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  1. Against the Current
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1986
    Bi-monthly magazine oriented toward movements for social and economic justice; radical, socialist and feminist in orientation.
  2. 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.
  3. Art and Sexual Politics
    Why Have There No Great Women Artists?

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    Examines cultural and ideological biases about female artists
  4. Marilyn Barnicke Belleghem, M.Ed.
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  5. Beyond the Fragments
    Feminism and the Making of Socialism

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1980
    A call for various fractions of the left to unite and work for a socialism through grass-roots activism.
  6. Beyond the Image: A guide to films about women and change
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1983
  7. Bowling Alone
    The Collapse and Revival of American Community

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
    Bowling Alone documents the rise and fall of community activity in the twentieth century in the United States and the social changes this reflects. It offers all the evidence, the confirmatory and the contradictory, to give a complete look at trends of community involvement and how increased social capital can benefit everybody.
  8. Breast Cancer Society of Canada
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  9. BC Nurses' Union
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  10. Brock University
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  11. Bury the Seventies and the Eighties
    Resource Type: Article
  12. Canada Since 1960: A People's History
    A Left Perspective on 50 Years of Politics, Economics and Culture

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2016
    An account of the most important developments in Canadian history from the 1960s to today, seen through the eyes of Canadian Dimension magazine.
  13. Canadian AIDS Treatment Information Exchange (CATIE)
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  14. Canadian Council of Muslim Women (CCMW)
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  15. The Canadian Federation of Business and Professional Women
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  16. Canadian Federation of University Women
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  17. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 3, Number 2 - April 1978

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1978
  18. The Canadian Jewish Outlook Anthology
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    A broad range of articles about secular Jewish life and socialist values.
  19. Canadian Union of Public Employees
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  20. Canadian women activists enroute to the 58th United Nations Commission on the Status of Women.
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Twenty (20) women representing the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (VOW) will be in New York City from March 10th – March 21st. This year’s UNCSW theme is “Challenges and Achievements in the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals
  21. Canadian Women's Directory
    Annuaire des Femmes du Canada

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
  22. The Canadian Women's Health Network
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  23. The Case for Socialism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2010
    An argument for socialism: a society built from the bottom up through the struggles of ordinary people against exploitation, oppression, and injustice -- one in which people come before profit. A society based on the principles of equality, democracy, and freedom.
  24. The Circumcision of Women
    A Strategy for Eradication

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
    African women have begun in recent years to research and campaign against the practice of female circumcision. Dr. Koso-Thomas shows that female circumcision is not confined to the Horn of Africa, or the Muslim areas of the Continent. Her study of the practice in Sierra Leone demonstrates its important role in the traditional initiation of females into both womanhood and society in parts of West Africa. She sets out proposals to end the crippling of women by this operation.
  25. Citizens for Public Justice
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  26. The Communistic Societies of the United States
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1965
    Describes a dozen Utopian societies.
  27. Connexions
    Volume 3, Number 5 - September 1978

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1978
  28. Connexions
    Volume 3, Number 6 - December 1978 - Unemployment/Chomage

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1978
  29. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 2 - May 1980 - Women/Femmes

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1980
  30. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 2 - April 1981 - Urban Core/Milieu Urbain

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1981
  31. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 5 - January 1982 - Children/Enfants

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1982
  32. Connexions
    Volume 7, Number 3 - July 1982 - Prairie Region/Region des Prairies

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1982
  33. Connexions
    Volume 8, Number 1 - Spring 1983 - Women and Men

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1983
  34. Connexions
    Volume 8, Number 2 - Summer 1983 - Toward a New Economy

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1983
  35. Connexions
    Volume 8, Number 3-4 - Winter 1983/84 - Native Issues - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1984
  36. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1987
  37. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1988
  38. Connexions Annual 1994
    A Sourcebook of Social and Environmental Alternatives

