The Palgrave Handbook of WomenAEs Political Rights (Gender and Politics)

This Palgrave Handbook provides a definitive account of womenÆs political rights across all major regions of the world, focusing both on womenÆs right to vote and womenÆs right to run for political office. This dual focus makes this the first book to combine historical overviews of debates about enfranchising women alongside analyses of more contemporary efforts to increase womenÆs political representation around the globe. Chapter authors map and assess the impact of these groundbreaking reforms, providing insight into these dynamics in a wide array of countries where womenÆs suffrage and representation have taken different paths and led to varying degrees of transformation. On the eve of many countries celebrating a century of womenÆs suffrage, as well as record numbers of women elected and appointed to political office, this timely volume offers an important introduction to ongoing developments related to womenÆs political empowerment worldwide. It will be of interest to students and scholars across the fields of gender and politics, womenÆs studies, history and sociology.

• | Author: Susan Franceschet, Mona Lena Krook, Netina Tan
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Nov 12, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 781 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Political Science
• | ISBN-10: 1137590734
• | ISBN-13: 9781137590732