who refuse to accept injustice— these women appear in vigilante...
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My Dream of Stars
From Daughter of Iran to Space Pioneer

Palgrave Macmillan
In her heartwarming and empowering memoir, space pioneer Anousheh Ansari tells the story of her childhood in Iran and her family's exodus to America after the...
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Divided Lives
The Untold Stories of Jewish-Christian Women in Nazi Germany

Palgrave Macmillan
This book brings together the horrifying real life stories of women who woke up one day and were not who they thought they were. The government changed and...
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The Women's War of 1929
Gender and Violence in Colonial Nigeria

Palgrave Macmillan
In 1929, tens of thousands of south eastern Nigerian women rose up against British authority in whatis known as the Women's War. This bookbrings togther, for...