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a never-ending phenomenon
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- Journal of International Women's Studies
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- 2004
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- 1
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- Sharma, B.R.
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- Gupta, Manisha
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- Some of the customs, prevalent for years in India have been identified by the authors to reveal the gender-based violence in addition to everyday harassment being faced by women. Also some recommendations that are always in the discussion at policy level but without fruitful result have been reviewed and an attempt has been made for some simple suggestions to check gender-based violence, especially, in the developing world.
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- Journal of International Women's Studies
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- 2006
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- 3
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- Davies, Ceri
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- Evans, Rachel
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- Gurd, Keri
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- [et al.]
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- vrouwenstudies, theorieën, reageerbuisbevruchting, actiegroepen, moeders, Argentijns, lesbianisme, vrouwelijkheid, schrijvers, geweld, lichamen, zwarte vrouwen, seksualiteit, gender, mode, prijzen, Verenigd Koninkrijk
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- This issue consists of winning and short-listed entries from the Feminist and Women's Studies Association's 2004 annual essay competition. The competition was established to encourage a new generation of feminist scholars and to provide a prize and space for publication for student writing that isinnovative, interdisciplinary and grounded in feminist theory and practice. The winning essay in the postgraduate category was Karin Webster in which she examines critique aspects of the law relating to in vitro fertilisation (‘IVF’) treatment in the United Kingdom. In the undergraduate category Sara Howe won the prize with her essay in which she analyses the relevance of the 'motherist' politics of Argentina's Madres de la Plaza de Mayo to Latin American feminism. The five runners up in the competition were: '‘The Truth is a Thorny Issue': Lesbian Denial in Jackie Kay's Trumpet' by Ceri Davies: 'The Rationality and Femininity of Mary Wollstonecraft and Jane Austen' by Rachel Evans: 'Connections and Complicities: Reflections on Epistemology, Violence, and Humanitarian Aid' by Kiri Gurd: 'all the ways… ' by Natasha Lobo: and 'Uneasy Transvestism? Fashioning a Space for the Single Woman in Sex and the City' by Nicola Rodie.
the extent to which the voices of exiled and refugee women have adapted to their new Western diasporic space
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- Journal of International Women's Studies
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- 2004
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- 3
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- Langer, Jennifer
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- vluchtelingen, schrijvers, gender, geweld, taboes, onderzoek
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- Author, director of Exiled Writers Ink!, considers the extent to which exiled and refugee women have adapted to their new Western diasporic space. Author also examines whether women writers consider exile to be a safe place in which to write the experiences of gender specific persecution and of being a victim of violence in conflict or whether taboos restrict the women's voice.
implications for health and human rights
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- Journal of International Women's Studies
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- 2007
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- 4
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- Liebling-Kalifani, Helen
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- Marshall, Angela
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- Ojiambo-Ochieng, Ruth
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- Kakembo, Nassozi Margaret
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- geweld, lichamelijke gezondheid, gender, oorlog en vrede, Uganda
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- Authors describe the resulting long-term health needs of women war-torture survivors of the civil war years in Luwero District, Uganda. To do this sections of case studies from interviews carried out in Kikamulo Sub-County, Luwero, are utilised. The effects of gender-based violence and torture and its long term, severe and enduring impact on women's health will be highlighted.
Disciplinary Confrontations
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- Journal of International Women's Studies
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- 2008
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- 3
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- Burnley, Clementine Ewokolo
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- Stephenne, Nathalie
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- Cabo, Mercè Agüera
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- sociale veiligheid, gender, geweld, rampen, discriminatie, gelijke behandeling, communicatie, vrouwenstudies, beleid, EU, onderzoek
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