Politics, Gender, and Concepts

2008-11-13
Politics, Gender, and Concepts
Author: Gary Goertz
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2008-11-13
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780521723428
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A critique of concepts has been central to feminist scholarship since its inception. However, while gender scholars have identified the analytical gaps in existing social science concepts, few have systematically mapped out a gendered approach to issues in political analysis and theory development. This volume addresses this important gap in the literature by exploring the methodology of concept construction and critique, which is a crucial step to disciplined empirical analysis, research design, causal explanations, and testing hypotheses. Leading gender and politics scholars use a common framework to discuss methodological issues in some of the core concepts of feminist research in political science, including representation, democracy, welfare state governance, and political participation. This is an invaluable work for researchers and students in women's studies and political science.

How Women Represent Women

2012-03-09
How Women Represent Women
Author: Tracy L. Osborn
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2012-03-09
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0199845352
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How Women Represent Women argues that political parties fundamentally structure the ways in which women legislators represent women's interests. Using original election, sponsorship and roll call data across the U.S. state chambers from 1999-2000, Osborn shows how parties shape the policy alternatives women offer.

The Symbolic Representation of Gender

2014-08-28
The Symbolic Representation of Gender
Author: Dr Emanuela Lombardo
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2014-08-28
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1472403258
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What is symbolic representation? Since Hanna Pitkin’s seminal The Concept of Representation, the symbolic has been the least studied dimension of political representation. Innovatively adopting a discursive approach, this book - the first full-length treatment of symbolic representation - focuses on gender issues to tackle important questions such as: What are women and men symbols of, and how is gender constructed in policy discourse? It studies what functions symbolic representation fulfils in the construction of gender, what social roles get legitimized in policy discourse, and how this affects power constellations, ultimately revealing much about the relation between symbolic, descriptive, and substantive representation. Emanuela Lombardo and Petra Meier draw on theories of symbolic representation and gender, as well as rich primary material about political debates on labour and care issues, partnership and reproductive rights, gender violence, and quotas. Using this original data, the authors show that reconsidering symbolic representation from a discursive perspective makes explicit issues of (in)equality embedded within particular constructions, as well as their consequences for political representation and gender equality. This important exploration raises relevant new questions regarding the representation of gender that form valuable contributions to the fields of political science, political theory, sociology, and gender studies.

Gender and Representation

1990-01-01
Gender and Representation
Author: Lou Charnon-Deutsch
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1990-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9027217491
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Applying recent European and Anglo-American feminist scholarship to the problems of gender representation, Charnon-Deutsch challenges the prevailing idea that the 19th-century Spanish novel is woman centered. The author's examination of novels by Valera, Pereda, Alas, and Galdos demonstrates that these works are instead a complex exploration of male identity. Decoding the gender ideology of women's roles, discourse, and representations, Charnon-Deutsch uncovers in the novels multiple configurations of androcentricity as well as voyeuristic tendencies, which she interprets as a means of mastering what is threatening to the male psyche.

Gender and Diversity Representation in Mass Media

2019-11
Gender and Diversity Representation in Mass Media
Author: Gulsah Sari
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2019-11
Genre: Gender identity in mass media
ISBN: 9781799801290
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""This book examines social gender representations in the content of mass media in various cultures"--Provided by publisher"--

Gender Representation in Learning Materials

2015-08-11
Gender Representation in Learning Materials
Author: Abolaji S. Mustapha
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2015-08-11
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1317653254
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Representations of gender in learning materials convey an implicit message to students about attitudes towards culturally appropriate gender roles for women and men. This collection takes a linguistic approach to exploring theories about gender representation within the sphere of education and textbooks, and their effects on readers and students within an international context. In the opening section, contributors discuss theories of representation and effect, challenging the conventional Althusserian model of interpellation, and acknowledging the challenges of applying Western feminist models within an international context. Following chapters provide detailed analyses focusing on a number of different countries: Australia, Japan, Brazil, Finland, Russia, Hong Kong, Nigeria, Germany, Qatar, Tanzania, and Poland. Through linguistic analysis of vocabulary associated with women and men, content analysis of what women and men say in textbooks, and discourse analysis of the types of linguistic moves associated with women and men, contributors evaluate the extent to which gendered representations in textbooks perpetuate stereotypical gender roles, what the impact may be on learners, and the ways that both teachers and learners interact and engage with these texts.

The Changing Face of Representation

2014-03-24
The Changing Face of Representation
Author: Kim Fridkin
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2014-03-24
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0472119230
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Gender matters in communication, media portrayals, and citizens' attitudes toward senators

Race, Gender, and Political Representation

2021
Race, Gender, and Political Representation
Author: Beth Reingold
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2021
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0197502172
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"Who gets elected? Who do they represent? What issues do they prioritize? Does diversity in representation make a difference? Race, Gender, and Political Representation thinks differently about identity politics in the United States. It is not about women's representation or minority representation; it is about how race and gender interact to affect the election, behavior, and impact of all individuals - raced women and gendered minorities alike. By putting women of color at the center of the analysis and re-evaluating traditional, one-at-a-time approaches to studying the politics of race or gender, the authors demonstrate what an intersectional approach to identity politics can reveal. With a wealth of original data on the presence, policy leadership, and policy impact of Black women and men, Latinas and Latinos, and white women and men in state legislative office in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, each chapter shows how the politics of race, gender, and representation are far more complex than recurring "Year of the Woman" frameworks suggest. An array of race-gender similarities and differences are evident in the experiences, activities, and accomplishments of these state legislators. Yet one thing is clear: the representation of those marginalized by multiple, intersecting systems of power and inequality is intricately bound to the representation of women of color"--

Gender and the Representation of Evil

2016-07-28
Gender and the Representation of Evil
Author: Lynne Fallwell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2016-07-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 1315531569
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This edited collection examines gendered representations of "evil" in history, the arts, and literature. Scholars often explore the relationships between gender, sex, and violence through theories of inequality, violence against women, and female victimization, but what happens when women are the perpetrators of violent or harmful behavior? How do we define "evil"? What makes evil men seem different from evil women? When women commit acts of violence or harmful behavior, how are they represented differently from men? How do perceptions of class, race, and age influence these representations? How have these representations changed over time, and why? What purposes have gendered representations of evil served in culture and history? What is the relationship between gender, punishment of evil behavior, and equality?