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Opening Doors Wider : Women's Political Engagement in Canada.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press, 2009Copyright date: ©2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (223 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780774815659
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Opening Doors WiderDDC classification:
  • 320.082/0971
LOC classification:
  • HQ1236.5.C2 -- O64 2009eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- Part 1: Community and Women's Group Participation -- 2 Women and Community Leadership: Changing Politics or Changed by Politics? -- 3 Rebuilding the House of Canadian Feminism: NAC and the Racial Politics of Participation -- Part 2: Winning Legislative Seats -- 4 Women in the Quebec National Assembly: Why So Many? -- 5 Are Cities More Congenial? Tracking the Rural Deficit of Women in the House of Commons -- Part 3: Cabinet and Party Leadership Experiences -- 6 Making a Difference When the Doors Are Open: Women in the Ontario NDP Cabinet, 1990-95 -- 7 "Stage" versus "Actor" Barriers to Women's Federal Party Leadership -- 8 One Is Not Like the Others: Allison Brewer's Leadership of the New Brunswick NDP -- Part 4: Media and Public Images -- 9 Crafting a Public Image: Women MPs and the Dynamics of Media Coverage -- 10 Do Voters Stereotype Female Party Leaders? Evidence from Canada and New Zealand -- Part 5: Remedies and Prescriptions -- 11 Opening Doors to Women's Participation -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: This book asks whether the doors to women's participation in Canadian public life are more open than in the past and probes how they can be opened further.
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Intro -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- Part 1: Community and Women's Group Participation -- 2 Women and Community Leadership: Changing Politics or Changed by Politics? -- 3 Rebuilding the House of Canadian Feminism: NAC and the Racial Politics of Participation -- Part 2: Winning Legislative Seats -- 4 Women in the Quebec National Assembly: Why So Many? -- 5 Are Cities More Congenial? Tracking the Rural Deficit of Women in the House of Commons -- Part 3: Cabinet and Party Leadership Experiences -- 6 Making a Difference When the Doors Are Open: Women in the Ontario NDP Cabinet, 1990-95 -- 7 "Stage" versus "Actor" Barriers to Women's Federal Party Leadership -- 8 One Is Not Like the Others: Allison Brewer's Leadership of the New Brunswick NDP -- Part 4: Media and Public Images -- 9 Crafting a Public Image: Women MPs and the Dynamics of Media Coverage -- 10 Do Voters Stereotype Female Party Leaders? Evidence from Canada and New Zealand -- Part 5: Remedies and Prescriptions -- 11 Opening Doors to Women's Participation -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

This book asks whether the doors to women's participation in Canadian public life are more open than in the past and probes how they can be opened further.

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