Women, Politics, and Public Policy
The Political Struggles of Canadian Women
"Now in its third edition, Women, Politics, and Public Policy continues to incorporate uniquely Canadian perspectives on the intersectionality of feminism, women's politics, and public policy-making. This third edition balances historical content and contemporary politics and offers completely updated statistical data and the latest directions in public policy. Highlighting women's politics and policy advocacy in Canada, this comprehensive volume serves students of political science and women's studies as well as those studying sociology, history, law, and social work. This core text for second- and third-year students of political science and women's studies has been extensively updated to reflect the most current debates, research, and data on contemporary issues such as gender politics and equality, LGBTQ+ issues, global feminist campaigns such as the #MeToo and Time's Up movements, the impact of digital generations on politics, and the impacts of policy on minority and marginalized women."--
Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Nonfiction. Those themes offer useful points of attention as the characters, ideas, or world develop, especially where the book complicates the expectations of its primary category.
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What the reading experience may hold
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Nonfiction
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- ISBN-13
- 978-0-1990-2552-7
- Language
- English
- Edition record
- OL29433094M
A more thoughtful way into this book
This guide uses the edition details and category signals above to help you choose deliberately. It does not replace the author's work or a full review.
Best when you want to settle into a longer reading experience.
Begin with its place in Nonfiction, then notice where the book resists that label.
Read for connection, not completion.
Mark one passage that sharpens the book's central concern and one that complicates it. That tension often reveals more than a quick summary.
Three questions to carry with you
- Whose perspective organizes the story, and whose perspective remains outside it?
- Which sources or lived experiences carry the author’s central argument?
- How does the book change the way you understand its larger subject?
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