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This bilingual guide captures the range of documentation created in what historians refer to as the second wave of the women's movement, which emerged after 1960 in the context of widespread social and political change in Canada. Included in the guide are the records of women's groups formed or functioning after 1960 that are held in a variety of Canadian archives or by the groups themselves. This guide challenges perceptions of what is archival by focusing on contemporary movement records, which may be held to stimulate research on the contemporary Canadian women's movement and encourage more widespread collection of these records by archival repositories. With its user-friendly approach to archival description, the guide seeks to reach an audience unfamiliar with traditional archives and raise awareness among women's groups and activists of the archival value of their records.
A detailed examination of women's lives on Quebec from the early seventeenth century until the end of the '70's.
Directory of voluntary organizations and associations in Canada.
This comparative book brings together scholars to examine the changing patterns of feminist activism and the new local, global and cyber spaces in which it is to be found. It addresses the question 'where have women's movements gone?'
Qui prend soin des plus vulnérables ? Sur quelles épaules repose le plus massivement la part altruiste de nos sociétés ? Les femmes ont toujours été au coeur des traditions de secours aux pauvres, d’accueil des immigrants et des réfugiés, d’aide aux mères et aux enfants. Ces rôles de solidarité, parce qu’associés au foyer et à la religion, leur ont permis d’agir dans une sphère publique qui leur était par ailleurs largement interdite. Dans la première moitié du XXe siècle, l’activité philanthropique organisée a été un moteur essentiel de l’accession des femmes aux pleins droits politiques. Ce livre s’attache à faire l’histoire de trois grandes associati...
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Changing Women, Changing History is a bibliographic guide to the scholarship, both English and French, on Canadian's women's history. Organized under broad subject headings, and accompanied by author and subject indices it is accessible and comprehensive.