Women and politics worldwide /
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| Imprint: | New Haven : Yale University Press, c1994. |
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| Description: | xi, 818 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1502884 |
Table of Contents:
- Redefining Politics: Patterns of Women's Political Engagement from a Global Perspective / Najma Chowdhury, Barbara J. Nelson, Kathryn A. Carver, Nancy J. Johnson and Paula L. O'Loughlin
- Research Design and Practice: Methodological Issues in Feminist Comparative Politics Research / Najma Chowdhury, Barbara J. Nelson, Nancy J. Johnson and Paula L. O'Loughlin
- Global Research on Women's Political Engagement: The History of the Women and Politics Worldwide Project / Najma Chowdhury, Nancy J. Johnson, Barbara J. Nelson and Paula L. O'Loughlin
- Measuring Women's Status, Portraying Women's Lives: Problems in Collecting Data on Women's Experiences / Barbara J. Nelson, Kathryn A. Carver, Paula L. O'Loughlin and Whitney Thompson
- From Family Ties to Political Action: Women's Experiences in Argentina / Maria Del Carmen Feijoo
- Locked Out or Locked In? Women and Politics in Australia / Marian Sawer
- Bangladesh: Gender Issues and Politics in a Patriarchy / Najma Chowdhury
- Women and Politics: Gender Relations in Bolivian Political Organizations and Labor Unions / Gloria Ardaya Salinas
- Women in the Struggle for Democracy and Equal Rights in Brazil / Fanny Tabak
- Building a Political Voice: Women's Participation and Policy Influence in Canada / Sylvia Bashevkin
- Women's Life in New China / Yue Daiyun and Li Jin
- With Patience and Without Blood: The Political Struggles of Costa Rican Women / Mirta Gonzalez-Suarez
- Revolutionizing Women, Family, and Power / Jean Stubbs
- Women's Issues in Czechoslovakia in the Communist and Postcommunist Periods / Sharon L. Wolchik
- The Paradoxes of State Feminism in Egypt / Mervat E. Hatem
- The Same or Different? An Unending Dilemma for French Women / Jane Jenson and Mariette Sineau
- Women and Politics: The New Federal Republic of Germany / Christiane Lemke
- Women and the Evolution of a Ghanaian Political Synthesis / Kamene Okonjo
- The Rules of the Political Game: Feminism and Politics in Great Britain / Joni Lovenduski
- Women Confronting Party Politics in Greece / Ann R. Cacoullos
- The Underdeveloped Political Potential of Women in Hong Kong / Fanny M. Cheung, Shirley Po-San Wan and Olivia Chi-Kie Wan
- Hungarian Women's Political Participation in the Transition to Democracy / Katalin Koncz
- Women's Political Engagement in India: Some Critical Issues / Hem Lata Swarup, Niroi Sinha, Chitra Ghosh and Pam Rajput
- Women and Politics in Israel / Daphna Sharfman
- The U.N. Convention on Eliminating Discrimination Against Women and the Status of Women in Japan / Nutta Yoko, Yamaguchi Mitsuko and Kubo Kimiko
- Man-Made Political Machinery in Kenya: Political Space for Women? / Maria Nzomo and Kathleen Staudt
- Women's Political Engagement and Participation in the Republic of Korea / Bong-Scuk Sohn
- The Struggle for Life, or Pulling Off the Mask of Infamy / Eli Bartra
- Women in Morocco: Gender Issues and Politics / Aicha Afifi and Rajae Msefer
- Political Participation of Women in Nepal / Meena Acharya
- Political Participation of Women: The Netherlands / Monique Leijenaar and Kees Niemoller
- Reversing the Marginalization of the Invisible and Silent Majority: Women in Politics in Nigeria / Kamene Okonjo
- The State and Women: A Troubled Relationship in Norway / Janneke Van Der Ros
- Women's Participation in the Palestine Liberation Organization / Amal Kawar
- Rhetoric, Reality, and a Dilemma: Women and Politics in Papua New Guinea / Eileen Wormald
- Between Confusion and the Law: Women and Politics in Peru / Virginia Vargas and Victoria Villanueva
- Philippine Feminism in Historical Perspective / Belinda A. Aquino
- Polish Women as the Object and Subject of Politics During and After the Communist Period / Renata Siemienska
- At the Crossroads: Colonialism and Feminism in Puerto Rico / Yamila Azize-Vargas
- Women in Politics Under Apartheid: A Challenge to the New South Africa / Barbara Klugman
- Women's Political Engagement in Spain / Maria Teresa Gallego Mendez
- The Women's Movement, Displaced Women, and Rural Women in Sudan / Magda M. El-Sanousi and Nafisa Ahmed El-Amin
- Direct Democracy and Women's Suffrage: Antagonism in Switzerland / Regula Stampeli
- Turkish Women as Agents of Social Change in a Pluralist Democracy / Nermin Abadan-Unat and Oya Tokgoz
- Soviet Women and Politics: On the Brink of Change / Olga A. Voronina
- Many Voices But Few Vehicles: The Consequences for Women of Weak Political Infrastructure in the United States / Barbara J. Nelson and Kathryn A. Carver
- Uruguay: A Recent History of a Subject with a History of Its Own / Graciela Sapriza
- Appendix: Selected Information from the Country Charts.