Research Catalog

Title

Representing women in parliament : a comparative study / edited by Marian Sawer, Manon Tremblay and Linda Trimble.

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.

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Additional Authors

• Sawer, Marian.
• Tremblay, Manon.
• Trimble, Linda J. (Linda Jean), 1959-

Description

xxi, 278 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Routledge research in comparative politics ; 14

Subject

• Women > Political activity
• Women legislators
• Representative government and representation
• Legislative bodies
• Comparative government

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [252]-272) and index.

Contents

Introduction : patterns and practice in the parliamentary representation of women / Marian Sawer, Manon Tremblay and Linda Trimble -- Women's electoral representation in Australia / Ian McAllister -- Women's representation in the Canadian House of Commons / Lisa Young -- climbing on : rules, values and women's representation in the New Zealand parliament / Elizabeth McLeay -- Women and Westminster : descriptive representation in the United Kingdom / Donley T. Studlar -- When women support xomen : EMILY's List and the substantive representation of women in Australia / Marian Sawer -- When do women count? : substantive representation of women in Canadian legislatures / Linda Trimble -- The 'new world'? : the substantive representation of women in New Zealand / Sandra Grey -- The house turned upside down? : the difference Labour's women MPs made / Sarah Childs -- Descriptive and substantive representation in new parliamentary spaces : the case of Scotland / Fiona Mackay -- women and constitutional reform : gender parity in the National Assembly for Wales / Paul Chaney -- women in Northern Ireland's politics : feminising an 'armed patriarchy' / Yvonne Galligan -- Paradise lost? : gender parity and the Nunavut experience / Manon Tremblay and Jackie F. Steele -- Conclusion : gendering political representation in the old and new worlds of Westminster / Jennifer Curtin.

Call Number

JFE 06-13538

ISBN

0415393167 (hardback : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2005029630
• 9780415393164

OCLC

• 62118268
• vendorOCM62118268

Title

Representing women in parliament : a comparative study / edited by Marian Sawer, Manon Tremblay and Linda Trimble.

Imprint

London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.

Series

Routledge research in comparative politics ; 14

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [252]-272) and index.

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Publisher description

Added Author

Sawer, Marian.

Tremblay, Manon.

Trimble, Linda J. (Linda Jean), 1959-

Other Standard Identifier

9780415393164

Research Call Number

JFE 06-13538