Introduction

Manon Tremblay

Caroline Andrew

PART ONE HOW THE STATE ORGANIZES THE INTERESTS OF WOMEN

Restructuring and the Politics of Marginalization

Janine Brodie

A Critical Look at State Discourse on ``Violence against Women'': Some Implications for Feminist Politics and Women's Citizenship

Lise Gotell

Employment Equality Strategies and Their Representation in the Political Process in Canada, 1970-1994

Julia S. O'Connor

PART TWO STRATEGIES OF WOMEN'S ENTRY INTO POLITICS: ARE THEY STRATEGIES OF TRANSFORMATION?

The Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women: Possibilities and Limitations

Sandra Burt

``More Women'': The RCSW and Political Representation, 1970

Jane Arscott

PART THREE WOMEN'S ENTRY INTO FORMAL POLITICS---THE SPHERE OF ELECTORAL POLITICS

Affirmative Action and Women's Representation in the Ontario New Democratic Party

Jocelyne Praud

The Canadian Women's Movement and Political Parties, 1970-1993

Lisa Young

Entry to the Commons: Parties, Recruitment, and the Election of Women in 1993

Lynda Erickson

Who's Represented? Gender and Diversity in the Alberta Legislature

Linda Trimble

PART FOUR WOMEN'S POLITICS

Representation and the Struggle for Women's Equality: Issues for Feminist Practice

Sue Findlay

Problematizing Ethnicity and ``Race'' in Feminist Scholarship on Women and Politics

Susan Judith Ship

Locating Women's Politics

L. Pauline Rankin

Jill Vickers

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