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Protest, policy, and the problem of violence against women : a cross-national comparison
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ISBN: 0822957744 0822941716 Year: 2002 Publisher: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press,

Protest, policy, and the problem of violence against women : a cross-national comparison
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ISBN: 0822972344 9780822972341 0822941716 9780822941712 0822957744 9780822957744 Year: 2002 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] University of Pittsburgh Press

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Violence against women is one of the most insidious social ills facing the world today. Yet governmental response is inconsistent, ranging from dismissal to aggressive implementation of policies and programs to combat the problem. In her comparative study of thirty-six democratic governments, Laurel Weldon examines the root causes and consequences of the differences in public policy from Northern Europe to Latin America. She reveals that factors that often influence the development of social policies do not determine policies on violence against women. Neither economic level, religion, regio.


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When protest makes policy : how social movements represent disadvantaged groups
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ISBN: 1283011611 9786613011619 0472026372 9780472026371 0472117483 9780472117482 9780472035113 0472903810 9780472903818 9781283011617 Year: 2012 Publisher: Ann Arbor, Mich. The University of Michigan Press

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Do social movements lead to more inclusive democracy or to a more polarized, fragmented, elite-dominated polity?


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The logics of gender justice : state action on women's rights around the world
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ISBN: 1108278620 110828096X 1108277896 1108417566 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press,

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When and why do governments promote women's rights? Through comparative analysis of state action in seventy countries from 1975 to 2005, this book shows how different women's rights issues involve different histories, trigger different conflicts, and activate different sets of protagonists. Change on violence against women and workplace equality involves a logic of status politics: feminist movements leverage international norms to contest women's subordination. Family law, abortion, and contraception, which challenge the historical claim of religious groups to regulate kinship and reproduction, conform to a logic of doctrinal politics, which turns on relations between religious groups and the state. Publicly-paid parental leave and child care follow a logic of class politics, in which the strength of Left parties and overall economic conditions are more salient. The book reveals the multiple and complex pathways to gender justice, illuminating the opportunities and obstacles to social change for policymakers, advocates, and others seeking to advance women's rights.


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The Oxford handbook of gender and politics
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ISBN: 9780199751457 0199751455 9780199971503 0199971501 9780190461911 0190461918 0199324042 0199790833 9780199324040 9780199790838 Year: 2013 Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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'The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Politics' brings to political science an accessible and comprehensive overview of the key contributions of gender scholars to the study of politics, and it shows how these contributions produce a richer understanding of polities and societies.

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