Women in politics : gender, power and development /

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Women in Politics offers fresh perspectives on the different spaces, networks, and processes influencing women's political leadership today.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Tadros, Mariz, 1975- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; New York : Zed Books, 2014.
Series:Feminisms and development.
Subjects:
Women > Political activity > Developing countries.
Power (Social sciences)
Pouvoir (Sciences sociales)
Development studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Women > Political activity.
Developing countries.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Engaging politically : rethinking women's pathways to power / Mariz Tadros
  • Politics as service : pathways of district assembly women in Ghana / Takyiwaa Manuh
  • Exceptional women : reserved councillors in municipal corporations in Bangladesh / Sohela Hazneen, Iqbal Ehsan and Bayazid Hasan
  • Ejecting women from formal politics in the 'old-new' Egypt (2011-12) / Mariz Tadros
  • Local power and women's empowerment in a conflict context : Palestinian women contesting power in chaos / Islah Jad
  • Pathways to political power in Sudan / Sara Abbas
  • Crafting political pathways through the exclusionary Mesh in India / Kanchan Mathur
  • Independent candidacy : an alternative political pathway for women in Sierra Leone? / Hussaina J. Abdullah
  • Conservative modernization in Brazil : blocking local women's political pathways to power / Ana Alice Alcantara Costa and Andrea Cornwall.

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