Section outline

    • The French political landscape is historically male dominated. This class will explore recent efforts to increase the level of female representation in politics. Particular attention will be given to the campaign and debate on ‘parité’. 

    • Required reading :  

    • Bereni, Laure (2007), ‘French Feminists Renegotiate Republican Universalism: The Gender Parity Campaign’, French Politics, Vol.5, pp.191-209 File
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    • Sineau, Mariette (2003), ‘Parité in politics: From a radical idea to consensual reform’, in Célestin, R., E. DalMolin and I. de Courtivron, Beyond French Feminism: Debates on Women, Politics and Culture in France, 1981-2001, London: Palgrave, pp.113-126 File
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    • Further reading:  

       

      • Opello, Katherine (2006), Gender Quotas, Parity Reform and Political Parties in France, Boulder and New York: Lexington 

      • Ramsey, Raylene (2003), French Women in Politics: Writing Power, Paternal Legitimization and Maternal Legacies, New York and Oxford: Berghahn 

      • Allwood, Gill and Khursheed Wadia (2000), Women and Politics in France, 1958-2000, London: Routledge 

      • Allwood, Gill, ‘Popular conceptions of gender and the parity debate’ in Marks, John and Enda McCaffrey (eds.), French Cultural Debates, Newark: University of Delaware Press, pp.8-21  

      • Duchen, Claire (1986), Feminism in France from May 68 to Mitterrand, London: Routledge 

      • Perry, Sheila and Sue Hart (2000), ‘Parity in French Politics’, in Twomey, Lesley (ed.), Women in Contemporary Culture: Roles and Identities in France and Spain, Bristol: Intellect 

      • Gaspard, Françoise (1994), ‘De la parité: genèse d’un concept, naissance d’un mouvement’, Nouvelles questions féministes, 15(4), pp.29-44 

      • Gaspard, Françoise, Claude Servan-Schreiber and Anne Le Gall (1992), Au pouvoir citoyennes! Liberté, Egalité, Parité, Paris : Seuil 

      • Lépinard, Eléonore (2007), ‘The contentious subject of feminism : defining « women » in France from the Second Wave to Parity’, in Signs, 32(2), pp.375-403 

      • Haase-Dubosc, Danielle (1999), ‘Sexual Difference and Politics in France Today’, in Feminist Studies, 25(1), p183-210  

      • Wallach Scott, Joan (2005), Parité : Sexual Equality and the Crisis of French Universalism, Chicago: University of Chicago Press

      • Lévêque, Sandrine (2018), 'Parity and quotas in politics', in Politika [accessed 1 November 2021]. 


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