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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “mieke verloo”
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  • Varieties of Opposition to Gender Equality in Europe

    Edited by Mieke Verloo ...
    Series series Gender and Comparative Politics
    In contrast to the wealth of studies on progress towards gender equality, opposition to gender equality is rarely studied, which makes it difficult to understand the positive and negative dynamics of gender equality as a political project.The first of its kind, this timely collection examines the potential and challenges of our current scholarship on understanding opposition to gender+ equality in ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Discursive Politics of Gender Equality

    Stretching, Bending and Policy-Making

    Edited by Emanuela Lombardo, Petra Meier, Mieke Verloo ...
    Series series Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science
    This book explores the discursive constructions of gender equality and the implications of these understandings in a broad range of policy fields.Using gender equality as a prime example, a number of internationally renowned scholars offer a new vocabulary to identify and study processes of the reduction, amplification, shifting or freezing of meaning. The main aim of the book is to understand the ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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    The Story of Lady Astor

    by Adrian Fort ...
    A new biography of Nancy Astor, American socialite and social crusader who blazed a trail through British society amid two World WarsIn 1919, Nancy Astor became the first female Member of Parliament elected to the House of Commons—she was not what had been expected. Far from a virago who had suffered for the cause of female suffrage, Lady Astor was already near the center of the ruling society ... Read more

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  • A Room Of One's Own

    The Virginia Woolf Library Authorized Edition

    by Virginia Woolf ...
    Series Book 23 - The Virginia Woolf Library
    Why is it that men, and not women, have always had power, wealth, and fame? Woolf cites the two keys to freedom: fixed income and one’s own room. Foreword by Mary Gordon. ... Read more

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  • Credits Universitaires

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    by B. Sting ...
    Series series romance
    Workplace romance can be daunting, especially when you fall for the boss' daughter. Lawyers in love are no exception. ... Read more

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  • Complicit Sisters

    Gender and Women's Issues across North-South Divides

    by Sara de Jong ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Gender and International Relations
    NGOs headquartered in the North have been, for some time, prominent actors in attempts to address the poverty, lack of political representation, and labor exploitation that disproportionally affect women from the global South. Feminist NGOs and NGOs focusing on women's rights have been successful in attracting attention to their causes, but critics argue that the highly educated elites from the ... Read more

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  • The Future of Drug Discovery

    Who Decides Which Diseases to Treat?

    by Tamas Bartfai, Graham V. Lees ...
    The Future of Drug Discovery: Who decides which diseases to treat? provides a timely and detailed look at the efforts of the pharmaceutical industry and how they relate, or should relate, to societal needs. The authors posit that as a result of increasing risk aversion and accelerated savings in research and development, the industry is not developing drugs for increasingly prevalent diseases, ... Read more

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  • Something Has Gone Wrong

    Dealing with the Brighton Bomb

    by Steve Ramsey ...
    On 12 October 1984, an IRA bomb exploded inside Brighton's Grand Hotel, killing five people and injuring thirty. It was an assassination attempt on Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet, who were staying there for the Conservative party conference. While the bombing was deplorable, the story of how people reacted to it is an inspiring one. People refused to be beaten by what had happened; they got on ... Read more

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  • The Anglo-American Tradition of Liberty

    A view from Europe

    by João Espada ...
    Joao Carlos Espada's provocative survey of a group of key Anglo-American and European political thinkers argues that there is a distinctive, Anglo-American tradition of liberty that is one of the core pillars of the Free World. Giving a broad overview of the tradition through summaries of the careers and ideas of fourteen of its key thinkers, neglected despite having been tremendously influential ... Read more

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  • Biography of Famous People - Powerful Queens of the Middle Ages | Children's Biographies

    by Baby Professor ...
    Not all lands had queens but those that did experienced what it was like to be ruled by an iron fist woman. This book will introduce some of the most powerful queens of the Middle Ages. There will be short biography beside each queen to describe what her life was like and she ruled her kingdom. Who’s your favorite queen? ... Read more

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  • Citizenship from Below

    Erotic Agency and Caribbean Freedom

    by Mimi Sheller ...
    Series series Next wave : new directions in women's studies
    Citizenship from Below boldly revises the history of the struggles for freedom by emancipated peoples in post-slavery Jamaica, post-independence Haiti, and the wider Caribbean by focusing on the interplay between the state, the body, race, and sexuality. Mimi Sheller offers a new theory of "citizenship from below" to describe the contest between "proper" spaces of legitimate high politics and the ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Innovation in the Public Sector

    Linking Capacity and Leadership

    Edited by V. Bekkers, J. Edelenbos, B. Steijn ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    Addresses issues relevant to an understanding of the innovation journeys on which public organizations have embarked. If public innovation is defined as a necessary condition for establishing meaningful interactions between the government and society what are the relevant issues that may explain successful processes and forms of public innovation? ... Read more

    $49.49 USD