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1 - Introduction

from Part I - The Puzzle of Women’s Political Participation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 November 2023

Soledad Artiz Prillaman
Affiliation:
Stanford University, California
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On a hot summer day in 2015, I sat down alongside Sushila, a middle-aged woman who is the leader of her village’s women’s movement.1 We sat on a woven cotton blanket on her front porch sipping chai while she recounted her transformation from being a woman constrained to the domestic sphere and forbidden to leave her house without permission into being a woman with power and voice in village politics today. Sushila’s personal transformation mirrored a transformation in her village, where historically women were not even political outsiders, but seen as apolitical, and now are a political force to be reckoned with.

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The Patriarchal Political Order
The Making and Unraveling of the Gendered Participation Gap in India
, pp. 3 - 37
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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  • Introduction
  • Soledad Artiz Prillaman, Stanford University, California
  • Book: The Patriarchal Political Order
  • Online publication: 30 November 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009355797.002
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  • Introduction
  • Soledad Artiz Prillaman, Stanford University, California
  • Book: The Patriarchal Political Order
  • Online publication: 30 November 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009355797.002
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  • Introduction
  • Soledad Artiz Prillaman, Stanford University, California
  • Book: The Patriarchal Political Order
  • Online publication: 30 November 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009355797.002
Available formats
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