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Routledge Research in Gender and Politics


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Gender and the Judiciary in Africa From Obscurity to Parity?

Gender and the Judiciary in Africa: From Obscurity to Parity?

1st Edition

Edited By Gretchen Bauer, Josephine Dawuni
August 14, 2018

Between 2000 and 2015, women ascended to the top of judiciaries across Africa, most notably as chief justices of supreme courts in common law countries like Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Gambia, Malawi, Lesotho and Zambia, but also as presidents of constitutional courts in civil law countries such ...

International Courts and the African Woman Judge Unveiled Narratives

International Courts and the African Woman Judge: Unveiled Narratives

1st Edition

Edited By Josephine Jarpa Dawuni, Hon. Akua Kuenyehia
December 06, 2017

A sequel to Bauer and Dawuni's pioneering study on gender and the judiciary in Africa (Routledge, 2016), International Courts and the African Woman Judge examines questions on gender diversity, representative benches, and international courts by focusing on women judges from the continent of Africa...

The Principles of Gender-Sensitive Parliaments

The Principles of Gender-Sensitive Parliaments

1st Edition

By Lena Wängnerud
March 14, 2017

Gender serves as a lens that makes visible important issues in the field of representation: Whom do elected politicians represent? What is at stake in the parliamentary process? What do we know about the interplay between parliaments and the everyday lives of citizens? It is widely understood that ...

Maternal Transition A North-South Politics of Pregnancy and Childbirth

Maternal Transition: A North-South Politics of Pregnancy and Childbirth

1st Edition

By Candace Johnson
March 30, 2016

What are the political dimensions that are revealed in women’s preferences for health care during pregnancy and childbirth? The answers to this question vary from one community to the next, and often from woman to the next, although the trends in the Global North and South are strikingly different....

The Women’s Movement in Protest, Institutions and the Internet Australia in transnational perspective

The Women’s Movement in Protest, Institutions and the Internet: Australia in transnational perspective

1st Edition

Edited By Sarah Maddison, Marian Sawer
September 29, 2015

The death of feminism is regularly proclaimed in the West. Yet at the same time feminism has never had such an extensive presence, whether in international norms and institutions, or online in blogs and social networking campaigns. This book argues that the women’s movement is not over; but rather ...

The Politics of Gender Culture under State Socialism An Expropriated Voice

The Politics of Gender Culture under State Socialism: An Expropriated Voice

1st Edition

Edited By Hana Havelková, Libora Oates-Indruchová
July 31, 2015

Though there has been much research on the incomplete emancipation project of state socialism in East and Central Europe, very little has been published on how the state and its institutions conceived of gender as a concept. This book seeks to understand if and how this conceptualization developed ...

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