1135 10 13635 https://digitalcollections.lakeheadu.ca/files/original/5/2813/080908-008a.jpg ee7956b228790a1d0e4c4fb1d4b2140e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource General Archives Description An account of the resource Archival records that don't belong to another listed collection. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ice on the bank of the Yukon below Dawson Subject The topic of the resource Mining People Description An account of the resource Sepia-toned photograph of ice on the bank of the Yukon River. Two men are standing among a huge ice cake which could stand almost perpendicular Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource H.J. Goetzman Studio Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource May 23, 1902 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Donated by Mrs. Cochran Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Public domain Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Photograph Type The nature or genre of the resource Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context A0014#136,Z/13 scan#080908-008 1902 ice Yukon River https://digitalcollections.lakeheadu.ca/files/original/5/2812/080908-005a.jpg 75e129e56e741ccea3dc89ab555d7095 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource General Archives Description An account of the resource Archival records that don't belong to another listed collection. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Dawson City Subject The topic of the resource Mining People Description An account of the resource Sepia-tone photograph of men, women dressed in winter clothing. posing for the photograph in downtown Dawson City. Wooden buildings visible include J.P. McLennan Hardware and a Cafe. Sled dogs are sitting in the snow which is covering an otherwise muddy front street Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource H.J. Goetzman Studio Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource circa 1900s Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Donated by Mrs. Cochran Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Public domain Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Photograph Type The nature or genre of the resource Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context A0014#136,Z/13 scan#080908-005 1900 Dawson City dogs J.P. McLennan sleds winter https://digitalcollections.lakeheadu.ca/files/original/5/2811/080908-001a.jpg 71a56a230cc7159d390a0f8b17928142 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource General Archives Description An account of the resource Archival records that don't belong to another listed collection. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Moose hunter en route to Dawson on Klondike River Subject The topic of the resource Mining People Description An account of the resource Sepia-tone photograph of a moose hunter en route to Dawson on Klondike River. The sleigh is pulling 1300 lbs of game .75 per pound wholesale. Captions on image: " Moose hunter en route to Dawson on Klondike River 1300 lbs of game .75 per pound wholesale", "Goetzman Dawson, 205. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource H.J. Goetzman Studio Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource circa 1900s Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Donated by Mrs. Cochran Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Public domain Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Photograph Type The nature or genre of the resource Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context A0014#136,Z/13 scan#080908-001 Dawson Dogsled moose winter https://digitalcollections.lakeheadu.ca/files/original/5/2810/030908-012a.jpg eb7fc336e84e467d3abfa575d84fa755 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource General Archives Description An account of the resource Archival records that don't belong to another listed collection. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Canadian Bank of Commerce. Klondike Subject The topic of the resource Mining People Description An account of the resource Sepia-toned photograph of Canadian Bank of Commerce. The bank operated from a large brick building on the west side of Front and Princess Street. Staff outside the bank wearing winter clothing. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource H.J. Goetzman Studio Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource circa 1900s Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Donated by Mrs. Cochran Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Public domain Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Photograph Type The nature or genre of the resource Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context A0014#136,Z/13 scan#030908-012 Canadian Bank of Commerce employees https://digitalcollections.lakeheadu.ca/files/original/5/2809/270808-001a.jpg 77ed5974f473cc6b4cdc56e930f51e35 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource General Archives Description An account of the resource Archival records that don't belong to another listed collection. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Scene at Bennett Subject The topic of the resource Mining People Description An account of the resource Sepia-tone photograph of Bennett, British Columbia. The photograph of town buildings and walled tents are along shoreline, with several riverboats tied along creek and boat under construction at right, signs for Dawson Hotel and Hotel Portland are visible. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource H.J. Goetzman Studio Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource circa 1900s Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Donated by Mrs. Cochran Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Public domain Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Photograph Type The nature or genre of the resource Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context A0014#136,Z/13 scan#270808-001 Bennett bridge British Columbia https://digitalcollections.lakeheadu.ca/files/original/5/2808/300708-004a.jpg 6653a365d447ceb17e0e1e8c677068aa Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource General Archives Description An account of the resource Archival records that don't belong to another listed collection. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Moose shot from Steamer on the Pelly Subject The topic of the resource Mining People Description An account of the resource Sepia-toned photograph of a moose shot from a steamer on the Pelly River. Caption on image: "Moose shot from steamer on the Pelly River", "Goetzman Dawson. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource H.J. Goetzman Studio Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource circa 1900s Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Public domain Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Photograph Type The nature or genre of the resource Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context A0014#136,Z/13 scan#300708-004 hunting moose Pelly River steamers https://digitalcollections.lakeheadu.ca/files/original/5/2807/300708-003a.jpg c660552d387d6ea921f7fcf2d25e544e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource General Archives Description An account of the resource Archival records that don't belong to another listed collection. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Fishing on Mica Creek Subject The topic of the resource Mining People Description An account of the resource Sepia-toned photograph of fisherman in the water beside his boat on Mica Creek. The fisherman is showing his catch. Fishing net, dock and boat with oars is visible in the photograph. Caption on image: "Fishing on Mica Creek 75 miles up the Pelly", "Goetzman Photo. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource H.J. Goetzman Studio Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource circa 1900s Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Donated by Mrs. Cochran Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Public domain Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Photograph Type The nature or genre of the resource Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context A0014#136,Z/13 scan#300708-003 1900s fish fisherman Mica Creek Yukon River https://digitalcollections.lakeheadu.ca/files/original/5/2806/300708-002a.jpg a7ad87b79610475f7eaab6e2f7db3ddf Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource General Archives Description An account of the resource Archival records that don't belong to another listed collection. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Pelly River Subject The topic of the resource Mining People Description An account of the resource Sepia-toned photograph of the Pelly River.The river flows through south central Yukon. Caption on image: "Scene on the Pelly River", "Goetzman Photo Dawson". Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource H.J. Goetzman Studio Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource circa 1900s Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Donated by Mrs. Cochran Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Public domain Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Photograph Type The nature or genre of the resource Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context A0014#136,Z/13 scan#300708-002 1900s Pelly River Yukon https://digitalcollections.lakeheadu.ca/files/original/5/2805/300708-001a.jpg 9002bfa97b1876b1da29d266c71c0bf4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource General Archives Description An account of the resource Archival records that don't belong to another listed collection. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Str. LaFrance steaming up the Pelly River Subject The topic of the resource Mining People Description An account of the resource Sepia-toned photography of the steamer LaFrance. Small steamers ventured up the Pelly River to the head of navigation at Ross River. Supplies for a trading post above that village were transferred to smaller boats that could be portaged around a dangerous rapid. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource H.J. Goetzman Studio Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource circa 1900s Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Donated by Mrs. Cochran Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Public domain Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Photograph Type The nature or genre of the resource Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context A0014#136,Z/13 scan#300708-001 LaFrance Pelly River steamers https://digitalcollections.lakeheadu.ca/files/original/16/2804/1988_Vol_11_No_4.pdf 2cf6cb855355c5e9f64f847954243e88 PDF Text Text Volume 11 Thunder Bay, Ontario ON No.4 ) MAR-NA NANC\II Oro Glob 0, 01-1 1`1A9.\/ K ER I JE,.)Nv 9694V $1.50 AND FIND Northern Woman Journal December 1988, ON PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �As we emerge from the despair evoked by the federal election result it is important to understand that the election success of the Conservatives will have consequences immeasurably beyond just the disasterous effects of the free trade agreement. It is hard to think beyond the-trade deal implications. When the sovereignty, the identity, of the country that you love is given away - to appease the greed of the business elite - you may wonder what else matters. But the Americanization of Canada will be subtle, gradual - - and we may be lulled by the misinformation that will continue. If we love this Auntry it is incumbent upon us to support the grass roots movement against the trade deal and foster awareness of the true implications of the Mulroney-Reagan deal. (It will be a citizen movement, not political parties, that we must depend on.) We must, however, also mature our awareness and analysis of the full Conservative agenda - social policy, tax reform, trade - and determine what is in store for us in the next four years. Behind the mask of free trade lies a neo-conservative agenda (which would not on its own be risked) that will devastate the vulnerable in our society, will erode the modest gains that women have made, and will set back the cause of social justice and equality for a decade. ' It is a frightening picture. We can anticipate an intense and sustained backlash against women. Our energies will be spent protecting what little we have, and mitigating the hurt that will be inflicted on the most vulnerable of us. What lies ahead SOCIAL PROGRAMS The threat to social programs was a significant focus of the election campaign. Unfortunately, the opposition politicians failed to make clear to many voters the true ramifications of the trade deal in respect to social policy. The Conservatives and their business allies spent millions of dollars reassuring us that medicare, old age security, and other social programs are unaffected by the trade deal. It is instructive to note that immediately after the election this same business lobby are calling on Finance Minister Wilson to decrease the deficit by cutting social programs. Both the Canadian Chamber of Commerce and the Business Council on National Issues advocate decreased social spending, while business reporter Peter Cook (Globe & Mail Nov. 23) states the government must "... r edUc e) willing to make unpopular cuts in programs that subsidize middle class Canadians." (emphasis added) There is no doubt that universal social programs are at risk. Not from the trade deal itself, perhaps, but from the mentality that says the market must prevail (and the people be damned). The Conservative ideology does not support the concept of universality. Universal social programs have not been implemented by a Conservative government, they were legislated by Liberal governments under pressure from the CCF/NDP. Medicare and pensions will not disappear overnight. Rather, they will be chipped away little by little. The business lobby has always opposed universality, has opposed any improvement of social benefits. The big business community (and their American owners/ counterparts) are the dominant influence on our present government, and will not be satisfied until social programs have been eroded beyor cognition. It is not as though our sc system was ideal. Many exising grams are inadequate. Other uni programs (eg dental care) are solute necessity. Remember the promise to implement pensions f homemakers? It seems to have ted. strugglE x-er..4.1,41,041a.t"4.4.4141, hope of improving social progrE comes a mere fantasy. PRIVATIZATION The flip side of the free coin is privatization. Privati2 is the transfer of ownership, c regulation, financing or decisi making from the government sect private hands. Privatization cz several different forms includi selling of crown corporations ernment agencies to the privatE tor; contracting out through bi agreements with employees beinE ced by contracted out work; de/ tion and removal of legal const franchising and commercial entE use of volunteers; and user feE mentation. continued or I swear it to you I swear it on my common woman's head The common woman is as common as a common loaf of bread and will rise) - PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor NORTHERN WOMAN page 2 �The sotistice is the outermost limit of the sun's rays upon universe. And, in these winter months it provides us Luny nights and chilling air. The spirits bless us with this very special tytne to gather fuel and Eight; And criticaay to give warmth to others, the deep warmth of women in friendship. This is not a dark, mysterious tyrne; ut rather it is a baLance. A tytne of neither lii3ht nor dark, but a blending twitight, Kolding the powerojaLL that has been and can be. U is naturels demand that we recognize her batance; And that we bLend into the twilight. A simple thought: to take tyme to cleanse; to renew; and to thank the spirits and Goddesses who guide us. And perhaps, just maybe, to thank the special, friends who keep us in care. May Mother Earth and The Spirits "Mess us tvery One" And Likewise. (for 114) km i, 1 0 Tbe from Porthrrn Doman Iournat page. 3 PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor NORTHERN WOMAN �Josie Wallenius Josie Wallenius has developed a repertoire of "stories" that she performs in artist-run centres and community gathering places. These stories are acoustically punctuated as she strikes on a six-foot crosscut bush saw with a piece of rusted iron...or a rock...or a wooden spoon. Her sound stories talk of racism, sexism, poverty, struggle and Peace. They relate to everyday life and speak to and for the people who have trouble surviving each day -- the ones who will make the change. She came to Thunder Bay from London, England in 1978...later giwing up her full-time job as a registered nurse to become a full-time unpaid peace worker. Josie is a grassroots activist in her own community, and in: Acoustic Storyteller 1985: Worked with the Greenham Women investigating microwave radiation of Peace Women 1984: Participated in the ten-day action at the Greenham Common Peace Camp in England that coincided with NATO's 'Operation Lionheart" An article written by Josie for W.I.L. P.F. (Women's International League for Peace and Freedom) in 1987 has now been translated into Italian, Danish, and German. December 1988: Frightened is it You Are Performed at Medicine Hat, Alberta, Peace and Justice Centre November 1988: Performed at Macalester University, St. Paul, Minnesota, Peace action Coalition Conference. October 1988: Performed'at Project Ploughshares Peace group, Salem, Ontario. August:-1988: Performed at the International Women's Peace Conference, Dallas, Texas June 1988: Performed at the Canadian Labour Congess School, Lakehead University. May 1988: Performed at the Women's Interfaith Network Spirituality Conference, Kitchener -Waterloo Opening performance