Chapter 1: Introduction: approaching Canadian politics through a gender lens, by Manon Tremblay and Joanna Everitt
Part I: Ideologies
Chapter 2: Canadian liberalism and gender equality: between oppression and emancipation, by Éléna Choquette
Chapter 3: Conservatism, Gender, and LGBTQ+ Equity Debates: An Ideological Clash?, by Frédéric Boily and Brent Epperson
Chapter 4: Socialism/Social Democracy: Ideologies of Equality in the Canadian Context, by Roberta Lexier
Chapter 5: Gender, Sexuality, and Nationalism in Canada: A Critical Reading, by Sevan Beukian
Chapter 6: Gender and Sexuality: Indigenous Feminist Perspectives, by Elaine Coburn and Emma LaRocque
Part II: Institutions
Chapter 7: Mobilizing Equality through Canada’s Constitution and Charter: Milestones, or Missed and even Mistaken Opportunities?, by Alexandra Dobrowolsky
Chapter 8: Federalism and intergovernmental relations: prospects for a more gender equal Canada, by Linda White
Chapter 9: Canada’s Legislature: A (Gendered) Parliament for the People, by Tracey Raney
Chapter 10: Executives in Canada: Adding Gender and Sexuality to their Representational Mandate, by Joanna Everitt and JP Lewis
Chapter 11: Public Administration and Government Services: Gendering Policy-Making in Canada, by Tammy Findlay
Chapter 12: The Judiciary: Representation in Law and Justice Public Policy, by Erin Crandall
Chapter 13: Municipal/local Politics: The false pretenses of the municipal level in Canada, by Anne Mévellec, Veika Donatien and Guy Chiasson
Chapter 14: The Electoral System: The Gendered Politics of Institutions, by Dennis Pilon
Chapter 15: Canada’s Political Parties: Gatekeepers to Parliament, by Jeanette Ashe
Part III: The Civil Society
Chapter 16: Public Opinion, Political Behaviour, and Voting: Exploring Diversity, by Amanda Bittner and Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant
Chapter 17: Watching the Watchdogs: The News Media’s Role in Canadan Politics, by Angelia Wagner
Chapter 18: Social Movements: Full-fledged Actors in Canadian Politics, by Manon Tremblay
Chapter 19: The Gender Dynamics of Interest Group Politics: The Case of the Canadian Menstruators and the Campaign to Eliminate the ‘Tampon Tax’, by Francesca Scala
Part IV: Public Policy
Chapter 20: Beyond the Binary: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Canadian Foreign Policy, by Taryn Husband-Ceperkovic and Rebecca Tiessen
Chapter 21: A Feminist Account of Canadian Defence Policy, by Meaghan Shoemaker and Stéfanie von Hlatky
Chapter 22: Inflicting the White Man’s Burden: Colonial Intrusion into First Nation Women’s Lives, by Cora Voyageur
Chapter 23: Canadian economic and fiscal policy: questioning markets’ neutrality, by Geneviève Tellier
Chapter 24: The shifting politics of health in Canada: Papanicolaou (Pap) screening, human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination, and cervical cancer prevention, by Jessica Polzer, Laura Cayen and Monica Molinaro
Chapter 25: Citizenship, Multiculturalism and Immigration: Mapping the Complexities of Inclusion and Exclusion Through Intersectionality, by Yasmeen Abu-Laban and Nisha Nath
Chapter 26: Conclusions: Re-envisioning the Research and Teaching of Canadian Politics and Gender, Sexuality and Politics, by Jocelyne Praud
Manon Tremblay is Professor in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa, Canada. She is the author of 100 Questions about Women and Politics, and editor of Queering Representation: LGBTQ People and Electoral Politics in Canada along with other works on women, lesbian and gay activism, and politics.
Joanna Everitt is Professor of Political Science at the University of New Brunswick in Saint John, Canada, specializing in Canadian politics with a focus on gender and identity in political engagement, public opinion, and political communication. She has also been involved in federal and provincial election studies.
The Palgrave Handbook of Gender, Sexuality, and Canadian Politics offers the first and only handbook in the field of Canadian politics that uses 'gender' (which it interprets broadly, as inclusive of sex, sexualities, and other intersecting identities) as its category of analysis. Its premise is that political actors’ identities frame how Canadian politics is thought, told, and done; in turn, Canadian politics, as a set of ideas, state institutions and decision-making processes, and civil society mobilizations, does and redoes gender. Following the standard structure of mainstream introductory Canadian politics textbooks, this handbook is divided into four sections (ideologies, institutions, civil society, and public policy) each of which contains several chapters on topics commonly taught in Canadian politics classes. The originality of the handbook lies in its approach: each chapter reviews the basics of a given topic from the perspective of gendered/sexualized and other intersectional identities. Such an approach makes the handbook the only one of its kind in Canadian Politics.
Manon Tremblay is Professor in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa, Canada.
Joanna Everitt is Professor of Political Science at the University of New Brunswick in Saint John, Canada.