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The Politics of Womens Interests

Women have interests in common. They also have interests in conflict. This book explores some of the points at which womens interests coincide and considers how they can be aggregated in order to shape political discourses, rules and institutions.

Each of the studies in this volume considers the controversial question: What are womens interests? The book begins with a systematic conceptual analysis and follows with examples of feminist engagement with key political institutions both local and global to show why this concept is important and useful in feminist politics today.

The book covers a range of institutional arenas electoral systems, state-level bureaucracies, civil society, the EU, the UN and the International Criminal Court in order to illuminate the ways in which womens interests shape and are shaped in these settings. The collected authors suggest that, while coalitions between women will always be fragile due to deep differences between them, it is strategically vital to retain womens interests as a political category.

Looking at experiences in the US, UK, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, this book will be of great interest to students and researchers in the fields of gender studies, political science, and comparative politics.

Louise Chappell is Senior Lecturer in the School of Economics and Political Science at the University of Sydney, NSW, Australia. Lisa Hill is a Senior Research Fellow in Politics at the University of Adelaide, SA, Australia.

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The Politics of Womens
Interests

New comparative perspectives

Edited by Louise Chappell and
Lisa Hill

First published 2006
by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
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2006 Louise Chappell and Lisa Hill for selection and editorial
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ISBN10: 0-415-36834-0 (hbk)
ISBN10: 0-203-02821-X (ebk)

ISBN13: 978-0-415-36834-6 (hbk)
ISBN13: 978-0-203-02821-6 (ebk)
eISBN: 978-1-13420-604-9

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Contributors

Rosie Campbell is a lecturer in research methods in the School of Politics and Sociology, Birkbeck College, University of London. Her research focuses on gender and politics in Britain. Recent research projects include a co-authored study of gender and political participation in Britain. She was part of the British Representation Study team who surveyed all of the candidates for the 2005 British general election.

Louise Chappell is a senior lecturer in government and international relations at the University of Sydney where she teaches and researches in the fields of human rights and gender and politics. Louises publications include Gendering Government: Feminist Engagement with the State inAustralia and Canada (2002), which was awarded the 2003 American Political Science Associations Victoria Schuck Prize for the best book published in the field of women and politics. Amongst Louises other publications are articles in the International Feminist Journal of Politics, Parliamentary Affairs, and the Australian Journal of Political Science. Louises current research projects include an assessment of the implementation of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court as well as the development and implementation of the UN protocol to prevent the trafficking of women and children.

Jennifer Curtin is a lecturer in politics in the School of Political and Social Inquiry at Monash University, Melbourne. Her current research interests include the descriptive and substantive representation of women and their interests, with a particular emphasis on candidate gender quotas. She has published numerous chapters and articles on womens trade unionism and parliamentary representation and she is the author of Women and Trade Unions: A Comparative Perspective (1999), and coauthor of Rebels with a Cause: Independents in Australian Politics (2004).

Roberta Guerrina is lecturer in politics in the Department of Political, International and Policy Studies at the University of Surrey. She is author of Mothering the Union: The Politics of Gender in the European Union (2005) and Europe: History, Ideas, Ideologies (2002). She is a specialist in European Union gender politics and social policies. She also has an interest in feminist theories of international relations and human rights. She is an active member of the British International Studies Associations Gendering International Relations Working Group and has published in a number of international journals.

Lisa Hill

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