Author : Caroline Andrew
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 11,97 MB
Release : 1997
Category : 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.
Author : Michael K. Hawes
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 12,37 MB
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : 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.
Author : Karena Shaw
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 39,25 MB
Release : 2008-09-12
Category : 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.
Author : Louise Chappell
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,67 MB
Release : 2003-07
Category : 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.
Author : Crystal Sissons
Publisher : Second Story Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 11,67 MB
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : 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.
Author : Annis May Timpson
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 25,77 MB
Release : 2001
Category : 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.
Author : Jenny Edkins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 42,31 MB
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : 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.
Author : Yasmeen Abu-Laban
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 30,11 MB
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : 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.
Author : Jane Jenson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 44,11 MB
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1351762567
This title was first published in 2000: The contributors to this fully documented volume address the debate surrounding the nature, impact and desirability of the complex set of phenomena collectively referred to as 'globalization'. The book breaks new ground by showing globalization in a wide range of areas, including national and transnational corporations, welfare policies, adoption, gendered politics and democratic institutions, citizenship, religion and judicial systems. It is also a truly international volume, including studies from North and South America, Africa and Europe. The book illustrates how globalization entails localization and is best explored through the analysis of institutions. It will be of particular interest to political scientists, sociologists, lawyers and anyone interested in the continual processes of global change.
Author : Douglas M. Brown
Publisher : IIGR, Queen's University
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 46,48 MB
Release : 1994-04
Category : Federal government
ISBN : 0889115737