at Project Ploughshares National Conference, Toronto Ontario Mother's Day Peace Demonstration, Wisconsin, Guest performance, "Speaking Out" ASpace/MAYWORKS, Toronto, Ontario Opening performance, "Souvinir from the Northern_Front, The Funnel, A-Space/MAYWORKS, Toronto, Ontario February 1988: Performance with Nipigon Nylons, Definitely Superior, Thunder Bay, Ontario 1987: Canadian delegate to the International Women's Conference, Moscow, USSR Canadian Delegate to the Libyan Peace Conference, Libya 1986: Worked at support camp at Big Mountain, Arizona during the Navaho Hopi struggle against re-location Worked with the Canadian Electrical Brigade in Nicaragua by Josie Wallenius Frightened is it you are with a bit of trouble with the police Frightened is it I am of Cruise Missiles Frightened is it you are of hurting someone's feelings Frightened is it I am of talking and saying nothing Frightened is it you are to say we are racist Frightened is it I am that Africa will no longer forgive us Frightened is it you are of communism Frightened is it I am that El Salvador will no longer forgive us Frightened is it you are of losing friends Frightened is it I am of burning children Frightened is it you are of a bit of trouble with the police Frightened is it I am of Cruise Missiles empowerment from marginalisation Josie Wallenius October 1988 Having experienced over the last year the power of storytelling and writing as a means of empowerment, both for myself and for other women, I will describe how I first experienced empowerment BECAUSE I was marginalized. I was, and still am, a global woman working for Peace. Three years ago I was asked to go with a male activist to a local meeting of citizens in our community to explain our position. I was a better speaker, and had more knowledge of the issues than the man. Imagine my surprise (I was very innocent) when I found out that there was only time for one of us to speak, and the man was chosen. I should not have been surprised or upset, because, of course, in a mixed audience especially, a man always has more credibility. The next week I spoke to a mixed group, and explained this phenomenon before I started. I asked the men to forget I was a woman, to see if they heard me more by forgetting this. This introduction worked. It turned out to be the most productive part of the debate afterwards. The tactic worked. I'm not interested in things that don't work anymore. I have a favorite picture ove . my desk-an old print by a Dutch ma, ter. It's a picture of two women s: tting at a table, leaning towards ch other, ENGROSSED in their talki] What they are talking about who kn4 ws. Perhaps their husbands or love an unwanted pregnancy, making ends meet to feed the children, what ca: go is coming in at Rotterdam, who ruling Holland. Who knows. All I ki ow they look a lot happier than woi en watching television. This is what I am doing with I storytelling and writing. Proving at our stories are more riveting tl an the soaps, our lives more import ant to the world than the lives of those that rule us, and our experi( nces as women the most likely to sz ve this earth from destruction, as long as we start telling them. I will do performances, but tt workshops will be participatory one empowering to the women who attend. The instruments (the drum, cymbals, tambourine, dulcimer, etc.) are the re for the people to use as they tell to the group, a story of their 1 : own. page 4web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor NORTHERN WOMAN OCR, PDF compression, �UPCOMING EVENTS IMMIGRANT WOMEN'S CONFERENCE COUNTDOWN TO IMPLEMENrATION Conference employers, Ontario Women's Directorate for employees "MAKING CHANGES" and On December 25th & 26th, 1988 bargaining agents to learn more about the "had to" of pay equity the first Immigrant Women's Conference was held at Ramada Inn implementation. Valhalla Inn, Thunder Bay, Ontario February 9, 1989 Registration forms at Northern Hotel. Office BULLETIN opportunity of Ontario Women's Directorate THE GEORGE BROWN ASSAULTED WOMEN'S FROM WOMEN'S PLACE, KENORA AND CHILDREN'S ADVOCATE/COUNSELLOR PROGRAM AND REAL EYES: THE VISION RAPE CRISIS CENERE FUNDING CRISIS PRESENT Workshops with Sandra Butler Historically the SolicitorJanuary 17-23, 1989 General's office of Ontario has Tbronto, Ontario funded the operational costs of Rape Crisis Centres (R.C.C.'s). Although Healing the Healers - Jan. 17-18 they fund each centre differently, they will pay for rent, telephone Personal Disarmament - Jan. 19-20 lines, pagers and transportation. However they have refused to fund Wbmen, salaries or honoraria for RCC Sexual Terrorism and the State - Jan. 21 volunteers. In April 1988, the Ontario Search for the Mothers - The Coalition of RCC met with Our the Journey Home - Jan. 22-23 present Solicitor-General, Joan The theme of the conference was about the most important problems of immigrant women:- learning English and training and education programs to prepare women for entry into the workforce. The first workshop of the conference was the presentation and discussion of immigrant women's problems. At this time, many of the immigrant women presented their speeches prepared by themselves. They analysed causes and possible solutions. After this two interesting panels took place, one about E.S.L. programs. It was very important because in it was discussion about the possible deficiencies and problems of these programs. The other panel, about training and education programs for Smith requesting funds for staffing more information call costs, since many RCC's wereFor in (416) 654-2206 crisis operating without secure immigrants was the most important, because immigrant women questioned the policies of Canada Employment and Immigration regarding training staffing and with exhausted volunteers. Joan Smith established and FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION an Ad Hoc committee to meet with the MONTH - ACTIVITIES coalition and in June 1988 the coalition submitted a proposal for 5 Several activities produced by year funding for RCC's. The meetings groups in Northern. Ontario who also resulted in emergency funding received funding from the for several shelters (including Directorate took place: Women's Place - Kenora) to cover Public Forums (Beendigen, staffing costs. Family Resource Centre, After several extensions,Northshore it Sioux son -North Women in Crisis)has been announced by the SolicitorComite Contre la Violence Faitr, General's office that emergency aux femmes presented the play "Marc funding will continue until March et Julie" followed by a discussion 1989, and that they will not let any period. more centres close until year end, education the development of that society. The conference also gave great moments that the participants enjoyed. The...program...-includeal--cultural activity that presented folklore music and dance of Central America. Childcare was provided for all who needed this participants group produced a respond to the funding proposal Assault/Abuse this brochure which has been distributed year hospital emergency departments If you are in support to of and adequate funding for RCC's pleaseclinics in Thunder Bay. service. \*, to your local MPP and Warren's Place, Box 687, Kenora, Ontario P9N 3X6. for improvement of their situation so that they can integrate into Canadian society and contribute to The although they will not be able to Interagency Response to Wife send a letter to: The SolicitorGeneral the Honourable Joan Smith, Grosvenor St., 10th 25 Floor, Toronto, Ontario M7A 1Y6 with copies programs immigrants and they discussed their reasons for change. Then the women worked in small groups to make recourendations for After the November conference immigrant women will continue to work together to improve the situation of all immigrant women of Thunder Bay. If you are an immigrant woman and want to be involved call Maria Albizurez at 345-6084 for more information. Maria Isabel de Albizurez CONGRATULATIONS 901 Decade Council New Executive OF: Co-Chairpersons Gloria Harris Brenda Cryderman Secretary Roseann Perron Treasurer Jan Owen 10 CA 0 .1f..°'.1*.