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Book Synopsis Activism, Feminism, Politics and Parliament by : Margaret Anne Wilson
Download or read book Activism, Feminism, Politics and Parliament written by Margaret Anne Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Margaret Wilson has always lived a political life. From her days as a child growing up in the Waikato in a Catholic family attuned to fairness, an unlikely law student in the 1960s in a class with a few other women, and an emerging socialist feminist who read radical texts and attended women's conventions, her key concerns became cemented early: the rights of women and equality for all under the law. This is the story of one of New Zealand's most eminent political actors. A policy-focused campaigner, reluctant to join a political tribe and uncomfortable with the combative attitudes and personal jockeying that politics seemed to entail, Wilson nevertheless rose to become the president of the Labour Party during the turbulent mid-1980s. Going on to become a central, far-sighted, occasionally controversial minister in the Clark government, Wilson held significant roles as Attorney-General and Speaker of the House"--Publisher information.
Book Synopsis Activism, Feminism, Politics and Parliament by : Margaret Wilson
Download or read book Activism, Feminism, Politics and Parliament written by Margaret Wilson and published by Bridget Williams Books. This book was released on 2021-08-13 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Wilson has always lived a political life. From her days as a child growing up in the Waikato in a Catholic family attuned to fairness, an unlikely law student in the 1960s in a class with a few other women, and an emerging socialist feminist who read radical texts and attended women's conventions, her key concerns became cemented early: the rights of women and equality for all under the law. This is the story of one of New Zealand's most eminent political actors. A policy-focused campaigner, reluctant to join a political tribe and uncomfortable with the combative attitudes and personal jockeying that politics seemed to entail, Wilson nevertheless rose to become the president of the Labour Party during the turbulent mid-1980s. Going on to become a central, far-sighted, occasionally controversial minister in the Clark government, Wilson held significant roles as Attorney-General and Speaker of the House. Activism, Feminism, Politics and Parliament is a powerful analysis of political life in New Zealand over four decades. From pay equity to a home-grown Supreme Court, employment relations legislation to paid parental leave, the policies Wilson championed were based always in the long-held principles of a true conviction politician.
Book Synopsis Feminist Advocacy and Activism in State Institutions by : Jacqueline A. Coore-Hall
Download or read book Feminist Advocacy and Activism in State Institutions written by Jacqueline A. Coore-Hall and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-01-03 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the effect of gender on policy-making in the Jamaican Parliament, specifically regarding women-friendly policies. So-called "women-friendly policies" are categorized as those laws which seek to promote and protect women’s rights and equality and have some element addressing childcare, domestic violence, sex offences, reproductive rights, sex discrimination, property rights and family issues. It frames critical analysis of bill sponsorship and the participation levels and verbal contributions of legislators during floor debates on legislation affecting women. Using a mixed method approach, the author gives insight into how feminism is integrated into real-time public policy discourse. The book begins with a brief overview of feminist advocacy and activism and State feminism in Jamaica and an introduction to the country’s Parliamentary system. It then moves to a theoretical discussion of feminist advocacy within public policy debates. The next two chapters present a time series analysis of bill introduction and floor debates on women's interests and issues legislation from 1962 through 2017. The concluding chapter ties up the research and provides recommendations for moving forward. Combining feminist theory with a detailed view of Jamaican Parliamentary procedure and debate, this book will be useful to students and researchers interested in feminist advocacy and activism, minority representation, democratic governance, and women in politics.
Download or read book Book Review written by Nigel A.F Haworth and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of George Orwell's four motivations to write, Wilson's autobiography falls firmly into two - the historical impulse: a desire “to see things as they are” for the sake of posterity, and the political: a desire “to alter other people's idea of the kind of society that they should strive after”. Wilson's account of her life, and, particularly, her journey from rural Waikato into the highest levels of political debate and authority, is precise and considered, reminiscent of Orwell's strictures on the writing of prose. It is also a sustained argument for the rights of working people, and, in particular, for women in all facets of life, and for a lasting settlement of colonisation's outstanding legacy. It is also a book to be read at multiple levels. One reading, for example, is that of a life of service marked by a stoic commitment to public life whilst enduring constant physical disability, despite a personal belief that she “was not well suited to the representative political role”. Another reading addresses the technicalities of melding political wishes with a political and bureaucratic system in which radical ideas borne by women faced constant obstruction. A third confronts the politics of transformation - a leitmotif of our current government - in a system in which short-term political compromises dominate in a world in which radical alternatives to capitalism find little favour, even in the social-democratic tradition. Wilson, in the end, knows where she sits on this. Hers is a world in which strong principles drive political engagement, but in which political practicalities will often play their part in constraining those principles. She understands the long road, and the tribulations that one might face on its course. She notes the personal cost of that journey, alluded to her discussion of the 1990s, when she moved from the political world to become foundation Dean at Waikato's new law school. Full paper available at https://doi.org/10.24135/nzjer.v46i1.53.
