Performing Representation

Women Members in the Indian Parliament

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

Av Shirin M. Rai, Carole Spary, University of Warwick) Rai, Shirin M. (Professor, Professor, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Nottingham) Spary, Carole (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, School of Politics and International Relations, Shirin M Rai

719 kr

Beställningsvara. Skickas inom 7-10 vardagar

Fri frakt för medlemmar vid köp för minst 249 kr.

Breaking new ground in scholarship on gender and politics, Performing Representation is the first comprehensive analysis of women in the Indian parliament. It explores the possibilities and limits of parliamentary democracy and the participation of women in its institutional performances. Offering a new, multi-method analysis of the gendered nature of India's parliament through an examination of electoral data, media reports and life stories of women Members of Parliament it sheds light on the performance, aesthetics, and norms of parliamentary life. It explores how the gendered axis of power underpins the performance of parliament and its Members as well as the political economy in which they are embedded. The book makes a strong case for taking parliamentary politics seriously in these times of populism, without either a utopian framing of women MPs as challengers of masculinised institutional politics or seeing them simply as docile actors in a gendered institution. Performing Representation raises critical questions about the politics of difference, claim-making, representation and intersectionality. It addresses these questions as part of global feminist debates on the importance of the women's representation in political institutions.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2019-01-17
Mått148 x 222 x 28 mm
Vikt598 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor456
FörlagOUP India
ISBN9780199489053

Tillhör följande kategorier

Shirin M. Rai is Professor in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. She has written extensively on issues of gender, governance and development in academic journals and her latest books include New Frontiers in Feminist Political Economy ; Democracy in Practice: Ceremony and Ritual in Parliament (ed.), and The Grammar of Politics and Performance (eds. with Janelle Reinelt). She has consulted with the United Nations' Division for the Advancement of Women and UNDP. She is a founder member of the South Asia Research Network on Gender, Law and Governance, and she was Director of the Leverhulme Trust programme on Gendered Ceremony and Ritual in Parliament (2007-2011). She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and an executive committee member of the International Political Science Association. She has also been a Visiting Professorial Fellow at the Gender Institute, London School of Economics (2012 -2015).Carole Spary is Assistant Professor at the School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham, UK. Prior to this she was Lecturer in Politics at the University of York (2011-2014) and Leverhulme Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Warwick (2008-2011). She has published on democratic politics and development, particularly gender, development, political representation and political institutions in India, including journal articles on women's political leadership in India and candidate nomination in elections, a comparative study of first female Speakers, and on disruption and ethno-linguistic representation in the Indian parliament. She has also written on gender, development and the state in India, and she teaches on gender and development and Asian politics. She has guest edited two special issues of the journals Democratisation and Contemporary South Asia.

List of Tables and FiguresAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction 1: The Making of Parliament as a Gendered Site of Representation 2: Routes to Parliament: Narratives of Political Access3: Contesting Elections: Women's Candidacy for the Lok Sabha 4: Representative Women?: Presence and Performance of Intersectionality 5: Performing Representation: Women MPs in Parliamentary Debates 6: The Politics of Presence: The Parliamentary Committee for the Empowerment of Women7: Follow the Money: Expenses and Expenditure8: Women MPs: Leaders or Servants of the People?9: Sustaining Participation ConclusionBibiliographyIndexAbout the authors

India - the most populous democracy in the world - has just 64 women in the Lok Sabha (lower house of parliament), ranking 149th worldwide in this regard. Why? This terrific new study by Shirin Rai and Carole Spary provides fresh insights into issues of representation and representativeness, gender and power, and the role of women in parliament - both within India and more broadly. Drawing upon qualitative and quantitative evidence, this book provides an essential contribution towards the literature on women in politics.