Women, politics, and change /

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Other Authors: Ross, Karen, 1957-
Language:English
Series:Hansard Society series in politics and government.
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Item Description:"In association with Hansard Society series in politics and government."
Physical Description:212 pages ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
ISBN:0198515413
Table of Contents:
  • Representation of women in Australia: meaning and make-believe / Marian Sawer
  • Does size matter? critical mass and New Zealand's women MPs / Sandra Grey
  • Maintaining balance: the retention of women MSPs in Scotland / Nicole Busby and Calum MacLeod
  • Women's political participation in China: struggling to hold up half the sky / Jude Howell
  • Mainstreaming in Westminster and Whitehall: from Labour's ministry for women to the women and equality unit / Judith Squires and Mark Wickham-Jones
  • Women and constitutional change in Scotland and Northern Ireland / Alice Brown...[et. al]
  • 'Femocrat' strategy: expanding the repertoire of feminist activists / Louise Chappell
  • Developing democracy in Kosova: from grass roots to government / Chris Corrin
  • Competing interests: democracy, Islamification and women politicians in Iran / Haleh Afshar
  • Women and politics in Africa: the case of Uganda / Donna Pankhurst
  • 'All the time his wife': portrayals of first ladies in the Israeli press / Dafna Lemish and Gili Drob
  • Hitting the target: are Labour women MPs 'acting for' women? / Sarah Childs
  • One step forward, two steps back? women in two main political parties in Wales / Julia Edwards and Laura McAllister
  • Invisible women: the political roles of Unionist amd Loyalist women in contemporary Morthern Ireland / Rachel Ward
  • Women in the European parliament / Jane Freedman
  • Women's place in 'male' space: gender and effect in parliamentary contexts / Karen Ross.