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Canadian Women’s Issues
Volume I: Strong Voices
by Ruth Roach Pierson, Marjorie Griffin Cohen, Paula Bourne, and Philinda Masters
In this first volume of a two-volume set, the authors focus on six issues that have been central to women's activism during the past 25 years.
This first volume of a two-volume set features essays that consider six major issues within the movement. The essays are supported by a wide range of key documents covering the period since 1967.
Contents of Volume I:
1The Canadian Women'sMovement
2The Politics of the Body
3The Mainstream Women'sMovement and the Politics of Difference
4Social Policy and Social Services
5Women, Law, and the Justice System
6Women, Culture, and Communications
Contents of Volume I:
1The Canadian Women'sMovement
2The Politics of the Body
3The Mainstream Women'sMovement and the Politics of Difference
4Social Policy and Social Services
5Women, Law, and the Justice System
6Women, Culture, and Communications
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"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 They will not soon be superseded."
Margaret Conrad, Canadian Book Review Annual
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