Engendering Transition

Author : Georgina Waylen
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007-05-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191530166

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Engendering Transitions by Georgina Waylen Pdf

What has been the impact of transitions to democracy on gender relations? What roles have women's mobilizations played in processes of democratization? In a new and over-arching thematic analysis, Engendering Transitions answers these questions by comparing the transitions from state socialism and authoritarianism that took place as part of the 'third wave' of democratization that swept the world from the mid 1970s onwards. Using empirical material drawn from eight case study countries in East Central Europe and Latin America as well as South Africa, Georgina Waylen explores the gendered constraints and opportunities provided by processes of democratization and economic restructuring. This book uses a sophisticated analytical framework that brings together the analysis of key actors and institutions and shows that, under certain conditions, transitions to democracy can result in some positive gender outcomes such as improvements in women's political representation and more 'gender sensitive' policy in areas such as domestic violence. Georgina Waylen argues that women's mobilization during transitions is no guarantee of success and change is easier to achieve in some areas than others. Understanding the roles that can be played by organized women's movements, key actors and the wider political environment is crucial in helping us to explain why these gender outcomes vary in different contexts. This book addresses important debates within the study of both comparative politics and gender and politics and substantially improves our understanding of the ways in which transitions to democracy are gendered.

Author : Georgina Waylen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007-05-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199248032

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Using empirical material from eight case studies in East Central Europe and Latin America as well as South Africa, this book explores the gendered constraints and opportunities provided by processes of democratization.

Author : Joy Clancy,Gül Özerol,Nthabiseng Mohlakoana,Mariëlle Feenstra,Lillian Sol Cueva
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030435134

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Engendering the Energy Transition by Joy Clancy,Gül Özerol,Nthabiseng Mohlakoana,Mariëlle Feenstra,Lillian Sol Cueva Pdf

This book brings together diverse contributions exploring the integration of gender equality in current national energy policies and international energy frameworks across the Global South and North. Taking a multi-disciplinary approach, this collection contributes to building a body of independent empirical evidence about the impacts of the energy transition on socio-economic outcomes, with a focus on gender differentiated choices of energy forms. The book includes short reflections in each chapter allowing the reader to explore the content from an alternative perspective. The common thread enabling the book to actively contribute to engendering the energy transition is its approach to the topic from a primarily ‘gender’ driven perspective. The book draws many useful lessons from practice and shares gender mainstreaming tools for use across the Global South and the North. Such an approach brings novel insights from theoretical, methodological and practical perspectives, which further promotes cross-disciplinary learning and will be of interest to researchers and practitioners from across the Energy and Gender disciplines.

Author : Valerie Sperling
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1999-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0521669634

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Organizing Women in Contemporary Russia by Valerie Sperling Pdf

A rich and clearly-written analysis of the women's movement in contemporary Russia.

Author : Valerie Jeanne Sperling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:C3408091

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Engendering Transition by Valerie Jeanne Sperling Pdf

Author : Sonia E. Alvarez
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781400828425

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Engendering Democracy in Brazil by Sonia E. Alvarez Pdf

Brazil has the tragic distinction of having endured the longest military-authoritarian regime in South America. Yet the country is distinctive for another reason: in the 1970s and 1980s it witnessed the emergence and development of perhaps the largest, most diverse, most radical, and most successful women's movement in contemporary Latin America. This book tells the compelling story of the rise of progressive women's movements amidst the climate of political repression and economic crisis enveloping Brazil in the 1970s, and it devotes particular attention to the gender politics of the final stages of regime transition in the 1980s. Situating Brazil in a comparative theoretical framework, the author analyzes the relationship between nonrevolutionary political change and changes in women's consciousness and mobilization. Her engaging analysis of the potentialities for promoting social justice and transforming relations of inequality for women and men in Latin America and elsewhere in the Third World makes this book essential reading for all students and teachers of Latin American politics, comparative social movements and public policy, and women's studies and feminist political theory.

Author : Valerie Sperling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Feminism
ISBN : IND:30000060971250

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Engendering Transition by Valerie Sperling Pdf

Author : Katarzyna Iwińska,Xymena Bukowska
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030784164

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Gender and Energy Transition by Katarzyna Iwińska,Xymena Bukowska Pdf

This volume takes an ecofeminist perspective in analysing societal changes related to energy transition, with a focus on Upper Silesia in Europe, following the closure of coal-mining industries in the region. It provides both a macro and micro view of how energy transition in societies built around an energy industry can lead to major shifts in societal and familial dynamics, and how women locate themselves in this transition period affecting the economy as well as social and environmental structures and values. Densely populated Upper Silesia in southern Poland, with one of the longest histories of industrialization, extractivism and environmental degradation in Europe, can be considered as a microcosm of regions that have undergone such changes due to energy transition. The traces of telling socio-economic changes, as well as the tangle of modernity and conservatism, are both clearly visible in the local region and society. The book documents the Silesian changes and highlights the female perspective: their culture, identities, as well as empowerment and the agency. The paradigm of feminist and masculinity studies helps in presenting the complexity and the challenges of the just energy transition. This is a topical volume, given that many regions of the world are undergoing similar changes, and is an interesting read for decision-makers, policy experts, environmentalists, as well social scientists who study issues related to sustainability and environmental/societal challenges in energy transition. Chapter 1 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Author : Kevin T. Leicht,J. Craig Jenkins
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780387689302

