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 o...

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