Women and Politics Worldwide

by Nelson, Barbara J.; Chowdhury, Najma

• ISBN13: 9780300054088
• ISBN10: 0300054084
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-05-01
• Publisher: Yale Univ Pr

Summary

This accessible, well-organized book charts the political history, institutions, and women's movements in 43 countries, and analyzes women's political demands and governments' responses to them. Descriptions of the methodologies used and detailed explanations of the patterns emerging from the study enhance the value of this book as a reference resource.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Redefining Politics: Patterns of Women's Political Engagement from a Global Perspective	p. 3
Research Design and Practice: Methodological Issues in Feminist Comparative Politics Research	p. 25
Global Research on Women's Political Engagement: The History of the Women and Politics Worldwide Project	p. 41
Measuring Women's Status, Portraying Women's Lives: Problems in Collecting Data on Women's Experiences	p. 49
From Family Ties to Political Action: Women's Experiences in Argentina	p. 59
Locked Out or Locked In? Women and Politics in Australia	p. 73
Bangladesh: Gender Issues and Politics in a Patriarchy	p. 92
Women and Politics: Gender Relations in Bolivian Political Organizations and Labor Unions	p. 114
Women in the Struggle for Democracy and Equal Rights in Brazil	p. 127
Building a Political Voice: Women's Participation and Policy Influence in Canada	p. 142
Women's Life in New China	p. 161
With Patience and Without Blood: The Political Struggles of Costa Rican Women	p. 174
Revolutionizing Women, Family, and Power	p. 189
Women's Issues in Czechoslovakia in the Communist and Postcommunist Periods	p. 208
The Paradoxes of State Feminism in Egypt	p. 226
The Same or Different? An Unending Dilemma for French Women	p. 243
Women and Politics: The New Federal Republic of Germany	p. 261
Women and the Evolution of a Ghanaian Political Synthesis	p. 285
The Rules of the Political Game: Feminism and Politics in Great Britain	p. 298
Women Confronting Party Politics in Greece	p. 311
The Underdeveloped Political Potential of Women in Hong Kong	p. 326
Hungarian Women's Political Participation in the Transition to Democracy	p. 347
Women's Political Engagement in India: Some Critical Issues	p. 361
Women and Politics in Israel	p. 380
The U.N. Convention on Eliminating Discrimination Against Women and the Status of Women in Japan	p. 396
Man-Made Political Machinery in Kenya: Political Space for Women?	p. 415
Women's Political Engagement and Participation in the Republic of Korea	p. 436
The Struggle for Life, or Pulling Off the Mask of Infamy	p. 448
Women in Morocco: Gender Issues and Politics	p. 461
Political Participation of Women in Nepal	p. 478
Political Participation of Women: The Netherlands	p. 496
Reversing the Marginalization of the Invisible and Silent Majority: Women in Politics in Nigeria	p. 512
The State and Women: A Troubled Relationship in Norway	p. 527
Women's Participation in the Palestine Liberation Organization	p. 544
Rhetoric, Reality, and a Dilemma: Women and Politics in Papua New Guinea	p. 560
Between Confusion and the Law: Women and Politics in Peru	p. 575
Philippine Feminism in Historical Perspective	p. 590
Polish Women as the Object and Subject of Politics During and After the Communist Period	p. 608
At the Crossroads: Colonialism and Feminism in Puerto Rico	p. 625
Women in Politics Under Apartheid: A Challenge to the New South Africa	p. 639
Women's Political Engagement in Spain	p. 660
The Women's Movement, Displaced Women, and Rural Women in Sudan	p. 674
Direct Democracy and Women's Suffrage: Antagonism in Switzerland	p. 690
Turkish Women as Agents of Social Change in a Pluralist Democracy	p. 705
Soviet Women and Politics: On the Brink of Change	p. 721
Many Voices But Few Vehicles: The Consequences for Women of Weak Political Infrastructure in the United States	p. 737
Uruguay: A Recent History of a Subject with a History of Its Own	p. 758
Appendix: Selected Information from the Country Charts	p. 773
List of Contributors	p. 787
Index	p. 797
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