Civil society and gender relations in authoritarian and hybrid regimes : new theoretical approaches and empirical case studies / Gabriele Wilde, Annette Zimmer, Katharina Obuch, Isabelle-Christine Panreck (eds.).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Civil society and gender relations in non-democratic regimes: democracy, power, and traditional gender roles. Introduction / Annette Zimmer -- Section 1. Theoretical foundations and methodological implications ; Gender, civil society, and non-democratic regimes / Silke Schneider ; If not for democracy, for what? Civil society in authoritarian settings / Annette Zimmer ; The authoritarian as discourse and practice: a feminist post-structural approach / Gabriele Wilde ; Analyzing the authoritarian: post-structural framing-analysis -- a methodological approach / Isabelle-Christine Panreck -- Section 2. Case studies. Between militancy and survival? The case of the Nicaraguan Women's Movement / Katharina Obuch ; The Tunisian constitution between democratic claim and constitutional reality / Jasmin Sandhaus ; "I'm here too, girlfriend reclaiming public spaces for the gendering of civil society in Turkey / Joyce Mushaben ; Between provocation and incorporation ; social gender activism in the hybrid regime of the PRC / Stephanie Brauer ; In the shadow of autocracy. Gender politics in Chile / Patricia Graf.

Does the development of civil society lead to favorable conditions for the rise of democratic structures and progressive gender relations? While traditional approaches would answer in the affirmative, this book is more ambivalent. Focusing on women's organizations in authoritarian and hybrid regimes, it covers the full spectrum from civil society's important role in the overcoming of power relations to the reinforcement of government structures or the distribution of antifeminist ideas.

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