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Acknowledgments | |
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List of Images | |
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Political Worlds of Women: Introduction | |
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Strategies of Political Analysis | |
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Comparative Assessment | |
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Multilevel Analysis | |
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Feminist Theorizing in Context | |
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Tracing Historical Change | |
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Expanding Political Frames | |
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From Individual and Institutional Analysis to Structures of Oppression | |
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Chapter Overview | |
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Political Leadership, Gendered Institutions, and the Politics of Exclusion | |
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Women in Executive Offices | |
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Women in National Legislatures | |
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Explaining Women's Continuing Absence | |
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Gendered Institutions and the Politics of Exclusion: Historical Precedents | |
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Body Politics in the American and French Revolutions | |
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The Consolidation of Separate Spheres | |
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Political Parties and the Politics of Exclusion: Contemporary Practices | |
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Conclusion | |
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From Demography to Development: Women's Worlds and the Politics of Knowledge | |
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Global Gender Demographics | |
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Life Expectancy | |
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Gender Ratios | |
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Marriage and Divorce | |
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Pregnancy and Childbearing | |
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Women's Labor | |
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Migration | |
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War and Displacement | |
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Development | |
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Modernization Theory as Policy Practice | |
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Gender and Gendering in Development Policies | |
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Women and Development: Reproduction and "Welfare" | |
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Women in Development: | |
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The Virtues of Waged Labor in the Formal Sector Gender and Development | |
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Sustainable Development | |
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Conclusion | |
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Producing Raced-Gendered Citizens | |
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Liberty, Equality, and Citizenship: Classical Liberal Presumptions | |
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The Political Demarcation of Public and Private Spheres | |
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Producing Raced-Gendered Citizens | |
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Birthright and Its Suspension | |
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Miscegenation Laws: Crafting the Complexion of Citizens | |
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Immigration | |
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The Discursive Production of Raced-Gendered Citizens | |
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Welfare Policy | |
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Biopower | |
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Conclusion | |
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From the Politics of Identity to Identity Politics | |
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Dispelling Caricatures of Identity Politics | |
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The Politics of Identity | |
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The Microphysics of Power: Regulating Dress | |
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Patrolling National Borders: Marriage and Reproduction | |
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Reproducing Servility | |
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Sexual Terror as Feminizing Practice | |
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Femicide | |
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Making Injustice Visible and Actionable | |
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Identity Politics | |
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Struggling for Visibility | |
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Expanding the National Imaginary | |
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Challenging Political Homophobia | |
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Securing Constitutional Rights and Recognition | |
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Transnational Strategies for Sexual Democracy | |
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Conclusion | |
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Engaging the State | |
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Competing Conceptions of the State | |
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The Straggle for Equal Citizenship | |
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The Quest for Equality in the United States | |
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Activism and Advocacy in Comparative Perspective | |
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Women's Movements and Democratization in Latin America | |
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Women's Movement Activism at the Grassroots in India | |
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Feminist Civil Society: From Interest Groups to NGOs | |
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NGOs in Postsocialist States | |
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The European Women's Lobby: Coordinating Gender Equality Initiatives | |
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Engaging the State in Africa: | |
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From Apartheid to. the War on Terror Mobilizing for Equality it South Africa | |
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Engaging the State in Morocco | |
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Conclusion | |
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Becoming the State | |
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Portraits of Women Heads of State | |
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Routes to Power: From Kinship to Quotas | |
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Political Parties and the Gender Politics of Partisanship | |
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Strategies to Limit Male Dominance | |
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Reserved Seats | |
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Voluntary Party Quotas | |
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Mandatory Quotas | |
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Challenges in Governing: Gender Politics in Office | |
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Obstacles Confronting Women in Political Office | |
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Conclusion | |
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Promoting Equality Through Policymaking and Policy | |
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Equality Policies: From Women's Machinery to State Feminism | |
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Women's Policy Machinery | |
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State Feminism | |
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Policy Interventions: Violence Against Women | |
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Brazil's Delegacia da Mulher (Women's Police Station) | |
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Family Courts in India | |
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Gender Mainstreaming | |
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Comparative Approaches to Gender Mainstreaming | |
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The Politics of Equality | |
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Conclusion | |
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International and Transnational Political Activism | |
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Activism Within International Institutions | |
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The UN Commission on the Status of Women and CEDAW | |
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UW World Conferences and NGO Forums | |
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UN Women | |
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Transnational Activism: | |
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Preventing War by Reconceptualizing Peace Early Twentieth-Century Interventions | |
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Promoting Peace in the Contemporary Era | |
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Expanding the Framework of Peace Activism | |
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Everyday Peacemaking | |
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Conclusion | |
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Virtual Politics | |
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The Technological Infrastructure for Virtual Politics | |
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New Media and the Politics of Mobilization | |
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Flash Mobs | |
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Networking | |
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Blogging | |
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Information Politics | |
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Peer-to-Peer Exchanges | |
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New Media, Electoral Politics, and Political Participation: Evidence from the United States | |
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Inclusion and Exclusion in Virtual Politics | |
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The Microphysics of Power Within the Profession | |
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The Politics of Representation and the Content of New Media | |
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North/South Inequities | |
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Gendered Genres in New Media | |
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Refiguring the Public and the Private | |
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Conclusion | |
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Political Worlds of Women: Future Prospects | |
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Prospects for Equitable Politics | |
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Obstacles | |
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Gendered States, Subordinating Practices | |
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Stereotyping and Bias in Evaluation | |
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Norms Grounded in Men's Experience | |
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Frames That Mask Raced-Gendered Power | |
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Economic Practices That Fuel Inequality | |
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Resistance and Reaction | |
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Fundamentalist Offensives | |
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Future Prospects | |
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Abbreviations | |
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Glossary | |
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Notes | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index | |