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Women, Ethnicity and Nationalism: The Politics of Transition

Using contemporary case studies, Women, Ethnicity and Nationalism asks whether societies caught in political and social transition provide new opportunties for women or, instead, create new burdens and obstacles for them.

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Azeri Women in Transition: Women in Soviet and Post-Soviet Azerbaijan

By Farideh Heyat

This study of women and gender in a Muslim society draws on archival and literary sources as well as the life stories of women to offer a unique ethnographic and historical account of the lives of urban women in contemporary Azerbaijan.

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Women in Transition: Crossing Boundaries, Crossing Borders

This volume brings together scholars, students and writers as well as artists from around the world. By choosing a thematic focus on "transition" in women's lives, we present research on women who have crossed biological, geopolitical and political borders as well as emotional, sexual, cultural and linguistic boundaries.

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Gender and Transitional Justice: The Women of East Timor

By Susan Harris Rimmer

This book provides the first comprehensive feminist analysis of the role of international law in the formal transitional justice mechanisms. Using East Timor as a case study, it offers reflections on transitional justice administered by a UN transitional administration. Often presented as a UN success story, the author demonstrates that, in spite of women and children's rights programmes of the UN and other donors, justice for women has deteriorated in post-conflict Timor, and violence has remained a constant in their lives.

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Women in Transition: Crossing Boundaries, Crossing Borders

This volume brings together scholars, students and writers as well as artists from around the world. By choosing a thematic focus on "transition" in women's lives, we present research on women who have crossed biological, geopolitical and political borders as well as emotional, sexual, cultural and linguistic boundaries.

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Gender and Transitional Justice: The Women of East Timor

By Susan Harris Rimmer

This book provides the first comprehensive feminist analysis of the role of international law in the formal transitional justice mechanisms. Using East Timor as a case study, it offers reflections on transitional justice administered by a UN transitional administration. Often presented as a UN success story, the author demonstrates that, in spite of women and children's rights programmes of the UN and other donors, justice for women has deteriorated in post-conflict Timor, and violence has remained a constant in their lives.

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Women's Transitions from Prison: The Post-Release Experience

By Rosemary Sheehan, Chris Trotter

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Women's Transitions from Prison: The Post-Release Experience

By Rosemary Sheehan, Chris Trotter

Based on extensive Australian research, this book considers how women manage their correctional obligations and re-settle in the community after prison and considers the style of services which are most effective in reducing recidivism.

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The Intermediate Sex: A Study of Some Transitional Types of Men and Women

By Edward Carpenter

Originally published in 1908, this version in1941, these papers present early observations about gender fluidity in both men and women, studying certain 'types' of intermediate people that he claimed were begin to emerge more obviously at the time of writing. This title will be of interest to students of gender studies.