Contents -- Preface -- Contributors -- Abbreviations -- 1 The Contemporary Women's Movements in Canada and the United States: An Introduction -- PART ONE: THE ORIGINS OF THE CONTEMPORARY WOMEN'S MOVEMENT IN CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES -- 2 The Royal Commission on the Status of Women in Canada: Twenty Years Later -- 3 The Intellectual Origins of the Women's Movements in Canada -- 4 The Women's Movement in the United States in the 1960s -- 5 The Origins of the Women's Movement in Quebec -- PART TWO: THE DEVELOPMENT AND INTERACTIONS OF THE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT IN CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES SINCE THE 1960s6 Ripples in the Second Wave: Comparing the Contemporary Women's Movement in Canada and the United States -- 7 The Perspectives of Quebec Feminists -- PART THREE: THE INTERRELATIONSHIP OF ACADEMIC AND ACTIVIST FEMINISM -- 8 Not Always an Easy Alliance: The Relationship between Women's Studies and the Women's Movement in Canada -- 9 Exclusions and the Process of Empowerment: The Case for Feminist Scholarship -- 10 What Is the Interrelationship between Academic and Activist Feminism?PART FOUR: RACISM AND THE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT -- 11 Racism and Anti-Racism in Feminist Teaching and Research -- 12 A House Divided: Women of Colour and American Feminist Theory -- 13 Beyond the White Veil -- PART FIVE: VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN -- 14 Feminist Approaches to Sexual Assault in Canada and the United States: A Brief Retrospective -- 15 The Violence We Women Do: A First Nations View -- PART SIX: WOMEN AND THE ECONOMY -- 16 Women and the American Economy --17 The Canadian Women's Movement and Its Efforts to Influence the Canadian Economy18 Affirmative Action and Women's Rights in the Reign of Chief Justice William Rehnquist -- PART SEVEN: REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS -- 19 Feminist Philosophical Reflections on Reproductive Rights in Canada -- 20 A Chill Wind Blows: Class, Ideology and the Reproductive Dilemma -- PART EIGHT: ALTERNATIVE VISIONS OF A FEMINIST FUTURE -- 21 That Which Divides Us; That Which Unites Us