Bøger i Women's Studies serien

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- 1. FEMALE DESIGNS REFLECTED: An Introduction -- 2. LABOUR FORCE PARTICIPATION OF WOMEN IN A MALE-DOMINATED SOCIETY -- 3. THE TRANSITION TO PARENTHOOD AND PARENTAL LEAVE FACILITIES -- 4. DUTCH WOMEN AND PROFESSIONAUSATION OF CHILDCARE -- 5. A BUILT ENVIRONMENT OF FEMALE DESIGN, OUT OF THE QUESTION? -- 6. FEMALE DESIGNS AND ADULT EDUCATION -- 7. DILEMMAS OF PARENT EDUCATION FOR SEXUAL EQUALITY -- 8. GROUP 7152, A SUBCULTURE OF LESBIAN AND BISEXUAL WOMEN -- 9. FEMALE DESIGNED MENTAL HEALTH CARE -- 10. SOME DESIGNS OF WOMEN'S STUDIES EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS FOR DUTCH UNIVERSITIES: DILEMMAS AND PERSPECTIVES -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

While women make up little over half of the total population in Canada, they are in many ways conspicuous by their absence from the Canadian political scene. This title offers a collection of essays that explores the often antagonistic relationship between women and political life in Canada.

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- Miranda and Cassandra: The Discourse of the Feminist Intellectual -- 1. LEARNING FROM WOMEN'S HISTORY -- 1. Women's Culture In Women's History: Historical Notion or Feminist Vision? -- 2. Women's Networks: A Connection between Culture and Politics in Women's History -- 2. STUDIES IN GENDERSPECIFIC CULTURE -- 3. Aspects of Lyric in the Poetry of Emily Bronte -- 4. Voicing Women: The Poetry of Pamela White-Hadas -- 5. The Canon of the Old Testament and Women's Cultural Tradition -- 6. A Women's Modernistic Tradition in Norway? -- 7. Dutch Women's Movies: Developments and InterreI at ions -- 3. HISTORIOGRAPHY OF GENDERSPECIFIC CULTURE -- 8. Re-searchlng the Literary Presentation of the 'Female' -- 9. Something Else: About Literary History and MarginalIty -- 10. The Great Melancholy: Notes Toward a History of Dutch Women's Poetry -- 11. Rethinking Literary History -- List of Contributors