Women and Politics: An International Perspective
University of Chicago Press, 1988
Paper: 978-0-226-70392-3 | Cloth: 978-0-226-70391-6
Library of Congress Classification HQ1236.R26 1987
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.420973
Paper: 978-0-226-70392-3 | Cloth: 978-0-226-70391-6
Library of Congress Classification HQ1236.R26 1987
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.420973
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Since the 1960s, the increasing involvement of women in mainstream politics and the impact of the "second wave" of feminism have given rise to an enormous volume of writing on women and politics. Drawing on material from a wide range of capitalist, state-socialist, and Third World countries, Women and Politics provides a comprehensive introduction to, summary, and analysis of this body of writing. This second edition has been greatly expanded and revised in light of recent debates and changes in women's political situation in the economic recession of the 1980s. Randall examines the increasingly extensive data available on women's political participation and the chief factors that obstruct or encourage it. An entirely new section on women in the Third World has been added. Finally, Randall provides an up-to-date analysis of contemporary feminism as a political movement, its impact on policy in the 1970s, and the changing prospects for both in the 1980s.
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