Feminism’s Fight: Challenging Politics and Policies in Canada since 1970 - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 077486804X ISBN 13: 9780774868044

Publisher: UBC Press, 2024

Synopsis

Feminism’s Fight explores and assesses feminist strategies to advance gender justice for women through Canadian federal policy over the past fifty years, from the 1970 Report of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women to the present.

The authors evaluate changing government orientations through the 1990s and 2000s, revealing the negative impact on most women’s lives and the challenges for feminists. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated misogyny and related systemic inequalities. Yet it has also revived feminist mobilization and animated calls for a new and comprehensive equality agenda for Canada.

Feminism’s Fight tells the crucial story of a transformation in how feminism has been treated by governments and asks how new ways of organizing and new alliances can advance a feminist agenda of social and economic equality.

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About the Author

Barbara Cameron is an associate professor in the Department of Politics at York University and a research associate at York’s Centre for Feminist Research. She has served on the Steering Committee of the Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action since 2008. Meg Luxton is a professor in the School of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at York University. She has served as director of the graduate program in Women’s Studies/Gender, Feminist, and Women’s Studies and of the Centre for Feminist Research. Her publications include More Than a Labour of Love: Three Generations of Women’s Work in the Home and (with Susan Braedley) Neoliberalism and Everyday Life.

Contributors: Nicole S. Bernhardt, Linda Briskin, Barbara Cameron, Alana Cattapan, Shelagh Day, Alexandra Dobrowolsky, Tammy Findlay, Amber J. Fletcher, Christina Gabriel, Lise Gotell, Meg Luxton, Pamela Palmater, Ann Porter

Edition details

• Publisher: UBC Press
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 077486804X
• ISBN 13: 9780774868044
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 392
• Editor: Cameron Barbara, Luxton Meg