Overview

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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Author:   Barbara Cameron ,  Meg Luxton
Publisher:   University of British Columbia Press
Imprint:   University of British Columbia Press
Weight:   0.580kg
ISBN:  

9780774868044

ISBN 10:   077486804
Pages:   392
Publication Date:   01 February 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Part 1: Challenging Dominant Paradigms 1 From the Status of Women to Gender Justice for Women / Barbara Cameron and Meg Luxton 2 Sex Discrimination in the Indian Act: A Tool of Forced Assimilation / Shelagh Day and Pamela Palmater Part 2: Reclaiming the Economy 3 Feminism Meets Macroeconomic Policy / Barbara Cameron 4 Never Done: The Challenge of Unpaid Work in the Home / Meg Luxton 5 Fifty Years for Farm Women: Gender and Shifting Agricultural Policy Paradigms in Canada / Amber J. Fletcher Part 3: Reimagining Policy 6 Policy Discourses on Sexual Violence: From the Royal Commission to the (Post-)Neoliberal State / Lise Gotell 7 Responsibility and Reproduction after the Royal Commission / Alana Cattapan 8 The Royal Commission and Immigration and Citizenship: A Missed Opportunity? / Christina Gabriel 9 Securing Income, Sustaining Livelihoods: Th e Royal Commission, Social Reproduction, and Income Security / Ann Porter Part 4: Reframing Representation 10 Strategic, Cynical, and Sinister Representation: Reconceptualizing and Recasting Women’s Representation / Alexandra Dobrowolsky 11 The Royal Commission and Unions: Leadership, Equality, Women’s Organizing, and Collective Agency / Linda Briskin Part 5: Reforming Institutions 12 Equality Instituted? Gender Equity, Women’s Rights, and Human Rights Commissions / Nicole S. Bernhardt 13 Federalism for the Twenty-First Century: Feminism and Multilevel Governance in Canada / Tammy Findlay Index

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"""The fiftieth anniversary of the report of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women coincided with the COVID-19 pandemic, which exposed the persistence of the unequal socio-political systems investigated by the commission. Feminism's Fight offers a stocktaking of the period since the RCSW, exploring the often troublesome legacy of the commission. Many of the contributions adopt an intersectional and/or anti-colonial lens, drawing on the best of feminist scholarship to offer a balanced assessment of the lasting impact of the RCSW. The book is a must-read for anyone interested in gender and politics in Canada and beyond.""-- ""Stephanie L. Paterson, professor, Political Science, Concordia University"""

Author Information

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

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