From the mid-1960s to the mid-80s, feminist activism in North America and Europe reached its peak, animated by a disparate array of issues and ideas. Frontiers of Feminism compares Québécois and Italian feminisms, revealing both the synergy between feminism and the left and the influence of American and French women’s movements on those in Québec and Italy. Revisiting struggles such as abortion, health and sexuality, wages for housework, and the quest for autonomy from masculine thought, Jacinthe Michaud brings an international perspective to major feminist themes, strategies, and modes of organizing.

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Jacinthe Michaud is a professor and former chair of the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at York University. She is the author of Conscience subalterne, conscience identitaire: La voix des femmes assistées au sein des organisations féministes et communautaires and numerous articles.

Jacinthe Michaud, a professor at York University, writes a history of feminism in Quebec and Italy that captures women’s exuberant hopes in a turbulent decade—in all their messy complexity.

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