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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 oftelevision 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.
Contents
Contributors ; 1. Women and Electoral Politics in Canadathe Literature ; Part I The Electoral System and Elected Women ; Chapter 2 Women and the Canadian Electoral System ; Chapter 3 Women Politicians in Canada's Parliament and Legislatures, 1917-2000: A Socio-demographic Profile ; Chapter 4 Differences That Matter: Minority Women MPs, 1993-2000 ; Part II Political Parties ; Chapter 5 Can Feminists Transform Party Politics? The Canadian Experience ; Chapter 6 Women's Involvement in Canadian Political Parties ; Chapter 7 Political Parties and Female Candidates: Is There Resistance in New Brunswick? ; Chapter 8 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 Women to the Left? Gender Differences in Political Beliefs and Policy Preferences ; Chapter 10 In the Eyes of the Beholders: Gender and Leader Popularity in a Canadian Context ; Chapter 11 On the Same Wavelength? Feminist Attitudes Across Generations of Canadian Women ; Part IV Political Women and the Media ; Chapter 12 Tough Talk: How Television News Covers Male and Female Leaders of Canadian Political Parties ; Chapter 13 'Wham, Bam, No Thank You Ma'am': Gender and the Game Frame in National Newspaper Coverage of Election 2000 ; References ; Index
