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Women, Gender, and Politics A Reader

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ISBN-10: 0195368819

ISBN-13: 9780195368819

Edition: 2010

Authors: Mona Lena Krook, Sarah Childs

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Women, Gender, and Politics brings together both classic and recent readings on central topics in the study of gender and politics, and places an emphasis on comparing developed and developing countries. Genuinely international in its focus, the book is divided into five sections to reflect the range of research in the subfield: (1) women and social movements, (2) women and political parties, (3) women, gender, and elections, (4) women, gender, and public policies, and (5)women, gender, and the state. Each section serves as an introduction to general trends in thinking about women and politics, and the readings capture the ways that research has developed both thematically and…    
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Book details

Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/18/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

Women, Gender, and Politics: An Introduction
Women and Social Movements
Mobilization without Emancipation? Women's Interests, the State, and Revolution in Nicaragua
Beyond Compare? Women's Movements in Comparative Perspective
Women's Movements and Democratic Transition in Chile, Brazil East Germany, and Poland
Protest Moves inside Institutions
Do Interest Groups Represent the Disadvantaged? Advocacy at the Intersections of Race, Class, and Gender
Translating the Global: Effects of Transnational Organizing on Local Feminist Discourses and Practices in Latin America
Cross-Regional Trends in Female Terrorism
Women and Political Parties
The Dynamics of Gender and Party
Theorizing Feminist Strategy and Party Responsiveness
Building a Base: Women in Local Party Politics
Women's Political Representation in Sweden: Discursive Politics and Institutional Presence
The Problem with Patronage: Constraints on Women's Political Effectiveness in Uganda
Feminist Political Organization in Iceland: Some Reflections on the Experience of Kwenna Frambothid
Women, Gender, and Elections
The Developmental Theory of the Gender Gap: Women's and Men's Voting Behavior in Global Perspective
Puzzles in Political Recruitment
Entering the Arena? Gender and the Decision to Run for Office
Party Elites and Women Candidates: The Shape of Bias
Women's Representation in Parliament: The Role of Political Parties
Explaining Women's Legislative Representation in Sub-Saharan Africa
Quotas as a "Fast Track" to Equal Representation for Women: Why Scandinavia Is No Longer the Model
Women, Gender, and Political Representation
Quotas for Women
Representation and Social Perspective
Should Blacks Represent Blacks and Women Represent Women? A Contingent "Yes"
Preferable Descriptive Representatives: Will Just Any Woman, Black, or Latino Do?
From a Small to a Large Minority: Women in Scandinavian Politics
Beyond Bodies: Institutional Sources of Representation for Women in Democratic Policymaking
Women, Gender, and Social Policies
Sex, Gender and Leadership in the Representation of Women
Congressional Enactments of Race-Gender: Toward a Theory of Raced-Gendered Institutions
Taking Problems Apart
Sex and the State in Latin America
Beyond the Difference versus Equality Policy Debate: Postsuffrage Feminism, Citizenship, and the Quest for a Feminist Welfare State
Is Mainstreaming Transformative? Theorizing Mainstreaming in the Context of Diversity and Deliberation
Women, Gender, and the State
The Liberal State
Gender and the State: Theories and Debates
Gender in the Welfare State
Interacting with the State: Feminist Strategies and Political Opportunities
Introduction to Comparitive State Feminism
State Feminism or Party Feminism? Feminist Politics and the Spanish Institute of Women
When Power Relocates: Interactive Changes in Women's Movements and States
Credits
Index