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Title Women's organizing and public policy in Canada and Sweden / edited by Linda Briskin and Mona Eliasson
Published Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1999

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 384 pages)
Contents Contents -- Preface: Collaboration and Comparison -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Mapping Women's Organizing in Sweden and Canada: Some Thematic Considerations -- PART ONE: NATIONAL BOUNDARIES UNDER CHALLENGE -- Women's Response to Economic and Political Integration in Canada and Sweden -- Women's Organizing and Immigration: Comparing the Canadian and Swedish Experiences -- PART TWO: ORGANIZING CONTEXTS -- 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 -- PART THREE: DOMESTIC POLICY -- 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 SwedenIndex -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Women -- Social networks -- Canada
Women -- Social networks -- Sweden
Women -- Government policy -- Canada
Women -- Government policy -- Sweden
Women -- Sweden -- Social conditions
Women -- Canada -- Social conditions
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies.
Women -- Government policy
Women -- Social conditions
Women -- Social networks
Frauenverband -- Kanada.
Frauenverband -- Schweden.
Femmes -- Réseaux -- Canada.
Femmes -- Réseaux sociaux -- Suède.
Femmes -- Politique gouvernementale -- Canada.
Femmes -- Politique gouvernementale -- Suède.
Femmes -- Suède -- Conditions sociales.
Femmes -- Canada -- Conditions sociales.
Canada
Sweden
Form Electronic book
Author Briskin, Linda, 1949-
Eliasson, Mona
ISBN 9780773567894
0773567895