Women, Power, and Property. The Paradox of Gender Equality Laws in India, Paperback - Rachel E. (Boston University) Brule

Can political representation help women upend entrenched systems of power? Property and Power finds evidence that quotas improve women's ability to...

Introduces India's environment laws to readers interested in law, contemporary politics, development studies, sociology, anthropology, political ec...

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Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Rachel E. BlackNumber of pages: 248Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 151 x 228 x 25Cover type: Pa...

Publisher: University of Arizona PressNumber of pages: 205Publication date: 2001Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedescopera farmecul lecturii si al...

Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Linda GordonNumber of pages: 464Publication date: 2007Dimensions: 235 x 155 x 28Cover type: Paper...

DescriptionThis fourth edition of Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks's prize-winning survey features significant changes to every chapter, designed to reflect ...

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This new edition of Wiesner-Hanks's prize-winning survey has been thoroughly updated with significant changes designed to reflect the newest schola...

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We all create intellectual property. We all use intellectual property. Intellectual property is the most pervasive yet least understood way we regu...

Argues that the state in America is rooted in the country's colonial experience and analyses the evidence for this by reviewing governance at all l...

Aimed at those new to studying Spinoza, this complete revision of Allison's classic study also addresses issues of interest to graduate students an...

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This book provides an in-depth comparative exploration of gender diversity in corporate leadership roles in China and India. Set in the context of ...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Sarah LambIllustration(s): 5 illustrations, 2 tablesNumber of pages: 236Collection: Ethnographi...

This book evaluates the global labor market in the context of gender equality, and the associated policies and regulations, particularly in develop...

Explains how women activists from across the political spectrum engaged with the state by working within both authoritarian regimes and inter-Ameri...

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DescriptionOver fifty years ago sociologist T. H. Marshall first opened the modern debate about the evolution of full citizenship in modern nation-...

How do political actors in the Pacific islands region make sense of the success (or failure) of parliamentary gender quota campaigns? To answer the...

How American colonists laid the foundations of American capitalism with an economy built on credit Even before the United States became a country, ...

Reducere. Birth in the Age of AIDS is a vivid and poignant portrayal of the experiences of HIV-positive women in India during pregnancy, birth, and motherhoo...

This book is a groundbreaking account of the role of women during the formative years of American economics. Blending rich historical detail with e...

This book seeks to rebalance the relationship between comparison and justification to achieve more effective equality and non-discrimination law. A...

Although demographically a minority in Kerala, India, Syrian Christians are not a subordinated community. They are caste-, race-, and class-privile...

DescriptionWhat do the Mona Lisa, the light bulb, and a Lego brick have in common? The answer - intellectual property (IP) - may be surprising, bec...

Reconstructing Rights will appeal to several audiences because of its deliberative-partnership thesis, including public law scholars for its social...

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Publisher: Walther KoenigAuthor(s): Jeanne Valerie BeckmanIllustration(s): 24 colour, 80 b&wPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 212 x 276 x 22Cover t...

Argues that gender relations have been a particular casualty of unexamined assumptions held by Western anthropologists and feminist scholars alike....

Reducere. The Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe provides a comprehensive overview of the gender rules encountered in Europe in the perio...

A practical call to arms that challenges the persistent inequality of power between men and women.

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DescriptionOccult topics have long fascinated artists, and the subject of witches--their imagined bodies and fantastic rituals--was a popular one f...

Reducere. A handful of celebrated photographs show armed female Cuban insurgents alongside their companeros in Cuba's remote mountains during the revolutiona...

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DescriptionBlack French Women and the Struggle for Equality, 1848-2016 explores how black women in France itself, the French Caribbean, Gor e, Daka...

Analyses decades of voting preferences, values, and policy preferences to debunk some of the myths about gender gaps in voting and policy preferenc...

Since the Euro crisis began, Germany has emerged as Europe's dominant power. During the last three years, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been ...

A thoroughly practical guide on how men and women can make the best of doing life together. God intended men and women to live and work together in...

The book explores how political power, elections, legal institutions, reputational concerns, and social norms shape economic conflicts from hostile...

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2017Dimensions: 159 x 275 x 24Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): ...

A classic, pioneering account of the lives of women in Islamic history, republished for a new generation This pioneering study of the social and po...