The Palgrave Handbook of Women’s Political Rights Hardback

Edited by Susan Franceschet, Mona Lena Krook, Netina Tan

Part of the Gender and Politics series

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Description

This Palgrave Handbook provides a definitive account of women’s political rights across all major regions of the world, focusing both on women’s right to vote and women’s right to run for political office.

This dual focus makes this the first book to combine historical overviews of debates about enfranchising women alongside analyses of more contemporary efforts to increase women’s political representation around the globe.

Chapter authors map and assess the impact of these groundbreaking reforms, providing insight into these dynamics in a wide array of countries where women’s suffrage and representation have taken different paths and led to varying degrees of transformation.

On the eve of many countries celebrating a century of women’s suffrage, as well as record numbers of women elected and appointed to political office, this timely volume offers an important introduction to ongoing developments related to women’s political empowerment worldwide.

It will be of interest to studentsand scholars across the fields of gender and politics, women’s studies, history and sociology.