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Feminist public activism and its impact on the democratisation of Spanish politics (1970–2003)
thesis
posted on 2018-07-10, 11:34 authored by Monica ThrelfallFeminist Public Activism and its Impact on the Democratisation of Spanish
Politics (1970–2003), being a Loughborough Thesis by Publication, is a
collection of journal articles and book chapters written by the author over a
twenty-five year period. The chapters in Part I cover the presence of women in
formal politics, voting preferences, office-seeking, candidate selection and
gender-balanced representation in parties, and fall within an established tradition
in political science of exploring electoral choices, patterns of parliamentary
representation, and party membership. Part I presents findings regarding the
process of candidate selection and the representation of women in parliament and
party leadership, and culminates in an exploration of the reasons why Spanish
parties have been incorporating ever more women into party politics, changing
the landscape of formal political representation. The chapters in Part II are
devoted to studies of the Spanish women's movement, and emphasise the
significance for the nature of Spanish democracy of feminism's impact on the
transition, its relationships with parties, penetration of public administration, and
its major achievements in advancing the status of women via legal reform and
new service provision. Part III concludes with an assessment of gender relations
in Spain and with a reflection on the future of feminist politics in the northern
hemisphere.
History
School
- Social Sciences
Department
- Politics and International Studies
Publisher
© Monica Threlfall and the assigneesPublisher statement
This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
2005Notes
A Doctoral Thesis. Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of Doctor of Philosophy at Loughborough University. This Thesis consists of copies of separate publications. It has been redacted for reasons relating to the law of copyright. For more information please contact the author.Language
- en