This timely collection offers a fresh look on the impact of gender perspectives in the discipline of political science at the beginning of the 21st century. Jane Bayes combats the Eurocentric focus that has characterised both fields and suggests viable alternatives for the future of the disciplines.
Cover -- Gender and Politics -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Chapter 1: Introduction. Situating the Field of Gender and Politics -- Chapter 2: The Geopolitics of Political Science and Gender Studies in Latin America -- Chapter 3: Gender and The State of Political Science in Africa -- Chapter 4: Creating Political Space for Women in South Asia -- Chapter 5: Taking Stock: 1955-2005. 50 Years of Women's Political Representation in Europe -- Chapter 6: Gender and Politics: Mapping the Terrain in the Age of Empire -- Chapter 7: Feminist International Relations - The State of the Field -- Chapter 8: Western Feminist Theories: Trajectories of Change -- Chapter 9: Conclusion -- Index -- Notes on Contributors.
This timely collection offers a fresh look on the impact of gender perspectives in the discipline of political science at the beginning of the 21st century. Jane Bayes combats the Eurocentric focus that has characterised both fields and suggests viable alternatives for the future of the disciplines.
This timely collection offers a fresh look on the impact of gender perspectives in the discipline of political science at the beginning of the 21st century. Jane Bayes combats the Eurocentric focus that has characterised both fields and suggests viable alternatives for the future of the disciplines.
This timely collection reviews the field of gender and politics and its relationship to the discipline of political science at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The authors recognize and document the Eurocentric focus that has characterized both fields and suggest viable alternatives for the future. This volume identifies major questions raised by scholars in several regions of the world and summarizes so-me of their findings.This truly global collection acknowledges the different nature of gender and politics as a field of study in regions beyond the European and Anglo-American academic realm. Four major approaches are presented by contributors from Latin America, Africa, South Asia, Europe, the United States and Oceania.