1. The Abolition of the State
   Anarchist & Marxist Perspectives
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2007
   Both Anarchists and Marxists believe that it will be possible to do away with the state. But what do they mean by that? What is the state, after all? What institutions, if any, would be necessary to replace its functions? Would a transitional “dictatorship of the proletariat” be needed or will it be possible to immediately abolish the state? Does modern technology require a centralized institution such as the state? Throughout the history of revolutions, the people have created workplace councils and neighborhood assemblies--how could these replace the state?
2. Affairs: The Secret Lives of Women
   Resource Type: Book
   
3. An African Village Two decades of change in an African Village
   New Internationalist May 2006 - #389
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 2006
   A look at the lives of people living in African villages and how things have improved.
4. Against Capitalism
   The European Left on the March
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2007
   
5. Aging: a process of discovery
   A review of Look Me in the Eye: Old Woman, Aging and Ageism
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 1985
   Review of a collection of essays by Barbara Macdonald and Cynthia Rich, in which they speak with honesty and clarity about ageism, aging and the inevitability and imminence of death.
6. Alberta Status of Women Action Committee
   Organization profile published 1982
   Resource Type: Organization
   First Published: 1982
   Inactive/Defunct Organization
   
7. Alternative Press Annual 1983, The
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1984
   
8. Alternative Press Annual 1984, The
   Resource Type: Book
   
9. Alternative Press Center
   Resource Type: Organization
   Annotated links to alternative points of view available on the Internet.
10. Anarchism
    A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas
    Resource Type: Book
    
11. Another view: The South takes the pictures
    New Internationalist August 2007 - #403
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2007
    A look at the states of Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Iran, and South Africa and their experience of change presented in pictures.
12. Another World is Possible 
    Globalization and Anti-capitalism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2002   Published: 2006
    A call-to-arms for progressive activists. McNally argues that capitalism is synonymous with imperialism and fundamentally incompatible with democracy.
13. Antiwar Activism and Emerging Feminism in the Late 1960s: The Times They Were A'Changing
    Against The Current vol. 85
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    The efforts of women to end the war in Vietnam have been subsumed into a paradigm that suggests that, some time in the late 1960s, women activists left the antiwar struggle for the new feminist cause, leaving behind the movement that had initially ignited their activist energies. This story of ideological abandonment overstates the case. The variety of organizational, theoretical, and personal lessons learned in the antiwar movement profoundly influenced the organized, theoretically nuanced, and personally impassioned movement of, by, and for women, whose diverse constituent groups shared the idea of liberation from male authority.
14. The Approaching Storm
    One Woman's Story of Germany 1934-1938
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1939   Published: 1988
    Nora Waln, a Quaker journalist, chronicles her experience living in Germany during the rise of the Third Reich. During those four years, she took covert notes, bearing witness to the rise of Hitler.
15. The Arms Trade Bang bang you're dead The armed agenda
    New Internationalist July 1991
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1991
    In the wake of the Gulf war, what questions should we be asking about the arms trade? Militarism is dominating modern culture -- need to remember the personal and social implications of the arms trade and develop a strategy for future disarmament.
16. Arms and the Woman
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1975   Published: 1980
    The modern revolutionary movement must destroy this opposition of pleasure-activity, sensitivity-lucidity, conception-execution, habit-innovation.
17. 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.
18. The Beauty Myth
    How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    Writer and Journalist Naomi Wolf calls the current all pervasive need for women to attain an intangible physical beauty ideal the "beauty myth". It is calculated to disenpower women and is a complex pervasive backlash againts feminism. Women are seduced by the beauty myth because it holds promise of power. Women will remain tied to this myth until they realize that power may be revoked as easily as granted. The beauty myth was created to hold women's progress back not to liberate it.
19. Black Women's Narratives of Slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2005
    Anyone who has ever wondered how black people managed to struggle and survive the hideous tortures meted out during slavery and afterward would gain from reading these books. They offer inspiration to a new generation of fighters.
20. Bowling Alone
    The Collapse and Revival of American Community
    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
21. Bury the Seventies and the Eighties
    Resource Type: Article
    
22. 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.
23. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Pilot Copy, February 1976
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1976
    The first issue of the Canadian Information Sharing Service publication. The name of the publication was later changed to Connexions and then to Connexions Digest.
24. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 1, Number 2 - July 1976
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1976
    
25. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 1, Number 3
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1976
    
26. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 1, Number 4 - November 1976
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1976
    
27. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 1, Number 5 - January 1977
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1977
    
28. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 1, Number 6 - March 1977
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1977
    
29. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 2, Number 1 - May 1977
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1977
    
30. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 2, Number 3 - September 1977
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1977
    
31. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 2, Number 4 - November 1977
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1977
    
32. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 2, Number 4 - November 1977
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1977
    
33. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 3, Number 1 - February 1978
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1978
    
34. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 3, Number 2 - April 1978
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1978
    
35. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 3, Number 3 - June 1978
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1978
    
36. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 3, Number 4 - August 1978
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1978
    
37. Canadian Women's Directory
    Annuaire des Femmes du Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    
38. Canadian Women's Autobiography in English
    An Introductory Guide for Researchers and Teachers
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    
39. Canadian Women's Mailing List
    Resource Type: Database
    First Published: 1984
    
40. The Caribbean Left's Legacy
    Against The Current vol. 112
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2004
    Sara Abraham interviews Eusi Kwayana of The Working People's Alliance (WPA) in Guyana. The WPA continued to organize and build its ranks through a democratic socialist multi racial agenda, but has continuously been marginalized by the two party system, wining only one or two seats in each election.
41. Central American Women Speak for Themselves
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
    A dossier focusing on the participation of women in the popular movements and revolutionary organizations in Central America. Contains transations from newspapers, pamphlets, documents, interviews and reprints of already-published material.
42. The Chinese Working Women's Network
    Against The Current vol. 113
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2004
    There is no doubt that China is growing rapidly in importance in the global economy. China has now surpassed the United States as the largest destination in the world for foreign investment. While many U.S. businesses (and other multinationals) look eagerly to both the large Chinese market and the very low wages of Chinese workers, the U.S. labor movement has been focused on stopping the flow of U.S. production and jobs to China.
43. 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.
44. Coming Home to the Struggle
    Against The Current vol. 134
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    I became a political activist at the age of 12, when I marched for open housing in Evanston, Illinois. We lived next to the Black community in Evanston; African-American students made up 40% of my grade school. At the local YWCA girls club my sister and I were the only whites. The young Black women I became close to helped me overcome painful shyness. Later my father, a Methodist minister, was arrested trying to integrate churches in Jackson, Mississippi.
45. The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume I 
    Economic Writings 1
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2013
    This first volume in Rosa Luxemburg's Complete Works, entitled Economic Writings 1, contains some of Luxemburg's most important statements on the globalization of capital, wage labour, imperialism, and pre-capitalist economic formations.
46. Connexions
    Volume 3, Number 5 - September 1978
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1978
    
47. Connexions
    Volume 3, Number 6 - December 1978 - Unemployment/Chomage
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1978
    
48. Connexions
    Volume 4, Number 1 - February 1979 - National Security/Securite Nationale
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1979
    
49. Connexions
    Volume 4, Number 2 - March 1979 - Native Rights/Les Droits des Autochtones
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1979
    
50. Connexions
    Volume 4, Number 3 - May 1979 - Immigration
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1979
    
51. Connexions
    Volume 4, Number 4 - September 1979 - Food/La Nourriture
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1979
    
52. Connexions
    Volume 4, Number 5 - October 1979 - Nuclear Energy\Energie Nucleaire
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1979
    
53. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 2 - May 1980 - Women/Femmes
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1980
    
54. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 3 - September 1980 - Racism/Racisme
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1980
    
55. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 4 - October 1980 - Health/Sante
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1980
    
56. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 5 - January 1981 - Militarism/Militarisme
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1981
    
57. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 1 - February 1981 - Lesbians/Gay Men/Lesbiennes/Hommes Gais
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1981
    
58. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 2 - April 1981 - Urban Core/Milieu Urbain
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1981
    
59. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 3 - September 1981 - Atlantic Development/Le Developpement Atlantique
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1981
    
60. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 4 - November 1981 - Unorganized Workers/Travailleurs Non-Organises
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1981
    
61. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 5 - January 1982 - Children/Enfants
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1982
    
62. Connexions
    Volume 7, Number 1 - March 1982
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1982
    
63. Connexions
    Volume 7, Number 3 - July 1982 - Prairie Region/Region des Prairies
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1982
    
