Emanuela Lombardo, Petra Meier

The Symbolic Representation of Gender (eBook, ePUB)

A Discursive Approach

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Innovatively adopting a discursive approach, this book - the first full-length treatment of symbolic representation - focuses on gender issues to tackle important questions such as: What are women and men symbols of, and how is gender constructed in policy discourse? It studies what functions symbolic representation fulfils in the construction of gender, what social roles get legitimized in policy discourse, and how this affects power constellations, ultimately revealing much about the relation between symbolic, descriptive, and substantive representation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317014522
• Artikelnr.: 44815556

Autorenporträt

Emanuela Lombardo, PhD in Politics at the University of Reading (UK), is Lecturer at the Department of Political Science and Administration II of Madrid Complutense University (Spain). Her research interests concern gender equality policies and intersectionality, particularly in the European Union and Spain, political representation and gender, Europeanization of gender equality policies, and feminist political theory. Petra Meier is Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Antwerp (Belgium) and Director of the Policy Research Centre on Equality Policies at the same university. Her major research interest is with the representation of gender and sexuality in politics and policies, the consequences of these representations and means to tackle inequalities stemming from them. She studies theories on representation, the normative foundations and consequences of electoral systems, gender quota, feminist approaches to public policies, gender equality policies, and, more recently, the challenges multi level settings and especially federal systems provide for such issues.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: The symbolic representation of gender: an introduction
Theorising symbolic representation
A discursive approach to symbolic representation
Symbolic representation and the construction of identity
Symbolic representation and legitimacy
Symbolic representation and political control
The relation between descriptive and symbolic representation
The relation between substantive and symbolic representation
Power at work in the symbolic representation of gender
Conclusions
Bibliography
Index.