Politics Feminism And The Reformation Of Gender

Author : Jennifer Chapman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134979332

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Politics, Feminism and the Reformation of Gender by Jennifer Chapman Pdf

Caught between their female gender and their aspirations in a public sphere founded on the gender role of men, women face a problem that is more intractable than conventional feminist political analysis has fully recognized. In this book, Jennifer Chapman addresses both the substance of the problem and feminist strategies for change. Male dominance of political elites is virtually universal and yet there is no general theory of recruitment to account for this. Jennifer Chapman uses a rigorous comparative study of political recruitment to show why different models of the process among men produce near-identical results, irrespective of context. She then looks beyond this general pattern to its gender basis, and to strategies for change.

Author : Vicky Randall,Georgina Waylen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134712786

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Gender, Politics and the State by Vicky Randall,Georgina Waylen Pdf

Over the last two decades our understanding of the relationship of gender, politics and the state has been transformed almost beyond recognition by the mutual interrogation of feminism and political science. This volume provides an overview of this dynamic and growing field, which reflects both its expanding empirical scope and the accompanying theoretical development and debate. The first three essays focus primarily on conceptual and theoretical issues: the meaning of 'gender'; the state's role in the construction of gender within the public and private sphere; and the political representation of gender differences within liberal democracy. The remaining six provide analyses of more concrete issues of state policy and participation in differeing national political contexts: abortion politics in Ireland; the local politics of prostitution in Britain, the impact on women's political participation of economic change in China, Latin America and political change in Russia, and the gender impact of state programmes of land reform.

Author : M. Krook,F. Mackay
Publisher : Springer
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230303911

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Gender, Politics and Institutions by M. Krook,F. Mackay Pdf

Political institutions profoundly shape political life and are also gendered. This groundbreaking collection synthesises new institutionalism and gendered analysis using a new approach - feminist institutionalism - in order to answer crucial questions about power inequalities, mechanisms of continuity, and the gendered limits of change.

Author : Ulrike Strasser
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0472113518

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State of Virginity by Ulrike Strasser Pdf

In premodern Germany, both the emerging centralized government and the powerful Catholic Church redefined gender roles for their own ends. Ulrike Strasser's interdisciplinary study of Catholic state-building examines this history from the vantage point of the virginal female body. Focusing on Bavaria, Germany's first absolutist state, Strasser recounts how state authorities forced chastity upon lower-class women to demarcate legitimate forms of sexuality and maintain class hierarchies. At the same time, they cloistered groups of upper-class women to harness the spiritual authority associated with holy virgins to the political authority of the state. The state finally recruited upper-class virgins as teachers who could school girls in the gender-specific morals and type of citizenship favored by authorities. Challenging Weberian concepts that link modernization to Protestantism, Strasser's study illustrates the modernizing power of Catholicism through an examination of virginity's central role in politics, culture, and society. Weaving together the stories of marriage and convent, of lay as well as religious women, State of Virginity makes important contributions to the historical study of sexuality and the growing feminist literature on the state. It will be of particular interest to students and scholars of political and religious history, women's studies, and social history.

Author : Ethel Klein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037667669

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Gender Politics by Ethel Klein Pdf

With dramatic suddenness, the feminist movement emerged on the social scene in the late 1960s, and by 1980 it was a political force to be reckoned with. This ground-breaking study combs a wealth of public opinion surveys and census data to discover why women have become politically active and what it means to public policy. The book focuses on two compelling questions: What are the common concerns that mobilize women, and how do these concerns shape political activism? Ethel Klein finds that a trend toward redefining women's lives has been present since the turn of the century. She examines the erosion of traditional patterns in women's roles brought about by rising divorce rates, fuller participation in the workforce, and longer lives. Klein argues that the elements required for revolutionary change--such as grievances, leaders, organization, and resources--were evident long before the 1960s. What was missing was a constituency to support feminist demands. She explores in detail how the public approval of women's rights finally caught up with the need for reform. As group consciousness grew, so did public support. The two factors coalesced in the rise of activism and a full-blown women's movement. Klein tests her hypotheses on the elections of 1972, 1976, and 1980, with surprising results. She finds from election polls that men are no less feminist than women, but that women's support comes from group consciousness while men's comes from a liberal ideology. At the individual level she reveals how support of feminism affects people's political decisions--their approval of protest, their preference for collective forms of activism, and, when real alternatives are present, thevotes they cast for President.

Author : Jenny Chapman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:59472564

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Political Recruitment, Feminism and the Reformation of Gender by Jenny Chapman Pdf

Author : J. Outshoorn,J. Kantola
Publisher : Springer
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007-10-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230591424

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Changing State Feminism by J. Outshoorn,J. Kantola Pdf

Most Western democracies established women's policy agencies to improve the status of women by the 1990s. One of the book's key questions is how have women's policy agencies been able to develop, maintain or enhance their roles in the transformed political context and how have women's movements adapted to change in twelve states.

Author : Judith Lorber
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015079167535

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Gender Inequality by Judith Lorber Pdf

In Gender Inequality: Feminist Theories and Politics, Fourth Edition, internationally renowned feminist Judith Lorber examines various, evolving theories of gender inequality. Tightly structured around Lorber's own paradigm of "reform, resistance, rebellion," this combination text/reader acknowledges feminism's significant contributions to redressing gender inequality and celebrates its enormous accomplishments over the last forty years. It also documents feminism's ongoing political activism, and, with an awareness of postmodern and third-wave trends, points toward its future. Significantly rewritten, reorganized, and updated, the fourth edition features seventeen new readings and new sections on feminism in China, India, South Korea, and Japan. In addition, the bulleted lists that introduce each type of feminism now include a critique as well as that particular feminism's theories on the sources of gender inequality, its politics, and its contributions. An accessible, engaging classic written by one of sociology's first feminists, Gender Inequality: Feminist Theories and Politics, Fourth Edition, is an ideal undergraduate and graduate text for courses in introductory feminism, feminist theory, and women's studies.

