topic:"Women's Rights" found 3 records - Research Collections

Abstract: Feminism's Fight explores and assesses feminist strategies to advance gender justice through Canadian federal policy from the 1970s to the present. It tells the crucial story of a transformation in how feminism has been treated by governments and asks how new ways of organizing and emerging alliances can advance a feminist agenda of social and economic equality. This timely collection examines the ideas that feminists have put forward in pursuit of the goal of equality and traces the shifting frameworks employed by governments in response. The authors evaluate changing government orientations through the 1970s to 2020, revealing the negative impact on women's lives and the challenges posed for feminists. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the sexism, misogyny, and related systemic inequalities that remain widespread. Yet it has also revived feminist mobilization and animated calls for a new and comprehensive equality agenda for Canada. Feminism's Fight asks two key questions: What are the lessons from feminist engagement with federal government policy over fifty years? And what kinds of transformative policy demands will achieve the feminist goal of social and economic equality? -- Provided by publisher.

Contents: From the Status of Women to Gender Justice for Women / Barbara Cameron and Meg Luxton -- Sex Discrimination in the Indian Act: A Tool of Forced Assimilation / Shelagh Day and Pamela Palmater -- Feminism Meets Macroeconomic Policy / Barbara Cameron -- Never Done: The Challenge of Unpaid Work in the Home / Meg Luxton -- Fifty Years for Farm Women: Gender and Shifting Agricultural Policy Paradigms in Canada / Amber J. Fletcher -- Policy Discourses on Sexual Violence: From the Royal Commission to the (Post-)Neoliberal State / Lise Gotell -- Responsibility and Reproduction after the Royal Commission / Alana Cattapan -- The Royal Commission and Immigration and Citizenship: A Missed Opportunity? / Christina Gabriel -- Securing Income, Sustaining Livelihoods: The Royal Commission, Social Reproduction, and Income Security / Ann Porter -- Strategic, Cynical, and Sinister Representation: Reconceptualizing and Recasting Women’s Representation / Alexandra Dobrowolsky -- The Royal Commission and Unions: Leadership, Equality, Women’s Organizing, and Collective Agency / Linda Briskin -- Equality Instituted? Gender Equity, Women’s Rights, and Human Rights Commissions / Nicole S. Bernhardt -- Federalism for the Twenty-First Century: Feminism and Multilevel Governance in Canada / Tammy Findlay.

ISBN: 9780774868037

Accession Number: P2023.11

Call Number: 08.1 C14f

Collection: Archives Library

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Finding directions west : readings that locate and dislocate Western Canada's past

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2017

Publisher: Calgary, Alberta : University of Calgary Press

Call Number: 07.2 c71f

Responsibility: Edited by George Colpitts and Heather Devine

Publisher: Calgary, Alberta : University of Calgary Press

Published Date: 2017

Physical Description: ix, 266 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Indigenous; History-Canada; History of Alberta; Migration; Colonialism; Feminism; Banff Centre; Women's Rights

Abstract: Western Canada has figured historically as a focus point for new directions in human thought and action, migrations of the mind and body, and personal journeys of both a substantial and transcendental nature. The essays in Finding Directions West interrogate the meaning of those journeys, their reality, their memory, and their constructed identities within Western Canada itself. The book situates landscapes and peopled places in the West within the larger study of Western Canada and its transborder relationships. It draws scholars from a vareity of disciplines within history, from gender studies, to museum studies, to environmental history, in order to examine afresh Western Canada as a place for finding new directions in the human experience. -- From back cover

Contents: Partial List of Contents: Colonizer or Compatriot?: A Reassessment of Reveren John McDougall / Will Pratt ; "The Country Was Looking Wonderful": Insights on 1930s Alberta from the Travel Diary of Mary Beatrice Rundle / Sterling Evans ; Mountain Capitalists, Space, and Modernity at the Banff School of Fine Arts / PearlAnn Reichwein and Karen Wall

ISBN: 9781552388808

Accession Number: P2021.05

Call Number: 07.2 c71f

Collection: Archives Library

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Stampede : misogyny, white supremacy, and settler colonialism

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2021

Author: Williams, Kimberly A.

