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Title:

Women in politics : gender, power and development / edited by Mariz Tadros.

Publisher:

Zed Books ;

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

x, 294 pages ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Women--Political activity--Developing countries.

Other Authors:

Tadros, Mariz, 1975-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction. Engaging politically : rethinking women's pathways to power / Mariz Tadros -- Politics as service : pathways of district assembly women in Ghana / Takyiwaa Manuh -- Exceptional women : reserved councillors in municipal corporations in Bangladesh / Sohela Hazneen, Iqbal Ehsan and Bayazid Hasan -- Ejecting women from formal politics in the 'old-new' Egypt (2011-12) / Mariz Tadros -- Local power and women's empowerment in a conflict context : Palestinian women contesting power in chaos / Islah Jad -- Pathways to political power in Sudan / Sara Abbas -- Crafting political pathways through the exclusionary Mesh in India / Kanchan Mathur -- Independent candidacy : an alternative political pathway for women in Sierra Leone? / Hussaina J. Abdullah -- Conservative modernization in Brazil : blocking local women's political pathways to power / Ana Alice Alcantara Costa and Andrea Cornwall.

Series:

Feminisms and development

ISBN:

1783600527
9781783600526
1783600535
9781783600533

OCLC:

(OCoLC)868642677

LCCN:

2014469474

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)