Archive for December, 2010

A Question of Commitment: Children’s Rights in Canada

R. Brian Howe and Katherine Covell, editors

Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

“Each chapter provides not only an evaluation of Canada’s commitment but also an interpretation of how the standards articulated in the CRC [United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child] might be applied to particular areas of policy and practice…. It should be noted that the book contains a copy of the CRC, allowing for convenient consideration of the specific articles and wording referred to by chapter authors… [The book] demonstrates how rights-based policy and practice with children is complicated by issues of family privace, historical precedent, cultural differences, government organization, and economic conditions.”

— Megan Nordquest Schwallie, University of Chicago, Ethics and Social Welfare

The Challenge of Children’s Rights for Canada

Katherine Covell and R. Brian Howe

Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

Shortlisted for the 2001 Canadian Policy Research Outstanding Research Contribution Award
Shortlisted for the 2001 Donald Smiley Prize

“Covell and Howe present a comprehensive, well-researched critique of Canada’s implementation of the UN Convention. They highlight the consequences of not recognizing, and making allowances for children’s rights. They use statistical and anecdotal evidence to directly link many prevalent social problems to the current state of children’s rights….This illumination of the problems, accompanied by a strategy for change, makes this book both timely and necessary.”

— Dan Kolenick, Saskatchewan Law Review

Peter Eglin and Stephen Hester

“This is an extraordinary book. The meticulous analysis of the categories used in stories and of reflections on the Montreal Massacre is both highly original and a model of what ethnomethodology can contribute to the analysis of the media. At the same time, the scope of the study and the range of materials it draws on recover for the reader an event that reverberated widely in Canada and bring alive again a singularly painful passage in the struggle against violence against women.”

— Dorothy Smith, OISE, University of Toronto, author of Writing the Social: Critique, Theory, and Investigations

Theresa O’Donovan

“O’Donovan offers valuable food for thought, particularly regarding the media’s interpretation of the Massacre. Tightly written gems reflect on how television makes events real in our culture and describe what O’Donovan refers to as ‘the myth of a coherent society…. For any Canadian feminist, particularly those for whom the Montreal Massacre was formative, chapters 2 to 4 are must-reads.”

— Shawna Dempsey, Herizons