Women, Gender, and Politics A Reader

by Krook, Mona Lena; Childs, Sarah

• ISBN13: 9780195368819
• ISBN10: 0195368819
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-03-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Women, Gender, and Politics brings together both classic and recent readings on central topics in the study of gender and politics, and places an emphasis on comparing developed and developing countries. Genuinely international in its focus, the book is divided into six sections to reflect the range of research in the subfield: (1) women and social movements, (2) women and political parties, (3) women, gender, and elections, (4) women, gender, and political representation, (5) women, gender, and social policies, and (6) women, gender, and the state. Each section serves as an introduction to general trends in thinking about women and politics, and the readings capture the ways that research has developed both thematically and chronologically in all of the six broad areas. The volume's innovative design, global approach, and comprehensive coverage make it an ideal teaching book and a valuable resource for students and scholars throughout the world.

Author Biography

Mona Krook is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Washington University.
Sarah Childs is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Bristol.

Table of Contents

Women, Gender, and Politics: An Introduction	p. 3
Women and Social Movements
Mobilization without Emancipation? Women's Interests, the State, and Revolution in Nicaragua	p. 21
Beyond Compare? Women's Movements in Comparative Perspective	p. 29
Women's Movements and Democratic Transition in Chile, Brazil East Germany, and Poland	p. 37
Protest Moves inside Institutions	p. 47
Do Interest Groups Represent the Disadvantaged? Advocacy at the Intersections of Race, Class, and Gender	p. 55
Translating the Global: Effects of Transnational Organizing on Local Feminist Discourses and Practices in Latin America	p. 63
Cross-Regional Trends in Female Terrorism	p. 71
Women and Political Parties
The Dynamics of Gender and Party	p. 81
Theorizing Feminist Strategy and Party Responsiveness	p. 87
Building a Base: Women in Local Party Politics	p. 89
Women's Political Representation in Sweden: Discursive Politics and Institutional Presence	p. 97
The Problem with Patronage: Constraints on Women's Political Effectiveness in Uganda	p. 107
Feminist Political Organization in Iceland: Some Reflections on the Experience of Kwenna Frambothid	p. 117
Women, Gender, and Elections
The Developmental Theory of the Gender Gap: Women's and Men's Voting Behavior in Global Perspective	p. 127
Puzzles in Political Recruitment	p. 135
Entering the Arena? Gender and the Decision to Run for Office	p. 141
Party Elites and Women Candidates: The Shape of Bias	p. 151
Women's Representation in Parliament: The Role of Political Parties	p. 159
Explaining Women's Legislative Representation in Sub-Saharan Africa	p. 167
Quotas as a "Fast Track" to Equal Representation for Women: Why Scandinavia Is No Longer the Model	p. 175
Women, Gender, and Political Representation
Quotas for Women	p. 185
Representation and Social Perspective	p. 193
Should Blacks Represent Blacks and Women Represent Women? A Contingent "Yes"	p. 201
Preferable Descriptive Representatives: Will Just Any Woman, Black, or Latino Do?	p. 215
From a Small to a Large Minority: Women in Scandinavian Politics	p. 225
Beyond Bodies: Institutional Sources of Representation for Women in Democratic Policymaking	p. 231
Women, Gender, and Social Policies
Sex, Gender and Leadership in the Representation of Women	p. 243
Congressional Enactments of Race-Gender: Toward a Theory of Raced-Gendered Institutions	p. 251
Taking Problems Apart	p. 263
Sex and the State in Latin America	p. 267
Beyond the Difference versus Equality Policy Debate: Postsuffrage Feminism, Citizenship, and the Quest for a Feminist Welfare State	p. 277
Is Mainstreaming Transformative? Theorizing Mainstreaming in the Context of Diversity and Deliberation	p. 283
Women, Gender, and the State
The Liberal State	p. 293
Gender and the State: Theories and Debates	p. 299
Gender in the Welfare State	p. 305
Interacting with the State: Feminist Strategies and Political Opportunities	p. 313
Introduction to Comparitive State Feminism	p. 319
State Feminism or Party Feminism? Feminist Politics and the Spanish Institute of Women	p. 327
When Power Relocates: Interactive Changes in Women's Movements and States	p. 335
Credits	p. 347
Index	p. 351
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