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In den beginne was de vrouw
In dit boek komen diverse aspecten van de vrouwelijke ontwikkeling en identiteit aan de orde. Vanuit verschillend perspectief wordt onderzocht hoe een jonge vrouw de beleving van haar lichaam, de gebondenheid aan haar moeder, het zelf moeder worden, werk en partnerschap weet te integreren in een meer of minder stevige identiteit. Vragen die daarbij aan bod komen zijn onder meer: hoe staat het met het vermeende masochisme van de vrouw? Als identiteitssynthese en zelfwaardering centraal staan, wat...
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Nederlands | Engels | 95 pagina's | Van Gorcum, Assen | 2006
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Carol Flinders Enduring lives
living portraits of women and faith in action
Religious biographies of Etty Hillesum, Jane Goodall, Sister Helen Prejean, Tenzin Palmo.
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Engels | 277 pagina's | Orbis Books, Maryknoll, New York | 2013
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Mauro Mastrogiacomo | Nicole Bosch Income incentives to labour participation and home production
the contribution of the tax credits in the Netherlands
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Engels | 45 pagina's | CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis, The Hague | 2006
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Sonja Theodora Petronella Spoor Feeling bad, fat or ugly
inner body versus outward appearance in women
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Engels | 185 pagina's | 2006
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Tüzin Baycan-Levent | P. Nijkamp Migrant female entrepreneurship: driving forces, motivation and performace
This paper investigates migrant female entrepreneurship on the basis of driving forces, motivation and performance of migrant women entrepreneurs. Reviewed are the factors that push migrant females towards entrepreneurship and that determine their entrepreneurial performance. In order to understand and test the determinant factors behind the motivation towards entrepreneurship as well as the economic and survival performance of migrant women entrepreneurs, this paper addresses in the empirical part...
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Engels | 31 pagina's | Vrije Universiteit, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Amsterdam | 2006
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National University of Ireland Teaching with memories
European women's histories in international and interdisciplinary classrooms
Teaching with memories discusses the ways in which one can use the assignment to write the life story of a 'foremother' as an educational tool. This book includes descriptions of good practice, short articles about the analysis of specific sources, annotated bibliographies and a wealth of examples of assignments and questions that will help teachers within or outside institutions of higher education, to work with this format. The examples come from many different European countries. The book offers...
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Engels | 208 pagina's | Women's Studies Centre, NUI Galway, Galway | 2006
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Pushing at boundaries
The opening chapters consider Karen Duve’s work, including an excerpt from her latest novel 'Die entführte Prinzessin', a commentary by her translator Anthea Bell, and essays on her novel 'Regenroman', her take on West German youth culture in the 1980s in 'Dies ist kein Liebeslied' and explorations of the fairy tales and myths in all her novels and stories. Other writers compared with Duve or discussed independently include Anne Duden, Jenny Erpenbeck, Julia Franck, Michael Fritz, Kerstin Hensel,...
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Engels | Duits | 187 pagina's | Rodopi, Amsterdam [etc.] | 2006
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Niaz A. Shah Women, the Koran and international human rights law
the experience of Pakistan
This book discusses three Islamic human rights approaches: secular, non-compatible, reconciliatory (compatible), and proposes a contextual interpretive approach. The author argues that the current gender discriminatory statutory Islamic laws in Islamic jurisdictions, based on the decontextualised interpretation of the Koran, can be reformed through Ijtihad: independent individual reasoning. She discusses the impact of statutory Islamic laws of Pakistan on women’s human rights and questions their...
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Engels | 262 pagina's | Nijhoff, Leiden [etc.] | 2006
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Stichting Mama Cash (She gives back)
migrant women's philanthropic practices from the diaspora; research report
Overview of the variety of women’s initiatives in the area of diaspora philanthropy in five European countries: the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Germany, France and Italy. Examined are: In what ways are migrant women involved in philanthropic activities? What motivates them, and what are their goals? In which ways are they contributing to positive social change? What is the impact of these practices on the position of women, both for those involved in it in Europe, and for the women in the countries...
