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The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies

This handbook, the first of its kind, provides a comprehensive and carefully curated multidisciplinary genre-spanning view ...

The Palgrave Handbook of Family Policy

This handbook provides a multilevel view on family policies, combining insights on family policy outcomes at different levels ...

The Pathologisation of Homosexuality in Fascist Italy

The book highlights how the dictatorship operated in a low-key, shadowy and undetectable manner, bending pre-existing legislation. ...

The Socio-Cultural Context in Syria Gender-Role Stereotypes and Attitudes towards Female Academics Career Advancement آلاء مردم بك ؛ سارة الخطيب ؛ لينه أورفه لي إشراف د. سيرين دالاتي

The Research examines four variables attitudes towards gender roles, women’s career advancement, women femininity in business ...

The Voice of Breast Cancer in Medicine and Bioethics

This volume offers a discursive analysis of breast cancer. From multiple perspectives—historical, philosophical, psychological, ...

The World of the Seafarer Qualitative Accounts of Working in the Global Shipping Industry

This book constitutes an ethnographic mosaic which depicts the contextual complexities of the life and work of seafarers ...

Third Generation Photovoltaics

Photovoltaics, the direct conversion of sunlight to electricity, is now the fastest growing technology for electricity generation. ...

Towards a Comparative Analysis of Social Inequalities between Europe and Latin America

This book identifies the common and specific aspects of social mechanisms that generate inequalities, through comparative ...

Violence Against Women : An International Perspective

The International Violence against Women Survey (IVAWS) has interviewed over 23,000 women in eleven countries (including ...

Violence in Europe

Taking the sociocultural long view, Violence in Europe analyzes the prevalence and role of violence—from street crime to ...

Volunteering and Social Inclusion : Interrelations between Unemployment and Civic Engagement in Germany and Great Britain

Conceptualising employment and volunteering as two distinct forms of social inclusion, Susanne Strauß analyses their interrelations ...

Vulnerability in Scandinavian Art and Culture

In this book, seventeen scholars discuss how contemporary Scandinavian art and media have become important arenas to articulate ...

Web Search : Multidisciplinary Perspectives

Web search engines have emerged as one of the dominant technologies of modern life, leaving few aspects of our everyday activities ...

Why Popcorn Costs So Much at the Movies

How Prices Matter rices are ubiquitous, so much so that their importance to the smooth operation of a market economy (even ...

Women and the Mafia

The book introduces us to the professional women of the Argentine "mafia state", Albanian human traffickers, spies for ...

Women in Biotechnology

Women in Biotechnology presents a unique study of the relationships and communications between women scientists, particularly ...

Women in the Military and in Armed Conflict

The debate about the role of women in war, violent conflict and the military is not only a long and ongoing one; it is also ...

Women over Fifty

A woman’s middle age had traditionally been regarded as a time of loss and decline. But in the wake of the women's movement ...

Women, Migration and Gendered Experiences : The Case of Post-1991 Albanian Migration

This book focuses on Albanian internal and international female migration and places gender at the heart of postsocialist ...

Work, Subjectivity and Learning

This shift acknowledges a broader set of workplace factors that shape workers’ learning and development. Yet equally, it ...

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