Has Liberalism Failed Women?
Subtitle: Assuring Equal Representation in Europe and the United States
Contributors: Jytte Klausen (Editor); Charles S. Maier (Editor)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: July 6, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780312232498
Subjects: Political Science; Sociology; Politics/International Relations; Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights; Women's Studies - General; Political Science / General; General; International; Political; Europe; Political participation; Sex discrimination against wom; United States; Women in politics
First sentence: This book presents to English-speaking readers a concept for assuring group representation-one based on gender, however, not race or ethnicity-advocated by many in Europe, but generally rejected out of hand in the United States.