The politics of presence

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Marilyn Waring

In a world where half the population is likely to be excluded from international human rights guarantees, where unpaid work is given no economic value, where parliamentary process denies women a voice - in such a world truths masquerade as lies. Marilyn Waring writes, in these three essays, of the pretences that create and sustain inequality. Three Masquerades identifies some central myths that promote inequality, and explodes them with an accuracy that is at once devastating and humane.

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Yvonne Galligan, Eilís Ward, Rick Wilford

This book gathers the expertise of those researching women and politics in Ireland - both North and South - into a single, comprehensive and accessible textbook on the topic. Contributors are drawn from both academic and activist arenas to bring a multidisciplinary approach to the subject. Contesting Politics examines the central issues of women and the political parties and representation, the relationship between the women's movement and community-based women's groups in Ireland, and women's participation in public bodies and the Northern Ireland Women's Coalition. The text will be invaluable in women's studies and Irish studies courses as well as within political science.

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Alami M'Chichi Houria

La volonté du gouvernement marocain, en 1999, dʹintégrer les femmes au développement a suscité de nombreux questionnements entre modernistes et islamistes. Selon H. Alami MʹChichi (professeur de science politique à la faculté de droit de Casablanca), lʹintroduction de lʹanalyse du genre dans le domaine politique permet, dʹune part de mettre à nu des rapports socialement et historiquement construits, responsables de nombreuses inégalités entre les sexes, et, dʹautre part de révéler des divergences entre modernistes et islamistes, mais aussi des confusions partagées sur la place de la femme dans la société marocaine.

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Barbara Boxer

Barbara Boxer has made her mark, combining compassionate advocacy with scrappiness in a political career spanning more than three decades. Now, retiring from the Senate, she continues the work to which she's dedicated 30 years in Congress. Her memoir shares her provocative and touching recollections of service, and cements her commitment to the fight for women, families, quality, environmental protection, all in a peaceful world.