| Description |
xiii, 392 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Challenging the Public/Private Divide: An Overview / Susan B. Boyd -- 2. Restructuring Public and Private: Women's Paid and Unpaid Work / Pat Armstrong -- 3. A Little Sex Can Be a Dangerous Thing: Regulating Sexuality, Venereal Disease, and Reproduction in British Columbia, 1919-1945 / Dorothy E. Chunn -- 4. Sounds of Silence: The Public/Private Dichotomy, Violence, and Aboriginal Women / Jennifer Koshan -- 5. Who Pays for Caring for Children? Public Policy and the Devaluation of Women's Work / Katherine Teghtsoonian -- 6. Across the Home/Work Divide: Homework in Garment Manufacture and the Failure of Employment Regulation / Amanda Araba Ocran -- 7. Some Mothers Are Better Than Others: A Re-examination of Maternity Benefits / Nitya Iyer -- 8. Balancing Acts: Career and Family among Lawyers / Fiona M. Kay -- 9. 'A Jury Dressed in Medical White and Judicial Black': Mothers with Mental Health Histories in Child Welfare and Custody / Judith Mosoff |
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10. Looking beyond Tyabji: Employed Mothers, Lifestyles, and Child Custody Law / Susan B. Boyd -- 11. Lesbians, Child Custody, and the Long Lingering Gaze of the Law / Jenni Millbank -- 12. Public Taxes, Privatizing Effects, and Gender Inequality / Claire F. L. Young -- 13. Blue Meanies in Alberta: Tory Tactics and the Privatization of Child Welfare / Marlee Kline -- 14. Going Global: Feminist Theory, International Law, and the Public/Private Divide / Doris Elisabeth Buss |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Child welfare -- Canada.
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Custody of children -- Canada.
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Privatization -- Canada.
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Sex discrimination against women -- Canada.
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Women -- Employment -- Canada.
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Women -- Government policy -- Canada.
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Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Canada.
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| Author |
Boyd, Susan B.
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| LC no. |
97226789 |
| ISBN |
0802007031 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0802076521 (paper : alk. paper) |
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