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Women and States

Author : Ann E. Towns
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521768856

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This book examines momentous changes over the last century which have advanced women's status around the globe.

Women and the State

Author : Anne Showstack Sassoon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429686337

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In the late 1980s, despite the fact that the vast majority of women now had a dual role – in paid work and in the domestic realm – the world of work, the welfare state, and the domestic sphere were all still organized as though women’s place were primarily in the home. Though this contradiction most directly affected women, it had implications for the lives of both sexes, and in a much wider social context. Women’s changing role had paralleled a major restructuring of the economy but the importance of these changes was barely reflected in contemporary political discussions, or in political science or social policy literature. In this title, originally published in 1987, articles from women in Italy, France, Denmark, Norway, the US and Britain bring the issues sharply into focus. Applying fresh perspectives, they widen and enrich the debate. This book marks a powerful contribution to a new and more realistic assessment of women’s dual role in the state and the economy which should be read by all those concerned with the development of women’s issues and with women’s studies.

Women, States and Nationalism

Author : Sita Ranchod-Nilsson,Mary Ann Tetreault
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134597277

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Women, States and Nationalism by Sita Ranchod-Nilsson,Mary Ann Tetreault Pdf

Women, States and Nationalism counters this attitude and examines the many and contradictory ways in which women negotiate their places in 'the nation'. The volume includes theoretical essays that explore the multiple ways in which the very concept of 'nation' is based upon notions of family, sexuality and gender power which are often overlooked of downplayed by 'male-stream' scholarship. It gathers together an outstanding panel of feminist scholars and area studies specialists, who, through a series of focused case studies, analyse diverse issues which include; *gender and sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland *the paradox of Israeli women soldiers *women, civic duty and the military in the USA *the Hindu Right in India *power, agency and representation in Zimbabwe *political identity and heterosexism. This timely volume is a highly valuable resource for students and scholars of Nationalism, Internationalism Studies and Women's Studies.

Women, the State and Revolution

Author : Wendy Z. Goldman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1993-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0521458161

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Focusing on how women, peasants and orphans responded to Bolshevk attempts to remake the family, this text reveals how, by 1936, legislation designed to liberate women had given way to increasingly conservative solutions strengthening traditional family values.

States and Women's Rights

Author : Mounira Charrad
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0520935470

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States and Women's Rights by Mounira Charrad Pdf

At a time when the situation of women in the Islamic world is of global interest, here is a study that unlocks the mystery of why women's fates vary so greatly from one country to another. Mounira M. Charrad analyzes the distinctive nature of Islamic legal codes by placing them in the larger context of state power in various societies. Charrad argues that many analysts miss what is going on in Islamic societies because they fail to recognize the logic of the kin-based model of social and political life, which she contrasts with the Western class-centered model. In a skillful synthesis, she shows how the logic of Islamic legal codes and kin-based political power affect the position of women. These provide the key to Charrad's empirical puzzle: why, after colonial rule, women in Tunisia gained broad legal rights (even in the absence of a feminist protest movement) while, despite similarities in culture and religion, women remained subordinated in post-independence Morocco and Algeria. Charrad's elegant theory, crisp writing, and solid scholarship make a unique contribution in developing a state-building paradigm to discuss women's rights. This book will interest readers in the fields of sociology, politics, law, women's studies, postcolonial studies, Middle Eastern studies, Middle Eastern history, French history, and Maghrib studies.

Women, the State, and Development

Author : Sue Ellen M. Charlton,Jana Everett,Kathleen Staudt
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1989-07-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780791498798

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Women, the State, and Development by Sue Ellen M. Charlton,Jana Everett,Kathleen Staudt Pdf

This book reflects the most current scholarship on states, socioeconomic development, and feminist theory to emerge this decade. Addressed are issues such as the role of state policies and ideologies in defining gender differences, state influence over the boundaries between public and domestic spheres, state control over women's productive and reproductive lives, and the efforts of women to influence state policy. Women, the State, and Development shows that state elites promote male domination as one way of maintaining social order when nation-states are created and strengthened, and that issues defined as male by the sexual division of labor are given priority in state policies that promote security and economic development such as foreign policy, international trade, agricultural development, and resource extraction. It analyzes these policies in terms of their impact on gender relations and also identifies ways in which women have responded.

Women, the State, and Welfare

Author : Linda Gordon
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780299126636

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A collection of essays about women and welfare in America, this book discusses how welfare programmes affect women and how gender relations have influenced the structure of such programmes. Issues such as race and class are also discussed.

Black Women Under State: Surveillance, Poverty & the Violence of Social Assistance

Author : Idil Abdillahi
Publisher : Arp Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1927886589

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The lives and conditions of Black women are inseparable from, and inextricably linked to, all dimensions of social and political life. Black Women Under State centres the realities of Black women, both in process and theory, who are living at the intersections of race, poverty, surveillance, and social services. Abdillahi, who is uniquely positioned as a community organizer, care worker, public intellectual, and scholar, engaged twenty women living at these life-intersections in the greater Toronto area. The text undertakes a deep and studied inquiry into these women?s subjective experiences of surveillance while on the province of Ontario?s social assistance program Ontario Works, and interrogates the dimensional effects of those experiences. Offering a timely and crucial contribution to the discourse around abolition, Abdillahi makes explicit the ways in which social systems are made opaque so that we don?t connect them to the carceral state; this concept of carceral care talks to abolition as the broad concept that it is?a fully-embraced understanding that abolition dismantles systems of policing that extend beyond the institution we call the police. Three major themes emerge through her inquiry: surveillance, poverty, and morality?each interconnected to a larger social and public policy discourse. Abdillahi employs Critical Race Theory and Black Feminist Thought as primary theoretical lenses as she animates the lives of these women, alongside and in conversation with existing research, theory and practice, revealing direct links among their experience, in order to demonstrate the shared, longstanding, and ongoing historicity of the interconnectedness of Black women?s experience globally. The vast majority of the book?s citations are from Black Canadians, giving the text its own narrative around citational practice. Through a dynamic interlacing of contemporary critical thought and lived experience, Black Women Under State contributes to filling a gap in social policy literature, which has typically disregarded the subjective experiences of Black women or treated them as a mere addendum.

