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BL
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855824
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Women in politics : : gender, power and development /\ edited by Mariz Tadros.
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| Publication Statement
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London ;New York :: Zed Books,, 2014.
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, ©2014
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| Series Statement
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Feminisms and Development
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1 online resource (x, 294 pages)
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| ISBN
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1783600543
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: 1783600551
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: 9781783600540
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: 9781783600557
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1783600527
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1783600535
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9781783600526
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9781783600533
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction. Engaging politically : rethinking women's pathways to power / Mariz Tadros -- Politics as service : pathways of district assembly women in Ghana / Takyiwaa Manuh -- Exceptional women : reserved councillors in municipal corporations in Bangladesh / Sohela Hazneen, Iqbal Ehsan and Bayazid Hasan -- Ejecting women from formal politics in the 'old-new' Egypt (2011-12) / Mariz Tadros -- Local power and women's empowerment in a conflict context : Palestinian women contesting power in chaos / Islah Jad -- Pathways to political power in Sudan / Sara Abbas -- Crafting political pathways through the exclusionary Mesh in India / Kanchan Mathur -- Independent candidacy : an alternative political pathway for women in Sierra Leone? / Hussaina J. Abdullah -- Conservative modernization in Brazil : blocking local women's political pathways to power / Ana Alice Alcantara Costa and Andrea Cornwall.
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| Abstract
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Women in Politics offers fresh perspectives on the different spaces, networks, and processes influencing women's political leadership today.
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Power (Social sciences)
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Women-- Political activity-- Developing countries.
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Power (Social sciences)
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Discrimination Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Minority Studies.
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Women-- Political activity.
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Developing countries.
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| Dewey Classification
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305.42
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HQ1236.5.D44W6656 2014eb
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| Added Entry
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Tadros, Mariz,1975-
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