FEDERALISM, FEMINISM AND MULTILEVEL GOVERNANCE
Gender in a Global/Local World
Series Editors: Jane Parpart, Pauline Gardiner Barber
and Marianne H. Marchand
Gender in a Global/Local World critically explores the uneven and often contradictory ways in which global processes and local identities come together. Much has been and is being written about globalization and responses to it but rarely from a critical, historical, gendered perspective. Yet, these processes are profoundly gendered albeit in different ways in particular contexts and times. The changes in social, cultural, economic and political institutions and practices alter the conditions under which women and men make and remake their lives. New spaces have been created economic, political, social and previously silent voices are being heard. North-South dichotomies are being undermined as increasing numbers of people and communities are exposed to international processes through migration, travel, and communication, even as marginalization and poverty intensify for many in all parts of the world. The series features monographs and collections which explore the tensions in a global/local world, and includes contributions from all disciplines in recognition that no single approach can capture these complex processes.
Previous titles are listed at the back of the book
Federalism, Feminism and Multilevel Governance
Edited by
MELISSA HAUSSMAN
Carleton University, Canada
MARIAN SAWER
Australian National University, Australia
JILL VICKERS
Carleton University, Canada
First published 2010 by Ashgate Publishing
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Federalism, feminism and multilevel governance. (Gender in a global/local world)
1. WomenPolitical activityCongresses. 2. Sex rolePolitical aspectsCongresses. 3. WomenGovernment policyCongresses. 4. Feminist theoryPolitical aspectsCongresses. 5. Federal governmentCongresses. 6. Comparative governmentCongresses. I. Series II. Haussman, Melissa, 1959- III. Sawer, Marian. IV. Vickers, Jill, 1942-
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Haussman, Melissa, 1959-
Federalism, feminism and multilevel governance / by Melissa Haussman, Marian Sawer and Jill Vickers.
p. cm. (Gender in a global/local world)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-7546-7717-8 (hardback)
1. Women in politics. 2. FeminismPolitical aspects. 3. Local government. 4. State governments. I. Sawer, Marian. II. Title.
HQ1236.H37 2010
305.42dc22
2010007198
ISBN 9780754677178 (hbk)
Contents
Marian Sawer and Jill Vickers
Gwendolyn Gray
Deborah Brennan
Rianne Mahon and Cheryl Collier
Kiera L. Ladner
Caroline Andrew
Miriam Smith
Melissa Haussman
Heather MacRae
Andrea Chandler
Fiona Mackay
Gopika Solanki
Laura Macdonald and Lisa Mills
Janna Ferguson
L. Amede Obiora and Sarah Toomey
Jill Vickers, Melissa Haussman and Marian Sawer
List of Tables
Notes on Contributors
Caroline Andrew is the Director of the Centre on Governance at the University of Ottawa. Her current research interests focus on the role of municipal governments and urban public policy to create welcoming communities for immigrants and visible minorities and on the relationships between community-based womens groups and municipal governments. Recent publications include Electing a Diverse Canada: The Representation of Immigrants, Minorities and Women (co-edited with John Biles, Myer Siemiatycki and Erin Tolley, UBC Press 2008) and a special edition of Plan Canada, Welcoming Communities: Planning for Diverse Populations (co-edited with Sandeep Agrawal and John Biles 2009).
Deborah Brennan is Professor and Deputy Director of the Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales and a former President of the Australasian Political Science Association. She is one of Australias leading researchers in comparative welfare, childrens services, family policy and gender and politics. Together with Louise Chappell, she edited No Fit Place for Women? Women in New South Wales Politics (UNSW Press 2006).
Andrea Chandler is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at Carleton University, Ottawa. She is a specialist in Russian politics, and has a particular interest in the politics of social welfare. She is the author of two books, Institutions of Isolation: Border Controls in the Soviet Union and its Successor States, 19171993 (McGill-Queens University Press 1998) and Shocking Mother Russia: Democratization, Social Rights, and Pension Reform in Russia, 1990 2001 (University of Toronto Press 2004).
Cheryl Collier is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Windsor. Her primary areas of research include federal and provincial child care and anti-violence policy, womens movements and gender, federalism and political parties. She has published in the Canadian Journal of Political Science and a variety of edited texts on Canadian public policy and federalism.
Janna Ferguson is a doctoral candidate in political science at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Her research interests include feminist theories of citizenship, transnationalism and nationalism, and migration within the Americas.
Gwendolyn Gray is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer in Political Science, in the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. Her research interests include health policy, womens health, federalism, women and public policy and issues in welfare. She is convenor of the Australian Womens Health Network.
Melissa Haussman is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Carleton University, Ottawa. Her two most recent books are Abortion Politics in North America (Lynne Rienner 2005) and Gendering the State in the Age of Globalization: Womens Movements and State Feminism in Post-Industrial Democracies
