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Representing women, women representing: backbenchers’ questions during Prime Minister’s Questions, 1979–2010

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dc.contributor.author Bates, Stephen Holden
dc.contributor.author Sealey, Alison
dc.date.accessioned 2022-04-01T10:29:27Z
dc.date.available 2022-04-01T10:29:27Z
dc.date.issued 2019
dc.identifier.citation Holden Bates, S. and Sealey, A. (2019) Representing women, women representing: backbenchers’ questions during Prime Minister’s Questions, 1979–2010, European Journal of Politics and Gender, vol 2, no 2, 237–256, DOI: 10.1332/251510819X15490283059237 sm
dc.identifier.issn • Online ISSN 2515-1096
dc.identifier.uri ${sadil.baseUrl}/handle/123456789/3652
dc.description 20 p, ; PDF sm
dc.description.abstract This article investigates linguistic traces of changing trends in the substantive representation of women, as well as broader representational claims related to constituencies, via an analysis of all backbench questions posed during Prime Minister’s Questions in the UK House of Commons during 1979–2010. We investigate the impact of sharp increases in female MPs, in particular, left-wing female MPs, and the presence of a left-wing government on MPs’ talk about women and about constituencies. We find no evidence of curvilinear trends in talk about women related to changes in government and female parliamentary presence. We also find that female MPs can be considered critical actors with regard to constituency talk. sm
dc.language.iso en sm
dc.publisher European Con ference on Politics and Gender and Bristol University Press sm
dc.relation.ispartofseries European Journal of Politics and Gender • vol 2 • no 2 • 237–256;
dc.subject corpus linguistics sm
dc.subject Parliament sm
dc.subject parliamentary questions sm
dc.subject Prime Minister's Questions sm
dc.subject substantive representation sm
dc.subject women sm
dc.title Representing women, women representing: backbenchers’ questions during Prime Minister’s Questions, 1979–2010 sm
dc.type Article sm


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