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Drawing on interviews with over half of new Labour women MPs, Sarah Childs reveals how the women experienced being MPs, and explores whether they acted for and like women - in constituencies, in Parliament and in government.

Angela Hay, a Probation Service Officer, and Amanda Stirling, a Probation Officer in West Yorkshire, explain the rationale, process and outcomes of a pilot programme aiming to make separate groupwork provision for women probation clients. Their experience shows that such programmes are essential to meet the needs of serious women offenders at risk of custody.

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This essay argues that retrieval of the archive of trans women's engagement with women's liberation corrects a historical focus on the virulent trans misogyny that targeted trans women for exclusion from feminist milieus and projects beginning in 1973. This essay follows the arguments for trans exclusion into their contemporary iterations and proposes the archive of trans women's feminist work as a theoretical and political resource for countering trans misogyny.

This article focuses on the phenomenon of women who kill women in the context of India's dowry murders. Killing by females is rare, and killing of other females is rarer still. India's dowry deaths, where mothers-in-law are, next to husbands, the most accused and convicted, represents a unique opportunity to examine the mechanics around women who kill, especially in the context of a gender violence crime. The article examines both the roots of the dowry system and the current anti-dowry and dowry-violence legislation to demonstrate the implicit and accepted gender inequities within marriage that serve to under gird an overall system of female oppression within the marital relationship. This inequity is understood to be a positive aspect within marriage, but ironically negative within public Indian society. The article then considers various theories of agency and motivation from social science and feminist literature to answer why some women participate in oppressing other women in Indian society. Finally, the article notes some of the ways in which Indian courts are contributing to the oppressive power structure by limiting the application of the anti-dowry and dowry-violence laws.

In the new country of Timor-Leste, women constituted in 2011 32 per cent of the parliament, a relatively high figure in the world and in the region. But to what extent has the presence of women in parliament contributed to progress towards gender equality

In the new country of Timor-Leste, women constituted in 2011 32 per cent of the parliament, a relatively high figure in the world and in the region. But to what extent has the presence of women in parliament contributed to progress towards gender equality

Sir Colin Campbell's incumbrances : women as a factor in British command decisions during the Indian Mutiny 1857 / T.A. Heathcote -- Heni Te Kiri Karamu : the heroine of the Gate Pa / Leicester Chilton -- Home from home on the Western Front, 1914-1918 : women's contribution to morale / Elspeth Johnstone -- Working, queueing and worrying : British women and the home front, 1939-1945 / Mark Connelly -- Flight through the retreating Allied armies : non-combatants and the Blitzkrieg of 1940 / George Bailey -- 'Put that light out' : the 93rd Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery / Imogen Corrigan -- Homeland defence : British gunners, women and ethics during the Second World War / Georgina Natzio -- Princess Marina the Duchess of Kent as commandant of the WRNS during the Second World War / Celia Lee -- Hurricanes and handbags : women RAF ferry pilots during the Second World War / Mike Ryan -- British secret agents during the Second World War / Juliette Pattinson -- Sue Ryder and the FANYs of SOE / Jonathan Walker -- Women with a secret : photographic interpretation / Christine Halsall -- 'Station X' : the women at Bletchley Park / John Lee -- Women in the siege of Leningrad / Tatiana Roshupkina -- Lotta Svärd, Nachthexen and Blitzmädel : women in military service on the Eastern Front / Paul Edward Strong -- Women at war : Poland / Halik Kochanski -- Women who thawed the Cold War / Grace Filby -- War veterans : four short histories - Georgina Ivison; Theresa Jordan; Beryl; Minnie S. Churchill / edited by Celia Lee