Flows and Ebbs: Assessing the Representational Claims of Women Leadership Candidates in Canada.

This paper takes up the challenge of studying representational dynamics with reference to feminist and anti-feminist movements outside the United States, and of examining participation in contexts other than legislatures. It considers claims-making by women party elites in Canada, where the political landscape has featured both organized feminism and anti-feminism since the early 1970s and mid-1980s, respectively. In particular, the study examines the public campaign statements of candidates for the leadership of major federal parties in the period 1975 through 2006, paying close attention to relations between these positions, on one side, and the changing fortunes of feminist and anti-feminist movements, on the other. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]