Fresh Start
YWCA of Canada
(see above)

This easy-to-read booklet for women in abusive relationships and others who want to understand the issues looks at power and control in relationships, how to develop a safety plan, the impact on children, using the justice system, child custody, and more. $3.25/booklet; $2.75/booklet for 6 or more copies.

Taking Action on Violence in the
Lives of Young Women
YWCA of Canada (see above)

This resource kit and activity program is geared to youth leaders who work with girls and young women aged 12 to 18. Information on a variety of topics is included plus suggestions for related activities and programming. $20/kit.

Getting Your Message Out
YWCA of Canada
(see above)

This public relations tool for anyone working in social justice includes sections on getting media coverage, organizing public education campaigns, writing effective media releases, letters to the editor and much more. $25/kit.

Women's Space Magazine
http://www.softaid.net/catch /sister/w-space/womspce.html
or
diamond@fox.nstn.ca

Women's Space exists to promote accessibility to the Internet, its information, tools and resources; enhance women's organizing through national and global connections; bring global online resources to local communities; and support the exchange of experiences and ideas among women and women's groups. Copies in print available by request.

Missing Links
Women Ink 777 United
Nations Plaza
New York, NY 10017 USA
(212) 687-8633
(212) 661-2704 fax
wink@igc.apc.org

This report is a collection of papers on gender, science and technology and includes chapters on Claiming and Using Indigenous Knowledge, Looking at Health through Women's Eyes, Education and Career Opportunities for Women in Science, Technology and Engineering, Measuring Differential Impacts of New Technologies, etc.

Only Silence will Protect You:
Women, Freedom of Expression and
the Language of Human Rights

International Centre for Human Rights
and Democratic Development
63, rue de Bresoles
Montréal (Québec) H2Y 1V7
(514) 283-5073
(514) 283-3792 fax ichrdd@web.net

This book by Ian Bauer examines international human rights law on the right of women to seek and receive information and to exercise freedom of expression. Free of charge.

Critical Choices, Turbulent Times
The School of Social Work, UBC
2080West Mall
Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z2
(604) 822-2255
(604) 822-8656 fax

This book by Nancy Pollak for community-based groups concerned about social programs, or anybody with an interest in influencing and improving our social welfare system, encourages groups to explore how social programs affect them with the goal of changing things for the better.

Gender, Technology and Development
Gender and Development Studies Centre
Asian Institute of Technology
GPO Box 2754 Bangkok 10501
Thailand
kelkars@rccsun.ait.ac.th

This new international, refereed journal will explore linkages between changing gender relations and technological development, focusing on the extended and shifting boundaries of meaning in gender, feminism, equality, technology and science for non-Western societies and cultures. Diverse perspectives of the Asian region will be focal, but dialogues along East-West, North-South lines will also appear.

Politically peaking
Douglas and McIntyre ISBN 1-55054-515-9

This book by Judy Rebick and KikeRoach documents a series of conversations between these two feminist activists in which they address issues such as identity politics, racism, the changing nature of work, violence against women, the future of the women's movement, the power of the media, Quebec, our current political system, etc. In bookstores by Oct. /96.

Gender Equity Through Physical
Education
Canadian Association for Health,
Physical Education, Recreation and Dance
(613) 747-5622 (613) 748-5737 fax
cahperd@rtm.activeliving.ca

This kit, called GET PE, was developed to advance gender equitable physical education within the school community. Suggestions, activities and strategies are included for groups such as teachers, students, administrators, parents, coaches, school trustees, Ministries of Education, and community leaders.

Connie Many Stories:
A Novel of Abuse and Healing

Mercury Press
137 Birmingham Street
Stratford, ON, N5A 2T1
(519) 273-7083
(519) 273-7932 fax

This lyrical novel by Sarah Murphy is a tale of self-confrontation and healing; it looks at a woman's recognition of the double-sided sword of her own power and the decisions she must make in adulthood.



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