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1994
    Simultaneously a reference book and an introduction to the world of social and environmental alternatives. The bulk of the Annual is devoted to listings of grassroots groups. It also contains a series of introductory articles surveying a wide range of social and environmental issues and possibile alternatives.
  39. Connexions Annual Overview: Women
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1994
  40. Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1994
    A short and selective list of resources on issues addressed in the Connexions Annual, such as environment, education, peace, interntional development, women's issues, urban issues, housing, human rights, civil liberties, social change.
  41. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1988
  42. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1989
  43. Connexions Digest
    Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1989
  44. Connexions Digest
    Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1990
  45. Connexions Digest
    Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1992
  46. Connexions Library: Women's Issues Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on women.
  47. Convention of the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
    Resource Type: Article
  48. Democracy for the Few
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1995
    How does the U.S. political system work and for what purpose? What are the major forces shaping political life and how do they operate? Who governs in the United States? Who gets what, when, how, and why? Who pays and in what ways. These are the central questions investigated in this book.
  49. Democracy is in the Streets
    From Port Huron to the Siege of Chicago

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
    A thoughtful and evocative history of the American New Left in the 1960's, looking critically but sympathetically at the struggles and passions of that period.
  50. Ecofeminism
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    A social and political movement which points to the existence of considerable common ground between environmentalism and feminism.
  51. Editorial Section: News of women is usually ghettoized about victims, or the success story
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1987
  52. Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  53. The Emancipation of Women
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    A collection of writings from Lenin that address the status of women and related issues.
  54. 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?
  55. Female Well-Being
    Toward a global theory of social change

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005
  56. 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.
  57. Flaunting It!
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1982
    An anthology of articles spanning the first decade of the Canadian gay liberation periodical, The Body Politic.
  58. Friedan, Betty
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    American writer, activist and feminist. (1921-2006).
  59. Getting Started on Social Analysis in Canada
    Third Edition

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    See also CX2933.
  60. Getting the Balance Right
    Gender Equality in Journalism

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Gender equality in journalism.
  61. God Dies by the Nile
    Resource Type: Book
    This is a novel which illustrates the class dimension of the oppression of women. It can also be seen as a metaphor for the Sadat regime and landlords' oppression in general.
  62. Good Girls, Bad Girls
    Sex Trade Workers and Feminists Face to Face

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
    Looks into issues like racism in pornography, reclamation of the label "whore," the concerns surrounding censorship and the myths and stereotypes that have made sex trade workers outcasts.
  63. Half the Sky
    Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2009
    Describes the health and situation of women worldwide by investigating issues such as rampant gendercide in the developing world and gender discrimation in the labour force. The authors aim to bring attention to the plight of women in developing countries.
  64. A History of the Newfoundland Status of Women Council
    1972-75.

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1977
    This history is a resume of the activities of one group of women who have been involved in the women's movement in St. John's since the spring of 1972.
  65. The Hite Report
    A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1976
    The results of a survey of 3,000 American women regarding their sexuality.
  66. Hospital Employees' Union
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  67. I am not that Woman in a burqa
    A Palestinian novelist remembers the liberated, educated women of her life, and how their freedom has been, and is being, curtailed.

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Palestinian novelist Sahar Khalifeh discusses growing up as a girl and woman in Arab culture, and how Arab women are represented in Western culture.
  68. I will be nude, I will protest, and I will challenge you to your core!
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    A nude woman is the antithesis of the idealised veiled and submissive woman. Whilst nude protest is not the only way to resist Islamism and the veil, it is a very modern, practical and appropriate way of doing so. It also challenges discrimination against women and a system which profits from the commodification and sexualisation of women’s bodies.
  69. IFEX members call for protection for women journalists and activists to mark day against violence
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    40 IFEX members are marking the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women today, 25 November, with a joint call for action.
  70. Images
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1977
    This is a women's paper using a thematic approach to report on women's activities in the Kootenay area such as the Crafts Conference in February, women's theatre, health, art and politics.
  71. Imagine Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
    Rebick calls for the transformation of fundamental institutions in Canada: the economy, the media and the electoral system.
  72. The immigrant Woman
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1976
    Published in Women in the Canadian Mosaic, edited by Gwen Matheson.
  73. Imprinting Our Image
    An International Anthology by Women with Disabilities

