Designing feminist institutions : the making of the good parliament / Sarah Childs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Childs, Sarah, 1969- author.

Series:

Studies in feminist institutionalism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminist theory--Political aspects--Great Britain.

Feminist theory.

Great Britain--Politics and government.

Great Britain.

Feminist theory--Political aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations.

illustration

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2026]

Summary:

Is it possible to design and build feminist legislatures? If so, how and by and with whom? 'Designing Feminist Institutions' provides a novel study of feminist institutionalism in practice. Drawing on her own ethnographic research within the UK Parliament, Sarah Childs suggests that political institutions in need of gender sensitizing would benefit from the perspective of feminist academic critical actors. Childs defines these scholars as both analysts and agents of change, who are embedded in legislatures to think about institutional design from the inside out. As a feminist academic critical actor inside the UK House of Commons, Childs negotiated the highly masculinized political arena, confronting questions of access, legitimacy, authority, accountability, ethics, and safety.

Contents:

Foreword / Harriet Harman

Introduction : re-gendering political institutions

The feminist politics of (re)fashioning political institutions : the why

Feminist parliamentary ethnography : the how

Parliamentary design : the 'what' of feminist institutionalist (re)fashioning / with Karen Celis and Sonia Palmieri

A feminist design for the House of Commons : the Good Parliament report reconsidered

Power struggles & the feminist academic critical actor, en cours de route

From designing to building : proxy voting for 'BabyLeave', a case study

Reflections of a feminist academic critical actor at Westminster

Conclusion : feminist institutional change revisited, (re)design and building work

Afterword / Paul Evans.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (Oxford Academic, viewed on September 15, 2026).

Other Format:

Print version : Childs, Sarah Designing feminist institutions

ISBN:

9780197851623

0197851622

OCLC:

1591405671

Publisher Number:

CIPO000391850

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license