Sex-Role Stereotyping: An awareness kit
for parents and teachers This kit shows how sex-role stereotyping affects the career goals of girls and boys and presents information on how to conduct workshops to promote non-sexist parenting and teaching. Issues of race, ethnic background, language, sexual orientation and differences in physical ability are also raised. Separate workshops for parents and teachers are included. Available free. Creating a World of Equality
This booklet describes projects by CIDA to support the empowerment of women in countries such as Bangladesh and Pakistan, in the Philippines, Africa and Southeast Asia. Statistics and other information are included. Cultus Lake Literacy and Career Awareness
Project This 169 page booklet describes a project in Cultus Lake, B.C., that offered separate career awareness programs to adults in the community and to students at an elementary school in order to emphasize the link between literacy and employment. Copies of the handbook are available for loan. Children in Danger The four books in this series (Leaving the Land, Leaving the Family, Working for a Living, Getting an Education) are about the lives of street kids around the world, the problems they face and their efforts to leave the street and find a better life. Copies can be borrowed from Literacy B.C. (1-800-663-1293) or purchased from CoDevelopment Canada ISR Publication Series A number of education related publications are available from ISR, including titles such as Race on Campus: Outcomes of the First Year Experience at York University, The Experience of Female and Minority Students in First Year Science, Sexual Harassment in Public Places: Reinterviews with participants in a national study. For a complete publications list, contact the institute. Counterpoise To be published quarterly beginning January 1997, Counterpoise is a library review journal offering reviews, essays and resource lists of independent publications in the arts, social sciences and sciences that have been overlooked by mainstream review journals. $35 (institution), $25 (individual), $15 (student, retired), per year (add $5 for Canadian subscriptions). Guernica Editions New titles from Guernica Editions include Women as Lovers by Theresa Carilli, Two Women in a Birth by Daphne Marlatt and Betsy Warland, Where I Come From by Maria Mazziotti Gillan and The Edges of Light by Helene Dorion. Changing Women, Changing History: A
bibliography of the history of women in Canada This comprehensive resource compiled by Diana Pedersen is designed for undergraduate students but can be used by teachers, graduate students and researchers in the field of Canadian women's history. Listing both English and French titles, this 110 page volume contains more than 2,000 entries. $15/ copy ($5/ea per additional copy) + $2 postage & handling + 7% GST. Leaders, Scholars, Mentors: Women and
Education Poster Produced for Women's History Month 1995, this poster illustrates the diversity of background and interests of Canadian women in education through historical and contemporary photographs. $13.91 ea. (total) + $3 for each additional ; poster. In 2 Print This new quarterly magazine publishes original work (poetry, short stories, one- act plays, painting, photography, computer art, cartoons) by young adults ages 12 to 20 as well as reviews of books, music and theatre. Children as Peacemakers |
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