Turbulent Times, Transformational Possibilities? Gender and Politics Today and Tomorrow

In Canada, and elsewhere, recent political, economic, and social shifts have brought gender to the forefront of politics as never before, from gender-based analyses and "feminist budgets" to the #MeTtoo, Idle No More, and Black Lives Matter movements. Detailing these gendered and turbulent political times, this book features diverse contributors’ state-of-the art scholarship from diverse contributors that encompassesing both contemporary challenges as well as avenues for change now and into the future. This collection represents provides a more complex treatment of both gender and politics, in which : gender is examined in light of other collective identities and their intersections; and politics refers to includes both the institutional political, ands well as movement and countermovement politics.