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  • Majority-Minority Relations in Contemporary Women's Movements

    Strategic Sisterhood

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book examines contemporary relations between ethnic majority and ethnic minority women's movements in Norway, Spain and the United Kingdom, and women's movements' participation in and influence on public policy that focuses on violence against women. ... Read more

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  • Remaking Citizenship in Multicultural Europe

    Women's Movements, Gender and Diversity

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book offers a ground-breaking analysis of how women's movements have been remaking citizenship in multicultural Europe. Presenting the findings of a large scale, multi-disciplinary cross-national feminist research project, FEMCIT, it develops an expanded, multi-dimensional understanding of citizenship as practice and experience. ... Read more

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