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MILLICENT GARRETT FAWCETT :selected writings
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Terras , Melissa TCrawford, Elizabeth

‘Courage calls to courage everywhere’ is the best-known phrase associated with Millicent Garrett Fawcett (1847-1929), the leading UK suffragist and campaigner of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. But what is the source of her quote, and what is its context? This book reproduces Fawcett’s essential speeches, pamphlets and newspaper columns to tell the story of her dynamic contribu…

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9781787358638
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xi, 476 p.
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324.623092 MIL M
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Reaching for Health :The Australian women’s health movement and public policy
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Jamieson, Gwendolyn Gray

The women’s health movement shocked and scandalised when it burst into Australian politics in the early 1970s. It cast the light of day onto taboo subjects such as sexual assault, abortion and domestic violence, provoking outrage and condemnation. Some of the services women created for themselves were subjected to police raids; sex education material was branded ‘indecent’. Moreover, wome…

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9781921862687
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394p. : ill
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362.1982 JAM r
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Changing gender norms in Islam between reason and revelation
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Bakhshizadeh, Marziyeh

Women‘s movements in Islamic countries have had a long and arduous journey in their quest for the realization of human rights and genuine equality. The author examines whether discriminatory laws against women do in fact originate from Islam and, ultimately, if there is any interpretation of Islam compatible with gender equality. She investigates women’s rights in Iran since the 1979 Revolu…

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9783863882983
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247p
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305.48697 MAR c
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Hidden Hunger :Gender and the Politics of Smarter Foods
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Kimura, Aya Hirata

For decades, NGOs targeting world hunger focused on ensuring that adequate quantities of food were being sent to those in need. In the 1990s, the international food policy community turned its focus to the “hidden hunger” of micronutrient deficiencies, a problem that resulted in two scientific solutions: fortification, the addition of nutrients to processed foods, and biofortification, the …

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9780801467691
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xiii, 219 p . : ill
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362.19639009598 AYA h