°' 000 40° 0116 (31. NOTICE This page is sponsored by the Ontario Women's Directorate. The material contained on it may be photocopied and distributed without y of Northern Women's ions will be ready for tion by the end of Thanks to those groups permission, but with credit to the original source or the Ontario the time to answer our naire. You will be Women's Directorate. your complimentary copy you know of anyone who interested in receiving a se call 345-6084 collect. This month's graphic courtesy of 2$T- :0 at' lazIT :Or 10 010:0 :Or Cbncetta PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor NORTHERN WOMAN page 5 �Update itro.44a4arworogovairoirowsrewee Arizona Gay Rodeo Association News January 13,14, & 15, Release: 1989 are the dates for the 4th annual Arizona Rodeo. The Arizona and the New Mexico Gay Rodeo Assocs. are woeking together to produce the ROAD RUNNER REGIONAL RODEO. This year the name is new and the rodeo arena is newly enlarged just for A.G.R.A. Visit and stay awhile: Make plans now to be in Phoenix this January for the fun of your life. Call or write: Rodeo Hotline. P.O. Box 16363, Phx., 85011, (602)938-3932. Az. PV4z4oJzpke044:04.0443+04,01=0(404-g40404:0 LESBIAN WRITERS! Women's Press is looking for manuscripts for a second anthology of writing by Lesbians about Lesbian experience. They welcome fiction, non-fiction, poetry. experimental work, erotica etc. Deadline is mid-January 1989. Contact Women's Press, Lesbian Manuscript Group, 229 College St., Toronto M5T 1R4 The National Association of Women and the taw (NAWL) has just come out with a new Publications List describing their excellent research papers and briefs in areas of feminist legal concern such ,aa abortion rights, affirmative action, reproductive technology, child care, prostitution, divorce, child custody, pensions, pornography, sexual aggression against women and children, and unemployment insurance. Most recent publications are on the Constitutional Accord, survivor's benefits under the Canada Pension Plan, and benefits for part-time workers. The NAWL Publications List is available through the NAWL National Office at #400 - 1 Nicholas St., Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 7B7, (613) 238-1544. t4c14,04e.oct.4o.treovsies4.044:>44:44:**A4:"-° A GUIDE TO FIGHTING SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN THE WORKPLACE by Bonnie Robichaud is part of a major public education initiative by the Ontario Women's Directorate. Through her own successful case against the Department of National Defence, Robichaud has become a symbol to all who oppose discrimination in the workplace. Of benefit to victims and advocates, this informative booklet is available for $3.95 (postage included) from the Bonnie Robichaud Defence Committee, P.O. Box 149. Osgoode, Ontario, KOA 2W0; (613) Do contact the Bonnie 826-2150. Robichaud Defence Committee if you would like to receive their Newsletter or would like to make a donation to this precedent setting case. c:r4r3+434041:00.04.4,+oar4,40-Iteec*obecy4.040 New Video CREATING LESBIAN MEANING Excerpts: anglophone lesbians at The III International Feminist Book Fair. This video is available in a global four-hour version or a complete version of each specific theme: memory, power, feminist and lesbian political strategies. Among the women featured are Anne Cameron, Sheila Jeffreys, Sonia For more Johnson and Mary Daly. information contact Rgseau VideElle, 4013 des Erables, Montrgal, Qug., H2K 3V7. The Sports illustrated ` Swimsuit Issue may be changed to a "Women and Sport" issue if the members of Athletes for Equality have their The organization is working way. to obtain fair and equitable coverage for women in sports, according to President Beverly Smith. "We are concerned that there are many gifted and dedicated female athletes who are not getting the coverage they deserve", states Smith. "We are also concerned with the presentation of female athletes as sex objects, as we feel that this trivializes their accomplishments, and leads to many misconceptions about women in sports." These include the myths that women do not take athletics seriously, and that women are more concerned about their appearance than about their abilities, Athletes for Equexplained Smith. ality, which was founded by a group of female athletes at the University of Massachusetts, welcomes others with similar concerns. Athletes for Equality works as a clearinghouse for sexist sports articles. These are distributed to members, who are encouraged to write to the publishers and/or advertisers, One of Athletes for Equality's main targets is the magazine Sports Illustrated. From January to April 1987, this magazine allocated only 5% of its total sports coverage to In addition, for professwomen. ional tennis, collegiate basketball, track and field, swimming, golf, horse racing, and skating-sports with widespread female participation, only 13% of the magazine's coverage dealt with women. In addition, ex- plained Smith, when Sports Illustrated does publish a story on a f( male athlete, they often do so ofi ensively, either blatantly emphasizing her sex appeal, or trivializing her commitment to her sport. An obvious focus is the Swim: In 1987 it features 42 pz Issue. ges of models in provocative pose: and minimal-coverage swimsuits. "For serious female athletes who train long hours to excel at their sports to be upstaged in a sports magazine by models chosen for thei appearance (not their athletic ability) is an insult to women," stated Smith. "In addition, the context of the photographs in this issue may be considered pornograpl is in their depiction of power, with nearly naked women posed witt fully-dressed men." Smith also pointed out the captions accompanying the photos: "Kathy is the catch of the day" and "Kathy... makes the Dog course...look very inviting." "These give men the false message that women encourage and enjoy ogling and harrassment. These types of pictures in a sport magazine encourage men to look at female athletes as sex objects, by giving the impression that, for example, women who run marathons do so to be attractive and sexy." Sports Illustrated sold 5 mil] copies of its Swimsuit Issue last year, and flooded television with advertisements. As yet, the magazine has been unresponsiVe to requests to cancel the issue or char it to-a "Women's Sports" issue. Athletes for Equality is urging p( ple to write to Sports Illustrate( corporate sponsors, asking them t( stop supporting Sports Illustrate( Advertising provides approximatell 95% of Sports Illustrated's financial support. Some of the major dertisers include Ford, Chevrolet Nike, Wilson Sporting Goods, and Athletes for E Eastern Airlines. ality is also initiating a petiti drive directed at the magazine it Petitions and addresses ca self. be obtained from Beverly Smith, a 98 Spring St., Amherst MA 01002. icrt0+04040.040401.6.Cirtio4o C.C. A. F. T "We're not through yet" declal Peggy Smith, coordinator of Thunder Bay Citizens Concerned About Free de. The local group, along with the national organization headed by SaE atchewan farmer David Orchard, are commited to "building a grass rootE organization whose goal is Canadiar independence". The national organi2 tion plans to embark on a cross -cot- try tour to develop public awareneE of what the trade deal truly means, and to encourage the continuation c the fight to stop the deal. During the fall Smith has traN led in the Maritimes and eastern CE ada organizing Orchard's speaking t Smith, and other volunteers, left it jobs or studies and dedicated tt, months to spreading the message abc the trade deal. Her car has become continued on page PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor NORTH :=RN WOMAN Tage.6 t �L. U. FIGHTS HARASSMENT by MYRNA HOLMAN On Tuesday October 25, 1988 Lakehead Unoversity was visited by Marilyn McKenzie, Sexual Harassment Investigator for the University of Manitoba. Ms. McKenzie was here to conduct two training sessions for employees who have been designated as contacts for people with complaints of harassment. A two hour information session for senior administrators was also completed. Ms. McKenzie dealt effectively with several myths surrounding the issue of harassment. She clearly indicated that releasing a policy and improving the profile of the policy will not result in a deluge of false People will however, complaints. be more comfortable coming forth with their concerns. She agreed with the Lakehead approach of instituting an informal process where people can talk about their experience without having to sign a complaint or "officially" deal with At the inthe alleged harasser. formal stage, the contact person dealing with complaint will be able to make suggestions, offer support and give direction. If the informal process does not produce a satisfactory result, the complainant will be encouraged to make the complaint formal. At this stage, an investigation into the complaint will be completed and the alleged harasser will be made aware that a complaint has been lodged. Ms. McKenzie's visit coincided with the release of a brochure outlining the Lakehead University Personal Harassment Policy which deals with all forms of harassment covered in the Ontario Human Rights Code. The Personal Harassment Brochure The bright orange is hard to miss. cover poses the question, "Who Can I Talk To?" Inside, there are examples of situations that might happen to staff, faculty or studThe brochure goes on to deents. fine harassment, outline suggestions for dealing with possible harassment scenarios, define the University stance on the issue and, identify three contact people who are trained to help. The contacts are, Myrna Holman, Human Resources Officer, Dave Parsons, Professor of English and, Joy Lawson, Director of