Feminism’s Fight

Challenging Politics and Policies in Canada since 1970

Edited by Barbara Cameron & Meg Luxton
Categories: Gender & Sexuality Studies, Women’s Studies, Political Science, Public & Social Policy, History
Publisher: UBC Press
Hardcover : 9780774868037, 392 pages, June 2023
Ebook (PDF) : 9780774868051, 392 pages, June 2023
Ebook (EPUB) : 9780774868068, 392 pages, June 2023
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Table of contents

Part 1: Challenging Dominant Paradigms

1 From the Status of Women to Gender Justice for Women / Barbara Cameron and Meg Luxton

2 Sex Discrimination in the Indian Act: A Tool of Forced Assimilation / Shelagh Day and Pamela Palmater

Part 2: Reclaiming the Economy

3 Feminism Meets Macroeconomic Policy / Barbara Cameron

4 Never Done: The Challenge of Unpaid Work in the Home / Meg Luxton

5 Fifty Years for Farm Women: Gender and Shifting Agricultural Policy Paradigms in Canada / Amber J. Fletcher

Part 3: Reimagining Policy

6 Policy Discourses on Sexual Violence: From the Royal Commission to the (Post-)Neoliberal State / Lise Gotell

7 Responsibility and Reproduction after the Royal Commission / Alana Cattapan

8 The Royal Commission and Immigration and Citizenship: A Missed Opportunity? / Christina Gabriel

9 Securing Income, Sustaining Livelihoods: Th e Royal Commission, Social Reproduction, and Income Security / Ann Porter

Part 4: Reframing Representation

10 Strategic, Cynical, and Sinister Representation: Reconceptualizing and Recasting Women’s Representation / Alexandra Dobrowolsky

11 The Royal Commission and Unions: Leadership, Equality, Women’s Organizing, and Collective Agency / Linda Briskin

Part 5: Reforming Institutions

12 Equality Instituted? Gender Equity, Women’s Rights, and Human Rights Commissions / Nicole S. Bernhardt

13 Federalism for the Twenty-First Century: Feminism and Multilevel Governance in Canada / Tammy Findlay

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Description

Feminism’s Fight explores and assesses feminist strategies to advance gender justice for women through Canadian federal policy over the past fifty years, from the 1970 Report of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women to the present. This timely collection tells the crucial story of a transformation in how feminism has been treated by governments and asks how new ways of organizing and new alliances can advance a transformative feminist policy agenda of social and economic equality.