Women and Politics in Asia: A Springboard for Democracy?

The conference series “Women and Politics in Asia” started 2003 in Sweden, at Halmstad University, and was continued 2004 in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and 2005 in Islamabad, Pakistan. In 2009, the fourth international conference of its kind will be convened by the Institute of Social Science at the University of Hildesheim, Germany.

Building upon “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
* democracy and the feminisation of the halls of political power
* gender and (power) politics
* gender relations and gender ideologies and their impact on specific socio-political systems, modes of interaction / participation and citizenship discourses
* gendered forms of political participation and agency
within Greater Asia in an integrated comparative perspective.