Author: Georgia MattisonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Women in Citizen Advocacy
Author: Georgia MattisonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Political Worlds of Women, Student Economy Edition
Author: Mary HawkesworthPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429972938
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
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.
A New Weave of Power, People and Politics
Author: Lisa VeneKlasenPublisher: Practical Action Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
This book provides an approach for promoting citizen participation; separating human rights, rule of law, development, and governance, reconnecting them in order to create an integrated approach to rights-based political empowerment; delving into questions of citizenship, constituency-building, social change, gender, and accountability.
Political Worlds of Women, Student Economy Edition
Author: Mary HawkesworthPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429961855
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
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.
Reclaiming Lives
Author: Joan TreppaPublisher:
ISBN: 9781952976162
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
ONE AVERAGE BUT DETERMINED WOMAN SETS OUT TO SHAKE UP THE JUSTICE SYSTEM IN THE NAME OF SIX WRONGFULLY CONVICTED MEN. The 1992 death of mill worker, Tom Monfils, and the resulting trial of six men accused of his murder shocked a community. In 2009, Joan read a factual book about the case which sent her on a mission to seek justice for these men. Realizing a deep emotional connection to them, she ignites the interest of a retired crime scene expert/private investigator who initiates a reinvestigation. Reclaiming Lives provides an uncomplicated examination of our nation's criminal justice system. Its overall message validates truths in the face of adversity, delivers hope where there was none, and demonstrates the capacity to overcome insurmountable obstacles. As of April 30, 2021, the National Registry of Exonerations reports that some 2,776 actually innocent, but wrongly convicted, individuals in the U.S. have been exonerated since 1989. As "Reclaiming Lives" painfully reveals, however, this number represents only a fraction of the total number of actually innocent people who have been wrongly convicted since 1989, but not yet exonerated. Joan Treppa's dedicated, years-long effort to obtain justice for the "Monfils Six" defendants is testament to the inherent difficulty in overturning wrongful convictions, even when the evidence of actual innocence compellingly refutes the prosecution's case. "Reclaiming Lives" teaches the reader why it is not only critical to prevent wrongly convictions from occurring in the first instance but also why the criminal justice system must be far more willing than it has often been to correct these injustices after they are shown to have occurred. - Steve Kaplan, former post-conviction counsel for Keith Kutska.
Women in Citizen Advocacy
Author: Georgia MattisonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Sustaining the League of Women Voters in America
Author: Maria Hoyt CashinPublisher: New Acdemia+ORM
ISBN: 1955835233
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
A look at the decline of civic engagement, and how nonpartisan organizations like the League of Women Voters can help save and promote democracy. Throughout our history, civic associations have enabled democracy through citizen training, education, and responsible advocacy. But Americans have increasingly withdrawn from such civic activity, and most associations that remain lack public accountability, local presence, and active membership. In the absence of other engagement vehicles, a fundamental requirement for viable American democratic culture is lacking. To consider whether democracy and associations can still be positively linked, Maria Hoyt Cashin considers lessons drawn from the League of Women Voters. Worldwide, few associations have shown the durability, success, or democratic impact of the League over its long history. Yet its numbers are gradually declining. Forecasting the League’s uncertain future, Cashin suggests it may be time to give such civic associations a public boost. “Deftly combining contemporary political theory with empirical analysis, Cashin’s work reminds us that good models of democratic association, such as the League of Women Voters, can reconnect our practices and our principles.” —Emily Howden Hoechst, Adjunct Professor, Department of Government, Georgetown University “Cashin makes excellent use of both theory and practice to argue persuasively that civic associations are necessary if democracy is to thrive.” —Thomas M. Kerch, Adjunct Professor, Department of Government and Graduate Liberal Studies Program, Georgetown University “A welcome story and needed message. Molly Cashin reminds us nonpartisan civic activism is still possible. Numbers count, but so do values, and the League is a sterling example.” —Charles Yonkers, Adjunct Professor, Graduate Liberal Studies Program, Georgetown University
Push Back, Move Forward
Author: Laura R. WoliverPublisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 9781439916827
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The coalition known as the National Council of Women’s Organizations no longer exists today, but the history and the lessons learned from the NCWO’s activism remain as important as ever—perhaps even more so in this age of Trump. Laura Woliver spent fifteen years doing fieldwork and conducting research and interviews to understand how the NCWO coalition group functioned. The result is her impressive study, Push Back, Move Forward. Woliver explores the foundational work of the NCWO and member groups to promote women’s economic security, citizen status, and political rights. She investigates women’s access to previously “male only” organizations, such as private clubs; the increase in voter participation generated by measures such as early voting; advocacy campaigns for such benefit programs as Social Security and the Affordable Care Act; and global human and women’s rights activism. In addition, she examines the accomplishments of women of color, both alongside and within the NCWO, who orient their politics toward achieving justice and attaining rights. Push Back, Move Forward artfully documents this important group’s activities while also gleaning larger lessons about coalition organizations.
Self-advocacy for New York's Citizens
Author: League of Women Voters of New York StatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lobbying
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Feminist Advocacy and Gender Equity in the Anglophone Caribbean
Author: Michelle V. RowleyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136839453
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
This book uses the Anglophone Caribbean as its site of critique to explore two important questions within development studies. First, to what extent has the United Nations' call to implement gender-mainstreaming projects resulted in the realization of gender equity for women within developing societies? Second, does gender-mainstreaming have the conceptual, operational, and technical capacities to address the centrality of the body in 21st-century lobbies for gender equity? In answering these questions, Rowley examines such issues as reproductive rights and equity, sexual harassment, and sexual minorities' rights.