Women and Politics in the Third World

Herausgeber: Afshar, Haleh

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An innovative feminist analytical perspective on the specific forms of resistance, organisation and negotiation used by women in Third World states.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 158mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 367g
• ISBN-13: 9780415138611
• ISBN-10: 0415138612
• Artikelnr.: 22473578

Autorenporträt

Haleh Afshar teaches politics and women's studies a the University of York, and Islamic Law at the Faculte Internationale de Droit Compare at Strasbourg. She was born and raised in Iran and remains active in Iranian feminist politics.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Analysing Women in the Politics of the Third World Georgina
Waylen 2. Women and the State in the Third World Shirin Rai 3. Feminist
Perspectives on Democratisation in the South: Engendering or Adding Women
in? Doona Pakhurst and Jenny Pearce 4. The Role of Women in the Resistance
to Political Authoritarianism in Latin America and South Asia Rohini
Hensman 5. (Re) Instituting Notions of Resistance and Empowerment: A
Humanitarian Aid Project in Nicaragua Jasbir Pua 6. Chinese Women: Media
Concerns and the Politics of Reform Delia Davin 7. Social Policies and
Rural Women's Fertility Behaviour in the People's Republic of China Aiping
Mu 8. Women and Fundamentalism in Iran Haleh Ashfar 9. Women and Politics
in Post Khomeini Iran: Divorce, Veiling and Emerging Feminist Voices Ziba
Mir-Husseini 10. The Women's Movement, Feminism and the National Struggle
in Palestine: Unresolved Contradictions 11. Palestinan Women and the
Intefada: An Exploration of Women and Realities Maria Holt