Northern Woman Journal

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Northern Woman Journal

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Northern Woman Journal
Published in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Northern Woman Journal (originally called Northern Woman) started in 1973 following the first annual Northern Women’s Conference in order to keep the conference attendees connected. Initially serving as a newsletter of events, local issues, and women’s resources, the Northern Woman Journal quickly became a diverse publication reaching national and international readers. Not only did it serve as a newsletter to keep local women up to date on feminist issues in Northwestern Ontario, but also as a safe space to discuss women’s resources, law, politics, economics, health, racism, sexism, homophobia, feminist organizing and activism, transnational feminist issues, poetry, feminist reading, feminist art, and women’s diverse lived experiences.One of the longest-running feminist perodicals in North America, the Northern Woman Journal reached its end in 1995.

Throughout its 22 years, the Northern Woman Journal was produced by its many collective members, with membership evolving year to year. For many years, the journal worked closely alongside and shared space with the Northern Women’s Centre and the Northern Women’s Bookstore. With the exception of a year-long government grant in the 1970s, the journal relied entirely on subscription fees and donations in order to maintain publishing, which presented challenges throughout its entire existence.

As stated in an early version of the editorial policy, “only by a free and open exchange of views and opinions will we develop a basis for unity which can be used as a basis for action.”

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Northern Woman Journal, Vol 16 No 4
Vol. 16, No. 4 (1995)
Title: Northern Woman Journal

Topics include:
Child support defaulters
Northern Women's Bookstore
Women & labour
Northwestern Ontario Women’s Decade Council
Celebration of Dr. Leni Untinen
Divorce
Farm life for…

Northern Woman Journal, Vol 16 No 3
Vol. 16, No. 3 (November 1995)
Title: Northern Woman Journal

Topics include:
Evolution of the Northern Woman Journal
Editorial policy
Provincial Conservative government policies
Violence against women
Child care
Income security &…

Northern Woman Journal, Vol 16 No 2
Vol. 16, No. 2 (April 1995)
Title: Northern Woman Journal

Topics include:
Native people and Canadian law
Law reforms from a Native perspective
Superior Women’s Coffeehouse
Feminist film review
Female genital mutilation
Amnesty International…

Northern Woman Journal, Vol 16 No 1
Vol. 16, No. 1 (December 1994)
Title: Northern Woman Journal

Topics include:
Population, resources, and equity
Women portrayal in the media
Poetry
Tribal identity and feminism
Aboriginal women identity
Midwifery education programme
Access…

Northern Woman Journal, Vol 15 No 4
Vol. 15, No. 4 (Sept 1994)
Title: Northern Woman Journal

Topics include:
Canadian Women’s Committee on Reproduction, Population and Development
Population control
Women in non-traditional work roles
Depression and women
Northern Women’s…

Northern Woman Journal, Vol 15 No 2-3
Vol. 15, No 2 & 3 (March 1994)
Title: Northern Woman Journal: Celebrating Northern Women’s Activism

Topics include:
Sexual assault centres
Women’s centres
Transition houses
Support groups
Economic development
Violence against…

Northern Woman Journal, Vol 15 No 1
Vol. 15, No. 1 (June 1993)
Title: Northern Woman Journal

Topics include:
Subscription fees for the Journal
Employment and training conference
National Action Committee
Free trade and women
Women and NAFTA
Sexism in…

Northern Woman Journal, Vol 5 No 5
Northern Woman Journal, Vol 5 No 5
October-November 1979

Northern Woman Journal Collective
Members of the Northern Woman Journal Collective, meeting together at the Northern Woman's Bookstore.

Northern Woman Journal, Vol 14 No 4
Vol. 14, No. 4 (March 1993)
Title: Northern Woman Journal

Topics include:
Women and the economy
Inequity in classrooms
Women’s safety
Sexual assault
Women’s History Month
Concert review
International Women’s Day
Women in…
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