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Workshop "Bashing Queers and Women"

File contains audio recording of the workshop "Bashing Queers and Women" from the Women's Health Education Network Conference on May 5, 1990. Workshop was administered by Anne Bishop and Jan Morrell.

Women's Health Educational Network

Sub-series consists of materials from the Women's Health Education Network Conference [WHEN] 1989, 1992, 1993, and materials from the WHEN 11th annual conference.
Women Willing To Work : An Exploratory Investigation of the Economic Integration of Women with Di...

Women Willing To Work : An Exploratory Investigation of the Economic Integration of Women with Disabilities in Nova Scotia / researched and written by Elizabeth Doull

Item consists of a copy of the May 1993 report "Women Willing To Work : An Exploratory Investigation of the Economic Integration of Women with Disabilities in Nova Scotia", researched and written by Elizabeth Doull and edited by Brenda L. Beagan.
Women and the law in Nova Scotia

Women and the law in Nova Scotia

Item is a revised edition of Women and the Law in Nova Scotia published in 1972, and covers a range of legal issues affecting women in Nova Scotia, including marriage, abortion, rape, maternity leave benefits, tenancy law etc. It was written by Susan Perly with research and discussion by the Women and the Law Pamphlet Revision Committee: Deborah Dostal, Elizabeth Glenister, Elizabeth Lennon, Susan Perly and Judith Wouk.

Wimmin's Words newsletters

File contains three issues of the Wimmin's Words newsletter published in Halifax between November 1982 to February 1983. This file contains two copies of the November 1982 issue.
Transcript of remarks given by the Honourable Bill MacEachern, Minister of Social Services and th...

Transcript of remarks given by the Honourable Bill MacEachern, Minister of Social Services and the Status of Women

Item is a transcript of the remarks given by the Honourable Bill MacEachern, Minister of Social Services and the Status of Women. Honourable Bill MacEachern gave the remarks at a public meeting with the Nova Scotia Women's Action Committee at the Halifax Regional Vocation School.

The Secret Furies rehearsals

File contains one cassette tape recording of rehearsals for the Halifax-based choral group The Secret Furies. Tape contains recordings of the songs Come Justice Come ; Keep on Walking Forward ; Witch's Song ; and Burning Times. Recordings were made on June 23 and July 2, 1990.

The Secret Furies performances

File contains one cassette tape recording of a performance of the Halifax-based choral group The Secret Furies. Performances include a performance at the Montreal Massacre Memorial at Eye Level Gallery in Halifax on December 6, 1990. Songs performed at the memorial are There Comes a Time ; December 6 ; You Can Forbid Nearly Everything ; Fight Back ; Keep on Walking Forward. Tape also contains recordings of a performance at the Furies Solstice Party on December 17, 1990. Songs performed are Russian Learning Lullaby ; Three Wise Women.

The Secret Furies performances

File contains one cassette tape recording of performances the Halifax-based choral group The Secret Furies. Cassettes features recording of The Secret Furies performance at Truro Women's and Children's Dance on October 25, 1991. Songs performed are You Can Forbid Nearly Everything ; December 6 : Russian Learning Lullaby ; Living Flame ; Hippopotamus Song ; Look to the Women ; Women All Around the World. Cassette also features a recording of the song Burning Times from a performance at the Stepping Stone Benefit on October 30, 1991. Cassette also includes recordings with no specified performance date. These recordings are of the songs We All Come From the Mother ; Round and Round the Earth is Turning ; Women All Around the World.

The Secret Furies performances

File contains one cassette tape recording of performances the Halifax-based choral group The Secret Furies. Cassettes features recording of The Secret Furies performance at an International Women's Day event on March 8, 1991. Recording features a warm up or equipment test and the songs Come Justice Come ; Russian Learning Lullaby ; Mothers Teach Your Sons ; The Spelling Songs ; There Comes a Time. Cassette also features recording of a performance at the Women's Health Education Network Conference in Truro on May 4, 1991. Songs performed are Temagami Song ; Mothers Teach Your Sons ; Period Piece ; Best Woman ; We Always Had Sense ; There Comes a Time.

The Secret Furies performance

File contains one cassette tape recording of performances the Halifax-based choral group The Secret Furies. Cassettes features recording of The Secret Furies performance at the Halifax launch of the film The Burning Times on November 3, 1990. Songs on the recording performed prior to the screening are Round and Round the Earth is Turning ; River of Birds ; Witch's Song. Songs performed after the screening are Round and Round the Earth is Turning ; Under the Full Moon ; Burning Times ; Earth Air Fire Water Return.

