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Hardback. The essays in this volume focus on key theoretical questions for the study of women's labour and, more broadly, economic gender inequality. How do we assess the value of work available to married women in different countries and cultural contexts? Editor(s): Brinton, Mary C. Series: Studies in Social Inequality. Num Pages: 400 pages, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: 1FPCW; 1FPJ; 1FPKS; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 25. Weight in Grams: 688.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804741491
- ISBN
- 9780804741491
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Condition: New
€ 182.84
€ 182.84
Hardcover. This book begins with an historical overview of the museums of Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and the West Bank of Palestine and then focuses on the museums of Jordan and the women who work in them. Carol Malt intertwines a history of Islam and a discussion of the emerging public role of women in Muslim society. Series: Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East. Num Pages: 144 pages, maps, bibliog , index. BIC Classification: 1FB; GM; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 395.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815630784
- ISBN
- 9780815630784
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Condition: New
€ 34.61
€ 34.61
Women's Sexualities and Masculinities in a Globalizing Asia (Comparati...
Blackwood, Evelyn, Bhaiya, Abha
Paperback. A unique collection of writings by both academic and activist scholars on women's same-sex sexualities and female masculinities in a globalizing Asia. Editor(s): Wieringa, Saskia; Blackwood, Evelyn; Bhaiya, Abha. Series: Comparative Feminist Studies. Num Pages: 294 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1F; JFFK; JFSJ1; JFSK1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 408.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230617483
- ISBN
- 9780230617483
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Condition: New
€ 66.48
€ 66.48
Hardcover. Editor(s): Wieringa, Saskia; Blackwood, Evelyn; Bhaiya, Abha. Series: Comparative Feminist Studies. Num Pages: 294 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1F; GTB; JFSJ1; JFSK1. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 449.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403977687
- ISBN
- 9781403977687
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Condition: New
€ 67.25
€ 67.25
Hardback. Aims to facilitate and support national and international efforts to empower women in the Middle East and North Africa. This study presents a comparative evaluation of women's rights in 17 selected countries and territories through a set of numerical scores, analytical narrative reports, and vital statistics. Series: Freedom in the World. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1HB; JFSJ1; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 163 x 26. Weight in Grams: 626.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742549913
- ISBN
- 9780742549913
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Condition: New
€ 172.79
€ 172.79
Hardback. Editor(s): Khandelwal, Meena; Hausner, Sondra L.; Gold, Ann Grodzins. Series: Religion/Culture/Critique. Num Pages: 308 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FM; HR; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 520.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 308
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403972217
- ISBN
- 9781403972217
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Condition: New
€ 140.42
€ 140.42
Hardback. How do NGOs overcome the suspicion and perception of them as Western agents? This book uncovers the skilful manoeuvring that women's NGOs have to perform in order to survive a hostile environment Num Pages: 192 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKP; JFSJ1; JPWH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 364.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230113206
- ISBN
- 9780230113206
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Condition: New
€ 66.53
€ 66.53
Hardcover. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJ; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 557.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403967336
- ISBN
- 9781403967336
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Condition: New
€ 67.64
€ 67.64
Hardback. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; DSB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816683826
- ISBN
- 9780816683826
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Condition: New
€ 104.58
€ 104.58
paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBN; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 272.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816683840
- ISBN
- 9780816683840
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Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.24
€ 29.99
€ 27.24
Hardback. This collection contributes to theoretical debates about women workers in Asia. It provides information and insight into labour systems associated with labour intensive export manufactures and state labour relations in a comparative context. Editor(s): Kaur, Amarjit. Series: Studies in the Economies of East and South-East Asia. Num Pages: 265 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1F; JFSJ1; JHBL; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 435.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 265
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333962930
- ISBN
- 9780333962930
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Condition: New
€ 128.00
€ 128.00
Paperback. Num Pages: 377 pages, 40 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FBN; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 227 x 53. Weight in Grams: 586. Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity. 377 pages, 40 b/w photographs. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1FBN; JFSK. Dimension: 152 x 227 x 53. Weight: 516.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 377
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520242630
- ISBN
- 9780520242630
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.44
€ 40.99
€ 29.44
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252073175
- ISBN
