Roosmarijn De Geus, Erin Tolley, Elizabeth Goodyear–grant, Peter John Loewen

Women, Power, and Political Representation

Canadian and Comparative Perspectives
Herausgeber: de Geus, Roosmarijn; Goodyear-Grant, Elizabeth; Tolley, Erin

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Produktbeschreibung

This book sheds light on why access to political power remains outside the grasp of most women in Canada and around the world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 332g
• ISBN-13: 9781487525200
• ISBN-10: 1487525206
• Artikelnr.: 61646940

Autorenporträt

Roosmarijn de Geus is a postdoctoral fellow with the Nuffield Politics Research Centre at the University of Oxford. Erin Tolley is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Carleton University. Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant is an associate professor in the Department of Political Studies at Queen’s University, and Director of the Canadian Opinion Research Archive. Peter John Loewen is a professor in the Department of Political Science and the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Roosmarijn de Geus, Erin Tolley, Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant, Peter John
Loewen
Part One: Canadian Perspectives on Women in Politics
1. Women’s representation in Canadian federal cabinets 1980-2019
Roosmarijn de Geus and Peter John Loewen
2. Do Women Get Fewer Votes in Ontario Provincial Elections?
Semra Sevi, André Blais and Vincent Arel-Bundock 
3. News and Political Legitimacy: Gendered Mediation of Canadian Political
Leaders 
Linda Trimble 
4. Adversarial politics: Understanding the colonial context of Indigenous
women’s political participation in Canada
Robyn Bourgeois
Part Two: Comparative Perspectives on Women in Politics
5. Missing the Wave? Women Congressional Candidates Who Lost in the 2018
Election 
Julie Dolan, Paru Shah and Semilla Stripp 
6. Black Women’s Hair Matters: The Uneasy Marriage of Electoral Politics
(Dis)Respectability Politics 
Nadia E. Brown
7. Women in the Plenary: Verbal Participation in the Argentine Congress
Tiffany D. Barnes and Victoria Beall
8. Women as Party Leaders 
Diana Z. O’Brien 
9. A Question of Ethics? Addressing Sexual Harassment in the Legislatures
of the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada 
Tracey Raney and Cheryl Collier 
Part Three: Responses to Women’s Electoral Underrepresentation
10. Gender Quotas and Beyond: Policy Solutions to Women’s
Underrepresentation in Politics
Magda Hinojosa, Miki Kittilson and Alexandra M. Williams 
11. Quotas, Reserved Seats and Electoral Rules on Women Parliamentarians in
Asia
Netina Tan
12. Changing Minds. Canadian Perspectives on Gender Quotas and Diversity.
Chantal Maillé
13. Gender Quotas and Women’s Political Representation: Lessons for Canada
Susan Franceschet
Part Four: New Research Directions 
14. Making the Case for Women’s Representation: What, Who, and Why
Kelly Dittmar
15. Women in Parliament: From Presence to Impact Critical Actors in the
Policy Making Process 
Malliga Och
16. Too feminine to be a leader? Systematic implicit biases against women
politicians 
Shan-Jan Sarah Liu
17. Women in Politics: Beyond the heterosexual fantasy
Manon Tremblay, PhD
18. New Backlash? New Barriers? Assessing Women’s Contemporary Public
Engagement 
Sylvia Bashevkin