Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. PART ONE Women, Labour, and the Left
7. 1 “Don’t Dare”: Labour, Feminism, and the Left on Strike at Dare Foods, 1972–1973 19
8. 2 The Poet and the Nun: Class-Struggle Feminism in Windsor, Ontario, during the 1970s 40
9. 3 “Most Women Would Prefer to Keep Their Mouths Shut”: Challenging Sexual Harassment within the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 1981–1986 61
10. 4 The 1995 Calgary Laundry Workers’ Strike: A Case Study on the Power and Limits of Racialized Women’s Class Struggle 80
11. PART TWO Gender and Politics
12. 5 “Giving Women a Voice”: Annie Townley, the Labour Party, and Women’s Politicization in South-West England in the Interwar Years 103
13. 6 Centros de Madres: From Their Origins to Their Radicalization under Salvador Allende’s Government 124
14. 7 A Global Turning Point for Equal Pay Struggles: International Women’s Year, 1975 144
15. 8 The Impact of Communism and Socialism on Women’s Struggles and Social Entitlements in the Twentieth Century: A Global Overview 163
16. PART THREE Violence and the Law
17. 9 The Seduction of Vivian MacMillan: Scandal, Politics, and Perception in Depression-Era Alberta 187
18. 10 Rehabilitating “the Girls”: Women’s Employment and Expertise in the Prison for Women, 1949–1965 206
19. 11 Battered Women and Self-Defence before R. v. Lavallee: The Forgotten Case of R. v. Whynot (Stafford) 229
20. PART FOUR Theory and Method
21. 12 From Dreams of Equality to One Hundred Years of Struggle: Radical Women’s Biographies in the History of Canadian Politics 253
22. 13 Revisiting Many Tender Ties: A Materialist Reading of Sylvia Van Kirk’s Text 270
23. 14 Gender, Migration, and the Temporalities of Late Capitalism: Social Reproduction in the Economies of Affect 290
24. 15 Joan Sangster’s Socialist-Feminist History 309
25. Contributors 327