Fear, Love, and Liberation in Contemporary Québec
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Fear, Love, and Liberation in Contemporary Québec

A Feminist Reflection

  1. 240 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Fear, Love, and Liberation in Contemporary Québec

A Feminist Reflection

About this book

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 Québec solidaire and the president of Canada's largest feminist organisation, the Fédération des femmes du Québec, 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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. One ON HAVING A VOICE
  8. Two LETTING GO OF FEAR
  9. Three LOVE
  10. Four UNDERSTANDING THE OTHER’S PAIN, WITHOUT INDULGENCE
  11. Five DENYING SYSTEMIC RACISM
  12. Six EQUALITY: A CORE VALUE FOR QUEBEC
  13. Seven DRAWING INSPIRATION FROM ACTUAL FEMINISM
  14. Eight UNLEARNING
  15. Nine DISCOVERY
  16. Ten OBSTACLES TO PROGRESS
  17. Eleven VIOLENT DISPOSSESSION
  18. Twelve DENYING AND MINIMIZING
  19. Thirteen RAPE CULTURE TAKES MANY FORMS
  20. Fourteen DENYING THE POLITICS OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE
  21. Fifteen IS QUEBEC REALLY AGAINST WAR?
  22. Sixteen SHOOTING SPREE
  23. Seventeen THE RETURN OF THE RELIGIOUS
  24. Eighteen PREVENTING FUNDAMENTALISM
  25. Nineteen BREAKING WITH MARKET FUNDAMENTALISM
  26. Twenty AUSTERITY AND ITS PHONY NEUTRALITY
  27. Twenty-One A GLARING INJUSTICE
  28. Twenty-Two ON THE RISE OF POPULISM
  29. Twenty-Three A NEW/OLD VISION TO PROTECT OUR HOME
  30. Twenty-Four COUNTING ON THE LEFT? YES, BUT...
  31. CONCLUSION
  32. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  33. NOTES