Format:
1 Online-Ressource (208 pages)
ISBN:
9783319602790
Series Statement:
Gender and Politics
Content:
Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Informal Politics and the Gender Equality Paradox -- The Gender Equality Paradox -- Feminist Institutionalism and Postcommunist Regime Dynamics -- A Blueprint for Studying the Gender of Informal Politics -- Unconventional Research in Russia and Iceland -- Most Different Systems and the Second-World Perspective -- Knowing Smiles, Double-Blind Interviews, and Women Informants -- Explaining the Gender Equality Paradox and Possibilities for Change -- Structure of the Book -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2: Liberalization: How Economic Reforms Consolidated a Bait-and-Switch Male Dominance -- Introduction -- Liberalization, Economic Crisis, and Gender -- Gender and Racialized Capture of Elite Networks? -- Hegemonic Masculinity and Homosociality as Rationalization and in Informal Rules? -- Informalization as Gendered and Racialized? -- Russia -- Before Liberalization -- Liberalization -- Economic Crisis -- Iceland -- Before Liberalization -- Liberalization -- Economic Crisis -- Conclusion: Bait-and-Switch Male Dominance -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: Women's Representation: How Bait-and-Switch Male Dominance Promotes, but Then Boxes In Women in Politics -- Introduction -- Descriptive Without Substantive Representation -- Informally, Not Just Formally, Fast-Tracked? -- Recruited Through Emphasized Femininity? -- Boxed In by Informal Rules and Institutions -- Russia -- Informally, Not Just Formally, Fast-Tracked -- Recruited Through Emphasized Femininity -- Workhorses -- Political Cleaners -- Loyalists -- Showgirls -- Boxed In by Informal Rules and Institutions -- Iceland -- Informally, Not Just Formally, Fast-Tracked -- Recruited Through Emphasized Femininity -- Workhorses -- Political Cleaners -- Loyalists -- Showgirls.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783319602783
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Johnson, Janet Elise, 1972 - The gender of informal politics Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018 ISBN 9783319602783
Language:
English
Subjects:
Sociology
