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Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: Book by Davie, Michael B.

Product Description: The contemporary women's movement has transformed North American society. Change has been the greatest in the realm of everyday life, but feminists' insistence that "the personal is political" has challenged the substance and practice of politics...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is a collection of essays by different university researchers interested in how the lives of men and women are affected by politics. The book adopts no specific ediology, but readers will easily discover that all authors share the view that Canadian society and polity still treat men and women unequally...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

This is the only book to examine the political history, attitudes, and participation of women in English Canadian political parties. It reviews the background to female enfranchisement and right to hold public office, sit in the Senate, and entrench equal rights in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Bashevkin argues that relatively few women are active at elite levels in political parties, particularly in those that hold power or are in a competitive position in the opposition.