| Description |
xi, 210 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Women and politics |
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Women in politics |
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Women and politics (Routledge (Firm))
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Women in politics.
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| Contents |
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? / Donna Pankhurst and Jenny Pearce -- 4. The role of women in the resistance to political authoritarianism in Latin America and South Asia / Rohini Hensman -- 5. Nicaraguan women, resistance, and the politics of aid / Jasbir K. Puar -- 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, 1979-90 / Aiping Mu -- 8. Women and the politics of fundamentalism in Iran / Haleh Afshar -- 9. Women and politics in post-Khomeini Iran: divorce, veiling and emerging feminist voices / Ziba Mir-Hosseini -- 10. The women's movement, feminism and the national struggle in Palestine: unresolved contradictions / Kathy Glavanis-Grantham |
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11. Palestinian women and the Intifada: an exploration of images and realities / Maria Holt |
| Notes |
"First published 1994 by Routledge ... London"--T.p. verso |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Women -- Political activity -- Developing countries.
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| Author |
Afshar, Haleh, 1944-
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| LC no. |
95034526 |
| ISBN |
0415138531 (cloth) |
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0415138612 (paperback) |
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