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

• Pubblicazione: Montreal ; ; Buffalo : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , 1992; ©1992
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvi, 335 pages)
• Disciplina: 305.42/0971
• Soggetto topico: Feminism - Canada; Feminism - United States
• Altri autori: BackhouseConstance <1952-> FlahertyDavid H
• 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 Rehnquist; 19 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 origins of "second-stage feminism," the strength of the women's movement within academic structures, and the challenges posed by racial, ethnic, and class diversity; violence against women; the promise and limits of legal reform; reproductive technology; and economic discrimination. Readers who are interested in the recent history of the North American women's movement will find answers to many of their questions about the victories, defeats, and fundamental challenges facing modern feminism. Those who have been active in the current wave of feminism, either as central participants or serious critics, will find Challenging Times equally fascinating because it endeavours to provide answers to pressing questions about the nature of feminism, the inter-relationships and tensions between different sectors of the movement, and the prospects for future growth. Many of the contributors to this volume have lived through and personally shaped the unfolding of the rich history of North American feminism. In addition to Backhouse and Flaherty, the contributors are Catharine A. MacKinnon, Greta Hofmann Nemiroff, Monique Bégin, Mariana Valverde, Naomi Black, Marjorie Griffin Cohen, Micheline de Sève, Micheline Dumont, Margrit Eichler, Sara M. Evans, Marianne A. Ferber, Lorraine Greaves, Marjorie Heins, M. Patricia Fernández Kelly, Patricia A. Monture-Okanee, Arun Mukherjee, Jean F. O'Barr, Christine Overall, Glenda Simms, and Jill Vickers.
• Titolo autorizzato: Challenging times
• ISBN: 1-282-85596-4; 9786612855962; 0-7735-6342-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910782625503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II