Women, Gender, and Politics

Women, Gender, and Politics
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 374
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ISBN-10 : 9780195368802
ISBN-13 : 0195368800
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Synopsis Women, Gender, and Politics by : Mona Lena Krook

Six areas of research of the subjects of women, gender and politics are debated: social movements, political parties, elections, political representation, public policy, and the state.

Quotas for Women in Politics

Quotas for Women in Politics
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 303
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ISBN-10 : 9780199745265
ISBN-13 : 0199745269
Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

Synopsis Quotas for Women in Politics by : Mona Lena Krook

In recent years, political parties and national legislatures in more than one hundred countries have adopted quotas for the selection of female candidates to political office. Despite the rapid international diffusion of these measures, most research has focused on single countries - or, at most, the presence of quotas within one world region. Consequently, explanations for the adoption and impact of gender quotas derived from one study often contradict with findings from other cases. Quotas for Women in Politics is the first book to address quotas as a global phenomenon to explain their spread and impact in diverse contexts around the world. It is organized around two sets of questions. First, why are quotas adopted? Which actors are involved in quota campaigns, and why do they support or oppose quota measures? Second, what effects do quotas have on existing patterns of political representation? Are these provisions sufficient for bringing more women into politics? Or, does their impact depend on other features of the broader political context? Synthesizing literature on quota policies, this book develops a framework for analyzing the spread of quota provisions and the reasons for variations in their effects. It then applies this framework to examine and compare campaigns for reserved seats in Pakistan and India, party quotas in Sweden and the United Kingdom, and legislative quotas in Argentina and France.

Women and American Politics

Women and American Politics
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Publisher : OUP Oxford
Total Pages : 262
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ISBN-10 : 9780191522093
ISBN-13 : 0191522090
Rating : 4/5 (93 Downloads)

Synopsis Women and American Politics by : Susan J. Carroll

Women and American Politics brings together leading scholars in the field of women and politics to provide an account of recent developments and the challenges that the future brings for the study of gender and American Politics. The book examines women's participation in the electoral arena and the emerging scholarship on the relationship between the media and women in politics, the participation of women of colour, and women's activism outside the electoral arena. This volume demonstrates both the wealth of knowledge about women and American politics by the current generation of scholars and the vast number and range of important research questions, which pose a challenge for the next generation.

Gender and the Politics of History

Gender and the Politics of History
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Publisher : Columbia University Press
Total Pages : 294
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ISBN-10 : 0231118570
ISBN-13 : 9780231118576
Rating : 4/5 (70 Downloads)

Synopsis Gender and the Politics of History by : Joan Wallach Scott

An interrogation of the uses of gender as a tool for cultural and historical analysis. The revised edition reassesses the book's fundamental topic: the category of gender. In arguing that gender no longer serves to destabilize our understanding of sexual difference, the new preface and new chapter open a critical dialogue with the original book. From publisher description.

Women in Politics

Women in Politics
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 306
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ISBN-10 : 9781783600540
ISBN-13 : 1783600543
Rating : 4/5 (40 Downloads)

Synopsis Women in Politics by : Mariz Tadros

Women the world over are being prevented from engaging in politics. Women's political leadership of any sort is a rarity and a career in politics rarer still. We have, however, begun to understand what it takes to create an enabling environment for women's political participation. In this exciting and pioneering collection, writers from Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East are brought together for the first time to talk explicitly about women's participation in the political scene across the global South. Answering such questions as how women can get political apprenticeship opportunities, how these opportunities translate into the pursuit of a political career, and how these pursuits then influence the kind of political platform women advocate once in power, Women in Politics is essential reading for anyone interested in what it means to engage politically.

