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113 produkter
Gender and Welfare State Regimes
Häftad, 1999
1616 kr
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Gender and Welfare State Regimes focuses on the interrelationships between aspects of the welfare state and labour market policies in structuring and transforming gender relations across a broad spectrum of countries. The book examines the construction of gender in various government welfare …
Gendering the European Union
New Approaches to Old Democratic Deficits
Av G. Abels, J. Mushaben
Häftad, 2012
551 kr
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An exploration of European integration as seen through a gender lens. This book looks at integration theories, institutional relationships, enlargement, the development of gender law and the role of formal actors, scholars and expert networks in the EU policy-making process. With a focus on gender …
Suffrage and Its Legacy in the Nordics and Beyond
Gender, Institutional Constraints and Feminist Strategies
Av Josefina Erikson, Lenita Freidenvall
Inbunden, 2024
1541 kr
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This book reflects on the centennial of women's suffrage in the Nordic region and beyond, by exploring its relevance to political gender equality today and the conditions for feminist institutional change. The book brings together historians and political scientists to provide a long-term …
Women and American Politics
New Questions, New Directions
Inbunden, 2003
1229 kr
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Women and American Politics brings together leading scholars in the field of women and politics to provide an account of recent developments and the challenges that the future brings for the study of gender and American Politics. The book examines women's participation in the electoral arena and …
Women and American Politics
New Questions, New Directions
Häftad, 2003
286 kr
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Women and American Politics brings together leading scholars in the field of women and politics to provide an account of recent developments and the challenges that the future brings for the study of gender and American Politics. The book examines women's participation in the electoral arena and …
The Impact of Women in Congress
Häftad, 2006
667 kr
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This is a major new assessment of the impact of women members of the US Congress on public policy and Congress itself. Drawing on three key case studies (reproductive health, women's health, and health policy) from the 103rd and 104th Congresses, Dodson highlights the complex forces that shape what …
The Impact of Women in Congress
Inbunden, 2006
2627 kr
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While existing literature provides compelling evidence that women in public office make a difference, the relationship between descriptive and substantive representation of women in political institutions long the domain of men is neither simple nor certain. Embracing New Institutionalists' …
Abortion Politics, Women's Movements, and the Democratic State
A Comparative Study of State Feminism
Av Dorothy E. McBride, Dorothy McBride Stetson
Inbunden, 2001
1225 kr
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Abortion Politics, Women's Movements and the Democratic State examines the impact of women's movements since the 1960s on the policy-making processes determining abortion laws. The impact of women's movements is assessed in terms of their success in increasing the democratic representation of women …
Abortion Politics, Women's Movements, and the Democratic State
A Comparative Study of State Feminism
Av Dorothy E. McBride, Dorothy McBride Stetson
Häftad, 2001
1133 kr
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This volume examines the impact of women's movements on the policy making processes determining abortion laws. It comprises the results of a cross-national research project on abortion politics in 11 democratic states between the 1960s and 2000. The authors have developed a comprehensive research …
Theorizing Feminist Policy
Av Amy G. Mazur
Häftad, 2002
1217 kr
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Theorizing Feminist Policy avoids the usual clash between feminist analysis and non-feminist social science in mapping out the new field of feminist comparative policy. Instead, it intersects empirical feminist policy analysis with non-feminist policy studies to define and contribute to this new …
Women's Access to Political Power in Post-Communist Europe
Av Richard E. Matland, Kathleen A. Montgomery
Inbunden, 2003
3452 kr
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This book considers women's access to formal positions of powers in the newly formed democracies of post communist Europe. While acknowledging the relevance of recent history, this book takes an important step away from the communist legacy and explicitly argues for a framework based on causal …
Engendering Transitions
Women's Mobilization, Institutions and Gender Outcomes
Inbunden, 2007
1133 kr
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What has been the impact of transitions to democracy on gender relations? What roles have women's mobilizations played in processes of democratization? In a new and over-arching thematic analysis, Engendering Transitions answers these questions by comparing the transitions from state socialism and …
Engendering Transitions
Women's Mobilization, Institutions and Gender Outcomes
Häftad, 2007
803 kr
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What has been the impact of transitions to democracy on gender relations? What roles have women's mobilizations played in processes of democratization? In a new and over-arching thematic analysis, Engendering Transitions answers these questions by comparing the transitions from state socialism and …
Rethinking Contemporary Feminist Politics
Av J. Dean
Inbunden, 2010
552 kr
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Rethinking Contemporary Feminist Politics puts forward a timely analysis of contemporary feminism. Critically engaging with both narratives of feminist decline and re-emergence, it draws on poststructuralist political theory to assess current forms of activism in the UK and present a provocative …
Gender, Politics and Institutions
Towards a Feminist Institutionalism
Inbunden, 2010
552 kr
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Political institutions profoundly shape political life and are also gendered. This groundbreaking collection synthesises new institutionalism and gendered analysis using a new approach - feminist institutionalism - in order to answer crucial questions about power inequalities, mechanisms of …
Sex, Gender and the Conservative Party
From Iron Lady to Kitten Heels
Inbunden, 2011
