Overview
- Provides an exhaustive and interdisplinary account of women's right to vote and run for political office
- Uses case studies from all major regions of the world and across history
- Written by leading experts in the fields of gender and politics, sociology, feminism and women’s rights
Part of the book series: Gender and Politics (GAP)
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This Palgrave Handbook provides a definitive account of women’s political rights across all major regions of the world, focusing both on women’s right to vote and women’s right to run for political office. This dual focus makes this the first book to combine historical overviews of debates about enfranchising women alongside analyses of more contemporary efforts to increase women’s political representation around the globe. Chapter authors map and assess the impact of these groundbreaking reforms, providing insight into these dynamics in a wide array of countries where women’s suffrage and representation have taken different paths and led to varying degrees of transformation. On the eve of many countries celebrating a century of women’s suffrage, as well as record numbers of women elected and appointed to political office, this timely volume offers an important introduction to ongoing developments related to women’s political empowerment worldwide. It will be of interest to studentsand scholars across the fields of gender and politics, women’s studies, history and sociology.
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Keywords
- Women's political rights
- history of women's suffrage
- women's right to vote
- women in political office
- global gender studies
- enfranchisement of women
- female political representation
- women's political empowerment
- political participation and gender
- political engagement and gender
- development of women's rights
- comparative gender politics
- international women's politics
- gender and political leadership
- women in government
- women in parliament
- women's right to run for office
- democracy
Table of contents (49 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Suffrage and Political Participation
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Front Matter
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Susan Franceschet is Professor of Political Science at the University of Calgary, Canada. She is the author of Women and Politics in Chile (2005) and co-editor of The Impact of Gender Quotas (with M. L. Krook and J. M. Piscopo, 2012). She has published extensively on women’s political representation and political institutions in comparative perspective.
Mona Lena Krook is Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University, USA. She is the author of Quotas for Women in Politics (2009), as well as numerous articles on gender quotas, women's political representation, and violence against women in politics.
Netina Tan is Assistant Professor of Political Science at McMaster University, Canada. Her dissertation, Hegemonic Party Rule in Singapore and Taiwan, won the 2011 Vincent Lemieux Prize for the best Ph.D. thesis in Canada. She has authored numerous articles on authoritarian resilience and representation of women and ethnic minorities in Asia.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Palgrave Handbook of Women’s Political Rights
Editors: Susan Franceschet, Mona Lena Krook, Netina Tan
Series Title: Gender and Politics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59074-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-59073-2Published: 12 November 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95915-0Published: 10 December 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-59074-9Published: 26 October 2018
Series ISSN: 2662-5814
Series E-ISSN: 2662-5822
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 758
Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Politics and Gender, Democracy, Comparative Politics, Political History, Women's Studies, Social History