- The Abortion Caravan: When Women Shut Down Government in the Battle for the Right to Choose
Wells, Karin
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2020
In the spring of 1970, seventeen women set out from Vancouver in a big yellow convertible, a Volkswagen bus, and a pickup truck. They called it the Abortion Caravan. Three thousand miles later, they "occupied" the prime minister's front lawn in Ottawa, led a rally of 500 women on Parliament Hill, chained themselves to their chairs in the visitors' galleries, and shut down the House of Commons, the first and only time this had ever happened.
- About Canada: Women's Rights
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2015
Introduces readers to some of the many women who changed Canada through their efforst to secure greater equality.
- Age of Extremes
The Short Twentieth Century 1914 - 1991
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
A overview of the history of the years 1914 - 1991.
- Aletta Institute for Women's History
Resource Type: Organization
The Aletta Institute holds books, magazines, archives, works of music, photographs, posters, diaries, letters, all sorts of household and personal objects relevant to women and women’s lives. Home of the International Archives for the Women's Movement.
- Anderson, Doris
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
Canadian author, journalist and women's rights activist. (1921-2007).
- Anderson, Doris
Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
Resource Type: Article
Canadian author, journalist and women's rights activist. (1921-2007).
- Beauvoir, Simone de
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
French writer, philosopher, feminist, and social theorist. (1908-1986).
- Black Women's Narratives of Slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2005
Anyone who has ever wondered how black people managed to struggle and survive the hideous tortures meted out during slavery and afterward would gain from reading these books. They offer inspiration to a new generation of fighters.
- Bolshevik Women
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
A history of the contributions of women to the Soviet Communist Party before 1921 in Russia.
- Canadian Women's Autobiography in English
An Introductory Guide for Researchers and Teachers
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
- Canadian Women's Movement Archives
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
Published: 1986
- The Case for Grassroots Archives
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Grassroots archives play a valuable role in what has been called "the battle of memory". People's history projects such as grassroots archives preserve and share stories of resistance, hidden histories, and alternative visions.
- Casgrain, Marie Thérèse (Forget)
Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
Resource Type: Article
Feminist, reformer, politician and senator in Quebec, Canada. (1896-1981).
- Comrades and Sisters
Feminism, Socialism, and Pacifism in Europe, 1870-1945
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
A collection of essays on feminism and socialism by Richard J. Evans. The bulk of the book examines women's organizations in the public sphere, particularly in Imperial Germany.
- Connexions
Volume 7, Number 3 - July 1982 - Prairie Region/Region des Prairies
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1982
- Connexions
Volume 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1987
- Connexions Digest
Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1991
- Connexions Library: Radical and Left History Focus Page
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2012
- Connexions Library: Women's Issues Focus
Resource Type: Website
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on women.
- Crystal Eastman on Women and Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1978
- Daughter of a Revolutionary
Resource Type: Book
- Edwards, Henrietta Muir
Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
Resource Type: Article
Canadian women's rights activist and reformer. (1849-1931).
- The Emperor's New Penis
The Same Sexual Threats, the Same Silence for Women
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Right now the gender fundamentalists are doing their best to shut down dialogue. They've damaged books — books that don’t even mention their concern — pressured bookstores, and silenced speakers scheduled at universities. It should come as no surprise that they are using the final tactics of all fundamentalists: bullying, threats, assault. And they've done this with increasing frequency and intensity. How long does it take to see the pattern?
- Equivocal Feminists: The Social Democratic Federation and the Woman Question, 1884-1911
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2002
A look at the relationship between socialism and feminism before the First World War, through a detailed examination of the Social Democratic Federation (SDF).
- European Women on the Left: Socialism, Feminism and the Problems Faced by Political Women, 1880 to the Present
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1981
The political struggles of ten radical women active on the European scene from 1880 to the present.
- The Faraway Hills Are Green
Voices of Irish Women in Canada
Resource Type: Book
- Feminism and Rescue Work
Chapter 10 of Hidden from History. 300 Years of Women's Oppression and the Fight Against It
Resource Type: Article
- Feminism in the Radical and Early Socialist Movement
Chapter 8 of Hidden from History. 300 Years of Women's Oppression and the Fight Against It
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1975
There existed a strong minority tradition in radicalism which questioned the whole social and sexual position of women.
