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International Courts and the African Woman Judge: Unveiled Narratives: Dawuni, Josephine Jarpa, and Akua Kuenyehia (eds). 2018. New York, NY: Routledge, 2018, 182 pp., $145 (hardcover). ISBN: 978-1-13821-514-6
In: Journal of women, politics & policy, Band 40, Heft 4, S. 543-544
ISSN: 1554-4788
Women, Islam, and Resistance in the Arab World. By Maria Holt and Haifaa Jawad. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2013. 211p. $26.50 cloth
In: Perspectives on politics, Band 15, Heft 4, S. 1174-1175
ISSN: 1541-0986
Gender and Justice: Why Women in the Judiciary Really Matter. By Sally J. Kenney. New York: Routledge, 2013. 310p. $145.00 cloth, $45.95 paper
In: Perspectives on politics, Band 13, Heft 1, S. 231-233
ISSN: 1541-0986
Bargaining for Women’s Representation
In: Bargaining For Women'S Rights, S. 81-119
The Puzzle of Non-Adoption
In: Bargaining For Women'S Rights, S. 46-80
A French Colonial Legacy
In: Bargaining For Women'S Rights, S. 28-45
Bringing Rights Home
In: Bargaining For Women'S Rights, S. 120-150
How Civil Society Represents Women
In: Representation, S. 137-157
Democracy and the Rise of Women's Movements in Sub-Saharan Africa
In: Mobilization: the international quarterly review of social movement research, Band 14, Heft 4, S. 510-511
ISSN: 1086-671X
The Appointment of Women to Authoritarian Cabinets in Africa
In: Government & opposition: an international journal of comparative politics, S. 1-24
ISSN: 1477-7053
AbstractWhat explains variation in the inclusion of women in authoritarian cabinets? We theorize that leaders of electoral autocracies are affected by changing international norms of democracy and women's rights to appoint women ministers. We propose two hypotheses. First, increasing dependence on aid from democratic donors encourages leaders of electoral autocracies to appoint more women ministers. Second, electoral autocrats uprooting democratic traits appoint more women ministers to minimize the reputational costs of their autocratization. Using data from authoritarian regimes in 38 African countries between 1973 and 2013, we find that increases in aid from democracies are associated with modest increases in women's share of cabinet seats. As our theory suggests, this relationship holds only in electoral autocracies in more recent years when norms of gender equality have been strongest. Conversely, we find no evidence that autocratization periods are associated with increases in women's cabinet share. Additionally, we show that supply-side factors and the politics of multi-ethnic coalition building appear to explain differences in women's cabinet seat share in autocracies.
Power, knowledge and the politics of gender in the Global South
In: European journal of politics and gender, Band 1, Heft 1-2, S. 37-54
ISSN: 2515-1096
Critical feminists have argued that research on women and gender is not sufficiently 'global' in its representation of scholars and perspectives. We draw on these works to argue that the scholarship on women, gender and politics does not sufficiently consider the effects of the global order in the Global South. We propose the adoption of a 'global lens' to address this gap. We further examine the representation of South-based scholars by analysing leading women, gender and politics journals, and find that they are severely under-represented as authors. We propose steps to address this underrepresentation and to decolonise the scholarship.