Handbook on gender, diversity and federalism. ([2020])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Jill Vickers ((FRSC), distinguished research professor and emeritus chancellor's professor in political science, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada), Joan Grace (professor and chair of the Department of Political Science, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada), Cheryl N. Collier (associate professor in political science, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada).
• Editors: Vickers, Jill, 1942-; Grace, Joan; Collier, Cheryl N
• Other Names: Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.
• Contents: Foreword Carol Weissert -- preface Jill Vickers -- 1. Introduction to Handbook on Gender, Diversity and Federalism / Jill Vickers, Joan Grace and Cheryl N. Collier -- Part I. Theoretical and comparative approaches -- 2. How can comparative studies of federations be gendered? Gendering inter-governmental relations / Jill Vickers -- 3. Does federalism support policy innovation for children and families? Canada in comparative context / Linda A. White -- 4. Federalism, gender equality and religious rights: Canada and Nigeria / Peter (Jay) Smith -- 5. Federalism and women's descriptive representation / Daniel Stockemer and Michael J. Wigginton -- 6. Mapping the terrain: Gender in global governance and the federal option / Judit Fabian -- 7. Comparing country-wide women's organizations in Canada and the United States in the age of decentralization / Cheryl N. Collier -- Part II. Third-wave gender/federalism research in some 'western' federations -- 8. Federalism, courts and LGBTQ policy in Canada / Miriam Smith -- 9. Reproducing the masculine, neoliberal state: Canadian federalism doctrine and the judicial deregulation of reproductive technologies / Kerri A. Froc -- 10. Trump's 'principles of economic mobility' and Medicaid: Gender, race and federalism / Melissa Haussman -- 11. Federalism and women's equality rights campaigns in Canada / Beverley Baines -- 12. The gendered territorial dynamics of the Spanish state of autonomies / Tània Verge and Alba Alonso -- 13. Regendering the federal bargain in Canada / Joan Grace -- 14. Feminism and federalism in Australia: Pushing federalism beyond territory / Kim Rubenstein -- Part III. Third-wave gender/federalism research in the global South: Latin America, Asia and Africa Latin America -- 15. The federal restriction of women's rights: Argentina's politics on abortion and contraception / Debora Lopreite -- 16. National law and territorialized public policy goods: The violence against women law in Brazil / Simone Bohn -- 17. Women's policy agencies and federalism: Inmujeres in Mexico / Caroline Beer Asia -- 18. Devolution and the multilevel politics of gender in Pakistan / Mariam Mufti -- 19. Gender, federalism and the state in India / Carole Spary -- 20. The political economy of gender budgeting: Empirical evidence from India / Lekha Chakraborty, Veena Nayyar and Komal Jain -- 21. Indian federalism and violence against women: A complex web of power relationships / Catherine Viens and Priscyll Anctil Avoine -- 22. 'Nested newness' and the engendering of regional autonomy: Women's rights and equality in Hong Kong / Susan J. Henders Africa -- 23. #bring back our girls : Girls' education and women's security in northern Nigeria / Plangsat Bitrus Dayil and Jill Vickers -- Index.
• Publisher Details: Cheltenham, UK Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (xx, 363 pages)
• Subjects: 305.42; Feminism; Federal government; Minorities; Race; Women's rights; Decolonization -- Developing countries; Gay rights; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 1788119304; 9781788119306
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 06, 2020).
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