Record Nr.

UNINA9910454480803321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Montreal ; ; Buffalo, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1992

ISBN

1-282-85596-4

9786612855962

0-7735-6342-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (352 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BackhouseConstance <1952->

FlahertyDavid H

Disciplina

305.42/0971

Soggetti

Feminism - Canada

Feminism - United States

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; 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; PART TWO: THE DEVELOPMENT AND INTERACTIONS OF THE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT IN CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES SINCE THE 1960's; PART THREE: THE INTERRELATIONSHIP OF ACADEMIC AND ACTIVIST FEMINISM; PART FOUR: RACISM AND THE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT; PART FIVE: VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN; PART SIX: WOMEN AND THE ECONOMY; PART SEVEN: REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS

PART EIGHT: ALTERNATIVE VISIONS OF A FEMINIST FUTURE Notes; Index; 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 1960's; 5 The Origins of the Women's Movement in Quebec; 6 Ripples in the Second Wave: Comparing the Contemporary Women's Movement in Canada and the United States; 7 The Perspectives of

Quebec Feminists; 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?; 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; 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; 16 Women and the American Economy; 17 The Canadian Women's Movement and Its Efforts to Influence the Canadian Economy

18 Affirmative Action and Women's Rights in the Reign of Chief Justice William Rehnquist19 Feminist Philosophical Reflections on Reproductive Rights in Canada; 20 A Chill Wind Blows: Class, Ideology and the Reproductive Dilemma; 21 That Which Divides Us; That Which Unites Us;