Author : Merry E. Wiesner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317886877

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Gender, Church and State in Early Modern Germany by Merry E. Wiesner Pdf

This text brings together eleven important pieces by Merry Wiesner, several of them previously unpublished, on three major areas in the study of women and gender in early modern Germany: religion, law and work. The final chapter, specially written for this volume addresses three fundamental questions: "Did women have a Reformation?"; "What effects did the development of capitalism have on women?"; and "Do the concepts 'Renaissance' and 'Early Modern' apply to women's experience?" The book concludes with an extensive bibliographical essay exploring both English and German scholarship.

Author : Elizabeth E. Brusco
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292791688

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The Reformation of Machismo by Elizabeth E. Brusco Pdf

Protestant evangelicalism has spread rapidly in Latin America at the same time that foreign corporations have taken hold of economies there. These concurrent developments have led some observers to view this religious movement as a means of melding converts into a disciplined work force for foreign capitalists rather than as a reflection of conscious individual choices made for a variety of personal, as well as economic, reasons. In this pioneering study, Elizabeth Brusco challenges such assumptions and explores the intra-household motivations for evangelical conversion in Colombia. She shows how the asceticism required of evangelicals (no drinking, smoking, or extramarital sexual relations are allowed) redirects male income back into the household, thereby raising the living standard of women and children. This benefit helps explain the appeal of evangelicalism for women and questions the traditional assumption that organized religion always disadvantages women. Brusco also demonstrates how evangelicalism appeals to men by offering an alternative to the more dysfunctional aspects of machismo. Case studies add a fascinating human dimension to her findings. With the challenges this book poses to conventional wisdom about economic, gender, and religious behavior, it will be important reading for a wide audience in anthropology, women’s studies, economics, and religion. For all students of Latin America, it offers thoughtful new perspectives on a major, grass-roots agent of social change.

Author : Joni Lovenduski
Publisher : Brighton, Sussex : Wheatsheaf Books
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Feminism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037945131

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Women and European Politics by Joni Lovenduski Pdf

Author : Joni Lovenduski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2005-11-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1139446762

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State Feminism and Political Representation by Joni Lovenduski Pdf

How can women maximise their political influence? Does state feminism enhance the political representation of women? Should feminism be established in state institutions to treat women's concerns? Written by experts in the field, this 2005 book uses an innovative model of political influence to construct answers to these and other questions in the long-running debate over the political representation of women. The book assesses how states respond to women's demands for political representation both in terms of their inclusion as actors and the consideration of their interests in the decision making process. Debates on the issue vary from country to country, depending on institutional structures, women's movements and other factors, and this book offered the first comparative account of the subject. The authors analyse eleven democracies in Europe and North America and present comprehensive research from the 1960s to the present.

Author : Johanna Brenner
Publisher : Aakar Books
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Feminism
ISBN : 8187879599

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Women and the Politics of Class by Johanna Brenner Pdf

In Women And The Politics Of Class, Johanna Brenner Offers A Distinctive View, Arguing For A Strategic Turn In Feminist Politics Toward Coalitions Centered On The Interests Of Working-Class Women.Women And The Politics Of Class Engages Many Crucial Contemporary Feminist Issues - Abortion, Reproductive Technology, Comparable Worth, The Impoverishment Of Women, The Crisis In Care-Giving, And The Shredding Of The Social Safety Net Through Welfare Reform And Budget Cuts. These Problems, Brenner Argues, Must Be Set In The Political And Economic Context Of A State And Society Dominated By The Imperatives Of Capital Accumulation.Drawing On Historical Explorations Of The Labor Movement And Working-Class Politics, Brenner Provides A Fresh Materialist Approach To One Of The Most Important Issues Of Feminist Theory Today: The Intersection Of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Sexuality, And Class.

Author : Monica Threlfall
Publisher : Verso
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1859849849

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Mapping the Women's Movement by Monica Threlfall Pdf

Second-wave feminism is now in its third decade. The movement that began in the 1960s in the United States has gone through many permutations, continuously emerging in new forms in different parts of the world. Awareness of gender has entered popular culture, redrawn political divisions and impinged on national economies and international institutions.

Author : Myra Ferree
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804780520

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Varieties of Feminism by Myra Ferree Pdf

Varieties of Feminism investigates the development of German feminism by contrasting it with women's movements that arise in countries, like the United States, committed to liberalism. With both conservative Christian and social democratic principles framing the feminist discourses and movement goals, which in turn shape public policy gains, Germany provides a tantalizing case study of gender politics done differently. The German feminist trajectory reflects new political opportunities created first by national reunification and later, by European Union integration, as well as by historically established assumptions about social justice, family values, and state responsibility for the common good. Tracing the opportunities, constraints, and conflicts generated by using class struggle as the framework for gender mobilization—juxtaposing this with the liberal tradition where gender and race are more typically framed as similar—Ferree reveals how German feminists developed strategies and movement priorities quite different from those in the United States.