Now in its third edition, Women, Politics, and Public Policy continues to incorporate uniquely Canadian perspectives on the intersectionality of feminism, womenas politics, and public policy-making. This third edition balances historical content and contemporary politics and offers completely updated statistical data and the latest directions in public policy. Highlighting womenas politics and policy advocacy in Canada, this comprehensive volume serves students of political science and womenas studies as well as those studying sociology, history, law, and social work. This core text for second- and third-year students of political science and womenas studies has been extensively updated to reflect the most current debates, research, and data on contemporary issues such as gender politics and equality, LGBTQ+ issues, global feminist campaigns such as the #MeToo and Timeas Up movements, the impact of digital generations on politics, and the impacts of policy on minority and marginalized women.
Kate's cousin, Maggie Marie, has come from the city for a visit on the farm. Kate finds Maggie annoying, and other than their age, she doesn't see that they have anything in common. Kate's mother encourages Kate to look at Maggie Marie the way God looks at us, from our hearts. An adventure in the woods changes everything. Kate realizes that she has misjudged Maggie and finally sees Maggie's friendship as a true treasure.
At the turn of the twentieth century, good highways eluded most Americans and nearly all southerners. In their place, a jumble of dirt roads covered the region like a bed of briars. Introduced in 1915, the Dixie Highway changed all that by merging hundreds of short roads into dual interstate routes that looped from Michigan to Miami and back. In connecting the North and the South, the Dixie Highway helped end regional isolation and served as a model for future interstates. In this book, Tammy Ingram offers the first comprehensive study of the nation's earliest attempt to build a highway network, revealing how the modern U.S. transportation system evolved out of the hard-fought political, economic, and cultural contests that surrounded the Dixie's creation. The most visible success of the Progressive Era Good Roads Movement, the Dixie Highway also became its biggest casualty. It sparked a national dialogue about the power of federal and state agencies, the role of local government, and the influence of ordinary citizens. In the South, it caused a backlash against highway bureaucracy that stymied road building for decades. Yet Ingram shows that after the Dixie Highway, the region was never the same.
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