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"Cautiously Hopeful: Metafeminist Practices in Canada" by Marie Carrière is a book that explores the internal and external plurality of feminism in Canada. Carrière examines major debates and currents in metafeminist writings and practices, focusing on intersectionality, alliances, affect theory, ethics of care, and feminism's own internal differences. The book also includes an in-depth examination of key literary writings, highlighting the feminist concerns that inform and shape them. Carrière advocates for an experimental writing style that challenges academic conventions and makes more viable engagements with contemporary literary works. While the book has been praised for its insights, there are some critiques regarding its ambiguous and contradictory analysis of feminism, as well as its limited engagement with feminist activism in Canada and the absence of discussions on class and capitalism. Overall, the book contributes to feminist possibilities for social change and deserves attention and engagement. [Extracted from the article]

Social reproduction has received considerable recent attention from academics and activists aiming to stimulate and advance transformative political change. Yet, an understanding of social reproduction as "work" has sometimes slipped away, leaving behind important anti-racist feminist insights. Engaging with recent contributions from scholars in the U.S., U.K., and Canada, we argue that social reproduction is most useful as a concept, not as a theory, and is best understood as "work". We point out quandaries and ambiguities that have produced conceptual confusion in scholarship on social reproduction and argue for a conceptualization offered by feminist political economy. We conclude that social reproduction, when understood as work, can support efforts to build the mass movements and solidarity necessary for effective anti-capitalist politics if its relationship to, and contradictions with, the processes of dispossession and capital accumulation are taken into account. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the research and scholarship of feminist scholars on family sociology in Canada from the 1960s through the mid 2010s, including the feminist sociology of families. The relationship between neoliberalism and gender, including the alleged indifference of neoliberal government policies to gender of income earners, is discussed. An overview of Canada's national statistics agency Statistics Canada's data on labor, including on domestic labor, gender divisions in labor, women's employment and unpaid household work, is provided.

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Copyright of Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture & Social Justice / Études Critiques sur le Genre, la Culture, et la Justice is the property of Mount Saint Vincent University and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

Argues that way in which unpaid work is measured and valued have significant implications for women and any social policies. Reproduction and household responsibilities; Differentiating of women by employment status; Time use studies.

This article provides information regarding the life and works of Doris Anderson, president of the Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women (CACSW), and the scholarship which was honoured to her. In the celebration of Anderson's 80th birthday in 2001, some women who know her have decided to honour her by continuing her traditions, both of encouraging research on women's issues and of supporting women so they could look after themselves, and help others to do as well. They named the scholarship as the Graduate Women's Studies Programme.