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

• Pubblicazione: London, England : , : Zed Books, , 2014; [London, England] : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2021
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (306 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.42
• Soggetto topico: Women - Political activity - Developing countries; Power (Social sciences); Development studies
• Persona (resp. second.): TadrosMariz <1975->
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Women in politics
• ISBN: 1-350-22407-3; 1-78360-055-1; 1-78360-054-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910786925903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Feminisms and development.