N04 - Book Launch: Fiona MacDonald and Alexandra Dobrowolsky’s Turbulent Times, Transformational Possibilities? Gender and Politics Today and Tomorrow
Date: Jun 2 | Time: 12:00pm to 01:30pm | Location:
Co-hosts: University of Toronto Press - Women, Gender, and Politics Section
Turbulent Times, Transformational Possibilities? Gender and Politics Today and Tomorrow
Abstract: 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 #MeToo, Idle No More, and Black Lives Matter movements. Detailing these gendered and turbulent political times, this book features state-of-the art scholarship from diverse contributors that encompasses both contemporary challenges as well as avenues for change now and into the future. This collection represents a 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 both institutional and movement and countermovement politics.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Transforming and Transformational Gender Politics in Turbulent Times
Fiona MacDonald and Alexandra Dobrowolsky
Part I. Transforming Institutions and Ideas: Turbulent Times and Ongoing Struggles
1. A Diverse, Feminist "Open Door" Canada? Trudeau-Styled Equality, Liberalisms, and Feminisms
Alexandra Dobrowolsky
2. Feminist Government or Governance Feminism? Exploring Feminist Policy Analysis in the Trudeau Era
Stephanie Paterson and Francesca Scala
3. Gender-Sensitivity under Trudeau: Facebook Feminism or Real Change?
Jeanette Ashe
4. Feminism, Public Dialogue, and Sexual Assault Law
Elaine Craig
5. Transforming the Gender Divide? Deconstructing Femininity and Masculinity in Indigenous Politics
Gina Starblanket
6. How Gender Became a Defence Issue: A Feminist Perspective on Canadian Defence Policy
Maya Eichler
7. Free Mining Body Land and the Social Reproduction of Indigenous Life
Isabel Altamirano-Jimenez
8. The Promises and Perils of Hashtag Feminism
Tamara A. Small
9. Women and Children First! Childhood, Feminisms, and the Co-Emancipatory Model
Toby Rollo
Part II. Non-Institutional and Intersectional Politics: Feminisms, Allies, Affect, and Anger
10. Gender and Feminist Mobilizations in Quebec: Changes Within and Outside the Movement
Pascale Dufour and Geneviève Pagé
11. The Intersectional Politics of Black Lives Matter
Debra Thompson
12. Pinkwashing Pride Parades: The Politics of Police in LGBTQ Spaces in Canada
Alexa DeGagne
13. Refusing Extraction: Environmental Reproductive Justice Across the Pacific
Sarah Wiebe
14. Erasure at the "Tipping Point"? Transfeminist Politics and Challenges for Representation: from Turtle Island to the Global South/s
Chamindra Weerawardhana
15. Rethinking Disability, Citizenship, and Intersectionality
Stacy Clifford Simplican
16. Engendering Fatness and "Obesity": Affect, Emotions, and the Governance of Weight in a Neoliberal Age
Michael Orsini
17. The "Alt" Right, Toxic Masculinity, and Violence
John Grant and Fiona MacDonald