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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
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
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
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
Crossing the sacred line	Abhilasha Kumari.	Study on the political participation of women in India.	OL2309708W
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
Politics, gender and concepts	Gary Goertz	"A critique of concepts has been central to feminist scholarship since its inception. However, while gender scholars have identified the analytical gaps in existing social science concepts, few have …	OL3960843W
Why Jenny can't lead	Jinx Melia	An excellent book that defies the ages as it is still relevant today as the day the authors first conceived of its content. The knowledge gained can be used in business as well as your personal life.…	OL4961657W