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Social Science Gender Studies

Life Spaces

Gender, Household, Employment

edited by Caroline Andrew & Beth Moore Milroy

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Jan 1988
Category
Gender Studies
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774843140
    Publish Date
    Nov 2011
    List Price
    $99.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780774804080
    Publish Date
    Jan 1988
    List Price
    $24.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774802956
    Publish Date
    Jan 1988
    List Price
    $41.95

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Description

Written by some of Canada's top researchers in the field, the articles in this collection introduce a new chapter in feminist literature, focusing on women and their experiences in Canadian urban settings and illustrating the importance of gender in the development of urban areas. While the articles represent diverse approaches and methodologies, they all point out that the specific needs of women are not being met and that women must create opportunities for democratic participation in the institutions that affect their lives.

About the authors

Caroline Andrew is professor at the School of Political Studies and director of the Centre on Governance at the University of Ottawa. She co-edited Accounting for Culture: Thinking Through Cultural Citizenship (University of Ottawa Press, 2005).

Caroline Andrew's profile page

Beth Moore Milroy's profile page

Editorial Reviews

This book is an extremely welcome addition to the growing multi-disciplinary literature on gender and urban environments.

The Canadian Geographer

I would recommend that this text be ordered, read, and recommended to students since it touches on interesting and important issues and generates some new theoretical questions ... The last chapter by the two editors is an interesting exploration of the research consequences of the desire by researchers in the field both to understand and to change current affairs.  Part of this discussion addresses important questions of feminist methodologies and the need to develop new ways of doing research.

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research