Gender and the Politics of Possibilities
Title | Gender and the Politics of Possibilities PDF eBook |
Author | Manisha Desai |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Pages | 139 |
Release | 2008-12-16 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0742565157 |
Gender and the Politics of Possibilities explores the lesser-known side of globalization beyond the effects of national governments and multinational cooperations by taking a look at grassroots movements by women that have and continue to shape globalization today. Manisha Desai highlights the significant role that women play in cross-border trade in Africa, in transborder activism on issues that affect women, and in cultural change and social justice.
Turbulent Times, Transformational Possibilities?
Title | Turbulent Times, Transformational Possibilities? PDF eBook |
Author | Fiona MacDonald |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Pages | 427 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1487588321 |
This edited collection features state-of-the art scholarship by diverse contributors on a contemporary array of compelling and contentious gender and politics concerns.
Gender and the Politics of History
Title | Gender and the Politics of History PDF eBook |
Author | Joan Wallach Scott |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 294 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780231118576 |
An interrogation of the uses of gender as a tool for cultural and historical analysis. The revised edition reassesses the book's fundamental topic: the category of gender. In arguing that gender no longer serves to destabilize our understanding of sexual difference, the new preface and new chapter open a critical dialogue with the original book. From publisher description.
Gender and the Political Opportunities of Democratization in South Korea
Title | Gender and the Political Opportunities of Democratization in South Korea PDF eBook |
Author | N. Jones |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 303 |
Release | 2016-02-23 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1403984611 |
This book explores how political opportunities afforded by democratization, including the relative balance of power between conservative and progressive civic actors, shape power relations between men and women in post-authoritarian Korea. Jones reveals that organized women can make a difference - depending on their strategic choices and alliances, and the manner in which they negotiate evolving political institutions. Moreover, democratic consolidation need not be led by political parties, but can provide surprising opportunities for an organized civil society to press for a deepening of political and human rights.
Sex, Gender, and the Politics of ERA
Title | Sex, Gender, and the Politics of ERA PDF eBook |
Author | Donald G. Mathews |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 302 |
Release | 1992-04-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0195360109 |
Sex, Gender, and the Politics of ERA is the most profound and sensitive discussion to date of the way in which women responded to feminism. Drawing on extensive research and interviews, Mathews and De Hart explore the fate of the ERA in North Carolina--one of the three states targeted by both sides as essential to ratification--to reveal the dynamics that stunned supporters across America. The authors insightfully link public discourse and private feelings, placing arguments used throughout the nation in the personal contexts of women who pleaded their cases for and against equality. Beginning with a study of woman suffrage, the book shows how issues of sex, gender, race, and power remained potent weapons on the ERA battlefield. The ideas of such vocal opponents as Phyllis Schlafly and Senator Sam Ervin set the perfect stage for mothers to confess their terror at the violation of their daughters in a post-ERA world, while the prospect of losing ratification to this terror impelled supporters to shed the white gloves of genteel lobbying for the combat boots of political in-fighting. In the end, the efforts of ERA supporters could neither outweigh the symbolic actions of its opponents nor weaken the resistance of those same legislators to further federal guarantees of equality. Ultimately, opponents succeeded in making equality for women seem dangerous. In thus explaining the ERA controversy, the authors brilliantly illuminate the many meanings of feminism for the American people.
Women, Gender, and Politics
Title | Women, Gender, and Politics PDF eBook |
Author | Mona Krook |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 373 |
Release | 2010-03-18 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0195368819 |
Six areas of research of the subjects of women, gender and politics are debated: social movements, political parties, elections, political representation, public policy, and the state.
Sex and Secularism
Title | Sex and Secularism PDF eBook |
Author | Joan Wallach Scott |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2019-11-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0691197229 |
"Drawing on a wealth of scholarship by second-wave feminists and historians of religion, race, and colonialism, Scott shows that the gender equality invoked today as a fundamental and enduring principle was not originally associated with the term "secularism" when it first entered the lexicon in the nineteenth century. In fact, the inequality of the sexes was fundamental to the articulation of the separation of church and state that inaugurated Western modernity. Scott points out that Western nation-states imposed a new order of women's subordination, assigning them to a feminized familial sphere meant to complement the rational masculine realms of politics and economics. It was not until the question of Islam arose in the late twentieth century that gender equality became a primary feature of the discourse of secularism"-- Publisher's description