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Representing women in parliament : a comparative study
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- Creator
- edited by Marian Sawer, Manon Tremblay and Linda Trimble
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- London ; New York : Routledge, 2006
- Physical Details
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- xxi, 278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780415393164, 0415393167
- OCLC
- ocm62118268
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [252]-272) and index.
- 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 women : 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