Women in politics
Subtitle: gender, power and development
By: edited by Mariz Tadros
Series: Feminisms and development; Feminisms and development
Publisher: Zed Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9781783600533; 9781783600526
Subjects: Women; Political activity
Description: Women in Politics offers fresh perspectives on the different spaces, networks, and processes influencing women's political leadership today.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1.Politics as Service: Pathways of District Assembly Women in Ghana / Takyiwaa Manuh; title: 2.Exceptional Women: Reserved Councillors in Municipal Corporations in Bangladesh / Bayazid Hasan; title: 3.Ejecting Women from Formal Politics in the 'Old-New' Egypt (2011; title: 12) / Mariz Tadros; title: 4.Local Power and Women's Empowerment in a Conflict Context: Palestinian Women Contesting Power in Chaos / Islahjad; title: 5.Pathways to Political Power in Sudan / Sara Abbas; title: 6.Crafting Political Pathways through the Exclusionary Mesh in India / Kanchan Mathur; title: 7.Independent Candidacy: An Alternative Political Pathway for Women in Sierra Leone? / Hussaina J. Abdullah; title: 8.Conservative Modernization in Brazil: Blocking Local Women's Political Pathways to Power / Andrea Cornwall.