Gender, Conservatism and Political Representation [Paperback]

Contributors to this edited collection address head-on the puzzle of conservative women who engage in gendered political representation but do so within a conservative setting.Can Conservatives represent women? Descriptively of course, they do. Conservative parties and organisations are increasingly feminised; conservative women sit in many of the worlds parliaments; a few women have led conservative parties; and there are, and have been, Conservative Prime Ministers. But whether these women actually stand for women, act for women and re-gender representation is likely to invite greater contestation. Contributors to this edited collection address head-on the puzzle of conservative women who engage in gendered political representation but do so within a conservative setting. Individual chapters examine womens participation as conservative movement and party members, supporters, candidates, leaders, legislators and ministers  in countries ranging from Europe, the US, Argentina, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Turkey and Morocco. Assessment is made of the nature of their representational contribution, and the relationship they have with conservative womens views in society.ContentsList of Figures and Tables viiList of Abbreviations xContributors xiiiAcknowledgements xviiIntroduction: The Puzzle of Gender, Conservatism and Representation 1Karen Celis and Sarah ChildsChapter One: Conservative Female Candidates in Germany and Japan:Supply and Demand 21Sarah Elise Wiliarty and Alisa GaunderChapter Two: Christian Democratic Party Feminisation: The GermanChristian Democratic Union and the Male Breadwinner Model 41Josef HienChapter Three: A Complex Mediation of Interests: Party FeminisationProcesses in the Italian Christian Democratic Party 63Daniela R. PiccioChapter Four: Gender Politics of the Justice and Development Party inTurkey 83Zeynep ^ahin-Menc?tekChapter Five: When Less Means More: Influential Women of the Right The Case of Bulgaria 103Ekaterina R. Rashkova anl#+