Homophobia – A Weapon of Sexism
“The battered women’s movement has seen this kind of attack: the pressure has been to provide services only, without analysis of the causes of violence against women and strategies for ending it. To […]
Who’s Counting? Marilyn Waring on Sex, Lies and Global Economics
“In this feature-length documentary, Marilyn Waring demystifies the language of economics by defining it as a value system in which all goods and activities are related only to their monetary […]
Who Stole Incest?
In 1978, when people asked what I’d written about, I’d say “incest.” And they would then most often ask, “Oh? Are you a feminist?” Now, when I say (with some […]
Unity Statement of the Women’s Groups
Presenting to The Oppal Commission inquiring into Policing in British Columbia on behalf of and directed by the attending women’s groupsMay 4th, 1993, Vancouver Thank you for the invitation to hear from […]
99 Federal Steps To End Violence Against Women
Read/Download PDF Introduction by Sunera Thobani, President, National Action Committee on the Status of Women, December 1993 The 99 Federal Steps to End Violence Against Women is presented by the National Action […]
Prostitution: Where Racism and Sexism Intersect
Black women find themselves in a unique and extremely difficult position in our society. They are forced to deal with the oppression that arises from being Black in a white-supremacist […]
Dancing with a Gorilla: Aboriginal Women, Justice and the Charter
An NWAC Submission for the Roundtable on Justice Issues. Download PDF
Prostitution and Male Supremacy
Andrea Dworkin delivered this speech at a symposium entitled “Prostitution: From Academia to Activism,” sponsored by the Michican Journal of Gender and Law at the University of Michigan Law School, […]
Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence —From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
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Women, Violence and the Montréal Massacre
It was a typical Wednesday at the Vancouver women’s shelter. Upstairs in the attic meeting room, six rape crisis workers were busy reviewing November’s reports, extracting and compiling statistics; on […]