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Introduction Introduction
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Nazi Germany Nazi Germany
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The Socialist Soviet Union and Eastern Europe The Socialist Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
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Socialist China Socialist China
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Military Dictatorships Military Dictatorships
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International Pressures International Pressures
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State Feminism State Feminism
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Cultural and Religious Arguments Cultural and Religious Arguments
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Instrumentalizing Women’s Rights Instrumentalizing Women’s Rights
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Cross-National Studies Cross-National Studies
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Autocratization Autocratization
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Conclusions Conclusions
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References References
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Gender, Women’s Rights, and Authoritarian Regimes
Get accessAili Mari Tripp is the Wangari Maathai Professor of Political Science and Gender & Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Tripp’s research has focused on women and politics in Africa, women’s movements in Africa, women and ↵peace-building, transnational feminism, African politics (with particular reference to Uganda and Tanzania), and on the informal economy in Africa. She is author of several award-winning books, including Women and Power in Postconflict Africa (Cambridge Studies in Gender and Politics, Cambridge University Press, 2015), Museveni’s Uganda: Paradoxes of Power in a Hybrid Regime (Lynne Rienner, 2010), African Women’s Movements: Transforming Political Landscapes (Cambridge University Press, 2009) with Isabel Casimiro, Joy Kwesiga, and Alice Mungwa, and Women and Politics in Uganda (University of Wisconsin Press, 2000). She has co-edited (with Myra Marx Ferree and Christina Ewig) Gender, Violence, and Human Security: Critical Feminist Perspectives (New York University Press, 2013).
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Published:21 March 2024
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Abstract
This chapter provides an overview of the literature on authoritarianism and women’s rights globally. This literature reveals the contradictory strategies of authoritarian regimes, which may outright repress women and ignore or retract women’s rights while at the same time advancing legal or other reforms that ostensibly support women’s rights. It shows how many such regimes instrumentalize women’s rights in the service of domestic and international agendas, motivated by political, economic, and symbolic gains. State feminism in many parts of the world has produced top-down strategies, sometimes in response to women’s rights activists and movements. However, women and their interests may be sidestepped in the regime’s pursuit of legitimacy and the staying power of the ruling party. The chapter looks at authoritarian regimes historically in the case of Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, China, and Latin America, as well as contemporary dynamics especially in Africa, the Middle East and North Africa.
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