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Women, power and politics / Anne Stevens.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Basingstoke [Endland] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007Description: xiv, 266 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0230507808
  • 9780230507807
  • 0230507816
  • 9780230507814
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.082 22
LOC classification:
  • HQ1236 .S736 2007
Online resources:
Contents:
The social and economic status of women -- Women as citizens -- Women as voters -- The representation of women -- Strategies for increasing representation by women -- Women and positions of power -- Feminism, participation, and activism -- Do women make a difference? : political theory and political practice -- Women's policy : the case of equal employment policy.
Summary: "A major new introduction to women's political involvement and role in the liberal democratic world drawing examples from a wide range of countries to illustrate key common features and divergences. Anne Stevens not only assesses the extent of women's participation and representation in government, and in parliaments but also in grass roots politics. The central focus throughout is on the issue of whether and how gender makes a difference."--Publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-255) and index.

The social and economic status of women -- Women as citizens -- Women as voters -- The representation of women -- Strategies for increasing representation by women -- Women and positions of power -- Feminism, participation, and activism -- Do women make a difference? : political theory and political practice -- Women's policy : the case of equal employment policy.

"A major new introduction to women's political involvement and role in the liberal democratic world drawing examples from a wide range of countries to illustrate key common features and divergences. Anne Stevens not only assesses the extent of women's participation and representation in government, and in parliaments but also in grass roots politics. The central focus throughout is on the issue of whether and how gender makes a difference."--Publisher description.

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