552 kr
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As leader of the Conservative party, David Cameron inherited a multi-faceted gender problem: only 17 women MPs; an unhappy women's organization; electorally uncompetitive policies 'for women'; and a party which was seemingly unattractive to women voters. This book is an account of the feminization …
Europeanization of Gender Equality Policies
A Discursive-Sociological Approach
Av Emanuela Lombardo, Maxime Forest m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
552 kr
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A discursive-sociological approach to the Europeanization of gender and other equality policies. Using largely unpublished empirical data covering twenty-nine European countries this book adopts a pluralistic perspective to explore the complex and often divergent gender and other equality policy …
Negotiating Boundaries
Gender, Violence and Transformation in Brazil
Av P. Wilding
Inbunden, 2012
552 kr
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The favelas (slums) of Rio de Janeiro provide an ideal case study since they are renowned for high levels of police and gang violence resulting in high death rates among young black men, causing both outrage and fear. This book foregrounds women's experiences and how different forms of violence …
Translating International Women's Rights
The CEDAW Convention in Context
Inbunden, 2016
1643 kr
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This book looks at the centerpiece of the international women’s rights discourse, the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), and asks to what extent it affects the lives of women worldwide. Rather than assuming a trickle-down effect, the author discusses …
Gender, HIV and Risk
Navigating structural violence
Av E. Anderson
Inbunden, 2015
569 kr
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This book examines the gender context of HIV and critiques the global policy response. Anderson contributes to the feminist task of de-invisibilising gender as structural violence and identifies how gendered power structures are responded to at the local level in Malawi.
Institutionalizing Intersectionality
The Changing Nature of European Equality Regimes
Av A. Krizsan, H. Skjeie m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
508 kr
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An exploration of the ways that multiple inequalities are being addressed in Europe. Using country-based and region-specific case studies it provides an innovative comparative analysis of the multidimensional equality regimes that are emerging in Europe, and reveals the potential that these have …
Gendering the European Union
New Approaches to Old Democratic Deficits
Av G. Abels, J. Mushaben
Inbunden, 2012
552 kr
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An exploration of European integration as seen through a gender lens. This book looks at integration theories, institutional relationships, enlargement, the development of gender law and the role of formal actors, scholars and expert networks in the EU policy-making process. With a focus on gender …
Negotiating Gender and Diversity in an Emergent European Public Sphere
Inbunden, 2012
552 kr
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The book analyses intersections between gender and diversity through cross-national studies of European public spheres. The approach confronts research on European democracy and the public sphere with gender and diversity research and reflections about European equality and diversity issues are …
Gender, Informal Institutions and Political Recruitment
Explaining Male Dominance in Parliamentary Representation
Inbunden, 2013
552 kr
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Parliaments around the world are still overwhelmingly populated by men, yet studies of male dominance are much rarer than are studies of female under-representation. In this book, men in politics are the subjects of a gendered analysis. How do men manage to hold on to positions of power despite …
Gender, Institutions and Political Representation
Reproducing Male Dominance in Europe’s New Democracies
Inbunden, 2017
1316 kr
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This book traces the struggles over the institutions of political representation in Central and Eastern Europe, focusing on the factors that have held women back over the post-communist period, as well as on the growing evidence for change throughout the region. Post-communist Europe has long …
Gender and Political Recruitment
Theorizing Institutional change
Av Meryl Kenny
Inbunden, 2013
552 kr
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This book explores the gendered dynamics of institutional innovation, continuity and change in candidate selection and recruitment. Drawing on the insights of feminist institutionalism, it extends the 'supply and demand model' of political recruitment via a micro-level case study of the candidate …
Politics of Third Wave Feminisms
Neoliberalism, Intersectionality, and the State in Britain and the US
Av E. Evans
Inbunden, 2015
1207 kr
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The past twenty years have witnessed a renewal of interest in feminist activism on both sides of the Atlantic. In part this has been a response to neoliberal and neoconservative attacks, both implicit and explicit, on the gains made by feminists during the 1960s and 70s. This study adds a …
Foreign Security Policy, Gender, and US Military Identity
Av E. Brunner
Inbunden, 2013
552 kr
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Differentiation from the Self has been a unifying feature of war stories since they were first told highlighting that war stories are about the production of identity. Based on analysis of military documents, this book aims to unravel some of the gendered ideologies that underpin the link between …
Gender Equality Norms in Regional Governance
Transnational Dynamics in Europe, South America and Southern Africa
Av C. Roggeband
Inbunden, 2014
552 kr
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This book analyses the diffusion of norms concerning gender-based violence and gender mainstreaming of aid and trade between the EU, South America and Southern Africa. Norm diffusion is conceptualized as a truly multidirectional and polycentric process, shaped by regional governance and resulting …
Democracy, Gender, and Social Policy in Russia
A Wayward Society
Inbunden, 2013
552 kr
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Through compelling and insightful analysis of the Russian case, this book explores the role that social welfare plays in regime transitions. It examines the role that gender and social welfare has played in Russia's post-communist political evolution from Yeltsin's assumption of the presidency to …
