Women and New Labour: Engendering Politics and Policy? - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1861348274 ISBN 13: 9781861348272

Publisher: Policy Press, 2007

Synopsis

Women and New Labour New Labour have set themselves up to specifically address women's issues and attract women voters, but how successful have they been? This book offers an analysis of New Labour's politics and policies from a gendered perspective. Full description

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"This book is an excellent account of the impact of women and gender on Labour Party policy, and is an important contribution to both the new literature on women and policy-making and to the relatively neglected area of how parties make policy. It will become a reading list requirement for courses on party politics, public policy and gender and politics." --Joni Lovenduski, School of Politics and Sociology, Birkbeck College

Synopsis:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1861348274
• ISBN 13: 9781861348272
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 280
• Editor: Annesley Claire