BOOKS/PUBLICATIONS

A Time For Action on Sexual Harassment in the Workplace - An Employers' Guide
Ontario Women's Directorate
12th Floor, 2 Carlton Street
Toronto, Ontario M5B 2M9
(416) 314-3991
(416) 314-0254 Fax

This guide defines sexual harassment, outlines the legal ramifications of sexual harassment, and highlights the obligations and responsibilities of the employer. It Also offers guidance on developing sound " policies and procedures (along With resolution mechanisms) and features an annotated bibliography of written and visual resources.

Progress Revisited: The Quality of (Work)Life of Women Teachers
Canadian Teachers'
Federation 110 Argyle Avenue
Ottawa, Ontario K2P IB4
(613) 232-1505
(613) 232-1886 Fax

This 18-page report, blending quantitative and qualitative Canadian data on women teachers' lives, is a comprehensive resource for policy-makers, advocates and equity educators. $15.00 (+ GST).

The Canadian Woman's Budget
The Women's International League for
Peace and Freedom (WILPF)
P.O. Box 4181, Station E
Ottawa, Ontario KIS 5H9
(613) 253-6395

This document examines the federal government's expenditures for social programs and services and the national defense budget, and calls for a budget that reflects the needs of women and benefits all of society. $15.00 (includes taxes, shipping and handling).

Canadian Women's Issues, Volume I: Strong Voices
James Lorimer & Company, Publishers
Orders to: Formac Distributing
5502 Atlantic Street
Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 104
1-800-565-1975 (902) 425-0166 Fax

This documentary history of the contemporary women's movement in Canada is a wide-ranging historical account which covers events in English Canada over the past 25 years. Strong Voices is the first in a two-volume set. $24.95 (+ GST).

Storm & Sanctuary: The journey of Ethiopian and Eritrean Women Refugees
artemis enterprises, publishers
RR #2, Box 54
Dundas, Ontario L9H 5E2
(905) 628-0596 (Ann Turner)

This book explores gender-related deprivations and difficulties suffered by women refugees in the period preceding and during flight, in first countries of asylum and in resettlement. $18.95 (+$3.00 shipping and handling + $1.54 GST = $23.49).

Women Writing
Canadian Woman Studies
212 Founders College, York University
4700 Keele Street
North York, Ontario M3J IP3

This issue is a celebration of writing by women, and about women. It includes short fiction, poetry, novel and play excerpts, life-writing, and experimental works. It is an excellent resource and ideal teaching tool for Women's Studies and English courses. $8.00 (+ PST + GST + $2.00 postage).

Women's Studies Catalogue 1993
Canadian Book Marketing Centre
2 Gloucester Street, Suite 301
Toronto, Ontario M4Y lL5
(416) 413-4930
(416) 413-4920 Fax

A listing of Canadian titles by, for and about women, from publishers across the country. Free of charge.

The Splendid Vision: Centennial History of the National Council of Women of Canada, 1893-1993

The National Council of Women of
Canada

Orders to: Oxford University Press
70 Wynford Drive
Don Mills, Ontario M3C IJ9
(416) 441-2941
(416) 441-0345 Fax

The Splendid Vision is the story of women, who, in major ways, have built the Canadian community - vibrant individuals whose contributions to Canadian public life have too often been ignored. $28.95 (cloth), $18.95 (paper) + GST.

Review of the Situation of Women in Canada, July 1993

Coyote Columbus
Darkness is a Marshmallow
Secret Conversations

Moonprint Press
P.O. Box 293
Winnipeg, Manitoba R3C 2G9

These are the first three titles of a new women's press to be launched in Winnipeg in March. Coyote Columbus Cafe by First Nations poet Marie Annharte Baker invokes the Coyotrix; Darkness is a Marshmallow by Diane Driedger examines Mennonite images in a journey towards light; Secret Conversations by Cecile Brisebois speaks of motherhood and its ranges of emotion and experience. Each chapbook $6 + $2 postage.

National Action Committee on the Status
of Women

57 Mobile Drive
Toronto, Ontario M4A IH5
(416) 759-5252
(416) 759-5370 Fax

"The situation of Canadian women is marked this year by a series of both blatantly obvious and cleverly camouflaged economic, social and ideological attacks which, piece by piece, undermine the everyday living conditions of the vast majority of women". Review shows that women are not uniformly affected. $4.95.



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