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Feminism and Islam
Legal and Literary Perspectives
In an age when Western feminism is continuously undergoing redefinition, the struggles of women in Muslim countries are often overlooked. This volume illustrates how women in Islamic societies have become more actively involved not only in learning their rights under the sharia (Islamic law) but in rereading this law to improve their status and ......
ISBN-13: 9780814796801 (Hardback)
Publisher: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Mai Yamani
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AUD $193.00
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Local release date: 01/09/1996
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Categories: Feminism & feminist theory [JFFK]Islamic studies [JFSR2]Asia [1F]Africa [1H]

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Democracy and Development in Africa
Despite three decades of preoccupation with development in Africa, the economies of most African nations are still stagnating or regressing. For most Africans, incomes are lower than they were two decades ago, health prospects are poorer, malnourishment is widespread, and infrastructures and social institutions are breaking down.
ISBN-13: 9780815702191 (Paperback)
Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
Imprint: BROOKINGS INSTITUTION
Claude Ake
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AUD $45.99
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Local release date: 01/01/1996
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Categories: Development studies [GTF]Political structures: democracy [JPHV]Economics [KC]Africa [1H]

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Travel, Gender, and Imperialism
Mary Kingsley and West Africa
Drawing from the life and travels of Mary Kingsley, a nineteenth century travel writer and critic of the Crown Colony system, Alison Blunt cogently examines the relationships among travel, gender and imperialism. Instead of studying either travel generally or women travel writers in the colonial period specifically, Blunt examines both to show how ......
ISBN-13: 9780898625462 (Paperback)
Publisher: GUILFORD PUBLICATIONS
Imprint: THE GUILFORD PRESS
Alison Blunt
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Local release date: 30/06/1994
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Categories: Colonialism & imperialism [HBTQ]Cultural studies [JFC]Gender studies, gender groups [JFSJ]Geography [RG]Travel & holiday [WT]Africa [1H]

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Conflict Resolution in Africa
Examines the prospects for conflict management and resolution in Africa. The authors review scholarship in resolution in light of international changes now taking place. Addressing the undying, internal causes of conflict, they question whether global events will promote peace or threaten to unleash even more conflict.
ISBN-13: 9780815717973 (Paperback)
Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
Imprint: BROOKINGS INSTITUTION
Francis M. Deng, I. William Zartman
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AUD $42.99
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Local release date: 01/09/1991
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Categories: Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions [HBTV]Political structure & processes [JPH]Terrorism, armed struggle [JPWL]Revolutionary groups & movements [JPWQ]Africa [1H]

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Human Rights in Africa
Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Challenges the conventional view that the concept of human rights is peculiar to the West and, therefore, inherently alien to the non-Western traditions of third world countries. This book demonstrates that there is a contextual legitimacy for the concept of human rights.
ISBN-13: 9780815717959 (Paperback)
Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
Imprint: BROOKINGS INSTITUTION
Abdullahi Ahmed An-naim, Francis M. Deng
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Local release date: 01/08/1990
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Categories: Human rights [JPVH]Africa [1H]