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Gender In Third World Politics (Issues in Third World Politics)

Gender In Third World Politics (Issues in Third World Politics)

by Waylen (Author)

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    Paperback 1996

    $21.11
Synopsis

This book puts forward a gendered analysis of third world politics. It uses a wide definition of the political to examine both 'high politics' and political activity at the grassroots, focussing particularly on women's organizations. It also examines the impact of policy and politics on gender relations and on different groups of women. After a general discussion of the major theoretical questions involved in the study of gender in third world politics, and the nature of the third world and development, the analysis is developed through the indepth study of different political formations. These are colonialism, revolution, authoritarianism, and democracy and democratization and uses examples from much of the third world.

Gender in Third World Politics

* is the only book to provide comprehensive coverage of gender in third world politics

* provides a gendered analysis of both 'high politics' and different women's political activity at the grassroots

* weaves together material from a wide range of disciplines such as politics, sociology, history, development studies and women's studies

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 176
 Publisher: Open University Press
Published: 01 Jan 1996
ISBN 10: 033515770X
ISBN 13: 9780335157709

Media Reviews
...highly recommendable for students who like books whichchallenge the conventional framework of analysis and who want to learn about a relatively neglected area. - Cambridge Review of International Affairs ...provides a very complete analysis of a number of salient issues which will be of interest to students of gender studies, political science, development studies, and areastudies. The book is clearly structured, the material is well-organized and carefully chosen, and the reader is given a useful synopsis of theories of gender, democratization and development. - Political Studies ...useful and readable book. -Australian Journal of International Affairs ...an excellent introduction to the fact that there are gender issues in ThirdWorld (and Western) politics, for undergraduates of both genders. - The Journal of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics
Author Bio
The Author

Georgina Waylen is Lecturer in Politics at the University of Sheffield. Prior to this, she taught at the Universities of Salford and East Anglia. She has researched and published on Colonialism, Gender, Structural Adjustment and Democratization in Latin America and the Caribbean.