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Sell-Outs or Warriors for Change? : A Comparative Look at Conservative Women in Politics in Democracies, Paperback / softback Book

Sell-Outs or Warriors for Change? : A Comparative Look at Conservative Women in Politics in Democracies Paperback / softback

Edited by Malliga (Idaho State University, USA) Och, Shauna (Rutgers University - Camden, USA) Shames, Rosalyn (University of Mary Washington, USA) Cooperman

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This book addresses the central question of how right-wing women navigate the cross-pressures between gender identity and political ideology. The hope has always been that more women in politics would lead to greater inclusion of women’s voices and interests in decision-making and policy.

Yet this is not always the case; some prominent conservative women such as Margaret Thatcher have rejected the feminist label while others such as Angela Merkel have reluctantly accepted it.

Republican women in the U.S. Congress have embraced social and economic policies contrary to what many consider to be women’s issues while EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen is a staunch supporter of feminist ideas.

Other conservative women, such as Marine LePen in France strategically use feminist ideas to justify their conservative stances on immigration.

This brings up an interesting yet understudied question: under what circumstances do conservative women become feminist allies and when do they toe the party line?

It is this tension between women’s political representation and conservatism that this edited volume explores. The chapters in this book, except for Chapter 3, were originally published as a special issue of Journal of Women, Politics & Policy.

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