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UNINA9910966224903321 |
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Autore |
Hassim Shireen |
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Women's organizations and democracy in South Africa : contesting authority / / Shireen Hassim |
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Madison, : University of Wisconsin Press, c2006 |
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9786612269998 |
9781282269996 |
1282269992 |
9780299213831 |
0299213838 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (373 pages) |
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Collana |
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Women in Africa and the diaspora |
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Women - Political activity - South Africa |
Women and democracy - South Africa |
Feminism - South Africa |
Women - South Africa - Societies and clubs |
South Africa Politics and government 20th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-339) and index. |
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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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The transition to democracy in South Africa was one of the defining events in twentieth-century political history. The South African women's movement is one of the most celebrated on the African continent. Shireen Hassim examines interactions between the two as she explores the gendered nature of liberation and regime change. Her |
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work reveals how women's political organizations both shaped and were shaped by the broader democratic movement. Alternately asserting their political independence and giving precedence to the democratic movement as a whole, women activists proved flexible and remarkably successful in influencing policy. At the same time, their feminism was profoundly shaped by the context of democratic and nationalist ideologies. In reading the last twenty-five years of South African history through a feminist framework, Hassim offers fresh insights into the interactions between civil society, political parties, and the state. Hassim boldly confronts sensitive issues such as the tensions between autonomy and political dependency in feminists' engagement with the African National Congress (ANC) and other democratic movements, and black-white relations within women's organizations.She offers a historically informed discussion of the challenges facing feminist activists during a time of nationalist struggle and democratization. Winner, Victoria Schuck Award for best book on women and politics, American Political Science Association "An exceptional study, based on extensive research.... Highly recommended."- Choice "A rich history of women's organizations in South African.... [Hassim] had observed at first hand, and often participated in, much of what she described. She had access to the informants and private archives that so enliven the narrative and enrich the analysis. She provides a finely balanced assessment."-Gretchen Bauer, African Studies Review |
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UNINA9910812141803321 |
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Titolo |
Nanomaterials : processing and characterization with lasers / / edited by Subhash Chandra Singh ... [et al.] |
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Weinheim, Germany, : Wiley-VCH, 2012 |
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9786613693143 |
9783527646845 |
3527646841 |
9781280782756 |
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9783527646821 |
3527646825 |
9783527646852 |
352764685X |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (811 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Nanostructured materials |
Nanostructured materials - Effect of lasers on |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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pt. 1. Nanomaterials : laser based processing techniques -- pt. 2. Nanomaterials : laser-based characterization techniques. |
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The first in-depth treatment of the synthesis, processing, and characterization of nano materials using lasers, ranging from fundamentals to the latest research results, this handy reference is divided into two main sections. After introducing the concepts of lasers, nano materials, nano architectures and laser-material interactions in the first three chapters, the book goes on to discuss the synthesis of various nano materials in vacuum, gas and liquids. The second half discusses various nano material characterization techniques involving lasers, from Raman and photoluminescence |
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UNINA9910955316003321 |
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Autore |
Powell Lawrence N |
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Titolo |
The accidental city : improvising New Orleans / / Lawrence N. Powell |
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Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2012 |
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9780674065444 |
0674065441 |
9780674068933 |
0674068939 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (449 p.) |
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French - Louisiana - New Orleans - History |
Spaniards - Louisiana - New Orleans - History |
British - Louisiana - New Orleans - History |
Slavery - Louisiana - New Orleans - History |
New Orleans (La.) History 17th century |
New Orleans (La.) History 18th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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"Should stand for years as the definitive history of New Orleans's first century." -Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post This is the story of a city that shouldn't exist. In the seventeenth century, what is now America's most beguiling metropolis was nothing more than a swamp: prone to flooding, infested with snakes, battered by hurricanes. But through the intense imperial rivalries of Spain, France, and England, and the ambitious, entrepreneurial merchants and settlers from four continents who risked their lives to succeed in colonial America, this unpromising site became a crossroads for the whole Atlantic world.Lawrence N. Powell, a decades-long resident and observer of New Orleans, gives us the full sweep of the city's history from its founding through Louisiana |
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statehood in 1812. We see the Crescent City evolve from a French village, to an African market town, to a Spanish fortress, and finally to an Anglo-American center of trade and commerce. We hear and feel the mix of peoples, religions, and languages from four continents that make the place electric-and always on the verge of unraveling. The Accidental City is the story of land-jobbing schemes, stock market crashes, and nonstop squabbles over status, power, and position, with enough rogues, smugglers, and self-fashioners to fill a picaresque novel.Powell's tale underscores the fluidity and contingency of the past, revealing a place where people made their own history. This is a city, and a history, marked by challenges and perpetual shifts in shape and direction, like the sinuous river on which it is perched. |
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