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Political Science Canadian

Women and Politics in Canada

by (author) Heather MacIvor

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Mar 1996
Category
Canadian, Women in Politics, Civil Rights
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781551110363
    Publish Date
    Mar 1996
    List Price
    $51.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781442603097
    Publish Date
    Apr 2013
    List Price
    $32.95

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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 the author

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

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