Feminism and Politics, Volumes I and II (Hardcover)

Contents: Volume I: Part 1 Feminism, Women and Political Science: Politics and unnatural practice: political science looks at female participation, Susan C. Bourque and Jean Grossholtz; When are interests interesting? The problems of political representation of women, Virginia Sapiro; Beyond interests in politics: a comment on Virginia Sapiro's 'When are interests interesting?, Irene Diamond and Nancy Hartsock; The elusive paradigm: gender, politics and political behaviour: the state of the art, Marianne Githens; Feminism and political analysis, Vicky Randall; Beyond gender difference to a theory of care, Joan C. Tronto. Part 2 Women's Movements: Social movement continuity: the women's movement in abeyance, Verta Taylor; Ideological purity and feminism: the US women's movement from 1966-1975, Barbara Ryan; Meaning and structure in social movements: mapping the network of national Canadian women's organizations, Susan D. Phillips; Representations of difference: the varieties of French feminism, Jane Jenson. Part 3 The Gender-Generation Gap in Voting Behaviour: Working women and political participation, 1952-1972, Kristi Andersen; Political interest in Western European women: an historical and empirical comparative analysis, Margaret L. Inglehart; Changing patterns of politicization and partisanship among women in France, Sylvia B. Bashevkin; Women as political animals? A test of some explanations for male-female participation differences, Susan Welch; Political implications of increasing numbers of women in the labor force, Lise Togeby; Gender, party leaders and election outcomes in Australia, Britain and the United States, Bernadette Hayes and Ian McAllister; Different democracies? A preliminary examination of the political worlds of Canadian men and women, Sandra Burt; Feminists and the gender gap, Pamela Johnson Conover; The causes and consequences of feminist consciousness among Western European women, Clyde Wilcox; The gender gap and women's political influence, Carol Mueller. Part 4 The State and Political Institution: Struggling for identity: the women's movement and the state in Western Europe, Jane Jenson; Finding the man in the state, Wendy Brown; Gender, metaphor and the state, Marian Sawer; Feminism and the meaning of the vote, Mary Fainsod Katzenstein; Feminism within American institutions: unobtrusive mobilization in the 1980s, Mary Fainsod Katzenstein; Index. Contents: Volume II: Part 1 Women's Representation: Getting there: women in public office, Janet Clark; Female public officials: a different voice?, Rita Mae Kelly, Michelle A. Saint-Germain and Jody D. Horn; In quest of the African American political woman, Jewel L. Prestage; Black women, sexism and racism: black or antiracist feminism, Gemma Tang Nain; The development of Chicana feminist discourse 1970-1980, Alma M. Garcia; Collective identities of class and gender: working-class women in the Pittston coal strike, Karen Beckwith; From a small to a large minority: women in Scandinavian politics, Drude Dahlerup; The rhetoric of difference: on women's inclusion into political elites, Hege Skjeie; Power and influence in state legislative policymaking: the interaction of gender and position in committee hearing debates, Lyn Kathlene; Might more women make a difference? Gender, party and ideology among Canada's parliamentary candidates, Lynda Erikson; If only more candidates came forward: supply-side explanations of candidate selection in Britain, Pippa Norris and Joni Lovenduski. Part 2 Democratization: Ideology and equality: the status of women in Eastern and Western Europe, Sharon L. Wolchik; Where have all the women gone? Women and the women's movement in East Central Europe, Barbara Einhorn; The end of socialism in Europe: a new challenge for socialist feminism?, Frigga Haug; Patriarchies and feminisms: the 2 women's movements of post-unification Germany, Myra Max Ferree; Eastern Europe's silent revolution: gender, Peggy Watson. Part 3 Citizenship: Citizenship in a women-friendly polity, Kathlene B. Jones; Engendering democracy: social citizenship and political participation for women in Scandinavia, Birte Siim. Part 4 Public Policy: Women's associations and the enactment of mothers' pensions in the United States, Theda Skocpol, Marjorie Abend-Wien, Christopher Howard and Susan Goodchild Lehmann; Unprotected by the Swedish welfare state: a survey of battered women and the assistance they received, R. Amy Elman and Maud L. Eduards, Local feminist policy networks in the contemporary American interest group system, Janet K. Boles; Gender issues in international relations: the case of the European Community, Catherine Hoskyns; Symbolic reform in France: Egalite professionelle during the Mitterand years, Amy G. Mazur; Gender and the development of welfare regimes, Jane Lewis; Gender and the social rights of citizenship: the comparative analyses of gender relations and welfare states, Ann Shola Orloff. Part 5 Redefining Politics: Gender str