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Feminism and Women's Movements in Contemporary Europe explores new developments in the theory and practice of European feminism. It assesses the significance of recent trends both in terms of a possible convergence of identities and issues across national boundaries and of the continuing relevance and vitality of feminist thinking and female activism in the 1990s. The book focuses on Europe, East and West, paying particular attention to the fo...

To 19th-century writers the dynamic periodical press seemed both an influential medium and a means to pay the bills. A suprising number of women, despite limited education, parental opposition and the competitive nature of this developing profession sought to earn a living through journalism. Others saw the press as a valuable mechanism for educating the masses or a powerful channel for influencing public opinion. How did these women fare in G...

This book examines the process of Spanish integration into the European Community, from 1962, when Spain under the Franco regime applied to the European Community, to 1985, when democratic Spain became a member of the EEC. It aims to prove that, first, the European Community was the crucial external factor determining political change in Spain and, second, that Europeanism was a mechanism of political change, as it was the only aim which unifi...

Exploring Twins" presents an analysis of twinship considered as a specifically social phenomenom. Drawing upon a wide range of interdisciplinary, historical, and cross-cultural data, Elizabeth Stewart argues that in both traditional and modern societies, twinship represents a recurrent anomaly that calls into question the assumptions around which different types of society are organized.

After a decade since his last collection, Gene Wolfe, cited as producing the most significant body of short fiction of any living writer in the science fiction genre, presents this collection of his short fiction stories from the 1990s.