We are all equal now

Contemporary gender politics in Canada

Bibliographic Data

ID4761273
AuthorsJanine Brodie (University of Alberta, corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume9
Issue2
Pages145-164
Publication date2008-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueFeminist Theory (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1464-7001 • E-ISSN: 1741-2773
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1464700108090408
OpenAlexW1973961064
LanguageEN
Citations received39
References cited16

This article examines the Canadian case, focusing on the ways in which the political rationalities that have informed the Canadian variants of post-war social liberalism and neoliberalism have opened and then closed spaces for the articulation and institutionalization of gender-based equality claims-making. The article recounts how the Canadian welfare state underwrote a unique gender equality infrastructure inside the state and a thick field of gender organizations in civil society and later how this potent political and symbolic node of social liberalism became a critical field of contestation for those promoting neoliberal political rationalities. The article describes a protracted war of position in which the gendered politics and identities of the 20th century have been displaced and marginalized, but not fully consumed by neoliberal idioms, representations and policy interventions

Civil society · Hegemony · Liberalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Welfare state · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Law · Social Policy and Reform Studies

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