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Women and Politics in France 19582000

Women and Politics in France 19582000 is an essential guide to the role of women in the political life of France under the Fifth Republic. The unique political history of France ensures that it remains an important and exceptional example of womens participation in the politics of a Western European country, and its study is essential in order to have a complete understanding of women and politics today.

A new surge of interest in women and the French political arena was created by the campaign for parity in 1992 which produced constitutional reform and record numbers of women deputies and ministers. Women and Politics in France 19582000 is the first English-language study to capture this new enthusiasm, providing useful, new research on womens political participation and covering the latest historical debates.

This book includes discussion on:

• womens participation in traditional organisations including governments, representative assemblies and political parties
• womens participation in non-traditional organisations including new social and feminist movements
• definitions of broader political participation and the theoretical and strategic consequences of attempts to redefine it
• attempts to increase the number of women in political institutions, including the campaign for parity and the debates which this has triggered.

Finally, it assesses feminist contributions to debates on democracy, citizenship and equality.

Women and Politics in France 19582000 is essential reading for anyone interested in the role of women in European politics.

Gill Allwood is Senior Lecturer in French at Nottingham Trent University and author of French Feminisms (UCL Press, 1998). Khursheed Wadia is Senior Lecturer in European Studies at the University of Wolver-hampton, and has written on women and politics and aspects of feminist activism in France.

Women and Politics in France 19582000

Gill Allwood and Khursheed Wadia

First published 2000
by Routledge
11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group

This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2001.

2000 Gill Allwood and Khursheed Wadia

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Allwood, Gill.

Women and politics in France 19582000 / Gill Allwood and Khursheed Wadia.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Women in politicsFrance. 2. FrancePolitics and government1958
I. Wadia, Khursheed. II. Title.
HQ1236.5.F8 A452000
306.20820944dc21 00036632

ISBN 0-415-18492-4 (hbk)
ISBN 0-415-18493-2 (pbk)
ISBN 0-203-18627-3 Master e-book ISBN
ISBN 0-203-18750-4 (Glassbook Format)

In memory of Claire Duchen whose contribution to the study of women in France has inspired so many of us

Tables

Percentage of women representatives in parliament

Women in governments of the Fifth Republic

Women in the high civil service

Percentage of women in local government and assemblies

Ministerial positions held by women from 1958

Women in Les Verts

Percentage of women in the PCF internal organisation

Percentage of women in the PS internal organisation

Percentage of women in the RPR internal organisation

Percentage of women in the Front national internal organisation

Women candidates in the first round of the 1993 legislative elections in mainland France

Women candidates in the first round of the 1997 legislative elections in mainland France

Percentage of women candidates selected and elected by party, 197898

Percentage of French women elected to European Parliament, June 1999

Womens participation in the structures of the CFDT, in per cent

The proportion of women in the CFDT secretariat, in per cent

Abstention rates for men and women, in per cent

Question: When you vote, do you feel that you are...

Frequency of political discussions in 1983, 1989, 1994, 1996

Question: When you get together with friends, would you say that you discuss political matters frequently, occasionally, or never?

Frequency of discussions of political issues and important social problems

Exposure to the news in France

Results by country on womens role in politics and comparison of results for men and women

Vote for the left and right by sex, in per cent

Votes of young men and women (1824-year-olds), in per cent

Vote and age status in 1993 according to CSA exit poll

Vote and employment status in 1993 according to CSA exit poll

The proportion of women representatives in the lower house or single chamber according to the electoral system in place

Womens representation in the National Assembly, 194597

Acknowledgements

Many people have contributed to the completion of this book, and our gratitude goes to all of them. The following deserve a special mention: the late Claire Duchen for her constant willingness to provide help, information and comments; Heather McCallum and Victoria Peters, at Routledge, for their enthusiasm and help in publishing this book; CPEDERF for carrying out essential research in Paris and for their unfailing ability to find information of all kinds and to answer any questions; to the archivists and librarians at the Bibliothque Marguerite Durand and the press cuttings service of the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, both in Paris; to Henri Sinno of the CGTs Institut dHistoire Sociale, in Paris, for documentation sent.

Gill Allwood would like to thank colleagues in the Department of Modern Languages at Nottingham Trent University for providing the time, the money and the support necessary for the research and writing of this book. Marianne Howarth and Martin OShaughnessy deserve a particular mention for being supportive, flexible and accommodating throughout, as does Trevor Pull for solving any problem thrown at him. Finally, the biggest thanks of all must go to Dave, Kristina, Caitlin and Ben.

Khursheed Wadia owes thanks to the University of Wolverhampton Research Committee for granting sabbatical leave, to colleagues in the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences at the University of Wolverhampton for their support and to Penny Welch for ideas and useful discussion. A particular debt is owed to Jean Gilkison for her thoughtful and encouraging advice throughout the writing of this book. More personally, special thanks go to Rustom and Zubin for their patience and love.

Acronyms and abbreviations

Acronyms and abbreviations

AFPA Association fministe pour une politique alternative CADAC

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