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Women, politics, and power : a global perspective
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"Women, Politics, and Power: A Global Perspective offers a clear, detailed introduction to women's political participation and representation across a wide range of countries and regions. This thir...
"Women, Politics, and Power: A Global Perspective offers a clear, detailed introduction to women's political participation and representation across a wide range of countries and regions. This third edition includes more than 100 new studies from the rapidly expanding field of gender and politics."
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- Creator
- Pamela Paxton, The University of Texas at Austin, Melanie M. Hughes, University of Pittsburgh
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- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Third edition
- Los Angeles : SAGE, CQ Press, [2017]
- ©2017
- Physical Details
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- xvi, 497 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781483376998, 1483376990, 9781071872895
- OCLC
- on1301393761, ocn939843786
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-465) and index.
- Introduction to women in politics -- Women struggle for the vote: the history of women's suffrage -- Women struggle for representation: accessing positions of power -- Explaining the political representation of women -- culture -- Explaining the political representation of women -- social structure -- Explaining the political representation of women -- politics -- Explaining the political representation of the women -- international factors -- Do women make a difference? -- Women from marginalized groups -- Regions: the West and the United States -- Eastern Europe and Central Asia -- Latin America and the Caribbean -- Middle East and North America -- Asia and the Pacific -- Sub-Saharan Africa -- Where do we go from here? And how do we get there?