Feminism's Fight: Challenging Politics and Policies in Canada Since 1970

Contents: Part 1: Challenging Dominant Paradigms, 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 -- Part 2: Reclaiming the Economy. 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. Part 3: Reimagining Policy. 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. Part 4: Reframing Representation. 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. Part 5: Reforming Institutions. 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.