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Politics & Gender
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From Freedom Fighters to Terrorists: Women and Political Violence. By Paige Whaley Eager. Hampshire: Ashgate. 2008. 240 pp. $89.95.

Políticas: Latina Public Officials in Texas. By Sonia R. Garcia, Valerie Martinez-Ebers, Irasema Coronado, Sharon A. Navarro, and Patricia A. Jaramillo. Austin: University of Texas Press. 2008. 188 pp. $55.00 cloth, $19.95 paper.

Violence and Activism at the Border: Gender, Fear and Everyday Life in Ciudad Juarez. By Kathleen Staudt. Austin: University of Texas Press. 2008. 212 pp. $55.00 cloth, $24.95 paper.

Women's Activism and Feminist Agency in Mozambique and Nicaragua. By Jennifer Leigh Disney. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 2008. 283 pp. $54.40.

The Gender Politics of Development: Essays in Hope and Despair. By Shirin M. Rai. London and New York: Zed Books. New Delhi: Zubaan. 2008. 210 pp. $108.00 cloth, $30.95 paper.

Political Women and American Democracy. Edited by Christina Wolbrecht, Karen Beckwith, and Lisa Baldez. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2008. 261 pp. $75.00 cloth, $24.99 paper.

Universal Human Rights in a World of Difference. By Brooke A. Ackerly. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. 2008. 373 pp. $90.00 cloth, $34.99 paper.

We Will Be Heard: Women's Struggles for Political Power in the United States. By Jo Freeman. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. 2008. 276 pp. $80.00 cloth, $29.95 paper.

Gender and the Constitution: Equity and Agency in Comparative Constitutional Design. By Helen Irving. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2008. viii, 264 pp. $80.00 cloth, $29.99 paper.

Women for President: Media Bias in Eight Campaigns. By Erika Falk. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 2008. 192 pp. $19.95 paper.

Women in Iraq: The Gender Impact of International Sanctions. By Yasmin Husein al-Jawaheri. London: Zed Books. 2008. 228 pp. $57.00 cloth, $23.50 paper.

Women Legislators in Central America: Politics, Democracy and Policy. By Michelle A. Saint-Germain and Cynthia Chavez Metoyer. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press. 2008. 338 pp. $65.00 cloth, $29.95 paper.

Gender, Politics and Democracy in Post-Socialist Europe. By Yvonne Galligan, Sara Clavero, and Marina Calloni. Farmington Hills: MI. Barbara Budrich. 2007. 170 pp. $24.90 cloth.

Gender, Race, and Nationalism in Contemporary Black Politics. By Nikol Alexander-Floyd. New York: Palgrave Macmilian. 2007. 256 pp. $74.95 cloth.

Mothers, Monsters, Whores: Women's Violence in Global Politics. By Laura Sjoberg and Caron E. Gentry. London and New York: Zed Books. 2007. 276 pp. $89.95 cloth, $27.95 paper.

Multiculturalism Without Culture. By Anne Phillips. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press. 2007. 216 pp. $29.95, cloth, $19.95 paper.

All in the Family: The Private Roots of American Public Policy. By Patricia Strach. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2007. 267 pp. $50.00 cloth, $19.95 paper.

Constitutional Context: Women and Rights Discourse in Nineteenth-Century America. By Kathleen S. Sullivan. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2007. 181 pp. $45.00.

Gender, Class, and Freedom in Modern Political Theory. By Nancy J. Hirschmann. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press. 2008. 342pp. $69.50 cloth, $24.95 paper.

The New Politics of Gender Equality. By Judith Squires. Houndsmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave. 2007. 178 pp. $106.95 cloth, $37.95 paper.

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