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Price: $62.95

Format:
Paperback 264 pp.
46 tables and 18 figures, 6" x 9"

ISBN-10:
0195417445

ISBN-13:
9780195417449

Copyright Year:
2003

Imprint: OUP Canada

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Women and Electoral Politics in Canada

Edited by Manon Tremblay and Linda Trimble

This edited collection brings together many of the top scholars in the field to write original pieces on women and Canadian electoral politics, from a variety of perspectives. The focus of the book is formal politics: parties, political candidates, and elected officials. The book is divided into four sections covering the electoral system; parties and represenation; values and attitudes; and women and the media. Articles range from the role and influence of television in the election campaigns of female candidates to socio-demographic profiles of women candidates since the winning of suffrage to the end of the last century.

Readership : Upper-level undergraduate courses and seminars in political science and women's studies departments. It is suitable for courses on Canadian politics and women with an institutional focus, public policy focus, or social movements focus. While not a theory text, the book may also be suitable for theory courses in feminism because of the Canadian content.

Contributors
1. Manon Tremblay and Linda Trimble: Women and Electoral Politics in Canada: A Survey of the Literature
Part I. The Electoral System and Elected Women
Chapter 2. Heather MacIvor, University of Windsor: Women and the Canadian Electoral System
Chapter 3. Linda Trimble and Manon Tremblay: Women Politicians in Canada's Parliament and Legislatures, 1917-2000: A Socio-demographic Profile
Chapter 4. Jerome H. Black, McGill University: Differences That Matter: Minority Women MPs, 1993-2000
Part II. Political Parties
Chapter 5. Lisa Young, University of Calgary: Can Feminists Transform Party Politics? The Canadian Experience
Chapter 6. Lisa Young and William Cross, Mount Allison University: Women's Involvement in Canadian Political Parties
Chapter 7. Sonia Pitre, University of Ottawa: Political Parties and Female Candidates: Is There Resistance in New Brunswick?
Chapter 8. Jocelyne Praud, University of Regina: The Parti Quebecois, Its Women's Committee, and the Feminization of the Quebec Electoral Arena
Part III. Values and Attitudes of the Canadian Electorate
Chapter 9. Elisabeth Gidengil, McGill University, Andre Blais, Richard Nadeau, both at the Universite de Montreal, and Neil Nevitte, University of Toronto: Women to the Left? Gender Differences in Political Beliefs and Policy Preferences
Chapter 10. Lynda Erickson, Simon Fraser University: In the Eyes of the Beholders: Gender and Leader Popularity in a Canadian Context
Chapter 11. Brenda O'Neill, University of Manitoba: On the Same Wavelength? Feminist Attitudes Across Generations of Canadian Women
Part IV. Political Women and the Media
Chapter 12. Joanna Everitt, University of New Brunswick and Elisabeth Gidengil: Tough Talk: How Television News Covers Male and Female Leaders of Canadian Political Parties
Chapter 13. Shannon Sampert, University of Alberta and Linda Trimble: 'Wham, Bam, No Thank You Ma'am': Gender and the Game Frame in National Newspaper Coverage of Election 2000
References
Index

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Manon Tremblay is in the Centre for Research on Women and Politics, University of Ottawa. Linda Trimble is in the Department of Political Science, University of Alberta.

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Special Features

  • Up-to-date critical analyses of women and electoral politics in Canada.
  • Focuses on formal politics: parties, political candidate, elected officials, etc.
  • Includes a chapter on women and the media.