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This article suggests that the nature of the neoliberal state needs to be more fully explored. Our research on two regional welfare policies in Canada over the past three decades reveals that neoliberal regional states can differ quite remarkably in how they include or exclude their poorer citizens from receiving welfare. By exploring the dramatic changes to welfare in British Columbia and Ontario, we argue that the former follows a “purer” neoliberal model of reduced state involvement and fewer state actors, while the latter increases state expenditure and hires new staff to micromanage the poor. We attempt to explain these differences with attention to historical and contemporary political and religious cultures that deeply affect class, gender, and race relations.

In lieu of an abst ract , here is a brief excerpt of t he cont ent :Book Re vie ws 6 53 Re vivals and Rolle r Rinks : Re lig ion, Le is ure and Ide ntity in Late -Nine te e nth Ce ntury S mall-Town Ontario. LYNNE MARKS . S tudie s in G e nde r and His tory. Toronto: Unive rs ity ofToronto Pre s s 19 9 6 . Pp. xxiv, 330 , illus . $55.0 0 cloth, $19 .9 5 pape r A fat lady on rolle r s kate s about to s lam into a we e dy cle ric was a cartoon from Britain's 'rinkomania' that nice ly e ncaps ulate s the the me s of this book. Le is ure and re lig ionthe s e cular and the s acre d various ly collude and collide . S o too do the s e xe s (for this initiate s a ne w s e rie s , S tudie s in G e nde r and His tory), thoug h the comic imag e inve rts the re al dis pos ition of cultural we ig ht in Revivals and Roller Rinks: Religion, Leisure and Identity in Late-Nineteenth Century Small-Town Ontario by Lynne Marks. ABOUT Publishers Discovery Part ners Advisory Board Journal Subscribers Access options available: Download PDF Share Social Media Recommend Project MUSE MissionProject MUSE promot es t he creat ion and disseminat ion of essent ial humanit ies and social science resources t hrough collaborat ion wit h libraries, publishers, and scholars worldwide. Forged from a part nership bet ween a universit y press and a library, Project MUSE is a t rust ed part of t he academic and scholarly communit y it serves. Ent er Email Address SendGoet he's Wert her. Dead art ist s, live t heories, and ot her cult ural problems, int eract ionism irradiat es nonst at ionary fusion.This we bs ite us e s cookie s to e ns ure you g e t the be s t e xpe rie nce on our we bs ite . Without cookie s your e xpe rie nce may not be s e amle s s .

Readers of left history may well have experienced a number of disorienting sensations: watching media coverage of a political event or demonstration one attended which completely distorts what one observed, or reading reviews of one's own book and finding it unrecognizable. Reading Joan Sangster's "Beyond Dichotomies" had a bit ofthe same effect. Canadian women's history, and its relationship to the emerging field of gender history, as we have studied it, taught it, and written it is -from Sangster's presentation -barely recognizable. We suppose we are among the members of the "younger, more hip generation" (counterposed, presumably, to the sober socialist feminist), whose "consumer choice" Sangster decries. And so we welcome the opportunity to tell our version of the story.Perhaps the most disappointing aspect ofSangster's polemic is the narrowness of her vision. Despite what we are going to say about the dreariness of our political conjuncture, we want to argue that this is actually a great time for feminist history. By feminist history we include much (but certainly not all) of what has been written by women's historians, gender historians, and indeed any historians who incorporate a concern with and analysis of issues of gender and other forms ofpower and oppression within their work.