Vol. 7, No. 4 (1982) Title: Northern Woman Journal Topics include: Liberal Feminism Violence Against Women Lesbian Motherhood Child Custody & Lesbianism Northern Art Galleries Sexism in the Indian Act Canadian Pension for Women Pension & Dependency Poetry Feminist Book Review Northwestern Ontario Women’s Health Project PAP Tests Women Against Nuclear Technology The Future of Feminism Unemployment in Northwestern Ontario Unemployment Insurance Ecofeminism Women & Economic Development Women & Microtechnology Conference (Ottawa) Working Class Lesbians Confederation College Programs for Women Authors/Contributors: Teresa Legowski Joan Baril Arja Lane Joyce Michalchuk Anna McColl Shirley Bear Sharyl Thompson Susan Collins Hawkins Joyve Thierry Viola Nikkila Nancy J. Zabirka Gert Beadle Sara Walliamson Noreen Lavoie Danalyn MacKinnon Rosalyn Taylor Perrett Margaret Phillips Donna Phoenix
Vol. 7, No. 3 (1982) Title: Northern Woman Journal Topics include: Sojourner Truth Legal Right to Abortion Judy Chicago (artist) Education Liberation Verbal Street Harassment Defunding Rape Crisis Centres British Columbia Depo-Provera Access to Safe Abortion Poetry Women’s Pensions Northern Women Networking & Resources Comic Math Alienation of Women Thunder Bay Women & Health Committee Lesbian Counselors Network Violence Against Women Throughout History Authors/Contributors: Lynn Beak Anna McColl Teresa Legowski Noreen Lavoie Danalyn MacKinnon Rosalyn Taylor Perrett Donna Phoenix Sara Williamson Viola Nikkila Joan Baril Arja Lane Geraldine Van Cram Diane Stein Violet Winegarden Joyce Michalchuk Margaret Phillips Gert Beadle Deborah Gorham
Vol. 7, No. 2 (1982) Title: Northern Woman Journal Topics include: Wendo Liberate Education International Women’ Year Education & Patriarchy Margaret Atwood Income Tax & Women Personal Stories/Lived Experience of a Northern Woman Not a Love Story Film Critique Depression & Women Access to Carpentry Training for Women, B.C. Kenora Magazine Voices Victim Blaming Women and Pensions Abortion Access in the U.S. National Abortion Rights League Pornography Study B.C. Gaslighting Women Bill C-53 Rape Law Reform Poetry Native Women’s Association of Canada Indigenous Self-Help Groups Economic Strategy & Success for Native Women Short Stories Housework & Health Housework & Cancer Cleaning Compounds & Cancer Suggested Reading “Women Controversy & Change” Thunder Bay Cable Show False Consciousness “Physically Challenged” to Replace “Physically Handicapped” Guilt & Anxiety as Felt by Women The Female Connection - Women’s Inter-Church Council of Canada Sex-Role Stereotyping Confederation College Programs for Women Authors/Contributors: Elaine Lynch Rebecca Renfrew Joan Baril Viola Nikkila Jan McMillin Rosalyn Taylor Perrett Susan Hawkins Jennifer Gardner Nancy Doetzel Aima Norman Teresa Legowski Lynn Beak Anna McColl Noreen Lavoie Danalyn MacKinnon Donna Phoenix Sara Williamson Margaret Phillips
Vol. 7, No. 1 (1981) Title: Northern Woman Journal Topics include: Short Stories Canadian Abortion Rights Action League Abortion Access Affirmative Action Renaissance International Receives Tax-Exemption as Religious Charity Rainy River Crisis Housing Recommended Reading Poetry Cervical Caps Thunder Bay Women and Health Committee Pro-Life Advertising Women’s Decade Council Kenora Women’s Crisis Centre Northern Women Solidarity Maternity Leave Q & A Comics Feminist Activism Herstory Education Committee Report Feminist Party of Canada Rape Crisis Centre Thunder Bay Women Against Violence Against Women Women’s Liberation Brigade, Washington DC Authors/Contributors: Rosalyn Taylor Perritt Joan Baril Susan Collins Hawkins Marjorie Owan Viola Nikkila Karin Banerd Jan McMillin Donna Phoenix Sara Williamson Marion Bryden Lynn Beak Anna McColl Teresa Legowski Noreen Lavoie Danalyn MacKinnon
Vol. 6, No. 6 (Aug 1981) Title: Northern Woman Journal Topics include: Women in Music Summer Solstice Festival Thunder Bay Valium-Breast Cancer Link American Women Raped & Murdered in El Salvador Northern Women’s Centre Education Committee Woman Stoned to Death in Mexico for Witchcraft Amazon Bookstore Minneapolis Women and Unionization Dignity in the Workplace English as a Second Language for Immigrant Women Women’s Decade Council Health Network for Northern Women Art Poetry Survival Guide for Wimmin Declaring Bankruptcy as a Woman Northern Women’s Credit Union Mixing Drugs and the Pill Cervical Cap Feminist Conferencec Bulletin Reclaim the Night Confederation College Women’s Programs Authors/Contributors: Elaine Lynch Rosalyn Taylor Perritt Danalyn MacKinnon Joan Baril Teresa Legowski Marjorie Owen F.H. Eger Viola Nikkila Sara Williamson Lynn Beak Anna McColl Noreen Lavoie Danalyn MacKinnon Donna Phoenix
