#27-20 The Canadian Pornography Decision … and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Kathleen Mahoney, who argued both the Keegstra and the Butler cases before Canada’s Supreme Court, explains how these two cases
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#26-20 Worker-Owned Businesses … and Cooperative Economics
Cooperative Economics is older than capitalism, and it is also the wave of the future, says Kate Washington, on her
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#21-20 4th World Conference on Women – Part 3 … Sisterhood and Strategies
A panoply of events, speakers and burning topics. Voices: All-woman Chinese orchestra; Helvi Sipila of Finland; Hillary Clinton; youth from Western Sahara;
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#18-20 Nawal el Saadawi, exile from Egypt … On the price of freedom and the price of oppression
Nawal el Saadawi gave a rousing speech in San Francisco’s Mission District in October 1993 covering feminism, colonialism, and other
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#16-20 After Incest … The Healing Years: Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
Excerpts from the film The Healing Years: Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse highlight the long process of recovering from
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#15-20 Casa Internazionale delle Donne … The International Women’s House in Rome
The Casa Internazionale delle Donne – the International Women’s House – is a former convent in Rome that was occupied
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#14-20 How Lesbians Wed … in the old days
From the WINGS archive back in 1996, these are two short stories read by their authors. They are from a
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#10-20 The Aunt Jemima Struggle … How her image became an offense
In 2020, Quaker Oats announced it would remove Aunt Jemima from its syrup and pancake mix brands. This was the
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#07-20 The Feminist Press Turns 50 … Founder Florence Howe details the early years
Founded in the US in 1970, the Feminist Press publishes neglected masterpieces by women of many cultures, countries and races,
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#05-20 bell hooks on Transforming Rage … From the WINGS archive (1993), and still good advice
Renowned cultural critic and feminist theorist bell hooks gave the keynote address at the 12th annual conference of the Texas
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