Black Women and Politics in New York City

Black Women and Politics in New York City
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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Total Pages : 274
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ISBN-10 : 9780252094101
ISBN-13 : 0252094107
Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

Synopsis Black Women and Politics in New York City by : Julie A. Gallagher

An essential contribution to twentieth-century political history, Black Women and Politics in New York City documents African American women in New York City fighting for justice, civil rights, and equality in the turbulent world of formal politics from the suffrage and women's rights movements to the feminist era of the 1970s. Historian and human rights activist Julie A. Gallagher deftly examines how race, gender, and the structure of the state itself shape outcomes, and exposes the layers of power and discrimination at work in American society. She combines her analysis with a look at the career of Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to Congress and the first to run for president on a national party ticket. In so doing, she rewrites twentieth-century women's history and the dominant narrative arcs of feminist history that hitherto ignored African American women and their accomplishments.

The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Politics

The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Politics
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 887
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ISBN-10 : 9780199790838
ISBN-13 : 0199790833
Rating : 4/5 (38 Downloads)

Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Politics by : Georgina Waylen

As a field of scholarship, gender and politics has exploded over the last fifty years and is now global, institutionalized, and ever expanding. The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Politics brings to political science an accessible and comprehensive overview of the key contributions of gender scholars to the study of politics and shows how these contributions produce a richer understanding of polities and societies. Like the field it represents, the handbook has a broad understanding of what counts as political and is based on a notion of gender that highlights masculinities as well as femininities, thereby moving feminist debates in politics beyond the focus on women. It engages with some of the key aspects of political science as well as important themes in gender and feminist research (such as sexuality and body politics), thereby forging a dialogue between gender studies in politics and mainstream political science. The handbook is organized in sections that look at sexuality and body politics; political economy; civil society; participation, representation and policymaking; institutions, states and governance as well as nation, citizenship and identity. The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Politics contains and reflects the best scholarship in its field.

The Political Worlds of Women

The Political Worlds of Women
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 270
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ISBN-10 : 9781135964931
ISBN-13 : 1135964939
Rating : 4/5 (31 Downloads)

Synopsis The Political Worlds of Women by : Sarah Richardson

Traditional analyses of nineteenth-century politics have assigned women a peripheral role. By adopting a broader interpretation of political participation, the author identifies how middle-class women were able to contribute to political affairs in the nineteenth century. Examining the contribution that women made to British political life in the period 1800-1870 stimulates debates about gender and politics, the nature of authority and the definition of political culture. This volume examines female engagement in both traditional and unconventional political arenas, including female sociability, salons, child-rearing and education, health, consumption, religious reform and nationalism. Richardson focuses on middle-class women’s social, cultural, intellectual and political authority, as implemented by a range of public figures and lesser-known campaigners. The activists discussed and their varying political, economic and religious backgrounds will demonstrate the significance of female interventions in shaping the political culture of the period and beyond.

Women, Gender, and World Politics

Women, Gender, and World Politics
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages : 265
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ISBN-10 : 9780313029462
ISBN-13 : 0313029466
Rating : 4/5 (62 Downloads)

Synopsis Women, Gender, and World Politics by : Peter R. Beckman

Written as an introductory textbook for the study of world politics and the analysis of gender, this work is suitable for courses in International Relations, international political economy, women's studies, gender studies, and Feminist studies. The 14 authors who have collaborated on this publication are a diverse group of diplomats, scholars, and political activists from the United States, Canada, and many other nations. This text is designed to parallel traditional IR introductory texts that examine the field and describe how it ought to be studied and why. The contributors consider gender analysis as an alternative perspective for understanding world politics. For instructors, this anthology offers both a complement to and a critique of traditional approaches to the study of world politics.

Gender and Political Analysis

Gender and Political Analysis
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 348
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ISBN-10 : 9781350311756
ISBN-13 : 1350311758
Rating : 4/5 (56 Downloads)

Synopsis Gender and Political Analysis by : Johanna Kantola

A major new text on gender and politics by two leading authorities, which introduces the main issues and debates about the politics of gender and its role in both domestic and international politics and feminist approaches to political analysis.