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The Routledge global history of feminism
The handbook traces the complex history of feminism across the globe and surveys the current status of pro-women thought and activism over millennia.
The handbook of gender, communication, and women's human rights
Engages contemporary debates on women’s rights, democracy, and neoliberalism through the lens of feminist communication scholarship.
The SAGE encyclopedia of trans studies
This two-part encyclopedia, takes an interdisciplinary and intersectional approach to trans studies. Entries address a wide range of topics and broad concepts.
The dictionary of feminist theory
A comprehensive guide to the terminology and history of feminist theory providing definitions of more than 600 terms, topics, movements and approaches as well as influential feminist thinkers, activists and critics within feminist theory.
Research handbook on gender, sexuality and the law
This handbook explores current debates in the area of gender, sexuality and the law and includes arguments and uderstanding from a variety of feminist and queer perspectives.

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