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Handbook of Politics by Kevin T. Leicht,J. Craig Jenkins Pdf

Political sociology is the interdisciplinary study of power and the intersection of personality, society and politics. The field also examines how the political process is affected by major social trends as well as exploring how social policies are altered by various social forces. Political sociologists increasingly use a wide variety of relatively new quantitative and qualitative methodologies and incorporate theories and research from other social science cognate disciplines. The contributors focus on the current controversies and disagreements surrounding the use of different methodologies for the study of politics and society, and discussions of specific applications found in the widely scattered literature where substantive research in the field is published. This approach will solidly place the handbook in a market niche that is not occupied by the current volumes while also covering many of the same theoretical and historical developments that the other volumes cover. The purpose of this handbook is to summarize state-of-the-art theory, research, and methods used in the study of politics and society. This area of research encompasses a wide variety of perspectives and methods that span social science disciplines. The handbook is designed to reflect that diversity in content, method and focus. In addition, it will cover developments in the developed and underdeveloped worlds.

Author : Verónica Montecinos
Publisher : Springer
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137482402

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Women Presidents and Prime Ministers in Post-Transition Democracies by Verónica Montecinos Pdf

This book contributes to our understanding of the trajectories and prerogatives of female political leaders in the varying context of democratization, political institutions and cultural norms. No woman had been elected leader of a country before 1960, but with democratic transitions on the rise since the 1970s, the number of women in executive office gradually became a trend of global scope. In 2015, nineteen countries had an elected female Head of State and/or Government, a proportionally small number that is expected to climb as more women compete for high office, sometimes against other female candidates. This volume compares how women executives differ in promoting gender equality and advocating for women’s rights and interests, as well as in their ability to negotiate gender policy agendas. Comparative and theoretical chapters on post-transition women leaders are complemented by case studies in eight countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern and Central Europe. This book will be of use to students and scholars interested in gender studies, comparative politics, and political leadership.

Author : Daniel Athearn
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0791418073

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Scientific Nihilism by Daniel Athearn Pdf

Scientific nihilism is the widespread and ascendant view that the prospects for genuine understanding in scientific knowledge are distinctly negative. This view is especially characteristic of philosophy of science, and is reflected in a number of professional and popular doctrines. In the background is the growing perception that physical science is presently encountering the inherent limits of scientific understanding. This book shows that the breakoff of narrative causal explanation in physics, although remarkable, is no basis for the negative view of scientific knowledge. It demonstrates that radiation and field phenomena, which include a wide array of enigmatic facts, are amenable to explanation even in their most puzzling details.Athearn responds fully to the assumption that narrative causal explanation in physics has suffered a permanent demise. Rejecting the dogma of a clean bifurcation of philosophy and natural science, he proposes a constructive rehabilitation of natural philosophy.

Author : Georgina Waylen,Karen Celis,Johanna Kantola,Laurel Weldon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 887 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199751457

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The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Politics by Georgina Waylen,Karen Celis,Johanna Kantola,Laurel Weldon Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Politics brings to political science an accessible and comprehensive overview of the key contributions of gender scholars to the study of politics, and it shows how these contributions produce a richer understanding of polities and societies.

Author : International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women
Publisher : UN
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110843245

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Engendering the Political Agenda by International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women Pdf

This book contains three comparative case studies to show how gender issues are dealt with in the political structures of the Dominican Republic, Romania and South Africa. These countries were chosen because they are in the process of development and structural reform, with the strong involvement of the international community. The case studies examine two issues that are common to all three countries (violence against women and reproductive health) and one issue specific to each country.

Author : Stephen K. Wegren
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781315498430

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Russia's Policy Challenges by Stephen K. Wegren Pdf

Designed for use in courses on contemporary Russia, this volume explores Russia's policy dilemmas in three realms: international security, socio-political, and socio-economic. In each of these categories, Russia faces daunting problems, none of which is likely to be resolved quickly or easily. Yet, over the longer term, the extent to which policymakers are successful in dealing with these challenges will go far in determining Russia's future place in the world, how Russians will live, and what kind of country Russia becomes. Each expertly authored chapter outlines the nature of one major issue; traces it evolution and policy developments under the Yeltsin and Putin presidencies; and evaluates the effectiveness and prospects of efforts to come to grips with the challenge.

Author : Andrea Cornwall,Maxine Molyneux
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317996743

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The Politics of Rights by Andrea Cornwall,Maxine Molyneux Pdf

Since the late 1990s, development institutions have increasingly used the language of rights in their policy and practice. This special issue on feminist perspectives on politics of rights explores the strategies, tensions and challenges associated with ‘rights work’ in a variety of settings. Articles on the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, East and South Asia explore the dilemmas that arise for feminist praxis in these diverse locations, and address the question of what rights can contribute to struggles for gender justice. Exploring the intersection of formal rights – whether international human rights conventions, constitutional rights or national legislation – with the everyday realities of women in settings characterized by entrenched gender inequalities and poverty, plural legal systems and cultural norms that can constitute formidable obstacles to realizing rights. The contributors suggest that these sites of struggle can create new possibilities and meanings – and a politics of rights animated by demands for social and gender justice.