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
  74. International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (CLC)
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  75. 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.
  76. 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.
  77. 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.
  78. Learning to Love Patriarchy
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1998
    A Canadian Catholic school teacher's struggle with the patriarchal values of the Catholic Church and their instruction to teachers to impress upon their female students the "value of motherhood".
  79. Local Places In the Age of the Global City
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
    The contributors to Local Places look at the complex social, economic and political contexts of cities in the 1990s and suggest that cities and urbanity, while part of the problem, also need to be considered as part of the solution.
  80. Marxists Internet Archive
    Resource Type: Website
    Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
  81. Media Think
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
    Increasingly the news media are owned by a small group of very large corporations with extensive interests outside the industry, run by the corporate elite.Winter argues that instead of offering diverse perspectives on events and issues, the media portray an increasingly dogmatic and orthodox corporate picture of the world around us. The consistency with which they do this has its consequent, intended effect on public opinion and policy formation.
  82. Misogyny reflected in Grocery Line
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1991
    Checking out the popular media at the grocery checkout.
  83. The Monthly Epic
    A History of Canadian Magazines

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
  84. The Morning After
    Sex, Fear, and Feminism

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    When Katie Roiphe arrived at Harvard in the fall of 1986, she found that the feminism she had been raised to believe in had been radically transformed. The women's movement, which had once signaled such strength and courage, now seemed lodged in a foundation of weakness and fear. At Harvard, and later as a graduate student at Princeton, Roiphe saw a thoroughly new phenomenon taking shape on campus: the emergence of a culture captivated by victimization, and of a new bedroom politics in the university, cloaked in outdated assumptions about the way men and women experience sex.
  85. My Stealthy Freedom: The Hijab in Iran and in the West
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    An interview with Masih Alinejad, an outspoken critic of the forced hijab policy in Iran, about how the Islamic Revolution affected women, compulsory hijab laws, and her activism.
  86. National Union of Public and General Employees
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  87. News and Letters
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
  88. The Newsletter
    Periodical profile

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1974
    Newsletter published in 1973 and 1974 by the New Tendency, a loose collaboration of independent leftists primarily based in Toronto, Windsor, Winnipeg, and Kitchener-Waterloo. Articles dealt with workplace issues, labour unions, workers autonomy and related topics. A total of five-and-a-half issues were published. Copies of the newsletters are available in the Connexions Archive and online on the Connexions website.
  89. The No-Nonsense Guide to Class, Caste & Hierarchies
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2002
    Concentrates mainly on the history of social hierarchy in Western civilization, and particularly the struggles of the working class.
  90. The No-Nonsense Guide to Women's Rights
    Resource Type: Book
  91. Ontario Nurses' Association
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  92. Organizing in a Small Town
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1976
    Experiences in organizing in a small town in Ontario in the early 1970s.
  93. Piecing It Together
    Feminism and Non-Violence

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
  94. Public transit is a women's issue
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Drimonis highlights the problem of sexual harrassment of female passengers and the failure of transit officials to address this problem.
  95. Queer Progress
    From Homophobia to Homonationalism

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2016
    A political memoir by a leading gay rights and AIDS activist.
  96. Race Against Time
    Searching for Hope in AIDS-Ravaged Africa

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
    This book is a compilation of the 2005 Massey Lectures on the topic of the Millennium Development Goals, with a special focus on AIDS in Africa. Lewis' lectures are personal and passionate in their denunciation of the international community's response to the AIDS pandemic and poverty in Africa.
  97. A Race Struggle, a Class Struggle, A Women's Struggle All at Once
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2001
    In Los Angeles, the Labor/Community Strategy Center is carrying out a difficult Left experiment in the age of the omnipresent Right. The center is an explicitly anti-racist, anti-corporate, and anti-imperialist think-tank focusing on 'theory-driven practice'—the generation of mass campaigns of the working class and oppressed nationalities, in particular the black and Latino workers and communities. These campaigns are historically relevant on their own terms, but also have real relevance to any transition to an uncharted socialist future.
  98. The Radical Therapist
    Therapy means change not adjustment

