"When are women well represented politically speaking? The popular consensus has been for some time, when descriptive representatives put women's issues and feminist interests onto the political agenda. Today, such certainty has been well and truly shaken. Differences amongst wo…
"Popular consensus holds that if ""enough women"" are present in political institutions they will represent ""women's interests, "" however, such generalized assumptions are frequently queried on theoretical grounds and consistently shown to be conditional in practice. In this b…
Popular consensus holds that if "enough women" are present in political institutions they will represent "women's interests," however, such generalized assumptions are frequently queried on theoretical grounds and consistently shown to be conditional in practice. In this book, K…
"Popular consensus has long been that if "enough women" are present in political institutions they will represent "women's interests." Yet many believe that differences among women--women disagreeing about what is in "their interest"--fatally undermine both the principle and the…
Popular consensus has long been that if "enough women" are present in political institutions they will represent "women's interests." Yet many believe that differences among women--women disagreeing about what is in "their interest"--fatally undermine both the principle and the …
The contributors explore the gendered nature of political science and why it is important. The contributions are divided in seven areas: key concepts, methods and methodologies within political science; body politics, which involves the political importance of sexuality, reprodu…
