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Connexions Resource Centre:
Focus on Women's Issues

Selected Articles

Women's peace camp

This is a small sampling of articles related to women's issues in the Connexions Online Library. For more articles, books, films, and other resources, check the Connexions Library Subject Index, especially under topics such as women, and feminism.

Anti-Immigrant, Anti-Woman, Anti-Sex: The U.S./UN Crusade Against 'Sex Trafficking' - Kidnapping, debt bondage, sexual assault, beatings - for any purpose - are horrible crimes. But there is a qualitative distinction between this kind of coercion and the fundamentally consensual act between a prostitute and her client to exchange money for sex. (CX5346).

Ask yourself...Do You Really Want More Censorship? - Censorship is dangerous and feminists who support it are wrong-headed. (CX4352).

Arms and the Woman - The modern revolutionary movement must destroy this opposition of pleasure-activity, sensitivity- lucidity, conception-execution, habit-innovation. (CX5186).

Girl Child: A Mother's Grief - A tragic tale. (CX5041).

Introduction to the Women section of the Connexions Annual

Misogyny Reflected in Grocery Line Checkout - Checking out the popular media at the grocery checkout. (CX5089).

A Tale of Two Offices - Daily life and offices politics viewed through the experience of working in two libraries with very different management styles. (CX5125)

What a Way to Treat Your Mother: Women and the State of the Planet - Our planet is in crisis. (CX5098).

Women and Censorship - Pornography, its impact on women and arguments for and against censorship. (CX5056).

Women's Work Devalued - An examination of the global failure to recognize the value of women's work. (CX5062).

Words That Count Women In - A guide to eliminating gender bias in writing and speech. (CX5222).


Selected Websites and Organizations

This is a small sampling of organizations and websites concerned with women's issues in the Connexions Directory. For more organizations and websites, check the Connexions Directory Subject Index, especially under topics such as women, and feminism.

Association for Women's Rights in Development - AWID's mission is to connect, inform and mobilize people and organizations committed to achieving gender equality, sustainable development and women's human rights.

Bat Shalom - Feminist peace organization working toward a just peace between Israel and its Arab neighbours.

Women Links - Selected Internet resources on women's issues.

Women Topic Index in Sources Directory of Experts - A subject guide to experts and spokespersons on topics related to women in the Sources directory for the media.

Lesbian and Gay Topic Index in Sources Directory of Experts - A subject guide to experts and spokespersons on topics related to lesbians, gays, and bisexuals in the Sources directory for the media.


Selected Books and Book Reviews

This is a small sampling of books related to women's issues in the Connexions Online Library. For more books and other resources, check the Connexions Library Subject Index, especially under topics such as women, and feminism.


Beyond the Fragments: Feminism and the Making of Socialism - Sheila Rowbotham.

Finding Our Way: Rethinking Ecofeminist Politics. - Janet Biehl. 1991.

First Contract: Women and the Fight to Unionize. - Carol Conde, Carol, Karl Beveridge. 1986.

Getting There: Producing Photostories with Immigrant Women. - Deborah Barndt, Ferne Cristall, Dian Marino. Photostories about immigrant women surviving in and adapting to a new culture. 1983.

Rosa Luxumberg, Women's Liberation, and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution - Raya Dunayevskaya. 1982.

Sisterhood, Interrupted: From Radical Women to Grrls Gone Wild - Deborah Siegel. 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". 2007.

Ten Thousand Roses: The Making of a Feminist Revolution - Judy Rebick. An oral history of feminism in Canada from the 1960s through the 1990s. 2005.

When in Doubt, Do Both: The Times of My Life - Kay Macpherson. Chronicles the stirrings that led to the modern women's movement in Canada. 1994.

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Resources for Activists

The Connexions Calendar - An event calendar for activists.

Media Names & Numbers - A comprehensive directory of Canada's print and broadcast media. (CX5857).

Sources - A directory that enables journalists to find spokespersons of organizations. Organizations that list themselves in Sources signficantly increase their odds of getting called by reporters when they are doing a story of their issues..