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Arab Feminist Union
During the 1940s, Arab women organized themselves across various colonial and national boundaries into the Arab Feminist Union (AFU) (also known as the All-Arab Feminist Union, General Arab Feminist Union, and Arab Women's Union), which is an alliance of feminist associations ...
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- Gangs, Girls
- Genocide
- Global Care Chain Work
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- Health Disparities
- Hijra/Hejira
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- HIV/AIDS
- Immigrant Households and Gender Dynamics
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- Family Law
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- Family Wage
- Family, Organization of
- Fatherhood Movements
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- Gender Stereotypes
- Global Care Chain Work
- Gynecology
- Hegemonic Masculinity
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- Household Livelihood Strategies
- Immigrant Households and Gender Dynamics
- Incest
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- Sperm Donors
- Surrogacy
- Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
- Uniform Marital Property Act
- Veiling
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- Wet Nursing
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- Religion, Mythology, and Spirituality
- Christianity and Homosexuality
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- Depression
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- Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
- Gender and the Brain
- Gender and the Internet
- Genetic Prenatal Testing
- Gynecology
- HIV/AIDS
- Hormone Therapy
- Hysterectomy
- Masculinity Studies
- Materialist Feminism
- Menopause
- Mental Health
- Midwifery
- New Reproductive Technologies
- Population Control
- Postmodern Feminism
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Premenstrual Syndrome
- Psychoanalytic Feminism
- Queer Studies
- Research, Gender Bias in
- Scientific Motherhood
- Sex Education
- Sexology and Sex Research
- Sexually Transmitted Infections
- Standpoint Theory
- Steroids
- Traditional Healing
- Transgender Studies
- Women in Science
- Women Studies
- Women's Health Movements
- Sexuality and Reproduction
- “Down Low,” The
- Tearoom Trade
- Abortion
- Activo/Passivo Sex Roles
- Bisexuality
- Breastfeeding
- Celibacy
- Chastity
- Compulsory Heterosexuality
- Contraception
- Cybersex
- Feminist Sex Wars
- Fertility Rates
- Heterosexual Privilege
- Heterosexuality
- Homophobia
- Homosexuality
- Incest
- Infertility
- Lesbian
- Masturbation
- Mate Selection
- Morning-After Pill
- Nature/Nurture Debate
- New Reproductive Technologies
- Penile Erectile Dysfunction
- Phallocentrism
- Polyamory
- Pornography, Contemporary-Mainstream
- Pornography, Legal and Political Perspectives
- Queer
- Sadomasochism
- Safer Sex
- Sex Toys
- Sexology and Sex Research
- Sex-Radical Feminists
- Sexual Activity: Age at First Intercourse
- Sexual Identities and Socialization
- Sexual Rights and Citizenship
- Sexual Slavery
- Sexuality and Reproduction
- Sodomy
- Sperm Donors
- Sports and Homosexuality
- Sterilization
- Stratified Reproduction
- Surrogacy
- Tea Rooms
- Teen Pregnancy
- Virginity
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