{"product_id":"feminist-democratic-representation-hardcover","title":"Feminist Democratic Representation - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKaren Celis\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eSarah Childs\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePopular consensus has long been that if \"enough women\" are present in political institutions they will represent \"women's interests.\" Yet many believe that differences among women--women disagreeing about what is in \"their interest\"--fatally undermine both the principle and the practice of women's group representation. In this book, Karen Celis and Sarah Childs redress women's poverty of political representation with a new feminist account of democratic representation. Rather than giving up on women's group representation, Celis and Childs re-think and re-design representative institutions, taking women's differences--both ideological and intersectional--as their starting point. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eFeminist Democratic Representation \u003c\/em\u003econsiders a broad spectrum of contemporary problematics--abortion, prostitution\/sex work, Muslim women's dress, and Marine Le Pen--to discuss women's under- and misrepresentation and the \"good, bad and the ugly\" representative. As problem-driven scholars firmly grounded in feminist and democratic empirical and theoretical political science, Celis and Childs imagine what good representation for women in all their diversity could look like--representation as it should be. To realize this ideal in today's established representative democracies, they present a second-generation feminist design for parliaments and legislatures, underpinned by a re-thinking of feminist and democratic principles. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCelis and Childs conceive of representation as a mélange of dimensions, and they shift the focus in women's group representation from feminist outcome to feminist process. Inclusive, responsive, and egalitarian representation for all women demands a new category of representatives in parliaments: the \"affected representatives of women\" who are epistemologically and experientially close to differently affected women. Affected representatives passionately advocate within political institutions, and publicly hold elected representatives to account. Feminist processes of representation have wide effects and deepen relationships between women and their democratic institutions. Against the more fashionable tide of post-representative politics, \u003cem\u003eFeminist Democratic Representation \u003c\/em\u003eargues not simply for more, but significantly better, representation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKaren Celis \u003c\/strong\u003eis Research Professor at the Department of Political Science, and co-director of Research of RHEA Research Centre Gender Diversity Intersectionality of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. She conducts theoretical and empirical research on the democratic quality of political representation from the perspective of disadvantaged groups and intersectionality. She is co-editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Oxford Handbook on Gender and Politics\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSarah Childs \u003c\/strong\u003eis Professor of Gender and Politics at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her research is centered on the theory and practice of women's representation, gender and political parties, parliaments, and institutional change. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eNew Labour's Women MPs and Women \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eBritish Party Politics\u003c\/em\u003e, co-author of \u003cem\u003eSex, Gender and the Conservative Party\u003c\/em\u003e with Paul Webb, and author of 2016\u003cem\u003e The Good Parliament Report \u003c\/em\u003eon the UK House of Commons.\u003cbr\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.6 x 5.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 28, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47354725630201,"sku":"9780190087722","price":179.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/TnduaThxUTBaZUdOSVA0TXd1OWxuZz09.webp?v=1769843457","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/feminist-democratic-representation-hardcover","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}