Women and politics in Asia : a springboard for democracy?

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Women and politics in Asia : a springboard for democracy?

edited by Andrea Fleschenberg, Claudia Derichs

Lit Verlag, 2011

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"The contributions to this book all originate in a conference organized by the editors in 2009"--p. 12

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Why study the nexus of gender, politics, and democracy in Asia? What kind of democracy and political participation can we conceptualize and identify for this heterogeneous region? In the increasingly visible Asian context, which concepts, contexts, discourses, and practices do we need to reflect upon most in order to understand the complex relationship between gender and democratic processes? The contributions in this book engage with precisely these crucial questions, and do so by drawing on a variety of case studies covering India, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Cambodia. In the process, they scrutinize women's roles, strategies, practices, and discourses on political participation and gender-inclusive political reform in various arenas of political engagement. The book's essays range from studies of political actors and institutions, public policy and gender mainstreaming, political theory and citizenship discourses, to the study of various women's movements. (Series: Politikwissenschaftliche Perspektiven - Vol. 15)

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  • NCID
    BB09875469
  • ISBN
    • 9783643900999
  • LCCN
    2012330242
  • Country Code
    sz
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Zürich
  • Pages/Volumes
    173 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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