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Important events in women's history -- Introduction feminism today -- What is the history behind feminism? -- What does modern feminism look like? -- What obstacles does modern feminism face? -- What is the future of feminism? -- Source notes -- For further research -- Index -- Image credits -- About the author.

Gespräch über die Rolle der Frau in der afrikanischen Gesellschaft, Politik und im Befreiungsprozeß. Einzelne Aspekte: Notwendigkeit einer eigenständigen Frauenbewegung; Feminismus und Bewußtseinsbildung; Rassenpolitik; staatliche Frauenorganisationen und Manipulation; Frauen und Befreiungsbewegungen wie Polisario und ANC; Rolle der Frau im Sudan; Frauen und parlamentarische Vertretung sowie in der Parteipolitik, insbesondere in den kommunistischen Parteien. (DÜI-Wsl)

This volume deals with women's participation in international peacekeeping operations and what those operations might consider to be the role and circumstances of women, including those of the host society. Essays include: a theoretical perspective on women and war, highlighting the difference between post-modernist and universalist approaches to women's roles in peacemaking and conflict resolution, the role of women in military operations, the implications of the high levels of sexual violence in peacekeeping operations and the UN's gender policy for peacekeeping operations.

Introduction /Anne Marie Rafferty -- Women and Macho Medicine /Ann Dally -- 'Colonising Women': Female Medical Practice in Colonial India 1880-1890 /Anne Witz -- From Bedpan to Revolution: Qiu Jin and Western Nursing /Bridie Andrews -- 'Run by Women, (mainly) for Women': Medical Women's Hospitals in Britain, 1866-1948 /Mary Ann Elston -- Women Doctors and Gender Identity in Weimar Germany (1918–1933) /Cornelie Usborne -- A Suitable job for a Woman: Women Doctors and Birth Control to the Inception of the NHS /Lesley A. Hall -- Listening to the Ga: Cicely Williams' Discovery of Kwashiorkor on the Gold Coast /J. Stanton -- Smooth, Speedy, Painless, and Still Midwife Delivered?: The Dutch Midwife and Childbirth Technology in the Early Twentieth Century /Hilary Marland -- Ergot to Ergometrine:An Obstetric Renaissance? /E.M. Tansey -- 'Andromeda Freed from her Chains': Attitudes towards Women and the Oral Contraceptive Pill, 1950-1970 /Lara Marks -- Pioneers of Infertility Treatment /Naomi Pfeffer -- An Anatomy of Desire: Gender and Difference in Sex Therapy /Cassandra Lorius.