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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Mujeres no contadas	Luz María Londoño F.	http://www.lacarretaeditores.com/vinc/carreta%20social/carresocial01_vinc.html	OL11716102W
Women in Bangladesh local government	Sadik Hasan	Village government is not a unique idea in the history of Bangladesh. Historians have traced the existence of village councils during the Vedic period (1500 B.C.—1000 B.C.). After the independence of…	OL11904499W
Women & guerilla movements	Karen Kampwirth	"The revolutionary movements that emerged frequently in Latin America over the past century promoted goals that included overturning dictatorships, confronting economic inequalities, and creating wha…	OL12060775W
Analar, yoldaşlar, tanrıçalar	Handan Çağlayan	Çağlayan, Handan, Mothers, Comrades, and Goddesses: Women in the Kurdish Movement and the Formation of Women’s Identity, 2007 (2nd ed. 2009), İstanbul: İletişim Publishing, 278 pages. ABSTRACT T…	OL13836779W
Gender and power in Britain, 1640-1990	Susan Kingsley Kent	Gender and Power in Britain is an original and exciting history of Britain from the early modern period to the present focusing on the interaction of gender and power in political, social, cultural a…	OL14864491W
Women in politics	Karen Zeinert	Examines the contributions women have made at every level of American politics throughout the history of the United States, as well as the struggles they have encountered.	OL15323708W
Breakthrough, women in politics	Barbara Williams	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 brie…	OL15338278W
A woman unafraid	Penny Colman	A biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt's secretary of labor, who became the first woman cabinet member and a pioneer in labor reform, establishing unemployment insurance, minimum wages, maximum hours,…	OL15841134W
Why women should rule the world	Dee Dee Myers	What would happen if women ruled the world?Everything could change, according to former White House press secretary Dee Dee Myers. Politics would be more collegial. Businesses would be more productiv…	OL15845947W
Bushwomen	Laura Flanders	"The Bushwomen - the women appointed to the inner circle of the president's cabinet and sub-cabinet - are cast in the public mind as moderate, malleable, maverick, irrelevant or benign. Their careful…	OL15848614W
Democratic theorizing from the margins	Marla Brettschneider	"Democratic Theorizing from the Margins lays out the basic parameters of diversity-based politics as a still emerging form of democratic theory. Students, activists, and scholars engage in diversity…	OL17993101W
Off the sidelines	Kirsten Gillibrand	"Fourteen years before Kirsten Gillibrand succeeded Hillary Rodham Clinton as senator from New York, she heard her future mentor say these life-changing words: 'Decisions are being made every day in …	OL18022212W
Women and the Hindu right	Tanika Sarkar,Urvashi Butalia	With reference to India; contributed articles.	OL18237767W
Promoting popular participation in Yemen's 1993 elections	National Democratic Institute for International Affairs	ii, 151 p. : 23 cm	OL18321876W
The fiftieth milestone	Shanta Serbjeet Singh,Jyoti Sabharwal	Contributed articles on the post-independence Indian experiences.	OL18336181W
Wüstenblume	Cathleen Miller,Waris Dirie,Miller	Waris Dirie leads a double life -- by day, she is an international supermodel and human rights ambassador for the United Nations; by night, she dreams of the simplicity of life in her native Somalia …	OL1872814W
Engendering the political agenda	International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women	"Contains three case studies on the processes of engendering the political agenda conducted in the Dominican Republic, Romania and South Africa. The case studies document and analyze the way in which…	OL19374272W
Wild things	Karin Kallmaker	Rich attorney Sydney Van Allen is a rising star on the political horizon. Lovely professor Faith Fitzgerald is a dedicated scholar and award-winning author. Engaged to Sydney's brother, Faith prays t…	OL1985282W
Political Women and American Democracy	Christina Wolbrecht	Provides a critical synthesis of scholarly research on women in American politics.	OL19895582W
When does gender matter?	Kathleen A. Dolan	"As the number of women candidates for office in the U.S. increases each election cycle, scholars are confronted with questions about the impact of their sex on their chances of success. Chief among …	OL19987981W