Author: Jill M. Bystydzienski
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253212795
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
The book illustrates how community-based actions, programs, and organizations that allow women to determine their lives and participate in decision making contribute to the creation of a civil society and thus enhance democracy. The case studies show how participation in grassroots movements promotes women's involvement in their organizations, communities, and in societal institutions, as it influences state policy and empowers women in personal relationships.
Democratization and Women's Grassroots Movements
Author: Jill M. Bystydzienski
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253212795
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
The book illustrates how community-based actions, programs, and organizations that allow women to determine their lives and participate in decision making contribute to the creation of a civil society and thus enhance democracy. The case studies show how participation in grassroots movements promotes women's involvement in their organizations, communities, and in societal institutions, as it influences state policy and empowers women in personal relationships.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253212795
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
The book illustrates how community-based actions, programs, and organizations that allow women to determine their lives and participate in decision making contribute to the creation of a civil society and thus enhance democracy. The case studies show how participation in grassroots movements promotes women's involvement in their organizations, communities, and in societal institutions, as it influences state policy and empowers women in personal relationships.
Democratization And Women`s Grassroots Movements
Author: Jill M. Bystydzienski
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788186706565
Category : Democracy
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788186706565
Category : Democracy
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
Crazy for Democracy
Author: Temma Kaplan
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134719256
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Crazy for Democracy vividly shows, through the lives of six women in the United States and South Africa, just what can be and is being accomplished to change our lives. At a time when we're depressed about democracy, pessimistic about race relations, and anxious about feminism, Crazy for Democracy vividly shows, through the lives of six women in the United States and South Africa, just what can be and is being accomplished to change our lives. In building real social movements to achieve a safe environment, win human rights, and safeguard their homes, these grassroots feminist leaders have been creating democratic institutions to achieve social justice for us all.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134719256
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Crazy for Democracy vividly shows, through the lives of six women in the United States and South Africa, just what can be and is being accomplished to change our lives. At a time when we're depressed about democracy, pessimistic about race relations, and anxious about feminism, Crazy for Democracy vividly shows, through the lives of six women in the United States and South Africa, just what can be and is being accomplished to change our lives. In building real social movements to achieve a safe environment, win human rights, and safeguard their homes, these grassroots feminist leaders have been creating democratic institutions to achieve social justice for us all.
Democratization & Women's Grassroots Movements
Author: Jill M. Bystydzienski
Publisher: Zubaan
ISBN: 9788186706541
Category : Democratization
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
Contributed articles.
Publisher: Zubaan
ISBN: 9788186706541
Category : Democratization
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
Contributed articles.
Crazy for Democracy:
Governing Women
Author: Anne Marie Goetz
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135911061
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Though the proportion of women in national assemblies still barely scrapes 16% on average, the striking outliers – Rwanda with 49% of its assembly female, Argentina with 35%, Liberia and Chile with new women presidents this year – have raised expectations that there is an upward trend in women’s representation from which we may expect big changes in the quality of governance. But getting women into public office is just the first step in the challenge of creating governance and accountability systems that respond to women’s needs and protect their rights. Using case studies from around the world, the essays in this volume consider the conditions for effective connections between women in civil society and women in politics, for the evolution of political party platforms responsive to women’s interests, for local government arrangements that enable women to engage effectively, and for accountability mechanisms that answer to women. The book’s argument is that good governance from a gender perspective requires more than more women in politics. It requires fundamental incentive changes to orient public action and policy to support gender equality.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135911061
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Though the proportion of women in national assemblies still barely scrapes 16% on average, the striking outliers – Rwanda with 49% of its assembly female, Argentina with 35%, Liberia and Chile with new women presidents this year – have raised expectations that there is an upward trend in women’s representation from which we may expect big changes in the quality of governance. But getting women into public office is just the first step in the challenge of creating governance and accountability systems that respond to women’s needs and protect their rights. Using case studies from around the world, the essays in this volume consider the conditions for effective connections between women in civil society and women in politics, for the evolution of political party platforms responsive to women’s interests, for local government arrangements that enable women to engage effectively, and for accountability mechanisms that answer to women. The book’s argument is that good governance from a gender perspective requires more than more women in politics. It requires fundamental incentive changes to orient public action and policy to support gender equality.
