Gender and power : towards equality and democratic governance
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Gender and power : towards equality and democratic governance
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
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  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
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  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- List of Figures List of Tables Foreword: Gender, Power and the Worldwide Struggle for Equality
- Raewyn Connell Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction
- Fatima Sadiqi I. DEMOCRATIC DEFICITS: SITES, CONTEXTS, AND TACTICS OF REDRESS Section Intro
- Michal Palgi 1. Women's Political Representation in Brazil
- Jose Alvaro Moises and Beatriz Rodrigues Sanchez 2. Women and Political Participation in Morocco
- Moha Ennaji 3. Gender, Policy and Leadership: A Comparative Perspective
- Joyce Gelb 4. Probing the Parameters of Gender, Power and Democracy in Nigeria
- Leslye 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 II. 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 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 Intro, Jose Alvaro Moises 13. Gender and Democratic Governance: Reprising the Politics of Exclusion
- Mary Hawkesworth 14. Quality of Democracy and Political Inclusion
- Jose Alvaro Moises 15. Gender and Democracy
- Mino Vianello IV. STRATEGIES FOR SOCIAL AND POLITICAL TRANSFORMATION Section Intro, Jane 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 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 Index
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