Women and Politics in Western Europe

Sylvia Bashevkin is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Toeing the Lines: Women and Party Politics in English Canada (1985) and editor of Canadian Political Behaviour (1985). Her recent articles include ‘Social Change and Political Partisanship: The Political Attitudes of Women in Quebec’, published in Comparative Political Studies (1983) and ‘Changing Patterns of Politicization and Partisanship among Women in France’, published in British Journal of Political Science (1985).

• Introduction, Sylvia Bashevkin; Chapter 1 Struggling for Identity, Jane Jenson; Chapter 2 Feminism and Leftist Politics in Italy, Karen Beckwith; Chapter 3 Feminism and Religiosity, Lawrence C. Mayer, Roland E. Smith; Chapter 4 Women, Politics and the French Socialist Government, Wayne Northcutt, Jeffra Flaitz; Chapter 5 Part y and Legislative Part icipation among Scandinavian Women, Ingunn Norderval; Chapter 6 Women’s Legislative Part icipation in Western Europe, Pippa Norris;