These contributions about what feminism can offer Aboriginal women in their struggles for equality include theoretical chapters, stories of political activism and personal accounts of developing political consciousness as Aboriginal feminists.
This special issue of 'Labor: Studies in working-class history of the Americas', volume 3, issue 3, fall 2006, is a product of an international conference on women’s labor history held at the University of Toronto in 2005. The issue addresses: theoretical discussion of the intersections of class, gender and consumerism: the effects of work on laboring female bodies and women’s work in both rural and service industries: indigenous women’s labors: flight attendant unionism: the relationship among gender, class and illness: the gendered meaning of disability in a working-class community: the origins of the civil rights movement in African American women’s job struggles during World War II.