Gender PoliticsArticles

Maxime Houinato compares Senegal’s parity lists with Benin’s reserved seats to ask when representation becomes power. Unexplained figures in the brief conflict with IPU chamber-level data.

Drawing on fieldwork and historical material from Zambézia, Mozambique, Carmeliza Rosário asks how kinship, language, and social roles unsettle universal models of gender as individual identity.

This Beijing+25 regional synthesis measures progress and persistent gaps across work, care, violence, health, and political power, giving South Asian feminist claims a comparative policy baseline.

Written after Lebanon’s October 2019 uprising, Carmen Geha asks how women’s visible leadership in protest can become substantive power without being absorbed as symbolic representation.

In a 1907 essay, He-Yin Zhen traces women’s subordination to the family, economic relations and state order, asking whether entry into existing institutions can amount to liberation.

Olympe de Gouges recasts revolutionary rights language in 1791 to ask why women remain outside citizenship, public speech and legal equality. This reading follows the declaration’s form and its historical limits.