1st Edition
The Politics of Women's Interests New Comparative Perspectives
1. Introduction: The Politics of Women’s Interests
Lisa Hill and Louise Chappell
2. The Problem with Interests: Making Political Claims for ‘Women’
Jill Vickers
3. Is There Such a Thing as a Political Women’s Interest in Britain?
Rosie Campbell
4. Women’s Interests and Political Orientations: The Gender Voting Gap in Three Industrialized Settings
Lisa Hill
5. Advancing Women’s Interest in Formal Politics: The Politics of Presence and Proportional Representation in the Antipodes
Jennifer Curtin
6. From Women’s Interests to Special Interests: Reframing Equality Claims
Marian Sawer
7. Disparate Fates in Challenging Times: Women’s Policy Agencies and Neoliberalism in Aotearoa/New Zealand and British Columbia
Katherine Teghtsoonian
8. Gender Inequality and Feminist Activism in Institutions: Challenges of Marginalization and Feminist ‘Fading’
Benita Roth
9. Women’s Interests, Gender Mainstreaming and the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights
Roberta Guerinna
10. International Citizenship and Women’s Interests
Merryn L. Smith
11. ‘Women’s Interests’ as ‘Women’s Rights’: Developments at the UN Criminal Tribunals and the International Criminal Court
Louise Chappell
Biography
Louise Chappell is Senior Lecturer in the School of Economics and Political Science at the University of Sydney, NSW, Australia. Lisa Hill is a Senior Research Fellow in Politics at the University Adelaide, SA, Australia.
"The collection succeeds in highlighting the varied opportunities and constraints presented for the articulation and advocacy of women’s interests and the contingent, dynamic nature that is required for feminist activism… It will be a valuable addition to readings lists on comparative political analysis and gender studies, and contributes to the growing scholarship in this field."
International Feminist Journal of Politics, 9:3, 433 - 434
