- After the Smoke Cleared
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
Jack Kuper's experiences as a Jew in Poland and Canada as he struggled to reconnect with his family after the conclusion of World War II.
- American Dreams: Lost and Found
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1981
Interviews with 100 Americans who relate their dreams, disappointments, aspirations and experiences.
- Assessing the hidden costs to families when a parent is in prison
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The federal government's omnibus crime bill, currently being debated by the Senate, has launched a widespread conversation in Canada about the justice and penal systems. While the commentary and analysis has covered a number of different perspectiv
- 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.
- Burying the Typewriter
Childhood Under the Eye of the Secret Police
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2012
Carmen Bugan reflects on what life was like growing up in Romania during the 1980's with a dissident father.
- Childhood and Society
Resource Type: Book
- The Children of the Dream
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
An 1960s account o communal child-rearing in Israeli kibbutzim.
- Communism and the Family (Part One)
The Marxist Approach to Women's Liberation
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Replacing the family with collective institutions is the most radical aspect of the communist program and will bring about the deepest, most sweeping changes in daily life, not least for children.
- Communism and the Family (Part Two)
The Marxist Approach to Women's Liberation
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The family is the primary institution through which bourgeois ideology in its various forms is transmitted from one generation to the next.
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 4 - November 1981 - Unorganized Workers/Travailleurs Non-Organises
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1981
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 5 - January 1982 - Children/Enfants
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1982
- Connexions
Volume 7, Number 1 - March 1982
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
Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1989
- Continuous Excursions
Politics and Personal Life
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1982
Colman looks at the idea that 'the personal is political'. He looks at personal life in pre-capitalist societies, the nature of politics and social relations, patriarchy and sexual relations, intimacy and personal life, indviduality and public life.
- Ann Douglas, Author
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Eating Fire
Family Life, on the Queer Side
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2001
An inside look at a rainbow of relationships, sexual and otherwise, that gay, lesbian, and transgendered people create to animate their lives: lovers, partners, parents/kids, quick tricks, torrid affairs, sweethearts, crushes, exes, friends, bottoms and tops, threesomes, butches and fems, bears, cubs and johns. Based on hundreds of intimate conversations across Canada, Eating Fire explores the deepest currents of life: sex, love, loneliness, abuse, power and consent, giving birth, death, being a wo/man, pleasure, fear, joy - risks and rewards of creating family without boundaries.
- Group Marriage
A Study of Contemporary Multilateral Marriage
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
A study of more than 100 group marriages in the United States, exploring the psychology and sociology of this form of marital relationship. The study looks at how group marriages are established, who enters into such relationships, how they communicate, how children and adults relate, how conflicts are resolved.
- Growing up in the Family
Resource Type: Book
- 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."
- It Runs in the Family
On Being Raised by Radicals and Growing into Rebellious Motherhood
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2015
It Runs in the Family is a book about how parents can create lasting and meaningful bulwarks between their kids and the violence endemic in our culture. It posits discipline without spanks or slaps or threats of violence, while considering how to raise thoughtful, compassionate, fearless young people committed to social and political change-- without scaring, hectoring or scarring them with all the wrongs in the world.
- Les jeunes aidants au Canada : l'ombre et la lumiere
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Les jeunes font aussi largement partie de la prodiguation des soins aux seniors selon des chercheurs Canadiens. Plus de 12% des jeunes canadiens ...
- Mama Illegal
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2012
They gave the smugglers all their money and risk their life on their journey across borders: Three women from a small town in Moldavia, living now in Austria and Italy as cleaning women. On top of their hard job they live a life in illegality without documents, far away from their children and family for years.
- The Mass Psychology of Fascism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
Wilhelm Reich's class study, written during the years of the German crisis. Reich repudiates the concept that fascism is the ideology or action of a single individual or nationality, or any ethnic or political group. He understands fascism as the expression of the irrational character structure of human beings whose needs and impulses have been suppressed.
- Men's Work
How to Stop the Violence that Tears Our Lives Apart
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
Helps men understand the spectrum of male violence and contains helpful exercises so they can make alternatives to violence.
- My Mother/Myself
The Daughter's Search for Identity
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1977
- Out Our Way
Gay & Lesbian Life in Rural Canada
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1998
Explores the richly varied life experience of gay and lesbian Canadians living in small towns and rural areas across the country. Travelling 27,000 km and recording more than 300 conversations, the author distills stories of people aged fifteen to eighty-one, including First Nations/Two-Spirited, people living with HIV/AIDS, individuals, couples, communes, and a range of chosen families. Riordon includes his own experience and his partner's in rural eastern Ontario.
- The Politics of the Family
The 1968 Massey Lectures
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
Laing makes the case that we tend to invalidate the subjective and experiential, and instead accept the proper societal view of what should occur within the family.
- Psychiatry and Anti-Psychiatry
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
Cooper argues that mainstream psychiatry has developed techniques that are largely irrelevant to the human situation. He proposes a radical social re-evaluation of the whole concept of 'madness' and outlines a new approach to the psychological problems of personal relationships.
- 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.
- Simon Fraser University
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Sources welcomes Family Service Toronto
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Sources welcomes a new member: Family Service Toronto. FST is a non-profit social service agency offering a wide range of counselling and support programs in 12 locations across the City of Toronto.
- Sources welcomes Michael Riordon
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Sources welcomes a new member: Michael Riordon. Canadian writer and documentary-maker Michael Riordon writes/directs/produces books and articles, audio, video and film documentaries, plays for radio and stage.
- Sources welcomes The Vanier Institute of the Family
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Sources welcomes a new member: The Vanier Institute of the Family. Vanier provides access to research data and an extensive network of specialists on family issues/family life.
- Today's Parent - Rogers Publishing
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Touching
The Human Significance of the Skin
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
An analysis of the skin regarded as a sense organ rather than as a simple bodily covering.
- Shona Welsh, Step Family Specialist
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- 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.
- Young Caring in Canada: Opportunity Gained and Lost
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
When we think of people providing care to adults and seniors, we tend to picture an older family member in mid-to-late career or in retirement, yet researchers have found that approximately 12% of young Canadians aged 12-17 are 'young carers'.
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