Gendered Vulnerability - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gendered Vulnerability write by Jeffrey Lazarus. This book was released on 2018-03-02. Gendered Vulnerability available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Gendered Vulnerability examines the factors that make women politicians more electorally vulnerable than their male counterparts. These factors combine to convince women that they must work harder to win elections—a phenomenon that Jeffrey Lazarus and Amy Steigerwalt term “gendered vulnerability.” Since women feel constant pressure to make sure they can win reelection, they devote more of their time and energy to winning their constituents’ favor. Lazarus and Steigerwalt examine different facets of legislative behavior, finding that female members do a better job of representing their constituents than male members.
Gendered Vulnerability
Gendered Vulnerability - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gendered Vulnerability write by Jeffrey Lazarus. This book was released on 2018-03-02. Gendered Vulnerability available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Analysis-driven study of female candidates and how they represent their constituents better than their male colleagues
Differences in Common
Differences in Common - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Differences in Common write by Joana Sabadell-Nieto. This book was released on 2014-05-10. Differences in Common available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Differences in Common engages in the ongoing debate on ‘community’ focusing on its philosophical and political aspects through a gendered perspective. It explores the subversive and enriching potential of the concept of community, as seen from the perspective of heterogeneity and distance, and not from homogeneity and fused adhesions. This theoretical reflection is, in most of the essays included here, based on the analysis of literary and filmic texts, which, due to their irreducible singularity, teach us to think without being tied, or needing to resort, to commonplaces. Philosophers such as Arendt, Blanchot, Foucault, Agamben or Derrida have made seminal reflections on community, often inspired by contemporary historical events and sometimes questioning the term itself. More recently, thinkers like Judith Butler, Gayatri Spivak or Rada Ivekovic—included in this volume are essays by all three—have emphasized the gender bias in the debate, also problematizing the notion of community. Most of the essays gathered in Differences in Common conceive community not as the affirmation of several properties which would unite us to other similar individuals, but as the “expropriation” of ourselves (Esposito), in an intimate diaspora. Community does not fill the gap between subjects but places itself in this gap or void. This conception stresses the subject’s vulnerability, a topic which is also central to this volume. The body of community is thus opened by a “wound” (Cixous) which exposes us to the contagion of otherness. The essays collected here reflect on different topics related to these issues, such as: gender and nation; nationalism, internationalism, transnationalism; nationalism’s naturalization of citizenship and the exclusion of women from citizenship; the violent consequences of a gendered nation on women’s bodies; gendering community; preservation of difference(s) within the community; bodily vulnerability and new politics; community and mourning; community and the politics of memory; fiction, historical truth and (fake) documentary; love, relationality and community; interpretive communities and virtual communities on the Web, among others. Joana Sabadell-Nieto is Professor of Contemporary Spanish Literature (Gender and Feminist Studies) at Hamilton College (USA) and Researcher at the Center for Women and Literature at the University of Barcelona. Marta Segarra is Professor of French and Francophone literature and Gender Studies at the University of Barcelona (Spain), Director of the UNESCO Chair Women, Development and Cultures and co-founder and director of the Center for Women and Literature (2003-2012).
Gender, Climate Change and Livelihoods
Gender, Climate Change and Livelihoods - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gender, Climate Change and Livelihoods write by Joshua Eastin. This book was released on 2021-07-26. Gender, Climate Change and Livelihoods available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book applies a gendered lens to evaluate the dynamic linkages between climate change and livelihoods in developing countries. It examines how climate change affects women and men in distinct ways, and what the implications are for earning income and accessing the natural, social, economic, and political resources required to survive and thrive. The book's contributing authors analyze the gendered impact of climate change on different types of livelihoods, in distinct contexts, including urban and rural, and in diverse geographic locations, including Asia, Africa and the Caribbean. It focuses on understanding how public policies and power dynamics shape gendered vulnerabilities and impacts, how gender influences coping and adaptation mechanisms, and how civil society organizations incorporate gender into their climate advocacy strategies.
Gendered Vulnerability
Gendered Vulnerability - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gendered Vulnerability write by Kizito Michael George. This book was released on 2010-09. Gendered Vulnerability available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The patriarchal/andro-centricity spectre which is the foundation of gender based discrimination variously manifests it self in all spheres of social life in Africa including ; the politics , economics , law , the church , the family and the state . The basic philosophy of an androcentric social system is male control and domination vis-à-vis women subordination or oppression . Under this status quo the power to control and tame is vested in the men . The fallacies behind this kind of philosophy explicate the apparent misogynistic practices that violate the inherent dignity and person of women in Sub-Saharan Africa . This book argues that gender equity and women s economic and social rights will continue to be a mere rhetoric in Sub-Saharan Africa if the asymmetrical power relations between men and women are not addressed.
