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  1. Affairs: The Secret Lives of Women
    Resource Type: Book
  2. Alberta Status Of Women Action Committee
    Organization profile published 1982
    Resource Type: Organization
    Published: 1982
  3. The Approaching Storm
    One Woman's Story of Germany 1934-1938
    Resource Type: Book
  4. Arms and the Woman
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1980
    The modern revolutionary movement must destroy this opposition of pleasure-activity, sensitivity-lucidity, conception-execution, habit-innovation.
  5. 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.
  6. Bury the Seventies and the Eighties
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
  7. Canadian Women's Directory
    Annuaire des Femmes du Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
  8. Canadian Women's Autobiography in English
    An Introductory Guide for Researchers and Teachers
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
  9. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 2 - May 1980 - Women/Femmes
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1980
  10. Connexions
    Volume 8, Number 1 - Spring 1983 - Women and Men
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1983
  11. Connexions Annual 1989
    A Social Change Sourcebook: Information and ideas about social and environmental alternatives
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
  12. 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.
  13. Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
  14. Essential Publications on Women's Questions
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1989
  15. The Female Body in Western Culture
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1986
    The female body has occupied a central place in the Western imagination, inspiriing both attraction and fear, seen as both beautiful and unclean, alluring and dangerous, a source of pleasure and evil. In this book, twenty-three scholars and critics explore these representations and their implications for contemporary art and culture.
  16. From Gaza, with Love
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Published: 2008
    A blog by Dr. Mona El-Farra, about women, health, children and human rights in Occupied Palestine.
  17. Getting There
    Producing Photostories With Immigrant Women
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
    Photostories about immigrant women surviving in and adapting to a new culture.
  18. A History of the Newfoundland Status of Women Council, 1972-75.
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1977
  19. Immigrant and Visible Minority Women
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1989
  20. Index/Directory of Women's Media
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1986
  21. Inversions
    Writing by Dykes, Queers & Lesbians
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
  22. Marginal Distribution
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Book distributor.
  23. 1989 Directory of Women's Media
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
  24. 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.
  25. A Report Card on Women and Poverty
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2000
  26. Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA)
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Articles, documents and photos from women under the oppressive Taliban regime.
  27. The Second Sex
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
  28. Status of Women News
    Periodical profile published 1979
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1979
  29. Through the Glass Clearly
    Canadian Women's Education, Work, and Sexuality
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1984
  30. Unruly Women
    The Politics of Confinement and Resistance
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    "Challenges misconceptions of "deviant" women and investigates the many ways in which women who transgress the social order are disciplined, punished, silenced and confined. Informed by twenty years of advocacy work with women in prison and many years of research and teaching the the field of criminology, this feminist analysis of women and criminal justice..."
    "Covering material from the witch hunts to contemporary discriminatory treatment of women by the state and its law enforcement agencies"
  31. Voice of Women/La Voix Des Femmes
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1979
  32. Voices from Women's Liberation
    Resource Type: Book
  33. Woman's Estate
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1976
  34. Women Against Censorship
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1985
  35. Women and New Technologies
    An Organizing Manual - Periodical profile published 1990
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1990
    Newsletter #44, March 1990.
  36. Women Unite
    An Anthology of the Canadian Women's Movement
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
  37. Women's Research Centre
    Organization profile published 1977
    Resource Type: Organization
    Published: 1977
  38. WomensNet
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    News, activism alerts, and links to many resources for women.
  39. Words that Count Women In - Review
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Review of Words that Count Women In. A guide to eliminating gender bias in writing and speech.

Experts on Women in the Sources Directory

  1. BBM Human Resource Consultants Inc.
  2. Canadian AIDS Treatment Information Exchange (CATIE)
  3. Canadian Labour Congress
  4. The Canadian Women's Health Network
  5. Mandie Crawford
  6. Sistering: A Woman's Place
  7. USC Canada
  8. University of Winnipeg

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