This book examines the place of women in Soviet Russia from the 1917 Revolution through the post-World War II period, discussing how the Soviet construction of gender perpetuated inequality even as it dramatically expanded women’s roles in society.

This book describes women’s efforts as agents for change in Myanmar and examines the potential of the peace process as an opportunity for women’s empowerment.

This volume studies women and politics in the United Kingdom between 1945 and 1997 and explores how women have made a significant and unrecognized contribution to politics in institutions, structures, and campaigns throughout this period, and also considers how this has been transformational for women themselves.

This book focuses on the de-Europeanization processes that Turkey is undergoing through an examination of women’s civil society organizations. It questions whether a transformation has occurred in the way that these organizations perceive the European Union and make use of the financial and strategic support offered by the EU.

The volume brings together readings describing a range of less-traversed aspects and transferences of women’s rights and struggles in India and develops an understanding of the interface between women’s activism and politics.

Women’s Pathways to Power: Cracking the Glass Ceiling provides an interdisciplinary study of the lingering impediments obstructing women’s access to power to attain democratic equality, comprising the work of eminent women scholars from diverse fields and regions.

This book provides a critically informed and interdisciplinary global examination of the instrumental role of women as resistance actors, both historically and today.

This book provides a critically informed and interdisciplinary global examination of the instrumental role of women as resistance actors, both historically and today.