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Social Science Women's Studies

Feminist Organizing for Change

The Contemporary Women's Movement in Canada

by (author) Nancy Adamson, Linda Briskin & Margaret McPhail

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Initial publish date
May 1988
Category
Women's Studies
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780195406580
    Publish Date
    May 1988
    List Price
    $27.95

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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

Nancy Adamson's profile page

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.

Linda Briskin's profile page

Margaret McPhail's profile page