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Embodied Power explores dimensions of politics seldom addressed in
political science, illuminating state practices that produce
hierarchically-organized groups through racialized
gendering-despite guarantees of formal equality. Challenging
disembodied accounts of citizenship, the book traces how modern
science and law produce race, gender, and sexuality as purportedly
natural characteristics, masking their political genesis. Taking
the United States as a case study, Hawkesworth demonstrates how
diverse laws and policies concerning civil and political rights,
education, housing, and welfare, immigration and securitization,
policing and criminal justice create finely honed hierarchies of
difference that structure the life prospects of men and women of
particular races and ethnicities within and across borders. In
addition to documenting the continuing operation of embodied power
across diverse policy terrains, the book investigates complex ways
of seeing that render raced-gendered relations of domination and
subordination invisible. From common assumptions about
individualism and colorblind perception to disciplinary norms such
as methodological individualism, methodological nationalism, and
abstract universalism, problematic presuppositions sustain mistaken
notions concerning formal equality and legal neutrality that allow
state practices of racialized gendering to escape detection with
profound consequences for the life prospects of privileged and
marginalized groups. Through sustained critique of these flawed
suppositions, Embodied Power challenges central beliefs about the
nature of power, the scope of state action, and the practice of
liberal democracy and identifies alternative theoretical frameworks
that make racialized-gendering visible and actionable. Key
Features: Demonstrates how understandings of politics change when
the experiences of men and women of diverse classes, races, and
ethnicities are placed at the center of analysis. Explains why
race-neutral and gender-neutral policies fail to eliminate
entrenched inequalities. Shows how accredited methods in political
science (and the social sciences more generally) mask state
practices that create and sustain racial and gender inequality.
Traces how mistaken notions of biological determinism have diverted
attention from political processes of racialization, gendering, and
sexualization. Argues that the intersecting categories of race,
class, gender, and sexuality are essential to all subfields of
political science if contemporary power is to be studied
systematically.
"Political Worlds of Women" provides a comprehensive overview of
women's political activism, comparing formal and informal channels
of power from official institutions of state to grassroots
mobilizations and Internet campaigns. Illuminating the politics of
identity enmeshed in local, national, and global gender orders,
this book explores women's creation of new political spaces and
innovative political strategies to secure full citizenship and
equal access to political power. Incorporating case studies from
Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas, Mary Hawkesworth analyzes
critical issues such as immigration and citizenship, the politics
of representation, sexual regulation, and gender mainstreaming in
order to examine how women mobilize in this era of globalization.
"Political Worlds of Women" deepens understandings of national and
global citizenship and presents the formidable challenges facing
racial and gender justice in the contemporary world. It is an
essential resource for students and scholars of women's studies and
gender politics.
Political Worlds of Women provides a comprehensive overview of
women's political activism, comparing formal and informal channels
of power from official institutions of state to grassroots
mobilizations and Internet campaigns. Illuminating the politics of
identity enmeshed in local, national, and global gender orders,
this book explores women's creation of new political spaces and
innovative political strategies to secure full citizenship and
equal access to political power. Incorporating case studies from
Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas, Mary Hawkesworth analyzes
critical issues such as immigration and citizenship, the politics
of representation, sexual regulation, and gender mainstreaming in
order to examine how women mobilize in this era of globalization.
Political Worlds of Women deepens understandings of national and
global citizenship and presents the formidable challenges facing
racial and gender justice in the contemporary world. It is an
essential resource for students and scholars of women's studies and
gender politics.
This book examines female engagement in both traditional and
unconventional political arenas, including female sociability,
salons, child-rearing and education, health, consumption, religious
reform and nationalism.
Despite explicit commitments to gender equality, women experience
complex modes of disadvantage and discrimination in all nations of
the world. Offering sophisticated insights into the persistence of
gendered differences in opportunities, roles, power, and rights in
societies across the globe, this volume investigates factors that
both enable and constrain women's advancement. From intimate
relations within families, to social norms, relations, ideologies,
and structures of power, to political institutions, electoral
systems, and public policies, the chapters analyze possibilities
for and obstacles to inclusive democratic practices and identify
interventions essential to enable democratic values to take root.
Contributors from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the USA
provide detailed assessments of the social, economic, and political
condition of women, their mobilizations to produce transform
gendered power and authority in diverse nations, and their efforts
to enhance the quality of their lives, their communities, and
democratic governance.
Embodied Power explores dimensions of politics seldom addressed in
political science, illuminating state practices that produce
hierarchically-organized groups through racialized
gendering-despite guarantees of formal equality. Challenging
disembodied accounts of citizenship, the book traces how modern
science and law produce race, gender, and sexuality as purportedly
natural characteristics, masking their political genesis. Taking
the United States as a case study, Hawkesworth demonstrates how
diverse laws and policies concerning civil and political rights,
education, housing, and welfare, immigration and securitization,
policing and criminal justice create finely honed hierarchies of
difference that structure the life prospects of men and women of
particular races and ethnicities within and across borders. In
addition to documenting the continuing operation of embodied power
across diverse policy terrains, the book investigates complex ways
of seeing that render raced-gendered relations of domination and
subordination invisible. From common assumptions about
individualism and colorblind perception to disciplinary norms such
as methodological individualism, methodological nationalism, and
abstract universalism, problematic presuppositions sustain mistaken
notions concerning formal equality and legal neutrality that allow
state practices of racialized gendering to escape detection with
profound consequences for the life prospects of privileged and
marginalized groups. Through sustained critique of these flawed
suppositions, Embodied Power challenges central beliefs about the
nature of power, the scope of state action, and the practice of
liberal democracy and identifies alternative theoretical frameworks
that make racialized-gendering visible and actionable. Key
Features: Demonstrates how understandings of politics change when
the experiences of men and women of diverse classes, races, and
ethnicities are placed at the center of analysis. Explains why
race-neutral and gender-neutral policies fail to eliminate
entrenched inequalities. Shows how accredited methods in political
science (and the social sciences more generally) mask state
practices that create and sustain racial and gender inequality.
Traces how mistaken notions of biological determinism have diverted
attention from political processes of racialization, gendering, and
sexualization. Argues that the intersecting categories of race,
class, gender, and sexuality are essential to all subfields of
political science if contemporary power is to be studied
systematically.
Rutgers University's Douglass Residential College is the only
college for women that is nested within a major research university
in the United States. Although the number of women's colleges has
plummeted from a high of 268 in 1960 to 38 in 2016, Douglass is
flourishing as it approaches its centennial in 2018. To explore its
rich history, Kayo Denda, Mary Hawkesworth, Fernanda H. Perrone
examine the strategic transformation of Douglass over the past
century in relation to continuing debates about women's higher
education. The Douglass Century celebrates the college's longevity
and diversity as distinctive accomplishments, and analyzes the
contributions of Douglass administrators, alumnae, and students to
its survival, while also investigating multiple challenges that
threatened its existence. This book demonstrates how changing
historical circumstances altered the possibilities for women and
the content of higher education, comparing the Jazz Age, American
the Great Depression, the Second World War, the post-war Civil
Rights era, and the resurgence of feminism in the 1970s and 1980s.
Concluding in the present day, the authors highlight the college's
ongoing commitment to Mabel Smith Douglass' founding vision, "to
bring about an intellectual quickening, a cultural broadening in
connection with specific training so that women may go out into the
world fitted...for leadership...in the economic, political, and
intellectual life of this nation." In addition to providing a
comprehensive history of the college, the book brings its subjects
to life with eighty full-color images from the Special Collections
and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries.
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