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
    The contributors to this anthology proceed from the premise that therapy should be a means of liberation rather than a tool of social control.
  99. The Raging Grannies
    Resource Type: Article
    We sing satire. We aren't very good at singing, but the medium being the message, as grannies in bright colourful clothes fashionable a couple of generations ago, and wearing smiles, outrageous hats and pink running shoes, we seem to have an appeal.
  100. Dorothy Ratusny, M.A., (C). OACCPP., Psychotherapist & Author of <i>The Purpose of Love</i>
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  101. The Red Menace
    A libertarian socialist newsletter

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1980
    Articles on topics such as socialism, Marxism, anarchism, work, popular education, organizing, wages for housework, Leninism, bureaucracy, hierarchy, jargon, prostitution, obscenity, science fiction, and terrorism.
  102. Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  103. Revelations
    Essays on Striptease and Sexuality

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    A sympathetic look at a much-maligned art form.
  104. The rise of humanism and secularism in Iran
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2005
    The backlash and opposition in Iran is at its essence strongly humanist, secularist and modern. You can see it clearly in the rational, popular, and spontaneous acts and the
    establishment of hundreds of organisations outside government structures and restrictions that are non-religious and purely for the defence of the human being via reliance on human will.
  105. Rise of the naked female warriors
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Known for its topless protesters, Femen is a worldwide movement against patriarchy. But are the activists' breasts obscuring the message?
  106. Rosa Luxemburg for Our Time
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Does Rosa Luxemburg leave feminists a theoretical and political legacy? That is, does she give us any theoretical guidance as to how to understand women's oppression? If so, what is it?
  107. 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."
  108. Second-wave Feminism (USA)
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    Period of feminist activity which began during the early 1960s and lasted throughout the late 1970s.
  109. The Secret Museum
    Pornography in Modern Culture

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    Kendrick looks at the idea of pornography since the word was coined a century and a half ago, concentrating less on the books and pictures that have instigated battles over "pornography" than on what people thought and felt about them.
  110. 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.
  111. Sexy Baby
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 2012
    Sexy Baby is the first documentary film to put faces to a seismic cultural shift: the cyber age is creating a new sexual landscape.
  112. 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".
  113. Sisterhood is Powerful
    An Anthology of Writing From the Women's Liberation Movement

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
    The first comprehensive collection of writings from the Women's Liberation Movement, including articles, poems, photographs, and manifestos.
  114. The Sixties
    Years of Hope, Days of Rage

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
    One of the best books on the Sixties in the U.S., bringing to life the political and cultural currents, including especially the music, which raged during that decade, and setting them in historical context.
  115. Social Movements/Social Change
    The Politics and Practice of Organizing - Socialist Studies 4

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    This collection of essays covers movements related to labour, ecology, childcare, peace, disability, gay rights, and access to abortion.
  116. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  117. Socialism and the New Life
    The Personal and Sexual Politics of Edward Carpenter and Havelock Ellis

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1977
  118. Sources welcomes Dorothy Ratusny
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Sources welcomes a new member, Dorothy Ratusny, M.A., (C). OACCPP., Psychotherapist & Author of The Purpose of Love.
  119. Still ain't satisfied
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
  120. 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.
  121. Sudan: Women Perpetuate Culture of Submission
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    The ability of society to acknowledge the productive capacity of women, especially in the political arena, can by-and-large be brought about only by women breaking into roles not culturally ascribed to them.
  122. Ten Thousand Roses
    The Making of a Feminist Revolution

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005
    Using interviews with many feminist activists, Rebick provides an oral history of feminism in Canada from the 1960s through the 1990s.
  123. The Triple Oppression Of Immigrant Working Women
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1986
  124. A Troublemaker's Handbook
    How to Fight Back Where You Work -- And Win!

