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  1. Against the Current
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1986
    Bi-monthly magazine oriented toward movements for social and economic justice; radical, socialist and feminist in orientation.
  2. Ask Yourself... Do You Really Want More Censorship?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1992
    Censorship is dangerous and feminists who support it are wrong-headed.
  3. Bad Attitude/s On Trial
    Pornography, Feminism, and the Butler Decision

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    This work, wrtten by four Canadian feminist university professors, analyzes law and pornography.
  4. Becoming a Revolutionary
    Against The Current vol. 133

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
    Against the Current: Which events of 1968 were you involved in? How did that event/those events affect you personally and politically at the time?
  5. Beyond the Fragments 
    Feminism and the Making of Socialism

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1979   Published: 1980
    A call for various fractions of the left to unite and work for a socialism through grass-roots activism.
  6. Black American Feminisms
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    An extensive bibliography of black American Feminist thought from across the disciplines.
  7. Canada's 1960s 
    The Ironies of Identity in a Rebellious Era

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    A history of social movements of the 1960s, including Canada’s student and anti-war movements, the rise of women’s liberation, labour agitation, and Quebec’s independence movement.
  8. Canadian Feminism And The Law
    The Women's Legal Education and Action Fund and the Pursuit of Equality

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    The author gives a fascinating and informative look at the efforts of the Legal Education and Action Fund, a Feminist-Activist organization for the struggle to effect an egalitarian society through Charter litigation.
  9. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 1, Number 6 - March 1977

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1977
  10. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 2, Number 1 - May 1977

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1977
  11. Canadian Women's Directory
    Annuaire des Femmes du Canada

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
  12. Capitalism, The Family, and Personal Life
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
  13. Color of Violence
    The INCITE! Anthology

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    An anthology of critical writings demanding that we address violence against women of color in all its forms, including interpersonal violence, such as sexual and domestic violence, and state violence, such as police brutality, militarism, attacks on immigrants and Indian treaty rights, the proliferation of prisons, economic neo-colonialism, and violence from the medical industry.
  14. Confronting Pornography
    A Feminist on the Front Lines

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
  15. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1988
  16. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1987
  17. Connexions
    Volume 10, Number 1 - Spring 1986 - The Arts and Social Change

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1986
  18. Connexions
    Volume 8, Number 3-4 - Winter 1983/84 - Native Issues - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1984
  19. Connexions
    Volume 9, Number 1 - Spring 1984 - Energy - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1984
  20. Connexions
    Volume 9, Number 2 - Summer 1984 - Rights and Liberties - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Socia

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1984
  21. Connexions
    Volume 8, Number 1 - Spring 1983 - Women and Men

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1983
  22. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 5 - January 1982 - Children/Enfants

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

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1982
  24. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 1 - February 1981 - Lesbians/Gay Men/Lesbiennes/Hommes Gais

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1981
  25. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 2 - May 1980 - Women/Femmes

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1980
  26. Connexions
    Volume 3, Number 5 - September 1978

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1978
  27. Connexions Digest
    Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1992
  28. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook

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

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1989
  30. Connexions Library: Women's Issues Focus 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on women.
  31. Culture of Complaint
    The Fraying of America

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    Propaganda-talk, euphemism, and evasion are so much a part of American usage today that they cross all party lines and ideological divides. The art of not answering the question, of cloaking unpleasant realities in abstraction or sugar, is so perfectly endemic that we expect nothing else.
  32. A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
  33. Ecofeminism
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A social and political movement which points to the existence of considerable common ground between environmentalism and feminism.
  34. Fear of Falling
    The Inner Life of the Middle Class

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1990
    Examines the insecurities of the middle class in an attempt to explain its turn to the right during the past two decades. Fear of Falling traces the myths about the middle class to their roots in the ambition and anxieties that torment it and that have led to its retreat from a responsible leadership role.
  35. The Female Eunuch
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1971
  36. Feminism
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Used to describe a political, cultural or economic movement aimed at establishing more rights and legal protection for women.
  37. Feminism and Sadomasochism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1981
    Califia says that sadomasochism encourages fluidity and questions the naturalness of binary dichotomies in society.
  38. Feminism in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982
    An attempt to lay down theoretical and methodological principles of feminist scholarship.
  39. Feminism in the Radical and Early Socialist Movement
    Chapter 8 of Hidden from History. 300 Years of Women#s Oppression and the Fight Against It

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1973   Published: 1975
    There existed a strong minority tradition in radicalism which questioned the whole social and sexual position of women.
  40. Feminism, Politcal Economy, and the State
    Resource Type: Book
  41. Feminism, The Global Struggle
    Against The Current vol. 139