Publisher: Halifax ; Winnipeg : Fernwood Publishing

Call Number: 08.2 W67s

Author: Williams, Kimberly A.

Publisher: Halifax ; Winnipeg : Fernwood Publishing

Published Date: 2021

Physical Description: ix, 245 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Calgary; Calgary Exhibition and Stampede; Colonialism; Feminism; Human Trafficking; Women's Rights

Abstract: The annual Calgary Stampede, Canada's largest Western heritage festival, and the City of Calgary's premier tourist attraction, is generally considered universally beneficial to the city and, by extension, those who live here. But development studies scholars have increasingly pointed to tourism as a key catalyst of the global sex industry, and scholars working in the area of critical tourism studies have demonstrated that the festival atmosphere generated around events like the Calgary Stampede often contributes to the reification of the exploitative ideologies that undergird rape culture, thus dramatically increasing rates of gender-based sexualized violence. Neither of these perspectives have yet been considered with regard to the Calgary Stampede--despite the fact that this annual event is infamous, too, for its seedy underside: each year, local media outlets report the increased rates of sexually transmitted infections, divorces, pregnancies, sexual harassment, and sexual assaults, and prostitution busts during and in the weeks immediately following the annual Stampede. Not surprisingly, these problems have been normalized in a city that is consistently ranked by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives as among the worst urban areas in Canada to be a woman--even without explicitly considering the role of the Calgary Stampede. Additionally, this appallingly low ranking does not take into account differential experiences among women in Calgary based on skin colour, citizenship status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other characteristics usually considered in an intersectional analysis. The absence of such an analysis is particularly troubling because Calgary, one of Canada's most prosperous and fastest-growing cities, 2 is located at the heart of the Blackfoot Confederacy, in the territory ceded in 1877's Treaty 7 between the British Crown and the five First Nations of Southern Alberta. Not only, then, is there no consideration of the particular social and economic precarity of Southern Alberta's Indigenous women, already vulnerable as a consequence of centuries' worth of ongoing colonial projects (including, I contend, the Calgary Stampede), there has been little concern among municipal policy makers for addressing the roots of the widespread gender-based problems that plague our city. And there has been no scholarly consideration of the Calgary Stampede's role in either creating or sustaining them. My book, Selling Sex: Gender Matters at the Calgary Stampede, will address these gaps by turning an intersectional feminist lens on the gendered, racialized dynamics of the contemporary Calgary Stampede. This analysis forces a reckoning with the long-standing assumption that the Calgary Stampede is a family-friendly event, universally beneficial to all Calgarians. -- Provided by publisher.

Contents: Machine generated contents note: 1. What the F*ck? -- Feminist Questions -- Structure and Argument -- So What? -- Note -- 2. Petro-Cowboys and the Frontier Myth -- Settler Colonialism -- Stampede or Else -- Men and Masculinities -- Greatest Together -- Truck Nuts and Petro-Cowboys -- Note -- 3. Who's G reatest Together? -- Method and Approach -- The 2012 Parade -- Making Whiteness Visible -- Allowably Indigenous -- Performing and Prescribing Gender -- Settler Colonial Lessons -- 4. Colonial Redux: The Calgary Stampede's "Imaginary Indians" -- Context and Companions -- Arguments -- A Caveat: I'm Human -- Elbow River Camp -- A Miniature Reserve -- The Calgary Stampede's Very Own Indian Princess -- Who's Listening? -- Notes -- 5. Sexcapades and Stampede Queens -- Gender Matters -- Stampede Effects -- Consent -- Misogyny + Racism = MMIWG -- 6. Conclusion: Now What? -- Note.

ISBN: 9781773632056

Accession Number: P2023.02

Call Number: 08.2 W67s

Location: Reading Room

Collection: Archives Library

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