Politics as if Women Mattered : : A Political Analysis of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women / / Jill Vickers, Pauline Rankin, Christine Appelle.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Vickers, Jill,; Appelle, Christine,; Rankin, Pauline,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©1993
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (366 p.)

The National Action Committee on the Status of Women marked the twentieth anniversary of its founding in 1992. Today, it is the umbrella organization for roughly six hundred women’s groups in Canada. The authors of this study argue that, if women’s movements are to achieve their equality goals, they...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• 1. The Intellectual and Political Context for the Development of NAC
• 2. NAC in the Shadow of the Royal Commission: The Founding Era, 1972-1978
• 3. The Struggle for NAC: The Transitional Era, 1979-1982
• 4. A New Parliament of Women: Institutionalizing NAC, 1982-1988
• 5. Agency, Leadership, Representation, and Democracy in NAC
• 6. The Policy Process: Structures for a New Parliament of Women
• 7. Feminist Ideology and Policy Making in NAC
• 8. Conclusion
• Afterword
• Appendix A. Ideological Forces among Anglophone NAC Delegates, 1984 AGM
• Appendix B. Groups Affiliated with NAC by Type, circa 1987-1988
• Glossary
• References
• Index