“The Picture Is Political:Representation of Women in Contemporary Popular Culture.”. Marshment,Margaret. Introducing Women‘s Studies:Feminist Theory and Practice . 1997Marshment,Margaret.“The Picture Is Political:Representation of Women in Contemporary Popular Culture.”.Introducing Women‘s Studies:...
It examines the representation of women, ethnic groups, and policy positions in a cross-country comparison. Using new data on ethnic groups in legislatures, the book is a significant step forward in the analysis of political representation. The systematic approach of the book allows a ground-...
In late 1986, however, this quota for women was cancelled in a general revision of the electoral laws. This paper examines the experiment with guaranteed representation for women from the perspective of women political activists, both in government and outside. The data are from interviews with ...
The majority of the world's countries have implemented policies designed to advance the political representation of women and/or minority groups. Yet we do not yet understand how these disparate policies affect the election of minority women. In this article, I draw on theories of intersectionality...
Women, parliament and the media that 'critical acts' by women parliamentarians are of much greater consequence than a 'critical mass' of women, in other words, there is a difference between substantive representation as opposed to merely descriptive representation. The... T Drabsch 被引量: 4发...
The continuous underrepresentation of women and of various minorities in elected political assemblies challenges classic democratic theory, which focuses on procedures, on the how , while neglecting the who of representation, be it in the ancient city-state of Athens or in modern deliberative governance...
Furthermore, it is not obvious how an intersectional approach can be applied to campaigns that essentially argue for an increase in the number of female bodies present. The first half of this chapter maps both the under-representation of women, and of groups of women, and explores feminist ...
This growth can be attributed to the expansion of quota adoption—especially post–Arab Spring—that has ushered in a new era of increased female representation in some of the region’s most influential legislative bodies. Research has paid much attention to women’s numerical representation in the...
Political participation of women in rural areas - empirical evidence from Austria. The political participation of women in rural areas in many European countries is much lower than those of men. This under-representation is explained by s... T Oedlwieser - 《Agrarwirtschaft Und Agrarsoziologie》...
This article examines developments in the representation of significant groups in Israeli society—Arabs, religious (orthodox) Jews, and Mizrachim (Jews of Oriental, usually Asian or North African, descent)—and of women through Israel's history, from the elections to the first Knesset (1949) to...