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

The fiftieth anniversary of the report of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women coincided with the COVID-19 pandemic, which exposed the persistence of the unequal socio-political systems investigated by the commission. Feminism’s Fight offers a stocktaking of the period since the RCSW, exploring the often troublesome legacy of the commission. Many of the contributions adopt an intersectional and/or anti-colonial lens, drawing on the best of feminist scholarship to offer a balanced assessment of the lasting impact of the RCSW. The book is a must-read for anyone interested in gender and politics in Canada and beyond.