Women, Politics, and Public Policy: The Political Struggles of Canadian Women

By Jacquetta Newman and Linda A. White

Women, Politics, and Public Policy seeks to show how feminist theory, the women's movement, and public policy-making intersect. It does this by exploring how Canadian women have engaged in and are... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195432495
• ISBN13: 9780195432497
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 399 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.7" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Useful for Women/Gender in Politics

This text is a good book for an undergraduate course like women in politics or gender in politics. It provides a sound survey of Canadian case studies. Some sections refer to gender/women in the US, as well. I found that the sections on Third Wave feminism, pornography, and prostitution were too quick and easy of assessments. Specifically, they gloss over Third Wave feminism sloppily and I found that I had to lecture extensively to better explain this to my students. Overall, it's a great text, but expensive to use in the Canadian university classroom if you have another textbook. I actually ended up using sections of the book for my class. I will use the book again, but I do feel that a few sections require me to add or correct. This book is not written for a lay audience. The audience is an academic one.