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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819100003321

Autore

Evans Elizabeth

Titolo

Gender and the Liberal Democrats : representing women? / / Elizabeth Evans

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press, 2011

ISBN

1-84779-787-3

1-78170-227-6

1-84779-411-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 p.)

Disciplina

324.24106082

Soggetti

Women - Political activity - Great Britain

Great Britain Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [162]-170) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Copyright; Contents; List of tables; List of abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Foreword; 1. Gender and the Liberal Democrats: national and international context; 2. The Liberal Democrats: ideology and organisation; 3. Feminist presence and women's descriptive representation; 4. Supply and demand: the political recruitment of women; 5. Women's substantive representation: 'for women' but not by women; 6. The symbolic representation of women: tokens or role models?; 7. Conclusions: representing women?; Appendices; Appendix 1 Research methods

Appendix 2 A chronology of women's representation and the Liberal DemocratsBibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Women and the Liberal Democrats is a timely and original exploration of women's representation and the third party in UK politics. Based on extensive research, it is the first comprehensive gendered analysis of the Liberal Democrats and the research highlights specific institutional factors within the Liberal Democrats that directly impact upon the party's low number of women MPs. It explores the extent to which the party's ideology, culture and organisation are dominated by a prevailing masculine bias and questions why the Liberal Democrats continue to overwhelmingly return white, middle-aged