Gender and Social Capital

ISBN-13: 9780415950237 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 432 str.

Brenda O'Neill; Elisabeth Gidengill

Opis

Gender and Social Capital brings together leading scholars to provide a critical analysis of the social capital thesis from a gendered perspective. Robert Putnam argues that women have played an important role in creating and sustaining stocks of social capital. Yet there has been relatively little in the way of sustained critical analysis of Putnam's thesis as it related to women, despite clear evidence of the existence of gendered patterns of associational involvement and women's numerical under-representation in democratic institutions. The contributors investigate several facets of the interaction between social capital and gender, including the gendered nature of associational involvement, the privileging of gender inequalities within the theoretical conception of social capital, the gendered use of social capital representation, and political consumerism as a form of social capital. The book provides a critique of Putnam's theory from several different approaches (theoretical, historical, comparative and empirical), drawing on original research from several advanced democracies (Belgium, Britain, Canada, Sweden and the United States).

Spis treści

Preface 1. Removing Rose Colored Glasses: Examining Theories of Social Capital through a Gendered Lens by Elisabeth Gidengil and Brenda O'Neill 2. Just Communities: Social Capital, Gender and Culture by Barbara Arneil 3. The Gender Gap Reversed: Political Consumerism as a Women-Friendly Form of Civic and Political Engagement by Dietlind Stolle and Michele Micheletti 4. Gendering Social Capital: Bowling in Women's Leagues? by Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart 5. Acting from the Heart: Values, Social Capital, and Women Involvement in Interfaith and Environmental Organizations by Amy Caiazza and Barbara Gault 6. Conceptualizing Social Capital in Relation to Children and Young People: Is it Different for Girls? by Virginia Morrow 7. Gender, Social Capital and Politics by Virginia Sapiro 8. Canadian Women's Religious Volunteerism: Compassion, Connections and Comparisons by Brenda O'Neill 9. It's Not What You've Got, but What You Do With It: Women, Social Capital and Political Participation by Vivien Lowndes 10. Gender, Knowledge and Social Capital by Elisabeth Gidengil, Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant, Neil Nevitte and André Blais 11. Gender-Role Orientations and the Conversion of Social Capital into Political Engagement by Joanna Everitt 12. Persuasion and Perception: New Models of Network Effects on Gendered Issues by Bonnie Erickson 13. Changing Agendas: The Impact of Feminism on American Politics by Kristin A. Goss and Theda Skocpol 14. Are Women Legislators Accountable to Women? The Complementary Roles of Feminist Identity and Women's Organizations by Susan J. Carroll 15. Gender, Social Capital and Political Engagement: Findings and Future Directions by Elisabeth Gidengil and Brenda O'Neill Comprehensive Bibliography

O autorze

Brenda O'Neill is an Associate Professor of Political Studies at the University of Manitoba.
Elisabeth Gidengil is a Professor of Political Science at McGill University.