Gender Struggles in the British Labour Party from 1979 to 1995

Bibliographic Data

ID6316152
AuthorsSarah Perrigo (corresponding author)
Year1995
Volume1
Issue3
Pages407-417
Publication date1995-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueParty Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1354-0688 • E-ISSN: 1460-3683
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1354068895001003007
OpenAlexW2112030854
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited3

This report examines the internal struggles that have taken place in the British Labour Party since 1979 to make gender a salient political issue and to increase the representation of women. I argue that the culture and organization of the Labour Party in 1979 provided an inhospitable terrain for women to organize around gender issues, but that since that time women have been able to use the spaces created by other agendas for party adaptation and change, particularly demands for party democratization and party modernization, to develop a gender-party dynamic which has allowed women to press their claims more effectively, but only in ways that are congruent with the leadership's modernization strategy

Democracy · Democratization · Modernization theory · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Representation (politics · Salient · Sociology · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Law

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