The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Politics

ISBN-13: 9780190461911 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 888 str.

Georgina Waylen; Karen Celis; Johanna Kantola

Opis

As a field of scholarship, gender and politics has exploded over the last fifty years and is now global, institutionalized, and ever expanding. The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Politics brings to political science an accessible and comprehensive overview of the key contributions of gender scholars to the study of politics and shows how these contributions produce a richer understanding of polities and societies.

Like the field it represents, the handbook has a broad understanding of what counts as political and is based on a notion of gender that highlights masculinities as well as femininities, thereby moving feminist debates in politics beyond the focus on women. It engages with some of the key aspects of political science as well as important themes in gender and feminist research (such as sexuality and body politics), thereby forging a dialogue between gender studies in politics and mainstream political science.

The handbook is organized in sections that look at sexuality and body politics; political economy; civil society; participation, representation and policymaking; institutions, states and governance as well as nation, citizenship and identity. The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Politics contains and reflects the best scholarship in its field.

Recenzje

This text, from the first, takes an academically rigorous, socially aware and culturally enlightened approach to a rather ambiguous title, and in so doing, makes a significant contribution to the rapidly developing field, of not just political science as a discipline, but to every discipline, and, outside of academia, every person, to whom the issues discussed are relevant and therefore life affecting.

O autorze

Georgina Waylen is Professor of Politics at the University of Manchester. Karen Celis is Research Professor in the Department of Political Science at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Johanna Kantola is Academy Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer of Gender Studies at the University of Helsinki. S. Laurel Weldon is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Research on Diversity and Inclusion at Purdue University.