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Chapters: Argentine Female Models, Argentine Female Singers, Argentine Women in Politics, Argentine Women Writers, Eva Perón, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Luisana Lopilato, Mercedes Sosa, Chenoa, Camila Bordonaba, Noemí Rial, Lola Ponce, Lourdes Cecilia Fernández, Diana Conti, Griselda Gambaro, Libertad Lamarque, Paz Lenchantin, Florencia Bertotti, Lidia Elsa Satragno, Felisa Miceli, Victoria Maurette, Alfonsina Storni, Susana Calandrelli, Micaela Vázquez, Victoria Donda, Alicia Borinsky, Valeria Lynch, Graciela Ocaña, Silvina Ocampo, Graciela Fernández Meijide, María Fernanda Neil, Victoria Ocampo, Mercedes Marcó Del Pont, Nadia Di Cello, María Del Cerro, Beatriz Sarlo, Fabiana Ríos, Cristina Altamira, Georgina Mollo, Nilda Garré, Gabriela Michetti, Mariana Espósito, Natty Hollmann, Sara Gallardo, Delia Parodi, Elisa Carrió, Ángeles Balbiani, Débora Giorgi, Agustina Cherri, Alejandra Pizarnik, Brenda Asnicar, María Rosa Díaz, Fabiana Bravo, Haide Giri, Griselda Tessio, Yamila Diaz-Rahi, Isabel Viudes, Luciana Salazar, Soledad Fandiño, Milagros Flores, Alicia Kirchner de Mercado, Delia Bisutti, Inés Palombo, Dorismar, Pamela David, Patricia Bullrich, María Beatriz Nofal, María Eugenia Estenssoro, Isabel Sarli, Gimena Accardi, Carolina Ardohain, Yésica Toscanini, Susana Rinaldi, María Perceval, Daniela Aita, Lidia Borda, Luján Fernández, Ana María Shua, Inés Rivero, Alicia Lemme, Liliana Negre de Alonso, Blanca Osuna, Soledad Solaro, Milagros Schmoll, Olga Orozco, Elsa Bornemann, Roxana Martínez, Judith Forstmann, Brenda Gandini, Encarnación Ezcurra, Cecilia Méndez, Evangelina Carrozzo, Rocío Guirao Díaz, Betina Suárez, Roxana Latorre, Élida Vigo, María Eugenia Suárez, Rocío Igarzábal, Carla Borghetti, Norma Cappagli, Adriana Bortolozzi, Belén Scalella, Ana Corradi, Sonia Escudero, Teresita Quintela, Ada Maza, Liliana Fellner, Carolina Peleritti, Ada Itúrrez de Cappellini, Candela Vetrano, Marina Riofrío, Valeria Mazza, Flo...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=51584 ... Read more

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Still Counting explains why scholars and activists continue to count the number of women elected to Canada's legislatures, and demonstrates that, by any measure, women are only halfway to equal. The authors assert that an "electoral glass ceiling" is keeping women at or below the 25 per cent mark, restricting women to less than half of the seats that would be theirs in a democracy committed to balanced, equitable, and fair representation. Moreover, little is being done to address this democratic deficit. Despite drawbacks, such as the "revolving door" for female party leaders and continued sexism in legislatures, the authors also show how women can, and do, make a difference in politics.

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Brief biographies of Bess Myerson, Patsy Mink, Dolores Huerta, Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, Elizabeth Holtzman, Barbara Jordan, and Ella Grasso--all women involved in politics who are sincerely dedicated to solving human problems. ... Read more

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An Excellent Read
"Dancing Backwards", cowritten by Sharon Carstairs and Tim Higgins, both
of Winnipeg, is an excellent book covering a very interesting and
important period of change in Canadian politics, a period that is still
evolving and becoming even more important as time goes on, and more
women become active in the governing of our country, (as they should be, I
suggest).It deserves wide attention.

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This is the story of the determined and difficult assault by women on the male-dominated citadel of Canadian politics.  Combining profiles of twenty-eight remarkable women who have achieved political firsts with a richly detailed, immensely readable history of Canadian life over the last century, Dancing Backwards, will change the way you look at Canadian history. ... Read more

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Presents biographies of Genevieve Atwood, Janet Gray Hayes, Dixy Lee Ray, Millicent Fenwick, Nancy Landon Kassebaum, Esther Peterson, and Yvonne Burke, all of whom are active in public life, and briefly considers the role of women in American politics. ... Read more

