Women and New Labour: Engendering Politics and Policy?Claire Annesley, Francesca Gains, Kirstein Rummery Although there is a growing body of international literature on the feminisation of politics and the policy process and, as New Labour's term of office progresses, a rapidly growing series of texts around New Labour's politics and policies, until now no one text has conducted an analysis of New Labour's politics and policies from a gendered perspective, despite the fact that New Labour have set themselves up to specifically address women's issues and attract women voters. This book fills that gap in an interesting and timely way. Women and New Labour will be a valuable addition to both feminist and mainstream scholarship in the social sciences, particularly in political science, social policy and economics. Instead of focusing on traditionally feminist areas of politics and policy (such as violent crime against women) the authors opt to focus on three case study areas of mainstream policy (economic policy, foreign policy and welfare policy) from a gendered perspective. The analytical framework provided by the editors yields generalisable insights that will outlast New Labour's third term. |
Contents
the impact of New Labour | 3 |
women gender feminising | 27 |
three Women and Nordic labour parties | 43 |
from old to new Labour | 63 |
five Engendering the machinery of governance | 93 |
the gender dimensions | 117 |
seven New Labour policy and the gender pay gap | 133 |
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References to this book
Women and British Party Politics: Descriptive, Substantive and Symbolic ... Sarah Childs No preview available - 2008 |