1st Edition

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

By Mary Hawkesworth Copyright 2016

    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