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Women’s Political Participation in Indonesia: Decentralisation, Money Politics and Collective Memory in Bali

Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 2012
This article contends that cultural, political and historical factors create a local political environment where de facto discrimination against women is the norm.
Elizabeth Rhoads
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Socialisation Process, Power Relations and Domestic Violence: Marginal Voices of Assamese Women

Space and Culture, India, 2015
Domestic violence is an evil that never dies. It is an indicator of inequality, injustice and discrimination of the social system. Though there is no justification for its existence in a civilized society, then why it is so difficult to root it out?
Polly Vauquline
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"To Assure the Reign of Work and Justice"

Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften, 1998
On April 11, 1871, an "Appeal to the Women Citizens of Paris" summoned the women of the Paris Commune "To arms ! The nation is in danger." This call led to the formation of the 'Union des Femmes pour la defense de Paris et les soins aux blesses', a ...
Carolyn J. Eichner
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Institutionalisation of Women's Studies Research Centre, Gauhati University: A Struggle for Space and Identity

Space and Culture, India, 2018
Institutionalisation of Women's Studies (WS) in India although started in the 1970s, it took a decade further to cross the threshold of Northeastern States.
Dipmala Dutta, Polly Vauquline
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Mobile Subjects, Mobile Methods: Doing Virtual Ethnography in a Feminist Online Network

Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 2007
In this article I give an account of my cyberethnographic study of the International Women's University "Technology and Culture" (ifu) 2000 and the network its participants formed in the ifu's virtual extension, vifu.
Michaela Fay
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Is it necessary to "be" a feminist to "make" feminist cinema? Icíar Bollaín and her cinematographic representation of gender.

Investigaciones Feministas, 2017
Inequality between men and women in cinema has remained stable from its beginnings. Both behind the cameras and on-screen representation, women have been systematically invisible, underrepresented and objectified.
Julia Cabrera Campoy
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FEATURES OF THE CHINESE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE XX TH CENTURY: HISTORIOGRAPHICAL VIEW OF CONTEMPORARY CHINESE RESEARCHERS

RUDN Journal of World History, 2014
The question about legality of existence existing in Chinese historiography of the provisions of national specificity of the Chinese feminism is determined in this article.
G G Kornoukhova, E S Lukovkina
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Resistance Through Repurposing

Groundings
This paper provides a historical overview of the contemporary philosophy of Xenofeminism, and assesses how it theorises the intersections between feminism, technology, and futurity. By approaching 21st century feminist theory through the central tool of ‘
Maia Appleby Melamed
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Women's studies

Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union, 1996
On March 31, 1997, the Association for Women Geoscientists will award two Chrysalis Scholarships to women who have returned to school after an interruption in their education for a year or longer. The $750 awards will be given to geoscience master's or Ph.D. candidates to cover expenses in finishing their theses.The application deadline is February 28,
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The Power of Citation: Feminist Counter-Appropriation of State Discourses in Post-Reform China

Global Storytelling
This article presents a comprehensive examination of the new discursive strategy devised and deployed by Chinese pan-feminist communities in response to the pervasive state intrusion, which we call feminist counter-appropriation.
Charlie Zhang, Jingxue Zhang
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