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Title:Women and politics in the Romanian Legionary Movement Author(s):AXINIA, Anca Diana

Date:2022Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2022Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD ThesisAbstract:This thesis examines women’s participation in the Legionary Movement or Iron Guard, a far-right, anti-Semitic movement active in interwar Romania. Over four chapters, I analyze how the participation of women changed over ...

Title:Women and private military and security companies Author(s):VRDOLJAK, Ana Filipa

Date:2011Citation:Francesco FRANCIONI and Natalino RONZITTI (eds), War by contract : human rights, humanitarian law and private contractors, Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011, pp. 280-298Version:Published version of EUI AEL WP 2009/22Type:Contribution to bookAbstract:Lack of clarity about the application of international law norms and inadequacies of existing regulatory regimes covering private military and security companies (PMSCs) have reinforced concerns about transparency and ...

Title:Women and religion in nineteenth-century France Author(s):SCOTT, Joan W.Date:2013Type:OtherSeries/Number:EUI MWP LS; 2013/05Abstract:This paper explores the connections made between religion and women by French secularizers in the nineteenth century as a way of understanding the effects of what Max Weber called "disenchantment." It asks how differences ...

Title:Women and the politics of motherhood in France,1920-1940 Author(s):OFFEN, Karen M.Date:1987Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 1987Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI Working Papers; 293

Title:Women and the Public Sphere in the Middle East and North Africa Editor(s):MOGHADAM, M. Valentine; SADIQI, FatimaDate:2006Citation:Special Issue of Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, 2, 2, 2006.Type:Book

Title:Women and the world of knowledge : four collections of love letters in nineteenth-century Italy Author(s):GORI, ClaudiaDate:2011Citation:Women's History Review , 2011, Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 641-650Type:ArticleAbstract:This article focuses on four collections of love letters between engaged and married couples in nineteenth-century Italy, and explores the relationship between women and the world of knowledge. The research project on which ...

Title:Women and War in the Middle East: Transnational Perspectives Editor(s):AL-ALI, Nadje; PRATT, NicolaDate:2009Citation:London, Zed Books, 2009Type:BookAbstract:Women and War in the Middle East provides a critical examination of the relationship between gender and transnationalism in the context of war, peace-building and post-conflict reconstruction in the Middle East. Critically ...

Title:Women as constitution-makers : case studies from the new democratic era Editor(s):RUBIO MARIN, Ruth

; IRVING, HelenDate:2019Citation:Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019Type:BookAbstract:That a constitution should express the will of 'the people' is a long-standing principle, but the identity of 'the people' has historically been narrow. Women, in particular, were not included. A shift, however, has recently ...

Title:Women as leaders in the migration process Author(s):AIUTO, Daniela; GROTTI, Vanessa

; ISAAKYAN, Irina

; MARCHETTI, Sabrina

; SCRINZI, Francesca

Date:2016Type:VideoSeries/Number:The State of the Union Conference; 2016; Parallel session VIIAbstract:Women migrants are often more vulnerable than their male counterparts – they face what is called the double disadvantage (of being both women and migrants). However migration, despite its economic and emotional costs, opens ...

Title:Women as refugees : the assessment of women's experiences within the framework of refugee law and human rights law Author(s):VAN DER JAGT, AnnemarieDate:1994Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 1994Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; LAW; LLM Thesis

Title:Women at sites of mass starvation, Ukraine, 1932-1933 Author(s):BERTELSEN, Olga

Date:2019Citation:Victoria A. MALKO (ed.), Women and the Holodomor Genocide : victims, survivors, perpetrators, Fresno : The Press of California State University, 2019, pp. 33-49Type:Contribution to book

Title:Women at work : trends, current perspective and policy responses Author(s):PETRONGOLO, BarbaraDate:2017Type:VideoSeries/Number:MWP; Video Lecture; 2017/01Abstract:Women's increased involvement in the economy has been the most significant change in labour markets over the past century, resulting in clear gender convergence in human capital investment, employment prospects and outcomes. ...

Title:Women in and out of paid work : changes across generations in Italy and Britain Author(s):SOLERA, CristinaDate:2009Citation:Portland : Policy Press, 2009Version:Published version of EUI PhD thesis, 2005Type:BookAbstract:Over the last fifty years women's employment has increased markedly throughout developed countries. Women of younger generations are much more likely than their mothers and grandmothers to enter the labour market and stay ...

Title:Women in Arab Countries: Challenging the Patriarchal System? Author(s):FARGUES, Philippe

Date:2005Citation:Reproductive Health Matters, 2005, 13, 25, 43-48Type:ArticleAbstract:Progress in the empowerment of Arab women was found to be low in a 2002 report. Yet Arab women's status is not reflected in continuing high fertility, which in 2000 had dropped sharply in one generation to 3.4. This paper ...

Title:Women in Europe and in the world : the State of the Union 2016 Author(s):RUBIO MARIN, Ruth

Date:2016Citation:International journal of constitutional law, 2016, Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 545-554Type:ArticleSeries/Number:[State of the Union Keynote Address]; [2016]Abstract:Building on the definition of oppression developed by the philosopher Iris Young, the article argues that women in Europe are an oppressed group. Relying on recent statistics, it points out that a high percentage of women ...

Title:Women in Europe and the world Author(s):COSTA, Silvia; GOZI, SandroDate:2016Type:VideoSeries/Number:The State of the Union Conference; 2016; Opening

Title:Women in Europe, Women in Love: in Search of New Forms of Subjectivity Author(s):PASSERINI, Luisa

Date:2005Type:OtherSeries/Number:EUI RSCAS DL; 2005; Gender and Europe; Ursula Hirschmann Annual Lectures

Title:Women in leadership Author(s):COSTA, Silvia; GALLIGAN, Yvonne; GHEZZI, Gioia; GIACHI, CristinaDate:2016Type:VideoSeries/Number:The State of the Union Conference; 2016; Parallel session VAbstract:Leadership has been an elusive but ubiquitous phenomenon throughout human history in all societies. For much of global history, women were not present in formal leadership. In the 20th century, two waves of feminism, in ...

Title:Women in leadership Author(s):VALLAUD-BELKACEM, Najat; GIANNINI, Stefania; ALBUQUERQUE, Maria Luís; CARTABIA, Marta; KAUFFMANN, SylvieDate:2016Type:VideoSeries/Number:The State of the Union Conference; 2016; Afternoon session IIAbstract:Leadership has been an elusive but ubiquitous phenomenon throughout human history in all societies. For much of global history, women were not present in formal leadership. In the 20th century, two waves of feminism, in ...

Title:Women in the colonial economy : the agency of female food sellers in Brazil's diamond district Author(s):VANNESTE, TijlDate:2015Citation:Journal of gender studies, 2015, Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 255-272Type:ArticleAbstract:Women, particularly in the colonial context, have often been reduced to a gender-specific role, subjected to patriarchal rule. The historical agency exercised by the street vendors in Brazil’s eighteenth-century diamond ...