Feminists and Party Politics

In Feminists and Party Politics, the author examines theeffort to bring feminism into the formal political arena throughestablished political parties in Canada and the United States.Two major sets of questions lie at the heart of this book. First,how have movement organizations approached partisan and electoralpolitics? To what extent have they tried to change parties? Second, howhave parties themselves responded to the mobiliation of feminism?Young's suggestive research -- based on numerous interviews andarchival and documentary material -- makes a significant contributionto the study of gender politics.