Women and Politics Worldwide

Häftad bok. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 1994. xiv+818 sidor.

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"To what extent do women participate in the decisions that shape the political and economic contours of the world? In what ways do women in different countries have different political goals? How should women mobilize for change? This important book – the first to analyze the complexities of women's political participation on a cross-national scale and from a feminist perspective – surveys forty-three countries, chosen to represent a variety of political systems, levels of economic development, and regions, in order to answer these questions. The research definitively demonstrates that in no country do women have political status, access, or influence equal to men's. [...]"
Table of contents:
Part 1: Redefining Politics: Patterns of Women's Political Engagement from a Global Perspective; Research, Design and Practice: Methodological Issues in Feminist Comparative Politics Research; Global Research on Women's Political Engagement: The History of the Women and Politics Worldwide Project; Measuring Women's Status, Portraying Women's Lives: Problems in Collecting Data on Women's Experiences. Part 2: Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, China, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia (former), Egypt, France, Germany, Ghana, Great Britain, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Israel, Japan, Kenya, Korea, Mexico, Morocco, Nepal, The Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Palestine, Papua New Guinea, Peru, The Philippines, Poland, Puerto Rico, South Africa, Spain, Sudan, Switzerland, Turkey, U.S.S.R.(former), United States, Uruguay, Appendix.