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How Women Represent Women - Tracy L. Osborn - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

How Women Represent Women - Tracy L. Osborn - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Though the number of women elected to the U.S. state legislatures has grown substantially in the last forty years, researchers still struggle to connect women''s presence in the legislature to public policy outcomes that affect women. One reason for this struggle is that we lack a complete understanding of how political parties modify the relationship between women legislators'' interests in representing women and the creation of public policies affecting women. In How Women Represent Women: Political Parties, Gender and Representation in the State Legislatures, Tracy L. Osborn examines the two avenues through which political parties fundamentally affect the ways in which partisan women legislators pursue women''s issues policies. She argues that political parties structure representation in two ways. First, women''s party identities shape the types of policy alternatives they offer to solve women''s policy problems. Second, parties organize the legislative process by holding majority control, to varying degrees, over agenda setting and policy creation, promoting some women legislators'' policy proposals over others. Osborn tests these two avenues of influence by comparing partisan women''s legislative behavior toward the creation of women''s issues policies across different party environments in the U.S. state legislatures. She uses original election, sponsorship, and roll call data in nearly all ninety-nine state legislative chambers in 1999-2000. She concludes that Republican and Democratic women offer different solutions to women''s policy problems based on their party identities. Depending on which party controls the legislative process and how strongly they do so, this party control promotes one set of partisan policy alternatives over the other. Thus, political parties determine which women''s issues policies become law. Ultimately, this book demonstrates how essential parties are to understanding how women elected to public office translate their interest in women''s issues into substantive public policy.

DKK 1085.00
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Episcopal Women - - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Episcopal Women - - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

The opening of the ordained ministry to women, in the larger context of the women''s movement in America, has created an unprecedented situation within Protestant denominations. Women are now increasingly visible in religious organizations previously administered solely by men. Congregations, church agencies, educational institutions, and volunteer organizations are all affected by the "gender shift" within mainstream Protestantism. Episcopal Women is the first careful historical and sociological study of the impact of these gender changes on a particular religious institution. This groundbreaking volume includes essays on Episcopal theology and women''s spirituality, the urban church, aging and the church, women''s organizations, women donors, clerical leadership, and black women''s experience in the Episcopal Church.

DKK 437.00
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Women and Elective Office - - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Women and Elective Office - - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

This edition of Women and Elective Office offers the latest research on women as candidates and officeholders. It provides a comprehensive look at at the history and status of women in elective office, their prospects for the future, and why women in elected office matter to American democracy. It features all-new essays and up-to-the-minute research by leading experts in the field, including the latest political trends and events such as Hillary Rodham Clinton''s run for the presidency, women''s representation on the state and local level, the diversity of women officeholders'' experiences and circumstances, and female judges. Women and Elective Office is an essential guide to understanding the past, present, and future of women in all echelons of government.

DKK 455.00
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Women and Christian Origins - - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Women and Christian Origins - - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

This is a collection of previously unpublished essays on the role of women in the New Testament and in the early church. It begins by supplying the historical and social contexts of women''s lives in the New Testament period. In the next sections, the authors address issues surrounding the representation of women in the Gospels and in the Pauline writings. Finally, they turn to a consideration of attitudes towards women in the early church, and the roles played by early Christian women.

DKK 490.00
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Working Women in America - Gregg Lee Carter - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Working Women in America - Gregg Lee Carter - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

The second edition of Working Women in America: Split Dreams highlights current research on critical issues affecting American women in today''s global workplace. It features updated information and examples, including extended discussions of women''s activism within and outside of the workplace, the impact of globalization, the effects of the glass ceiling and sexual harassment, and women''s roles in the U.S. labor movement. Retaining the focus of the first edition, this text emphasizes the continuity of women''s work experience. It seeks to dispel the misconception that women''s work is a recent phenomenon, when in fact women have been working throughout history. The book also addresses the constant tension and multiple roles that women must manage. The lives of working women are indeed characterized by "split dreams": most women who work are constantly juggling their work and family dreams. It is therefore misleading to concentrate solely on the workplace when seeking to understand women''s position at work. Rather, one must pay attention to the connections among societal institutions. To this end, the authors argue for and utilize a structural approach-one that examines the ways in which the economy, education, the family, and the polity reflect and influence one another and help reinforce women''s subordination. Only when these connections are brought to light is it possible to begin to formulate alternatives to conventional ideas concerning work, family, and gender roles. The authors begin by situating their research in opposition to dominant sociological models of work. They then provide a thorough historical overview of women at work, carefully examining the diversity of women''s experiences by race, ethnicity, class, and age. Economic, legal, political, familial, and educational institutions are also analyzed to show the ways in which they help produce and maintain inequality for women in the workplace. Working Women in America: Split Dreams intersperses first-person accounts throughout the book and provides a number of vignettes of women employed in a variety of occupations. It is an ideal text for courses in women''s studies, sociology, economics, social work, and history, and fascinating reading for anyone interested in women and their work.