Student Services. As well as releasing the brochure and providing training, several other initiatives are in the process of being implemented. A special project, funded by the Secretary of State has resulted in the hiring of project co-ordinator, Jane has recently Jane Livingston. designed a great poster which is prominently displayed throughout the campus indicating that harassment is offensive and unacceptable. She is also about to conduct a survey of staff, faculty and students to asses the incidence of harassment on campus. Jane will also be designing a career strategy project for female students. This project will start in January. Jane can be reached at 343-8022 and will welcome any suggestions or assistance you may have. Things are looking up at Lakeheadt C.C.A.F.T. cont'd. Stop The Deal Mobile, easily recognized with its bilingual signs of Save Canada - Stop Free Trade. "The response to our tour was incredible" Smith says. "All along the way new volunteers joined to help the tour. And we take credit for the dramatic drop in PC popularity in the OAITH Lobby by LENI UNTINEN On ,November- 28, .1988the,011tar440-- Association of Interval and Transition Houses carried out their annual lobby of members of the provincial government, on issues of concern to battered women and to shelters. Hopefully, political response to this action was more attentive than was the press. A prime concern of shelter boards and workers was the proposed funding formula for Transition Houses and Family Resource Centres. The inadequacy of the formula in terms of staff ratios, wages and definition of shelter services is a'major barrier to shelters being able to pro vide safe, accessible, quality services in keeping with the increasing demands. This, however, was not the only issue addressed. Press reports of the lobby could have better served battered women by covering other major issues such as the push by O.A.I.T.H. to force to parliamentary committee Bill 124 addressing access by non-custodial parents. Advocates for battered women have major concerns on the implication of this legislation for families where there is a history of violence. There must be an opportunity for public input and sending the bill to committee is the only avenue which allows this to take place. O.A.I.T.H. received commitment from opposition caucuses to such action. 'tatit Imes ." Sinittielfrettftt their (unfunded, volunteer) organization had had the time to travel the country the election results would have been quite different. She uses the election results in Saskatchewan as another example of the organization's effectiveness. CCAFT was founded in Saskatoon in 1983 and has been holding educational meetings and debates throughout the province in the last three years. The opposition vote in Saskatchewan was 62% and Ray Hynatyshyn, former Minister of Justice, and MP in Saskatoon, admitted his defeat was a result of the strength of the anti-free trade movement. CCAFT are extremely angry that the Liberals and the New Democratic Party appear to have given up the fi- Other issues addressed concerned services-for immigrant, Native and Francophone women; the threat to services for battered women by either free trade or for-profit privatization; inappropriate sentences afforded perpetrators of violence against women; and the demand for the release of a report compiled regarding the instances of police pressing charges in cases of wife/woman assault. The lobby organizers are to be ght against free trade. They point out commended for their efforts coordinthat 53% of voters chose the Liberals ating the focus of the 73 shelters and NDP, while only 43% voted Conseramd 6 organizations represented by vative; that over one million more O.A.I.T.H. as well as for their stroCanadians voted for the parties oppong demonstration of unmet needs, lack sed to free trade than for the trade of emergency beds and houses. Sheldeal Tories; that this election was ters were able to accommodate 8221 essentially a referendum on free trade women and their children in the past and the majority of Canadians clearly year, but unfortunately were forced voted against it. to turn away referBay elsewhere, The and Thunder group have alrea7594dy women, approximately one for met with MPs Lain Angus and Joe one. Comuzzi, The lobbyurging committee prepared the MPs to give leadhuge ership scrollsinwith the names of 7594 fighting against the trade womenagreement. and calledAsupon MPP's to ad- opposiwell as lobbying dresstion their responses to members these women. members, CCAFT are callWhile the earth did not be-them ing and writing Senators move to ask causetoof the lobby, the government did block the deal. not commitThunder to openBay either the public CCAFT will be meetminds purse, hearts their ing their regularly to or plan local activities the voices of advocates were heard, and cooperative action with the nationand the pain of women experiencing For more information al organization. violence at the hands of part- St. contact Peggy Smith, their 301 Cameron ners,Thunder was felt. Bay, P7C 2H1, phone 623-1120. 1, page NORTHERN WOMAN evaluation PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �8 WOMANPOWER (bon M/A) I toil along weighed down within my eatthey body, Tiled spitit searching sot the wett-wotn path and cti46 beyond. Some strength inside remains to push me even, upward Through the dense and hostile bush, Tit I can stop and test in that cleaning Mete Hope hangs warm and musky in the ait. (Az I climb, the Power grows gtaduatty sttongel) She us in the warmth oi the suntight that glides outside a cloud and tipples along my ctouching back. She is in the coot damp eatth that I gtasp beneath my sctambting hands. She titts het sweet siten sounds through the panting ofi my .labour, and {tom the ctiii above me. I zee het in the tich sag 6/towns oi Moth et Earth that suit/wand and encompass me. She ptay.6ut in the small-animat sounds that ctackte around me. (Az I teach the top, the Powet grows mote coniident, comes neaten) She inteteaus tightly with my ttembting .6ingetz. She is so6tty on my patted tips tike a gentle wind. She sweeps through my tired veins and gtowz strong and con4ident in the warm inside o6 me. Sift y, she cavort t6 on that ptateau and draws me taughing to the. na 4-tzP, (I beet the ptimat cart begin to gather deep within) I Anise my arms made strong high above me, Firm palms outzptead with welcome, To invite the body-seating joy to join and zttengthen me. Ftom deep inside and all around the primal Powet gatheAz iotth Hex drat buAzt. The hilts, the white-tight sq,the zpatkting emetatd Land gash with my enetgy my vatidity my competence my strength. sttong gowing, gather up my eaittht.Tpatp, down the path once mote. 1%4 Swe song upon my tips, sentry smite within' my thtOat, To goat above, and then to mesh with time Untit I need again the welt -warn path and eti44 beyond. Hea - ' . R.P. PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �WORDS WE LIVED BY... The following is excerpted from the Ladies' Guide, a popular reference book of the 1890s. tal weakness and inactivity. Unnatural boldness in little girl. If she has previously been rea. The expression of the eyes. The dull, lusterless eye, surrounded by a dark ring, tells the tale of sin. EFFECTS OF SOLITARY VICE IN GIRLS served, this is just ground for the Palpitations of the heart, hys- suspicion of secret vice. teria, nervousness, St. -Vitus's The victim of this evil habit is cer- A forward or loose manner in company with little boys. Girls dance, epilog, and incontinence addicted to this habit are guilty of the most wanton conduct. Languor and lassitUde. In a girl who has possessed a marked de- bed. tain to suffer sooner or later the penalty which nature invariably inflicts upon those who transgress her laws. Every law of nature is enforced by an inexorable penalty. This is emphatically true respect- vvv and pains of which girls complain, dn....-. IN ....J..