Women in Politics: Gender, Power and Development

* Introduction. Engaging Politically: Rethinking Women's Pathways to Power? * Mariz Tadros * 1. Politics as Service: Pathways of District Assembly Women in Ghana * Takyiwaa Manuh * 2. Exceptional Women: Reserved Councillors in Municipal Corporations in Bangladesh * Sohela Nazneen, Iqbal Ehsan and Bayazid Hasan * 3. Ejecting Women from Formal Politics in the 'Old-New' Egypt (2011-12) * Mariz Tadros * 4. Local Power and Women's Empowerment in a Conflict Context: Palestinian Women Contesting Power in Chaos * Islah Jad * 5. Pathways to Political Power in Sudan * Sara Abbas * 6. Crafting Political Pathways through the Exclusionary Mesh in India * Kanchan Mathur * 7. Independent Candidacy: An Alternative Political Pathway for Women in Sierra Leone? *…