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This paper presents three examples of political-religious fundamentalism: political Islam, communal fascism based on Hindu fundamentalism in India, and the Christian-fundamentalist right in the Bush administration in the US. It presents a political analysis of these movements, calling the readers' attention to the history and socio-political context to bring about an understanding of these phenomena as products of certain social and historical developments.

The term, "media", plural of "medium", is used to indicate publications or broadcasts used for communication, information and publicity. They may include a large number of literary forms such as poetry, drama, fiction, essays, research and the like, but, strictly speaking, when we discuss the media nowadays we particularly mean three powerful, modern, representative arts: journalism, radio, cinema of television.

Nahla Abdo and Ronit Lentin (eds.)Berghahn Books, 2002

The performance of top Chinese women athletes in the 1990s has been unprecedented in the history of sport. Unfortunately, this performance has been lighted by drug scandals involving Chinese sportswomen. The authors discuss success of Chinese women in sport, the use of drug by them, role of sport in Chinese society, success of women in sport in other socialist countries, women's contribution to Olympics in China and other countries among other topics. (DÜI-Sen)

The Social Change Indicators series in this special issue presents state-level data on labour force participation rate, unemployment rate, status of employment and sectoral distribution.

chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 Women, land and property -- chapter 3 Managing the estate -- chapter 4 Improving the estate -- chapter 5 Country houses, gardens and estate villages -- chapter 6 Representing women and property -- chapter 7 Beyond the (park) pale.

Offending Girls challenges simplistic representations of 'bad' girls in the twenty-first century and argues that the interventionist thrust which characterizes the contemporary youth justice system has had a particularly pernicious impact on girls.

Sagy Watemberg Izraeli (Bar-Ilan University - Faculty of Law; Åbo Akademi University - Study of Religions; Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Philosophy, Politics, & Economics (PPE)) has posted Religious Women's Paradox of Multicultural Vulnerability: Liberal-Democratic Mechanisms' Failures and the Question...

A paradigm shift in soil and water conservation measures from an isolated approach to integrated watershed development programmes (WDPs) in the early 1970s em-phasised the active involvement or sense of ownership of the farming community for economic and social uplift on a holistic basis, particularly of the weaker sections and women. Guidelines issued by the Government of India have overlooked the divergent needs and interests that rural women have in relation to land and water. Women's participation has always been under a kind of 'reservation policy' and not as a matter of right. The soil and water conservation measures undertaken have failed to take into consideration the imbalance between men and women's ownership rights, division of labour and income. Women's participation in watershed development projects should not merely be judged by the number of women working as labour or by their 'proxy presence' in meetings, but by making them an integral part in the decision-making process and sense of belongingness in the development programmes.