The 'Femocrat' Strategy: Expanding the Repertoire of Feminist Activists

Parliamentary Affairs

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 85-98+i+v

  Chappell, Louise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

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EID: 10744232699     PISSN: 00312290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/parlij/55.1.85     Document Type: Review

References (19)

1. In 2000, women comprised 23% of the Australian House of Representatives, 20% of the Canadian House of Commons and 18 % of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.
2. H. Eisenstein, Inside Agitators: Australian Femocrats and the Australian State, Allen & Unwin, 1996.
3. Perkins in M. Benn, 'Short March Through the Institutions: Reflections on New Labour's Gender Machinery' in A. Coote (ed.), New Gender Agenda, Institute of Public Policy Research, 2000, p. 41.
4. L. Chappell, Gendering Government: Feminists Engagement with the State in Australia and Canada, University of Toronto Press, forthcoming.
5. K. Kernaghan and P. Aucoin (ed.), Regional Responsiveness and the National Administrative State, University of Toronto Press, 1985.
6. Interview with Kathleen Townsend.
7. For Canada see J. Bourgault and B. Wake Carroll, The Canadian Public Service: The Last Vestiges of the Whitehall Model?' in J. Bourgault et al, Public Administration and Public Management in Canada, Les Publications Du Quebec, 1997, p. 92. For the UK see House of Lords, Select Committee on Public Service Report [online] London. UK Parliament Library 1997-98 [cited 1 August 2000].
8. For Canada see J. Bourgault and B. Wake Carroll, The Canadian Public Service: The Last Vestiges of the Whitehall Model?' in J. Bourgault et al, Public Administration and Public Management in Canada, Les Publications Du Quebec, 1997, p. 92. For the UK see House of Lords, Select Committee on Public Service Report [online] London. UK Parliament Library 1997-98 [cited 1 August 2000].
9. S. Findlay, 'Facing the State': The Politics of the Women's Movement Reconsidered' in H. Maroney and M. Luxton (eds), Feminism and Political Economy, Methuen, 1987, p. 39; L. Geller-Schwartz, 'An Array of Agencies: Feminism and the State in Canada' in D. McBride Stetson and A.G. Mazur (eds), Comparative State Feminism, Sage, 1995, p. 57.
10. S. Findlay, 'Facing the State': The Politics of the Women's Movement Reconsidered' in H. Maroney and M. Luxton (eds), Feminism and Political Economy, Methuen, 1987, p. 39; L. Geller-Schwartz, 'An Array of Agencies: Feminism and the State in Canada' in D. McBride Stetson and A.G. Mazur (eds), Comparative State Feminism, Sage, 1995, p. 57.
11. Ibid, p. 49.
12. B. Galligan, A Federal Republic, Cambridge University Press, 1995.
13. E. Cox, A Truly Civil Society, 1995 Boyer Lectures, ABC Books, 1995, p. 48.
14. S. Findlay, Democracy and the Politics of Representation: Feminist Struggles with the Canadian State, PhD dissertation, University of Toronto, 1995.
15. S. Bashevkin, Women on the Defensive: Living Through Conservative Times, University of Chicago Press, 1998, p. 171.
16. A. Perkins, 'Campaigning in an Era of Consensus: Must Women Wear the Velvet Glove?' in A. Coote (ed.), New Gender Agenda, IPPR, 2000.
17. J. Lovenduski and V. Randall, Contemporary Feminist Politics: Women and Power in Britain, Oxford University Press, 1993, p. 41.
18. Drew in Bashevkin, op. cit., p. 139.
19. In 2000, 37.2% of the Scottish Parliament and over 50% of the members of the Welsh Assembly were women.