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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786925903321

Titolo

Women in politics : gender, power and development / / edited by Mariz Tadros

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England : , : Zed Books, , 2014

[London, England] : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2021

ISBN

1-350-22407-3

1-78360-055-1

1-78360-054-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (306 p.)

Collana

Feminisms and Development

Disciplina

305.42

Soggetti

Women - Political activity - Developing countries

Power (Social sciences)

Development studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction. Engaging politically : rethinking women's pathways to power / Mariz Tadros -- Politics as service : pathways of district assembly women in Ghana / Takyiwaa Manuh -- Exceptional women : reserved councillors in municipal corporations in Bangladesh / Sohela Hazneen, Iqbal Ehsan and Bayazid Hasan -- Ejecting women from formal politics in the 'old-new' Egypt (2011-12) / Mariz Tadros -- Local power and women's empowerment in a conflict context : Palestinian women contesting power in chaos / Islah Jad -- Pathways to political power in Sudan / Sara Abbas -- Crafting political pathways through the exclusionary Mesh in India / Kanchan Mathur -- Independent candidacy : an alternative political pathway for women in Sierra Leone? / Hussaina J. Abdullah -- Conservative modernization in Brazil : blocking local women's political pathways to power / Ana Alice Alcantara Costa and Andrea Cornwall.

Sommario/riassunto

Women in Politics offers fresh perspectives on the different spaces, networks, and processes influencing women's political leadership today.