Political Worlds of Women provides a comprehensive overview of women's political activism, comparing formal and informal channels of power from official institutions of state to grassroots mobilizations and Internet campaigns. Illuminating the politics of identity enmeshed in local, national, and global gender orders, this book explores women's creation of new political spaces and innovative political strategies to secure full citizenship and equal access to political power. Incorporating case studies from Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas, Mary Hawkesworth analyzes...

Although the number of women's colleges has plummeted from a high of 268 in 1960 to 38 in 2016, Douglass Residential College is flourishing as it approaches its centennial in 2018. To explore its rich history, Kayo Denda, Mary Hawkesworth, Fernanda H. Perrone examine the strategic transformation of Douglass over the past century in relation to continuing debates about women's higher education.

This compelling text, now with three new chapters, explores transnational feminist efforts to produce a more just global order. Mary Hawkesworth considers how social, economic, and political inequalities between men and women of different races, classes, ethnicities, and nationalities have been produced and contested over time.

This compelling text, now with three new chapters, explores transnational feminist efforts to produce a more just global order. Mary Hawkesworth considers how social, economic, and political inequalities between men and women of different races, classes, ethnicities, and nationalities have been produced and contested over time.