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What's up? Mmm right, you can't respond. Oh well that gives me a chance to introduce myself and explain what this blog is.

My name is Kaisha Thompson. I'm a 3rd year Political Science student at Carleton University and the Director of Social Media for CEVC. I work part time  at Parliament Hill in Ottawa and have been working hard on the federal campaign in my home riding. I also happen to be an avid reader and a Canadian politics junkie.

Which brings us to this blog. . .

I will be using this space to write my thoughts on books that I read. Books about women in Canadian politics specifically. If you have recommendations, write to us on the Contact Us page. We will add your book to our list and hopefully I can read and write about it.

And that's all folks, comment away. I'll post my first book review/comments soon.

SPOILER ALERT:  It's Belinda Stronach's biography

If you are interested in reading more about women's involvement in Canadian, here are a few of our suggestions. Have a book that you want to add? Just drop us a line.

1)      Women, Politics, and Public Policy: The Political Struggles of Canadian Women
Jacquetta Newman and Linda White
ISBN 10: 0-1954-1805-0
ISBN 13: 978-0-1954-1805-7
Oxford University Press, USA, 2006.

2)      Women and Electoral Politics in Canada
Edited by: Manon Tremblay and Linda Trimble
ISBN 10: 0-1954-1744-5
ISBN 13: 978-0-1954-1744-9
Oxford University Press, USA, 2003.

3)      Still Counting: Women in Politics Across Canada
Linda Trimble and Jane Arscott
ISBN 10: 1-5511-1374-0
Broadview Press, Peterborough, 2003.

4)      Women and Political Representation in Canada
Edited by: Maron Tremblay and Caroline Andrew
ISBN 10: 0-7766-0451-1
University of Ottawa Press, Ottawa, 1998.

5)      Canadian Women's Issues: Volume I: Strong Voices
Ruth Roach Pierson, Majorie Griffin Cohen, Paula Bourne, and Philinda Masters
ISBN 13: 978-1-5502-8415-7
James Lorimer & Company Ltd, Toronto, 1993.

6)      Gender and Global Restructuring
Marianne Marchand and Anne Runyon
ISBN 10: 0-4152-2174-9
Routledge, London, 2000.

7)      Gender Politics in Global Governance Mary K. Meyer and Elisabeth Prugl
ISBN 13: 978-0-8476-9161-6
(US: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999).

8)      Federalism, Feminism and Multilevel Governance
Edited by: Melissa Haussman, Marian Sawer, Jill Vickers
ISBN 13:978-0-7546-7717-8
Ashgate, London, 2010.
 
9)      Globalizing Women. Transnational Feminist Networks. Val Moghadam
ISBN 13: 978-0801880247
John Hopkins Press, Baltimore, 2005.

10)  Women, Power, Politics: The Hidden Story of Canada’s Unfinished Democracy
Sylvia BashevkinISBN 10: 0195431707
ISBN 13:9780195431704
OUP Canada, 2009.

11)   Representing Women in Parliament: A comparative Study (refer to Chapters 2 and 6)Edited by: Marian Sawer, Manon Tremblay, Linda Trimble
ISBN 13: 978-0-415-47952-3
Routledge, London, 2008.

12)  Reinventing Canada: Politics of the 21st Century
Edited by: Janine Brodie and Linda Trimble
ISBN 13: 978-0130826343
Pearson Education Canada, Scarborough, 2003.

13)  Women's movements and state feminism: integrating diversity into public policy(autrement connu: Les Mouvements de femmes et le feminisme d'état : integrer la diversite a l'elaboration des politiques gouvernementales)L. Pauline Rankin and Jill Vickers (Research assistance of Ann-Marie Field)
ISBN 10:0-662-65775-6
Status of Women Canada, Ottawa, 2001.
http://www.rwmc.uoguelph.ca/cms/documents/88/Rankin_1-68.pdf

14)  Journal Article: “We Are All Equal Now: Contemporary Gender Politics in Canada”
Janine Brodie
Feminist Theory, 2008. 9:2 pp. 145-164.

15)  Journal Article: “The Disciplinary Boundaries of Canadian Identity After September 11: Civilizational Identity, Multiculturalism, and the Challenge of Anti-Imperialist Feminism”.
Sedef Arat-Koc.
Social Justice, 2005. 32:4 pp. 32-49.

16)  Canadian Politics: Critical Approaches (5th Edition) - Rand Dyck