List of Figures and Tables -- Foreword: Gender, Power and the Worldwide Struggle for Equality / Raewyn Connell -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction / Fatima Sadiqil -- DEMOCRATIC DEFICITS: SITES, CONTEXTS, AND TACTICS OF REDRESS -- Section Introduction / Michal Palgi -- 1. Women's Political Representation in Brazil / José Álvaro Moisés and Beatriz Rodrigues Sanchez -- 2. Women and Political Participation in Morocco and North African States / Moha Ennaji -- 3. Gender, Policy and Leadership: A Comparative Perspective / Joyce Gelb -- 4. Probing the Parameters of Gender, Power and Democracy in Nigeria / L. Amede Obiora -- 5. Building Women's and Men's Political Representation in Post-Communist European Countries / Renata Siemienska -- 6. Women's Participation in Global Executive Positions / Michal Palgi I -- I. EXPLAINING INEQUALITIES: MULTIDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES -- Section Intro / Luigi Zoja -- 7. Economics, Gender and Power / Elisabetta Addis -- 8. Feminine Creativity and Masculine Power / Elena Caramazza -- 9. The Centrality of Women in the Human Adventure / Piero P. Giorgi -- 10. Gender and Power / Mino Vianello -- 11. The Submissiveness Trap / Luigi Zoja -- 12. A Different Power / Valeria Perucca -- III. RECONCEPTUALIZING THE QUALITY OF DEMOCRACY -- Section Introduction / Jose Alvaro Moises -- 13. Gender and Democratic Governance: Reprising the Politics of Exclusion / Mary Hawkesworth -- 14. Quality of Democracy and Political Inclusion / osé Álvaro Moisés -- 15. Gender and Democracy / Mino Vianello -- IV. STRATEGIES FOR SOCIAL AND POLITICAL TRANSFORMATION Section Intro / Jane H. Bayes -- 16. The Feminization of Authority in Morocco / Fatima Sadiqi -- 17. Gender, Power, and Networks: Women's Organizing and Changing Gender Relationships in Africa and Latin America / Jane H. Bayes -- 18. Gender Power and Violence: Perspectives for Change / Elena Liotta -- 19. Gender Issues in Primary Childcare and their Implications for Democracy / Eva Pattis -- 20. Women's Mobilizations for Political Representation in Patriarchal States: Models from Japan and South Korea / Ki-young Shin -- Conclusion / Renata Siemienska -- Name Index -- Subject Index.
Summary:
"Despite explicit commitments to gender equality, women experience complex modes of disadvantage and discrimination in all nations of the world. Offering sophisticated insights into the persistence of gendered differences in opportunities, roles, power, and rights in societies across the globe, this volume investigates factors that both enable and constrain women's advancement. From intimate relations within families, to social norms, relations, ideologies, and structures of power, to political institutions, electoral systems, and public policies, the chapters analyze possibilities for and obstacles to inclusive democratic practices and identify interventions essential to enable democratic values to take root. Contributors from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the USA provide detailed assessments of the social, economic, and political condition of women, their mobilizations to produce transform gendered power and authority in diverse nations, and their efforts to enhance the quality of their lives, their communities, and democratic governance"-- Provided by publisher.
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