DKK 1068.00
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Positioning Women in Conflict Studies - Jr. Hill - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Positioning Women in Conflict Studies - Jr. Hill - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

For decades, scholars have asserted that gender matters when it comes to domestic and international politics and that gender equality means more than the rights and inclusion of women in the political sphere. Yet the existing research on gender equality and violent political conflict tends to equate and conflate gender equality with observable indicators related to women''s inclusion in formal politics. Consequently, this conceptual problem has impeded efforts to theorize and empirically examine the connection between gender equality, women''s status, and political violence.In Positioning Women in Conflict Studies, Sabrina Karim and Daniel W. Hill, Jr., develop an original framework to study the condition of women in peace and conflict that avoids conflating gender equality with other terms. Karim and Hill re-evaluate the literature on gender, international politics, and conflict to reveal that the term "gender equality" is often used to refer to four distinct concepts: women''s inclusion, women''s rights, harm to women, and beliefs about women''s roles. They develop original measures for each of these concepts and examine their impact on inter-state war onset, intra-state conflict onset, state repression/human rights violations, and terrorism. The results suggest that the relationships between women''s status and political violence are not uniform and vary across different aspects of women''s status as well as different types of political violence. Overall, Positioning Women in Conflict Studies demonstrates how the conceptualization and measurement of gender equality and women''s status is critical in understanding how to reduce political violence globally.

DKK 805.00
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Positioning Women in Conflict Studies - Jr. Hill - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Positioning Women in Conflict Studies - Jr. Hill - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

For decades, scholars have asserted that gender matters when it comes to domestic and international politics and that gender equality means more than the rights and inclusion of women in the political sphere. Yet the existing research on gender equality and violent political conflict tends to equate and conflate gender equality with observable indicators related to women''s inclusion in formal politics. Consequently, this conceptual problem has impeded efforts to theorize and empirically examine the connection between gender equality, women''s status, and political violence.In Positioning Women in Conflict Studies, Sabrina Karim and Daniel W. Hill, Jr., develop an original framework to study the condition of women in peace and conflict that avoids conflating gender equality with other terms. Karim and Hill re-evaluate the literature on gender, international politics, and conflict to reveal that the term "gender equality" is often used to refer to four distinct concepts: women''s inclusion, women''s rights, harm to women, and beliefs about women''s roles. They develop original measures for each of these concepts and examine their impact on inter-state war onset, intra-state conflict onset, state repression/human rights violations, and terrorism. The results suggest that the relationships between women''s status and political violence are not uniform and vary across different aspects of women''s status as well as different types of political violence. Overall, Positioning Women in Conflict Studies demonstrates how the conceptualization and measurement of gender equality and women''s status is critical in understanding how to reduce political violence globally.

DKK 241.00
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Women, Gender, and Politics - Sarah Childs - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Women, Gender, and Politics - Sarah Childs - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Women, Gender, and Politics brings together both classic and recent readings on central topics in the study of gender and politics, and places an emphasis on comparing developed and developing countries. Genuinely international in its focus, the book is divided into five sections to reflect the range of research in the subfield: (1) women and social movements, (2) women and political parties, (3) women, gender, and elections, (4) women, gender, and public policies, and (5) women, gender, and the state. Each section serves as an introduction to general trends in thinking about women and politics, and the readings capture the ways that research has developed both thematically and chronologically in all of the five broad areas. The volume''s innovative design, global approach, and comprehensive coverage make it an ideal teaching book and a valuable resource for students and scholars throughout the world.

