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FEMINIST POLITICS – COLONIAL/POSTCOLONIAL WORLDS CONTENTS
Women on the March: Right-wing Mobilization in Contemporary India Sucheta Mazumdar Colonial Encounters in Late-Victorian England: Pandita Ramabai at Cheltenham and Wantage 1883–6 Antoinette Burton A Social Theory of Gender: Connell’s Gender and Power Zarina Maharaj My Discourse/My-Self: Therapy as Possibility (for Women Who Eat Compulsively) Catherine Hopwood Poems Laura Donohue
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Review Essays Maxine Molyneux and Deborah Lynn Steinberg on Ecofeminism by Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva
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Sue O’Sullivan on Sex, Art, and American Culture by Camille Paglia
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Reviews Kathryn Perry on White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness 109 Devaki Jain on Gender, Planning and Development: Theory, Practice and Training
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Alison Diduck on Postmodern Legal Feminism
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Melissa Leach on Women, the Environment and Sustainable Development: Towards a Theoretical Synthesis; The Power to Change: Women in the Third World Redefine Their Environment
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Rebecca D’Monté on Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture 1668–1801
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Janet Rachel on Gender and Technology in the Making
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Letter
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Noticeboard
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