Research Catalog

Title

Gender, conservatism and political representation / edited by Karen Celis and Sarah Childs.

Publication

Colchester, United Kingdom : ECPR Press, 2014.

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Additional Authors

• Celis, Karen
• Childs, Sarah, 1969-

Description

xvi, 312 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Summary

Can Conservatives represent women? Descriptively of course, they do. Conservative parties and organisations are increasingly feminised; there are conservative women sitting in many of the world's parliaments; a few women have led conservative parties; and there are and have been Conservative Prime Ministers. But whether these women actually stand for women, act for women and re-gender representation is likely to invite greater contestation. Contributors to this edited collection address head-on the puzzle of conservative women who engage in gendered political representation but do so within a conservative setting. Individual chapters examine women's participation as conservative movement and party members, supporters, candidates, leaders, legislators and ministers - in countries ranging from western and eastern European, American (North and South), Arab countries and Japan. Assessment is made of the nature of their representational contribution, and the relationship they have with conservative women's views in society.

Series Statement

Studies in European political science

Uniform Title

Studies in European political science.

Subject

• Women conservatives
• Women > Political activity
• Conservatism
• Feminism > Political aspects
• Sex role > Political aspects
• Political parties
• Representative government and representation

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : the "puzzle" of gender, conservatism and representation / Karen Celis and Sarah Childs -- Conservative female candidates in Germany and Japan : supply and demand / Sarah Elise Wiliarty and Alisa Gaunder -- Christian Democratic party feminisation : the German Christian Democratic Union and the male breadwinner model / Josef Hien -- A complex mediation of interests : party feminisation processes in the Italian Christian Democratic Party / Daniela R. Piccio -- Gender politics of the Justice and Development Party in Turkey / Zeynep Şahin-Mencütek -- When less means more : influential women of the right--the case of Bulgaria / Ekaterina R. Rashkova and Emilia Zankina -- Motherhood, representation and politics : conservative women's groups negotiate ideology and strategy / Ronnee Schreiber -- Conservative women and executive office in Australia and New Zealand / Jennifer Curtin -- (Re)presenting women : gender and the politics of sex in contemporary Italy / Roberta Guerrina -- Conservative women MP's constructions of gender equality in Finland / Johanna Kantola and Milja Saari -- Feminist proposals and conservative voices : the substantive representation of women in Argentina / Jennifer M. Piscopo -- Mapping "feminist" demands across the French political spectrum / Rainbow Murray and Réjane Sénac -- Representing women's interests and the UK Conservative Party : "to the left, to the right," party members, voters and representatives / Rosie Campbell and Sarah Childs -- Are conservatism and feminism mutually exclusive? : a study of "feminist conservative" voters in Belgium / Silvia Erzeel, Karen Celis and Didier Caluwaerts -- Islamist women's leadership in Morocco / Emanuela Dalmasso and Francesco Cavatorta.

ISBN

• 1907301712
• 9781907301711
• 9781910259573 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781910259559 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

• 896892300
• SCSB-11149636

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Harvard Library