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Further Reading
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River, NJ: Prentice Hall. times viewed as the history of cities because urbanization
Chaftetz, N., & Dworkin, A. G. (1986). Female revolt: Women’s move- has been coextensive with the portion of human experi-
ments in world and historical perspective. Totowa, NJ: Rowman &
Allanheld Publishers. ence commonly portrayed in world histories—that is, the
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Daley, C., & Nolan, M. (1994). Suffrage and beyond: International fem- cities and their interrelationships can offer useful insights
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Desai, N. (1988). A decade of women’s movement in India. Bombay: span of world history, which cities were world cities, and
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