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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
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
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
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
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
Capital dames	Cokie Roberts	Women keep the Union united as men take to the Civil War battlefield. Readers meet the female journalists, nurses, and relief workers who kept the country strong while women embraced their increased …	OL19998469W
Political participation of women in a changing society	Sampa Guha	With special reference to West Bengal State of India.	OL2598752W
What kind of liberation?	Nadje Al-Ali,Cynthia Enloe,Nadje Sadig Al-Ali,Nicola Pratt	"In the run-up to war in Iraq, the Bush administration assured the world that America's interest was in liberation - especially for women. In this first book to examine how Iraqi women have fared sin…	OL3025251W
Political leaders	Laurie Lindop	Highlights the lives of ten women prominent in U.S. politics, including Barbara Jordan, Elizabeth Dole, Janet Reno, Geraldine Ferraro, and Jeane Kirkpatrick.	OL3256260W
Dancing backwards	Tim Higgins,Sharon Carstairs	This is the story of the determined and difficult assault by women on the male-dominated citadel of Canadian politics. Combining the profiles of twenty-eight remarkable women who have achieved po…	OL3583391W
Testimonios de participación popular femenina en la defensa del voto	Dalia Barrera Bassols	"Brief set of 1988 interviews with female residents of Ciudad Juárez. Interviews attempt to measure women's political involvement and level of participation in a rapidly changing local political env…	OL4048443W
Moving the mountain	Ellen Cantarow	Three women working for social change.	OL6559793W
Women and Political Power	Ruth Henig	The advance of women through the political system has been one of the most significant developments of the second half of the twentieth century. For the first time we have seen women Prime Ministers …	OL8091059W