IN TRANSITION - THE WOMENS HOUSE SAVING ACTION

This account of the campaign to save a major feminist institution in V ancouver focuses on the relation between the state and social movement s. It goes beyond a simplistic rendering of the story as a struggle be tween feminists and the state, to reveal the complexities of a movemen t that overlaps the state, civil society, and other social movements. The central image of change is drawn from the experiences of women in transition, whose movement is best understood as an opening toward the world and a critical rethinking of existing relationships. This is th e process we see in the Women's House Saving Action.