% HEALTH AND DISEASE, by no means easily ject slavery, the iron fetters of habit daily closing the prisoner more and more tightly in their grasp. The effect is to weaken the moral sense perhaps more rapidly than any other vice, until there is little left in the child's character to which an appeal can be made. load, iligdenhcol,- 1V1ifthood, which thousands of girls break down in health. The constitution, already weakened by a debilitating, debasing vice, is not prepared for the strain, and the poor victim drops into a premature grave. which when thoroughly estabterrible vice is held in the most ab- 4 LADIES' GUIDE worthlessness of girls originates in this cause alone. The period of puberty is one at The habit of self-pollution is one broken. The victim of this most us that a great many of the backaches, side-aches, and other aches are attributable to this injurious habit. Much of the nervousness, hysteria, neuralgia, and general HOW TO CURE VICIOUS HABITS lished, is ing the laws which relate to the sexual organs. Wide observation has convinced of urine, giving rise to wetting the kat eilac:i BY J. H KELLOGG M. D The mother should first carefully set before the child the .exceeding sinfulness of the habit, its loathsomeness and vileness, and the horrible consequences which gree of activity and energy, this should give rise to earnest solicitude on the part of the mother for the physical and moral condition follow in its wake. But in most cases, the evil is not so easily of her child. every moment of her waking alert to detect the first evidences of An unnatural appetite. Some- this vice in their daughters, since later nothing but almighty power times children will show an exces- hours. Care should he taken that the child dies not feign sleep for the purpose of gaining an opportunity to avoid observation. SIGNS OF SELF-ABUSE IN GIRLS Mothers should always be on the seems competent to loosen its grasp. The only positive evidence is detection of the child in the act. A suspected child should be watched under all circumstances with unceasing vigilance. [But ] aside from positive evidence, there are other signs which may lead to the discovery of positive evidence. A marked change in disposition. When a girl who has been truthful, happy, obliging, gentle, and confiding, becomes peevish, irritable. morose, and disobedient, she is under the influence of some foul blight. Loss of memory and loss of the love for study. The nervous forces -are weakened, giving place to men- sive fondness for mustard, pepper, vinegar, and spices. Little girls who are very fond of cloves are likely to be depraved in other respects. The presence of leukorrhoca. Self-abuse occasions a frequently recurring congestion of the parts, together with the mechanical irritation accompanying the habit. Ulceration about the roots of the nails. This especially affects one or both of the first two fingers of the hand, the irritation of the fingers being occasioned by the acrid vaginal discharge. mastered. The little girl should be kept under constant observation It is much more difficult to cure this soul-destroying vice in girls than in boys. They are seldom as ready to confess their guilt as are boys, and then are less easily influenced by a portrayal of its terrible consequences. Sleepless vigi- laqce must be coupled with the most persevering patience. In obstinate cases, severe means must be adopted. We were once obliged after every other measure had failed, to perform a surgiral operation [clitoridectomy] before Biting the fingernails. The irritation of the tigers, which gives rise to the habit of biting nails, grows out of the irritable condi- we were able to break the habit in tion ,of the nails mentioned above. degree. the case of a girl of eight or ten years who had become addicted to the vice to a most extraordinary szo PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISIONNORTHERN PDFCompressor WOMAN page 9 �continued from p2 The past four years of Tory rule has demonstrated an unprecedented move toward privatization, with the resulting loss of jobs in the public sector, and contracting out to nonunionized agents (where women workers earn barely the minimum wage). With the right of national treatment and the right of establishment provisions of the trade agreement, American pressure will reinforce the already odious privatization of the Tories. With increased privatization everyone suffers. We are not simply talking about selling Air Canada. We are talking about the privatization of services -- health care, social services, education, day care. Workers will suffer job loss, lower wages, decreased benefits, inadequate health and safety workplace conditions. Consumers will suffer because the quality of service will decrease. WORKING CONDITIONS Free trade is about "competition". To be competitive Canadian workers (women and men) will be under assault. Wages, working conditions, health and safety standards will all be eroded in the name of competition. On average, Canadian workers enjoy better employee benefits, more regulated health and safety standards, than do American workers. But as Ralph Nader said you never harmonize up, you only harmonize down. As with social programs, worker benefits and protection will be eroded. This erosion will affect non-unionized workers (the majority of women) first, but even organized workers will be pressured to give up hard-earned gains. EMPLOYMENT EQUITY/PAY EQUITY We will be lucky to retain the concept of 'equal pay for equal work' much less advance the concept of 'equal pay for work of equal value'. Pay/Employment Equity is not addressed in the trade agreement. It doesn't need to be. It will be the business lobby that will demand the government backtrack on its (inadequate) commitment to employment equity for the disabled and visible minorities, to pay equity for women. It will be too "expensive", just not "competivie" to ensure justice and dignity for disadvantaged Canadians. DAY CARE With a majority government the Tories doubtless will reintroduce TheearGAMTO'f Bill C-144, the JOBS Thousands of Canadian women will lose their jobs in services, manufacturing and agriculture because of the trade deal. The majority of women are employed in the service sector and their jobs will be threatened as restrictions on the provision of services from outside the country are removed. Just about every type of service can be traded internationally, including banking, data processing, telecommunications, computer servicesa and culture. In the manufacturing sector it is women's jobs that are most at risk eg textiles, clothing, food processing, electrical and electronic products, and other consumer goods. It is speculated that in Thunder Bay some 200 manufacturing jobs will quickly disappear -- jobs held primarily by immigrant women. disasterous Child Care Act, that died when the election was called. Two things should be kept in mind regarding this child care legislation. Firstly, the promotion of the Tory plan is a fine example of the newspeak the government is capable of, when declaring the proposed child care act "will encourage economic justice and development by giving many more mothers a chance to join the workforce" (CJ July/88). The legislation does no such thing. Rather this new bill will restrict the expansion of day care spaces. Remember that 1,000,000 new day care spaces are needed today to even approach the needs of Canadian families. Under the existing Canada Assistance Plan it is projected that 300,000 new spaces would be created in seven years, but under the new act a limit of 200,000 new spaces will be imposed. This is regressive legislation which will only worsen the day care crisis that already exists. The second thing to remember is the refusal of the government to consider the advice of child care experts (who unanimously condemn the plan). "Why should I listen.." Brian Mulroney arrogantly replied during the TV leaders debate. Since the Tories are not listening to the child care community, we must ask just who they are listening to. Consider the links to free trade. Bill C-144 would give unprecedented tax support to commercial day care operations. The doors will be open to American day care chains... with their history of exploitative wages and poor working conditions for staff, and lack of quality care for children (never mind the indoctrination of American culture on three year olds). Commercial day care has never been a problem in Northwestern Ontario... we must recognize that the influx of American day care chains could destroy the quality day care Northwestern Ontario communities now take pride in. ABORTION What will happen here is not so easy to read. There are, of course, significant numbers of anti-choice Tories and Liberals. The Conservative Cabinet yearns for a "compromise" solution, but given the abortion legislation exercise witnessed last summer, a simple compromise seems unlikely. One suspects that most Tory men would like strong anti-choice legislation, but their legal experts caution that such would not pass Supreme Court scrutiny. About the only safe presumptions are that (1) abortion legislation will not be introduced early in this government's term; (2) that anti-choice crusaders will increase their efforts to influence parliament, and (3) that the prochoice movement still has many years of hard work ahead. continued on p14 Comparable worth is just a disguised attack on our free enterprise system. It flies in the face of the values that made this country great? 