the women's movement in Canada and the United States /
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by Constance Backhouse and David H. Flaherty
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xvi, 335 pages ;
Dimensions
24 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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Beyond the white veil / Glenda Simms -- Feminist approaches to sexual assault in Canada and the United States : a brief retrospective / Catharine A. Mackinnon -- The violence we women do : a first nations view / Patricia A. Monture-Okanee -- Women and the American economy / Marianne A. Ferber -- The Canadian women's movement and its efforts to influence the Canadian economy / Marjorie Griffin Cohen -- Affirmative action and women's rights in the reign of Chief Justice William Rehnquist / Marjorie Heins -- Feminist philosophical reflections on reproductive rights in Canada / Christine Overall -- A chill wind blows : class, ideology, and the reproductive dilemma / M. Patricia Fernández Kelly -- That which divides us, that which unites us / Greta Hofmann Nemiroff
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The contemporary women's movements in Canada and the United States : an introduction / Constance Backhouse -- The Royal Commission on the Status of Women in Canada : twenty years later / Monique Bégin -- The intellectual origins of the women's movements in Canada / Jill Vickers -- The women's movement in the United States in the 1960s / Sara M. Evans -- The origins of the women's movement in Quebec / Micheline Dumont -- Ripples in the second wave : comparing the contemporary women's movement in Canada and the United States / Naomi Black -- The perspectives of Quebec feminists / Micheline de Sève -- Not always an easy alliance : the relationship between women's studies and the women's movement in Canada / Margrit Eichler -- Exclusions and the process of empowerment : the case for feminist scholarship / Jean F. O'Barr -- What is the interrelationship between academic and activist feminism? / Lorraine Greaves -- Racism and anti-racism in feminist teaching and research / Mariana Valverde -- A house divided : women of colour and American feminist theory / Arun Mukherjee