Book Synopsis Women’s Activism in Malaysia by : Julian C. H. Lee
Download or read book Women’s Activism in Malaysia written by Julian C. H. Lee and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, the author draws on over a decade of first-hand experience as an academic-activist and on interviews with women in Malaysia’s women’s rights movement. Despite a considerable array of challenges to their participation in the public and political spheres, the movement is especially vibrant. Presenting insights from feminist activists in Malaysia, the book explores the Women’s Candidacy Initiative’s efforts to promote independent women in Parliament; the work of women’s coalition the Joint Action Group for Gender Equality; how activists understand and experience the concept of feminism; and finally the place of men in feminism. Women’s Activism in Malaysia will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines including gender studies, politics and sociology.
Book Synopsis Political Worlds of Women by : Mary Hawkesworth
Download or read book Political Worlds of Women written by Mary Hawkesworth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political Worlds of Women provides a comprehensive overview of women's political activism, comparing formal and informal channels of power from official institutions of state to grassroots mobilizations and Internet campaigns. Illuminating the politics of identity enmeshed in local, national, and global gender orders, this book explores women's creation of new political spaces and innovative political strategies to secure full citizenship and equal access to political power. Incorporating case studies from Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas, Mary Hawkesworth analyzes critical issues such as immigration and citizenship, the politics of representation, sexual regulation, and gender mainstreaming in order to examine how women mobilize in this era of globalization. Political Worlds of Women deepens understandings of national and global citizenship and presents the formidable challenges facing racial and gender justice in the contemporary world. It is an essential resource for students and scholars of women's studies and gender politics.
Download or read book Sharing Power written by Manon Tremblay and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The representation of women in parliament is a subject of extensive research and a focus for political action in the last decade. The wide variation in women's parliamentary presence contradicts the expectation that established or consolidated democracies are more supportive of the presence of women in political life than emerging democracies. This volume explains this variation through a series of closely investigated case studies from the post-Communist transition democracies of Eastern Europe and emerging democracies in Asia and the Middle East to the long-established liberal democratic states. The volume examines the history of women's legislative involvement, clearly addressing the issue of equal opportunities for women in political life on a cross-national basis. It also identifies innovative solutions to redress the power-sharing balance between women and men. Offering a unique comparative perspective, Sharing Power will appeal to students and scholars of politics, women's studies, history and legislative studies.
Book Synopsis Feminist Activism, Women's Rights, and Legal Reform by : Mulki Al Sharmani
Download or read book Feminist Activism, Women's Rights, and Legal Reform written by Mulki Al Sharmani and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-12-12 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ground-breaking collection investigates the relationship between feminist activism and legal reform as a pathway to gender justice and social change. Since the advent of feminist movements legal reform has been a popular and yet contentious vehicle for seeking women’s rights and empowerment. This important book looks at comparative insights drawn from field-based research on the processes, the challenges, and the outcomes of legal reform and feminist activism. Feminist Activism, Women's Rights, and Legal Reform brings together cases from Middle East, Latin America, and Asia of the successes and failures of reform efforts concerning the promulgation and implementation of new family laws and domestic violence codes.
Download or read book Voicing Demands written by Sohela Nazneen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-01-16 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voicing Demands is a collection of analytical narratives of what has happened to feminist voice, a key pathway to women's empowerment. These narratives depart from the existing debate on women's political engagement in formal institutions to examine feminist activism for building and sustaining constituencies through raising, negotiating and legitimizing women's voice under different contexts. Bringing together the reflections and experiences of feminist researchers and activists in South Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America, this unique volume explores how various global trends, such as the development of transnational linkages, the rise of conservative forces, the NGOization of feminist movements, and an increase in the power of donors, have created opportunities and challenges for feminist voice and activism.
