Women and New Labour : : Engendering politics and policy? / / ed. by Claire Annesley, Francesca Gains, Kirstein Rummery.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995
• MitwirkendeR: Annesley, Claire,; Buchanan, Guro,; Clarke, Karen,; Coates, David,; Durose, Catherine,; Elias, Juanita,; Ferguson, Lucy,; Gains, Francesca,; Grimshaw, Damian,; Lovecy, Jill,; Oettinger, Sarah,; Rummery, Kirstein,; Wilson, Angelia R.,
• HerausgeberIn: Annesley, Claire,; Gains, Francesca,; Rummery, Kirstein,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2007]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of tables and figures -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- List of abbreviations -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction -- Feminising politics and policy: the impact of New Labour -- Engendering politics? -- Theoretical underpinnings: women, gender, feminising and politics -- Women and Nordic labour parties -- Framing claims for women: from ‘old’ to ‘new’ Labour -- Engendering the machinery of governance -- Engendering policy? -- Two steps forward, one step back: the gender dimensions of Treasury policy under New Labour -- New Labour policy and the gender pay gap -- New Labour: family policy and gender -- Caring, citizenship and New Labour: dilemmas and contradictions for disabled and older women -- New Labour and ‘lesbian- and gay-friendly’ policy -- The gender dimensions of New Labour’s international development policy -- Conclusions -- New Labour: towards an engendered politics and policy? -- Index