For the Many
Author: Dorothy Sue Cobble
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691264589
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
A history of the twentieth-century feminists who fought for the rights of women, workers, and the poor, both in the United States and abroad For the Many presents an inspiring look at how US women and their global allies pushed the nation and the world toward justice and greater equality for all. Reclaiming social democracy as one of the central threads of American feminism, Dorothy Sue Cobble offers a bold rewriting of twentieth-century feminist history and documents how forces, peoples, and ideas worldwide shaped American politics. Cobble follows egalitarian women’s activism from the explosion of democracy movements before World War I to the establishment of the New Deal, through the upheavals in rights and social citizenship at midcentury, to the reassertion of conservatism and the revival of female-led movements today. Cobble brings to life the women who crossed borders of class, race, and nation to build grassroots campaigns, found international institutions, and enact policies dedicated to raising standards of life for everyone. Readers encounter famous figures, including Eleanor Roosevelt, Frances Perkins, and Mary McLeod Bethune, together with less well-known leaders, such as Rose Schneiderman, Maida Springer Kemp, and Esther Peterson. Multiple generations partnered to expand social and economic rights, and despite setbacks, the fight for the many persists, as twenty-first-century activists urgently demand a more caring, inclusive world. Putting women at the center of US political history, For the Many reveals the powerful currents of democratic equality that spurred American feminists to seek a better life for all.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691264589
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
A history of the twentieth-century feminists who fought for the rights of women, workers, and the poor, both in the United States and abroad For the Many presents an inspiring look at how US women and their global allies pushed the nation and the world toward justice and greater equality for all. Reclaiming social democracy as one of the central threads of American feminism, Dorothy Sue Cobble offers a bold rewriting of twentieth-century feminist history and documents how forces, peoples, and ideas worldwide shaped American politics. Cobble follows egalitarian women’s activism from the explosion of democracy movements before World War I to the establishment of the New Deal, through the upheavals in rights and social citizenship at midcentury, to the reassertion of conservatism and the revival of female-led movements today. Cobble brings to life the women who crossed borders of class, race, and nation to build grassroots campaigns, found international institutions, and enact policies dedicated to raising standards of life for everyone. Readers encounter famous figures, including Eleanor Roosevelt, Frances Perkins, and Mary McLeod Bethune, together with less well-known leaders, such as Rose Schneiderman, Maida Springer Kemp, and Esther Peterson. Multiple generations partnered to expand social and economic rights, and despite setbacks, the fight for the many persists, as twenty-first-century activists urgently demand a more caring, inclusive world. Putting women at the center of US political history, For the Many reveals the powerful currents of democratic equality that spurred American feminists to seek a better life for all.
Women in Contemporary Democratization
Author: Shahra Razavi
Publisher: United Nations Research Institute for Social Development
ISBN:
Category : Democracy
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
This paper looks at the issue of democratization from a gender perspective. While many of the problems afflicting the "new democracies" (such as the elitist character of political parties, and the failure of the state to guarantee civil and political rights or make a significant dent in poverty) affect all citizens, they are manifested and experienced in gender-specific ways. Women's persistent exclusion from formal politics, in particular, raises a number of specific questions about how to reform democratic institutions, since these institutions are not automatically gender-equitable.
Publisher: United Nations Research Institute for Social Development
ISBN:
Category : Democracy
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
This paper looks at the issue of democratization from a gender perspective. While many of the problems afflicting the "new democracies" (such as the elitist character of political parties, and the failure of the state to guarantee civil and political rights or make a significant dent in poverty) affect all citizens, they are manifested and experienced in gender-specific ways. Women's persistent exclusion from formal politics, in particular, raises a number of specific questions about how to reform democratic institutions, since these institutions are not automatically gender-equitable.
