BOOKS/PUBLICATIONS

Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women

110 O'Connor Street, 9th Floor Box 1541, Station B Ottawa, Ontario K1P 5R5 (613) 992-4976 (613) 992-1715 Fax

CACSW has several publications available on violence against women, including: Male Violence Against Women: The Brutal Face of Inequality, Preventing Wife Battering: Towards a New Understanding, and Battered But Not Beaten: Preventing Wife Battering in Canada, provided for free.
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Liberty: A Manual for Group Facilitators and Survivors of Woman Abuse

Family Service Association 5614 Fenwick Street, #106 Halifax, N.S. B3H 1P9 (902) 420-1980 $15 (+ $3.50 postage & handling)
The manual outlines a program of eleven workshops for women who have left abusive partners.
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Women's Strength News

Women Educating in Self-Defense Training 2349 St. Catherines Street Vancouver, B.C. V5T 3X8 (604) 876-6390
This quarterly newsletter reflects issues and concerns about self-defense for women and their children.
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Vis-a-Vis

Canadian Council on Social Development 55 Parkdale Avenue P.O. Box 3505, Station C Ottawa, Ontario K1Y 401
This free quarterly publication focuses on family violence and issues of prevention.
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Handbook for the Prevention of Family Violence/Family Violence Prevention: Getting Started

Community Child Abuse Council of Hamilton-Wentworth c/o Lloyd George School Rm 16, 360 Beach Road Hamilton, Ontario L8H 3K4 (416) 549-1353
The Handbook provides a concise and in-depth look at family violence and the getting started kit provides strategies for addressing family violence within the school curriculum. Handbook: $30 (soft cover), $35 (3-ring binder); Getting Started: $35. (+ GST; bulk rates available).
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On Our Feet

CACE Publications University of the Western Cape Private Bag X17 7535 Bellville South Africa
This handbook for educators and trainers in communities, labor, and educational organizations provides practical steps to challenging women's oppression through popular education.
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Wife Assault South Asian Perspectives

Diva 427 Bloor Street W. Toronto, Ontario M5S 1X7 A special edition of Diva, a quarterly journal of South Asian women, focuses on wife assault.
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The Wellbeing of a Community is in the Wellbeing of Women

Education Wife Assault 427 Bloor Street W. Toronto, Ontario M5S 1X7 (416) 968-3422
Two booklets on wife assault and woman abuse, including information on resources and services, are available in Urdu and Vietnamese.
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Taking Action: A Union Guide to Ending Violence Against Women

Women's Research Centre 101, 2245 West Broadway Vancouver, B.C. V6K 2E4 (604) 734-0485 (604) 734-0484 Fax
Designed to provide union members with information to take action on violence against women in the home, workplace and community. $10,52 pp. Other publications dealing with violence are also avai1ab1e from the Women's Research Centre.
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Women Educating to End Violence Against Women

Popular Education Research Group 606 Shaw Street Toronto, Ontario M6G 3L6 (416) 532-8584 (416) 532-7688 Fax
Part of an occasional paper series, this 36 page booklet 1ooks at violence prevention in Jamaica, Argentina, Nicaragua, Thailand, Chile and with Canada's aboriginal peoples. $5.00 (10% discount on orders of ten or more).
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Safety in Numbers: Resisting Men's Violence Against Women and Girls

Women's Press 517 College Street, #233 Toronto, Ontario M6G 4A2 (416) 921-2425 (416) 921-4428
This anthology of essays addressing violence prevention is expected to be published in the fall of 1993
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