Gender and power : towards equality and democratic governance / edited by Mino Vianello and Mary Hawkesworth.
Vianello, Mino, 1927- editor.; Hawkesworth, M. E., 1952- editor.
2015
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Title Gender and power : towards equality and democratic governance / edited by Mino Vianello and Mary Hawkesworth.
ISBN 1137514167 (electronic book)
9781137514165 (electronic book)
1137514159
Published Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xxvii, 398 pages) : illustrations
Call Number HQ1236 .G461245 2015eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 320.082
Summary 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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Hawkesworth, M. E., 1952- editor.
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Foreword: Gender, Power and the Worldwide Struggle for Equality / Raewyn Connell
Preface and Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction / Fatima Sadiqil
Part I DEMOCRATIC DEFICITS: SITES, CONTEXTS, AND TACTICS OF REDRESS
Section Introduction / Michal Palgi
Women's Political Representation in Brazil / José Álvaro Moisés and Beatriz Rodrigues Sanchez
Women and Political Participation in Morocco and North African States / Moha Ennaji
Gender, Policy and Leadership: A Comparative Perspective / Joyce Gelb
Probing the Parameters of Gender, Power and Democracy in Nigeria / L. Amede Obiora
Building Women's and Men's Political Representation in Post-Communist European Countries / Renata Siemienska
Women's Participation in Global Executive Positions / Michal Palgi
Part II. EXPLAINING INEQUALITIES: MULTIDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES
Section Intro / Luigi Zoja
Economics, Gender and Power / Elisabetta Addis
Feminine Creativity and Masculine Power / Elena Caramazza
The Centrality of Women in the Human Adventure / Piero P. Giorgi
Gender and Power / Mino Vianello
The Submissiveness Trap / Luigi Zoja
A Different Power / Valeria Perucca
Part III. RECONCEPTUALIZING THE QUALITY OF DEMOCRACY
Section Introduction / Jose Alvaro Moises
Gender and Democratic Governance: Reprising the Politics of Exclusion / Mary Hawkesworth
Quality of Democracy and Political Inclusion / osé Álvaro Moisés
Gender and Democracy / Mino Vianello
Part IV. STRATEGIES FOR SOCIAL AND POLITICAL TRANSFORMATION
Section Intro / Jane H. Bayes
The Feminization of Authority in Morocco / Fatima Sadiqi
Gender, Power, and Networks: Women's Organizing and Changing Gender Relationships in Africa and Latin America / Jane H. Bayes
Gender Power and Violence: Perspectives for Change / Elena Liotta
Gender Issues in Primary Childcare and their Implications for Democracy / Eva Pattis
Women's Mobilizations for Political Representation in Patriarchal States: Models from Japan and South Korea / Ki-young Shin
Conclusion / Renata Siemienska.

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