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Women, Microfinance and the State in Neo-liberal India
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Women, Mobility and Incarceration: Love and Recasting of Self Across the Bangladesh-India Border
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Women, Murder and Justice
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Women, Peace and Security: An Introduction
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Women, Political Struggles and Gender Equality in South Asia (Gender, Development and Social Change)
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Women, Poverty, Equality: The Role of CEDAW (Studies in International Law)
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Women, Power, and Property: The Paradox of Gender Equality Laws in India (Cambridge Studies in Gender and Politics)
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Women, Public life and Democracy: Changing Commonwealth Parliamentary Perspectives (Commonwealth Parliamentary Association)
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Women, State, and Ideology: Studies from Africa and Asia
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Women, Work and Computing
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Women, Work and Computing
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Women, Working Conditions & Efficiency: The Indian Experience
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