1. Alexandra Kollontai and Red Love
   Against The Current vol. 81
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 1999
   What is “Red Love”—and more specifically, what is a socialist, or more complexly, a communist theory of love and sexuality?
2. Angels of the Workplace
   Women and the Construction of Gender Relations in the Canadian Clothing Industry, 1890-1940
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1997
   Examines how the intricate weaving together of the meanings of class, gender, ethnicity, family, and the workplace created a job ghetto for women. Detailing the disparities between men and women in terms of wages and representation, this book is the definitive history of discrimination against women in Canada's clothing industry.
3. Beyond the Veil
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2013
   The question of the Muslim veil seems never to leave the headlines for long. The latest controversies have erupted in Britain after a defendant in a criminal trial demanded the right to wear a niqab in court and a college attempted to proscribe it.
4. Bury the Seventies and the Eighties
   Resource Type: Article
   
5. 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 student and anti-war movements, the rise of women's liberation, labour struggles, and Quebec nationalism.
6. Canadian Information Sharing Service
   Volume 1, Number 3
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1976
   
7. Canadian Information Sharing Service
   Volume 2, Number 2
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1977
   
8. Canadian Information Sharing Service
   Volume 3, Number 2 - April 1978
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1978
   
9. Chasing a Mirage
   The Tragic Illusion of an Islamic State
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2008
   According to Tarek Fatah, "Morality is doing what is right, regardless what we are told; Religious dogma is doing what we are told, no matter what is right." Fatah argues that since Islam's advent, there have been two parallel strains of the religion that are in clash. The first "state of Islam" is a person's moral compass; the way Islam governs an individual's personal life. By contrast, the yearning for "an Islamic state" has been bloody and fruitless.
10. Connexions
    Volume 3, Number 5 - September 1978
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1978
    
11. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 2 - May 1980 - Women/Femmes
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1980
    
12. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 4 - November 1981 - Unorganized Workers/Travailleurs Non-Organises
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1981
    
13. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 5 - January 1982 - Children/Enfants
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1982
    
14. Connexions
    Volume 7, Number 3 - July 1982 - Prairie Region/Region des Prairies
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1982
    
15. Connexions
    Volume 8, Number 1 - Spring 1983 - Women and Men
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1983
    
16. 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
    
17. Connexions
    Volume 9, Number 3 - Fall 1984 - Housing - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1984
    
18. Connexions
    Volume 10, Number 1 - Spring 1986 - The Arts and Social Change
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1986
    
19. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1987
    
20. 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.
21. Connexions Digest
    Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1992
    
22. Connexions Library: Women's Issues Focus 
    Resource Type: Website
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on women.
23. Convention of the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
    Resource Type: Article
    
