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Women, Politics, and Power: A Global Perspective.(Brief article)(Book review)
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On Campus with Women
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January 1, 2008
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Women, Politics, and Power: A Global Perspective, Pamela Paxton and Melanie M. Hughes (Pine Forge Press, 2007, $36.95 paperback)
Authors Paxton and Hughes offer a solid elementary introduction to the current state of women's political leadership throughout the globe in this exhaustively researched and approachable volume. Beginning by defining such basic terms as power, gender, and feminism, and by outlining such cultural phenomena as the nineteenth-century American "cult of true womanhood," the authors proceed to detail the current levels of political participation available to women throughout the globe. In analyzing the relationship between ...
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