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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
1

The effect of female candidatures on voting behaviour /

Deller, Joanne Elizabeth. January 1981 (has links)
No description available.
2

Gender as a variable in the political process : A case study of women's participation in state-level electoral politics in Andhra Pradesh, India

Wolkowitz, C. January 1984 (has links)
No description available.
3

Women as the other reason : making the margins work?

Erasmus, Ermin 27 February 2012 (has links)
M.A. / This dissertation explores the possibility of an alternative notion of reason, one that draws on certain values articulated in feminist theory as well as on the opportunities opened up by the historically created relationship between women and reason. Employing certain writings, the initial aim of the argument is to render problematic the conventionally accepted conception of reason by demonstrating the existence of a powerful intellectual current that associates women with, among other things, the bodily and emotional, thereby placing them outside of reason. Because of the immense importance attached to the tenets of reason, this state of affairs profoundly affects the position of women and is, of course, something they have extensively commented on. Thus, following on the problematization of reason along gender lines, women are afforded the opportunity to set out their views on reason and the relationship between it and women. From this it emerges, broadly speaking, that some women want to be integrated into the prevailing standard of reason, while others hold that women have access to some distinct reasoning capability that it sometimes even regarded as being superior to the masculine standard. The points of view outlined above are then, in the penultimate chapter, brought into critical dialogue with postmodernism. This serves two main purposes: it illustrates the flaws in certain feminist views on reason and, very importantly, makes the point that reason cannot be meaningfully separated from questions concerning power, subjectivity and language. In conclusion, and drawing on a range of insights developed through the course of the dissertation, it is said that the conventional single standard of rationality is in large measure fictitious and that it should be abandoned in favour of a more multicentred way of looking at the world. Women are encouraged not to attempt to merely move from their positions at the margins of reason to the centre, but to explore the possibilities offered by the margins, possibilities that might enable them to lead the way in terms of being agents in creating more acceptable standards of knowledge and interaction.
4

Increasing women's political representation : law into politics

Loudes, C. M. H. January 2003 (has links)
No description available.
5

The effect of female candidatures on voting behaviour /

Deller, Joanne Elizabeth January 1981 (has links)
No description available.
6

Consolidating power: Chilean women in the political party xystem, 1950-1970

Travis, Anna M. 10 December 2007 (has links)
No description available.
7

The masquerades of Margaret Thatcher : an exploration of politics and fantasy

Nunn, Heather Alison January 2000 (has links)
This thesis explores the figure of Margaret Thatcher and how, as a cultural icon, she has been central to a range of political and media representations from the mid-1970s to the 1990s. Underpinning this thesis is the argument that gender is one of the persistent signs through which political power is conceived, authorised and popularly understood. This thesis interrogates how Thatcher, the first female Conservative Party leader and then British Prime Minister, disrupted the dominant discourses of mainstream politics and the conventionally understood masculine status of high political office. I argue that Thatcher's political persona gained its political force and broader cultural resonance from the disruption of conventional gender roles and from an ambiguous play on conventionally understood masculine and feminine attributes. This disruption of gender and paradoxically the endorsement of certain forms of masculine authority and feminine common sense were integral parts of Thatcherism's central political imagery of social insurrection and potential chaos. Through the analysis of political commentary, biography, press articles and political speeches I propose that Thatcher's significance can only be understood fully through the fantasies of authority, violence, war, independence, freedom and gender difference which sustained her powerful symbolic status in the Conservative political imagination. The biographical construction of Thatcher's path to power and the significance of her father are interrogated through Joan Riviere's psychoanalytical concept of the 'masquerade'. A textual analysis of unconscious anxiety about feminine vulnerability and the seizure of masculine power that accompanied Thatcher's masquerade is developed to consider the relevance of her precarious middle-class Methodist background in 1930s Britain. The interrelated facets of class, gender and religion are drawn upon to argue for the centrality of propriety and self-policing respectability to Thatcher's persona and to her political discourse. This analysis of political and personal history then broadens to a consideration of key concepts in Thatcherite discourse and significant moments in Thatcher's premiership. I chart the links between Thatcherite and New Right endorsement of social authoritarianism, morality and the 'traditional' nuclear family. Focusing specifically on the child as a repository of adult hopes and fears, I argue that Thatcher envisaged a 'privatisation' of the child that symbolised a broader extraction of Thatcherite subjects from the dependency of the Welfare State and into consumer self-sufficiency. Finally, this thesis explores the 1983 general election campaign and the Conservative Party's support of nuclear armament as a prerequisite of national survival and aggressive symbol of national strength. I unpack how Thatcher, as 'war leader', was set up as the barrier to impending chaos and social disarray and as supporter of legitimate force and state control. Oppositions between freedom and thraldom, liberation and restraint were central to Thatcherite discourse. I investigate the placing of her persona and by implication Thatcherite Britain, on the cusp of these oppositions and how this dialectic was played out in political speeches and reportage. An analysis of the varied political and media accounts of social chaos emanating from or turned against Thatcher in 1983 lead to an interrogation of Thatcher as 'super-ego'. I argue that the psychoanalytical concept of the super-ego provides a key way of understanding how Thatcher's imaginary power was consolidated through an ambivalent engagement with imagery of illegitimate violence and also a counter-investment in the extreme authority of the state and the law in the modern British nation.
8

Changes in the role concept of women in their process of political participation /

Chiu, Shuk-yi. January 1992 (has links)
Thesis (M.S.W.)--University of Hong Kong, 1992.
9

A study of women's political participation in Hong Kong /

Mok, Hing-luen. January 1991 (has links)
Thesis (M. Soc. Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 1991.
10

A study of women's political participation in Hong Kong

Mok, Hing-luen. January 1991 (has links)
Thesis (M.Soc.Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 1991. / Also available in print.

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