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Canada ; Community ; Conflict ; Gender difference ; Local administration ; Local policy ; Ontario ; Social class ; Social practice ; Societal relations ; Society
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Gender and class identities in process and in place: the local state as a site of gender and class formation
Canada ; Community ; Conflict ; Gender difference ; Local administration ; Local policy ; Ontario ; Social class ; Social practice ; Societal relations ; Society
The A. argues that gender and class formation within local states involves processes of conflict, accomodation, co-optation, and transformation. Variations in material conditions of struggle contribute to fragmented or contradictory experiences
of gender and class relations in and against local states. Two Canadian examples are used. The first is that of recent feminist and working-class struggles within Ontario's legal-aid clinic system. The second is that of the development of a women-only