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Book SynopsisThis book sheds light on why access to political power remains outside the grasp of most women in Canada and around the world.
Table of ContentsIntroduction Roosmarijn de Geus, Erin Tolley, Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant, Peter John Loewen Part One: Canadian Perspectives on Women in Politics 1. Women’s representation in Canadian federal cabinets 1980-2019 Roosmarijn de Geus and Peter John Loewen 2. Do Women Get Fewer Votes in Ontario Provincial Elections? Semra Sevi, André Blais and Vincent Arel-Bundock 3. News and Political Legitimacy: Gendered Mediation of Canadian Political Leaders Linda Trimble 4. Adversarial politics: Understanding the colonial context of Indigenous women’s political participation in Canada Robyn Bourgeois Part Two: Comparative Perspectives on Women in Politics 5. Missing the Wave? Women Congressional Candidates Who Lost in the 2018 Election Julie Dolan, Paru Shah and Semilla Stripp 6. Black Women’s Hair Matters: The Uneasy Marriage of Electoral Politics (Dis)Respectability Politics Nadia E. Brown 7. Women in the Plenary: Verbal Participation in the Argentine Congress Tiffany D. Barnes and Victoria Beall 8. Women as Party Leaders Diana Z. O’Brien 9. A Question of Ethics? Addressing Sexual Harassment in the Legislatures of the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada Tracey Raney and Cheryl Collier Part Three: Responses to Women’s Electoral Underrepresentation 10. Gender Quotas and Beyond: Policy Solutions to Women’s Underrepresentation in Politics Magda Hinojosa, Miki Kittilson and Alexandra M. Williams 11. Quotas, Reserved Seats and Electoral Rules on Women Parliamentarians in Asia Netina Tan 12. Changing Minds. Canadian Perspectives on Gender Quotas and Diversity. Chantal Maillé 13. Gender Quotas and Women’s Political Representation: Lessons for Canada Susan Franceschet Part Four: New Research Directions 14. Making the Case for Women’s Representation: What, Who, and Why Kelly Dittmar 15. Women in Parliament: From Presence to Impact Critical Actors in the Policy Making Process Malliga Och 16. Too feminine to be a leader? Systematic implicit biases against women politicians Shan-Jan Sarah Liu 17. Women in Politics: Beyond the heterosexual fantasy Manon Tremblay, PhD 18. New Backlash? New Barriers? Assessing Women’s Contemporary Public Engagement Sylvia Bashevkin
