Soledad Artiz Prillaman (California Stanford University)

The Patriarchal Political Order

The Making and Unraveling of the Gendered Participation Gap in India

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Produktbeschreibung

Why do women participate in politics less than men? This book examines the political participation of women in rural India to deepen our understanding of how to create an inclusive democracy. It demonstrates women can empower themselves through collectively demanding access to politics.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 582g
• ISBN-13: 9781009355803
• ISBN-10: 1009355805
• Artikelnr.: 68714772

Autorenporträt

Soledad Artiz Prillaman is an assistant professor of Political Science at Stanford University. She is also the faculty director of the Inclusive Democracy and Development Lab at Stanford. Prillaman specializes in comparative political economy, development, and gender, with a focus in South Asia.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. The Puzzle of Women's Political Participation: 1. Introduction
2. Patriarchy, inequality, and the political lives of rural Indian women
3. A relational theory of women's political participation
Part II. The Patriarchal Political Order: 4. The patriarchal political household
5. Political behavior under household cooperation
6. The patriarchal political order ¿ networks and the nature of political organization
Part III. The Unravelling
7. The power of autonomy from the household and women's collective action
8. Consciousness-raising as the ignition for collective action
Part IV. Consequences of Inclusion: 9. Women's mobilization across India and its portents
10. Conclusion: political inclusion as a path to social change.