State Feminism and Political Representation, Joni Lovenduski,
ed., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005, pp. xix, 315.Lovenduski's edited volume is an 11-country (10 western European
countries and the US), analysis of the effects of women's policy
agencies on efforts to increase the representation of women in the
political process—in legislatures, on party lists and in public
administration. The book is the product of a 10-year collaboration among
scholars involved in the Research Network on Gender Politics and the State
and it exhibits the rich rewards that such a lengthy and involved
affiliation among like-minded scholars can produce.