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Explores the reproduction of gender ‘beneath the spectacle’ – that is, beneath ceremonial displays of power, in the UK House of Commons
Conceives of the House of Commons as a workplace, as well as a representative arena
Examines the everyday consequences for gendered power relations that this unique environment entails, as parliamentary actors perform their careers, citizenship, and public service
Part of the book series: Gender and Politics (GAP)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Conceptualising and Researching Gendered Parliaments
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Gendering the UK House of Commons
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Back Matter
About this book
This book explores the reproduction of gender ‘beneath the spectacle’ – that is, beneath ceremonial displays of power, in the UK House of Commons. Contributing to a fascinating literature on gender and parliaments, the book conceives of the House of Commons as a workplace, as well as a representative arena. It explores the everyday consequences for gendered power relations that this unique environment entails, as parliamentary actors perform their careers, citizenship, and public service.
The book firstly explores ways to conceive of and to study gender in parliaments. Parliamentary ethnography – that is, spending time observing and engaging with parliamentary actors, is presented as an unparalleled methodology to better understand gender, power, and agency. The chapters that follow provide in-depth portrayals of gender and the parliamentary workplace. The book connects multiple actors in the House of Commons: MPs, officials, parliamentary researchers, and the (in)formal rules that structure the relationships between them.Keywords
- British politics
- gender regimes
- gendered power relations
- UK House of Commons
- gendered parliaments
- gender inequality
- feminist political science
- gender in the House of Commons
- Feminist Discursive Institutionalism
- parliamentary ethnography
- parliamentary studies
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Authors and Affiliations
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Faculty of Social Sciences, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland
Cherry M. Miller
About the author
Dr. Cherry M. Miller is Postdoctoral Researcher at Tampere University, Finland. She was the winner of the 2019 European Consortium of Political Research, Joni Lovenduski PhD Prize in Gender and Politics. Her research is published in the European Journal of Politics and Gender, Parliamentary Affairs, and Political Studies Review.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Gendering the Everyday in the UK House of Commons
Book Subtitle: Beneath the Spectacle
Authors: Cherry M. Miller
Series Title: Gender and Politics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64239-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-64238-9Published: 12 March 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-64241-9Published: 13 March 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-64239-6Published: 11 March 2021
Series ISSN: 2662-5814
Series E-ISSN: 2662-5822
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 323
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Politics and Gender, European Politics, Gender Studies