Representing Women

Representing Women
Author: Beth Reingold
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2003-07-11
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0807861057

Women in public office are often assumed to "make a difference" for women, as women--in other words, to represent their female constituents better than do their male counterparts. But is sex really an accurate predictor of a legislator's political choices and actions? In this book, Beth Reingold compares the representational activities and attitudes of male and female members of the Arizona and California state legislatures to illuminate the broader implications of the election and integration of women into public office. In the process, she challenges many of the assumptions that underlie popular expectations of women and men in politics. Using in-depth interviews, survey responses, and legislative records, Reingold actually uncovers more similarities between female and male politicians than differences. Moreover, the stories she presents strongly suggest that rather than assuming that who our representatives are determines what they will do in office, we must acknowledge the possibility that the influence of gender on legislative behavior can be weakened, distorted, or accentuated by powerful forces within the social and political contexts of elective office.

Representing Women

Representing Women
Author: Linda Nochlin
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-05-21
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0500294755

In this republication, revisit the late Linda Nochlin’s pioneering writings on the representation of women in art. Women—as warriors, workers, mothers, lovers—haunt nineteenth and twentieth-century Western painting. This republication of Representing Women brings together the late Linda Nochlin’s most important and pioneering writings on the representation of women in art as she considers works by Jean-Francois Millet, Eugene Delacroix, Gustave Courbet, Edgar Degas, Georges Seurat, Mary Cassatt, and Kathe Kollwitz, among many others. In a riveting, partly autobiographical introduction, Nochlin argues for the honest virtues of an art history that rejects methodological presuppositions and for art historians to investigate the work before their eyes while focusing on its subject matter, informed by a sensitivity to its feminist spirit.

How Women Represent Women

How Women Represent Women
Author: Tracy L. Osborn
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2012-03-09
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0199845352

How Women Represent Women argues that political parties fundamentally structure the ways in which women legislators represent women's interests. Using original election, sponsorship and roll call data across the U.S. state chambers from 1999-2000, Osborn shows how parties shape the policy alternatives women offer.

Representing Women

Representing Women
Author: Susan Sage Heinzelman
Publisher: Post-Contemporary Intervention
Total Pages: 408
Release: 1994
Genre: Law
ISBN:

An interdisciplinary anthology of writing by and about women and the way they talk about themselves and allow others to talk about them in ways that are sometimes liberating, sometimes incriminating, but always fraught with questions of personal, and therefore political, power. Some topics include the concept of representation in the law; race and essentialism in feminist legal theory; and representing the lesbian in law and literature. Lacks an index. Paper edition (unseen), $19.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Representing Women

Representing Women
Author: Myra Macdonald
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2009-09-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780340580165

This book examines how women are discussed and depicted visually in popular media. Stressing the importance of a historical approach, the text includes a detailed study of continuities and changes in dominant myths of femininity, especially in the transition from the modern to the postmodern period and explores the influences of feminism and consumerism.

Women, Art, And Power And Other Essays

Women, Art, And Power And Other Essays
Author: Linda Nochlin
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2018-02-12
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0429982623

Women, Art, and Power?seven landmark essays on women artists and women in art history?brings together the work of almost twenty years of scholarship and speculation.

Represent

Represent
Author: June Diane Raphael
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2019-09-03
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1523502975

“Over the last few years we’ve seen a remarkable surge of women running for office, and even better, winning. Running takes courage, passion, and commitment, but it also takes books like this. June and Kate have created a wonderful resource for women as they think about taking the leap.”—Hillary Rodham Clinton Turn “can I do this?” into “yes, I can!” Join the growing wave of women leaders with Represent, an energetic, interactive, and inspiring step-by-step guide showing how to run for the approximately 500,000 elected offices in the US. Written with humor and honesty by writer, comedian, actress, and activist June Diane Raphael and Kate Black, former chief of staff at EMILY’s list, Represent is structured around a 21-point document called “I’m Running for Office: The Checklist.” Doubling as a workbook, Represent covers it all, from the nuts and bolts of where to run, fundraising, and filing deadlines, to issues like balancing family and campaigning, managing social media and how running for office can work in your real life. With infographics, profiles of women politicians, and wisdom and advice from women in office, this is a must-own for any woman thinking of joining the pink wave.

Differencing the Canon

Differencing the Canon
Author: Griselda Pollock
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2013-04-15
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1135084475

In this major book, Griselda Pollock engages boldly in the culture wars over `what is the canon?` and `what difference can feminism make?` Do we simply reject the all-male line-up and satisfy our need for ideal egos with an all women litany of artistic heroines? Or is the question a chance to resist the phallocentric binary and allow the ambiguities and complexities of desire - subjectivity and sexuality - to shape the readings of art that constantly displace the present gender demarcations?

Representing Algerian Women

Representing Algerian Women
Author: Edward John Still
Publisher: ISSN
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020-12-07
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9783110736410

This book seeks to explore and affirm the subversive potential of canonical francophone Algerian literature in its representation of women and femininity. It deploys analyses of literary perspective, psychoanalytical frameworks informed by the work