DKK 491.00
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Women and the City - Sarah Deutsch - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Women and the City - Sarah Deutsch - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

In the 70 years between the Civil War and World War II, the women of Boston changed the city dramatically. From anti-spitting campaigns and demands for police mothers to patrol local parks, to calls for a decent wage and living quarters, women rich and poor, white and black, immigrant and native-born struggled to make a place for themselves in the city. Now, in Women of Boston, historian Sarah Deutsch tells this story for the first time, revealing how they changed not only the manners but also the physical layout of the modern city.Deutsch shows how the women of Boston turned the city from a place with no respectable public space for women, to a city where women sat on the City Council and met their beaux on the street corners. The book follows the efforts of working-class, middle-class, and elite matrons, working girls and "new women" as they struggled to shape the city in their own interests. And in fact they succeeded in breathtaking fashion, rearranging and redefining the moral geography of the city, and in so doing broadening the scope of their own opportunities. But Deutsch reveals that not all women shared equally in this new access to public space, and even those who did walk the streets with relative impunity and protested their wrongs in public, did so only through strategic and limited alliances with other women and with men.A penetrating new work by a brilliant young historian, Women and the City is the first book to analyse women''s role in shaping the modern city. It casts new light not only on urban history, but also on women''s domestic lives, women''s organizations, labor organizing, and city politics, and on the crucial connections between gender, space, and power.

DKK 370.00
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The Radical Imagination of Black Women - Pearl K. Ford Dowe - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

The Radical Imagination of Black Women - Pearl K. Ford Dowe - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Historically, many Black women have viewed political participation as a means to achieve full equality and improve their status in US society. To this end, Black women have long engaged in politics through activism, voting, mobilization, and seeking office. Since 2016 the number of women, particularly Black women, seeking office has increased dramatically. Including interviews with Black women holding political office at the national, state, and local levels, as well as focus group data, The Radical Imagination of Black Women challenges political science''s current approach to political ambition by exploring how Black women decide to seek political office. Pearl K. Ford Dowe argues that ambition for Black women cannot be measured only by political candidacies and ascents of the political chain of power. Black women are uniquely positioned within their communities to influence politics and public policy, which stems from unique variables of socialization, gender and racial identity, and marginalization that shape the political attitudes of Black women. Thus, Dowe asserts that Black women''s political ambition often manifests outside formal politics, in activism and community building, a process that is linked to a wider radical vision for a full democracy. This is ambition that occurs in a specific context of marginalization, and both motivation and the conditions surrounding such motivation are critical to understanding the full range of Black women''s political work. By focusing on Black women''s experiences in elite politics, The Radical Imagination of Black Women is a much-needed intervention in the literature on electoral ambition, women in politics, and candidates and elections.

DKK 731.00
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The Radical Imagination of Black Women - Pearl K. Ford Dowe - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

The Radical Imagination of Black Women - Pearl K. Ford Dowe - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Historically, many Black women have viewed political participation as a means to achieve full equality and improve their status in US society. To this end, Black women have long engaged in politics through activism, voting, mobilization, and seeking office. Since 2016 the number of women, particularly Black women, seeking office has increased dramatically. Including interviews with Black women holding political office at the national, state, and local levels, as well as focus group data, The Radical Imagination of Black Women challenges political science''s current approach to political ambition by exploring how Black women decide to seek political office. Pearl K. Ford Dowe argues that ambition for Black women cannot be measured only by political candidacies and ascents of the political chain of power. Black women are uniquely positioned within their communities to influence politics and public policy, which stems from unique variables of socialization, gender and racial identity, and marginalization that shape the political attitudes of Black women. Thus, Dowe asserts that Black women''s political ambition often manifests outside formal politics, in activism and community building, a process that is linked to a wider radical vision for a full democracy. This is ambition that occurs in a specific context of marginalization, and both motivation and the conditions surrounding such motivation are critical to understanding the full range of Black women''s political work. By focusing on Black women''s experiences in elite politics, The Radical Imagination of Black Women is a much-needed intervention in the literature on electoral ambition, women in politics, and candidates and elections.