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005
    An organizing manual for workers dealing with both major issues and everyday problems in the workplace.
  125. The Ursula Franklin Reader
    Pacifism as a Map

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
    A prominent Canadian peace activist discusses peace, technology, justice and women's issues in a collection of essays, speeches and unpublished musings.
  126. Wages for Housework
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1988
    'If women were paid for all they do, there'd be a lot of wages due', sang women campaigners in the 1970s. But demanding money for unpaid domestic work is a sad indictment of the Women's Movement, argues Zoë Fairbairns - because it demonstrates that feminists have lost the battle to force men to do their share of the cleaning.
  127. We Need to Talk about Women: The Problem with Western Liberal 'Feminists'
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Western women have fought hard and bravely for rights and privileges that were denied to generations of women before them and have made vast strides towards greater equality and representation in society. For this, western women and traditional feminism should be applauded. At the same time, the version of feminism that presently functions in the west -- liberal, consumer, mainstream feminism -- has become problematic.
  128. When in Doubt, Do Both
    The Times of My Life

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    Macpherson chronicles the stirrings that led to the modern women's movement in Canada, including the Royal Commission on the Status of Women in 1967.
  129. Why is India so bad for women?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Of all the G20 nations, India has been labelled the worst place to be a woman. How is this possible in a country that prides itself on being the world's largest democracy?
  130. Woman at Point Zero
    Resource Type: Book
    From her prison cell, Firdaus, sentenced to die for having killed a pimp in a Cairo street, tells of her life from village childhood to city prostitute. Society's retribution for her act of defiance - death - she welcomes as the only way she can finally be free.
  131. 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.
  132. Woman's Consciousness, Man's World
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    The cultural and economic liberation of women is inseparable from the creation of a society in which all people no longer have their lives stolen from them, and in which the conditions of their production and reproduction will no longer be distorted or held back by the subordination of sex, race, or class.
  133. Women Against Censorship (book review)
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1985
  134. Women and Censorship - Letters to Index on Censorship
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1991
    Reader comments on pornography and censorship.
  135. Women and the Family
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    How the 1917 Russian revolution opened the door to new possibilities in the fight for women's liberation.
  136. Women and Marxism
    Resource Type: Website
    Documents on Marxism and women.
  137. Women's Oppression and Liberation
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2019
    On the role of Marxism in the feminist movement in India.
  138. The Women's Workbook.
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
  139. The World of Burmese Women
    Resource Type: Book
    This is a wide-ranging, frank and sensitively written portrait of women in Burmese society, the first of such studies to be written by a Burmese author. Mi Mi Khaing looks at women in all spheres of life and provides remarkable insights into a Third World country little known in the outside world. This book achieves a rare combination of the sociological with the personal.
  140. World Vision Canada
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  141. Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here
    Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2013
    Karima Bennoune interviews 300 people from 30 countries to report on a largely invisible group of people: Muslim opponents of fundamentalism. They remain largely invisible, lost amid the heated coverage of Islamist terror attacks on one side and abuses perpetrated against suspected terrorists on the other. A veteran of twenty years of human rights research and activism, Karima Bennoune draws on extensive fieldwork and interviews to illuminate the inspiring stories of those who represent one of the best hopes for ending fundamentalist oppression worldwide.
  142. Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight against Muslim Fundamentalism, by Karima Bennoune (Book Review)
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Karima Bennoune, a US-based law scholar raised in Algeria, has written an account of the stories of numerous people whose lives have been scarred by Islamic fundamentalism and who decided, using a variety of means, to put up a fight.
  143. Zetkin, Clara - Writings - Index
    Resource Type: Article
    Writings of Clara Zetkin (1857-1933).

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