Publisher's Synopsis
Toeing the Lines is the only book to examine the political history, attitudes, and participation of women in English Canadian parties. It reviews the background to female enfranchisement as well as efforts to win the right to hold public office, sit in the senate, and entrench equality rights in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The book argues that relatively few women are active at elite levels in political parties, particularly in those parties that hold power or are in a competitive position in the opposition.
