Women and Politics in Western Europe

Sylvia B Bashevkin

Oct 2013 · Routledge

About this ebook

First Published in 1986. The modern women's movement has exerted a profound influence upon contemporary political thought, research, and action in Western Europe. Despite important differences within - and cross-national in - the ideological and political orientations of modern feminism, the overall impact of this movement has been pronounced, albeit largely unrecognised and unexplored within the Western European and especially European politics fields. The publication of this volume represents an important step towards bringing research on women and organised feminism, on the one hand, and European politics, on the other, to the attention of area specialists.

About the author

Sylvia Bashevkin is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Toeing the Lines: Women and Party Politics in English Canada (1985) and editor of Canadian Political Behaviour (1985). Her recent articles include ‘Social Change and Political Partisanship: The Political Attitudes of Women in Quebec’, published in Comparative Political Studies (1983) and ‘Changing Patterns of Politicization and Partisanship among Women in France’, published in British Journal of Political Science (1985).