Author : Dorothy E. McBride
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 35,61 MB
Release : 2010-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1439902097
Addressing essential questions of women's movement activism and political change in Western democracies.
Author : Gary Goertz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 16,5 MB
Release : 2008-11-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521723428
A critique of concepts has been central to feminist scholarship since its inception. However, while gender scholars have identified the analytical gaps in existing social science concepts, few have systematically mapped out a gendered approach to issues in political analysis and theory development. This volume addresses this important gap in the literature by exploring the methodology of concept construction and critique, which is a crucial step to disciplined empirical analysis, research design, causal explanations, and testing hypotheses. Leading gender and politics scholars use a common framework to discuss methodological issues in some of the core concepts of feminist research in political science, including representation, democracy, welfare state governance, and political participation. This is an invaluable work for researchers and students in women's studies and political science.
Author : Joni Lovenduski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,52 MB
Release : 2005-11-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139446761
How can women maximise their political influence? Does state feminism enhance the political representation of women? Should feminism be established in state institutions to treat women's concerns? Written by experts in the field, this 2005 book uses an innovative model of political influence to construct answers to these and other questions in the long-running debate over the political representation of women. The book assesses how states respond to women's demands for political representation both in terms of their inclusion as actors and the consideration of their interests in the decision making process. Debates on the issue vary from country to country, depending on institutional structures, women's movements and other factors, and this book offered the first comparative account of the subject. The authors analyse eleven democracies in Europe and North America and present comprehensive research from the 1960s to the present.
Author : Catharine A. MacKinnon
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 48,46 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674896468
Toward a Feminist Theory of the State presents Catharine MacKinnon’s powerful analysis of politics, sexuality, and the law from the perspective of women. Using the debate over Marxism and feminism as a point of departure, MacKinnon develops a theory of gender centered on sexual subordination and applies it to the state. The result is an informed and compelling critique of inequality and a transformative vision of a direction for social change.
Author : J. Outshoorn
Publisher : Springer
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 25,5 MB
Release : 2007-10-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0230591426
Most Western democracies established women's policy agencies to improve the status of women by the 1990s. One of the book's key questions is how have women's policy agencies been able to develop, maintain or enhance their roles in the transformed political context and how have women's movements adapted to change in twelve states.
Author : Amy Mazur
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 40,10 MB
Release : 1995-08-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Sixteen essays by international contributors present detailed case studies exploring the government agencies designed to further feminist goals in Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden, and the US. Paper edition (unseen), $24.95. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc.
Author : J. Kantola
Publisher : Springer
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 22,65 MB
Release : 2006-07-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0230626327
Where is feminist state theory today? This book offers novel insights into social science debates by analyzing feminist theories of the state. The themes are developed within a comparative perspective. Focusing on devolution in Scotland and the European Union, the book further explores how feminist state theories conceive multi-level governance.
Author : Vicky Randall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 25,99 MB
Release : 2012-09-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1134712782
Over the last two decades our understanding of the relationship of gender, politics and the state has been transformed almost beyond recognition by the mutual interrogation of feminism and political science. This volume provides an overview of this dynamic and growing field, which reflects both its expanding empirical scope and the accompanying theoretical development and debate. The first three essays focus primarily on conceptual and theoretical issues: the meaning of 'gender'; the state's role in the construction of gender within the public and private sphere; and the political representation of gender differences within liberal democracy. The remaining six provide analyses of more concrete issues of state policy and participation in differeing national political contexts: abortion politics in Ireland; the local politics of prostitution in Britain, the impact on women's political participation of economic change in China, Latin America and political change in Russia, and the gender impact of state programmes of land reform.
Author : Lynn Thomas
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 43,55 MB
Release : 2003-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0520936647
In more than a metaphorical sense, the womb has proven to be an important site of political struggle in and about Africa. By examining the political significance—and complex ramifications—of reproductive controversies in twentieth-century Kenya, this book explores why and how control of female initiation, abortion, childbirth, and premarital pregnancy have been crucial to the exercise of colonial and postcolonial power. This innovative book enriches the study of gender, reproduction, sexuality, and African history by revealing how reproductive controversies challenged long-standing social hierarchies and contributed to the construction of new ones that continue to influence the fraught politics of abortion, birth control, female genital cutting, and HIV/AIDS in Africa.
Author : Helga Maria Hernes
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 33,99 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
During the past decade, Scandinavian women have made significant advances in terms of political power and are beginning to make their presence felt in most areas of welfare state policy. The essays in this book analyze some of the factors which have facilitated women's entry into the public sphere, their participation in political movements and corporate politics, and the placement of women's issues onto the political agenda.
