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Title:
Women, gender, and politics : a reader / Mona Lena Krook and Sarah Childs, editors.
Publisher:
Oxford University Press,
Copyright Date:
2010
Description:
xi, 360 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Subject:
Feminism--Political aspects--Cross-cultural studies.
Women's rights--Cross-cultural studies.
Women--Political activity--Cross-cultural studies.
Other Authors:
Krook, Mona Lena.
Childs, Sarah, 1969-
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Women, gender, and politics: an introduction / Mona Lena Krook and Sarah Childs -- Mobilization without emancipation? Women's interests, the state, and revolution in Nicaragua / Maxine Molyneux -- Beyond compare? Women's movements in comparative perspective / Karen Beckwith -- Women's movements and democratic transition in Chile, Brazil, East Germany, and Poland / Lisa Baldez -- Protest moves inside institutions / Mary Fainsod Katzenstein -- Do interest groups represent the disadvantaged? Advocacy at the intersections of race, class, and gender / Dara Z. Strolovitch -- Translating the global: effects of transnational organizing on local feminist discourses and practices in Latin America / Sonia E. Alvarez -- Cross-regional trends in female terrorism / Karla J. Cunningham -- The dynamics of gender and party / Joni Lovenduski -- Theorizing feminist strategy and party responsiveness / Lisa Young -- Building a base: women in local party politics / Jo Freeman -- Women's political representation in Sweden: discursive politics and institutional presence / Diane Sainsbury -- The problem with patronage: constraints on women's political effectiveness in Uganda / Anne Marie Goetz -- Feminist political organization in Iceland: some reflections on the experience of Kwenna Frambothid / Lena Dominelli and Gudrun Jonsdottir -- The developmental theory of the gender gap: women's and men's voting behavior in global perspective / Ronald Inglehart and Pippa Norris -- Puzzles in political recruitment / Pippa Norris and Joni Lovenduski -- Entering the arena? Gender and the decision to run for office / Richard L. Fox and Jennifer L. Lawless -- Party elites and women candidates: the shape of bias / David Niven -- Women's representation in parliament: the role of political parties / Miki Caul -- Explaining women's legislative representation in Sub-Saharan Africa / Mi Yung Yoon -- Quotas as a 'fast track' to equal representation for women: why Scandinavia is no longer the model / Drude Dahlerup and Lenita Freidenvall -- Quotas for women / Anne Phillips -- Representation and social perspective / Iris Marion Young -- Should blacks represent blacks and women represent women? A contingent 'yes' / Jane Mansbridge -- Preferable descriptive representatives: will just any woman, black, or Latino do? / Suzanne Dovi -- From a small to a large minority: women in Scandinavian politics / Drude Dahlerup -- Beyond bodies: institutional sources of representation for women in democratic policymaking / S. Laurel Weldon -- Sex, gender, and leadership in the representation of women / Karin L. Tamerius -- Congressional enactments of race-gender: toward a theory of raced-gendered institutions / Mary Hawkesworth -- Taking problems apart / Carol Lee Bacchi -- Sex and the state in Latin America / Mala Htun -- Beyond the difference versus equality policy debate: postsuffrage feminism, citizenship, and the quest for a feminist welfare state / Wendy Sarvasy -- Is mainstreaming Transformative? Theorizing mainstreaming in the context of diversity and deliberation / Judith Squires -- The liberal state / Catharine A. MacKinnon -- Gender and the state: theories and debates / Johanna Kantola -- Gender in the welfare state / Ann Orloff -- Interacting with the state: feminist Strategies and political opportunities / Louise Chappell -- Introduction to comparative state feminism / Dorothy McBride Stetson and Amy G. Mazur -- State feminism or party feminism? Feminist politics and the Spanish Institute of Women / Monica Threlfall -- When power relocates: interactive changes in women's movements and states / Lee Ann Banaszak, Karen Beckwith, and Dieter Rucht.
ISBN:
0195368819 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780195368819 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0195368800 (hardback : alk. paper)
9780195368802 (hardback : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)436028850
LCCN:
2009050172
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

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