This subseries consists of documents collected by Sandra Pyke on various subjects such as abortion, International Women's Day, Toronto Women's Caucus, Toronto Women's Place and women's liberation. It contains papers, press clippings, correspondence, flyers, pamphlets, booklet Childbirth by choice (revised edition by CARAL), Day care for Everyone!, March 1970 issue of The New Feminist, Take One: Women in Film, Vol. 3, No. 2, Velvet Fist Vol. 1, No. 8, 9, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2 and 4.
This subseries contains records related to Rosemary Barnes. Rosemary Barnes is a psychologist. Before working in independent practice, she worked at Toronto General and Women’s College Hospitals. She has been affiliated with the University of Toronto, York University, and the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. She has published on suicide, HIV conditions, and residential schools, and has provided expert opinion in legal cases relating to lesbian/gay issues and trauma.
This series contains records related to Myrna Wood's activities in Toronto, Montreal and New York. It includes the essay "Sisters, Brothers, Lovers... listen," she co-wrote for the final conference of SUPA (Student Union for Peace Action) on Labor Day weekend 1967 in Goderich. It also contains the essay "Bread and Roses" written with Kathy McAfee calling for a movement to organize working class women. This series also highlights Myrna Wood's participation in a peace movement meeting with the Vietnamese National Liberation Front in Cuba.
Women's Action Coalition (WAC) is an open alliance of women committed to direct action on issues affecting the rights of women. The organization wanted to be a witness of the economic, cultural and political systems that limited and endangered women's lives. WAC insisted on economic parity and representation for all women. The organization fought against homophobia, racism, religious prejudice and violence against women. It insisted on every woman's right to quality health care, child care, and reproductive freedom.
The poster advertises activities organized for International Women's Day in Toronto around the topics of racism and sexism. Co-sponsored by Lesbians of Colour and the Toronto Rape Crisis Centre. Poster reads "Choice, native self-determination, housing, employment equity, affirmative action." A group of figures standing within a female gender symbol with a blue background and pink horizontal lines. The poster was originally in the Women's Information Center collection in Toronto. This collection comes from several donations made in the second half of the 1980s by women involved in several Canadian organizations surrounding the feminist movement since the early 1970s.
This item consists of a red banner with text "Support the clinic, support the Women's Bookstore, rally at Queen's Park, 7 pm., August 3rd" in black paint..
This item consists of a white sticker with a black and white photograph of girl holding a doll and pushing a doll's carriage. This sticker includes the following text in red and black letters: "International Women's Day March 8" and "Good Child Care. It's our future!"