64. Connexions
    Volume 7, Number 4 - December 1982 - Housing
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1982
    
65. Connexions
    Volume 8, Number 1 - Spring 1983 - Women and Men
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1983
    
66. Connexions
    Volume 8, Number 2 - Summer 1983 - Toward a New Economy
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1983
    
67. 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
    
68. 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
    
69. Connexions
    Volume 9, Number 2 - Summer 1984 - Rights and Liberties - A Digest of Resources & Groups for Social
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1984
    
70. Connexions
    Volume 10, Number 1 - Spring 1986 - The Arts and Social Change
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1986
    
71. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1987
    
72. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1988
    
73. Connexions Annual 1989
    A Social Change Sourcebook: Information and ideas about social and environmental alternatives
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    The Connexions Annual is simultaneously a reference book and an introduction to the world of social and environmental alternatives.
74. Connexions Annual 1994
    A Sourcebook of Social and Environmental Alternatives
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First 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.
    
75. Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1989   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.
76. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1988
    
77. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1989
    
78. Connexions Digest
    Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1989
    
79. Connexions Digest
    Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1990
    
80. Connexions Digest
    Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1990
    
81. Connexions Digest
    Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1991
    
82. Connexions Digest
    Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1992
    
83. Connexions Library: Women's Issues Focus 
    Resource Type: Website
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on women.
84. Convention of the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
    Resource Type: Article
    
85. Co-operatives Bite back! The return of the co-op
    New Internationalist June 2004
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2004
    A look at the issues regarding and the basic principles of a co-op. Discussion of the history of the international co-operative movement and information on how to set up a co-op.
86. Democracy Is that it?
    New Internationalist June 2000
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2000
    Democracy has become commonplace and its original meaning -- "rule by the people" -- has got lost. Real democracy depends on active citizenship, something that's missing from contemporary culture. Articles cover democracy in Canada and the developing world, economics in relation to democracy and politics in Pakistan.
87. Disability in the Majority World I've got a right!
    New Internationalist November 2005
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2005
    Discussion of people with dissability and their fight for equal rights.
    
88. The Ecology of Freedom 
    The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982   Published: 2005
    Bookchin's synthesis of ecology, anthropology and political theory traces conflicting legacies of hierarchy and freedom from the first emergence of human culture to today's globalized capitalism, constantly pointing the way to a sane, sustainable ecological future.
89. Equality
    New Internationalist January/February 2004
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2004
    A look at theories on the thought of equality and its progress in society.
90. Essential Publications on Women's Questions
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1989
    
91. The Female Body in Western Culture
    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
92. Female Well-Being
    Toward a global theory of social change
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    
93. Feminism and "The Female Eunuch"
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1971
    A review of the book Germaine Greer's book "The Female Eunuch." Originally published in International Socialist Review.
94. Feminism, Politcal Economy, and the State
    Resource Type: Book
    
95. Firing The Heather
    The Life and Times of Nellie McClung
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    This is the story of Nellie McClung, Canada's leading figure in the early women's rights movements. She fought for the right for women not just to be recognized as persons but as also to work outside the home and for equal pay.
96. From Gaza, with Love
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2006
    A blog by Dr. Mona El-Farra, about women, health, children and human rights in Occupied Palestine.
    
97. Getting Started on Social Analysis in Canada
    Third Edition
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984   Published: 1988
    See also CX2933.
    
98. Getting the Balance Right
    Gender Equality in Journalism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Gender equality in journalism.
99. Getting There
    Producing Photostories With Immigrant Women
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
    Photostories about immigrant women surviving in and adapting to a new culture.
    
100. Girls Lean Back Everywhere
     The Law Of Obscenity And The Assault On Genius
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1992
     De Grazia, an attorney and defender of First Amendment rights, chronicles the conflict between artistic expression and censorship. Details the struggles of authors, booksellers and publishers.
101. Globalization and Feminism
     Against The Current vol. 135
     Resource Type: Article
     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.”
102. Gulf War The Gulf in flames The real cost of Desert Storm
     New Internationalist October 1992
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 1992
     Examining the real reasons behind the Gulf War. Was it motivated by Western oil interests? Articles on arab women, oil and arms and the aftermath of Desert Storm in the arab world.
103. Half the Sky
     Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     Describes the health and situation of women worldwide by investigating issues such as rampant gendercide in the developing world and gender discrimation in the labour force. The authors aim to bring attention to the plight of women in developing countries.
104. Healing the Wounds
     The Promise of Ecofeminism
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1989
     An anthology of writings on ecofeminism.
105. A History of the Newfoundland Status of Women Council
     1972-75.
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1977
     This history is a resume of the activities of one group of women who have been involved in the women's movement in St. John's since the spring of 1972.
106. Immigrant and Visible Minority Women
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1989
     
