Demanding Equality

Joan Sangster traces the long history of feminist activism in Canada, from the nineteenth-century pamphlets and writings that first set out its demands to the movement's engagement with intersectionality in more recent decades. Rather than sorting that history into successive waves, as many accounts do, she contends that Canadian feminism has shown lasting continuity despite the sweeping social changes of the intervening years. The book is a broad survey of the movement's many strands, and it aims to renew public debate about Canadian feminism in the past, the present, and the future.