DKK 231.00
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Jonathan Swift in the Company of Women - Louise Barnett - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Jonathan Swift in the Company of Women - Louise Barnett - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Building upon recent research on the history of women, Jonathan Swift in the Company of Women examines Swift, both as man and writer, in terms of women: women as intimates, acquaintances, subjects of satire, and those who have written about Swift. It considers women as mothers and nurses in Swift''s personal life and his fictions, and it explores the issue that has persisted from the eighteenth century into our own time: the subject of misogyny in Swift''s writings.

DKK 495.00
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The Confucian Four Books for Women - Ann A. Pang White - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

The Confucian Four Books for Women - Ann A. Pang White - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

This volume presents the first English translation of the Confucian classics, Four Books for Women, with extensive commentary by the compiler, Wang Xiang, and introductions and annotations by translator Ann A. Pang-White. Written by women for women''s education, the Confucian Four Books for Women spanned the 1st to the 16th centuries, and encompass Ban Zhao''s Lessons for Women, Song Ruoxin''s and Song Ruozhao''s Analects for Women, Empress Renxiaowen''s Teachings for the Inner Court, and Madame Liu''s (Chaste Widow Wang''s) Short Records of Models for Women. A female counterpart to the famous Sishu (Four Books) compiled by Zhu Xi, Wang Xiang''s Nü sishu provides an invaluable look at the long-standing history and evolution of Chinese women''s writing, education, identity, and philosophical discourse, along with their struggles and triumphs, across the millennia and numerous Chinese dynasties. Pang-Whites new translation brings the authors of the Four Books for Women to life as real, living people, and illustrates why they wrote and how their work empowered women.

DKK 325.00
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Women and Leadership - Deborah L. Rhode - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Women and Leadership - Deborah L. Rhode - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

For most of recorded history, men have held nearly all of the most powerful leadership positions. Today, although women occupy an increasing percentage of leadership positions, in America they hold less than a fifth of positions in both the public and private sectors. The United States ranks 78th in the world for women''s representation in political office. In politics, although women constitute a majority of the electorate, they account for only 18 percent of Congress, 10 percent of governors, and 12 percent of mayors of the nation''s 100 largest cities. In academia, women account for a majority of college graduates, but only about a quarter of full professors and university presidents. In law, women are almost half of law school graduates, but only 17 percent of the equity partners of major firms, and 22 percent of Fortune 500 general counsels. In business, women constitute a third of MBA graduates, but only 5 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs.In Women and Leadership, the eminent legal scholar Deborah L. Rhode focuses on women''s underrepresentation in leadership roles and asks why it persists and what we can do about it. Although organizations generally stand to gain from increasing gender equity in leadership, women''s underrepresentation is persistent and pervasive. Rhode explores the reasons, including women''s family roles, unconscious gender bias, and exclusion from professional development networks. She stresses that we cannot address the problem at the individual level; instead, she argues that we need broad-based strategies that address the deep-seated structural and cultural conditions facing women. She surveys a range of professions in politics, management, law, and academia and draws from a survey of prominent women to develop solutions that can successfully chip away at the imbalance. These include developing robust women-to-women networks, enacting laws and policies that address work/life imbalances, and training programs that start at an earlier age. Rhode''s clear exploration of the leadership gap and her compelling policy prescriptions will make this an essential book for anyone interested in leveling the playing field for women leaders in America.

DKK 269.00
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Spartan Women - Sarah B. (distinguished Professor Of Classics Pomeroy - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Spartan Women - Sarah B. (distinguished Professor Of Classics Pomeroy - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Sparta, which existed from 800 B.C. until A.D. 200, was renowned in the ancient world as a stoic and martial city-state, and most of what we know about Sparta concerns its military history and male-dominated social structure. Yet Spartan women were in many ways among the most liberated of the ancient world, receiving formal instruction in poetry, music, dance, and physical education. And the most famous of mythic Greek women, Helen of Troy, was originally a Spartan. Written by one of the leading authorities on women in antiquity, Spartan Women seeks to reconstruct the lives and the world of Sparta''s women, including how their legal status changed over time and how they held on to their surprising autonomy. In this book, Sarah Pomeroy covers over a thousand years in the lives of Sparta''s women from both the elite and lower classes. This is the first book-length examination of Spartan women, and Pomeroy comprehensively analyses ancient texts and archaeological evidence to construct the history of these elusive though much noticed women. Spartan Women is an authoritative and fresh account that will appeal to all readers interested in ancient history and women''s studies.

