The Palgrave Handbook of Gender, Sexuality, and Canadian Politics offers the first and only handbook in the field of Canadian politics that uses 'gender' (which it interprets broadly, as inclusive of sex, sexualities, and other intersecting identities) as its category of analysis. Its premise is that political actors’ identities frame how Canadian politics is thought, told, and done; in turn, Canadian politics, as a set of ideas, state institutions and decision-making processes, and civil society mobilizations, does and redoes gender. Following the standard structure of mainstream introductory Canadian politics textbooks, this handbook is divided into four sections (ideologies, institutions, civil society, and public policy) each of which contains several chapters on topics commonly taught in Canadian politics classes. The originality of the handbook lies in its approach: each chapter reviews the basics of a given topic from the perspective of gendered/sexualized and other intersectional identities. Such an approach makes the handbook the only one of its kind in Canadian Politics.

Part I: Ideologies

Chapter 2: Canadian liberalism and gender equality: between oppression and emancipation, by Éléna Choquette

Chapter 3: Conservatism, Gender, and LGBTQ+ Equity Debates: An Ideological Clash?, by Frédéric Boily and Brent Epperson

Chapter 4: Socialism/Social Democracy: Ideologies of Equality in the Canadian Context, by Roberta Lexier

Chapter 5: Gender, Sexuality, and Nationalism in Canada: A Critical Reading, by Sevan Beukian

Chapter 6: Gender and Sexuality: Indigenous Feminist Perspectives, by Elaine Coburn and Emma LaRocque

Part II: Institutions

Chapter 7: Mobilizing Equality through Canada’s Constitution and Charter: Milestones, or Missed and even Mistaken Opportunities?, by Alexandra Dobrowolsky

Chapter 8: Federalism and intergovernmental relations: prospects for a more gender equal Canada, by Linda White

Chapter 9: Canada’s Legislature: A (Gendered) Parliament for the People, by Tracey Raney

Chapter 10: Executives in Canada: Adding Gender and Sexuality to their Representational Mandate, by Joanna Everitt and JP Lewis

Chapter 11: Public Administration and Government Services: Gendering Policy-Making in Canada, by Tammy Findlay

Chapter 12: The Judiciary: Representation in Law and Justice Public Policy, by Erin Crandall

Chapter 13: Municipal/local Politics: The false pretenses of the municipal level in Canada, by Anne Mévellec, Veika Donatien and Guy Chiasson

Chapter 14: The Electoral System: The Gendered Politics of Institutions, by Dennis Pilon

Chapter 15: Canada’s Political Parties: Gatekeepers to Parliament, by Jeanette Ashe

Part III: The Civil Society

Chapter 16: Public Opinion, Political Behaviour, and Voting: Exploring Diversity, by Amanda Bittner and Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant

Chapter 17: Watching the Watchdogs: The News Media’s Role in Canadan Politics, by Angelia Wagner

Chapter 18: Social Movements: Full-fledged Actors in Canadian Politics, by Manon Tremblay

Chapter 19: The Gender Dynamics of Interest Group Politics: The Case of the Canadian Menstruators and the Campaign to Eliminate the ‘Tampon Tax’, by Francesca Scala

Part IV: Public Policy

Chapter 20: Beyond the Binary: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Canadian Foreign Policy, by Taryn Husband-Ceperkovic and Rebecca Tiessen

Chapter 21: A Feminist Account of Canadian Defence Policy, by Meaghan Shoemaker and Stéfanie von Hlatky

Chapter 22: Inflicting the White Man’s Burden: Colonial Intrusion into First Nation Women’s Lives, by Cora Voyageur

Chapter 24: The shifting politics of health in Canada: Papanicolaou (Pap) screening, human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination, and cervical cancer prevention, by Jessica Polzer, Laura Cayen and Monica Molinaro

Chapter 25: Citizenship, Multiculturalism and Immigration: Mapping the Complexities of Inclusion and Exclusion Through Intersectionality, by Yasmeen Abu-Laban and Nisha Nath