Overview
- Examines women's representation and role in the politics of Latin American countries
- Explores women in political institutions, barriers to women in politics and the role of women in politics at the subnational level
- Combines academic expertise from multiple disciplines with contributions from practitioners within national and international institutions
Part of the book series: Crossing Boundaries of Gender and Politics in the Global South (CBGPGS)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Women’s Descriptive Representation: From Quotas to Parity
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Women’s Substantive Representation and Policymaking
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Public Opinion, Social Media and Gender
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Promoting Women’s Political Participation: The Role of Domestic and International Institutions
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Latin American politics
- Democracy
- Gender quota
- Women's representation
- Latin America
- Parity laws
- Violence against women
- Gender equality
- Women's human rights
- Gender policy network
- Gender political structure
- Public opinion
- Gender gap
- Gender mainstreaming
- control de convencionalidad
- Affirmative action measures
- Advocacy
- Female president
About this book
This book discusses the current tendencies in women’s representation and their role in politics in Latin American countries from three different perspectives. Firstly, the authors examine cultural, political-partisan and organizational obstacles that women face in and outside institutions. Secondly, the book explores barriers in political reality, such as gender legislation implementation, public administration and international cooperation, and proposes solutions, supported by successful experiences, emphasising the nonlinearity of the implementation process. Thirdly, the authors highlight the role of women in politics at the subnational level. The book combines academic expertise in various disciplines with contributions from practitioners within national and international institutions to broaden the reader’s understanding of women in Latin American politics.
Reviews
“Women, Politics and Democracy offers a unique contribution to the fields of comparative politics and gender studies. More importantly, the volume will prove useful for practitioners, politicians and those who influence public policies that seek to promote gender equality. A rights-based approach informs the analysis putting women’s human rights at the heart of the public policy proposals offered in this volume. With both academic rigor and the wisdom of policy practice, the volume illustrates that institutional changes are not sufficient to guarantee the full exercise of women’s political rights, as voters, as party members and as candidates.” (Luis Almagro, Secretary General of the Organization of American States)
“What can explain the fact that in a continent where machismo, social inequality and femicides still exist, there is proportionally the greatest legislative representation of women in the world? This representation is such that the Americas is today the continentthat leads the democratization process of political representation, including that of sexual diversity. A read-through the authors’ analysis and conclusions of “Women, Politics and Democracy” offer a critical and at the same time, coherent review of this reality. The volume puts the different pieces in the right places of an unfinished puzzle. The puzzle is not complete because the analysis does not pretend to give the full picture but trimmings of a regional outlook for women that confuses and fascinates at the same time.” (Line Bareiro, Researcher at the Regional Training Program on Gender and Public Policy – PRIGEPP (FLACSO Argentina) and former member of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW))
“The editors have assembled an intellectually and geographically diverse team of stellar scholars who together deepen and extend existing lines of scholarly inquiry on the election, representation and participation of women in Latin America while simultaneously breaking new ground in the study of continuing barriers to, and opportunities for, greater gender equality in Latin America’s democracies.” (Mark P. Jones, Joseph D. Jamail Chair in Latin American Studies, Rice University, USA)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Flavia Freidenberg is Principal Researcher at the Institute of Legal Research of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and Professor of the Postgraduate Program in Political and Social Science at the same university. She is Associate Editor of Politics and International Relations of Latin American Research Review (LARR).
Mariana Caminotti is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Argentina, and Researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), at the Center for Federal and Electoral Studies of the School of Politics and Government of the same University.
Betilde Muñoz-Pogossian is Director of the Department of Social Inclusion of the Organization of American States (OAS), and former Director of the Department of Electoral Cooperation and Observation (2011-2014). Muñoz-Pogossian holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Florida International University of Miami.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Women, Politics, and Democracy in Latin America
Editors: Tomáš Došek, Flavia Freidenberg, Mariana Caminotti, Betilde Muñoz-Pogossian
Series Title: Crossing Boundaries of Gender and Politics in the Global South
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95009-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95008-9Published: 05 January 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95703-3Published: 24 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-95009-6Published: 04 January 2017
Series ISSN: 2946-4854
Series E-ISSN: 2946-4862
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 243
Number of Illustrations: 22 b/w illustrations
Topics: Latin American Politics, Gender Studies, Democracy, Comparative Politics