Fear, Love, and Liberation in Contemporary Quebec
A Feminist Reflection
Seiten
2019
Between the Lines (Verlag)
978-1-77113-414-9 (ISBN)
Between the Lines (Verlag)
978-1-77113-414-9 (ISBN)
In response to rapid and unsettling social, economic, and climate changes, fearmongering now features as a main component of public life. Right-wing nationalist populism has become a hallmark of politics around the world. No less so in Quebec.
Alexa Conradi has made it her life's work to understand and to generate thoughtful debate about this worrisome trend. As the first president of Quebec solidaire and the president of Canada's largest feminist organisation, the Federation des femmes du Quebec, Conradi refused to shy away from difficult issues: the Charter of Quebec Values, religion and Islam, sovereignty, rape culture and violence against women, extractive industries and the treatment of Indigenous women, austerity policy and the growing gap between rich and poor. This determination to address uncomfortable subjects has made Conradi--an anglo-Montrealer--a sometimes controversial leader. In
Fear, Love, and Liberation in Contemporary Quebec
, Conradi invites us to take off our rose-coloured glasses and to examine Quebec's treatment of women with more honesty. Through her personal reflections on Quebec politics and culture, she dispels the myth that gender equality has been achieved and paves the way for a more critical understanding of what remains to be done.
Alexa Conradi has made it her life's work to understand and to generate thoughtful debate about this worrisome trend. As the first president of Quebec solidaire and the president of Canada's largest feminist organisation, the Federation des femmes du Quebec, Conradi refused to shy away from difficult issues: the Charter of Quebec Values, religion and Islam, sovereignty, rape culture and violence against women, extractive industries and the treatment of Indigenous women, austerity policy and the growing gap between rich and poor. This determination to address uncomfortable subjects has made Conradi--an anglo-Montrealer--a sometimes controversial leader. In
Fear, Love, and Liberation in Contemporary Quebec
, Conradi invites us to take off our rose-coloured glasses and to examine Quebec's treatment of women with more honesty. Through her personal reflections on Quebec politics and culture, she dispels the myth that gender equality has been achieved and paves the way for a more critical understanding of what remains to be done.
Alexa Conradi is an award-winning author, speaker, trainer, and feminist activist. From 2006 to 2009 she served as the first elected president of Quebec solidaire and from 2009 to 2015 she was president of Canada's largest feminist organisation, the Federation des femmes du Quebec. Born in Indiana, Catherine Browne grew up in Montreal. She has a degree in history from the Universite de Provence. A professional translator since the 1980s, for the past fifteen years she has conducted guided tours designed to provide Montrealers with new ways of thinking about their city's past and present.
Erscheinungsdatum | 20.07.2019 |
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Übersetzer | Catherine Browne |
Verlagsort | Ontario |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 127 x 183 mm |
Gewicht | 249 g |
Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-77113-414-3 / 1771134143 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-77113-414-9 / 9781771134149 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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