pt. I. Women impacting politics -- 1. Women and institutional politics -- Women and voting -- The expansion of suffrage -- Women's political participation -- Paths and barriers to political office -- The impact of female legislators, bureaucrats, and executives -- Women in legislatures, parliaments, and cabinets -- Women as executives -- Advancing women's equality -- 2. Women and noninstitutional politics -- Defining social movements, interest groups, and women's movements -- Why do women's movement and organizations form? -- Why do women join women's movements? -- Strategies and tactics -- Impact of women's movements -- The rise of extremist nationalist and religious fundamentalist movements -- 3. Women and revolutionary movements -- Defining revolutions -- Why do women join revolutionary movements? -- Marxist revolutionary movements -- Liberal/democratization movements -- Religious fundamentalist movements -- Revolutionary strategies and tactics -- The revolution's impact on women -- Marxist revolutionary movements -- Liberal/democratization movements -- Religious fundamentalist movements -- The Arab Spring -- pt. II. Gendering public policy -- 4. Women and employment -- The debate over equal employment policies -- Equal pay -- Equality in hiring, promotion, and firing -- Sexual harassment -- Retirement income -- Advancing women's equality -- 5. Women, work, and family -- The debate over reconciliation policies -- Parental leave policies and family allowances -- Early childhood education and care -- Advancing women's equality -- 6. Abortion politics -- The debate over reproductive rights and abortion -- Ireland -- The United States -- The Netherlands -- Advancing women's equality -- pt. III. Participation and protest in the global community -- 7. Gender, development, and international organizations -- The argument for gender equality -- The status of gender equality -- International development : designing policy to promote gender equality -- International norms and law -- 8. Women and the global economy -- Women and work -- Globalization -- Women in the global assembly line -- Women and migration -- Rural women, the environment, and sustainable development -- Women and economic crisis -- Advancing women's equality -- 9. Women and health -- The status of women's health -- Women and reproductive health -- The problem of boy preference -- Women and HIV -- Advancing women's equality -- 10. Women and education -- The status of women and education -- Advancing women's equality -- 11. Women and sexual violence during war -- The intent of sexual violence -- Incidents of sexual violence -- The former Yugoslavia -- The Congo -- Sierra Leone -- Tanzania -- The impact of sexual violence on women -- Addressing sexual violence on women -- Women as combatants -- What happens to boys? -- 12. Women and physical autonomy -- Female genital cutting -- Virginity tests -- Women's bodies as whipping posts -- Addressing women's physical autonomy.
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