1\( C.itrot4v.5imsev PDFNORTHERN compression, OCR, lo web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor WOMAN page �Book Review Reviewed by Kit Minor A Passion for Friends: Toward a Philosophy of Female Affection. Janice Raymond. Beacon Press, Boston, 1986. I found this one of the most moving texts that I have read in many months. It definitely should be on every Feminist bookshelf. The New York Times states that Raymond provides "an unsentimental, playful yet sobering look at female friendship through the ages." She begins the book with an intriguing and informative look at the origins of female friendship and the roles which they have played through the centuries. She develops terms such as Gyn/ affection for those tremendous bonds that bring women together. She is clear and well documented in her analysis of the myths that have been perpetuated concerning women and our role in hetero-relations, i.e. the wide range of effective, social,political and economic relations that are ordained between men and women by men. Music Review Raymond particularly attends to two groups of women, nuns and the Chinese marriage resisters, to emphasize the characteristics of female friendship and also points out clearly the struggles which these two groups have had to endure to retain the friendship and the chosen lifestyles. Although these two groups offered to women a community, Raymond is careful to point out that this does not necessarily mean a Feminist community. She cautions, "feminists can learn that when a movement or women's community becomes hardened into rhetorical positions, when the language of thought and cliches begins to prevail, there is no genuine feminist movement." (pg. 111) The obstacles to female friend" ship which Raymond introduces are indeed thought provoking and ,indeed, she does challenge some of the "gi- vens" within a feminist perspective. One of these areas is the "personal is political". To this Raymond asks do we really want to publicize our personal lives. She supports the need for private space and time while living in the world as opposed to dissociation from reality. She points out that if we are not in reality we may well become ignorant of the real conditions. The part of A Passion for Friends which had the greatest affect upon myself was that of victimism. "Women's primary female or feminist identity seems to be grounded in women's shared state of having been victimized by men" (pg.181). We then take on the traits of the victim and begin to centre our friendships along common lines of that victimism. Our friendships result out of how we feel as victims. The result is that we fall into the tyranny of therapist, where feminists feel that we are not completely whole unless we search deep into our souls and spirits and pull out every dark shadow. The real_ty here is that after we have done this we very often end up in worse shape than when we started. Raymond also challenges the tyranny of tolerance where we as feminists put up with incompetence among other women because we tolerate the situation and silently DITYMITT.7177711701NMETTMITTITCM #x7 , a a a a 1111 I, W nfth help, Ar mm "m;#, sense oi betonging, an otganization az needed ptace of equatz where att were we come middte point equally distant 4tom att sides ptace where ate sides were allowed thein iocu4 L/ , C/ A) by JANE SAUNDERS The women's music industry which has been in existence for 15 or more years, has evolved into a major facet of women's culture. The number of artists and the quality of production has greatly increased. Two recent albums from a couple of women's music regulars are Deidre McCalla's WITH A LITTLE LUCK (Olivia Records 1987), and Heather Bishop's A TASTE OF THE BLUES seniousness and 6tivotity teach out and allow to be /Leached the embtacing o6 .idea, oi spiALts a sense oi betonging, potiticat the need waz thete a sense o6 ziztethood AegaAdtess of potiticz my 6ocuz het limo Nth iOCU4 no tonget a community, a meeting peace no tango equatty distant atom alt side's (Iceber:;g Records 1987). Deidre McCalla has been on the women's music scene for many years, touring, and playing small clubs with mixed audiences. In the last few years she has really come into the limelight with her debut album DON'T DOUBT IT (Olivia Records 1985), WITH A LITTLE LUCK is very similar to DON'T DOUBT IT with its' dancable, energetic style. Both are very professionally produced by long-time women's music singer and songwriter Teresa Trull. WITH A LITTLE LUCK has all of the qualities which make women's music great. It is womanly, loving and reflective with strong personal and mildly political views. Deidre's voice weaves through the ballads TOO GOOD, MAMA'S LITTLE BABY GIRL, AND WAIT UNTIL MORNING. Then there is the 'hot' Teresa Trull duet WOULD YOU LIKE TO DANCE, and the punchy, upbeat blues tune THE CAT SONG (for those who have lived with other peoples cats). Also, there is the upbeat dancable pop style ALL DAY AL- 1114 11 114111 1212ZIMIZZ The album has a well-rounded variety of rock, blues and country/folk. It is a successful follow-up to her smash first album. Deidre McCalla is a very popular women's music entertainer who is energetic, personable and very professional (and woman produced and managed). HI sjiglizati INS 41 Heather Bishop's TASTE OF THE BLUES is a continuation of the stylish trends apparent in her previous album I LOVE WOMEN WHO LAUGH, and blends with her older music as well. This album contains rock influences, discusses lesbian/feminist politics and portrays women as strong builders and healers. Those women's music connoisseurs who know Heather will not be disappointed (and for those less fortunate, there is no better place to start). My personal favourite on this album is the cute, stylish and humourous SEDUCED. The new upbeat sound of ON THE RUN AGAIN is typical of Heather's new style trend. IF YOU LOVE FREEDOM is destined to become a political anthem, and the blues tune TELL ME MORE AND MORE must be heard. Heather also pulls out and revamps some 'oldies' PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor NORTHERN ( +/OMAN page 11 �Book Review continued from p.11 ranny of therapist, where feminists feel that we are not completely whole unless we search deep into our souls and spirits and pull out every dark shadow. The reality here is that after we have done this we very often end up in worse shape than when we started. Raymond also challenges the tyranny of tolerance where we as feminists put up with incompetence among other women because we tolerate the situation and silently accept it. It has become unfeminist to speak out against a woman, particularly a feminist, even when the woman is incompetent, manipulating and may well damage the movement. "The tyranny of tolerance deprives not only the individuals but also a political movement of its capacity for discernment. It gaps a moral passion and purpose from feminist politics" (pg.171). These obstacles, to female friendship (and these are lust a few of the many which Raymond points out) keep us from the true power and caring which happens when women come together. The obstacles hasten us towards heafero-relationism and silence within the world. And yet, as Raymond points out Gyn/ affection "has given us an understanding that a life of mere survival is insufficient for the spirit" (pg.200). In a vision of a female friendship Raymond points out that there is no magical formula, nor should it be taken for granted that women have a natural possession of virtue. "Rather it is anchored in the historical, cultural and material bonds that women have created for ourselves in spite of the 'State of Atrocity "'(pg.218). She encourages the reader to vision and to develop "thoughtful theory one that restores the thoughtfulness to thinking. Or better still, thinking is the theory, thoughtfulness Word Search Women Authors J YKSNELFRASERSSWD IAREVLISNOSTAWHL CULLETONSGIEMITAA N NAERCUNXONOSYORN E AWESTGIOMHEMMOVO RMUNROHGFTMSROFO D U KFBBUTALALLCRRRE AITKENONNIEONAANC L NNOCRNAPGNOTNBWT MARLATTPNNSWRNEDE W ILSONEEEIOUYIAWR B SBARRBLLOBSNEDAW G RSOJRLLDLPZRDLRR AEAAECALLAWSNEELR U BCNNNIFGESYNADAA L KGADDSEICONWAYNC TBEILTOGBROSSARDA Music Review continued from p.11 1 such as Joan Armatrading's TAKING MY BABY UPTOWN and a sultry version of Leslie Gore's YOU DON'T OWN ME. On the heavier side is the song DAD DY'S LITTLE GIRL; similar to Lucy Blue Tremblay's VOIX d'ENFANT (A CHILD'S VOICE) it decries the horro of incest. Rounding off the album is Heather's classic SPIRIT HEALER. A TASTE OF THE BLUES captured the vocal power of Heather Bishop's singing exactly as I heard it on he This alspring of '87 album tour. bum is a must for Heather Bishop fans. the practice" (pg.218). She encourages us to include passion within our friendships but points out that time is a critical factor. Friendship takes time, thoughtful passionate friendship takes more time, thought and caring, and commitment from both. Friendship is a togetherness journey. I obviously enjoyed this book immensely. In fact I read it twice. It is one book that I know I will reflect back upon and will want to reread every so often. At times the book is painfully truthful, and then Raymond has a wonderful gift of being able to see through the pain to a vision of truthful friendship; however somehow through the writing the reader begins to form her own idea of friendship. Raymond asks some hard questions, which most