Routledge Research in Gender and Politics

The Principles of Gender-Sensitive Parliaments

By Lena Wängnerud

Series: Routledge Research in Gender and Politics

Gender serves as a lens that makes visible important issues in the field of representation: Whom do elected politicians represent? What is at stake in the parliamentary process? What do we know about the interplay between parliaments and the everyday lives of citizens? It is widely understood that...

Published April 15th 2015 by Routledge

Maternal Transition

A North-South Politics of Pregnancy and Childbirth

By Candace Johnson

Series: Routledge Research in Gender and Politics

What are the political dimensions that are revealed in women’s preferences for health care during pregnancy and childbirth? The answers to this question vary from one community to the next, and often from woman to the next, although the trends in the Global North and South are strikingly different....

Published July 14th 2014 by Routledge

The Politics of Gender Culture under State Socialism

An Expropriated Voice

Edited by Hana Havelková, Libora Oates-Indruchová

Series: Routledge Research in Gender and Politics

Though there has been much research on the incomplete emancipation project of state socialism in East and Central Europe, very little has been published on how the state and its institutions conceived of gender as a concept. This book seeks to understand if and how this conceptualization developed...

Published January 9th 2014 by Routledge

The Women’s Movement in Protest, Institutions and the Internet

Australia in transnational perspective

Edited by Sarah Maddison, Marian Sawer

Series: Routledge Research in Gender and Politics

The death of feminism is regularly proclaimed in the West. Yet at the same time feminism has never had such an extensive presence, whether in international norms and institutions, or online in blogs and social networking campaigns. This book argues that the women’s movement is not over; but rather...

Published July 26th 2013 by Routledge