CONFERENCE: Women and Politics in Asia: A Springboard for Democracy?
29 SEPTEMBER-2 OCTOBER 2009 | HIDELSHEIM, GERMANY
Organizer: Institute of Social Science at the University of Hildesheim, Germany
Event dates: 29 September-2October 2009
Venue: Hidelsheim, Germany
This conference builds on the 2005 conference “Women and Politics in Asia 2005: Discovering the Gender Face of Politics”, Women and Politics in Asia: A Springboard for Democracy? aims to reflect upon the links between a) democracy and the feminization of the halls of political power; b) gender and (power) politics; c) gender relations and gender ideologies and their impact on specific socio-political systems, modes of interaction / participation and citizenship discourses; and d) gendered forms of political participation and agency.