Femmes Et L'état Canadien

Femmes Et L'état Canadien
Author: Caroline Andrew
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 394
Release: 1997
Genre: Femmes
ISBN: 0773514236

A collection of essays presented at a conference to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the release of the Report of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women, Women and the Canadian State both celebrates and critically assesses the Report. Women bureaucrats, activists, and academics consider the impact, successes, and failures of the Report from a variety of viewpoints and reflect on the experience of Canadian women since its publication in 1970.

1968 in Canada

1968 in Canada
Author: Michael K. Hawes
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 510
Release: 2021-04-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 077663707X

The year 1968 in Canada was an extraordinary one, unlike any other in its frenetic pace of activities and their consequences for the development of a new national consciousness among Canadians. It was a year when decisions and actions, both in Canada and outside its borders, were thick and contentious, and whose effects were momentous and far-reaching. It saw the rise of Trudeaumania and the birth of the Parti Québécois; the articulation of the new nationalism in English Canada and an alternative vision for Indigenous rights and governance; a series of public hearings in the Royal Commission on the Status of Women; the establishment of the Canadian Radio and Television Commission, nation-wide Medicare and CanLit; and a striving for both a new relationship with the United States and a more independent foreign policy everywhere else. And more. Virtually no segment of Canadian life was untouched by both the turmoil and the promise of generational change. Published in English with chapters in French.

Gendering Government

Gendering Government
Author: Louise Chappell
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2003-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780774809665

Whether working towards equal pay, anti-domestic violence laws, or the creation of refuges and childcare centres, women engage with, and work within, state structures. This text examines this interaction, and compares feminist involvement with political institutions in Australia and Canada.

Queen of the Hurricanes

Queen of the Hurricanes
Author: Crystal Sissons
Publisher: Second Story Press
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2014-10-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1927583543

Elsie MacGill achieved many firsts in science and engineering at a time when women were considered to be inferior in the sciences. In 1923, at the age of nineteen, she became the first woman to attend engineering classes at the University of Toronto. She was the first woman in North America to hold a degree in aeronautical engineering and the first woman aircraft designer in the world. As chief engineer for the Canadian Car and Foundry Company she oversaw the production of the Hawker Hurricane, and designed a series of modifications to equip the plain for cold weather flying. Her Maple Leaf trainer may still be the only plane ever to be completely designed by a woman. And she did all this while suffering from polio. In this biography we learn that she supervised 4500 workers and produced about 1450 Hawker Hurricanes by the end of WWII. Elsie was a popular heroine of her time, inspiring the comic book "Queen of the Hurricanes" in the 1940s. In later life she became a powerful feminist activist, advocating for the rights of women and children.

Indigeneity and Political Theory

Indigeneity and Political Theory
Author: Karena Shaw
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2008-09-12
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 113597036X

An innovative and critical reassessment of sovereignty in political theory disputing assumptions that challenges posed by indigenous politics are not marginal but central to contemporary political theory.

Driven Apart

Driven Apart
Author: Annis May Timpson
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2001
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780774808217

From the outset of second-wave feminism in Canada, women have advanced analyses of employment inequality that embrace their labour in both the public and domestic spheres. Through campaigns, task forces, and direct engagement with government departments, activists have argued that only when the Canadian state takes account of their roles as care-providers can women's full potential as worker-citizens be realized.

Sovereign Lives

Sovereign Lives
Author: Jenny Edkins
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2012-10-02
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 113593794X

For International Relations scholars, discussions of globalization inevitably turn to questions of sovereignty. How much control does a country have over its borders, people and economy? Where does that authority come from? Sovereign Lives explores these changes through reading of humanitarian intervention, human rights discourses, securitization, refugees, the fragmentation of identities and the practices of development.

Scratching the Surface

Scratching the Surface
Author: Enakshi Dua
Publisher: Canadian Scholars’ Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 1999
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780889612303

This book brings together 14 anti-racist feminists who examine ways in which race and gender interact to shape the lives of women of colour in Canada. This collection of articles covers a broad range of topics such as the impact of colonialism and its associated discourses on First Nations and other groups of colonised women; racism in the Canadian labour movement; the impact of globalisation on women of colour; the ways in which the institution of the nuclear family shapes racism; sexism in communities of colour; and the ways in which the women's movement can create an anti-racist praxis. The book not only provides exciting new insights into how women of colour experience Canadian society, but also provides instructors with a textbook that integrates anti-racist and feminist approaches.

Gendering the Nation-State

Gendering the Nation-State
Author: Yasmeen Abu-Laban
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0774858346

Gendering the Nation-State explores the gendered dimensions of a fundamental organizational unit in social and political science -- the nation-state. Yasmeen Abu-Laban has drawn together work by both high-profile and emerging scholars to rescue gender from the margins of theoretical discussions on the nation, the state, public policy, and citizenship. Contributors bring the insights of feminist analysis to bear on three relationships central to popular and policy discussions in contemporary Canada and beyond: gender and nation, gender and state processes, and gender and citizenship. Gendering the Nation-State employs a comparative framework and builds on three decades of multidisciplinary work. Nuanced and wide-ranging, the collection crosses and challenges physical, theoretical, and disciplinary borders.

The Politics of Gender and Education

The Politics of Gender and Education
Author: S. Ali
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2003-11-25
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0230005535

What are the politics of gender within education? How are the issues of gender being explored in diverse educational settings? Does gender still matter in education? This book draws together the work from an international array of authors working at the cutting edge of gender research in education. From policy issues affecting single mothers to the incorporation of 'Southern learning' into Northern contexts, this collection provides a compelling argument for renewed engagement with gender issues at both macro and micro political levels within the full range of educational contexts - from primary to higher education.