Women's organizing and public policy in Canada and Sweden / edited by Linda Briskin and Mona Eliasson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Briskin, Linda, Author.

Contributor:

Briskin, Linda, 1949-

Eliasson, Mona.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Government policy--Canada.

Women.

Women--Government policy--Sweden.

Women--Social networks--Canada.

Women--Social networks--Sweden.

Women--Sweden--Social conditions.

Women--Canada--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (407 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; London ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Women's Organizing and Public Policy in Canada and Sweden highlights the impact of women's organizing on the framing and implementing of public policy, the reconstituting of discourse, and the practices of unions, political parties, and the state. It examines the strategies women have used to organize themselves as a vocal and politicized constituency. In so doing, it stretches definitions of organizing and of political practice, politicizes the social and the private, and expands conceptions of agency. Comparing Sweden and Canada allows the mechanisms at work in each society to emerge more clearly, challenging what is often taken for granted. Contributors include Christina Bergqvist (Uppsala, Sweden), Linda Briskin, Barbara Cameron (York, Canada), Marianne Carlsson (Uppsala, Sweden), Rebecca Priegert Coulter (University of Western Ontario, Canada), Mona Eliasson, Georgina Feldberg (York, Canada), Sue Findlay (private scholar, Canada), Lena Gonäs (National Institute for Working Life, Sweden), Wuokko Knocke (National Institute for Working Life, Sweden), Catharina Landström (Linkoping, Sweden), Colleen Lundy (Carleton, Canada), Rianne Mahon (Carleton, Canada), Chantal Maillé (Concordia, Canada), Roxana Ng (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Canada), Becki Ross (University of British Columbia, Canada), Lena Wängnerud (Göteborg, Sweden), and Inga Wernersson (Göteborg, Sweden).

Contents:

Intro; Contents; Preface: Collaboration and Comparison; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Mapping Women's Organizing in Sweden and Canada: Some Thematic Considerations; PART ONE: NATIONAL BOUNDARIES UNDER CHALLENGE; PART TWO: ORGANIZING CONTEXTS; PART THREE: DOMESTIC POLICY; Index; Women's Response to Economic and Political Integration in Canada and Sweden; Women's Organizing and Immigration: Comparing the Canadian and Swedish Experiences; Representing Women's Interests in the Policy Process: Women's Organizing and State Initiatives in Sweden and Canada, 1960s-1990s

Unions and Women's Organizing in Canada and SwedenLooking for New Opportunities in Politics: Women's Organizations and the Political Parties in Canada and Sweden; Education, Gender Equality, and Women's Organizing in Canada and Sweden; ""Both Wage Earner and Mother"": Women's Organizing and Childcare Policy in Sweden and Canada; Organizing to Stop Violence against Women in Canada and Sweden; Normalization versus Diversity: Lesbian Identity and Organizing in Sweden and Canada; Organized for Health: Women's Activism in Canada and Sweden; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S

TU; V; W

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-85812-2

9786612858123

0-7735-6789-5

OCLC:

1227634979