Representing Women

Author : Beth Reingold
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807861057
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Representing Women written by Beth Reingold and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003-07-11 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women in public office are often assumed to "make a difference" for women, as women--in other words, to represent their female constituents better than do their male counterparts. But is sex really an accurate predictor of a legislator's political choices and actions? In this book, Beth Reingold compares the representational activities and attitudes of male and female members of the Arizona and California state legislatures to illuminate the broader implications of the election and integration of women into public office. In the process, she challenges many of the assumptions that underlie popular expectations of women and men in politics. Using in-depth interviews, survey responses, and legislative records, Reingold actually uncovers more similarities between female and male politicians than differences. Moreover, the stories she presents strongly suggest that rather than assuming that who our representatives are determines what they will do in office, we must acknowledge the possibility that the influence of gender on legislative behavior can be weakened, distorted, or accentuated by powerful forces within the social and political contexts of elective office.

Author : Linda Nochlin
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0500294755
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Representing Women written by Linda Nochlin and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this republication, revisit the late Linda Nochlin’s pioneering writings on the representation of women in art. Women—as warriors, workers, mothers, lovers—haunt nineteenth and twentieth-century Western painting. This republication of Representing Women brings together the late Linda Nochlin’s most important and pioneering writings on the representation of women in art as she considers works by Jean-Francois Millet, Eugene Delacroix, Gustave Courbet, Edgar Degas, Georges Seurat, Mary Cassatt, and Kathe Kollwitz, among many others. In a riveting, partly autobiographical introduction, Nochlin argues for the honest virtues of an art history that rejects methodological presuppositions and for art historians to investigate the work before their eyes while focusing on its subject matter, informed by a sensitivity to its feminist spirit.

Author : Marian Sawer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134162928
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Representing Women in Parliament written by Marian Sawer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-09-27 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book-length treatment of the political representation of women in countries with parliamentary systems based on the Westminster model. Written by a major international team of authors, this new study features twelve chapters on both new and established parliaments, including Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. It tests the latest theories about women's political representation within Westminster style assemblies and is organized into three key sections that: examine the extent to which the descriptive representation of women in the ‘old’ Westminster parliaments has progressed in recent years, and the factors which have enhanced or impeded development. explore the relationship between the numbers of women elected and the substantive representation of women – or the extent that women ‘act for’ women. review the recent experiences of four ‘new’ Westminster parliaments (Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Nunavut) and evaluate the political opportunities for women provided by the creation of new institutions. This new comparative study will be of great interest to students and researchers of legislative studies and of gender politics and gender studies.

Author : Susan Sage Heinzelman
Publisher : Post-Contemporary Intervention
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Representing Women written by Susan Sage Heinzelman and published by Post-Contemporary Intervention. This book was released on 1994 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interdisciplinary anthology of writing by and about women and the way they talk about themselves and allow others to talk about them in ways that are sometimes liberating, sometimes incriminating, but always fraught with questions of personal, and therefore political, power. Some topics include the concept of representation in the law; race and essentialism in feminist legal theory; and representing the lesbian in law and literature. Lacks an index. Paper edition (unseen), $19.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Myra Macdonald
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN 13 : 9780340580165
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Representing Women written by Myra Macdonald and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how women are discussed and depicted visually in popular media. Stressing the importance of a historical approach, the text includes a detailed study of continuities and changes in dominant myths of femininity, especially in the transition from the modern to the postmodern period and explores the influences of feminism and consumerism.

Author : Sarah Childs
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135766169
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Labour's Women MPs written by Sarah Childs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-07-31 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was not long after the election of a record number of women to the House of Commons in 1997 that the backlash began. The criticism was all-encompassing: they wore the wrong clothes, they voted the wrong way and they were concerned with the wrong issues. Above all, they were accused of failing to make difference, to have failed women, and were dismissed by some as ‘Blair’s Babes’. Drawing on in-depth interviews with more than half of the new Labour women MPs, Sarah Childs reveals how these women actually experienced being MPs, and explores whether they acted for and like women – in their constituencies, in parliament and in government. She presents important insights into theories of women’s political representation, showing that the relationship between women’s descriptive and substantive representation is complicated, that party and gender identities are crucial, that women’s differences must be acknowledged and that it might not always be possible for women representatives to act for women even if they want to. Including a key section on women’s selection for parliament; whether women MPs act as role models; why it is important that women should be present in politics; as well as exploring in depth the subject of women’s substantive representation, New Labour’s Women MPs is essential reading for all those interested in women and politics, legislative studies, political behaviour and representation.

Author : Linda Nochlin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429982623
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women, Art, And Power And Other Essays written by Linda Nochlin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-12 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women, Art, and Power?seven landmark essays on women artists and women in art history?brings together the work of almost twenty years of scholarship and speculation.

Author : June Diane Raphael
Publisher : Workman Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1523502975
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Represent written by June Diane Raphael and published by Workman Publishing Company. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Over the last few years we’ve seen a remarkable surge of women running for office, and even better, winning. Running takes courage, passion, and commitment, but it also takes books like this. June and Kate have created a wonderful resource for women as they think about taking the leap.”—Hillary Rodham Clinton Turn “can I do this?” into “yes, I can!” Join the growing wave of women leaders with Represent, an energetic, interactive, and inspiring step-by-step guide showing how to run for the approximately 500,000 elected offices in the US. Written with humor and honesty by writer, comedian, actress, and activist June Diane Raphael and Kate Black, former chief of staff at EMILY’s list, Represent is structured around a 21-point document called “I’m Running for Office: The Checklist.” Doubling as a workbook, Represent covers it all, from the nuts and bolts of where to run, fundraising, and filing deadlines, to issues like balancing family and campaigning, managing social media and how running for office can work in your real life. With infographics, profiles of women politicians, and wisdom and advice from women in office, this is a must-own for any woman thinking of joining the pink wave.

Author : Griselda Pollock
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135084475
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Differencing the Canon written by Griselda Pollock and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this major book, Griselda Pollock engages boldly in the culture wars over `what is the canon?` and `what difference can feminism make?` Do we simply reject the all-male line-up and satisfy our need for ideal egos with an all women litany of artistic heroines? Or is the question a chance to resist the phallocentric binary and allow the ambiguities and complexities of desire - subjectivity and sexuality - to shape the readings of art that constantly displace the present gender demarcations?

Author : Jeremy Roe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781138541856
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Representing Women's Political Identity in the Early Modern Iberian World written by Jeremy Roe and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "By exploring textual, visual, and material culture, this volume presents a range of new research into the experiences, agencies, and diverse political identities of Iberian women between the fifteenth and early-eighteenth century. The collection of essays explore the lives of queens, members of the nobility, and painters and nuns, allowing for a more nuanced understanding of both the elite and non-elite woman's experience in Spain, Portugal, and their overseas realms. By addressing the significance of gender alongside the visual representation of political ideology and identity, this book is an invaluable source for students and researchers of early modern Iberia and the history of women"--