Engendering the machinery of governance

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2007

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Policy Press

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Peer reviewed

Abstract

Although there is a growing body of international literature on the feminisation of politics and the policy process and, as New Labour's term of office progresses, a rapidly growing series of texts around New Labour's politics and policies, until now no one text has conducted an analysis of New Labour's politics and policies from a gendered perspective, despite the fact that New Labour have set themselves up to specifically address women's issues and attract women voters. This book fills that gap in an interesting and timely way. Women and New Labour will be a valuable addition to both feminist and mainstream scholarship in the social sciences, particularly in political science, social policy and economics. Instead of focusing on traditionally feminist areas of politics and policy (such as violent crime against women) the authors opt to focus on three case study areas of mainstream policy (economic policy, foreign policy and welfare policy) from a gendered perspective. The analytical framework provided by the editors yields generalisable insights that will outlast New Labour's third term.

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RAE 2008, UoA 39 Politics and International Studies, Local Governance Research Unit

Citation

Durose, C. and Gains, F. (2007) Engendering the machinery of governance. In: Annesley, C. et al. eds. Women and New Labour: Engendering politics and policy? Bristol:Policy, pp. 93-114.

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Research Institute