Quebec Women and Legislative Representation

Tremblay, Manon/ Roth, Käthe (TRN)

University of British Columbia Press（2010/07発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 272 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780774817691
• DDC分類 320.08209714

Full Description

Quebec women have had the right to vote and run for office inprovincial and federal forums for at least six decades, yet theycontinue to occupy a minority of seats in Quebec's NationalAssembly and in Canada's House of Commons and Senate.

To explain this situation, Women and ParliamentaryRepresentation in Quebec examines women's engagement inpolitics from 1791 to the present. It begins by tracing the path thatled to women achieving the right to vote and run for office and thendraws on statistics and interviews with women senators and members ofParliament to complete an in-depth portrait of Quebec women'sunder-representation and its main causes - political parties andthe voting system. This innovative account not only documents thesignificant democratic deficit in Canada's parliamentary systems,it also outlines strategies to improve women's access tolegislative representation in Canada and elsewhere.

Contents

List of Illustrations

Foreword / Sylvia Bashevkin
Preface and Acknowledgments

Introduction
1 The Rights to Vote and to Eligibility: Full Access to Citizenship forQuebec Women?
2 Why Does Women's Representation in the Legislative Spaces ofQuebec Not Match Their Demographic Weight?
3 Quebec Women in Legislatures: What Identity and What Ideas?
4 Increasing the Numbers of Women in Quebec's LegislativeSpaces?
Conclusion

Appendices
Notes
References
Index