Women and Power in Africa: Aspiring, Campaigning, and Governing
examines women's experiences in African politics as aspirants to
public office, as candidates in election campaigns, and as elected
representatives. Part I evaluates women's efforts to become party
candidates in four African countries: Benin, Ghana, Malawi, and
Zambia. The chapters draw on a variety of methods, including
extensive interviews with women candidates, to describe and assess
the barriers confronted when women seek to enter politics. The
chapters help explain why women remain underrepresented as
candidates for office, particularly in countries without
gender-based quotas, by emphasizing the impact of financial
constraints, fears of violence, and resistance among party leaders.
Part II turns to women's experiences as candidates during elections
in Kenya and Ghana. One chapter provides an in-depth account of a
woman's presidential bid in Kenya, demonstrating how gendered
ethnicity undermined her candidacy, and another chapter presents a
novel evaluation of the media's coverage of women candidates in
Ghana. Part III turns to women as legislators in Namibia, Uganda,
and Burkina Faso, asking whether women engage in substantive
representation on gendered policy issues once in office. The
chapters challenge the assumption that a critical mass of women is
necessary or sufficient to achieve substantive representation.
Taken together, the book's chapters problematize existing
hypotheses regarding women in political power, drawing on
understudied countries and variety of empirical methods. By
following political pathways from entry to governance, the book
uncovers how gendered experiences early in the political process
shape what is possible for women once they attain political power.
Oxford Studies in African Politics and International Relations is a
series for scholars and students working on African politics and
International Relations and related disciplines. Volumes
concentrate on contemporary developments in African political
science, political economy, and International Relations, such as
electoral politics, democratization, decentralization, the
political impact of natural resources, the dynamics and
consequences of conflict, and the nature of the continent's
engagement with the East and West. Comparative and mixed methods
work is particularly encouraged. Case studies are welcomed but
should demonstrate the broader theoretical and empirical
implications of the study and its wider relevance to contemporary
debates. The series focuses on sub-Saharan Africa, although
proposals that explain how the region engages with North Africa and
other parts of the world are of interest. Series Editors: Nic
Cheeseman, Professor of Democracy and International Development,
University of Birmingham; and Ricardo Soares de Oliveira, Professor
of the International Politics of Africa, University of Oxford.
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