- Feminist Resistance in Serbia
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1995
Describes the conditions and factors influencing women’s lives in Serbia in 1995, and the ways women have organised to resist violence and assist one another.
- The Fight for Freedom for Women
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
The fight for women's rights in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, primarily focusing on Britain and the USA.
- Firing The Heather
The Life and Times of Nellie McClung
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
This is the story of Nellie McClung, Canada's leading figure in the early women's rights movements. She fought for the right for women not just to be recognized as persons but as also to work outside the home and for equal pay.
- The First International Conference of Socialist Women - Stuttgart. 1907
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1918
First Published in International Socialist Conferences of Women Workers in 1918.
- Flaunting It!
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1982
An anthology of articles spanning the first decade of the Canadian gay liberation periodical, The Body Politic.
- For International Women's Day: Honoring the Fighters
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
Brief descriptions of Ahed Tamimi, Asma Jahangir, Heather Heyer, Berta Cáceres, Erica Garner, and Tarana Burke in honour of International Women's Day.
- Force-Feeding a Suffragette
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1915
A description of the brutal force-feeding of imprisoned suffragettes in England.
- The History of Costa Rica
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2007
An overview of Costa Rican history with an emphasis on how Costa Ricans have been able to make their own history, "though they do not make it just as they choose."
- The History of Democracy
A Marxist Interpretation
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2013
Roper traces the history of democracy from ancient Athens to the emergence of liberal representative and socialist participatory democracy. He argues that democracy cannot be understood separately from the social and economic contexts in which democratic states operate.
- A History of International Women's Day in words and images
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
An online history of International Women's Day, which includes visual materials and numerous photographs from each decade.
- A History of Women's Rights in Toronto
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Whether they were marching in solidarity with the Women's March on Washington or commemorating International Women's Day, women in Toronto have a longstanding tradition of advocating for gender equality across Canada.
- The Iceland women's strike, 1975
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
A short history of the strike, or day off, by the of women in Iceland for equality with men on 24 October, 1975.
- Idols of Perversity
Fantasies of Feminine Evil in Fin-de-siecle Culture
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
- International Women's Day
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
The annual day for recognition of and struggle for women's economic, social and political rights.
- International Women's Day and Working Class History
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1986
In this concise essay Beaton looks at the Socialist roots of International Women's Day.
- International Women's Day. A Militant Celebration
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1920
Written by Alexandra Kollontai and first published in Mezhdunarodnyi den' rabotnitz, Moscow, 1920.
- International Women's Day. Defend the Gains of October
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1987
Beaton calls for the defence of the gains made in the emancipation of women by the October revolution.
- International Women's Day
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Marked on March 8 every year. It is a major day of global celebration for the economic, political and social achievements of women.
- International Women's Day Centenary sees largest ever activity
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
March 8 sees the highest level of global women's activity ever witnessed as groups celebrate the International Women's Day centenary.
- International Working Women's Day
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1921
First published on March 8, 1921 in a Supplement to Pravda No. 51.
- Is that an archive in your basement... or are you just hoarding?
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Are you an 'accidental archivist'? Have you been saving the publications and documents produced by the social justice projects you've been involved in? Then Connexions would like to hear from you.
- Karl Marx and the Iroquois
An essay on Marx's Ethnological Notebooks
Resource Type: Article
Franklin Rosemont delves into Marx's Ethnological Notebooks and examines their significance and relevance towards today's communist movement.
- Klein, Bonnie Sherr
Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
Resource Type: Article
Filmmaker, author, disability rights activist. (Born 1941).
- Kollontai, Alexandra - Writings - Index
Resource Type: Article
Writings of Alexandra Kollontai (1872-1952).
- Lavell, Jeannette Vivian Corbiere
Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
Resource Type: Article
Native women's rights activist. (Born 1942).
- Livingstone, Kay
Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
Resource Type: Article
Social activist, radio host. (1918-1975).
- Materialist Feminism: A Reader in Class, Difference, and Women's Lives
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
A look at how "identitiy politics" of the 1980's marginalized materialist feminism.
- McClung, Nellie Letitia (Mooney)
Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
Resource Type: Article
Canadian feminist, politician, and social activist. (1873-1951).
- McNaughton, Violet
Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
Resource Type: Article
Feminist, journalist and activist. (1879-1968).
- New Hogtown Press
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
New Hogtown Press was a Canadian left-wing publisher active during the 1970s and 1980s.
