Gender, Globalization, & Democratization
Title | Gender, Globalization, & Democratization PDF eBook |
Author | Rita Mae Kelly |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Pages | 279 |
Release | 2001-03-07 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1461665345 |
Women's voices and experiences from around the world are brought to bear upon issues of globalization and democratization in this volume of strikingly original and diverse essays. From the Comfort Women of Japan to the Mexican maquiladoras, from the debt burdened nations of Africa to the 'new settler societies' of Oceania, the impact of globalizing forces and uneven democratization yields gender dislocations everywhere. This volume charts these trends with original research, first-hand interviews and surveys, and fresh theoretical perspectives. Gender regime change may be built on the understandings begun here.
Gender and Politics
Title | Gender and Politics PDF eBook |
Author | Jane H. Bayes |
Publisher | Verlag Barbara Budrich |
Pages | 237 |
Release | 2012-07-10 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 3866495250 |
This timely collection offers a fresh look on the impact of gender perspectives in the discipline of political science at the beginning of the 21st century. Jane Bayes combats the Eurocentric focus that has characterised both fields and suggests viable alternatives for the future of the disciplines.
Women, Democracy, and Globalization in North America
Title | Women, Democracy, and Globalization in North America PDF eBook |
Author | J. Bayes |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 218 |
Release | 2006-01-08 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1403977151 |
This book examines the impact of globalization upon Canada, Mexico and the United States. It investigates changes in the structures and practices of federalism, in public policies and practices of governance and politics, and in economic livelihoods in all three nations. It also provides comparisons of the effects of globalization on women's lives.
Contemporary Women's Movements in Hungary
Title | Contemporary Women's Movements in Hungary PDF eBook |
Author | Katalin Fábián |
Publisher | Woodrow Wilson Center Press |
Pages | 414 |
Release | 2009-10-14 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0801894050 |
As the first and only book in any language on contemporary women’s movements in Hungary, this groundbreaking study focuses on the role of women’s activism in a society where women are not yet adequately represented by established parties and political institutions. Drawing on eyewitness accounts of meetings and protests, as well as first-person interviews with leading female activists, Katalin Fábián examines the interactions between women’s groups in Hungary and studies the unique brand of democracy they have forged in postcommunist Eastern Europe. Through her analysis, she demonstrates how democratization and globalization—with their attendant range of challenges and opportunities—have led women to redefine public-private divides.
Guatemaltecas
Title | Guatemaltecas PDF eBook |
Author | Susan A. Berger |
Publisher | University of Texas Press |
Pages | 170 |
Release | 2010-01-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0292783019 |
After thirty years of military rule and state-sponsored violence, Guatemala reinstated civilian control and began rebuilding democratic institutions in 1986. Responding to these changes, Guatemalan women began organizing to gain an active role in the national body politic and restructure traditional relations of power and gender. This pioneering study examines the formation and evolution of the Guatemalan women's movement and assesses how it has been affected by, and has in turn affected, the forces of democratization and globalization that have transformed much of the developing world. Susan Berger pursues three hypotheses in her study of the women's movement. She argues that neoliberal democratization has led to the institutionalization of the women's movement and has encouraged it to turn from protest politics to policy work and to helping the state impose its neoliberal agenda. She also asserts that, while the influences of dominant global discourses are apparent, local definitions of femininity, sexuality, and gender equity and rights have been critical to shaping the form, content, and objectives of the women's movement in Guatemala. And she identifies a counter-discourse to globalization that is slowly emerging within the movement. Berger's findings vigorously reveal the manifold complexities that have attended the development of the Guatemalan women's movement.
Mainstreaming Gender, Democratizing the State?
Title | Mainstreaming Gender, Democratizing the State? PDF eBook |
Author | Shirin Rai |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780719059780 |
Published in association with the United Nations, this book builds on the existing body of literature on gender and democratization by looking at the relevance of national machineries for the advancement of women. It considers the appropriate mechanisms through which the mainstreaming of gender can take place, and the levels of governance involved; defines what the interests of women are, and how and by what processes these interests are represented to the state policy making structures. Global strategies for the advancement of women are considered, and how far these have penetrated at national level, illuminated by a series of case studies - gender equality in Sweden and other Nordic countries, the Ugandan ministry of Gender, Culture and Social services, gender awareness in Central and Eastern Europe, and further examples from South Korea, the Lebanon, Beijing and Australia.
Gender and Power
Title | Gender and Power PDF eBook |
Author | Mino Vianello |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 421 |
Release | 2016-09-23 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1137514167 |
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.