Challenging times [[electronic resource] ] : 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, c1992
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (352 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.42/0971
• Soggetto topico: Feminism - Canada; Feminism - United States
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: BackhouseConstance <1952-> FlahertyDavid H
• 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
• 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.: 9910454480803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II