Buch, Englisch, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 338 g
Buch, Englisch, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 338 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-851541-8
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Women, Politics, and Change is concerned with the relationship between women and politics from a variety of perspectives covering a wide range of geographical as well as political contexts. Essays span the theory/practice divide and everything between, from chapters which look at the broad theoretical discussions concerning symbolic and substantive representation of and by women within formal politics, through to empirically informed studies based on interviews with women parliamentarians and women activists. Contributors are keen to analyze the contribution that women have made and continue to make to the development of the democratic project, through their different perspectives and (sometimes different) concerns. Crucially, though, many of the contributions explore the tensions which still exist for women when they attempt to work effectively in contexts which have been traditionally hostile to women, and to examine the strategies which women devise to push a differently nuanced political agenda forward.
Unusually, the political contexts that form the foci of this collection include both the 'usual suspects' of developed Western democracies but also news of and from other places, such as Kosova, China, Iran and Africa, where we still know relatively little about their political systems and even less about the gendered dimension of their political worlds. Closer to (the European) home, we can no longer speak of Westminster as the only seat of British Government. The past three years have seen the setting up of Assemblies in Wales, Northern Ireland and London and a Parliament in Scotland, and the role of women in both the background and the foreground of those new political structures has been significant.
The book carries on where Women in Politics, an earlier title in this series, left off. Then, the contributions were exclusively British, whereas the great strength of this volume lies precisely in the diversity of its geographical foci, spanning several continents as well as exploring many different parliamentary, social, economic and cultural environments. This more inclusive focus reflects a shift in the Zeitgeist which is pushing outwards instead of inwards, at least as far as many women scholars are concerned, but also reflects a desire to map the differences that women can make and are making in the lives of the world's citizens, and to explore if sisters are doing it for others as well as themselves.
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Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
Weitere Infos & Material
- Section 1: Questions of representation: the theory/practice gap
- The representation of women: meaning and make-believe
- Does size matter? Critical mass and New Zealand's women MPs
- Women's political participation in China: struggling to hold up half the sky
- Maintaining a balance: the retention of women MSPs
- Mainstreaming in Westminster and Whitehall: from Labour's Ministry for Women to the Women's Unit
- Section 2: Gender and effect: the impact of women in politics
- Women and constitutional change in Scotland and Northern Ireland
- The 'femocrat' strategy: expanding the repertoire of feminist activists
- Developing democracy in Kosova: from grassroots to government
- Women and politics in Africa: the case of Uganda
- Competing interests: democracy, Islamification and women politicians in Iran
- 'All the time his wife': portrayals of First Ladies in the Israeli press
- Section 3: Straight-talking: women politicians talk out experience
- Hitting the target: are Labour women MPs 'acting for' women?
- One step forward, two steps back? Women in the two main political parties in Wales
- Invisible women: the politcal roles of Unionist and Loyalist women in contemporary Northern Ireland
- Women in the European Parliament
- Women's place in 'male' space: gender and effect in parliamentary contexts
