This recording consists of Nancy Adamson's interview with Helen Levine in Ottawa at the School of Social Work at Carleton University, on 11 August 1992. Levine speaks about her early involvement with the women's movement beginning in the 1960s, as well as other socio-political groups, demonstrations and organizations in Ottawa, including the Women's Resource Group, the Women's Centre, Women's Place, a Marxist feminist group, [CR] conscious-raising groups, Interval House, the Abortion Caravan, the Communist Party, and more. Levine and Adamson discuss politics, age, radical/liberal/Marxist feminism, and compare the women's movement across Canada (particularly in Toronto) to the movement in Ottawa. Later topics discussed include women's studies courses. Levine's work at Carleton University [in the Faculty of the School of Social Work], reflections on the topic of race and changes within the women's movement, etc. Throughout the interview, Levine touches on her personal life and struggles. [There is a pause in the recording between A and B side at 53:24, the conversation begins again at 53:28].
This recording consists of Nancy Adamson's interview with Leni Untinen and Lisa Bengsston, 1 May 1992 in Thunder Bay. At the time of the interview, Leni Untinen was the coordinator for Northwest Ontario Decade Council and noted becoming involved in the women's movement in 1978 and the council in 1981, and Lisa Bengsston worked with women's program secretary of state and had been involved in the women's movement and women's issues since 1974. They discuss difficulties in finding funding for groups, the establishment and work of the Decade Council, which as a non-charity was capable of lobbying, including the role of the Council in the community and their interractions with NAC [National Action Committee on the Status of Women]. Several individuals and groups are mentioned throughout the interview, including the Northern Women's Centre and Ontario Native Women. They also discuss relations between Indigenous women and white women, language (English, Oji-Cree and French), interactions between Indigenous and Francophone communities in Thunder Bay, representations of feminists and work in the media, and more. [There is some sound distortion before a pause in the recording between A and B side at 53:22 and 53:30].
