Feminism's Fight

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

• Part 1: Challenging Dominant Paradigms1 From the Status of Women to Gender Justice for Women / Barbara Cameron and Meg Luxton2 Sex Discrimination in the Indian Act: A Tool of Forced Assimilation / Shelagh Day and Pamela PalmaterPart 2: Reclaiming the Economy3 Feminism Meets Macroeconomic Policy / Barbara Cameron4 Never Done: The Challenge of Unpaid Work in the Home / Meg Luxton5 Fifty Years for Farm Women: Gender and Shifting Agricultural Policy Paradigms in Canada / Amber J. FletcherPart 3: Reimagining Policy6 Policy Discourses on Sexual Violence: From the Royal Commission to the (Post-)Neoliberal State / Lise Gotell7 Responsibility and Reproduction after the Royal Commission / Alana Cattapan8 The Royal Commission and Immigration and Citizenship: A Missed Opportunity? / Christina Gabriel9 Securing Income, Sustaining Livelihoods: Th e Royal Commission, Social Reproduction, and Income Security / Ann PorterPart 4: Reframing Representation10 Strategic, Cynical, and Sinister Representation: Reconceptualizing and Recasting Women's Representation / Alexandra Dobrowolsky11 The Royal Commission and Unions: Leadership, Equality, Women's Organizing, and Collective Agency / Linda BriskinPart 5: Reforming Institutions12 Equality Instituted? Gender Equity, Women's Rights, and Human Rights Commissions / Nicole S. Bernhardt13 Federalism for the Twenty-First Century: Feminism and Multilevel Governance in Canada / Tammy FindlayIndex