Handbook on Gender, Diversity and FederalismJill Vickers, Joan Grace, Cheryl N. Collier This insightful Handbook offers a comprehensive exploration of the third generation of gender and federalism studies. In this timely and authoritative examination, feminist scholars in both the West and the global south debate the impact of state architectures on women’s movements, partisan organizations and policy advocacy using innovative discursive, institutional and intersectional approaches. |
Contents
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PART I THEORETICAL AND COMPARATIVE APPROACHES | 15 |
2 How can comparative studies of federations be gendered? Gendering intergovernmental relations | 16 |
3 Does federalism support policy innovation for children and families? Canada in comparative context | 32 |
Canada and Nigeria | 48 |
5 Federalism and womens descriptive representation | 63 |
Gender in global governance and the federal option | 76 |
7 Comparing countrywide womens organizations in Canada and the United States in the age of decentralization | 91 |
LATIN AMERICA ASIA AND AFRICA | 210 |
Latin America | 211 |
Argentinas politics on abortion and contraception | 212 |
The violence against women law in Brazil | 227 |
INMUJERES in Mexico | 245 |
Asia | 262 |
18 Devolution and the multilevel politics of gender in Pakistan | 263 |
19 Gender federalism and the state in India | 279 |
PART II THIRDWAVE GENDERFEDERALISM RESEARCH IN SOME WESTERN FEDERATIONS | 106 |
8 Federalism courts and LGBTQ policy in Canada | 107 |
Canadian federalism doctrine and the judicial deregulation of reproductive technologies | 120 |
Gender race and federalism | 135 |
11 Federalism and womens equality rights campaigns in Canada | 149 |
12 The gendered territorial dynamics of the Spanish State of Autonomies | 166 |
13 Regendering the federal bargain in Canada | 180 |
Pushing federalism beyond territory | 194 |
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