Resources

Publications

WOMEN'S SELF-HELP EDUCATIONAL KIT

The kit includes a Training Manual (designed to familiarize women with popular educational techniques, group dynamics and facilitation skills), a Women's Self-Help handbook (two modules: Women Changing and Peer Counselling), and a Collective Handbook. A limited number of copies of the formal report on the women's Self-Help network three year project is also available free of charge.

This kit is helpful for women's groups attempting to create change, share knowledge and skills, initial community action and increase awareness. $25.00. Women's Self-Help Network,
Box 3292, Courtenay, B.C. V9N 5N4.

A book about sexually transmitted diseases, is addressed to people who are sexually active on or the verge of becoming so. It makes some assumption about basic knowledge about the body. It is directed at men and women alike, young and old, heterosexual, homosexual and bisexual, married and single. Comprehensive and objective publication. $2.00. Montreal Health Press Inc., P.O. Box 1000, Station 1a cité, Montréal,
P.Q. H2W 2N1 (514) 272-5441. Bulk orders available.

Building life skills with women- Volume III. Edited by Mary Beth Zapf, YWCA. Volume III builds on previous volumes and contains further information and skill-building exercises in communication, life management, and employment. It introduces new areas of humour, money management, sabotaging group behaviours, body awareness, relating to the elderly, releasing creativity and more. A guide to planning a life skills program is included. $16.50.
YWCA of Metro Toronto, Resources Development,
80 Woodlawn Avenue East, Toronto M4T 1C1.

Power and its abuses is the subject of the current issue of Canadian Woman Studies, Violence. A wide variety of articles on violence and women, in English and French by various feminist writers.

Available at your local bookstore, or send $4.00 to CWS, 204 Founders College,
York University, 4700 Keele Street, Downsview, Ontario M3J 1P3.

The proceedings of the June conference on women and technology in Ottawa have now been compiled. "The Future is now" - Women and The Impact of Technology contains descriptions of all workshops; reading, film and video lists; networking resources; and will be invaluable as a resource for women in education and lab our. Edited by Jacqueline Pelletier in collaboration with the Women and Technology Committee. Both French and English are included together. Individuals $10.00, institutions $15.00. Orders from Women and Technology Committee,
c/o Lynda Barrett, 2782 Springland Dr., Ottawa, K1V 6M4.