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Gender in a Transitional Era: Changes and Challenges

Gender in a Transitional Era is an important addition to communication research through its wide range of methodological and theoretical approaches, intersectional topics, and clearly expressed challenges to the constraining gender binary system that remains the foremost project of feminist scholarship and activism.

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Mining, Displacement, and Matriliny in Meghalaya: Gendered Transitions

By Bitopi Dutta

This book studies how Development-Induced Displacement (DID) radically restructures gender relations in indigenous tribal societies. Through an indepth case study of the Indian state of Meghalaya, one of the few matrilineal societies of the world, it analyses how people cope with conflicts in their perception of self, family, and society brought on by the transition from traditional modes of living to increased urbanisation, and how these experiences are different for men and women.

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The Contemporary Indian Family: Transitions and Diversity

This book analyses the dynamics of the development of family structure in India in the last few decades. It captures the diversities and challenges of contemporary families and provides a culture and region-specific overview of how families adapt and change generationally.

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Sic Transit Wagon: And Other Stories

By Barbara Jenkins

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The Jewish Woman in Contemporary Society: Transitions and Traditions

By Adrienne Baker

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Slave Trade and Abolition: Gender, Commerce, and Economic Transition in Luanda

By Vanessa S Oliveira

Vanessa S. Oliveira provides rich evidence to explore the many ways formidable Luso-African women influenced the society around them between 1808 and 1867. In doing so, she reveals an unexpectedly nuanced economy with regard to the dynamics of gender and authority.

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Faking It: My Life in Transition

By Kyle Mewburn

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American Indian Grandmothers: Traditions and Transitions

These essays explore the complex world of grandmothers in Native America, where, although often impoverished and marginalized, they provide a vital connection to native identity, history, and wisdom.

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Transatlantic Women Travelers, 1688-1843

This collection examines images of late seventeenth- through mid-nineteenth-century transatlantic women travelers in historical and literary works. The volume features women of a variety of races, ethnicities, and social classes traveling in all directions of the Atlantic Ocean, as well as the people they encounter in their travels and residences.

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Voicing Demands: Feminist Activism in Transitional Contexts