Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : the "puzzle" of gender, conservatism and representation / Karen Celis and Sarah Childs -- Conservative female candidates in Germany and Japan : supply and demand / Sarah Elise Wiliarty and Alisa Gaunder -- Christian Democratic party feminisation : the German Christian Democratic Union and the male breadwinner model / Josef Hien -- A complex mediation of interests : party feminisation processes in the Italian Christian Democratic Party / Daniela R. Piccio -- Gender politics of the Justice and Development Party in Turkey / Zeynep Şahin-Mencütek -- When less means more : influential women of the right--the case of Bulgaria / Ekaterina R. Rashkova and Emilia Zankina -- Motherhood, representation and politics : conservative women's groups negotiate ideology and strategy / Ronnee Schreiber -- Conservative women and executive office in Australia and New Zealand / Jennifer Curtin -- (Re)presenting women : gender and the politics of sex in contemporary Italy / Roberta Guerrina -- Conservative women MP's constructions of gender equality in Finland / Johanna Kantola and Milja Saari -- Feminist proposals and conservative voices : the substantive representation of women in Argentina / Jennifer M. Piscopo -- Mapping "feminist" demands across the French political spectrum / Rainbow Murray and Réjane Sénac -- Representing women's interests and the UK Conservative Party : "to the left, to the right," party members, voters and representatives / Rosie Campbell and Sarah Childs -- Are conservatism and feminism mutually exclusive? : a study of "feminist conservative" voters in Belgium / Silvia Erzeel, Karen Celis and Didier Caluwaerts -- Islamist women's leadership in Morocco / Emanuela Dalmasso and Francesco Cavatorta.