TY - BOOK ID - 77891692 TI - Gender and the Liberal Democrats PY - 2011 SN - 1781702276 1847794114 9781847794116 9781781702277 0719083478 9780719083471 1847797873 PB - Manchester Manchester University Press DB - UniCat KW - Women KW - Human females KW - Wimmin KW - Woman KW - Womon KW - Womyn KW - Females KW - Human beings KW - Femininity KW - Political activity KW - Liberal Democrats (Great Britain) KW - Social and Liberal Democrats (Great Britain) KW - Pro Euro Conservative Party (Great Britain) KW - Lib Dem (Great Britain) KW - Liberal Democratic Party (Great Britain) KW - Great Britain KW - England KW - Politics and government. KW - Politics and government KW - Liberal Democrats. KW - Westminster. KW - gender. KW - masculine bias. KW - pro-women policies. KW - target seats. KW - under-representation. KW - women MPs. KW - women's interests. KW - women's representation. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77891692 AB - Women and the Liberal Democrats is a timely and original exploration of women's representation and the third party in UK politics. Based on extensive research, it is the first comprehensive gendered analysis of the Liberal Democrats and the research highlights specific institutional factors within the Liberal Democrats that directly impact upon the party's low number of women MPs. It explores the extent to which the party's ideology, culture and organisation are dominated by a prevailing masculine bias and questions why the Liberal Democrats continue to overwhelmingly return white, middle-aged ER -