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Gender-based violence in politics is a significant and growing problem that threatens the democratic process in Canada. Despite its prevalence, little academic research has been conducted on this topic to date. Gender-Based Violence in Canadian Politics in the #MeToo Era raises awareness of and presents new innovative research on this timely and pressing public issue. Here, leading experts from across Canada uncover critical new insights and identify potential solutions that would help address gender-based violence in politics, improve gender equality, and strengthen Canadian democracy. Using an intersectional lens, chapters range in their approaches; offer new concepts and measures of gender-based violence in online political spaces, political media coverage and cartoons, campaigns, municipal politics, and legislatures; and explore Indigenous ways of knowing about gender-based violence in Canadian politics. Additionally, the volume presents recommendations for decision-makers, policymakers, anti-violence advocates, and the academic community on how to best address the problem of gender-based violence in the political sphere.

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"""Advancing global debates on violence against women in politics, this path-breaking volume explores efforts to undermine the political participation of people who do not conform to traditional gender norms. Focusing on both formal and informal political spaces, the authors highlight how gender-based harassment poses serious threats to equality and democracy, even in well-established democratic regimes. Adopting an explicitly intersectional approach, the chapters offer novel theoretical insights and empirical findings, and present a wide range of solutions and actions for combatting this urgent problem.""--Mona Lena Krook, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University ""Carefully curated by leading scholars, this volume presents a wealth of new research, advancing Canadian-specific empirical data and providing new intersectional conceptualizations of gender-based violence in politics. Anchored in an 'established' Westminster democracy and settler-colonial state, and framed by the #MeToo movement, it advances the global scholarship on political violence in an era where gendered political violence challenges women's voices and political gains.""--Sarah Childs, Professor of Politics and Gender, University of Edinburgh ""This book effectively highlights how the increased prevalence of gender-based violence in politics (GBV-P) parallels the increasingly diverse roles that women and others are playing in the Canadian political sphere. The range of methodological approaches and a deliberate intersectional focus make this collection a valuable contribution that will inform research for years to come. The recommendations provide guidance on how GBV-P can be called out and potentially prevented, thereby reducing an important deterrent to future political office-seekers and political actors.""--Joanna Everitt, Professor of Political Science, University of New Brunswick, Saint John"

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Tracey Raney is a professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Toronto Metropolitan University. Cheryl N. Collier is a professor of political science and Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at the University of Windsor.

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