Women''s Rights in Democratizing States - Just Debate and Gender Justice in the Public Sphere

Informationen zum Autor Denise Walsh is Assistant Professor of Politics and Studies in Women and Gender at the University of Virginia. From 2008 to 2009 she was a Fellow at the Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College. Professor Walsh was the recipient of the Best Dissertation Prize for the Women in Politics Research section of the American Political Science Association in 2007 and was a co-winner of the Journal of Southern African Studies Best Article Prize in 2006. She served as a co-editor of the Journal of Southern African Studies special journal issue on women and gender in Southern Africa and has published articles and a book chapter on gender politics in South Africa. She received her Ph.D. from the New School for Social Research in 2006, where she received the Hannah Arendt Award in Politics. Klappentext This study offers an explanation for why advances in women's rights rarely occur in democratizing states. Zusammenfassung Denise Walsh offers an explanation for why advances in women's rights rarely occur in democratizing states! arguing that leading institutions in the public sphere are highly gendered! meaning women's ability to shape the content of public debate and put pressure on the state to advance their rights is limited. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Just Debate: 1. Democratization and just debate; 2. Just debate in the public sphere; 3. Probing and testing just debate; Part II. Just Debate in Democratizing States: 4. Just debate denied: socialist and democratizing Poland; 5. Just debate diverges: regime breakdown in Chile and South Africa; 6. Just debate prevails: the liberal moment in South Africa; 7. Just debate declines: consolidation in South Africa; Part III. Gender Justice: 8. Pursuing just debate.

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• Authors: Denise Walsh, Denise M. Walsh, Denise M. (University of Virginia) Walsh, Walsh Denise M.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.11.2010
• EAN: 9781107001916
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00191-6
• No. of pages: 306
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, Comparative Politics, Gender studies, gender groups, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Civics and citizenship