| | International Journal of Canadian Studies - Issue # 17 Abstracts |
 | | Yet much of the literature describing Canadian constitutional discourses and dramas during this time period inscribes women as "Charter Canadians" whose present and future constitutional interests are (wrongly) assumed to be shaped entirely by a singular desire to protect and enhance their Charter rights and whose constitutional interventions are, therefore, self-interested, particularistic and even disruptive. |
 | | This paper argues that the conventional assumptions about womens constitutional participation (especially their representational claims) are based on patriarchal conceptions of citizenship which construct women as inherently partial, private and dependent and, therefore, as unable to measure up to the supposedly universal, but actually masculinist, norms of political engagement. |
 | | In contrast, this paper argues that the Groups rhetoric and activities should be seen in the light of the broad international reaction to the modern world that swept Europe and North America in the decades around the turn of the century. |
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