Negotiating Gender Policy Policb

Informationen zum Autor Edited by Gabrielle Hosein and Jane Parpart Klappentext Drawing on rich empirical research, this book examines the evolution and success of feminist strategies to promote democratic governance, women's rights and gender equality in the Caribbean. Zusammenfassung Drawing on rich empirical research, this book examines the evolution and success of feminist strategies to promote democratic governance, women’s rights and gender equality in the Caribbean. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Rethinking Gendered Negotiations in Caribbean Policy and Politics, Gabrielle Hosein and Jane Parpart / Part I: Women's Political Leadership: Possibilities and Limits for Women / 1. Crossing over the Barriers: A Historical Journey of Women's Political Leadership in the Anglophone Caribbean, Gabrielle Hosein /2. Women's Political Leadership in Trinidad and Tobago, Understandings, Experiences and Negotiations, Aleah N. Ranjitsingh/ Part II: National Gender Policies: Negotiating Masculinities in Gender Mainstreaming / 3. Historicizing National Gender Policies in the English Speaking Caribbean, Deborah McFee / 4. Masculinities and the Practice of Dominica'sNational Gender Policy, Ramona Biholar / 5. The Patriarchal State and the Development of Gender Policy in Jamaica, Maziki Thame and Dhanaraj Thakur/ Part III: Gender Quotas: ParliamentaryProvisions without Power? / 6. Getting to One-Third? Creating Legislative Access for Women to Political Space in Guyana, Natalie Persadie / 7. Advancing Gender Justice? The Opportunities, Resistances, and Limitations of Guyana's Quota System, Iman Khan / Part IV: Transformational Leadership: Feminist Pedagogies, Neo-liberal Empowerment / 8. Feminist/Womanist Advocacy Toward Transformational Leadership in the Anglophone Caribbean: The Interplay of Individual and Collective Agency, Shirley Campbell / 9. Enactments, Contestations, and Possibilities of Women'sTransformational Leadership in the Anglophone Caribbean, Denise Blackstock /Afterword...

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• Assisted by: Gabrielle Hosein (Editor), Hosein Gabrielle (Editor), Jane Parpart (Editor), Professor Jane L. Parpart (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2016
• EAN: 9781783487509
• ISBN: 978-1-78348-750-9
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Caribbean islands, Social discrimination & inequality, Feminism & feminist theory, Gender studies, gender groups, Feminism and feminist theory, Central / national / federal government policies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Central government policies, Social discrimination and social justice, Democracy;Feminism;Gender;Masculinity;Representation