Social Science Feminism & Feminist Theory
Feminism’s Fight
Challenging Politics and Policies in Canada since 1970
- Publisher
- UBC Press
- Initial publish date
- Jun 2023
- Category
- Feminism & Feminist Theory, Women's Studies, Social Policy, Activism & Social Justice
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780774868037
- Publish Date
- Jun 2023
- List Price
- $99.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780774868068
- Publish Date
- Jun 2023
- List Price
- $37.95
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780774868044
- Publish Date
- Feb 2024
- List Price
- $37.95
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Description
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.
About the authors
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Department of Equity Studies, York University and Research Partner in the SSHRC-CURA Research Project “Reconceiving Human Rights Practice,” online: www.socialrightscura.ca.
Barbara Cameron's profile page
Meg Luxton is Professor in the School of Social Sciences and the Women's Studies Program at Atkinson College, York University. She is Director of the Graduate Program in Women's Studies and has published widely, with several highly acclaimed books and articles on the women's movement; women's work, paid and unpaid; and relations among work, family, and class. Her current research examines the impact of social policy on informal caregiving practices.
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