Women and Leadership in Islamic Law: A Critical Analysis of Classical Legal Texts
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Islamic law has traditionally prohibited women from being prayer leaders and heads of state. A small...
Gender Justice, Education and Equality: Creating Capabilities for Girls' and Women's Development: 2017
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This book reframes gender and education issues from a feminist and capabilities perspective through...
Gateway to Equality: Black Women and the Struggle for Economic Justice in St. Louis
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Like most of the nation during the 1930s, St. Louis, Missouri, was caught in the stifling grip of...
Scare Tactics: Supernatural Fiction by American Women, with a New Preface
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Scare Tactics identifies an important but overlooked tradition of supernatural writing by American...
Women as Public Moralists in Britain - From the Bluestockings to Virginia Woolf: Volume 95
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In nineteenth-century Britain, public debates about the nation's moral health and about men's and...
Madness in Black Women's Diasporic Fictions: Aesthetics of Resistance: 2017
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This collection chronicles the strategic uses of madness in works by black women fiction writers...
Women, Gender and Identity in Third Intermediate Period Egypt: The Theban Case Study
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Women, Gender and Identity in Third Intermediate Period Egypt clarifies the role of women in...
The Sex Lives of English Women: Intimate Questions and Unexpected Answers
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'There's a lot of stigma attached to sex. Particularly with women, you have a big dichotomy between:...
The Glass Universe: The Hidden History of the Women Who Took the Measure of the Stars
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'A biographical orrery - intricate, complex and fascinating' The Observer 'A peerless intellectual...