- 9780252073175
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Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.62
€ 34.99
€ 31.62
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295988443
- ISBN
- 9780295988443
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.99
€ 36.99
€ 33.99
paperback. Shows how female cosmopolitanism re-contextualises the well-known Western male romance with the Orient: Japanese women are now the agents, narrating their own desires for the "modern" West in ways that seem to defy Japanese nationalism as well as long-standing relations of power not only between men and women but between Japan and the West. Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society. Num Pages: 312 pages, 23 b&w photos, 9 figures. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JFC; JFSJ1; JHBK; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5588 x 3963 x 25. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822328162
- ISBN
- 9780822328162
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 28.72
€ 36.99
€ 28.72
Paperback. A novel by a Kurdish-Iraqi writer that gives voice to contemporary Iraqi women's experiences of political repression, violence, exile, and the yearning for peace. It represents a critique of the violence done to ordinary people by those who hold power both in Iraq and in the West. Translator(s): Cumberbatch, Judy. Series: CMES Modern Middle East Literatures in Translation Series. Num Pages: 255 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; APFA; GTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 141 x 16. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292714847
- ISBN
- 9780292714847
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Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 21.82
€ 21.99
€ 21.82
paperback. Based on the recollection of the author's mother, other relatives, and family records, this is a vivid picture of the everyday life of a samurai household in the last years of the Tokugawa period. Translator(s): Nakai, Kate Wildman. Num Pages: 228 pages, 18 half-tones, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JB; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; HBJF; HBLL; WQY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 18. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804731492
- ISBN
- 9780804731492
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Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.60
€ 29.99
€ 27.60
Paperback. Focusing specifically on Jordanian and Palestinian women, Sonbol shows the legal constraints extant in a number of legal codes, namely penal codes that permit violence against Muslim women and personal status laws that require a husband's permission for a woman to work. Series: Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East. Num Pages: 296 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1FBJ; 1FBP; HBJF1; JFSJ1; JFSR2; LAFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 449.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Edition
- annotated edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815629856
- ISBN
- 9780815629856
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.40
€ 35.40
Hardcover. Focusing specifically on Jordanian and Palestinian women, Sonbol shows the legal constraints extant in a number of legal codes, namely penal codes that permit violence against Muslim women and personal status laws that require a husband's permission for a woman to work. Series: Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East. Num Pages: 296 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1FBJ; 1FBP; HBJF1; JFSJ1; JFSR2; LAFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 572.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815629641
- ISBN
- 9780815629641
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.53
€ 65.53
Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, 21. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1KBB; JFSJ1; JFSL1; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 314.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801486654
- ISBN
- 9780801486654
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Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.62
€ 34.99
€ 31.62
Paperback. Features research on the roles of women in Japan and Korea. Editor(s): Gelb, Joyce; Palley, Marian Lief. Series: Women in the Political Economy. Num Pages: 320 pages, 30 tables, 8 figures. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1FPK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 463.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566392242
- ISBN
- 9781566392242
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Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.62
€ 34.99
€ 31.62
Hardback. This wide-ranging and interdisciplinary collection brings together scholars from China and the West to examine the many dimensions of debate around gender issues in contemporary China. The experiences of women in education, employment, marriage and the family, in rural and urban areas are analysed and assessed. Editor(s): West, Jackie; etc.; Minghua, Zhao (Research Associate in Sociology, University of Bristol); Xiangqun, Chang; Yuan, Cheng. Num Pages: 259 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 259
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333740880
- ISBN
- 9780333740880
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.96
€ 127.96
Hardcover. Examines unmarried women migrant workers working in silk, one of China's oldest and most symbolically charged industries. Through extensive interviews and a wide-ranging interpretation of the secondary literature, this text brings an interdisciplinary approach to its study of power and identity. Series: International Political Economy Series. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFFN; JFSJ1; JHBL; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 509.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333918197
- ISBN
- 9780333918197
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Hardback. Series: Ohio RIS Southeast Asia Series. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FMNB; ASZM; JFC; JFSJ1; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 16. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780896803039
- ISBN
- 9780896803039
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 76.16
€ 76.16