The Principles of Gender-Sensitive Parliaments

ISBN-13: 9781138066632 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 162 str.

Lena Wangnerud

Opis

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 which characteristics inside a parliament help translate physical representation into substantive representation for women.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Gender-Sensitive Political Parties  3. Gender-Sensitive Political Representatives  4. Internal Parliamentary Working Conditions  5. Room for Women's Interests and Concerns  6. The Production of Gender-Sensitive Legislation  7. The Politics of Feminist Awareness