Title Civil Society and Gender Relations in Authoritarian and Hybrid Regimes : New Theoretical Approaches and Empirical Case Studies / Gabriele Wilde, Annette Zimmer, Katharina Obuch, Isabelle-Christine Panreck (eds.)

Published Opladen ; Berlin ; Toronto : Barbara Budrich Publishers, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (269 pages) Contents Cover; Civil Society and Gender Relations in Authoritarian and Hybrid Regimes. New Theoretical Approaches and Empirical Case Studies; Table of contents; Civil Society and Gender Relations in Non-Democratic Regimes: Democracy, Power, and Traditional Gender Roles. (Katharina Obuch, Gabriele Wilde, Annette Zimmer, Katharina Obuch, Gabriele Wilde, Annette Zimmer); Gender, Civil Society, and Non-Democratic Regimes (Eva Maria Hinterhuber and Silke Schneider); If Not for Democracy, for What? Civil Society in Authoritarian Settings (Annette Zimmer) Between Provocation and Incorporation -Social Gender Activism in the Hybrid Regime of the PRC (Stephanie Bräuer)In the Shadow of Autocracy. Gender Politics in Chile (Patricia Graf); Authors; Index The Authoritarian as Discourse and Practice: a Feminist Post-Structural Approach (Gabriele Wilde)Analyzing the Authoritarian: Post-Structural Framing-Analysis -- a Methodological Approach (Isabelle-Christine Panreck); Between Militancy and Survival? The Case of the Nicaraguan Women's Movement (Katharina Obuch); The Tunisian Constitution between Democratic Claim and Constitutional Reality (Gabriele Wilde and Jasmin Sandhaus); "I'm here too, Girlfriend ... ": Reclaiming Public Spaces for the Gendering of Civil Society in Turkey (Joyce Marie Mushaben) Summary Does the development of civil society lead to favorable conditions for the rise of democratic structures and progressive gender relations? While traditional approaches would answer in the affirmative, this book is more ambivalent. Focusing on women's organizations in authoritarian and hybrid regimes, it covers the full spectrum from civil society's important role in the overcoming of power relations to the reinforcement of government structures or the distribution of antifeminist ideas Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Totalitarianism -- Social aspects. Women -- Government policy. Women -- Political activity. Women -- Social conditions. Form Electronic book Author Obuch, Katharina. Panreck, Isabelle-Christine, 1990- Wilde, Gabriele. Zimmer, Annette, 1954- ISBN 3847408747 (electronic bk.) 9783847408741 (electronic bk.)

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