107. Index/Directory of Women's Media
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 1986
     
108. International Women's Day
     Connexipedia Article
     Resource Type: Article
     Marked on March 8 every year. It is a major day of global celebration for the economic, political and social achievements of women.
109. Inversions
     Writing by Dykes, Queers & Lesbians
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1991
     
110. The Invisible War
     Resource Type: Film/Video
     First Published: 2012
     An investigative documentary about the epidemic of rape of soldiers within the US military.
111. Look Me in the Eye
     Old Woman, Aging, and Ageism
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1985
     About ageism, aging, and the inevitability and imminence of death.
112. Malawi: Women Fight Harmful Cultural Practices
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Combatting traditional practices that harm women.
113. Marginal Distribution
     Resource Type: Website
     Inactive/Defunct Periodical
     Book distributor.
114. Marx, Eleanor - Writings - Archive
     Resource Type: Article
     Writings of Eleanor Marx (1855-1898).
115. Marx on Gender and the Family: A Critical Study
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2013
     A study devoted exclusively to Marx's perspectives on gender and the family.
116. Mothers of the Disappeared 
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1990
     This is the story of the mothers who risked their lives to demonstrate in the plazas by holding placards of the children they lost during the "guerra sucia" the dirty war fought in Argentina during the 1976-1983 repression by the Alfonsin junta. Through the Mother's own words we see the unfolding of Argentinian history, the growing polarization of society and how they coped with the effects not only on their family but the social structure of a country.
117. The Myth of Women's Masochism
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1985   Published: 1987
     
118. The New Political Democracy
     Chapter XXIII of History of the United States
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1921
     
119. The Newsmagazine for Alberta Women
     Periodical profile published 1986
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 1986
     Inactive/Defunct Periodical
     
120. 1989 Directory of Women's Media
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1989
     
121. No laughing matter: Cartoonists take issue
     New Internationalist March 2006
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2006
     A look at the strengths of comics and cartoons as an educational and development communication tool.
122. The No-Nonsense Guide to Class, Caste & Hierarchies 
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2002
     Concentrates mainly on the history of social hierarchy in Western civilization, and particularly the struggles of the working class.
123. Not An Easy Choice: A Feminist Re-Examines Abortion
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1986
     McDonnell describes the often conflicting needs and emotions experienced prior to and after abortion.
124. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 5, 2016
     International Women's Day
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2016
     In this issue of Other Voices, we mark International Women's Day. An article written by Alexandra Kollontai in 1920 talks about the early history of this event, which grew out of a proposal put forward by Clara Zetkin at the 1910 International Conference of Working Women. A key focus at that time was winning the vote for women, with the slogan "The vote for women will unite our strength in the struggle for socialism". The link between women's rights and socialism became even clearer a few years later, in 1917, when a Women's Day march in St. Petersburg turned into a revolutionary uprising which led to the overthrow of the Czar and the Russian Revolution.
125. Sex, lies and global survival
     New Internationalist September 1992
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 1992
     Is overpopulation the cause of the global ecological crisis? Rather than the overpopulation of the South, it's the overconsumption the North's much smaller population that's having the greatest impact. Need to look closer to home for solutions to environmental damage.
126. Pink Sari Revolution
     A Tale of Women and Power in the Badlands of India
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2013
     Narrating the story of Sampat Pal and the Pink Gang's fight for Sheelu, as well as for others facing injustice and oppression: a portrait of women grabbing fate with their own hands - and winning back their lives.
127. Pioneers of Women's Liberation
     Women and Class: Toward a Socialist Feminism (Book Review)
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2015
     Hal Draper (1914-1990) was both a master polemicist and an erudite scholar of Marxism and of socialist history, often combining these talents in withering critiques of alternative analyses. These qualities are fully manifested in Women and Class: Towards a Socialist Feminism, now released by the Center for Socialist History, a collection of essays some of which were written in connection with his multivolume Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution.
128. P.I.S.E.M. Materials
     Questions Immigrants Raise; Immigrant Life in Toronto; Themes for English language training of Portuguese
     Resource Type: Slide Show
     First Published: 1977
     Audio-visual materials designed for use in small groups with immigrants to give them information about dealing with alienating elements in their environment.
129. The Political Economy of Health
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1979   Published: 1889
     
