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For information on wife-battering, contact: National Clearinghouse on Family Violence, Attention Area C, Health and Welfare Canada, Ottawa, K1A 1B5 Catherine MacLeod and Shelley Acheson have researched and written a report, Parental Rights and Day Care: A Bargaining Guide for Unions for the Ontario Federation of Lab our. Copies are available from the O.F.L. Women's Committee, 15 Gervais Drive, Suite 202, Don Mills, Ontario M3C 1Y8. WOMEN AND HEALTH It's Just Your Nerves is an educational resource on women's use of minor tranquilizers and alcohol. It is designed as a preventive health education resource by Health and Welfare Canada. Available in French and English, free of charge, from: "It's Just Your Nerves, Health Promotion Directorate, Health and Welfare Canada, 5th Floor, Jeanne Mance Bldg. Tunney's Pasture, Ottawa, Ont. K1A 1B4. The possible side effects of the injectable contraceptive Depo-Provera are studied in the Quebec Public Interest Research Group's report DEPO- PROVERA: A Shot in the Dark. Although this drug has been used extensively on women in the third world, little documentation about the effects of the drug on humans exists. Copies of the report are available from QPIRG, 2070 Mackay Street, Room 399, Montreal, Quebec. Healthsharing is a new Canadian Women's Health Quarterly. It is a practical and informative magazine dealing with health issues affecting women. Rates: $6.75 per year for individuals & $13 for institutions and libraries. Contact: Women Healthsharing, Box 230, Station M, Toronto Ontario, M6S 4T3. Kits The Women's Kit is an unstructured multi-media kit by women, about women, and for women of all ages. The kit contains slides, film- strips, records, photos, postcards, posters, and book- lets on well-known Canadian women, women and the marriage contract, women's suffrage, women in other cultures, and women today. Further information about the kit can be obtained from Publication Sales, The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, 252 Bloor Street West, Toronto M5S 1V6. Survival Law for Women provides basic legal information specifically geared to women who, for a number of reasons (including illiteracy), cannot get this information through traditional means. The kit, at present, includes four units: Crimes of Violence in the Family; Being Arrested and Your Rights; You and Your Children; The Law and Your Family, and Marriage and Divorce. For further information, write Community Legal Education Ontario, 62 Noble Street, Toronto, Ontario, M6K 2C9. All In A Day's Work is an ESL class-room tested kit on the value of housework. It includes written selections with exercise questions, photographs, charts and games, plus a teacher's guide and a 15 minute audio-tape. For elementary to advanced students. Designed to spark class-room interest, enhance reading, writing, speaking and listening skills. Available from: Housewives' Initiative, 348 College Street, Toronto, M5T 1S4. |
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