Sylvia Bashevkin is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Toeing the Lines: Women and Party Politics in English Canada (1985) and editor of Canadian Political Behaviour (1985). Her recent articles include 'Social Change and Political Partisanship: The Political Attitudes of Women in Quebec', published in Comparative Political Studies (1983) and 'Changing Patterns of Politicization and Partisanship among Women in France', published in British Journal of Political Science (1985).
Introduction
Sylvia Bashevkin; Chapter 1 Struggling for Identity
Jane Jenson; Chapter 2 Feminism and Leftist Politics in Italy
Karen Beckwith; Chapter 3 Feminism and Religiosity
Lawrence C. Mayer
Roland E. Smith; Chapter 4 Women
Politics and the French Socialist Government
Wayne Northcutt
Jeffra Flaitz; Chapter 5 Part y and Legislative Part icipation among Scandinavian Women
Ingunn Norderval; Chapter 6 Women's Legislative Part icipation in Western Europe
Pippa Norris;