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Chapters: Bulgarian Female Models, Bulgarian Female Singers, Bulgarian Women in Politics, Bulgarian Women Writers, Vesselina Kasarova, Pasha Hristova, Desi Slava, Irina Bokova, Ghena Dimitrova, Maria Ilieva, Anelia, Meglena Kuneva, Ivana, Nevena Tsoneva, Elitsa Todorova, Rumiana Jeleva, Gloria, Raina Kabaivanska, Tsola Dragoycheva, Ljuba Welitsch, Elena Baramova, Alexandrina Pendatchanska, Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Tsetska Tsacheva, Anastasia Dimitrova-Moser, Preslava, Mariana Popova, Alice Panikian, Mira Aroyo, Nonka Matova, Stefka Evstatieva, Valentina Dimitrova, Yordanka Fandakova, Elena Nicolai, Kremena Stancheva, Emel Etem Toshkova, Lili Ivanova, Valya Balkanska, Anna Veleva, Lyudmila Radkova, Daniela Radkova, Sonya Yoncheva, Emilia, Ekaterina Karabasheva, Lyubka Rondova, Reneta Indzhova, Lilana, Ivanka Ninova, Marusya Ivanova Lyubcheva, Guerguina Dvoretzka, Filiz Husmenova, Antonia Parvanova, Irena Petkova, Hristina Hristova, Sonia Nemska, Lydia Shuleva, Gergana Kochanova, Vanya Shtereva, Magdalina Valchanova, Zorka Parvanova, Sofi Marinova, Elena Poptodorova. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 176. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Vesselina Kasarova (born 18 July 1965) is a Bulgarian mezzo-soprano opera singer. Vesselina Kasarova was born in the central Bulgarian town of Stara Zagora. Under the communist regime she studied Russian as a second language and began her music education in early childhood, taking her first piano lesson when she was only 4 years old. She gave her first stage performance as a 16-year-old pianist performing Mozart sonatas in 1981 in her hometown. As she studied piano and worked as accompanist at recitals, Kasarova became drawn to the voice as a musical instrument. After earning her concert pianist diploma in 1987, Kasarova switched to study singing under Res...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=858562 ... Read more

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It is almost 100 years since women were given the right to vote in New Zealand and, unintentionally, the right to sit in parliament in South Australia. This book covers all this period to the present. It highlights the accounts of women - some well-known but many unknown - without whose bravery, determination and belief in the rights of women, it would still not be possible for women to own property, have custody of their children, be paid the same as men for doing the same work, be allowed to stay in the work-force after marriage, or be entitled to say "no" to sex once married. This book aims to show how recent the struggle for women's rights has been, how hard it was to achieve even small gains - like the right to vote, make a will or get a divorce - and to remind readers that, with only 7% of MPs in English-speaking parliaments being women, there is still a lot more to achieve. ... Read more

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"A pathbreaking study that analyzes the inter-relationships between national and local politics and the women's movement in an African setting."-Margaret Snyder, UNIFEM

Uganda has attracted much attention and political visibility for its significant economic recovery after a catastrophic decline. In her groundbreaking book, Aili Mari Tripp provides extensive data and analysis of patterns of political behavior and institutions by focusing on the unique success of indigenous women's organizations.

Tripp explores why the women's movement grew so dramatically in such a short time after the National Resistant Movement took over in 1986. Unlike many African countries where organizations and institutions are controlled by a ruling party or regime, the Ugandan women's movement gained its momentum by remaining autonomous.

Uganda is an African country that has attracted great interest and political visibility (witness President Clinton's 1998 visit there on his African visit), having gone through a significant economic recovery after a catastropic decline.Extensive data on the success and patterns of political behavior and institutions is of great interest, and this includes some of their uniquely successful indigenous women's organizations.Tripp examines two urban and two rural case studies, evaluating both Uganda's leadership in promoting women's political participation, and the broader patterns of women's political behavior.Her work should have strong readerships in African politics and history, women's studies, anthropology,comparative politics, and international development studies. ... Read more

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This book traces the history of women’s political involvement in Southern Africa, in anti-colonial struggles and against apartheid, analyzes the post-colonial outcomes and examines the strategies that have been employed by women’s movements to gain a foothold in politics.

It looks in detail at the experiences of women both in and with the women’s wings of political parties through the early years of independence up to today, discusses the successes and failures of national machinery for the advancement of women and analyses the activities of women’s movements over time. Extensive material from Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia and South Africa is compared and juxtaposed, as women politicians and women’s movements learned from each others’ experiences over time.

The study also critically addresses the uneasy relationship between the women’s movements and the state, and between women activists and women politicians as they have negotiated cooptation, integration and exclusion. Based on an extensive literature review and innumerable interviews with women politicians and activists as well as fieldwork, and spanning half a century and half a continent, the historical depth and geographical spread of the study put it in a class of its own. ... Read more

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This engaging collection of essays attempts to do justice to the complexity of contemporary families and to situate them in their economic, political, and cultural contexts. The editors introduce this wide-ranging collection with a provocative analytical introduction, setting the stage with a recognition that families may look very different even to those inside the same family. These cutting-edge scholars explore the ways in which family life is gendered and reflect on the work of maintaining family and kin relationships, especially as social and family power structures change over time. The book includes a guide to topics (from Adoption and African-American Families to Work-Family Tensions and Working-Class Families) that should prove useful to teachers, students, and researchers. Author note: Karen V Hansen, Associate Professor of Sociology at Brandeis University, is the author of "A Very Social Time: Crafting Community in Antebellum New England", and the co-editor (with Ilene J Philipson) of "Women, Class, and the Feminist Imagination: A Socialist-Feminist Reader" (Temple, 1990).Anita Ilta Garey, Assistant Professor of Family Studies at the University of Connecticut, is the author of "Weaving Work and Family: Working Mothers and the Construction of Meaning" (Temple). ... Read more

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From family composition to social policy.
This is an extraordinarily abundant anthology of resources on a topic asbroad as any that could be tackled. Given the wide variety of topics andapproaches by the 56 writers, the reviewer especially appreciated theorganization of chapters. The non-traditional construction, perhaps women'sway of ordering ideas, offered a provocative exploration and encouraged newconnections for the reader.

Additionally, the editors provide aseven-page guide to 45 topics, alphabetically arranged, from adoption toworking-class families. Researchersinterested in class differences, forexample, are referred to the eleven chapters which include such in theircontent. This creates an accessibity to the more than two pound resource ... Read more

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