The Women's Movement In Latin America
Author: Jane Jaquette
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429973926
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
For those interested in democratic transition and consolidation, social movements, and gender politics, this volume is the most comprehensive, up-to-date, and probing analysis available of how women's groups are helping to reshape Latin America. The contributors document and assess the remarkable wave of women's political participation in Latin America over the past two decades. The first five case studies, on Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, and Peru, examine the origins, evolution, and goals of women's organizations as they worked together to end authoritarian rule and elaborate how women's groups have adapted in the 1990s to the day-to-day realities of democratic politics. In the 1990s, the challenge has shifted from mobilizing opposition to the very different task of working with parties and government bureaucracies in order to maintain and implement their agendas. The chapters on Nicaragua and Mexico broaden our understanding of political transitions.Seven case studies vividly illustrate the variety of women's movements in the region, ranging from the communal-kitchens movements to human rights groups. Each author discusses the strategies and debates of the feminist movements in question and records their political successes and failures. Jaquette's introductory and concluding essays provide a comparative framework, highlighting the innovative ways in which Latin American women are making gender a political issue.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429973926
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
For those interested in democratic transition and consolidation, social movements, and gender politics, this volume is the most comprehensive, up-to-date, and probing analysis available of how women's groups are helping to reshape Latin America. The contributors document and assess the remarkable wave of women's political participation in Latin America over the past two decades. The first five case studies, on Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, and Peru, examine the origins, evolution, and goals of women's organizations as they worked together to end authoritarian rule and elaborate how women's groups have adapted in the 1990s to the day-to-day realities of democratic politics. In the 1990s, the challenge has shifted from mobilizing opposition to the very different task of working with parties and government bureaucracies in order to maintain and implement their agendas. The chapters on Nicaragua and Mexico broaden our understanding of political transitions.Seven case studies vividly illustrate the variety of women's movements in the region, ranging from the communal-kitchens movements to human rights groups. Each author discusses the strategies and debates of the feminist movements in question and records their political successes and failures. Jaquette's introductory and concluding essays provide a comparative framework, highlighting the innovative ways in which Latin American women are making gender a political issue.
The Women's March and the Reimagining of American Democracy
Author: Brianna Colleen Steele
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Democracy
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
"On January 21, 2017, the first Women's March took place. Approximately 4.2 million people participated in the Women's March and it has since been recognized as the largest single-day protest in American history. Since the first Women's March occurred, a record-breaking number of women ran for public office in the United States and there has been a documented increase in sustained, political activism. In my paper, I argue that the Women's March, an intersectional, women-led grassroots movement, is directly responsible for tangible changes occurring in American democracy. My argument primarily is based on bell hooks' theory of revolutionary feminism, in which hooks contends that the current sociopolitical system, which has historically been a white-male-dominated field, is inherently corrupt and thus true gender equality cannot be achieved within the current framework. Therefore, hooks maintains, that the system itself needs to be completely transformed. I utilize hooks' theory of revolutionary feminism as the framework for my paper, in which I posit that the drastic increase in women running for elective office and engaging in political activism are attempts to dismantle the current sociopolitical system and create a new one based on equality, rather than white patriarchy. Although not all of these attempts were successful, I contend that the women-led efforts have fundamentally changed American democracy and taken enormous strides in creating a new sociopolitical system based on egalitarianism, rather than white-male normativity"--leaf [i].
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Democracy
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
"On January 21, 2017, the first Women's March took place. Approximately 4.2 million people participated in the Women's March and it has since been recognized as the largest single-day protest in American history. Since the first Women's March occurred, a record-breaking number of women ran for public office in the United States and there has been a documented increase in sustained, political activism. In my paper, I argue that the Women's March, an intersectional, women-led grassroots movement, is directly responsible for tangible changes occurring in American democracy. My argument primarily is based on bell hooks' theory of revolutionary feminism, in which hooks contends that the current sociopolitical system, which has historically been a white-male-dominated field, is inherently corrupt and thus true gender equality cannot be achieved within the current framework. Therefore, hooks maintains, that the system itself needs to be completely transformed. I utilize hooks' theory of revolutionary feminism as the framework for my paper, in which I posit that the drastic increase in women running for elective office and engaging in political activism are attempts to dismantle the current sociopolitical system and create a new one based on equality, rather than white patriarchy. Although not all of these attempts were successful, I contend that the women-led efforts have fundamentally changed American democracy and taken enormous strides in creating a new sociopolitical system based on egalitarianism, rather than white-male normativity"--leaf [i].