"In many societies across the world, women are discriminated against by law and by customs, rendering them among the vulnerable and disadvantaged social groups.

Contrary to popular perceptions, newly veiled women across the Middle East are just as much products and symbols of modernity as the upper- and middle-class wom

In this book Barbara Marshall argues that the debates around both modernity and postmodernity neglect the role of women and significance of gender in the format

This book critically assessesthird-wave feminist strategies for advancing a feminist 'politics of the self' within the late modern, postfeminist gender order �

This study examines the transformative relationship between Victorian mothers and their modern daughters in the works of six early British modernists (E. M. For