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Canadian municipal involvement in women's issues is surveyed & then more closely investigated in a case study of the creation of Women's Action Centre against Violence (WACV) in Ottowa-Carleton, Ontario. It is noted that Canadian municipal governments have not been traditionally sensitive to women's issues. However, in response to community-group activities, several recent reports that focus on women's issues have been commissioned in Winnipeg (Manitoba), Toronto, (Ontario) & Dartmouth (Nova Scotia). It is argued that the WACV initiative demonstrates that community networks can influence municipal government, especially when they frame issues in terms of larger community problems, eg, urban violence & the municipal government's responsibility for such problems. 33 References. D. M. Smith

Explores the present state of theorizing about the political practices of the intersections of feminisms & ethnicity, & raises the larger question of the political practices of difference, or the ways the intersections of multiple identities can be translated into political practice. The way that this issue has emerged is traced, from both the political practice of the Canadian women's movement & the intellectual challenge of postmodernism. Following a brief examination of Canadian feminist writings on the analysis of intersections of gender & ethnicity, political practices of intersectionality are explored through the question of citizenship & the relationship between the public & private spheres. Although some interesting arguments are to be found in the literature about the potential for the development of coalition politics that take account of difference but also of common citizenship, it is not at all clear that this will be the direction that will be taken by the politics of the women's movement in Canada. 37 References. Adapted from the source document.