Women, gender, and politics
Subtitle: a reader
By: Mona Lena Krook and Sarah Childs, editors
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780195368802; 9780195368819
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Women, gender, and politics: an introduction / Mona Lena Krook and Sarah Childs; title: Mobilization without emancipation? Women's interests, the state, and revolution in Nicaragua / Maxine Molyneux; title: Beyond compare? Women's movements in comparative perspective / Karen Beckwith; title: Women's movements and democratic transition in Chile, Brazil, East Germany, and Poland / Lisa Baldez; title: Protest moves inside institutions / Mary Fainsod Katzenstein; title: Do interest groups represent the disadvantaged? Advocacy at the intersections of race, class, and gender / Dara Z. Strolovitch; title: Translating the global: effects of transnational organizing on local feminist discourses and practices in Latin America / Sonia E. Alvarez; title: Cross-regional trends in female terrorism / Karla J. Cunningham; title: The dynamics of gender and party / Joni Lovenduski; title: Theorizing feminist strategy and party responsiveness / Lisa Young; title: Building a base: women in local party politics / Jo Freeman; title: Women's political representation in Sweden: discursive politics and institutional presence / Diane Sainsbury; title: The problem with patronage: constraints on women's political effectiveness in Uganda / Anne Marie Goetz; title: Feminist political organization in Iceland: some reflections on the experience of Kwenna Frambothid / Lena Dominelli and Gudrun Jonsdottir; title: The developmental theory of the gender gap: women's and men's voting behavior in global perspective / Ronald Inglehart and Pippa Norris; title: Puzzles in political recruitment / Pippa Norris and Joni Lovenduski; title: Entering the arena? Gender and the decision to run for office / Richard L. Fox and Jennifer L. Lawless; title: Party elites and women candidates: the shape of bias / David Niven; title: Women's representation in parliament: the role of political parties / Miki Caul; title: Explaining women's legislative representation in Sub-Saharan Africa / Mi Yung Yoon; title: Quotas as a 'fast track' to equal representation for women: why Scandinavia is no longer the model / Drude Dahlerup and Lenita Freidenvall; title: Quotas for women / Anne Phillips; title: Representation and social perspective / Iris Marion Young; title: Should blacks represent blacks and women represent women? A contingent 'yes' / Jane Mansbridge; title: Preferable descriptive representatives: will just any woman, black, or Latino do? / Suzanne Dovi; title: From a small to a large minority: women in Scandinavian politics / Drude Dahlerup; title: Beyond bodies: institutional sources of representation for women in democratic policymaking / S. Laurel Weldon; title: Sex, gender, and leadership in the representation of women / Karin L. Tamerius; title: Congressional enactments of race-gender: toward a theory of raced-gendered institutions / Mary Hawkesworth; title: Taking problems apart / Carol Lee Bacchi; title: Sex and the state in Latin America / Mala Htun; title: Beyond the difference versus equality policy debate: postsuffrage feminism, citizenship, and the quest for a feminist welfare state / Wendy Sarvasy; title: Is mainstreaming Transformative? Theorizing mainstreaming in the context of diversity and deliberation / Judith Squires; title: The liberal state / Catharine A. MacKinnon; title: Gender and the state: theories and debates / Johanna Kantola; title: Gender in the welfare state / Ann Orloff; title: Interacting with the state: feminist Strategies and political opportunities / Louise Chappell; title: Introduction to comparative state feminism / Dorothy McBride Stetson and Amy G. Mazur; title: State feminism or party feminism? Feminist politics and the Spanish Institute of Women / Monica Threlfall; title: When power relocates: interactive changes in women's movements and states / Lee Ann Banaszak, Karen Beckwith, and Dieter Rucht.