- New Hogtown Press - Spanish Wikipedia Article
Wikipedia article - Spanish
Resource Type: Article
- The New Woman: Feminism in Greenwich Village, 1910-1920
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
The experiences of feminists who lived in New York's Greenwich Village during the 1910s.
- News and Letters
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
- On International Women's Day
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1920
Written by Lenin in Pravda, March 4, 1920.
- On our way to the moon? A snapshot of feminist marches which shook the world.
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
The authors tell the story of the Midsummer's day 1908 'Votes for women' Suffragist rally and the March 1971 Women's Liberation Movement Demonstration in Hyde ParK, London.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 5, 2016
International Women's Day
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2016
In this issue of Other Voices, we mark International Women's Day. An article written by Alexandra Kollontai in 1920 talks about the early history of this event, which grew out of a proposal put forward by Clara Zetkin at the 1910 International Conference of Working Women. A key focus at that time was winning the vote for women, with the slogan "The vote for women will unite our strength in the struggle for socialism". The link between women's rights and socialism became even clearer a few years later, in 1917, when a Women's Day march in St. Petersburg turned into a revolutionary uprising which led to the overthrow of the Czar and the Russian Revolution.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 25, 2018
Looking for Answers, Creating Alternatives
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2018
This issue of Other Voices features people who are questioning and challenging the way the world works and trying to create better alternatives.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - June 10, 2018
Massacres and Morality
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2018
In the wake of Israel's brutal massacres of Palestinian protestors in Gaza in May and June 2018, Other Voices looks at the ways in which state terrorism is used to keep subjugated populations in line, at home or abroad. The issue also questions the morality of those who either support, or keep silent about, the violence of the oppressor.
- Pankhurst, Emmeline
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
English women's suffrage movement leader. (1858-1928).
- Parent, Madeleine
Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
Resource Type: Article
Trade unionist. (Born 1918).
- Parlby, Irene Marryat
Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
Resource Type: Article
Politician, farm women's leader. (1868-1965).
- A People's History of the United States
1492 - Present
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
Zinn's history includes those most ignored by typical American textbook history, including Indians, blacks, women and workers.
- A People's History of the World
From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
- Pioneers of Women's Liberation
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
A review of Hal Draper's book "Women and Class: Toward a Socialist Feminism."
- Pioneers of Women's Liberation
Women and Class: Toward a Socialist Feminism (Book Review)
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Hal Draper (1914-1990) was both a master polemicist and an erudite scholar of Marxism and of socialist history, often combining these talents in withering critiques of alternative analyses. These qualities are fully manifested in Women and Class: Towards a Socialist Feminism, now released by the Center for Socialist History, a collection of essays some of which were written in connection with his multivolume Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution.
- A Price Below Rubies, Jewish Woman As Rebels and Radicals
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
A tour of radical thought and movements in Europe from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century, refracted though the lives of a series of remarkable, courageous women.
- Quotations By Women
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1996
- Radical America - Volume 7, Number 4-5
Volume 7, Numbers 4 & 5 - Women's Labor
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1973
- Recollecting our Lives
Women's Experiences of Childhood Sexual Abuse
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
- Recovering Nonviolent History
Civil Resistance in Liberation Struggles
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2013
Essays showing, in considerable detail, the varied roles played by civil resistance in fifteen liberation struggles in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas.
- Red City, Blue Period
Social Movements in Picasso's Barcelona
Resource Type: Book
- Rise Up Feminist Archive
Resource Type: Website
A digital archive of feminist activism in Canada from the 1970s to the 1990s.
- Roback, Léa
Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
Resource Type: Article
Union organizer, social activist. (1903-2000).
- Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation, and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1982
Part I - Rosa Luxemburg as Theoretician, as Activist, as Internationalist. Part II - The Women's Liberation Movement as Revolutionary Force and Reason. Part III - Karl Marx: From Critic of Hegel to Author of Capital and Theorist of "Revolution in Permanence."
- Sandino's Daughters
Testimonies of Nicaraguan Women in Struggle
Resource Type: Book
Published: 19981
Interviews with women who fought in the Nicaraguan revolution.
- Seeds of Fire
A People's Chronology
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Recalling events that happened on this day in history. Memories of struggle, resistance and persistence.
