Around the world there is a widespread view that women s movements are a thing of the past. In many Western countries, the movement is much less visible and influential today than it was during the heyday of the 1970s second wave, with smaller numbers attending protest events and a far less obvious femocrat presence in government.
Understanding the legacies of the women s movement lends insight to how women everywhere might organise for the political challenges of the future. This book argues and demonstrates that the women s movement is still alive if not quite kicking. It explores the...
Around the world there is a widespread view that women s movements are a thing of the past. In many Western countries, the movement is much less vi...
Though there has been much research on the incomplete emancipation project of state socialism in East and Central Europe, very little has been published on how the state and its institutions conceived of gender as a concept. This book seeks to understand if and how this conceptualization developed in the second half of the twentieth century, and what impact it had on everyday life and on culture. This study moves beyond the dichotomous gender perspectives and towards a nuanced understanding of the diverse discursive negotiations, agendas, actors and agency involved in state-socialist...
Though there has been much research on the incomplete emancipation project of state socialism in East and Central Europe, very little has been publ...
What are the political dimensions that are revealed in women's preferences for health care during pregnancy and childbirth? The answers to this question vary from one community to the next, and often from woman to the next, although the trends in the Global North and South are strikingly different. Employing three conceptual frames; medicalization, the public-private distinction, and intersectionality, Candace Johnson examines these differences through the narratives of women in Canada, the United States, Cuba, and Honduras. In Canada and the United States, women from privileged and...
What are the political dimensions that are revealed in women's preferences for health care during pregnancy and childbirth? The answers to this questi...
Gender serves as a lens that makes visible important issues in the field of representation: Whom do elected politicians represent? What is at stake in the parliamentary process? What do we know about the interplay between parliaments and the everyday lives of citizens? It is widely understood that women's presence in government matters but we need to understand the conditions under which it matters more clearly.
Using Sweden as a case study, a country where the number of women elected to the national parliament has steadily risen since the 1970s, Lena Wangnerud presents a...
Gender serves as a lens that makes visible important issues in the field of representation: Whom do elected politicians represent? What is at stake...
Though there has been much research on the incomplete emancipation project of state socialism in East and Central Europe, very little has been published on how the state and its institutions conceived of gender as a concept. This book seeks to understand if and how this conceptualization developed in the second half of the twentieth century, and what impact it had on everyday life and on culture. This study moves beyond the dichotomous gender perspectives and towards a nuanced understanding of the diverse discursive negotiations, agendas, actors and agency involved in state-socialist...
Though there has been much research on the incomplete emancipation project of state socialism in East and Central Europe, very little has been publ...
