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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Women's rights."”.
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The family and the making of women's rights activism in Lebanon
This research explores how Lebanese women's rights activists use their kinship system to pursue citizenship rights and political recognition. Building on social movements, social capital, and feminist theories, I argue that Lebanese women's rights activists leverage support from their kin groups …
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Stranged marriages : unconventional matrimony in western American fiction.
… of traditional gender roles as a result of women's rights movements. Mainstream America responded to these challenges with an increased emphasis on conformity, aggressively legislating against deviant forms of marriage and strictly limiting immigration, particularly from China. The writers …
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Fiction based on fact : subversions of power and propriety in Charles Reade's matter-of-fact romances.
… asylum, subversions of propriety with regard to women's rights and roles, and psychological subversions of power form the basis of this study.
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Genteel revolutionaries: the lives of Anna and Thomas Haslam
… Anna Haslam were dedicated to the attainment of women's equality. They were feminists before the word was coined. In an era when respectable women were not supposed to know of the existence of prostitutes, Anna became empowered to do the unthinkable, not only to speak in public but to discuss …
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Stories of reproductive technology and the search for discursive authority.
The development of reproductive technologies in response to infertility has been the source of much dispute among scientists, feminists, and other critics. Not only is the scientific community divided over the ethical considerations relating to these developments, but the legal community is …
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Rights-Based Approach to Maternal Health: Constitutionalizing Protection of Women's Reproductive Rights in Nigeria
… Given that maternal mortality is essentially a women problem, it is a matter of justice and discrimination. In addition, significant regional disparities in maternal mortality exist within Nigeria, particularly between the northern and southern parts of the country. The maternal mortality ratio …