Barbara Graham might have been a diabolical dame in a hard-boiled detective story—beautiful, sexy, and deadly. Charged alongside two male friends in the murder of an elderly widow during a botched robbery attempt, “Bloody Babs” became the third woman executed in California—after a 1953 trial that played out before standing-room-only crowds captured the imaginations of journalists, filmmakers, and death penalty opponents. Why, Kathleen A. Cairns asks, of all the capital cases in the twentieth century, did Graham’s have such political resonance and staying power?
Leaving aside the question of guilt or innocence—debated to this day—Cairns examines how Graham’s case became a touchstone in the ongoing debate over capital punishment. While prosecutors positioned the accused woman as a femme fatale, the media came to offer a counternarrative for Graham’s life highlighting her abusive and lonely beginnings. Cairns shows how Graham’s case became crucial to the abolitionists of the time, who used instances of questionable guilt to raise awareness of the arbitrary and capricious nature of death penalty prosecutions. Critical in keeping capital punishment in the forefront of public consciousness until abolitionists homed in on a winning strategy, Graham's case illustrates the power of individual stories to shape wider perceptions and ultimately public policies.
Автор: Mitchell Michael, Alexander-Floyd Nikol, Covin Dav Название: Black Women in Politics: Identity, Power, and Justice in the New Millennium ISBN: 1412854695 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781412854696 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7042.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The research included in this volume examines the competing pressures felt by black women as political agents in the domains of elections, public policy, and social activism
Автор: Franceschet Susan Название: Impact of Gender Quotas ISBN: 0199830088 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199830084 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5701.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book is a theory-building and comparative exercise in elaborating concepts commonly used to analyze the broad impacts of gender quotas. Using a conceptual framework based upon descriptive, substantive and symbolic dimensions of representation, the book presents case studies from twelve countries in Western Europe, Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Asia.
Автор: Sluga Glenda Название: Women, Diplomacy and International Politics Since 1500 ISBN: 0415714656 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415714655 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 6889.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Women, Diplomacy and International Politics since 1500 explores the role of women as agents of diplomacy in the trans-Atlantic world since the early modern age. Despite increasing evidence of their involvement in political life across the centuries, the core historical narrative of international politics remains notably depleted of women. This collection challenges this perspective.
Chapters cover a wide range of geographical contexts, including Europe, Russia, Britain and the United States, and trace the diversity of women's activities and the significance of their contributions. Together these essays open up the field to include a broader interpretation of diplomatic work, such as the unofficial avenues of lobbying, negotiation and political representation that made women central diplomatic players in the salons, courts and boudoirs of Europe.
Through a selection of case studies, the book throws into new perspective the operations of political power in local and national domains, bridging and at times reconceptualising the relationship of the private to the public. Women, Diplomacy and International Politics since 1500 is essential reading for all those interested in the history of diplomacy and the rise of international politics over the past five centuries.
Название: Women, Politics, and Power ISBN: 1412927420 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781412927420 Издательство: Sage Publications Рейтинг: Цена: 4434.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Presents an introduction to women`s political representation across a wide range of countries and regions, addressing both women`s parliamentary representation and their ascendance to leadership positions as heads of state or cabinet ministers. This book documents both historical trends and the contemporary state of women`s political strength.
Автор: Sedghi Название: Women and Politics in Iran ISBN: 052183581X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521835817 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 18216.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This is a groundbreaking analysis of the relations between gender and politics in Iran`s development over the past 100 years. Sedghi discusses the private and public lives of women of different classes and analyzes women`s work and their mode of resistance to state power.
Описание: This book attempts to solve an enduring puzzle in women`s electoral politics. Namely why the increasing importance of women`s votes in the 1920s did not imply increasing success for the lobbying efforts of women`s organizations.
Singapore and Malaysia are rapidly modernising, globalising Asian states which, although being distinct nations since 1965, share common elements in the on-going struggle over the meaning of gender and sexuality in their societies. This is the first book to discuss a range of discourses around gender in these two countries.
Women and the Politics of Representation in Southeast Asia: Engendering Discourse in Singapore and Malaysia seeks to give an overview of how gender and representation come together in various configurations in the history and contemporary culture of both nations. It examines the discursive construction of gender, sexuality and representation in a variety of areas, including the politics of everyday life, education, popular culture, literature, film, theatre and photography. Chapters examine a range of tropes such as the Orientalist "Sarong Party Girl," the iconic "Singapore Girl" of Singapore Airlines, and the figure of pious Muslim femininity celebrated by Malaysian NGO IMAN, all of which play important roles in delineating limitations for gender roles. The collection also draws attention to resistance to these gender boundaries in theatre, film, blogs and social media, and pedagogy.
Bringing together research from a variety of humanistic and social science fields, such as film, material culture, semiotics, literature and pedagogy, the book is a comprehensive feminist survey that will be of use for students and scholars of Women's Studies and Asian Studies, as well as on courses on gender, media and popular culture in Asia.
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