Book Synopsis The Palgrave Handbook of Women’s Political Rights by : Susan Franceschet
Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Women’s Political Rights written by Susan Franceschet and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-10-26 with total page 751 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Palgrave Handbook provides a definitive account of women’s political rights across all major regions of the world, focusing both on women’s right to vote and women’s right to run for political office. This dual focus makes this the first book to combine historical overviews of debates about enfranchising women alongside analyses of more contemporary efforts to increase women’s political representation around the globe. Chapter authors map and assess the impact of these groundbreaking reforms, providing insight into these dynamics in a wide array of countries where women’s suffrage and representation have taken different paths and led to varying degrees of transformation. On the eve of many countries celebrating a century of women’s suffrage, as well as record numbers of women elected and appointed to political office, this timely volume offers an important introduction to ongoing developments related to women’s political empowerment worldwide. It will be of interest to students and scholars across the fields of gender and politics, women’s studies, history and sociology.
Book Synopsis Sylvia Pankhurst by : Barbara Winslow
Download or read book Sylvia Pankhurst written by Barbara Winslow and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study brings to light Sylvia Pankhurst's political involvement in the Suffrage, working class and socialist movements. It is intended for undergraduate courses in women's studies
Download or read book Women and Politics written by Gwen Moore and published by JAI Press(NY). This book was released on 1986 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Women in Contemporary Politics by : Wendy Stokes
Download or read book Women in Contemporary Politics written by Wendy Stokes and published by Polity. This book was released on 2005-05-06 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking at the representation of women in a wide range of political roles, this text traces the development of women's political activism, their roles in voting and elections and the specifics of women's partisanship.
Book Synopsis Sylvia Pankhurst by : Barbara Winslow
Download or read book Sylvia Pankhurst written by Barbara Winslow and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary political biography of English suffragist, feminist, and socialist Sylvia Pankhurst Along with her mother Emmeline, and her sister Christabel, Sylvia Pankhurst was one of the leading women's suffrage activists in early twentieth-century England, working with the militant Women's Social and Political Union. Unlike her family, however, who looked to parliament and spoke to elite and middle-class women's concerns, Sylvia consistently looked to working women and the labour movement as central to her feminist politics. In this illuminating political biography, feminist historian Barbara Winslow recovers Sylvia Pankhurst's life and work for a new generation of socialists and feminists. From Pankhurst's organizing with immigrant and working women in London's East End to her revolutionary communism and growing internationalism and anti-fascism, Winslow gives us the story of a brilliantly inspiring unorthodox feminist and unorthodox socialist. With a preface from internationally recognized socialist feminist historian and activist, Sheila Rowbotham.
Book Synopsis Feminist Politics, Activism and Vision by : Luciana Ricciutelli
Download or read book Feminist Politics, Activism and Vision written by Luciana Ricciutelli and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together essays of remarkable variety and fresh insight by leading feminists from Africa, Asia, Latin America, North America, Europe and Scandinavia. With clear-eyed realism and passionate optimism these articles raise crucial historical, organizational, ethical, conceptual, strategic and practical issues facing feminists today. The personal accounts, political speeches and academic articles collected here reveal a vibrant and multifaceted transnational feminist community redefining wealth, work, peace, democracy, sexuality, family, human rights, development, community, and citizenship. They provide a sense of inter-related issues being addressed at local, national, regional and global levels in generative ways which both honor local and global movements.
Book Synopsis Feminist Activists on Brexit by : Sue Cohen
Download or read book Feminist Activists on Brexit written by Sue Cohen and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across an ever-changing political landscape, and in the midst of Brexit developments, this edited collection draws our attention to women's participation in transformative democratic processes, and captures how UK women were made 'other' in the political environment created by Brexit.
Download or read book Deeds and Words written by Rosie Campbell and published by ECPR Press. This book was released on 2024-08-22 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does feminism shake up political science, the study of politics and electoral politics? What difference do feminist political scientists and politicians make to political institutions, policy processes and outcomes? The scholarship and activism of pioneering feminist political scientist Professor Joni Lovenduski helped establish these questions on the political science agenda. This book addresses key themes in Lovenduski’s seminal work. State-of-the-art chapters by leading scholars cover gender and parties; elected institutions and the state; quotas and recruitment; public opinion and women’s interests. Vignettes by prominent politicians and practitioners, including Dame Anne Begg MP, Baroness Gould, Deborah Mattinson, and the Rt Hon Theresa May, bring the academic analysis to life. Deeds and Words reveals the impact of feminist interventions on politics in the round. Its groundbreaking assessment of feminist scholarship and politics offers an appraisal of, and fitting tribute to, Lovenduski’s own contribution to gender studies and feminist politics.
