The Sumach Press fonds reflects the editorial processes and everyday operational activities of a small feminist press in Canada. The fonds follows the trajectories of various feminist manuscripts from the submission to post-production stages. The fonds includes original manuscripts, edited copies, and extensive correspondence relating to stages of the publication process. The fonds also includes the administrative records documenting press staff meetings and outreach activities. -- Le fonds Sumach Press reflète les processus éditoriaux et les activités opérationnelles quotidiennes d'une petite maison d'édition féministe au Canada. Le fonds suit les trajectoires de divers manuscrits féministes, de la soumission à la post-production. Le fonds comprend des manuscrits originaux, des copies éditées et une abondante correspondance relative aux étapes du processus de publication. Le fonds comprend également des dossiers administratifs documentant les réunions du personnel de la presse et des activités de sensibilisation.
This series documents Sumach Press' everyday administrative activities and its involvement in outreach activities, including book fairs and conferences. The series includes Sumach Press' correspondence with Women's Studies' programs for the Women's Issues Publishing Program. The series is especially strong in staff meeting agendas and minutes showing scheduling and processes for editing, publishing, and promoting Sumach Press titles.
The file contains slides from a pacifist demonstrations where demonstrators hold banners, "Women's Action for Peace" and place signs and banners around the National War Memorial in Ottawa, Ontario.
The file contains the text for talks [given by M. [Margaret] Hancock] for events such as an International Women's Day Panel. The speeches are entitled, "Feminist Strategies and Actions for a Non-Militaristic World" and "Women's Liberation, Disarmament and Imperialism." The file includes the text of a speech with missing title.
The file contains notices and flyers relating to the women's "Resistance Week," against Litton Systems, Toronto (manufacturers of the guidance system for Cruise Missile.)
The file contains photographs from a (or several) demonstrations [relating to anti-militarism and/or anti-nuclear war protests.] One photograph shows protestors holding the "Women's Action for Peace" banner with a rainbow logo. Other photographs depict police officers dragging sit-down protestors away from a site and one photograph features the banner of the "Alliance for Nonviolent Action." The file also contains notices and newspaper inserts regarding anti-militarism events such as the public forum on "Nuclear Weapons Testing in the Marshall Islands" and the "Remembrance Week of Actions at Litton."
The file contains pamphlets and postcards of pacifist organizations like "Women Rising in Resistance." The file also contains photographs from an anti-militarism demonstration with protestors carrying banners such as "Refuse the Cruise" and the Women's Action for Peace banner. The file includes tracts and copies of text relating to disarmament and the feminist pacifist movement.