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Social Science Women's Studies

Canadian Women's Issues

Volume II: Bold Visions

by (author) Ruth Roach Pierson & Marjorie Griffin Cohen

Publisher
James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers
Initial publish date
Jan 1995
Category
Women's Studies
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781550284294
    Publish Date
    Jan 1995
    List Price
    $39.95
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781550284287
    Publish Date
    Jan 1995
    List Price
    $27.95
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781550284157
    Publish Date
    Jan 1993
    List Price
    $27.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781550284140
    Publish Date
    Jan 1993
    List Price
    $45.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781552771280
    Publish Date
    Feb 2008
    List Price
    $39.95

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Description

Preface
Acknowledgements
1.The Politics of the Domestic Sphere
Documents
Ruth Roach Pierson
2. Paid Work
Documents
Marjorie Griffen Cohen
3. Education and Training
Documents
Ruth Roach Pierson
4. Feminisms Effect on Economic Policy
Documents
Marjorie Griffen Cohen
5. Global Issues
Documente
Ruth Roach Pierson
List of Acronyms
Permissions
Bibliography
Index

About the authors

Ruth Roach Pierson has taught women's history, feminist, European and post-colonial studies at the University of Toronto and Memorial University of Newfoundland. Since retiring in 1980, she has published three poetry collections: Where No Window Was, 2002, Aide-Mémoire, which was a Governor General Literary Award for Poetry finalist in 2008, and CONTRARY, 2011. In spring 2014, Guernica Editions published an anthology of film poems she edited entitled I Found It at the Movies. Aperture, her chapbook of poems written in response to the photography of Josef Sudek, was launched in July 2014. Realignment is her fourth poetry collection.

Ruth Roach Pierson's profile page

MARJORIE GRIFFIN COHEN is an economist who is a professor of women\s studies and political science at Simon Fraser University.'

Marjorie Griffin Cohen's profile page

Editorial Reviews

"Currently the best source available on the history of the women's movement in English Canada, the two volumes in this series are balanced, hard-hitting, and often fun to read. They will not soon be superseded."

Canadian Book Review Annual