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  1. Art and Sexual Politics
    Why Have There No Great Women Artists?

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    Examines cultural and ideological biases about female artists
  2. Marilyn Barnicke Belleghem, M.Ed.
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  3. Beyond the Fragments
    Feminism and the Making of Socialism

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1980
    A call for various fractions of the left to unite and work for a socialism through grass-roots activism.
  4. 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.
  5. Breast Cancer Society of Canada
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    Resource Type: Organization
  6. BC Nurses' Union
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    Resource Type: Organization
  7. Brock University
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  8. Bury the Seventies and the Eighties
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
  9. Canadian AIDS Treatment Information Exchange (CATIE)
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  10. Canadian Council of Muslim Women (CCMW)
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  11. Canadian Federation of University Women
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    Resource Type: Organization
  12. The Canadian Jewish Outlook Anthology
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    A broad range of articles about secular Jewish life and socialist values.
  13. Canadian Union of Public Employees
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    Resource Type: Organization
  14. Canadian Women's Directory
    Annuaire des Femmes du Canada

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
  15. The Canadian Women's Health Network
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    Resource Type: Organization
  16. Citizens for Public Justice
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    Resource Type: Organization
  17. The Communistic Societies of the United States
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1965
    Describes a dozen Utopian societies.
  18. Connexions Annual Overview: Women
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1994
  19. 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.
  20. Convention of the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
  21. Democracy for the Few
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1995
    How does the U.S. political system work and for what purpose? What are the major forces shaping political life and how do they operate? Who governs in the United States? Who gets what, when, how, and why? Who pays and in what ways. These are the central questions investigated in this book.
  22. Democracy is in the Streets
    From Port Huron to the Siege of Chicago

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
    A thoughtful and evocative history of the American New Left in the 1960's, looking critically but sympathetically at the struggles and passions of that period.
  23. Editorial Section: News of women is usually ghettoized about victims, or the success story
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1987
  24. Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario
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    Resource Type: Organization
  25. Female Well-Being
    Toward a global theory of social change

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005
  26. The Fight for Freedom for Women
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
  27. Flaunting It!
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1982
    An anthology of articles spanning the first decade of the Canadian gay liberation periodical, The Body Politic.
  28. Getting the Balance Right
    Gender Equality in Journalism

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Gender equality in journalism.
  29. Good Girls, Bad Girls
    Sex Trade Workers and Feminists Face to Face

    Resource Type: Book
    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.
  30. A History of the Newfoundland Status of Women Council, 1972-75.
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1977
  31. Hospital Employees' Union
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    Resource Type: Organization
  32. IFEX members call for protection for women journalists and activists to mark day against violence
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    40 IFEX members are marking the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women today, 25 November, with a joint call for action.
  33. Imagine Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
    Rebick calls for the transformation of fundamental institutions in Canada: the economy, the media and the electoral system.
  34. Imprinting Our Image
    An International Anthology by Women with Disabilities

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
  35. International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (CLC)
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    Resource Type: Organization
  36. International Women's Day Centenary sees largest ever activity
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2011
    March 8 sees the highest level of global women's activity ever witnessed as groups celebrate the International Women's Day centenary.
  37. Local Places In the Age of the Global City
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
  38. Media Think
    Resource Type: Book
    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.
  39. Misogyny reflected in Grocery Line
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1991
    Checking out the popular media at the grocery checkout.
  40. The Monthly Epic
    A History of Canadian Magazines

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
  41. National Union of Public and General Employees
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    Resource Type: Organization
  42. 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.
  43. The No-Nonsense Guide to Women's Rights
    Resource Type: Book
  44. Ontario Nurses' Association
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  45. 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.
  46. Piecing It Together
    Feminism and Non-Violence

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
  47. 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.
  48. The Raging Grannies
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    We sing satire. We aren't very good at singing, but the medium being the message, as grannies in bright colourful clothes fashionable a couple of generations ago, and wearing smiles, outrageous hats and pink running shoes, we seem to have an appeal.
  49. Dorothy Ratusny, M.A., (C). OACCPP., Psychotherapist & Author of <i>The Purpose of Love</i>
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  50. Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  51. Revelations
    Essays on Striptease and Sexuality

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
  52. Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation, and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1982
    Part I - Rosa Luxemburg as Theoretician, as Activist, as Internationalist. Part II - The Women's Liberation Movement as Revolutionary Force and Reason. Part III - Karl Marx: From Critic of Hegel to Author of Capital and Theorist of "Revolution in Permanence."
  53. The Secret Museum
    Pornography in Modern Culture

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
  54. 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.
  55. 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".
  56. The Sixties
    Years of Hope, Days of Rage

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
    One of the best books on the Sixties in the U.S., bringing to life the political and cultural currents, including especially the music, which raged during that decade, and setting them in historical context.
  57. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  58. Socialism and the New Life
    The Personal and Sexual Politics of Edward Carpenter and Havelock Ellis

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1977
  59. Sources welcomes Dorothy Ratusny
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Sources welcomes a new member, Dorothy Ratusny, M.A., (C). OACCPP., Psychotherapist & Author of The Purpose of Love.
  60. Strange Cults and Utopias of 19th Century America
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1966
    Histories of communal experiments and communities in the United States.
  61. 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.
  62. A Troublemaker's Handbook
    How to Fight Back Where You Work -- And Win!

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    An organising manual for workers dealing with both major issues and everyday problems in the workplace.
  63. Wages for Housework
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1988
    'If women were paid for all they do, there'd be a lot of wages due', sang women campaigners in the 1970s. But demanding money for unpaid domestic work is a sad indictment of the Women's Movement, argues Zoë Fairbairns - because it demonstrates that feminists have lost the battle to force men to do their share of the cleaning.
  64. 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.
  65. Women Against Censorship (book review)
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1985
  66. Women and Censorship - Letters to Index on Censorship
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1991
    Reader comments on pornography and censorship.
  67. The Women's Workbook.
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983

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