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Coming to feminist consciousness in the early 1980s, I belong to a generation of U.S. feminists caught between the second and third “waves” of the movement. The activist energy of second-wave feminism was inspiring indeed. It challenged the ideological presuppositions of heteronormative patriarchy, established some legal protection against discrimination in the workplace and educational institutions, and enabled a significant percentage of women to enter the ranks of the professional-managerial class.
  42. Feminism's Global Contradictions
    Against The Current vol. 148

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    It is clear that the most significant factor now shaping women’s lives and status worldwide is globalization. What isn’t clear, however, is whether globalization is affecting women positively or negatively.
  43. Feminist Issues In Prostitution
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1997
    The flawed reasoning behind the opposition to prostitution by (radical) feminists.
  44. 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.
  45. Feminist Resource Materials
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977
    A constantly updated bibliography of materials related to women's issues in Canada.
  46. 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.
  47. 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.
  48. The First Stone: Homosexuality and the United Church
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    A dramatic account of the tumultuous decade-long struggle in the United Church of Canada to balance faith, sexuality and human rights. Drawing on the church's history, and more than one hundred personal encounters across the country, the book reveals an enormous range of passionate opinion, from fundamentalist to progressive. It documents not only deep tensions that threatened to dis-unite the United Church, but also its remarkable resilience as an enduring network of faith communities.
  49. Flaunting It!
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982
    An anthology of articles spanning the first decade of the Canadian gay liberation periodical, The Body Politic.
  50. Friedan, Betty
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    American writer, activist and feminist. (1921-2006).
  51. Globalization and Feminism
    Against The Current vol. 135

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
    In the concluding chapter of this innovative and insightful anthology, Torry Dickinson and Robert Schaeffer argue that “A key development for both theory and politics has been that the intersection of different global hierarchies has led to the rise of global, intersecting social movements. Many of the movements that have emerged are feminist-inspired and women-centered because women have been targeted by male-dominated institutions as new sources of accumulation, profit, and greed.”
  52. Good Girls, Bad Girls
    Sex Trade Workers and Feminists Face to Face

    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
  53. Healing the Wounds
    The Promise of Ecofeminism

    Resource Type: Book
  54. Home!
    A Bioregional Reader

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    A guide to the vision and strategy of bioregionalism.
  55. Imagine Democracy 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    Rebick calls for the transformation of fundamental institutions in Canada: the economy, the media and the electoral system.
  56. Interview with Ulli Diemer
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1990
    Jeff Orchard interviews Ulli Diemer about socialism, capitalism, life, and social change.
  57. Is Feminist Ethics Possible?
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
  58. Machismo and Its Discontents
    Against The Current vol. 134

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
    The one clear memory I have of 1968 (as opposed to all those other antiwar and pro-civil rights struggles in which I was engaged in the 1960s and ‘70s) is that I was a member of a faculty ad-hoc group, mostly from UMass Amherst (but there was also someone who taught at Amherst college and his wife).
  59. Marxism, Feminism, the State
    Volume 1

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
    Includes essays on the sexual division of labour, and socialist organizing in the 80s, referring to Engels, Ryerson, and MacPherson.
  60. Marxist feminism
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Focuses on the dismantling of capitalism as the key to liberating women.
  61. Marxist Women versus Bourgeois Feminism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1976
    The texts presented here are intended to revive acquaintance with a revolutionary women#s movement which was undoubtedly the most important one of the kind that has yet been seen. Yet it has been so thoroughly dropped down the Memory Hole that even mention of its existence is hard to find.
  62. Media Think
    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
  63. News and Letters
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
  64. Not An Easy Choice: A Feminist Re-Examines Abortion
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986
  65. Nothing Mat(t)ers: A Feminist Critique of Postmodernism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    An explanation of the foundation of recent post-modern theory which also criticises the misogynist and patriarchal work of Jacques Lacan, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Jean Baudrillard and Jean-Francois Lyotard.
  66. A Parable of Women's Liberation
    Against The Current vol. 134

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
    Interview with Meredith Tax.
  67. A People's History of the United States
    1492 - Present

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1995   Published: 2003
    Zinn's history includes those most ignored by typical American textbook history, including Indians, blacks, women and workers.
  68. Piecing It Together
    Feminism and Non-Violence

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
  69. The Politics Of Abortion
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
  70. The Power of Women United
    Against The Current vol. 134

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
    Interview with Kipp Dawson.
  71. Radical Digressions 2
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 1981   Published: 2000
  72. Radical Digressions 5
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 2008
  73. Reading Red Women Writers
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1996
    Coiner makes a cogent case for class studies, decrying the way in which discussions of "race, class and gender" usually only actually deal with race and gender.
  74. Red Emma Speaks
    Selected Writings and Speeches by Emma Goldman