DKK 395.00
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Women in Rock Memoirs - - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Women in Rock Memoirs - - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Women in Rock Memoirs vindicates the role of women in rock music. The chapters examine memoirs written by women in rock from 2010 onwards to explore how the artists narrate their life experiences and difficulties they had to overcome, not only as musicians but as women. The book includes memoirs written by both well-known and lesser-known artists and artists from both inside and outside of the Anglo-American sphere. The essays by scholars from different research areas and countries around the world are divided into three parts according to the overall themes: Memory, Trauma, and Writing; Authenticity, Sexuality, and Sexism; and Aging, Performance, and the Image. They explore the dynamics of memoir as a genre by discussing the similarities and differences between the women in rock and the choices they have made when writing their books. As a whole, they help form a better understanding of today''s possibilities and future challenges for women in rock music.

DKK 297.00
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Women in Rock Memoirs - - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Women in Rock Memoirs - - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Women in Rock Memoirs vindicates the role of women in rock music. The chapters examine memoirs written by women in rock from 2010 onwards to explore how the artists narrate their life experiences and difficulties they had to overcome, not only as musicians but as women. The book includes memoirs written by both well-known and lesser-known artists and artists from both inside and outside of the Anglo-American sphere. The essays by scholars from different research areas and countries around the world are divided into three parts according to the overall themes: Memory, Trauma, and Writing; Authenticity, Sexuality, and Sexism; and Aging, Performance, and the Image. They explore the dynamics of memoir as a genre by discussing the similarities and differences between the women in rock and the choices they have made when writing their books. As a whole, they help form a better understanding of today''s possibilities and future challenges for women in rock music.

DKK 912.00
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When Women Lead - Cindy Simon Rosenthal - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

When Women Lead - Cindy Simon Rosenthal - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

When Women Lead is a fascinating study of the different leadership styles of men and women in American politics. Providing close studies of key state legislatures, Professor Rosenthal provides an original insight into the workings of the largest cohorts of women in institutional leadership roles. Her work marks an important contribution to understanding gender, organizational leadership, and legislatures.

DKK 366.00
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When Women Lead - Cindy Simon Rosenthal - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

When Women Lead - Cindy Simon Rosenthal - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

When Women Lead is a fascinating study of the different leadership styles of men and women in American politics. Providing close studies of key state legislatures, Professor Rosenthal provides an original insight into the workings of the largest cohorts of women in institutional leadership roles. Her work marks an important contribution to understanding gender, organizational leadership, and legislatures.

DKK 483.00
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Unruly Women - Falguni A. Sheth - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Unruly Women - Falguni A. Sheth - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Despite the disapproval that "visibly" Muslim women face in the West, the U.S. does not ban the hijab or niqab. Nevertheless, it does find a way to manage assertive Muslim women. How so? Subtly and without outright confrontation: through the courts, bureaucratic processes and liberal discourses. From a range of juridical decisions connected not only by a distinctly neocolonial gaze, but also through the tacit dimension of race, Muslim women-among other women of color-are reconceived as neonates who must be taught to behave: as Americans, as professional women, and as autonomous, mildly independent subjects. Focusing on the discrimination claims of Muslim women, this study examines juridical and political approaches that dismiss Muslim women and other populations of color as culturally backward, misguided in their thinking, and gratuitously nonconformist. Likewise, it analyses the experience of racial dismissal through excruciation: the phenomenon by which vulnerable populations are pressed into hopeless performances of cultural assimilation. Racial dismissal is excavated through legal opinions, court transcripts, and other encounters between Muslim women and the state. Ultimately, this work finds that the racial address of dismissal and the phenomena of excruciation have been pivotal to a liberal juridical order that otherwise claims neutrality. By concentrating on the treatment of Muslim women, this book uncovers dynamics of social and racial division which have inhabited and bolstered liberal legal neutrality from its inception. This book''s framework, while focusing on Muslim women in the U.S., is a template for understanding how exclusion is juridically implemented for other racialized and marginalized populations.

