1st Edition

Political Worlds of Women, Student Economy Edition Activism, Advocacy, and Governance in the Twenty-First Century

By Mary Hawkesworth Copyright 2016
450 Pages
by Routledge

450 Pages
by Routledge

This book examines female engagement in both traditional and unconventional political arenas, including female sociability, salons, child-rearing and education, health, consumption, religious reform and nationalism.

Political Worlds of Women: Introduction -- Political Leadership, Gendered Institutions, and the Politics of Exclusion -- From Demography to Development: Women’s Worlds and the Politics of Knowledge -- Producing Raced-Gendered Citizens -- From the Politics of Identity to Identity Politics -- Engaging the State -- Becoming the State -- Promoting Equality Through Policymaking and Policy -- International and Transnational Political Activism -- Virtual Politics -- Political Worlds of Women: Future Prospects

Biography

Hawkesworth, Mary