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English
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"1860: As the clash between the states rolls slowly to a boil, Elizabeth Packard, housewife and mother of six, is facing her own battle. The enemy sits across the table and sleeps in the next room. Threatened by Elizabeth's intellect, independence, and outspokenness, her husband of twenty-one years is plotting against her and makes a plan to put her back in her place. One summer morning, he has her committed to an insane asylum. The horrific conditions...
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights
Pub. Date
©2018
Language
English
Description
Activist Belva Lockwood never stopped asking herself the question Are women not worth the same as men? She had big dreams and didn't let anyone stand in her way--not her father, her law school, or even the U.S. Supreme Court. She fought for equality for women in the classroom, in the courtroom, and in politics.
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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"This book demonstrates how feminist analysis can transform law in a field where paternalism, individualism, gender stereotypes, and tensions over the public-private divide shape judicial decisions. Each chapter focuses on a single court decision related to health law. The decisions concern patient autonomy, informed consent, medical and nursing malpractice, the relationships among health care professionals and the institutions where they work, communications...
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Series
Publisher
Océano
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
The inequality between men and women may seem like one of the biggest problems of our age, but it has a long history. This book is a quick journey through different eras and cultures to reveal all the gender disparities that have existed from prehistory to the present day. With its humor and its comic-book format, it outlines both the forms the oppression of women has taken and the strategies of resistance they have adopted to reclaim their place...
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Publisher
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Exposing the consequences and significance of the systematic maltreatment of women, and its systemic condonation, this book takes us into the heart of the international law of conflict to ask - and reveal - why the international community can rally against terrorists' violence, but not against violence against women.
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