DKK 837.00
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Capable Women, Incapable States - Poulami Roychowdhury - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Capable Women, Incapable States - Poulami Roychowdhury - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

In recent decades, the issue of gender-based violence has become heavily politicized in India. Yet, Indian law enforcement personnel continue to be biased against women and overburdened. In Capable Women, Incapable States, Poulami Roychowdhury asks how women claim rights within these conditions. Through long term ethnography, she provides an in-depth lens on rights negotiations in the world''s largest democracy, detailing their social and political effects. Roychowdhury finds that women interact with the law not by following legal procedure or abiding by the rules, but by deploying collective threats and doing the work of the state themselves. And they behave this way because law enforcement personnel do not protect women from harm but do allow women to take the law into their own hands.These negotiations do not enhance legal enforcement. Instead, they create a space where capable women can extract concessions outside the law, all while shouldering a new burden of labor and risk. A unique theory of gender inequality and governance, Capable Women, Incapable States forces us to rethink the effects of rights activism across large parts of the world where political mobilization confronts negligent criminal justice systems.

DKK 415.00
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Women Scientists - Magdolna Hargittai - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Women Scientists - Magdolna Hargittai - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Magdolna Hargittai uses over fifteen years of in-depth conversation with female physicists, chemists, biomedical researchers, and other scientists to form cohesive ideas on the state of the modern female scientist. The compilation, based on sixty conversations, examines unique challenges that women with serious scientific aspirations face. In addition to addressing challenges and the unjustifiable underrepresentation of women at the higher levels of academia, Hargittai takes a balanced approach by discussing how some of the most successful of these women have managed to obtain professional success and personal happiness.Women Scientists portrays scientists from different backgrounds, different geographical regions-eighteen countries from four continents-and leaders from a variety of professional backgrounds, including eight Nobel laureate women. The book is divided into three sections: "Husband and Wife Teams," "Women at the Top," and "In High Positions." Hargittai uses her own experience to introduce her first section on the lives of prominent scientific couples and addresses the joys and disadvantages of husband and wife teams. The second section is a comprehensive exploration of the struggles and triumphs of "women at the top." Hargittai introduces women from countries where relatively little has been written about female scientists. The final section focuses on women scientists involved with science administration and leadership. Hargittai''s biographical sketches role models for budding scientists.The book is a much needed account of female presence and influence in the sciences.

DKK 430.00
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More Women Can Run - Kira Sanbonmatsu - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

More Women Can Run - Kira Sanbonmatsu - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Women remain dramatically underrepresented in elective office, including in entry-level political offices. While they enjoy the freedom to stand for office and therefore have an equal legal footing with men, this persistent gender imbalance raises pressing questions about democratic legitimacy, the inclusivity of American politics, and the quality of political representation. The reasons for women''s underrepresentation remain the subject of much debate. One explanation--that the United States lacks sufficient openings for political newcomers--has become less compelling in recent years, as states that have adopted term limits have not seen the expected gains in women''s office holding. Other accounts about candidate scarcity, gender inequalities in society, and the lingering effects of gendered socialization have some merit; however, these accounts still fail to explain the relatively low numbers. This book argues that a major problem with current accounts exists in their underlying assumption that there is a single model of candidate emergence. The prediction is that women''s office holding will rise automatically as women acquire the same backgrounds as men and assimilate to men''s pathways to office. In this view, the main reasons for women''s political underrepresentation can be found in society rather than in politics. Carroll and Sanbonmatsu argue for a new approach that considers women on their own terms and that focuses on the political origins of women''s representation. Drawing upon an original and comparative survey of women state legislators across all fifty states, from 1981 and 2008, and follow-up surveys after the 2008 elections, the authors find that gender differences in pathways to the legislatures, first evident in 1981, have been surprisingly persistent over time. They found that, while the ambition framework better explains men''s decisions to run for office, women are much more reliant on the existence of organizational and party support. By rethinking the nature of women''s representation, this study calls for a reorientation of academic research on women''s election to office and provides insight into new strategies for political practitioners concerned about women''s political equality.

DKK 303.00
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