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Tag Archives: Gender
Apr 17 2013
The very fact that Thatcher can be lauded as the woman who broke the mould is indicative of the challenges which women still face in contemporary politics
Leave a commentTweet Anne Phillips reflects on the legacy which Margaret Thatcher, the UK’s first female Prime Minister, left for women. This debate has tended to be a polarised one, with sweeping claims made on the basis of what is, in essence, a … Continue reading
Posted by: April 17, 2013
Tagged with: Gender, Margaret Thatcher
Apr 14 2013
Book Review: Women and Wars
Leave a commentTweet In traditional historical and scholarly accounts of the making and fighting of wars, women are often nowhere to be seen. With few exceptions, war stories are told as if men were the only ones who plan, fight, are injured … Continue reading
Posted by: April 14, 2013
Tagged with: Gender, militarism, war
Mar 24 2013
Book Review: The Impact of Gender Quotas
1 CommentTweet With the increasing prominence which debates about gender quotas enjoy within public life, it is imperative that we understand how, if at all, they achieve the ends to which they are directed. It is in this context that the … Continue reading
Posted by: March 24, 2013
Tagged with: Gender, gender quotas, representation
Feb 3 2013
Book Review: The Gendered Effects of Electoral Institutions: Political Engagement and Participation
Leave a commentTweet An increasing awareness of the under-representation of women in parliaments and business has gone hand in hand with increasing debate about gender quotas as a means of rectifying this situation. However, questions persist about their efficacy. The Gendered Effects of … Continue reading
Posted by: February 3, 2013
Tagged with: elections, Electoral Institutions, Gender, Leslie Schwindt-Bayer, Miki Caul Kittilson, voting
Jan 13 2013
Book Review: Gender, Agency and Political Violence: Rethinking Political Violence
Leave a commentTweet Considering the conditions, maintenance, and interpretation of political violence, the authors contributing to Gender, Agency and Political Violence analyse the multiple ways in which acts of violence, strategies of resistance, and efforts at conflict resolution are gendered. Featuring chapters on emotion … Continue reading
Posted by: January 13, 2013
Tagged with: Gender, Megan O’Branski, political violence
Dec 2 2012
Book Review: Gender and Cosmopolitanism in Europe: A Feminist Perspective
Leave a commentTweet This book combines a feminist critique of contemporary and prominent approaches to cosmopolitanism with an analysis of historical cosmopolitanism and the manner in which gendered symbolic boundaries of national political communities in Britain and Germany are drawn. Exploring the … Continue reading
Posted by: December 2, 2012
Tagged with: Beck, Bhabha, Cosmpolitanism, Europe, Gender, Habermas, Held, Ulrike Vieten
Nov 21 2012
Women should not have to justify their political presence on any other basis than justice
Leave a commentTweet While there a wide range of motivations underlying opposition to increases in women’s political representation, Joni Lovenduski argues that they all contribute towards a much wider misunderstanding about what the data tells us about women in politics. The pervasiveness of such … Continue reading
Posted by: November 21, 2012
Tagged with: feminism, Gender, Joni Lovenduski, women representation
Nov 18 2012
Book Review: Why Are Women More Religious Than Men?
1 CommentTweet Despite being excluded from leadership positions, in almost every culture and religious tradition, women are more likely than men to pray, to worship, and to claim that their faith is important to them. This book reviews the now-sizeable body … Continue reading
Posted by: November 18, 2012
Tagged with: Gender, Marta Trzebiatowska, religion, Steve Bruce
