Women and Politics in Canada - Softcover

MacIvor, Heather

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1551110369 ISBN 13: 9781551110363

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, 1996

Synopsis

For many years the severe under-representation of women in the institutions that forge Canadian public policy has been the subject of widespread discussion and debate, as have the various manifestations of inequality on the laws and policies themselves. MacIvor surveys this situation and the extent to which it is changing but offers as well a much broader approach to the subject, recognizing the impossibility of separating the roles played by women in politics from their part in Canadian society generally, MacIvor looks also at such topics as the structure of the economy, of the family and of popular culture.

Women and Politics in Canada sets the stage for a discussion of the Canadian situation by exploring ideas about women in Western thought and the various feminist approaches that have arisen in response.

About this title

About the Author:

Heather MacIvor teaches in the Department of Political Science at the University of Windsor.

Review:

Clearly written and refreshingly free of jargon, this will be a useful text for introductory women and politics courses. It is also a serious contribution to feminist political science.

(Jill Vickers, Carleton University)

Heather MacIvor has written a terrific, comprehensive 'text' on women and politics that combines feminist theory with public policy and process issues of great concern to women today.

(Jennifer Smith, Professor of Political Science, Dalhousie University)

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1551110369
• ISBN 13: 9781551110363
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416