Before the revolution : women's rights and right-wing politics in Nicaragua, 1821-1979 / by González-Rivera, Victoria, 1969-, PALCI EBSCO books

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Feminism before Somoza -- From feminism to partisan suffragist politics -- The aftermath of women's suffrage -- Somocista women's lives -- The activism and legacy of Nicolasa Sevilla -- Sex and somocismo -- Conclusion.…”
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Gendered paradoxes : women's movements, state restructuring, and global development in Ecuador / by Lind, Amy, PALCI EBSCO books

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Suffrage and the city : New York women battle for the ballot / by Santangelo, Lauren C., Oxford Scholarship Online

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The lost wave : women and democracy in postwar Italy / by Tambor, Molly, Oxford Scholarship Online

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: women, the bulwark of democracy -- "An essential way of life": the political awakening of women militants -- Gender roles in Italy's elections and constitution -- Legge noce for working mothers: "madonna tempesta" -- The Merlin Law against the Case Chiuse: taking the state out of sex, putting the sex in citizenship -- Both the rights and the duties of citizenship: the Cocco Law for access to all public careers -- Conclusion: the legacy of the lost wave and constitutional rights feminism.…”
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Intimacy and Exclusion : Religious Politics in Pre-Revolutionary Baden. by Herzog, Dagmar

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Women and politics in Chile / by Franceschet, Susan, 1965-, PALCI EBSCO books

Table of Contents: “…Women and politics in Chile -- Gendered citizenship in Chile : an overview -- From first-wave feminism to "mobilized mothers," 1973-1990 -- Where are the women now? …”
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Mothers of conservatism : women and the postwar right / by Nickerson, Michelle M.

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We will be heard : women's struggles for political power in the United States / by Freeman, Jo, PALCI EBSCO books

Table of Contents: “…Prologue : the search for political woman -- The Iowa origins of organized Republican women -- "One man, one vote, one woman, one throat" : women in New York City politics, 1890-1910 -- The rise of political woman in the election of 1912 -- All the way for the ERA : winning and losing in Virginia -- The women who ran for president -- Ruth Bryan Owen : Florida's first congresswoman -- Marion Martin of Maine : a mother of Republican women -- Gender gaps in presidential elections -- Feminism and antifeminism in the Republican and Democratic Parties -- Gender representation in the Democratic and Republican Parties -- "Equality" vs. …”
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Women's organizations and democracy in South Africa : contesting authority / by Hassim, Shireen, ACLS Humanities Ebook

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Autonomy and engagement in the South African women's movement -- Contesting ideologies : feminism and nationalism -- The emergence of women as a political constituency, 1979-90 -- The ANC in exile : challenging the role of women in national liberation -- The return of the ANC Women's League : autonomy abrogated -- From mothers of the nation to rights-bearing citizens : transition and its impact on the South African women's movement -- Political parties, quotas, and representation in the new democracy -- One woman, one desk, one typist : moving into the bureaucracy -- Autonomy, engagement and democratic consolidation.…”
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Revolutionary women in postrevolutionary Mexico / by Olcott, Jocelyn, 1970-, Duke gender collection

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the daughters of La Malinche : gender and revolutionary citizenship -- "A right to struggle" : revolutionary citizenship and the birth of Mexican feminism -- Laboratory of Cardenismo : constructing Michoacán's postrevolutionary edifice -- Educators and organizers : populating the national women's movement -- "All the benefits of the Revolution" : labor and citizenship in the Comarca Lagunera -- "Her dignity as woman and her sovereignty as citizen" : claiming postrevolutionary citizenship -- "All are avowed socialists" : political conflict and women's organizing in Yucatán -- Conclusions and epilogue : the death of Cardenismo.…”
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Barbershops, bibles, and BET : everyday talk and Black political thought / by Harris-Perry, Melissa V. (Melissa Victoria), 1973-

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The politics of women's rights : parties, positions, and change / by Wolbrecht, Christina

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Ideology and rhetoric : constructing America / by PALCI EBSCO books

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The paradox of paternalism : women and the politics of authoritarianism in the Dominican Republic / by Manley, Elizabeth S., PALCI EBSCO books

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: gendering the history of dictatorship and transnational politics -- Advocating suffrage and sovereignty: Pan-American feminism and the rise of the Trujillato, 1922-1942 -- Defending the home against the chaos of communism: women, regime politics, and the Cold War, 1942-1961 -- Intimate violations: gender, family, and the Ajusticiamiento of Trujillo, 1944-1961 -- Neither Russia nor the United States: women and the search for legitimate democracy, 1961-1965 -- First to liberate women's lib: negotiating the politics of mediation during Balaguer's doce años, 1966-1978 -- Sangre Sin Revolución: the gendered politics of opposition through the doce años -- Epilogue: International women's year and Dominican transnational feminism under authoritarianism.…”
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Obama, Clinton, Palin : making history in election 2008 /

Table of Contents: “…Legacies : democracy undermined? Feminism redefined?…”
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Democracy Reconsidered. by Busch, Elizabeth Kaufer, PALCI EBSCO books

Table of Contents: “…The Goodridge Dissents, Paul Seaton; 16 Women against Liberation: Opposing Feminism in a Democratic Age, Jocelyn Jones Evans.…”
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The present as history : critical perspectives on contemporary global power / by Shaikh, Nermeen

Table of Contents: “…The global economy : Amartya Sen, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Sanjay Reddy, Joseph Stiglitz -- Postcolonialism and the new imperialism : Partha Chatterjee, Mahmood Mamdani, Anatol Lieven -- Feminism and human rights : Shirin Ebadi, Lila Abu-Lughod, Saba Mahmood, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak -- Secularism and Islam : Talal Asad, Gil Anidjar.…”
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Girls of liberty : the struggle for suffrage in Mandatory Palestine / by Shilo, Margalit, PALCI EBSCO books

Table of Contents: “…Feminism and its Zionist and Hebrew roots -- The women's struggle begins: local organization -- The national campaign commences -- From associations to political party: the union of Hebrew women for equal rights -- One step forward, two steps back -- The union comes of age -- Five years of struggle and a victory -- Victory and defeat.…”
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Where do we go from here? : American democracy and the renewal of the radical imagination / by PALCI EBSCO books

Table of Contents: “…Charlie Brown, Machiavelli, and Labor's passive revolution / Robert Fitch -- 7. Radical feminism in the age of choice / R. Claire Snyder-Hall -- 8. …”
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Red pedagogy : Native American social and political thought / by Grande, Sandy, 1964-, ProQuest Ebook Subscriptions

Table of Contents: “…Mapping the terrain of struggle : from genocide, colonization, and resistance to Red power and Red pedagogy -- Competing moral visions : at the crossroads of democracy and sovereignty -- Red land, white power -- American Indian geographies of identity and power -- Whitestream feminism and the colonialist project : toward a theory of indigenísta -- Better Red than dead : toward a nation-peoples and a peoples nation -- Teaching/learning red pedagogy.…”
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