Review Corner
Women in Politics: Outsiders or Insiders
Author:Lois Duke WhitakerPublished Date: July 3, 2005
Publisher: Prentice Hall; 4th edition
Language: English This book is designed as a reader on the topic of women and politics to aid in integrating the study of women in the political system. It provides relevant research on women and politics across a spectrum of topics and perspectives. With a feminist theoretical framework, it examines some gender differences in political attitudes and voting, looks at gender cultural reflections in the mass media and group politics, and examines how women have fared in competing for public office. The various branches of government and how women are or are not participating the functions of government, and explore women and national public policy; and women in regard to activism, empowerment, changing roles and cultural expression are also discussed in this illustrious book, which is for anyone interested in politics or Women's issues.
Exploring Gender Gaps in Politics, Participation and policies
Editor(s): Rohit Kumar Nepali, Prakash ShresthaPublished Date: March 2009
Publisher: South Asia Partnership-International
This analytical report is an outcome of the three-day Second South Asian Regional Conference on Combating Violence Against Women in Politics (VAWIP): Revisiting policies, politics and participation, which was organized by South Asia Partnership-International in Kathmandu from 16-18 November, 2008.This report analyses the relevance and contradiction of the values, norms and structures in combating violence against women in politics. There are various formal and informal mechanisms that have roles and high potentiality in addressing violence against women in politics. An in-depth analysis of each of these mechanisms in relation to combating VAWIP is crucial. The relevance of few of that mechanism, as explored and highlighted by the stakeholders of VAWIP is also incorporated in the report. This report has also identified some regional challenges that South Asia is facing which prevent women's contribution in politics and have suggested some recommendation to address those challenges.
Talking Leadership: Conversations with Powerful Women
Editor: Mary S. HartmanPublisher: Rutgers University Press
Including 13 conversations with women "practitioners" of leadership from a variety of fields, this volume encourages readers to expand their definition of who a "leader" is and can be.
Women Transforming Politics: An Alternative Reader
Author(s): Cathy Cohen, Kathy Jones, Joan TrontoPublisher: NYU Press
Language: English A collection of 33 articles contains pieces by activists as well as work by scholars in economics, political science, history, sociology, and African American, Asian American, American, and women's studies. This exciting collection not only documents the varied organizing experiences of women in American politics, it provides original and provocative analyses of the challenge women present to mainstream ideas of political representation, the role of the state, and the nature of power.