24. Daughters of India Violated and Abused
    A Woman's Lot
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Widespread sexual abuse rapes the land and inflicts harm upon the women of India who are isolated from the emerging "New India".
25. Declaration of the Rights of Women and Citizen
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1791
    Aware that women were being denied the new rights of liberty and property extended to all men by the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, Gouges composed her own Declaration of the Rights of Woman and Citizen, modeled on the 1789 document.
26. The Emperor's New Penis
    The Same Sexual Threats, the Same Silence for Women
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Right now the gender fundamentalists are doing their best to shut down dialogue. They've damaged books — books that don’t even mention their concern — pressured bookstores, and silenced speakers scheduled at universities. It should come as no surprise that they are using the final tactics of all fundamentalists: bullying, threats, assault. And they've done this with increasing frequency and intensity. How long does it take to see the pattern?
27. 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.
28. Feminism vs. Marxism: Origins of the Conflict
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1974
    Contrary to an opinion still subscribed to in certain circles, modern feminism did not emerge full-grown from the fertile womb of the New Left, but is in fact an ideological offspring of the utopian egalitarianism of the early nineteenth century.
29. Fernandez, Irene
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Resource Type: Article
    Malaysian advocate for the right of women, migrants, and poor workers. (Born 1946).
30. The Fight for Freedom for Women
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
    The fight for women's rights in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, primarily focusing on Britain and the USA.
31. Foremothers and Fathers
    Against The Current vol. 139
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Socialist feminism is usually said to have begun in the 1960s and ‘70s, but in fact it was a significant radical current 100-150 years ago.
32. 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.
33. Headscarves and Hymens
    Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2015
    A condemnation of the repressive political, cultural, and religious forces that reduce millions of women to second-class citizens.
34. Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution
    Book Review
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2015
    One afternoon earlier this year, I stepped into the carriage of a Cairo metro train. I was on the way home from interviewing female students - all of them devout, veiled Muslims - who had been snatched off the street and sexually assaulted by police for protesting against the military regime. It was hard for them to speak openly about the attacks for fear of shaming their families and destroying their own chances of marriage.
35. A History of Women's Rights in Toronto
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Whether they were marching in solidarity with the Women's March on Washington or commemorating International Women's Day, women in Toronto have a longstanding tradition of advocating for gender equality across Canada.
36. Inside Iran
    New Internationalist March 2007
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2007
    A look at Iran from history to present. Discussion of women's rights and the youth of Iran.
37. 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.
38. The Invisible War
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2012
    An investigative documentary about the epidemic of rape of soldiers within the US military.
39. Iran: Compulsory veiling is abusive, discriminatory and humiliating; end the persecution of women for peacefully protesting against it
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Amnesty International criticizes Iran's compulsory veiling laws, arguing that they are not only harmful to women, but fundamentally unconstitutional.
40. Is that an archive in your basement... or are you just hoarding?
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Are you an 'accidental archivist'? Have you been saving the publications and documents produced by the social justice projects you've been involved in? Then Connexions would like to hear from you.
41. Machismo and Its Discontents
    Against The Current vol. 134
    Resource Type: Article
    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).
42. Marxism and women's oppression today
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Times reflect how much in society in relation to women has changed, but also how much appears to have stayed the same.
43. My Stealthy Freedom: The Hijab in Iran and in the West
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    An interview with Masih Alinejad, an outspoken critic of the forced hijab policy in Iran, about how the Islamic Revolution affected women, compulsory hijab laws, and her activism.
44. The No-Nonsense Guide to Women's Rights
    Resource Type: Book
    
45. 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.
46. On Islam And Gender Equality
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    A review essay on Salbiah Ahmad's book Critical Thoughts on Islam, Rights and Freedom in Malaysia.
47. Only in Conjunction With the Proletarian Woman Will Socialism Be Victorious
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1896
    We must, first of all, learn how we ought to do our work among women.
48. 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.
49. Palestinian Women Suffer as Israel Violates CEDAW
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Palestinian women continue to suffer abuse and denial of basic human rights at the hands of Israeli settlers and soldiers in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
50. Pankhurst, Emmeline
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    English women's suffrage movement leader. (1858-1928).
51. A Parable of Women's Liberation
    Against The Current vol. 134
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    Interview with Meredith Tax.
52. Pornography and the Sex Censors
    A review of 'Defending Pornography: Free Speech, Sex, and the Fight for Women's Rights,' by Nadine Strossen
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1996
    The pornography debacle has driven deep wedges among feminists, and has weakened the women's movement by alienating many women who cannot relate to a perceived ethos of anti-sexuality, gender antagonism, and victimhood. To the extent that it has convinced women to conceive of themselves as victims, to live in constant dread of male violence and aggression, rather than thinking of ourselves as the agents of our own liberation, it has been profoundly disempowering.
53. Power and Need in Africa
    Basic Human Needs and Development Policies
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    Ben Wisner makes a case for giving the poor of Africa the means to develop their own future. He shows how a new African renaissance could spring from a radical basic-needs approach. A renaissance which has as its constituent elements environmental sustainability, women's emancipation and social justice, will stand as a refutation of the new, conservative pragmatism popular among development experts.
54. The Power of Women United
    Against The Current vol. 134
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    Interview with Kipp Dawson.
55. Radical Digressions 5
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2008
    
56. 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.
57. Reproductive Rights Assaulted
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Feeley examines the lack of rights American women have in regards to reproduction, abortion, and access to contraceptives as legislations currently in place bar women from having full coverage or information regarding their options.
58. 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.
59. The rise of humanism and secularism in Iran
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2005
    The backlash and opposition in Iran is at its essence strongly humanist, secularist and modern. You can see it clearly in the rational, popular, and spontaneous acts and the
    establishment of hundreds of organisations outside government structures and restrictions that are non-religious and purely for the defence of the human being via reliance on human will.
60. 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."
61. Sex and Marriage in Utopian Communities in Nineteenth Century America
    Nineteenth-Century America
    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
62. 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.
63. Sojourner Truth
    A Life, a Symbol
    Resource Type: Book
    A biography of Sojourner Truth, a famous northern slave, born in the 1790's. A devout Christian, she came to symbolize the shame of slavery and the promise of women's emancipation.
64. 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.
65. Still ain't satisfied
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
    
66. 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.
67. Suffrage (Voting Rights)
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    The civil right to vote, or the exercise of that right.
68. 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".
69. Synthesis: A review of events reported in the Canadian press - December 1977
    Volume V Number 10
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1977
    Synthesis is the journal of the Canadian News Synthesis Project. Previously known as the Canadian News Synthesis Project (1974 - 1976), Synthesis analyzes and presents current news coverage of the most important economic, political and cultural forces in Canadian Society, using major newspapers from across the country.
    
