Politics, Gender, and Concepts

Politics, Gender, and Concepts
Author: Gary Goertz
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages:
Release: 2008-11-13
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1139475096

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A critique of concepts has been central to feminist scholarship since its inception. However, while gender scholars have identified the analytical gaps in existing social science concepts, few have systematically mapped out a gendered approach to issues in political analysis and theory development. This volume addresses this important gap in the literature by exploring the methodology of concept construction and critique, which is a crucial step to disciplined empirical analysis, research design, causal explanations, and testing hypotheses. Leading gender and politics scholars use a common framework to discuss methodological issues in some of the core concepts of feminist research in political science, including representation, democracy, welfare state governance, and political participation. This is an invaluable work for researchers and students in women's studies and political science.

Political Concepts

Political Concepts
Author: Richard Bellamy
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2003-08-02
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780719059094

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This book offers a sophisticated analysis of central political concepts in the light of recent debates in political theory. It introduces readers to some of the main interpretations, pointing out their strengths and weaknesses, including a broad range of the main concepts used in contemporary debates on political theory. It tackles the principle concepts employed to justify any policy or institution and examines the main domestic purposes and functions of the state. It goes on to study the relationship between state and civil society and finally looks beyond the state to issues of global concern and inter-state relations.

The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Politics

The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Politics
Author: Georgina Waylen
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 887
Release: 2013-02-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0199790833

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As a field of scholarship, gender and politics has exploded over the last fifty years and is now global, institutionalized, and ever expanding. The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Politics brings to political science an accessible and comprehensive overview of the key contributions of gender scholars to the study of politics and shows how these contributions produce a richer understanding of polities and societies. Like the field it represents, the handbook has a broad understanding of what counts as political and is based on a notion of gender that highlights masculinities as well as femininities, thereby moving feminist debates in politics beyond the focus on women. It engages with some of the key aspects of political science as well as important themes in gender and feminist research (such as sexuality and body politics), thereby forging a dialogue between gender studies in politics and mainstream political science. The handbook is organized in sections that look at sexuality and body politics; political economy; civil society; participation, representation and policymaking; institutions, states and governance as well as nation, citizenship and identity. The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Politics contains and reflects the best scholarship in its field.

Gender and Politics

Gender and Politics
Author: Jane H. Bayes
Publisher: Verlag Barbara Budrich
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2012-07-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3866495250

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This timely collection offers a fresh look on the impact of gender perspectives in the discipline of political science at the beginning of the 21st century. Jane Bayes combats the Eurocentric focus that has characterised both fields and suggests viable alternatives for the future of the disciplines.

Sexual Politics

Sexual Politics
Author: Kate Millett
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2016-02-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0231541724

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A sensation upon its publication in 1970, Sexual Politics documents the subjugation of women in great literature and art. Kate Millett's analysis targets four revered authors—D. H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, Norman Mailer, and Jean Genet—and builds a damning profile of literature's patriarchal myths and their extension into psychology, philosophy, and politics. Her eloquence and popular examples taught a generation to recognize inequities masquerading as nature and proved the value of feminist critique in all facets of life. This new edition features the scholar Catharine A. MacKinnon and the New Yorker correspondent Rebecca Mead on the importance of Millett's work to challenging the complacency that sidelines feminism.

Gender

Gender
Author: Mary Evans
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2013
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0415669626

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This book draws on a wide range of fields, theories and thinkers to provide a complete introduction to the study of gender. Each entry presents a critical definition of its subjects, examining origins, usage and major contributors. Presented in A-Z format, it explores those terms most central to gender studies including: Agency, The body, Class, Disability, Femininities, Gender and development, Men, masculinity and masculinities, New reproductive technologies, Power and Representation.

Contested Concepts in Gender and Social Politics

Contested Concepts in Gender and Social Politics
Author: Barbara Hobson
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2002-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781781950340

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This text challenges mainstream thinking on welfare states, citizenship, family, work and social policy. It analyses the corresponding shifts in political discourse, and the changes in socio-political configurations that mirror changing gender relations.

Global Gender Politics

Global Gender Politics
Author: Anne Sisson Runyan
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2018-10-11
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0429842759

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Accessible and student-friendly, Global Gender Politics analyzes the gendered divisions of power, labor, and resources that contribute to the global crises of representation, violence, and sustainability. The author emphasizes how hard-won attention to gender and other related inequalities in world affairs is simultaneously being jeopardized by new and old authoritarianisms and depoliticized through reducing gender to a binary and a problem-solving tool in global governance. The author examines gendered insecurities produced by the pursuit of international security and gendered injustices in the global political economy and sees promise in transnational struggles for global justice. In this new re-titled edition of a foundational contribution to the field of feminist International Relations, Anne Sisson Runyan continues to examine the challenges of placing inequalities andresisting injustices at the center of global politics scholarship and practice through intersectional and transnational feminist lenses. This more streamlined approach includes more illustrations and discussions have been updated to refl ect current issues. To provide more support to instructors and readers, Global Gender Politics is accompanied by an e-resource, which includes web resources, suggested topics for discussion, and suggested research activities also found in the book.

The Biopolitics of Gender

The Biopolitics of Gender
Author: Jemima Repo
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2016
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0190256915

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This book theorizes the idea of gender itself as an apparatus of power developed to reproduce life and labor. From its invention in 1950s psychiatry to its appropriation by feminism, demography and public policy, the book examines how gender has been deployed to optimize production and reproduction over the past sixty years.

Gender in Political Theory

Gender in Political Theory
Author: Judith Squires
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 421
Release: 2013-05-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0745668577

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This wide-ranging and accessible book provides a thorough overview of the key debates in gender and political theory.