Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface ix
4. Contributors xi
5. Abbreviations xv
6. The Contemporary Women’s Movements in Canada and the United States: An Introduction 1
7. The Origins of the Contemporary Women’s Movement in Canada and the United States
8. The Royal Commission on the Status of Women in Canada: Twenty Years Later 21
9. The Intellectual Origins of the Women’s Movements in Canada 39
10. The Women’s Movement in the United States in the 19605 61
11. The Origins of the Women’s Movement in Quebec 72
12. The Development and Interactions of the Women’s Movement in Canada and the United States since the 1960s
13. Ripples in the Second Wave: Comparing the Contemporary Women’s Movement in Canada and the United States 94
14. The Perspectives of Quebec Feminists 110
15. The Interrelationship of Academic and Activist Feminism
16. Not Always an Easy Alliance: The Relationship between Women’s Studies and the Women’s Movement in Canada 120
17. Exclusions and the Process of Empowerment: The Case for Feminist Scholarship 136
18. What Is the Interrelationship between Academic and Activist Feminism? 150
19. Racism and the Women’s Movement
20. Racism and Anti-Racism in Feminist Teaching and Research 160
21. A House Divided: Women of Colour and American Feminist Theory 165
22. Beyond the White Veil 175
23. Violence against Women
24. Feminist Approaches to Sexual Assault in Canada and the United States: A Brief Retrospective 186
25. The Violence We Women Do: A First Nations View 193
26. Women and the Economy
27. Women and the American Economy 205
28. The Canadian Women’s Movement and Its Efforts to Influence the Canadian Economy 215
29. Affirmative Action and Women’s Rights in the Reign of Chief Justice William Rehnquist 225
30. Reproductive Rights
31. Feminist Philosophical Reflections on Reproductive Rights in Canada 240
32. A Chill Wind Blows: Class, Ideology, and the Reproductive Dilemma 252
33. Alternative Visions of a Feminist Future
34. That Which Divides Us; That Which Unites Us 271
35. Notes 289
36. Index 327