num_pages: 292
description: During the past decade Canadian policy-makers have been forced to re-examine familiar governing instruments and established programs in the face of growing budget deficits, economic instability, and a rapidly changing global economy. This collection of eighteen original essays presents a critical exploration of the question of political and economic restructuring from the vantage point of gender. The authors argue that the present shift in the global order is revealing the contradictory effects of what is a dual process of both gender erosion and intensification. With the convergence of male and female job experience in polarized labour markets, gender appears to be less important in understanding the global political economy; at the same time, gender becomes more of a determining factor in the transformation of politics and markets, owing to the changing role of women as workers, caregivers, and consumers. The changing role of government and the state serves as a backdrop for many of the essays in this volume. The decline of the Keynesian welfare state may displace claims-based politics as a site of struggle for the women's movement. Not only has a claims-based politics been displaced by a trend toward community and individual reliance, the women's movement itself has undergone a transformation that precludes a unitary, homogenous approach to policy and politics.
language: English
title: Rethinking Restructuring: Gender and Change in Canada
publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr