Gendering Politics and Policy : Recent Developments in Europe, Latin America, and the United States

ISBN-13: 9780789030931 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 214 str.

Heidi I. Hartmann

Opis

Discusses, in depth, how women and women's perspectives are changing politics and policy, in both the United States and around the world. Including several tables and figures to present data and ideas, this book is useful for educators, advanced undergraduate and graduate students in women's studies, political science, and public policy.

Spis treści

• Introduction (Heidi Hartmann)
  
• GENDERING CITIZENSHIP, ELECTIONS, AND SOCIAL CAPITAL
  
• Governability and Women’s Citizenship (Mercedes Barquet and Sandra Osses)
  
• Gender, Presidential Elections, and Public Policy: Making Women’s Votes Matter (Barbara C. Burrell)
  
• Gender and Black Presidential Politics: From Chisholm to Moseley Braun (Paula D. McClain, Niambi M. Carter, and Michael C. Brady)
  
• Women’s Status and Social Capital in the United States (Amy Caiazza and Robert D. Putnam)
  
• From the Trenches
  
• Attacking First-Time Women Candidates for Congress (Tanya Melich)
  
• IMPLEMENTING POLICY THROUGH A GENDERED LENS: VIEWS FROM EUROPE AND LATIN AMERICA
  
• Making Policymakers More Gender Aware: Experiences and Reflections from the Women’s Budget Group in the United Kingdom (Susan Himmelweit)
  
• How to Make the Law Work? Budgetary Implications of Domestic Violence Laws in Latin America, Central America, and the Caribbean (Dinys Luciano, Simel Esim, and Nata Duvvury)
  
• Girl Power, Mainstreaming and Critical Mass: Women’s Leadership and Policy Paradigm Shift in Germany’s Red-Green Coalition, 1998-2002 (Joyce Mushaben)
  
• The Alliance for Jobs in Germany: The Promise and Failure of Gender Mainstreaming (Elisabeth Vogelheim)
  
• ADVANCING WOMEN’S AGENDAS THROUGH HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE UNITED NATIONS
  
• Child Care as a Human Right: A New Perspective on an Old Debate (Martha F. Davis)
  
• Women’s NGOs at UN Conferences: The 1992 Rio Conference on the Environment as a Watershed Event (Mary P. Haney)
  
• Defending Diversity, Sustaining Consensus: NGOs at the Beijing Women’s Conference and Beyond (Kristen Timothy)
  
• About the Contributors
  
• Index
  
• Reference Notes Included
  

O autorze

Hartmann, Heidi I.