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    A collection of essays which provide a comprehensive view of Emma Goldman's theories and beliefs.
  75. Red Pepper
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Independent magazine of the green and radical left.
  76. Resources for Feminist Research (RFR)
    Documentation Sur La Recherche Feministe (DRF) - Periodical profile published 1983

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1983
  77. Second-wave Feminism (USA)
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Period of feminist activity which began during the early 1960s and lasted throughout the late 1970s.
  78. Sign Crimes/Road Kill
    From Mediascape to Landscape

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    A collection of thirty short essays by Joyce Nelson, a writer specializing in the politics of the mass media.
  79. Sisterhood, Interrupted
    From Radical Women to Grrls Gone Wild

    Resource Type: Book
    First 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".
  80. Socialism and the New Life
    The Personal and Sexual Politics of Edward Carpenter and Havelock Ellis

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977
  81. Socialist Feminism bibliography
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
  82. The Socialist Feminist Project
    A Contemporary Reader in Theory and Politcs

    Resource Type: Book
    Socialist feminist theorizing is flourishing today. This collection is intended to shows its strengths and resources and convey a sense of it as an ongoing project.
  83. The Socialist Register 1990
    The Retreat of the Intellectuals

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1990
    Essays on the retreat away from socialism and Marxism by Left or formerly Left intellectuals.
  84. Storming Heaven
    1968 Revisted

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
    The eruptions of #68 challenged the power structures north and south, east and west. Countries in each continent were infected with the desire for change. Hope reigned supreme.
  85. Surviving the Blues
    Growing up in Thatchers Decade

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
  86. Ten Thousand Roses
    The Making of a Feminist Revolution

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    Using interviews with many feminist activists, Rebick provides an oral history of feminism in Canada from the 1960s through the 1990s.
  87. Through the Glass Clearly
    Canadian Women's Education, Work, and Sexuality

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1984
  88. Tide Turning in Latin America?
    Against The Current vol. 131

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2007
    NACLA’s first volume in its new series, Dispatches from Latin America: On the Frontlines Against Neoliberalism, reported on an array of popular initiatives and left-leaning regimes across the continent. The second volume, Latin America After Neoliberalism, is also a collection of essays; but this one is organized by themes and more academic, though still accessible. The book is a useful guide for activists wanting a better understanding of the profound transformations underway in the region.
  89. Towards A Red Feminism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1996
    Red Feminism contests all forms of institutionalized feminism: from cultural feminism (which is making a comeback in the name of a commonsense fear of the "new," the "alien" and the technological) to postmodern feminisms with their bourgeois reifications of the pleasures and desires of commodity capitalism. Red Feminism challenges the effectivity of the new localist, "transnational" feminisms and calls for a renewed internationalism--with a historical and strategic use of the nation-state--to fight global capitalism. It insists on the priority of production and class struggle in the emancipation of women and reaffirms the solidarity of humanity on the basis of shared needs. Red Feminism thus moves away from individualistic desires and the limits of identity politics toward the collective struggle of international socialism.
  90. Transforming Power
    From the Personal to the Political

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    Rebick champions new ways of achieving political goals by emphasizing co-operation and consensus over confrontation and partisanship.
  91. Untying the Knot
    Resource Type: Book
  92. The Ursula Franklin Reader
    Pacifism as a Map

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    A prominent Canadian peace activist discusses peace, technology, justice and women's issues in a collection of essays, speeches and unpublished musings.
  93. Weatherman
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1971
    A history of the Weatherman organization.
  94. What is Socialist Feminism?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1976
  95. Why make a fuss about the murder of a brown-skinned Muslim girl?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
    History gives us numerous examples of social movements which come, over time, to adopt positions directly opposed to the principles on which they were founded. It appears this has happened to the 'feminists' who seek to silence those who speak out about violence against Muslim women.
  96. Why Marx Was Right 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2011
    Eagleton takes common objections to Marxism and demonstrates how and why they are wrong.
  97. Woman's Estate
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1966   Published: 1976
  98. Women and Censorship - Letters to Index on Censorship
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1991
    Reader comments on pornography and censorship.
  99. Women, Resistance and Revolution 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972   Published: 1974
  100. Women Unite
    An Anthology of the Canadian Women's Movement

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
  101. The Year of Awakening
    Against The Current vol. 133

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
    Against the Current: Which events of 1968 were you involved in? How did that event/those events affect you personally and politically at the time?
  102. The Year of Awakening
    Against The Current vol. 133

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
    Against the Current: Which events of 1968 were you involved in? How did that event/those events affect you personally and politically at the time?

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  2. University of Winnipeg



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