130. The Power of Women United
     Against The Current vol. 134
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     Interview with Kipp Dawson.
131. Privatization The great privati$ation grab
     New Internationalist April 2003
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2003
     The effects of privatization on public services. Discusses who is responsible and why they are doing this.
132. Privilege of Sex
     A Century of Canadian Women
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1974
     
133. The Radical Therapist
     Therapy means change not adjustment
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1971
     The contributors to this anthology proceed from the premise that therapy should be a means of liberation rather than a tool of social control.
134. Reading Lolita in Tehran
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2003
     
135. A Report Card on Women and Poverty
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2000
     
136. Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA)
     Resource Type: Website
     Women opposed to the Taliban, to the Afghan government, and to the foreign forces in Afghanistan.
137. The Rise and Demise of Women's Liberation:
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1977
     Dixon uses a Marxist analysis to try to explain the decline of the women's liberation movement in the 1970's.
138. Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation, and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution 
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1981   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."
139. The Second Sex 
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1953   Published: 1970
     simone de Beauvoir explores what is is to be a woman from a multitude of perspectives: sexual, social, biological, historical.
140. Seizing Our Bodies
     The Politics of Women's Health
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1977
     
141. Sisterhood is Powerful 
     An Anthology of Writing From the Women's Liberation Movement
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1970
     The first comprehensive collection of writings from the Women's Liberation Movement, including articles, poems, photographs, and manifestos.
142. Sisters in the Resistance
     The Women's War to Free France
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1995
     Weitz documented accounts of 70 women involved in the Resistance.
143. Social Determinants of Health
     Canadian Perspectives
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2004
     The social determinants of health are summarized and analyzed by over 30 medical and social academics.
144. The Socialist Register 1983
     Volume 20: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 1983
     
145. Some Black Women
     Resource Type: Film/Video
     
146. State-Sponsored Violence Against Women
     Against The Current vol. 121
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2006
     The words of Latin American women continue to have no value to those who legislate, govern and administer justice. The permissiveness and omissions of state laws, institutions and functionaries in response to the violation of women’s rights are part of gender violence. The advances have been minimal and the need to dismantle this theater of illusions is urgent.
147. Status of Women News
     Periodical profile published 1979
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 1979
     The National Action Committee (NAC) on the Status of Women comprises approximately 130 non-governmental women's organizations.
148. Status of Women News
     Periodical profile published 1983
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 1983
     
149. The Struggle to Stop Female Genital Mutilation
     Against The Current vol. 91
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2001
     In January, 1999 the Senegalese parliament joined several other African nations imposing a ban on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). At the time of the ban over 700,000 women -- approximately twenty percent of the female population -- were estimated to have undergone some form of FGM in Senegal.
150. A Study of the Feminine Mystique
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1964
     A review of Betty Friedan's book "The Feminine Mystique." The review was originally published in the International Socialist Review in 1964.
151. Surviving the Blues
     Growing up in Thatchers Decade
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1990
     
152. Sweeter than Honey
     Ethiopian Women and Revolution: Testimonies of Tigrayan Women
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1990
     Through the voices of Tigrayan women-farmers, famine survivors and military commanders this book allows the reader to see what is happening in Tigray. Women have been working with the People's Liberation Front to transform their society through a gradual process of revolution to democracy. Their stories and testaments show how integral their participation is to this struggle. It is truly a revolution that is "sweeter than honey".
153. Three Decades of Iranian Women's Activism
     Against The Current vol. 142
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Before the June elections and the protests that ensued, 2009 was hailed as a milestone in Iran for another reason: it marked the 30th anniversary of the 1979 revolution.
154. Through the Glass Clearly
     Canadian Women's Education, Work, and Sexuality
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1984
     
155. Through the Glass Clearly: Canadian Women's Education, Work and Sexuality
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1986
     
