Gender, Conservatism and Political Representation

Karen Celis is research professor at the Department of Political Science of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and affiliated to RHEA (Centre for Gender and Diversity). She conducts theoretical and empirical research (qualitative, comparative) on political representation of groups (women, ethnic minorities, class, age groups, LGBT), equality policies and state feminism. She is co-editor of theThe Oxford Handbook on Gender and Politics (OUP, 2013, with Georgina Waylen, Johanna Kantola and Laurel Weldon). Sarah Childs is Professor of Politics at the University of Bristol, and Director of the UoB’s SPAIS Gender Research Centre. She has published widely on gender, representation, political parties and the UK Parliament. Her latest book, Sex, Gender and the Conservative Party: From Iron Lady to Kitten Heels, with Paul Webb, was published in 2012.

Contents
List of Figures and Tables vii
List of Abbreviations x
Contributors xiii
Acknowledgements xvii
Introduction: The `Puzzle’ of Gender, Conservatism and Representation 1
Karen Celis and Sarah Childs
Chapter One: Conservative Female Candidates in Germany and Japan:
Supply and Demand 21
Sarah Elise Wiliarty and Alisa Gaunder
Chapter Two: Christian Democratic Party Feminisation: The German
Christian Democratic Union and the Male Breadwinner Model 41
Josef Hien
Chapter Three: A Complex Mediation of Interests: Party Feminisation
Processes in the Italian Christian Democratic Party 63
Daniela R. Piccio
Chapter Four: Gender Politics of the Justice and Development Party in
Turkey 83
Zeynep Şahin-Mencütek
Chapter Five: When Less Means More: Influential Women of the Right –
The Case of Bulgaria 103
Ekaterina R. Rashkova and Emilia Zankina
Chapter Six: Motherhood, Representation and Politics: Conservative
Women’s Groups Negotiate Ideology and Strategy 121
Ronnee Schreiber
Chapter Seven: Conservative Women and Executive Office in Australia
and New Zealand 141
Jennifer Curtin
Chapter Eight: (Re)Presenting Women: Gender and the Politics of Sex in
Contemporary Italy 161
Roberta Guerrina
Chapter Nine: Conservative Women MPs’ Constructions of Gender
Equality in Finland 183
Johanna Kantola and Milja Saari
Chapter Ten: Feminist Proposals and Conservative Voices: The
Substantive Representation of Women in Argentina 209
Jennifer M. Piscopo
Chapter Eleven: Mapping `Feminist’ Demands Across the French
Political Spectrum 231
Rainbow Murray and Réjane Sénac
Chapter Twelve: Representing Women’s Interests and the UK Conservative
Party: `To the Left, To the Right’, Party Members, Voters and
Representatives 251
Rosie Campbell and Sarah Childs
Chapter Thirteen: Are Conservatism and Feminism Mutually Exclusive?
A Study of `Feminist Conservative’ Voters in Belgium 273
Silvia Erzeel, Karen Celis and Didier Caluwaerts
Chapter Fourteen: Islamist Women’s Leadership in Morocco 287
Emanuela Dalmasso and Francesco Cavatorta
Index 303