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Engels | 103 pagina's | Mama Cash, Amsterdam | 2006
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Women in academia and equality law
aiming high, falling short?; Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, The Netherlands, Sweden, United Kingdom
Although European policy initiatives to advance the position of women in Academia have proliferated, both at national and EU levels, serious inequities of many kinds remain. This situation is exposed and investigated in this book, which presents reports and discussions from a conference held at the Law Faculty of Lund University in December 2004. The participants law professors and social scientists present detailed reports on domestic experiences and regulations in eight European countries Among...
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Engels | 320 pagina's | Kluwer Law International, The Hague | 2006
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Eda Ünlü Yücesoy Everyday urban public space
Turkish immigrant women's perspective
This thesis of Utrecht University examines the use, experience and appropriation of everyday urban public spaces by Turkish immigrant women living in Enschede, the Netherlands.
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Engels | 196 pagina's | Het Spinhuis, Apeldoorn [etc.] | 2006
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Marianne Brandis Frontiers and sanctuaries
a woman's life in Holland and Canada
Het leven van Madzy Brender à Brandis (1910-1984), die in 1947 met man en kinderen emigreerde naar Canada, beschreven door haar dochter.
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Engels | 415 pagina's | McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal [etc.] | 2006
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Kate Kelsey Staples Daughters of London
inheriting opportunity in the late Middle Ages
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Engels | 210 pagina's | Brill, Leiden [etc.] | 2011
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Eric J. Sluijter Rembrandt and the female nude
Studie over Rembrandts uitbeeldingen van vrouwelijk naakt tegen de achtergrond van geldende conventies in de Nederlanden en Italië. Ook de aard van Rembrandts kunsttheoretische opvattingen en zijn voortdurende dialoog met beroemde voorgangers en tijdgenoten worden onderzocht.
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Engels | 448 pagina's | Amsterdam University Press, [Amsterdam] | 2006
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Mixed blessings
laws, religions, and women's rights in the Asia-Pacific region
The essays in this volume explore some of the diverse and contradictory ways that the lives of women in the Asia-Pacific region are shaped by two powerful regimes, 'religion' and 'law', and by the interactions between them. They show that for women, laws - customary, colonial. post-independence and international - and religions - indigenous or introduced, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam and Confucianism - have been 'a mixed blessing'. These diverse legal systems and religious doctrines and institutions...
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Engels | 284 pagina's | Nijhoff, Leiden [etc.] | 2006
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Mineke Bosch Curious careers
an unexpected history of women in science and technology
Three interviews with key women at the TU-Eindhoven: Els de Vaan-Bruinsma, the first woman student, helga Fassbinder, the first woman professor, and Wil Visscher, the first woman to gain a PhD, round out the story of the curious but fascinating careers of women in science and engineering
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Engels | 63 pagina's | Foundation for the History of Technology, Eindhoven | 2006
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Amina Wadud Inside the gender Jihad
women's reform in Islam
In this study, Dr Amina Wadud, an Afro-American Muslim herself, introduces the feminist movement in Islam and delves into its challenges, its textual foundations in the Qur'an and its achievements. Beginning with her own place in the effort for greater justice for women in Islam, Wadud goes on tackle a number of pertinent issues, including the state of Muslim women's studies as a discipline in mainstream academia and the role of Muslim women in the domestic space.
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Engels | 286 pagina's | Oneworld, Oxford | 2006
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Greg Behrendt | Amiira Ruotola-Behrendt It's called a breakup because it's broken
the smart girl's breakup buddy
Troost en adviezen voor hetero-vrouwen die een breuk in hun relatie doormaken.
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Engels | 276 pagina's | Harmony Books, New York | 2006
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Women under the influence
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Engels | 292 pagina's | Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD | 2006
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Handbook of girls' and women's psychological health
This book integrates the role of gender in girls' and women's development across the life span, looking specifically at internal and external vulnerabilities and risks, and the protective or supportive factors that facilitate effective coping, positive growth, strength and resilience. The interaction between physical, psychological, and cultural factors is integrated within each period of development. The book emphasizes how gender socialization of female development and behavior impacts self-evaluation...
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Engels | 500 pagina's | Oxford University Press, New York [etc.] | 2006
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