Women in politics : gender, power and development - Tadros, Mariz, 1975- (London ; New York : Zed Books, 2014)
Machine generated contents note: 1.Politics as Service: Pathways of District Assembly Women in Ghana / Takyiwaa Manuh -- 2.Exceptional Women: Reserved Councillors in Municipal Corporations in Bangladesh / Bayazid Hasan -- 3.Ejecting Women from Formal Politics in the 'Old-New' Egypt (2011--12) / Mariz Tadros -- 4.Local Power and Women's Empowerment in a Conflict Context: Palestinian Women Contesting Power in Chaos / Islahjad -- 5.Pathways to Political Power in Sudan / Sara Abbas -- 6.Crafting Political Pathways through the Exclusionary Mesh in India / Kanchan Mathur -- 7.Independent Candidacy: An Alternative Political Pathway for Women in Sierra Leone? / Hussaina J. Abdullah -- 8.Conservative Modernization in Brazil: Blocking Local Women's Political Pathways to Power / Andrea Cornwall.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Keywords: Women -- Political activity -- Developing countries