Women in the United States, 1830-1945

Author : S. J. Kleinberg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1999-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349276981

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Women in the United States, 1830-1945 investigates women's economic, social, political and cultural history, encompassing all ethnic and racial groups and religions. It provides a general introduction to the history of women in industrializing America. Both a history of women and a history of the United States, its chronology is shaped by economic stages and political events. Although there were vast changes in all aspects of women's lives, gender (the social roles imputed to the sexes) continued to define women's (and men's) lives as much in 1945 as it had in 1830.

Where Women Run

Author : Kira Sanbonmatsu
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780472025657

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Why don’t more women run for office? Why are certain states more likely to have female candidates and representatives? Would strengthening political parties narrow the national gender gap? Where Women Run addresses these important questions through a rare and incisive look at how candidates are recruited. Drawing on surveys and case studies of party leaders and legislators in six states, political scientist Kira Sanbonmatsu analyzes the links between parties and representation, exposing the mechanism by which parties’ informal recruitment practices shape who runs—or doesn’t run—for political office in America. “Kira Sanbonmatsu has done a masterful job of linking the representation of women in elective office to the activities of party organizations in the states. She combines qualitative and quantitative data to show how women are navigating the campaign process to become elected leaders and the changing role of party organizations in their recruitment and election. It is a significant contribution to the study of representative democracy.” --Barbara Burrell, Northern Illinois University “Sanbonmatsu has produced an excellent study that will invigorate research on the role of political parties and the recruitment of women candidates. Using a variety of methods and data sources, she has crafted a tightly constructed, clearly argued, and exceedingly well-written study. A commendable and convincing job.” --Gary Moncrief, Boise State University “Sanbonmatsu offers important insights in two neglected areas of American politics: the role of political parties in recruiting candidates and the continued under-representation of women in elected office. Connecting the two subjects through careful qualitative and statistical methods, insightful interpretation of the literature and interesting findings, the book is a significant new addition to scholarship on parties, gender, and political recruitment.” --Linda Fowler, Dartmouth College Kira Sanbonmatsu is Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University and Senior Scholar at the Eagleton Institute of Politics’ Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP). She was previously associate professor at Ohio State University. She is the author of Democrats, Republicans, and the Politics of Women’s Place.

More Women Can Run

Author : Susan J. Carroll,Kira Sanbonmatsu
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199361168

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More Women Can Run by Susan J. Carroll,Kira Sanbonmatsu Pdf

Women remain dramatically underrepresented in elective office, including in entry-level political offices. While they enjoy the freedom to stand for office and therefore have an equal legal footing with men, this persistent gender imbalance raises pressing questions about democratic legitimacy, the inclusivity of American politics, and the quality of political representation. The reasons for women's underrepresentation remain the subject of much debate. One explanation--that the United States lacks sufficient openings for political newcomers--has become less compelling in recent years, as states that have adopted term limits have not seen the expected gains in women's office holding. Other accounts about candidate scarcity, gender inequalities in society, and the lingering effects of gendered socialization have some merit; however, these accounts still fail to explain the relatively low numbers. Drawing upon original surveys conducted in 1981 and 2008 by the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) of women state legislators across all fifty states, and follow-up interviews after the 2008 survey, the authors find that gender differences in pathways to the legislatures, first evident in 1981, have been surprisingly persistent over time. They find that, while the ambition framework better explains men's decisions to run for office, a relationally embedded model of candidate emergence better captures women's decision-making, with women's decisions more often influenced by the encouragement and support of parties, organizations, and family members. By rethinking the nature of women's representation, this study calls for a reorientation of academic research on women's election to office and provides insight into new strategies for political practitioners concerned about women's political equality.

Women and Leadership

Author : Deborah L. Rhode
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : LAW
ISBN : 9780190614713

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Cover -- Women and Leadership -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Women in Politics -- 3 Women in Management -- 4 Women in Law -- 5 Women in Academia -- 6 Women on Boards -- 7 Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index

Women And The State

Author : Shirin M. Rai,Geraldine Lievesley
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135345945

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Women And The State by Shirin M. Rai,Geraldine Lievesley Pdf

Offering a wide-ranging selection of case studies, this book evaluates women's political, social and economic involvement in Third World countries. It explores both specific experiences of women as well as common themes such as identity, empowerment and the conflict between tradition and modernity.

The Handbook of Political Sociology

Author : Thomas Janoski,Robert R. Alford,Alexander M. Hicks,Mildred A. Schwartz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 844 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005-05-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1139443577

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The Handbook of Political Sociology by Thomas Janoski,Robert R. Alford,Alexander M. Hicks,Mildred A. Schwartz Pdf

This Handbook provides a complete survey of the vibrant field of political sociology. Part I explores the theories of political sociology. Part II focuses on the formation, transitions, and regime structure of the state. Part III takes up various aspects of the state that respond to pressures from civil society.

Women and Sports in the United States

Author : Jean O'Reilly
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781555537876

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Women and Sports in the United States by Jean O'Reilly Pdf

The only anthology available documenting 100 years of women in American sports