Quebec Women and Legislative Representation - Couverture souple

Tremblay, Manon

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0774817690 ISBN 13 : 9780774817691

Editeur : University of British Columbia Press, 2010

Synopsis

Women represent a slight majority of Quebec's population, yet they continue to occupy a minority of seats in its National Assembly and in Canada's House of Commons and Senate. To explain why this is, Manon Tremblay examines Quebec women's political engagements from 1791 to the present. She traces the path that led to women obtaining the rights to vote and run for office and then draws on statistics and interviews with female politicians to paint an in-depth portrait of women's under-representation and its main causes. Her innovative account not only documents the significant democratic deficit in Canada's parliamentary systems, it also outlines strategies to improve women's access to legislative representation in Canada and elsewhere.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Manon Tremblay is a professor of political scienceat the University of Ottawa. Widely published on issues of Canadian andQuebec politics and women and politics, she is editor, most recently,of Women and Legislative Representation: Electoral Systems,Political Parties, and Sex Quotas. Käthe Roth hasbeen a literary translator, working mainly in historical non-fiction,for more than twenty years. She lives and works in Saint-Lazare,Quebec.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of British Columbia Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0774817690
• ISBN 13: 9780774817691
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
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• Personne responsable: non disponible