Politics Feminism and the Reformation of Gender

<p>Caught between their female gender and their aspirations in a public sphere founded on the gender role of men women face a problem that is more intractable than conventional feminist political analysis has fully recognized. In this book Jennifer Chapman addresses both the substance of the problem and feminist strategies for change.<br>Male dominance of political elites is virtually universal and yet there is no general theory of recruitment to account for this. Jennifer Chapman uses a rigorous comparative study of political recruitment to show why different models of the process among men produce near-identical results irrespective of context. She then looks beyond this general pattern to its gender basis and to strategies for change.</p>