1st Edition

Women and Politics in Western Europe

By Sylvia B Bashevkin Copyright 1985
    112 Pages
    by Routledge

    112 Pages
    by Routledge

    First Published in 1986. The modern women's movement has exerted a profound influence upon contemporary political thought, research, and action in Western Europe. Despite important differences within - and cross-national in - the ideological and political orientations of modern feminism, the overall impact of this movement has been pronounced, albeit largely unrecognised and unexplored within the Western European and especially European politics fields. The publication of this volume represents an important step towards bringing research on women and organised feminism, on the one hand, and European politics, on the other, to the attention of area specialists.

    Introduction, Sylvia Bashevkin; Chapter 1 Struggling for Identity, Jane Jenson; Chapter 2 Feminism and Leftist Politics in Italy, Karen Beckwith; Chapter 3 Feminism and Religiosity, Lawrence C. Mayer, Roland E. Smith; Chapter 4 Women, Politics and the French Socialist Government, Wayne Northcutt, Jeffra Flaitz; Chapter 5 Part y and Legislative Part icipation among Scandinavian Women, Ingunn Norderval; Chapter 6 Women’s Legislative Part icipation in Western Europe, Pippa Norris;

    Biography

    Sylvia Bashevkin is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Toeing the Lines: Women and Party Politics in English Canada (1985) and editor of Canadian Political Behaviour (1985). Her recent articles include ‘Social Change and Political Partisanship: The Political Attitudes of Women in Quebec’, published in Comparative Political Studies (1983) and ‘Changing Patterns of Politicization and Partisanship among Women in France’, published in British Journal of Political Science (1985).