Quebec Women and Legislative Representation
- Publisher
- UBC Press, Les Presses de l’Université Laval
- Initial publish date
- Jul 2010
- Category
- General, Women's Studies
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780774817691
- Publish Date
- Jul 2010
- List Price
- $34.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780774817684
- Publish Date
- Jan 2010
- List Price
- $95.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780774817707
- Publish Date
- Jul 2010
- List Price
- $32.95
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Description
Quebec women have had the right to vote and run for office in provincial and federal forums for at least six decades, yet they continue to occupy a minority of seats in Quebec’s National Assembly and in Canada’s House of Commons and Senate.
To explain this situation, Women and Parliamentary Representation in Quebec examines women’s engagement in politics from 1791 to the present. It begins by tracing the path that led to women achieving the right to vote and run for office and then draws on statistics and interviews with women senators and members of Parliament to complete an in-depth portrait of Quebec women’s under-representation and its main causes – political parties and the voting system. This 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.
About the authors
Manon Tremblay is professor of political science at the University of Ottawa.
Kathe Roth was born in Montréal and now lives in Saint-Lazare, Québec. She has been a literary translator and editor for more than twenty-five years. Her work includes over thirty translated books and essays of literary non-fiction on various subjects, including art, architecture, economics, history, and sociology, as well as fiction. She was a finalist for the Governor General Award for literary translation in 1993 for “The Last Cod Fish” by Pol Chantraine. She is a member of the Literary Translators Association of Canada.
Editorial Reviews
Quebec Women and Legislative Representation fills a long-standing gap in the Canadian literature, which is full of acknowledgements that the Quebec context is different but short on attempts to unpack why. On this front, Tremblay's treatment of the topic is compelling ... This book will appeal to large segments of the discipline: specialists of domestic politics; graduate students who should see this book on their comprehensive exam lists, and women and politics scholars ... Its first sentence calls women's under-representation 'a problem' rather than a 'question.' Readers who do no approach this book with the same view will no doubt change their positions by its conclusion.
Canadian Journal of Political Science (45:2), June 2012
"Quebec Women and Legislative Representation fills a long-standing gap in the Canadian literature, which is full of acknowledgements that the Quebec context is different but short on attempts to unpack why. On this front, Tremblay's treatment of the topic is compelling.... This book will appeal to large segments of the discipline: specialists of domestic politics; graduate students who should see this book on their comprehensive exam lists, and women and politics scholars.... Its first sentence calls women's under-representation 'a problem' rather than a 'question' (1). Readers who do no approach this book with the same view will no doubt change their positions by its conclusion."
Canadian Journal of Political Science (45:2)
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