Miriam Smith, "Social Movements and Human Rights:Gender, Sexuality and the Charter in English-Speaking Canada
1. Smith asks a series of question sin the first paragraph of her chapter.What answers does she provide over the course of her chapter? Are these useful/important questions... and answers???
2. What is historical institutionalism? Is this a helpful tool for analysis? In what ways? What are its limitations?
3. Smith argues that the relationship is interactive. How has the women's movement social mobilization shaped political institutions and public policy? What institutions? What policies? How has the policy and legal framing of human rights influenced the women's movement?
4. How has the relationship between political institutions, social movements and policy legacies played out in the LGBT movement?