- Seeds of Fire - January 1
Resource Type: Unclassified
- Seven News
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1970
Seven News (7 News) was a community newspaper published in the area of Toronto east of downtown which at the time was known as Ward 7. Seven News was published from 1970 to 1985. Seven News is no longer publishing, but all issues of the paper have been scanned and are available on the Connexions website.
Ward 7 covered the area of Toronto east of downtown, from Sherbourne Street to Logan Avenue, south of Bloor-Danforth, including Don Vale, Cabbagetown, Regent Park, Riverdale, St. Jamestown.
- Sex in History
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1980
Tannahill draws on the findings of anthropology, archaeology, bio-chemistry, genetics, physiology, and psychoanalysis, as well as art, architecture, literature, and theology, in order to place the human sex drive and its social and moral consequences in their widest historical perspective.
- Sex and Marriage in Utopian Communities in Nineteenth Century America
Nineteenth-Century America
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
A look at original approaches to sex and marraige in the utopian communities of nineteenth-century America. Many of these communities abolished monogamy and individualism and sought ways of dealing with the sexual life of the group as a whole.
- Sisterhood, Interrupted
From Radical Women to Grrls Gone Wild
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2007
A study of controversies in the feminist movement from the 1960s to the 2000s. Siegel wants readers to know about the multifaceted and contentious history of what is called feminism's "second wave" so that they can avoid both the trap of rebelling against its supposed stodgy "political correctness" and that of idealizing its supposedly harmonious "sisterhood".
- Steady Hands for Freedom
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Book Review of "Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC" by Faith S. Holsaert, et. al
- Strange Cults and Utopias of 19th Century America
Original title: History of American Socialisms
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1966
Histories of communal experiments and communities in the United States.
- Suffragette (film)
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2015
Suffragette is a 2015 British historical period drama directed by Sarah Gavron and written by Abi Morgan. The film stars Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter, Brendan Gleeson, Anne-Marie Duff, Ben Whishaw, and Meryl Streep.
- The Suffragettes, Black Friday and two types of window smashing
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Article on 'Black Friday' with refections on why the Suffragettes attacked property back in 1910 and whether the tactic helped the movement.
- Sylvia Pankhurst: War and Imperialism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Katherine Connelly's Sylvia Pankhurst’s activism during the First World War demonstrated her unwavering commitment to anti-imperialism - a thread running through all her activity for the rest of her life.
- Thinking About Suffragette
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Alison Baldree responds to the 2015 flim Suffragette.
- Watt-Cloutier, Sheila
Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
Resource Type: Article
Inuit leader, activist.
- The Weaker Sex? Violence and the Suffragette Movement
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Fern Riddell investigates the campaign of terror orchestrated by the Edwardian suffragette movement before the First World War and asks why it has been neglected by historians.
- Woman as a Force in History
A study in Traditions and Realities
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1946
- A Woman in Berlin
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
The anonymous author describes the degradation of Berlin women at the hands of Russian troops at the end of the Second World War.
- The Woman Reader
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2012
Belinda Jack's history of women's reading and the ceaseless controversies it has inspired, explores what and how women of widely differing cultures have read through the ages.
- Women and American Socialism, 1870-1920
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1983
- Women in the Black Panther Party
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
While much that has been written about the Black Panther Party (BPP) is focused on the role of certain prominent male leaders, lesser known is that during peak membership women made up nearly two-thirds of the party. Leela Yellessety spoke to three authors of recent books that highlight the contribution of women in the Black Panther Party.
- Women and Marxism
Resource Type: Website
Documents on Marxism and women.
- The Women of 1917
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Women weren't just the Russian Revolution’s spark, but the motor that drove it forward.
- Women Rising, Then and Now
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1999
"In the black of the winter of nineteen-nine,
When we froze and bled on the picket line,
We showed the world that women could fight,
And we rose and won with women's might."
- 'Women's Day' February 1913
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1917
The article by Alexandra Kollontai was first published in the newspaper Pravda one week before the first-ever celebration in Russia of the Day of International Solidarity among the Female Proletariat on 23 February (8 March), 1913.
- Women's Freedom League
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
An organisation in the United Kingdom which campaigned for women's suffrage and sexual equality.
- Women's suffrage: Timeline of women's suffrage - Wikipedia
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Timeline of women's suffrage activities around the world from the 18th to 21st century.
- Women's Trade Union League
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A U.S. organization of both working class and more well-off women formed in 1903 to support the efforts of women to organize labour unions and eliminate sweatshop conditions.
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