Susan Sherwin fonds

  • MS-2-186
  • Fonds
  • 1969 - 2008
Fonds comprises records related to Susan Sherwin's professional activities, including publication, research and teaching. Record types include correspondence, contracts, manuscripts, research materials and notes, committee materials, reports, conference materials, and university course records such as syllabi, exams, and assignments.

Sherwin, Susan

Reference materials regarding homosexuality, sexual heath, substance abuse, relationships, parenting, discrimination, legal rights, and women's issues

Subseries contains materials collected for reference and educational use by GayLine volunteers. Subjects covered include homosexuality and coming out, sexual heath and AIDS prevention, alcoholism and substance abuse, abuse in LGBT relationships, parenting, discrimination, legal rights, and women's issues. Materials include pamphlets, flyers, newsletters, essays, and correspondence.

Photographs of Take Back the Night march 1990

File contains 42 black and white and colour photographs documenting 'Take Back the Night' March 1990 which took place at the Grand Parade in Halifax, Nova Scotia. See also Box 3, Folder 9 for newspaper clippings related to the 'Take Back the Night' march 1990.

Photographs of International Women's Day 1993 - 1994

File contains 121 black and white and colour photographs from International Women's Day 1993 - 1994. Photographs include documentation of performances by the Secret Furies and the Rose Vaughn trio, and photographs of attendees.

Photographs of International Women's Day 1991

File contains 60 black and white and colour photographs from International Women's Day [IWD] 1991 and includes documentation of The Secret Furies performance. Textual materials moved to Box 3, Folder 11.

Photographs from International Women's Day 1988

File contains 38 photographs documenting International Women's Day 1988 and one photograph of the "Lesbian Planning Conference Committee, 1989". Caption on the front page of the album read "The following IWD March pictures are done by Beth Joudrey, 1988". Textual materials moved to MS-15-2, Box 3, Folder 2.

Movement for Citizens Voice and Action fonds

  • MS-11-1
  • Fonds
  • 1967-1982
Fonds consists of a wide range of records from both MOVE and MOVE coalition members, consisting of administrative records to material on social issues. Records include meeting minutes from the board and staff; material on operations; records on funding and finances; material on activities and participation of MOVE such as conferences, seminars, and workshops; various material on internal committees and external committees; various material on MOVE coalition member groups; resource and reference material that made up much of MOVE's library as well as research information they used for various publications for citizen awareness. In addition, the above records contain material that target many social issues such as environment, human rights, poverty, unemployment, city planning, and transit issues.

Movement for Citizens Voice and Action

Marjorie Stone's records regarding her involvement with the Dalhousie Women Faculty Organization

File contains correspondence between Marjorie Stone and Rosemary Sullivan, Ann Manicom, K.T Leffek, Jennifer Bankler, Eric McKee, Candida Rifkind, B. Keddy, Susan Brousseau, and others. File also includes pamphlets of events and typescripts about women's rights and equity in workplaces, Dalhousie Women Faculty Organization members list, and other textual records.

Marjorie Stone fonds

  • MS-2-739
  • Fonds
  • 1975 - 1999
Fonds consists of Marjorie Stone's records illustrating her professional involvement with the Dalhousie University English Department, Dalhousie University Graduate Faculty Review Committee, Dalhousie Women Faculty Organization, and the Women's Action Coalition of Nova Scotia. Record types include correspondence, meeting minutes and reports.

Stone, Marjorie

Maritime women's access handbook

Maritime women's access handbook

Item is a book complied, edited and published by Reel Life, a women's media collective, from resource information they collected during a tour of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick screening and distributing films, videotapes, slides and women's art. "S. Sherwin, Philosophy Dept." is written in ink on the front cover.

Making a difference : Halifax women remember the 1950s, 60s and 70s : [workshop videos]

File contains the 3-tape VHS video master set for the "Making a Difference : Halifax women remember the 1950's, 60's and 70's" workshop, part of the "Women, Work and Social Policy" project, held on May 7, 1999.

Participants in the workshop included researchers Judith Fingard (chair), Frances Gregor, Janet Guildford, Suzanne Morton, and Jeanne Fay (social work), and community activists Dr. Pamela Brown, Sister Mary Jean Burns, Muriel Duckworth, Joan Fraser, Judith Giffin, Dorothy Grantmyre, Fran Maclean, Judge Sandra Oxner, Linda Christiansen-Ruffman, Myrna Slater, Gertrude Tynes, and Sue Wolstenholme.

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