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Beyond use value and exchange value, commodities encapsulate semiotic values too. They function as markers of status, domesticity, social discipline, rebelliousness and so on. These functions are contextual, contingent and change over time.

What is women’s studies? Is it a discipline? Subject? What should a women’s studies' programme connote and what obtains in practice?

This paper examines whether female participation in the labour force enhances the autonomy of women in poor populations.

A confidential system of enquiry into maternal mortality, based on that used in England and Wales, was introduced in Malaysia in 1991 with a view to identifying deficiencies in care and recommending remedial measures.