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• Title:Feminism's fight : challenging politics and policies in Canada since 1970 / edited by Barbara Cameron and Meg Luxton.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Cameron, Barbara, 1946- editor.
  Luxton, Meg, editor.
  
• Published/Created:Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press, [2023]
  ©2023
  

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  • Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: HQ1236.5.C2 F46 2023
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

  • Location:RBSC ASRS - (Confirm availability: email rare.books@ubc.ca) Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: HQ1236.5.C2 F46 2023
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Women's rights--Canada.
  Women--Government policy--Canada.
  Women--Legal status, laws, etc.--Canada.
  Women--Political activity--Canada.
  Women--Canada--Social conditions.
  Feminism--Canada--History.
  
• Description:viii, 378 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
  
• Summary:"Feminism's Fight explores and assesses feminist strategies to advance gender justice through Canadian federal policy from the 1970s to the present. It tells the crucial story of a transformation in how feminism has been treated by governments and asks how new ways of organizing and emerging alliances can advance a feminist agenda of social and economic equality. This timely collection examines the ideas that feminists have put forward in pursuit of the goal of equality and traces the shifting frameworks employed by governments in response. The authors evaluate changing government orientations through the 1970s to 2020, revealing the negative impact on women's lives and the challenges posed for feminists. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the sexism, misogyny, and related systemic inequalities that remain widespread. Yet it has also revived feminist mobilization and animated calls for a new and comprehensive equality agenda for Canada. Feminism's Fight asks two key questions: What are the lessons from feminist engagement with federal government policy over fifty years? And what kinds of transformative policy demands will achieve the feminist goal of social and economic equality?"-- Provided by publisher.
  
• Additional formats:Issued also in electronic formats.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780774868037 (hardcover)
  0774868031 (hardcover)
  9780774868044 (softcover)
  077486804X (softcover)
  
• Contents:From the Status of Women to Gender Justice for Women / Barbara Cameron and Meg Luxton
  Sex Discrimination in the Indian Act: A Tool of Forced Assimilation / Shelagh Day and Pamela Palmater
  Feminism Meets Macroeconomic Policy / Barbara Cameron
  Never Done: The Challenge of Unpaid Work in the Home / Meg Luxton
  Fifty Years for Farm Women: Gender and Shifting Agricultural Policy Paradigms in Canada / Amber J. Fletcher
  Policy Discourses on Sexual Violence: From the Royal Commission to the (Post-)Neoliberal State / Lise Gotell
  Responsibility and Reproduction after the Royal Commission / Alana Cattapan
  The Royal Commission and Immigration and Citizenship: A Missed Opportunity? / Christina Gabriel
  Securing Income, Sustaining Livelihoods: The Royal Commission, Social Reproduction, and Income Security / Ann Porter
  Strategic, Cynical, and Sinister Representation: Reconceptualizing and Recasting Women's Representation / Alexandra Dobrowolsky
  The Royal Commission and Unions: Leadership, Equality, Women's Organizing, and Collective Agency / Linda Briskin
  Equality Instituted? Gender Equity, Women's Rights, and Human Rights Commissions / Nicole S. Bernhardt
  Federalism for the Twenty-First Century: Feminism and Multilevel Governance in Canada / Tammy Findlay.