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1 online resource |
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Routledge Research in Gender and Politics |
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Routledge research in gender and politics.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; List of abbreviations; Preface; 1. Introduction; Why study parliaments?; The argument; The debate on self authorization; The choice to study Sweden; The plan for the rest of the book; Notes; Bibliography; 2. Gender-sensitive political parties; A bird's-eye view of women's descriptive representation in Sweden; Tracing ideological changes; Tracing norms of gender equality through the minds of elected representatives; Gender equality in the everyday lives of political parties; Notes; Bibliography |
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3. Gender-sensitive political representativesDefining women's interests; Validating the usefulness of a gendered approach to the concept of interests; Self-defined champions of women's interests; Being a gender-sensitive representative; Notes; Bibliography; 4. Internal parliamentary working procedures; Old puzzle, new direction; Gender and formal power; Gender and informal power; What's wrong with parliamentary party groups?; Gender-specific obstacles?; Notes; Bibliography; 5. Room for women's interests and concerns; Problems connected with measuring change |
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The acknowledgment of the unequal balance of power between the sexesPolicies designed to increase self-determination of female citizens; Attitudes toward policy proposals linked to women's interests; The role of group awareness; The room available versus direction; Notes; Bibliography; 6. The production of gender-sensitive legislation; The principle of each person's capability; Swedish gender-equality policy; Gender equality in the everyday lives of citizens: Evidence from the subnational level in Sweden; Gender equality in the everyday lives of citizens: Evidence from a worldwide comparison |
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The role that parliaments play in transformations of societyNotes; Bibliography; 7. The politics of feminist awareness; Ideological shifts with a bearing on gender-equality processes; Is the Riksdag a gender-sensitive parliament?; How far will these results be able to travel?; Epilogue: Was the 2014 election the end of Swedish exceptionalism?; Bibliography; Appendix I: a note on the methodology; Appendix II: a note on Swedish politics; Index |
| Summary |
Gender serves as a lens that makes visible important issues in the field of representation: Whom do elected politicians represent? What is at stake in the parliamentary process? What do we know about the interplay between parliaments and the everyday lives of citizens? It is widely understood that women's presence in government matters but we need to understand the conditions under which it matters more clearly. Using Sweden as a case study, a country where the number of women elected to the national parliament has steadily risen since the 1970s, Lena Wängnerud presents a novel approach on whi |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 15, 2015) |
| Subject |
Women legislators.
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Legislative bodies
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- Legislative Branch.
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Legislative bodies
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Women legislators
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Politiker -- parlament -- representation -- Sverige.
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Riksdagen.
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Lagar -- medvetenhet -- genus.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317623052 |
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1317623053 |
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9781317623045 |
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1317623045 |
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1138802654 |
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9781138802650 |
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9781315754086 |
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1315754088 |
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9781317623038 |
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1317623037 |
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