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  1. Bat Shalom (Daughter of Peace)
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Feminist peace organization working toward a just peace between Israel and its Arab neighbours.
  2. 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.
  3. Bury the Seventies and the Eighties
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
  4. The Canadian Jewish Outlook Anthology
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    A broad range of articles about secular Jewish life and socialist values.
  5. Canadian Women's Directory
    Annuaire des Femmes du Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
  6. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 2 - May 1980 - Women/Femmes
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1980
  7. Connexions
    Volume 8, Number 1 - Spring 1983 - Women and Men
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1983
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. Connexions Library: Women's Issues
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Selected articles from the Connexions Online Library.
  11. Feminist Activist Resources on the Net
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Categorized links to many resources on gender and women-specific topics. Includes a search engine.
  12. Feminist Majority Foundation
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    News, resources, articles, and links of interest to women on a wide range of topics. Access to archives and searchable databases of documents.
  13. Feminist.COM
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    News, resources, links to activist pages dealing with women's rights and equality. Articles, speeches, documents. Classified ads.
  14. Feminists Against Censorship
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    A group of feminist academics and campaigners who fight censorship from a feminist perspective. They believe:
    1) Censorship is a dangerous tool that is primarily used to suppress dissent from those who would challenge oppression by society and the state, and particularly victimizes minorities.
    2) Censorship is used by those in power as a way to avoid dealing with serious, intractable problems in society that require real, imaginative action, and are not solved by banning words and images.
    3) Women must have recourse to free expression in order to explore the truth of our own experience and sexuality that has been forcibly hidden from us for millennia, and the state must no longer be permitted to interfere with this discourse.
    4) Censorship can never eliminate evil ideas, and so the best answer to bad speech is more speech.
    5) Censorship gives unacceptable powers to the police to invade our privacy and harass individuals who they find threatening although they pose no threat to others.
  15. The Fight for Freedom for Women
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
  16. Good Girls, Bad Girls
    Sex Trade Workers and Feminists Face to Face
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1978
  17. A History of the Newfoundland Status of Women Council, 1972-75.
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1977
  18. Imagine Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
  19. Local Places In the Age of the Global City
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
  20. Marxists Internet Archive
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
  21. Misogyny reflected in Grocery Line
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Checking out the popular media at the grocery checkout.
  22. News and Letters
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
  23. 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 indepedent leftists 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.
  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. Organizing in a Small Town
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1976
    Experiences in organizing in a small town in Ontario in the early 1970s.
  26. Piecing It Together
    Feminism and Non-Violence
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
  27. 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.
  28. The Raging Grannies
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
  29. 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.
  30. Revelations
    Essays on Striptease and Sexuality
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
  31. The Secret Museum
    Pornography in Modern Culture
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
  32. 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".
  33. 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.
  34. A Troublemaker's Handbook
    How to Fight Back Where You Work -- And Win!
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
  35. 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.
  36. Women and Censorship - Letters to Index on Censorship
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1991
    Reader comments on pornography and censorship.
  37. The Women's Workbook.
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
  38. WomensNet
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    News, activism alerts, and links to many resources for women.

Experts on Women's Issues in the Sources Directory

  1. Marilyn Barnicke Belleghem, M.Ed.
  2. Breast Cancer Society of Canada
  3. Brock University
  4. Canadian AIDS Treatment Information Exchange (CATIE)
  5. Canadian Cosmetic, Toiletry and Fragrance Association
  6. Canadian Council of Muslim Women (CCMW)
  7. Canadian Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs
  8. Canadian Federation of University Women
  9. Canadian Labour Congress
  10. Canadian Union of Public Employees
  11. The Canadian Women's Health Network
  12. Citizens for Public Justice
  13. Cathleen Fillmore
  14. Hospital Employees' Union
  15. International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (CLC)
  16. ISLAM -- The Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam
  17. National Farmers Union
  18. National Union of Public and General Employees
  19. Ontario Nurses' Association
  20. The Presbyterian Church in Canada
  21. Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario
  22. Sistering: A Woman's Place

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