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Franchises Lost and Gained: Post-Coloniality and the Development of Women’s Rights in Canada [PDF]

open access: yesPerspectives on Federalism, 2017
The Canadian constitution is to some extent characterised by its focus on equality, and in particular gender equality. This development of women’s rights in Canada and the greater engagement of women as political actors is often presented as a steady ...
Skeet Charlotte Helen
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What Happened to the Women in Women’s Studies? Rethinking the Role of Women’s History in Gender Studies Classes [PDF]

open access: goldSocial Sciences, 2016
This commentary discusses the evolving dynamics and the intergenerational “rifts” that often arise in gender and women’s studies classes. The first section outlines the rise of women’s studies programs in the 1970s and the “women-centered” approach most ...
Lindsey Feitz
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Interdisciplinarity: women’s history and gender studies

open access: greenGragoatá, 2008
Interdisciplinarity, characteristic of women’s history and gender studies, exposes the paradox that has been moving feminisms on: the one of simultaneously accepting and refusing “sexual difference”, subject which guides and brings new contributions to ...
Rachel Soihet, Suely Gomes Costa
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Rewriting the Scottish Canon: the Contribution of Women’s and Gender History to a Redefinition of Social Classes

open access: greenÉtudes Écossaises, 2013
Over the last two decades, research on women and gender in Scotland has flourished and we have an increasingly full picture of women’s lives at all social levels across the medieval to modern periods.
Katie Barclay, Rosalind Carr
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From Women’s History to Gender History: Rethinking (Literary) History with Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own

open access: diamondÉtudes Britanniques Contemporaines
Virginia Woolf’s suggestion in the third chapter of A Room of One’s Own to ‘add a supplement to history’, if not to ‘rewrite’ it, has been taken up since the 1970s by many feminist literary critics, historians and literary historians who have contributed
Valérie Favre
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Working Class Women’s Activism in Socialist Yugoslavia: An Exploration of Archives from Varaždin, Croatia

open access: yesComparative Southeast European Studies, 2022
The authors address working class women’s activism in socialist Yugoslavia, focusing on archives produced at both factory and municipal levels by local društva žena or aktivi žena (women’s societies/sections) in the industrial town of Varaždin, Croatia ...
Bonfiglioli Chiara, Žerić Sara
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La storia e il suo insegnamento: andata e ritorno [PDF]

open access: yesLaboratorio dell'ISPF, 2014
[History and history teaching: back and forward] Focusing its analysis on the new curricula, the article reflects on the gap existing between History and history teaching.
VALLERI, Elvira
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Women Physicians and Their Careers: Athens—1900–1950: A Contribution to Understanding Women’s History

open access: yesGenealogy, 2023
This article combines history of the family with women’s and gender history and the history of women’s education; it is based on an extensive range of archives and aims at highlighting the attitude of society and families towards women who wanted to ...
Eugenia Bournova, Myrto Dimitropoulou
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Women’s and feminist periodical press in literary studies’ classroom: Theory and practice [PDF]

open access: yesGlasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU, 2020
Women’s and feminist periodical press represents a fruitful resource for researchers who explore women’s and gender history, history of women’s and feminist movement(s), women’s writing, and various gender identites which were - and still are ...
Kolarić Ana
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Things change: Women’s and men’s marital disruption dynamics in Italy during a time of social transformations, 1970-2003 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
We study women’s and men’s marital disruption in Italy between 1970 and 2003. By applying an event-history analysis to the 2003 Italian variant of the Generations and Gender Survey we found that the spread of marital disruption started among middle ...
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