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We are all equal now

Contemporary gender politics in Canada

University of Alberta, Janine.brodie{at}ualberta.ca

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.

Key Words: gender equality • neoliberalism • political rationalities • social liberalism

Feminist Theory, Vol. 9, No. 2, 145-164 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/1464700108090408


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