Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction xi
5. Introduction xix
6. Reminiscences and Reflections on the Twentieth Anniversary of the Commission’s Report1 3
7. The Canadian Government and the Commission’s Report1 12
8. State Initiatives: Impetus and Effects 27
9. Do State Initiatives Make a Difference? 52
10. Patriarchy and Paternalism: The Legacy of the Canadian State for First Nations Women 64
11. The Canadian State and Indian Women: The Struggle for Sex Equality Under the Indian Act 79
12. Indian Women, Sex Equality, and the Charter 89
13. Families and Family Law 104
14. Feminist Interventions and State Policy 110
15. Pay Equity in Manitoba 116
16. Pay Equity: Not Just a Matter of Money 122
17. Pay Equity in Quebec 138
18. Les services féministes – de Vantiétatisme à Vintégration subsidiaire 145
19. Considering the Impact of the Battered Women’s Movement on the State: The Example of Manitoba 155
20. Inuit Women and Violence 180
21. Reminiscences of the Commission Chair 185
22. The Machinery of Women’s Policy: Implementing the RCSW 197
23. Institutional Structure as Change Agent: An Analysis of the Ontario Women’s Directorate1 220
24. Structures institutionnelles en condition féminine — le cas du Conseil du statut de la femme du Québec1 228
25. Disappearing Women: Racial-Minority Women in Human Rights Cases 241
26. The Entire Woman: Immigrant and Visible-Minority Women 262
27. Les femmes et l’État questions de sauté reproductive 268
28. L’État et les groupes de femmes: un partenariat pour le meilleur…ou pour le pire?1 279
29. Competing Representations: The Politics of Abortion in Canada 291
30. Les femmes et l’État canadien 306
31. Notes 317