| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 212 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction: Research as Mapmaking -- Talking Politics -- Perverse Alignments: Women's Activism and the Governmentalization of Community -- Close Encounters: Feminism, Policy and the Remaking of Governance -- Modernizing Moments: Work, Organizations and the Entrepreneurial Self -- Critical Engagements: Knowledge-work as Political Practice -- Border Work: Generating Spaces of Power -- Activism, Neoliberalism and Gendered Labour -- Postscript: Speaking to the Present -- Conducting the Research -- Ethics, Methods and Modes of Analysis |
| Summary |
"This book highlights the way in which contemporary forms of governance, policy and politics have been reframed by women 'working the spaces of power'. It shows how links between activism and work have generated innovations that have since become 'common sense' forms of policy and practice. Janet Newman draws on interviews with a wide variety of women in positions of power, some at the highest levels of government, some who have led major voluntary bodies, others who are entrepreneurs, philanthropists, community activists and campaigners. All of their work has been informed by a range of social movements and activist commitments. Newman uses these interviews to interrogate, develop and challenge existing approaches to understanding social and political change."--Publisher's description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Women -- Political activity.
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Women in public life -- Interviews
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Political planning.
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Neoliberalism.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Feminism & Feminist Theory.
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Neoliberalism
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Political planning
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Women in public life
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Women -- Political activity
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| Genre/Form |
Interviews
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781849666725 |
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1849666725 |
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9781780932781 |
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1780932782 |
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9781780932774 |
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1780932774 |
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