Social Science Women's Studies
Feminist Organizing for Change
The Contemporary Women's Movement in Canada
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Initial publish date
- May 1988
- Category
- Women's Studies
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780195406580
- Publish Date
- May 1988
- List Price
- $27.95
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Description
Focusing on the practices, ideology, organizations, and strategies of the women's liberation movement, this study documents and analyzes the struggle of the contemporary women's movement in Canada. It begins with a detailed history of the "second wave" (post-1960), and makes a primary distinction between grass-roots and institutionalized feminism. Emphasizing the former, the book reveals a part of feminist organizing that has often been invisible.
About the authors
Linda Briskin is an activist in OPSEU and a community college teacher in Toronto. She co-authored The Day the Fairies Went on Strike, a non-sexist fairy tale for children, and co-produced Rising Strong: Women in the 80's, an hour-long video documentary on the women's movement in Ontario.