Performing Representation: Women Members in the Indian Parliament

by Shirin M. Rai and Carole Spary

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019948905X
• ISBN13: 9780199489053
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.7"