Buch(elektronisch)#12019
Performing representation: women members in the Indian Parliament
In: Oxford scholarship online
In: Political Science
Breaking new ground in scholarship on gender and politics, this text presents a comprehensive analysis of women in the Indian parliament. It explores the possibilities and limits of parliamentary democracy and the participation of women in its institutional performances. Offering a new, multi-method analysis of the gendered nature of India's parliament through an examination of electoral data, media reports and life stories of women Members of Parliament it sheds light on the performance, aesthetics, and norms of parliamentary life. It explores how the gendered axis of power underpins the performance of parliament and its Members as well as the political economy in which they are embedded.