Engendering transitions : women's mobilization, institutions, and gender outcomes /
What has been the impact of transitions to democracy on gender relations? What roles have women's mobilizations played in processes of democratization? In a new and over-arching thematic analysis, Engendering Transitions answers these questions by comparing the transitions from state socialism...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York ; Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2007.
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| Series: | Gender and politics.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | What has been the impact of transitions to democracy on gender relations? What roles have women's mobilizations played in processes of democratization? In a new and over-arching thematic analysis, Engendering Transitions answers these questions by comparing the transitions from state socialism and authoritarianism that took place as part of the 'third wave' of democratization that swept the world from the mid 1970s onwards. Using empirical material drawn from eight case study countries in East Central Europe and Latin America as well as South Africa, Georgina Waylen explores the gendered const. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 241 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-228) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191530166 0191530166 9780191714894 0191714895 |