Doing Politics Differently?
Women Premiers in Canada’s Provinces and Territories
Distributed for University of British Columbia Press
Doing Politics Differently?
Women Premiers in Canada’s Provinces and Territories
332 pages

Table of Contents
1 Exploring Women’s Leadership / Sylvia Bashevkin
Part 1: The Territories
2 “Never in My Life Did I Do Anything Alone”: Nellie Cournoyea as Premier of the Northwest Territories / Graham White
3 Pat Duncan, Yukon’s Accidental Premier / Maura Forrest
4 Eva Aariak: Strong Nunavut Leader, Reluctant Politician / Sheena Kennedy Dalseg
Part 2: Atlantic Canada
5 Striking a Balance: Catherine Callbeck as Premier of Prince Edward Island / Don Desserud and Robin Sutherland
6 In the Wake of Male Charisma: Kathy Dunderdale and the Status of Women in Newfoundland and Labrador Politics / Drew Brown, Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant, and Amanda Bittner
Part 3: Central Canada
7 Pauline Marois’s Paradoxical Record as Quebec Premier / Philippe Bernier Arcand
8 Activist Outsider Becomes Partisan Insider: Kathleen Wynne as Ontario Premier / Sylvia Bashevkin
Part 4: Western Canada
9 Rita Johnston and Christy Clark as British Columbia Premiers / Tracy Summerville
10 Women and Politics in Alberta under Alison Redford / Clark Banack
11 Governing as if Women Mattered: Rachel Notley as Alberta Premier / Melanee Thomas
Part 5: Drawing Conclusions
12 Doing Politics Differently? / Sylvia Bashevkin
Contributors; Index
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