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Taking back the streets : women, youth, and direct democracy / Temma Kaplan

Kaplan, Temma,i1942- [Verfasser]

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2004

Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.

1 Online-Ressource (xi, 275 pages)

Includes bibliographical references and index

978-0-520-93687-4 ; 0-520-93687-6 ; 1-4175-2259-3 ; 978-1-4175-2259-0 ; 978-0-520-22671-5 ; 0-520-22671-2 ; 978-0-520-23649-3 ; 0-520-23649-1 ; 1-59734-929-1 ; 978-1-59734-929-1 ; 0-520-22671-2

Toward the end of the twentieth century in places ranging from Latin America and the Caribbean to Europe, the United States, South Africa, Nigeria, Iran, Japan, China, and South Asia, women and young people took to the streets to fight injustices they believed they could not confront in any other way.