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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452512803321

Titolo

Women's organizing and public policy in Canada and Sweden [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Linda Briskin and Mona Eliasson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal ; ; London ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1999

ISBN

1-282-85812-2

9786612858123

0-7735-6789-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (407 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BriskinLinda <1949->

EliassonMona

Disciplina

305.4/0971

Soggetti

Women - Government policy - Canada

Women - Government policy - Sweden

Women - Social networks - Canada

Women - Social networks - Sweden

Women - Sweden - Social conditions

Women - Canada - Social conditions

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro; Contents; Preface: Collaboration and Comparison; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Mapping Women's Organizing in Sweden and Canada: Some Thematic Considerations; PART ONE: NATIONAL BOUNDARIES UNDER CHALLENGE; PART TWO: ORGANIZING CONTEXTS; PART THREE: DOMESTIC POLICY; Index; Women's Response to Economic and Political Integration in Canada and Sweden; Women's Organizing and Immigration: Comparing the Canadian and Swedish Experiences; Representing Women's Interests in the Policy Process: Women's Organizing and State Initiatives in Sweden and Canada, 1960s-1990s

Unions and Women's Organizing in Canada and SwedenLooking for New Opportunities in Politics: Women's Organizations and the Political Parties in Canada and Sweden; Education, Gender Equality, and Women's Organizing in Canada and Sweden; ""Both Wage Earner and



Mother"": Women's Organizing and Childcare Policy in Sweden and Canada; Organizing to Stop Violence against Women in Canada and Sweden; Normalization versus Diversity: Lesbian Identity and Organizing in Sweden and Canada; Organized for Health: Women's Activism in Canada and Sweden; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S

TU; V; W