Dancing Backwards: A Social History of Women in Canadian Politics

by Sharon Carstairs, Tim Higgins, Sharon;Higgins Tim Carstairs

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1896150306
• ISBN13: 9781896150307
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Heartland Publications
• Length: 351 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.

Customer Reviews

An Excellent Read

"Dancing Backwards", cowritten by Sharon Carstairs and Tim Higgins, bothof Winnipeg, is an excellent book covering a very interesting andimportant period of change in Canadian politics, a period that is stillevolving and becoming even more important as time goes on, and morewomen become active in the governing of our country, (as they should be, Isuggest). It deserves wide attention.

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This is the story of the determined and difficult assault by women on the male-dominated citadel of Canadian politics.  Combining profiles of twenty-eight remarkable women who have achieved political firsts with a richly detailed, immensely readable history of Canadian life over the last century, Dancing Backwards, will change the way you look at Canadian history.