Performing Representation Women Members in the Indian Parliament
Performing Representation Women Members in the Indian Parliament
- ISBN 13:
9780199489053
- ISBN 10:
019948905X
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 03/17/2019
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary
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.