Policy, Politics, and Gender: Women Gaining Ground
Kathleen Staudt | | ISBN: 978-1-56549-080-2 $69.95 |
| ISBN: 978-1-56549-079-6 $26.50 |
| 1998/243 pages A Kumarian Press Book |
DESCRIPTION
Here is a book that finally identifies and develops the connections between women's politics and public policies and practices at national and international levels. Kathleen Staudt focuses on political activism and strategies that have influenced great change in state and international policies. She covers local and global institutions, from NGOs to entire governments and to international agencies. She also focuses on the people and their political processes within, between, and outside those institutions. Staudt examines the realities of social change from all perspectives, reminding us that all institutions, within and outside of government, are sources and sites for struggle. Key policy areas, such as education and work, are addressed by Staudt through gender analysis, bringing institutional and cultural social structures into the picture.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Kathleen Staudt is professor of political science at the University of Texas, El Paso. Her most recent publications include Free Trade?: Informal Economies at the U.S.-Mexico Border and Women, International Development and Politics: The Bureaucratic Mire.
CONTENTS
- Crossing Boundaries and Acknowledging Support.
- UNDERSTANDING CONTEXTUAL SETTINGS.
- Beginning Reflections on Language, Power, and Ethics.
- Postwar Development: International Institutions Marginalize Women.
- Women Engaging Public Affairs: Institutions Matter.
- ANALYZING SUBSTANTIVE POLICIES WITH A GENDER LENS.
- Education for Life and Capacitation.
- Women's Work: Central to Economics.
- Population, Overconsumption, and Reproductive Health.
- Public Safety, Peace, and Violence Against Women.
- APPLYING CONTEXT AND POLICY ANALYSIS TO ACTION.
- Bringing Politics Back in: Institutional Contexts for Mainstreaming.
- Institutional Strategies: Analyzing Political Contexts.
- Engaging and Changing the Political Mainstream.
- Appendix: The United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.
"Packed with information and deeply insightful, provocative analyses of international institutions, the policies they are charged with implementing, and the politics within and surrounding them. Kathleen Staudt's understanding of the diversity of institutional arrangements, of the variety of feminism and the importance of context is both refreshing and amazing."—Arvonne Fraser, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs