Browsing by Subject "Women -- Nova Scotia -- Societies and clubs"

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Associational activity as a route to public office : women in Nova Scotia municipal politics

Vom Scheidt, Kristel, 1980- (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2007)

This study examines the experiences of seven individual women who have been key players in municipal government in Nova Scotia. Through in-depth, one-on-one interviews I investigated women's participation in voluntary ...
The power of resistance : women's organizations and institutional restorative justice in Nova Scotia

Nelund, Amanda (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2010)

This thesis interrogates a case of feminist engagement with the state in order to grapple with the research question: where do women's organizations fit in contemporary conditions of governance? The case under study involved ...
Women's centres and women's alternative services in Nova Scotia : resisting multiple-state pressures to de-politicize

Harper, Lucille (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, Mount Saint Vincent University, Dalhousie University., 2003)

Since 1965, feminist social activism has seeded numerous feminist social movement organizations in Nova Scotia and across Canada--women's coalitions, social advocacy groups, political caucuses, women's centres, and women's ...

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