Vol. 6, No. 5 (March-April 1981) Title: Northern Woman Journal Topics include: Abortion Procedure Information Reclaim the Night Strategies and Priorities for Northwestern Ontario Education Committee at Northwestern Ontario Women’s Centre Short Stories Feminist Stamps Wife Battering First Woman Surgeon Dies Lesbian Experience Poetry Women in Trades Hamilton Conference Life as a Wife Wendo Northern Ontario Women’s Conference Ideology of Language Authors/Contributors: Teresa Legowski Joyce Dunn Joan Baril Viola Nikkila Sharyl Thompson Rosalyn Taylor Perrett Gert Beadle Judy Syfers B. McCourt Casey Miller Kate Swift Sara Williamson Kathryn Brule Lynn Beak Anna McColl Noreen Lavoie Danalyn MacKinnon Donna Phoenix
Vol. 6, No. 4 (Jan-Feb 1981) Title: Northern Woman Journal Topics include: Toxic Shock Syndrome Womyn’s Whitewater Journey - Missinaibi River Trip Art Postpartum Counselling Services Bill C-54 British Women Against Violence Feminists Arrested in Russia Expired Birth Control Separation & Divorce Family Law Reform Act Christian Feminism Abortion Pornography Ronald Reagan TIME Magazine Man of the Year Therapeutic Abortions and the Law Women and Medicine Interview with Author Dorothy O’Connell Short Stories Poetry Menstrual Sponges Healthsharing subscriptions Sexual Harassment Booklet Northern Women;’s Credit Union International Women’s Day Our Heritage Editorial Authors/Contributors: Mary Morgan Joan Baril Kathie Gert Beadle Rosalyn Taylor Perrett Joyce Dunn Violet Goderre Joyce Michalchuk L.L.
Vol. 6, No. 3 (May-June 1980) Title: Northern Woman Journal: Rising Topics include: Mayor Miller interview Daycare Postpartum Depression Northern Woman’s Credit Union Legal Information Column (“Legally Yours”) Reverting to Maiden Name After Separation Recommended Reading “Death of a Princess” Documentary Oil Industry in Saudi Arabia Poetry Northern Ontario Women’s Conference Divorced Women and the Canada Pension Plan Women in Positions of Authority & Sexism Anti-Abortion Film Rejected Battered Women Comics Women in the Media Rape Consent Northern Ontario Women’s Centre Memberships Book Review Mammography Confederation College Fall Programs for Women Authors/Contributors: Joan Baril Gert Beadle Elaine Lynch Denys Horgan Holly Ikola Joyce Michalchuk Viola Goderre Rosalyn Taylor Perrett Lousie Nichols Lynn Beak Estelle Howard Betty Kennedy Noreen Lavoie Ann McColl Monika McNabb Margaret Phillips Donna Phoenix Carol Sprakes Vicki Joyce
Vol. 6. No. 2 (Mar-Apr 1980) Title: Northern Woman Journal: Women in Trades Topics include: Midwifery Letters to the editor Child care programs handbook Feminist reading list Women & economic development workshop One industry towns provide no lives for women Women in the trades Women allowed to serve as sailors in Canadian navy Pay inequity Mastectomies National Action Committee Women’s birth stories Poetry Women against violence Wife battering Sexual harassment Comics Breast cancer Steady increase in subscriptions to NWJ Authors/Contributors: Rachel Smeijers (letter to the editor, London ON) Susan Craddock (letter to the editor, Saskatoon, SK) Barb J. Halliday (letter to the editor) Noreen Lavoie Joan Baril Barbara Kemeny Gert Beadle Joyce Thierry Kathie Cram Rosalyn Taylor Perrett Sammi Kakeeway Viola Goderre
Vol. 6, No. 1 (Jan-Feb 1980) Title: Northern Woman Journal: Health Topics include: Feminist counselling Women need nurturing too Letters to the editor Feminist Newspaper Broadside Feminist Newspaper Women Healthsharing Herstory: Women in healthcare/healing Continuing deportation of immigrant women Cancer experiment on Candian women Anti-feminist backlash Synthetic estrogen (DES) Breast cancer treatments Breast self-examinations (diagrams incl.) Male domination of medical profession Synthetic hormone effects Childbirth Induced labour Politics of medicine Infant mortality rate Kramer v. Kramer (article reprinted from Broadside) CARAL’s philosophy on childbirth (by choice) Birth Control Abortion alternatives Forceps: a male invention Midwifery Child-parent separation in hospital post-birth Politics of control during childbirth Poetry Vaginal sponges Feminist health book list Self-healing classes @ Northern Women’s Centre Authors/contributors: Gert Beadle Joan E. Powell (letter to the editor) Joyce Thierry (letter to the editor) Kathy Gunderson (letter to the editor, Kelowna BC) Joan Baril Lousie Nichols Estelle Howard Susan G. Cole (article reprinted from Broadside) Donna Phoenix Rosalyn Taylor Perrett Viola Goderre Jill A. Higgins Karin Banerd Joyce Tierry