State Feminism And Political Representation

Author : Joni Lovenduski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781139446761
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book State Feminism and Political Representation written by Joni Lovenduski and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-11-24 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Dorothy E. McBride
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 1439902097
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of State Feminism written by Dorothy E. McBride and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing essential questions of women's movement activism and political change in Western democracies.

Author : Gary Goertz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521897761
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics, Gender, and Concepts written by Gary Goertz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-11-13 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Vicky Randall
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134712774
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender, Politics and the State written by Vicky Randall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Lisa Disch
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190623616
Total Pages : 1088 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory written by Lisa Disch and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 1088 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory provides a rich overview of the analytical frameworks and theoretical concepts that feminist theorists have developed to analyze the known world. Featuring leading feminist theorists from diverse regions of the globe, this collection delves into forty-nine subject areas, demonstrating the complexity of feminist challenges to established knowledge, while also engaging areas of contestation within feminist theory. Demonstrating the interdisciplinary nature of feminist theory, the chapters offer innovative analyses of topics central to social and political science, cultural studies and humanities, discourses associated with medicine and science, and issues in contemporary critical theory that have been transformed through feminist theorization. The handbook identifies limitations of key epistemic assumptions that inform traditional scholarship and shows how theorizing from women's and men's lives has profound effects on the conceptualization of central categories, whether the field of analysis is aesthetics, biology, cultural studies, development, economics, film studies, health, history, literature, politics, religion, science studies, sexualities, violence, or war.

Author : E. Evans
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781349451814
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Third Wave Feminisms written by E. Evans and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past twenty years have witnessed a renewal of interest in feminist activism on both sides of the Atlantic. In part this has been a response to neoliberal and neoconservative attacks, both implicit and explicit, on the gains made by feminists during the 1960s and 70s. This study adds a comparative dimension to the ongoing analysis of feminism and feminist activism by mapping, analysing and theorising third wave feminisms in the US and Britain. A key addition to Gender and Politics literature, it explores third wave feminisms by situating them within a specific political context, neoliberalism, and in relation to feminist theories of intersectionality, both of which present radical opportunities and practical challenges for feminism and the feminist movement. Elizabeth Evans is Lecturer in Politics at the University of Bristol. Her research focuses on gender and politics, including engagement with formal processes and political activism. She has published widely on aspects of feminism, gender and politics, and her previous book, Gender and the Liberal Democrats, was published in 2011.

Author : J. Outshoorn
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230591426
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Changing State Feminism written by J. Outshoorn and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-10-11 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Karen Celis
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190087722
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feminist Democratic Representation written by Karen Celis and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular consensus holds that if "enough women" are present in political institutions they will represent "women's interests," however, such generalized assumptions are frequently queried on theoretical grounds and consistently shown to be conditional in practice. In this book, Karen Celis and Sarah Childs address women's poverty of political representation with a new feminist account of democratic representation. Celis and Childs rethink and redesign representativeinstitutions, taking ideological and intersectional differences as their starting point. Inclusive, responsive, and egalitarian representation for all women demands a new category of representatives in parliaments: the "affected representatives of women," those who are epistemologically andexperientially close to differently affected women. Affected representatives advocate within political institutions and publicly hold elected representatives to account, transforming representational effects, deepening relationships between women and their democratic institutions.

Author : Amy Mazur
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136533516
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book State Feminism, Women's Movements, and Job Training written by Amy Mazur and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing from the work of internationally renowned scholars from the Research Network on Gender, Politics and the State (RNGS), this study offers in-depth analysis of the relationship between state feminism, women's movements and public policy and places them within a comparative theoretical framework. Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Finland, Austria, Belgium, Canada, and the U.S. are all discussed individually.

Author : Amy Mazur
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comparative State Feminism written by Amy Mazur and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1995-08-04 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.