Challenging times : the women's movement in Canada and the United States

Challenging times : the women's movement in Canada and the United States / edited by Constance Backhouse and David H. Flaherty.

By allowing the reader to draw comparisons between women's movements in Canada and the United States, Challenging Times shows that certain political and theoretical issues transcend international borders, ebbing and flowing between the two countries symbiotically. Topics discussed include the o...

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Other Authors: Backhouse, Constance, 1952- (Editor), Flaherty, David H. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Montreal, Que. : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1992.
Subjects:
Feminism > Canada.
Feminism > United States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Feminism & Feminist Theory.
Feminism
Canada
United States
Conference papers and proceedings
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Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Contributors
  • Abbreviations
  • 1 The Contemporary Women's Movements in Canada and the United States: An Introduction
  • PART ONE: THE ORIGINS OF THE CONTEMPORARY WOMEN'S MOVEMENT IN CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES
  • 2 The Royal Commission on the Status of Women in Canada: Twenty Years Later
  • 3 The Intellectual Origins of the Women's Movements in Canada
  • 4 The Women's Movement in the United States in the 1960s
  • 5 The Origins of the Women's Movement in Quebec
  • PART TWO: THE DEVELOPMENT AND INTERACTIONS OF THE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT IN CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES SINCE THE 1960s6 Ripples in the Second Wave: Comparing the Contemporary Women's Movement in Canada and the United States
  • 7 The Perspectives of Quebec Feminists
  • PART THREE: THE INTERRELATIONSHIP OF ACADEMIC AND ACTIVIST FEMINISM
  • 8 Not Always an Easy Alliance: The Relationship between Women's Studies and the Women's Movement in Canada
  • 9 Exclusions and the Process of Empowerment: The Case for Feminist Scholarship
  • 10 What Is the Interrelationship between Academic and Activist Feminism?PART FOUR: RACISM AND THE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT
  • 11 Racism and Anti-Racism in Feminist Teaching and Research
  • 12 A House Divided: Women of Colour and American Feminist Theory
  • 13 Beyond the White Veil
  • PART FIVE: VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
  • 14 Feminist Approaches to Sexual Assault in Canada and the United States: A Brief Retrospective
  • 15 The Violence We Women Do: A First Nations View
  • PART SIX: WOMEN AND THE ECONOMY
  • 16 Women and the American Economy
  • 17 The Canadian Women's Movement and Its Efforts to Influence the Canadian Economy18 Affirmative Action and Women's Rights in the Reign of Chief Justice William Rehnquist
  • PART SEVEN: REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS
  • 19 Feminist Philosophical Reflections on Reproductive Rights in Canada
  • 20 A Chill Wind Blows: Class, Ideology and the Reproductive Dilemma
  • PART EIGHT: ALTERNATIVE VISIONS OF A FEMINIST FUTURE
  • 21 That Which Divides Us; That Which Unites Us
  • Notes
  • Index
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