156. Tide Turning in Latin America?
     Against The Current vol. 131
     Resource Type: Article
     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.
157. Trade Justice! Yes, but what is it?
     New Internationalist April 2006
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2006
     Discusses Trade justices and the effects its has had on different parts of the world. Voices the opinions of people from the around the world on the topic of trade justice.
158. Triple Jeopardy and the Struggle
     Against The Current vol. 134
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     Being bi- and female in the Asian movement also means putting in double, triple, quadruple time. The Third World Women’s Alliance, an offshoot of the Black Women’s Liberation Committee of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, dubbed this our “triple jeopardy” dilemma as women of color who have our hands, heads, hearts in multiple movements because of our race, gender and class status.
159. Under the Viaduct
     Homeless in Beautiful B.C.
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1991
     The author, through interviews, gives a collection of testimonials of Vancouver's homeless and strategies to combat this social problem.
160. Unruly Women
     The Politics of Confinement and Resistance
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1994
     Investigates the ways in which women who transgress the social order are disciplined, punished, silenced and confined. Covers material from the witch hunts to contemporary discriminatory treatment of women by the state and its law enforcement agencies.
     
161. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
     With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1792
     Published in 1792, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman was the first great feminist treatise. Wollstonecraft preached that intellect will always govern and sought to persuade women to endeavour to acquire strength, both of mind and body.
162. Voice of Women/La Voix Des Femmes
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1979
     A Calgary group that opposes nuclear energy.
163. Voices from Women's Liberation
     Resource Type: Book
     
164. We need to think about Toilets
     New Internationalist August 2008 - #414
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2008
     A look at the history and facts about toilets. A look at sanitation and employment opportunities surrounding toilets.
165. Which side are you on? 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The women's question has haunted the Islamic regime from the start. The Islamic Republic has been in continuous conflict with the women's liberation movement, which has grown considerably in the past decade in opposition to the misogyny and gender apartheid of the Islamists. Despite brutal assaults on this movement, the regime has not succeeded in silencing it.
166. Who Cares?
     Resource Type: Film/Video
     First Published: 2012
     Rosie Dranfeld captures the gritty and dangerous world of Edmonton's sex-trade workers. In this post-Pickton era where the unthinkable is now a gruesome reality, women voluntarily provide police with DNA samples for future identification.
167. Who Cares?
     The Crisis in Canadian Nursing
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1991
     
168. Why Do Women Do Nothing To End The War?
     Canadian Feminist-Pacificsts and The Great War
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1987
     
169. Winter Soldier 2008
     Against The Current vol. 134
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     More than 250 veterans and military families gathered from March 13-15 outside Washington, DC for the Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) Winter Soldier Investigation: Iraq and Afghanistan. Videos of their testimony on their experiences are posted at www.IVAW.org.
170. Woman as a Force in History
     A study in Traditions and Realities
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1946
     
     
171. Woman Under Socialism
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1879
     An analysis of how socialism would advance the freedom of women and their position in society. First edition written and published in German in 1879.
172. Woman's Consciousness, Man's World 
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1973
     The cultural and economic liberation of women is inseparable from the creation of a society in which all people no longer have their lives stolen from them, and in which the conditions of their production and reproduction will no longer be distorted or held back by the subordination of sex, race, or class.
173. Woman's Estate
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1966   Published: 1976
     Juliet Mitchell defines the specific areas of women's oppression and describes current attempts to break the pattern of repression imposed on all women.
174. Women Against Censorship
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1985
     Essays which argue that women have nothing to gain by allying themselves with anti-feminist forces and mainstream politicians. The contributors say that censorhip will be used against feminists who seek deep and permanent changes in the status quo.
175. Women and Global Capitalism
     Against The Current vol. 85
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2000
     Women are affected in unique ways by current forms of global economic integration. Their experiences, concerns and needs must be a central part of the groundwork for understanding and transforming this global economy.
176. Women Are Not Wallpaper
     Miren Gutierrez and Oriana Boselli interview filmmaker Erik Gandini
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Something new is appearing on the Italian screen. About time, some may say.
177. Women at Work - Ontario, 1850- 1930
     Resource Type: Book
     
178. Women: Caste, Class or Oppressed Sex
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1970
     The author traces the sources of women's oppression, and outlines her understanding of the Marxist approach to its origins. Originally published in International Socialist Review.
179. Women and Children First
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1982
     
180. Women: The Longest Revolution
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1966
     Chapter transcribed from Women's Estate. A discussion of women in socalist theory in the 19th century, and the Women's liberation movement through to the 1960's.
181. Women and Marxism
     Resource Type: Website
     Documents on Marxism and women.
182. Women and New Technologies
     An Organizing Manual
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 1990
     March 1990 issue of The Tribune, Newsletter #44, March 1990. Periodical profile published 1990.
     
