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Women, Citizenship and Difference by Yuval-Davis, Nira

“…The article discusses some of the major issues which need to be examined in a gendered reading of citizenship. However, its basic claim is that a comparative…”
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Not Just (Any) Body Can be a Citizen: The Politics of Law, Sexuality and Postcoloniality in Trinidad and Tobago and the Bahamas by Alexander, M Jacqui

“…Despite promises of the anticolonial nationalist movement that "every creed & race (would have) an equal place" in Trinidad & Tobago, lesbians can be brought…”
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Feminism and the Third Way by McRobbie, Angela

“…This article argues that the Third Way’, as the ideological rationale for the New Labour Government in the UK, attempts to resolve the tensions around women…”
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Towards Indigenous Feminist Theorizing in the Caribbean by Mohammed, Patricia

“…This attempt to develop an indigenous reading of feminism as both activism and discourse in the Caribbean is informed by my own preoccupation with the limits…”
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Orientalist Sociology and the Creation of Colonial Sexualities by Levine, Philippa

“…In what Arjun Appadurai has dubbed the ‘colonial imaginary’ issues of femininity, and who possessed it, were of prime importance. An orientalizing sociology…”
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Power and Desire: The Embodiment of Female Sexuality by Holland, Janet, Ramazanoglu, Caroline, Sharpe, Sue, Thomson, Rachel

“…Sexuality is both gendered & embodied, but poststructural & postmodern critics of essentialism construct an opposition between theories of a natural, stable,…”
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Theorizing Gender Systems and the Project of Modernity in the Twentieth-Century Caribbean by Barriteau, Eudine

“…A central thesis of this paper is that the philosophical contradictions of liberal ideologies predispose states to institute unjust gender systems. I argue…”
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Deconstructing Whiteness: Irish Women in Britain by Hickman, Mary J, Walter, Bronwen

“…The Irish are largely invisible as an ethnic group in Britain but continue to be racialized as inferior and alien Others. Invisibility has been reinforced by…”
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Moral Rhetoric and Public Health Pragmatism: The Recent Politics of Sex Education by Thomson, Rachel

“…While sex education underscores political tensions regarding the boundaries of state intervention, it is first & foremost a debate about gender & generational…”
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Women in Television in the Multi-Channel Age by Thynne, Lizzie

“…This article explores the impact of structural and technological change on women's employment in the UK television industry. It looks at the challenges faced…”
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Creating a Space for Absent Voices: Disabled Women's Experience of Receiving Assistance with Daily Living Activities by Morris, Jenny

“…Feminist research on community care and ‘informal carers’ identified this as a women's issue but failed to address the interests and experiences of older and…”
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Gender, Metaphor and the State by Sawer, Marian

“…The neo-liberal upsurge of the last twenty years and the neo-liberal case against the welfare state has gained much of its emotional force from a sub-text…”
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Feminist Recoveries in My Father's House by Clegg, Christine

“…One of the achievements of feminist politics, in a range of disciplines and practices, has been to secure a hearing for traumatic narratives of incest…”
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Issues of Difference in Contemporary Caribbean Feminism by Baksh-Soodeen, Rawwida

“…This paper interrogates Caribbean feminist theory and activism in relation to the Euro-American experience and to challenges emerging from the Third World…”
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Understanding Women in Scotland by Breitenbach, Esther, Brown, Alice, Myers, Fiona

“…This article explores obstacles to understanding the history and contemporary experiences of women in Scotland, and to the development of feminist research in…”
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Women's Publics and the Search for New Democracies by Eisenstein, Zillah

“…The article examines the intersections between gender, racism, global capitalism and corporate multiculturalism. The notion of nation and nationalism for the…”
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Drunken Tans by Ryan, Louise

“…Representations of Sex and Violence in the Anglo-Irish War 1919-21…”
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Editorial by Alldred, Pam, Bertram, Vicki, Brah, Avtar

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Natural Governance and the Governance of Nature by Ruhl, Lealle

“…The Hazards of Natural Law Feminism…”
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Cracks in the Feminist Mirror? by Humphrey, Jill C

“…Research and Reflections on Lesbians and Gay Men Working Together…”
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