Gender Politics and Conservatism: The View from the British Conservative Party Grassroots
Gender Politics and Conservatism: The View from the British Conservative Party Grassroots
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性别政治与保守主义：英国保守党草根阶层的观点
DOI：
10.1111/j.1477-7053.2011.01355.x
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发表时间：
2013
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2.8
通讯作者：
Webb P
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Webb P
保守派可以成为女权主义者吗？本文通过对英国保守党党员的一项新调查，探讨了这一问题。在大卫卡梅隆的领导下，对该党的议会选举程序进行了改革，并制定了独特的妇女政策，从而解决了妇女的描述性和实质性代表性问题。我们考察了党员对三种性别问题的态度：对性别角色和关系的基本取向;与妇女实质性代表有关的具体政策措施;以及妇女的描述性代表。详细的实证分析表明，有显着的支持进步自由主义女权主义的立场上的每一个这些方面在党内，性别，年龄和基本的意识形态倾向驱动这种态度在不同程度上。即便如此，在妇女的描述性代表方面----即领导层最为活跃的性别政治方面----对自由女权主义立场的支持总体上仍然相当有限。
Can conservatives be feminists? This article examines the issue by exploring the case of the British Conservative Party, drawing on a new survey of party members. Under David Cameron's leadership, reforms have been made to the party's parliamentary selection procedures and distinct women's policies developed, thus addressing both the descriptive and substantive representation of women. We examine party members' attitudes towards three types of gender issue: basic orientations towards gender roles and relations; specific policy measures relevant to the substantive representation of women; and the descriptive representation of women. Detailed empirical analysis reveals that there is significant support for progressive liberal feminist positions on each of these dimensions in the party, and that sex, age and basic ideological dispositions drive such attitudes to varying degrees. Even so, support for a liberal feminist position on the descriptive representation of women – that is, the aspect of gender politics where the leadership has been most active – remains on the whole quite limited.