Gender and authoritarian regimes : a review

Although the scientific community attests a “renaissance” (Bank 2009) of authoritarianism political science has no focus on the research field of gender and authoritarianism yet. The strengthening of authoritarianism research within political science is mostly located in comparative politics and reg...

Verfasser: Schneider, Silke
Urheber: Zentrum für Europäische Geschlechterstudien (ZEUGS) (Herausgeber)
Dokumenttypen:Arbeitspapier
Erscheinungsdatum:2014
Publikation in MIAMI:22.10.2014
Datum der letzten Änderung:09.03.2020
Quelle:Working Papers / Zentrum für Europäische Geschlechterstudien (ZEUGS), Working Paper No. 6
Angaben zur Ausgabe:[Electronic ed.]
Schlagwörter:Authoritarianism; Gender; authoritarian states; Family; suffrage rights; Feminism
Fachgebiet (DDC):320: Politikwissenschaft
Lizenz:InC 1.0
Sprache:Englisch
Format:PDF-Dokument
URN:urn:nbn:de:hbz:6-01379335989
Permalink:https://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hbz:6-01379335989
Onlinezugriff:arbeitspapier_zeugs_2014_6.pdf

Although the scientific community attests a “renaissance” (Bank 2009) of authoritarianism political science has no focus on the research field of gender and authoritarianism yet. The strengthening of authoritarianism research within political science is mostly located in comparative politics and regional studies. But most recent studies on authoritarian regimes do not focus on gender questions explicitly. This review gives a structured overview on recent literature on authoritarianism and gender and focusses on recent theoretical approaches to authoritarianism and authoritarian regimes. Furthermore interesting policies within a gender perspective and how they are looked upon in mainstream and feminist political science and in part recent historical research as well will be described: state formation and gender; political rights, suffrage rights and women’s rights activism; women’s representation; social hierarchies and social processes; family policy, the role of domestic violence and abortion rights as measuring degrees of women’s autonomy and eventually the socio-economic gender orders.