Title: Deeds and words : gendering politics after Joni Lovenduski /
Authors: Childs, Sarah, 1969-; Campbell, Rosie, 1967-; Lovenduski, Joni,
Year: 2014
Subjects: Lovenduski, Joni.; Women Political activity.; Women Political activity Europe; Women Political activity Great Britain.
Abstract: How does feminism shake up political science, the study of politics and electoral politics? What difference do feminist political scientists and politicians make to political institutions, policy processes and outcomes? The scholarship and activism of pioneering feminist political scientist Professor Joni Lovenduski helped establish these questions on the political science agenda. This book addresses key themes in Lovenduski's seminal work. State-of-the-art chapters by leading scholars cover gender and parties; elected institutions and the state; quotas and recruitment; public opinion and women's interests. Vignettes by prominent politicians and practitioners, including Dame Anne Begg MP, Baroness Gould, Deborah Mattinson, and the Rt Hon Theresa May, bring the academic analysis to life. Deeds and Words reveals the impact of feminist interventions on politics in the round. Its groundbreaking assessment of feminist scholarship and politics offers an appraisal of, and fitting tribute to, Lovenduski's own contribution to gender studies and feminist politics.--
Contents: Introduction, Deeds and words / Rosie Campbell and Sarah Childs -- Chapter one, Gendering political science / Vicky Randall -- Chapter two, The comparative study of politics and gender / Yvonne Galligan -- Chapter three, Representation / Karen Celis -- Chapter four, Feminising political parties / Sarah Childs and Rainbow Murray -- Vignette, Gender and party politics: the 'feminisation' of the Conservative Party / by Theresa May MP -- Chapter five, Gender and political institutions / Fiona Mackay with Faith Armitage and Rosa Malley -- Vignette, Gender and political institutions: 'twinning', the Scottish experience / by Alice Brown CBE -- Chapter six, Women, gender politics and the state: the words and deeds of RNGS / Amy G. Mazur and Dorothy E. McBride -- Vignette, Women and the state: re-gendering our institutions / by Baroness Howe -- Chapter seven, The critical mass theory in public and scholarly debates / Drude Dahlerup -- Vignette, The story of critical mass: women at Westminster / by Jackie Ashley -- Chapter eight, Gender and political recruitment / Meryl Kenny -- Vignette, Gender and political recruitment: 'How can you get the best person for the job when the best person hasn't even applied?' / by Dame Anne Begg MP -- Chapter 9, How quotas work: the supply and demand model revisited / Pippa Norris and Mona Lena Krook -- Vignette, Beyond quotas: reflections on parity in France / by Axelle Lemaire -- Chapter ten, Gendering policy: praxis / Joyce Outshoorn and Jennifer Rubin -- Vignette, Gendering policy: the relationship between academia and policy campaigns / by Mary-Ann Stephenson -- Chapter eleven, The slippery slope: measuring women's political interests / Peter Allen, Rosie Campbell and Ana Espirito-Santo -- Vignette, Women's political interests: how the women's vote is decisive / by Deborah Mattinson -- Biography of Joni Lovenduski / by Judith Squires -- Afterword, Joni Lovenduski's contribution to political science / Rosie Campbell and Sarah Childs