183. Women of the revolution
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Thirty years after the toppling of the Shah in Iran, Azar Sheibani looks at how Iranian women have defied the reign of misogynist terror.
184. Women Organizing for Change
     Confronting the Crisis in Latin America
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1988
     A series of articles which seek to examine the effects of recent profound economic, social and political crises of the part several years, particularly the effects of the crisis on the lives of women in the region.
185. Women, Resistance and Revolution 
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1972   Published: 1974
     A wide-ranging survey of the roots of inequality and of the long but sporadic struggles to covercome it. Her narrative extends from the seventeenth century to present-day (1970s) Vietnam, showing how certain women have struggled, in both revolutionary and repressive situations, to achieve liberation.
186. Women Stand Up, Fight Back
     Against The Current vol. 133
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     What would it mean to truly end gender-and-race-based violence? How can radicals acknowledge the totalizing violence of white supremacy while also accounting for the very diverse, and sometimes conflicting, experiences and survival strategies of Arab, Asian, Native, Latina and Black women?
187. Women Unite
     An Anthology of the Canadian Women's Movement
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1972
     An anthology doucmenting the Canadian women's movement of the late 1906s and early 1970s.
188. Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
     Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
     Resource Type: Article
     Founded 1915 in The Hague, the Netherlands, by women active in the women's suffrage movement in Europe and North America. They sought to end the war and seek ways to ensure that no more wars took place.
189. Women's Labour Leagues (Canada)
     Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
     Resource Type: Article
     Women's Labour Leagues emerged in Canada prior to WWI. Their purpose was to defend the struggles of women workers and support the labour movement.
190. Women's Organizing and Public Policy in Canada and Sweden
     Resource Type: Book
     Essays exploring the similarities and differences of women organizing and changing public policy in two different national and regional contexts. It examines the strategies that women have used to organize themselves as a vocal and political community.
191. Women's Research Centre
     Organization profile published 1977
     Resource Type: Organization
     First Published: 1977
     The intention of the Women's Research Centre is to work closely with women who do not normally have access to research facilities or who lack the skills to do such work themselves.
192. Women's rights: What have men got to do with it?
     New Internationalist November 2004
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2004
     A look at the relations between men and women dealing with equality.
193. Women's Space, Contested Terrain
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1997
     Lately I am struck by how easy, still, for men to behave however they desire. That in spite--indeed, sometimes because--of the women's movement, men still control so much of our public space with an arrogance that astounds me.
194. Women's Suffrage (Canada)
     Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
     Resource Type: Article
     Suffrage campaign in the late 19th century which aimed to achieve votes for all women as a democratic right.
195. Women's Suffrage and Class Struggle
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1912
     In any society, the degree of female emancipation is the natural measure of the general emancipation.
     
196. WomensNet
     Resource Type: Website
     News, activism alerts, and links to many resources for women.
197. Women's Oppression and the Struggle for Liberation
     A Marxist Analysis
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2014
     Society's mores and culture-on questions of marriage, the family, the roles of men, women and children-are not preordained, but must be studied in their man-made historical context. Emancipation means putting an end to the economic system of capitalism. Thus, for Marxists, the liberation of women cannot be separated from the liberation of all the exploited and oppressed.
198. Words that Count Women In - Review
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1993
     Review of Words that Count Women In. A guide to eliminating gender bias in writing and speech.
199. Working Class Experience 
     Rethinking the History of Canadian Labour, 1800-1991
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1983   Published: 1992
     From nineteenth-century tavern life to late twentieth-century cinema, from rough canallers and the first stirrings of craft unionism to contemporary public-sector strikes, this books provides a sweeping interpretive study of the history of the Canadian working class since 1800.

Experts on Femmes in the Sources Directory

1. Organization of American States
2. Partners in Population and Development
3. South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation
4. UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
5. United Nations