70. 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.
71. Trafficking and Prostitution Reconsidered
    New Perspectives on Migration, Sex Work, and Human Rights
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    This collection of essays underscores the interlocking relationship between prostitution, migration and trafficking. They reveal a deep seated anxiety about borders, economic resources and the fragility of the nation-state. Far from from helping women and children become free from explotaiton, the obession with women sex workers has led to the detriment of all by excluding the questions of human rights, freedon of movement, basics such as food and shelter and a living wage. The book is a call for all those involved -- governments, aid workers and trafickees -- to go beyond a paternalistic and colonial view of these issues and deal with them in a spirit of cooperation.
72. VAWA Must Pass to Protect All Women, Regardless of Race
    The Fight Ahead
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    No woman deserves to be beaten, raped, or killed, regardless of her race, ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation.
73. The Veil and Violence against Women in Islamist Societies
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    The ongoing battle between the Islamic authorities and women over the veil clearly reveals why it has become a symbol like no other of the violence women face under Islam and why 'improper' or 'bad' veiling and unveiling have become a symbol of resistance to Islam in power and its violence against women. It is for this very reason that the slogan 'neither veil nor submission' has become a rallying cry ever since the regime imposed compulsory veiling on women after expropriating and crushing the revolution to consolidate its rule.
74. 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.
75. What's all the fuss about the veil?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    It is impossible to address the status of women under Islamic laws and defend women’s rights without addressing and denouncing the veil. And this is why the veil is the first thing that Islamists impose when they have any access to power.
76. 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.
77. Why is India so bad for women?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Of all the G20 nations, India has been labelled the worst place to be a woman. How is this possible in a country that prides itself on being the world's largest democracy?
78. Why make a fuss about the murder of a brown-skinned Muslim girl?
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
79. Women on the frontlines of Kurdish struggles: An interview with JI.NHA women's news agency
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    In 2015, Corporate Watch visited Bakur (meaning 'North' in Kurmanji), the Kurdish region within Turkey's borders. We interviewed two journalists from JI.NHA, an all-women news agency made up of mostly Kurdish women, based in Amed. Our meeting with JI.NHA took place just after the Turkish election in June 2015. Since our interviews, the Turkish state has begun a new war on its Kurdish population. Cities have been attacked by the police and military with mortars, tanks and helicopters and every day Kurdish citizens are being murdered. People in cities across Bakur have erected barricades in their neighbourhoods to defend themselves against the violence and are trying to organise autonomously from the state.
80. Women Rise Up Against Gender Violence in the Caribbean
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Podur interviews Joan Joy Grant Cummings, a women's right activist, regarding the severity of sexual violence towards women and girls in Jamaica.
81. 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.
82. 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.
83. Women's suffrage: Timeline of women's suffrage - Wikipedia
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Timeline of women's suffrage activities around the world from the 18th to 21st century.
84. Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here 
    Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2013
    Karima Bennoune interviews 300 people from 30 countries to report on a largely invisible group of people: Muslim opponents of fundamentalism. They remain largely invisible, lost amid the heated coverage of Islamist terror attacks on one side and abuses perpetrated against suspected terrorists on the other. A veteran of twenty years of human rights research and activism, Karima Bennoune draws on extensive fieldwork and interviews to illuminate the inspiring stories of those who represent one of the best hopes for ending fundamentalist oppression worldwide.
85. Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight against Muslim Fundamentalism, by Karima Bennoune (Book Review)
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Karima Bennoune, a US-based law scholar raised in Algeria, has written an account of the stories of numerous people whose lives have been scarred by Islamic fundamentalism and who decided, using a variety of means, to put up a fight.

Experts on Femmes/Droits in the Sources Directory

1. International Development Law Organization
2. Organization of the Islamic Conference
3. Partners in Population and Development
4. United Nations
5. United Nations Human Rights Council
6. Women Living Under Muslim Law