Handbook on Gender, Diversity and Federalism

Edited by Jill Vickers, (FRSC), Distinguished Research Professor and Emeritus Chancellor’s Professor in Political Science, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Joan Grace, Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Manitoba and Cheryl N. Collier, Associate Professor in Political Science, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada

‘The book undoubtedly offers a solid and important academic contribution, a learning tool for students, an accessible read for nonexperts, and an important guide for legislators and policy makers. It paves the way for further research in a range of different contexts including theory building, expanded case studies, and systematic country comparison.’

• Contents:Foreword xvCarol WeissertPreface xviiJill Vickers1 Introduction to Handbook on Gender, Diversity and Federalism 1Jill Vickers, Joan Grace and Cheryl N. CollierPART I THEORETICAL AND COMPARATIVE APPROACHES2 How can comparative studies of federations be gendered? Genderinginter-governmental relations 16Jill Vickers3 Does federalism support policy innovation for children and families?Canada in comparative context 32Linda A. White4 Federalism, gender equality and religious rights: Canada and Nigeria 48Peter (Jay) Smith5 Federalism and women’s descriptive representation 63Daniel Stockemer and Michael J. Wigginton6 Mapping the terrain: Gender in global governance and the federal option 76Judit Fabian7 Comparing country-wide women’s organizations in Canada and theUnited States in the age of decentralization 91Cheryl N. CollierPART II THIRD-WAVE GENDER/FEDERALISM RESEARCH INSOME ‘WESTERN’ FEDERATIONS8 Federalism, courts and LGBTQ policy in Canada 107Miriam Smith9 Reproducing the masculine, neoliberal state: Canadian federalismdoctrine and the judicial deregulation of reproductive technologies 120Kerri A. Froc10 Trump’s ‘principles of economic mobility’ and Medicaid: Gender, raceand federalism 135Melissa Haussman11 Federalism and women’s equality rights campaigns in Canada 149Beverley Baines12 The gendered territorial dynamics of the Spanish State of Autonomies 166Tània Verge and Alba Alonso13 Regendering the federal bargain in Canada 180Joan Grace14 Feminism and federalism in Australia: Pushing federalism beyond territory 194Kim RubensteinPART III THIRD-WAVE GENDER/FEDERALISM RESEARCH INTHE GLOBAL SOUTH: LATIN AMERICA, ASIA AND AFRICALATIN AMERICA15 The federal restriction of women’s rights: Argentina’s politics onabortion and contraception 212Debora Lopreite16 National law and territorialized public policy goods: The violenceagainst women law in Brazil 227Simone Bohn17 Women’s policy agencies and federalism: INMUJERES in Mexico 245Caroline BeerASIA18 Devolution and the multilevel politics of gender in Pakistan 263Mariam Mufti19 Gender, federalism and the state in India 279Carole Spary20 The political economy of gender budgeting: Empirical evidence from India 294Lekha Chakraborty, Veena Nayyar and Komal Jain21 Indian federalism and violence against women: A complex web of powerrelationships 306Catherine Viens and Priscyll Anctil Avoine22 ‘Nested newness’ and the engendering of regional autonomy: Women’srights and equality in Hong Kong 321Susan J. HendersAFRICA23 #Bring Back Our Girls : Girls’ education and women’s security innorthern Nigeria 338Plangsat Bitrus Dayil and Jill VickersIndex 351