The Personal and the Political

The Personal and the PoliticalAn in depth consideration of women's activism in the AIDS and breast cancer movements. Drawing on the experiences of thirty seven diverse women who are active in the AIDS and breast cancer movements, The Personal and the Political provides an in depth look at the social and political dimensions of AIDS and breast cancer within the context of social movement and feminist theories. While it is generally assumed that activists' reasons for getting

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and offers insights into Egyptian thought on everything from love

At a time when the Abenaki had little to no written documentation of their language

In this thought-provoking and gracefully written new book

moving from its 1599 opening all the way into the new millennium with particular emphasis on its twentieth- and twenty-first-century incarnations on stage and screen

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The book also discusses the theological premises upon which Rumi's work rests