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- ↑ Siim, Birte (2000). Gender and Citizenship: Politics and Agency in France, Britain and Denmark. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-59843-9.
- ↑ Siim, Birte; Krasteva, Anna; Saarinen, Aino (2018). Citizens' Activism and Solidarity Movements: Contending with Populism. Springer. pp. 270–. ISBN 978-3-319-76183-1.
- ↑ Siim, Birte; Mokre, Monika (2013). Negotiating Gender and Diversity in an Emergent European Public Sphere. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-230-35968-0.
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