Women and Political Representation in Canada

Edited by Manon Tremblay and Caroline Andrew

Ottawa, University of Ottawa Press, 1998

This collection of essays explores the relationship between women and active involvement in the political life of Canada. This theme is one that can no longer be dismissed. While women make up a little over half of the total population of Canada, they are in many ways conspicuous by their absence from the Canadien political scene. Women hold only 20% of all elected positions. However, despite this paucity of elected representation, many women are very involved in the political life of Canada. The essays in this work explore the diversity of women's political involvement, both in terms of traditional and non-traditional political activity.

This work is comprised of twelve texts, divided into four sections:
• How the State Organises the Interests of Women
• Strategies of Women's entry into Politics: Are they Strategies of Transformation?
• Women's Entry into Formai Politics-The Sphere of Electoral Politics
• Women's Politics.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction, Manon Tremblay and Caroline Andrew

PART ONE - HOW THE STATE ORGANIZES THE INTERESTS OF WOMEN
Chapter 1. Restructuring and the Politics of Marginalization, Janine Brodie

Chapter 2. A Critical Look at State Discourse on "Violence against Women": Some Implications for Feminist Politics and Women's Citizenship, Lise Gotell

Chapter 3. Employment Equality Strategies and Their Representation in the Political Process in Canada, 1970-1994, Julia S. O'Connor

PART TWO - STRATEGIES OF WOMEN'S ENTRYINTO POLITICS: ARE THEY STRATEGIES OF TRANSFORMATION?
Chapter 4. The Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women: Possibilities and Limitations, Sandra Burt

Chapter 5. "More Women": The RCSW and Political Representation, 1970, Jane Arscott

PART THREE - WOMEN'S ENTRY INTO FORMAL POLITICS—THE SPHERE OF ELECTORAL POLITICS
Chapter 6. Affirmative Action and Women's Représentation in the Ontario New Democratie Party, Jocelyne Praud

Chapter 7. The Canadian Women's Movement and Political Parties, 1970-1993, Lisa Young

Chapter 8. Entry to the Gommons: Parties, Recruitment, and the Election of Women in 1993, Lynda Erickson

Chapter 9. Who's Represented? Gender and Diversity in the Alberta Legislature, Linda Trimble

PART FOUR - WOMEN'S POLITICS
Chapter 10. Representation and the Struggle for Women's Equality: Issues for Feminist Practice, Sue Findlay

Chapter 11. Problematizing Ethnicity and "Race" in Feminist Scholarship on Women and Politics, Susan Judith Ship

Chapter 12. Locating Women's Politics, L. Pauline Rankin and fill Vickers

About the Contributors

Caroline Andrew and Manon Tremblay