Review Corner
Women and Politics in a Global World
Published Date:2 edition (December 17, 2009)Publisher:Oxford University Press
Language:English
This book is information-packed and provides broad, thematic and comparative discussion of women and politics. It brings the expansive literatures on women's movements and women's policy problems to the undergraduate level and examines them I one book, eliminating the need to assign multiple books on the different topics.
Women and the Politics of Place
Published Date:September 2005Publisher:Kumarian Press
Language:English
In Women and the Politics of Place, Wendy Harcourt and Arturo Escobar analyze women's economic and social justice movements by challenging traditional views. The authors reveal how an interrelated set of transformations around body, environment, and the economy factors into place-based practices of women and how these provide alternative ways of advancement in these mobilizations.The book develops a conceptual framework based on the most current debates in anthropology, geography, ecology, feminist, and development studies. This guides academics, activists, and policymakers toward an understanding of how women are politically negotiating globalization.
Women and Politics in the Age of the Democratic Revolution
Editor:Harriet B. Applewhite, Darline G. LevyPublisher: University of Michigan Press
Language:English
This book provides comparative historical investigations of gender and political culture in 18th- and 19th-century revolutionary movements.
