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Challenging Times : The Women's Movement in Canada and the United States.
Title:
Challenging Times : The Women's Movement in Canada and the United States.
Author:
Backhouse, Constance.
ISBN:
9780773563421
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (352 pages)
Contents:
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 -- 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 1960s -- 5 The Origins of the Women's Movement in Quebec -- PART TWO: THE DEVELOPMENT AND INTERACTIONS OF THE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT IN CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES SINCE THE 1960s -- 6 Ripples in the Second Wave: Comparing the Contemporary Women's Movement in Canada and the United States -- 7 The Perspectives of Quebec Feminists -- PART THREE: THE INTERRELATIONSHIP OF ACADEMIC AND ACTIVIST FEMINISM -- 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? -- PART FOUR: RACISM AND THE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT -- 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 -- PART FIVE: VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN -- 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 -- PART SIX: WOMEN AND THE ECONOMY -- 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 -- PART SEVEN: REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS -- 19 Feminist Philosophical Reflections on Reproductive Rights in Canada.

20 A Chill Wind Blows: Class, Ideology and the Reproductive Dilemma -- PART EIGHT: ALTERNATIVE VISIONS OF A FEMINIST FUTURE -- 21 That Which Divides Us -- That Which Unites Us -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
Challenging Times offers a provocative and detailed overview of feminist movements in Canada and the United States. Through a series of essays that offer innovative interpretations and careful, original scholarship, Constance Backhouse, David Flaherty, and the contributing authors compare and contrast the emergence and advancement of feminism in the two countries, taking care to explore both francophone and anglo-phone communities.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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