Women and Electoral Politics in Canada

Edited by Manon Tremblay and Linda Trimble

Don Mills, Oxford University Press, 2003

This edited collection brings together many of the top scholars in the field to write original pieces on women and Canadian electoral politics, from a variety of perspectives. The focus of the book is formal politics: parties, political candidates, and elected officials. The book is divided into four sections covering the electoral system; parties and representation; values and attitudes; and women and the media. Articles range from the role and influence of television in the election campaigns of female candidates to socio-demographic profiles of women candidates since the winning of suffrage to the end of the last century.

Readership: Upper-level undergraduate courses and seminars in political science and women's studies departments. It is suitable for courses on Canadian politics and women with an institutional focus, public policy focus, or social movements focus. While not a theory text, the book may also be suitable for theory courses in feminism because of the Canadian content.

CONTENTS
1. Women and Electoral Politics in Canada: A Survey of the Literature, Manon Tremblay and Linda Trimble

Part I. The Electoral System and Elected Women
Chapter 2. Women and the Canadian Electoral System, Heather MacIvor
Chapter 3. Women Politicians in Canada's Parliament and Legislatures, 1917-2000: A Socio-demographic Profile, Linda Trimble and Manon Tremblay
Chapter 4. Differences That Matter: Minority Women MPs, 1993-2000, Jerome H. Black

Part II. Political Parties
Chapter 5. Can Feminists Transform Party Politics? The Canadian Experience, Lisa Young
Chapter 6. Women's Involvement in Canadian Political Parties, Lisa Young and William Cross
Chapter 7. Political Parties and Female Candidates: Is There Resistance in New Brunswick?, Sonia Pitre
Chapter 8. The Parti Quebecois, Its Women's Committee, and the Feminization of the Quebec Electoral Arena, Jocelyne Praud

Part III. Values and Attitudes of the Canadian Electorate
Chapter 9. Women to the Left? Gender Differences in Political Beliefs and Policy Preferences, Elisabeth Gidengil, Andre Blais, Richard Nadeau, and Neil Nevitte
Chapter 10. In the Eyes of the Beholders: Gender and Leader Popularity in a Canadian Context, Lynda Erickson
Chapter 11. On the Same Wavelength? Feminist Attitudes Across Generations of Canadian Women, Brenda O'Neill

Part IV. Political Women and the Media
Chapter 12. Tough Talk: How Television News Covers Male and Female Leaders of Canadian Political Parties, Joanna Everitt and Elisabeth Gidengil
Chapter 13. 'Wham, Bam, No Thank You Ma'am': Gender and the Game Frame in National Newspaper Coverage of Election 2000, Shannon Sampert and Linda Trimble

References
Index