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.