feminists are just too polite or silent to ask, but she asks so gently that the reader gets a sense of having gone through the struggle, feeling good about that struggle, and thinking a lot more about thoughtful, passionate, caring friendship with women, and taking the time for those friendships to grow. Aitken (Johan Lyall) Allison (Gay) Alley (Jennifer) Anderson (Doris) Atwood (Margaret) Barfoot (Joan) Barr (Elinor) Beadle (Gert) Bersianik (Louky) Bertell (Rosalie) Blais (Marie Claire) Brand (Dionne) Brossard (Nicole) Burnard (Bonnie) Butala (Sharon) Carr (Emily) Conn (Jan) Conway (Shelagh) Crean (Susan) Culleton (Beatrice) Danys (Milda) Decter (Ann) Donald (Christine) Engel (Marian) Finn (Geraldine) Finnigan (Joan) Fox (Bonnie) Fraser (Sylvia) Gadd (Maxine) Gault (Connie) Gotlieb (Phyllis) These albums and more will soon be available in the Northern Women's Bookstore. Watch for advertisement. in the Journal or contact Margaret Phillips at the Bookstore. Harvor (Elizabeth) Jiles (Paulette) APOLOGY Laurence (Margaret) Lenskyj (Helen) Marlatt (Daphne Meigs (Mary) Moran (Mary) Munro (Alice) THE NORTHERN WOMAN JOURf APOLOGIZES ABJECTLY Naubert (Yvette) O'Connell (Dorothy) Oughton (Libby) TO Page (P.K.) Roy (Gabrielle) PHOTO ARTIST Sand (Cy-Thea) Silvera (Mikeda) Slipperjack (Ruby) Smyth (Donna) Swan (Susan) RUTHANN TUCKER OF TORONTO Thomas (Audrey) Wallace (Bronwen) Warland (Betsy) Warren (Dianne) Watson (Sheila) Weinzweig (Helen) West (Ann) Wilson (Ethel) Wiseman (Adele) Yanz (Lynda) FOR FAILING TO CREDIT HER WITH LAST ISSUE'S COVER PHOTO. PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor NORTHEWJ WOMAN page 12 �From the National Film Board of Canada ALL ABOUT WO M EN WOMEN'S AND OTHER COMMUNITY GROUPS HOME VIDEO VIEWERS PROFESSIONALS (NURSES, TEACHERS, AND SOCIAL WORKERS) PUBLIC LIBRARIANS, COMMUNITY WORKERS MUNICIPAL, PROVINCIAL AND FEDERAL PROGRAMS AND SERVICES Choose from our collection of short and long documentary, fiction and animated films and videos that inform, entertain, and promote discussion on a wide range of subjects. WOMEN WHO LED THE WAY HEALTH, WELL BEING AND FITNESS in sports, the arts, religion, Family violence, rape, incest Pregnancy Abortion Menopause Aging Disabilities War, peace, disarmament Working mothers, childcare Single mothers, divorce, women PMS politics and the feminist movement in rural and native communities, unions, the armed forces, business and non-traditional jobs in poverty RENT A VIDEO OR FILM! VIDEO: $2 EACH DAY 16 mm: $4-$8 service charge, valid for five days (excluding time in transit) Available for pick-up or by mail from all NFB libraries in Canada. Buy a video for as little as $29.95; film prices start at $72.80. Members of the NFB's Women's Market Development Group are located in NFB offices across Canada. They can help you select films and videos for your group or event. See "National Film Board" listed under the "Government of Canada" section in the blue pages of your telephone directory. r 7 I'd like to know more about NFB films for women . Please add my name to your mailing list announcing new releases and send me a copy of your video rental catalogue. Please send me your new catalogue of films for women (available in early 1989). Please send me the new publication Women Breaking Through, a 28-page audiovisual guide for secondary schools. MAIL TO: National Film Board of Canada, Women's Market Development Group, D-5, P.O. Box 6100, Montreal, Quebec H3C 3H5 NAME INSTITUTION POSITION ADDRESS PROVINCE CITY POSTAL CODE National Film Board of Canada Office national du film du Canada L NORTHERN WOMAN page 13 PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �continued from n.,10 CANADIAN CULTURE FEMINIST LITERATURE Over the past decade the growth With good reason, Canadian wriof feminist literature - the heart, ters, artists, musicians, have been amongst the most passionate opponents head and soul of the feminist moveof the trade deal. This article canment - has been phenomenal. Hundreds of new Canadian women writers are pubnot begin to address the issues surlished each year, women's presses have rounding our cultural industries, developed, and feminist bookstores except to note that - despite government rhetoric - Canadians, indeed, have sprung up across the country. The contribution of this surge of wrishould be fearful for the future of our cultural industries. ting - both creative and theoretical is immeasurable. But if the ConservaWe need also to make a distinctives have their way this continued tion between cultural industries and growth of feminist (and alternative) culture. We must understand the threpublications will be hampered, perhaps at to Canadian culture, as expressed by Martin F. Katz in the November iskilled outright. sue of Quill and Quire. Katz states High on the Tory agenda is the "Culture is that bedrock of shared implementation of tax reform which beliefs and understandings that alwould replace the federal sales tax lows Canadians to exchange ideas, with a new broad-based, multi-stage Feelings, and priorities about busitax which would apply to books. (At ness and poverty and the role of the present books are not taxed.) It is military and social justice and the projected that this new sales tax woenvironment and gun control and equuld add a tax of between 17% - 20% on ality, for example. This bedrock of all reading materials. (Your $9.95 understanding - of common or similar Almanac will become $12, your $22.95 goals and principles - constitutes Our Bodies, Ourselves will be $27.50, the foundation of our culture... To even the least expensive paperback the extent that the trade deal will will increase $1 or more.) import into the Canadian cultural bedThe end result will be that many rock some of the basic and fundamentsmall Canadian presses (which, in the al economic principles of American main, are the publishers of new women life, it will subvert or alter the writers) will go bankrupt. Most of development of this culture. Once we the independent bookstores in Canada accept, for example, as we have in will close. Most Canadian women writhe trade deal, that regional deveters won't get published. Our words lopment programs distort "free trade" will not be heard. while military installations that Periodicals will be likewise afbrings jobs and prosperity to the comfected. And the "unfair subsidy" ismunities in which they are establishsue of the trade deal may come into ed do not, the way we think about govplay. Most Canadian literary and speernment spending', among other things, cial interest magazines now receive changes. This kind of 'change in our government subsidies, and their futthinking means that our culture will be ure is in jeopardy. The demise of HERaffected by the trade deal." izons and Newsmagazine for Alberta Women is fair warning of what happens NORTH ERN WOMAN'S BOOKSTORE 184 Camelot St Calendars when subsidies are withdrawn. (As th Northern Woman Journal does not acce government funding we may survive th fate of subsidy-dependent magazines. But we, like every periodical in Can ada, enjoy a postal subsidy, which most likely will disappear, thus the Journal may have to pass resulting cost increases onto our readers.) If we want to continue to have a choice beyond Cosmopolitan or Hust ler, we must all join the DON'T TAX READING campaign presently being organized by Canadian publishers and booksellers. It is particularly ironic that the government proclaims to be suppc tive of programs that address the pr blem of illiteracy, at the same time it plans to impose a tax on reading. Misinformation Campaign The federal election is over. The Conservatives waged (at taxpayer expense) a misinformation campaign about free trade, a misinformation campaign about their child care strz tegy. We can expect a similar misinformation campaign about tax reform and other new policy initiatives. The Conservatives do not have a mandate for their agenda (57% voted against the Conservatives, 43% for). They do, however, have the power to impose their agenda as they have the majority of parliamentary seats. The have the power to destroy the modest reforms the feminist movement create The power to destroy our culture, ou identity, our country. We must not let this happen. Now more than ever, we must advance a feminist agenda of the futur We do not have the financial resourc of government - of big business. But we have our commitment. It is our fu ure that is at stake. CHILDREN OF THE WORLD AFRO-CARIBBEAN CALENDAR MOON CALENDAR CARRY IT ON .. PEACE CALENDAR LET NICARAGUA LIVE AT LOVERS AGAINST THE BOMB CRYSTAL CALENDARS LUNAR CALENDAR DATE BOOKS PICTURE A WOMAN EVERYWOMAN'S ALMANAC CONTEMPORARY WOMEN ARTISTS HERSTORY PEACE DATE BOOK WE'MOON ALMANAC 1 9 11 9 CALENDAR Thursday & Friday : 11.30 -600 WOMEN ARTISTS DATEBOOK WOMEN WRITERS Saturday :11.30 -4.31 PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor NORTHERN WOMAN page 14 �Ferron By Donna Koivisto "We love you Ferron:" a female voice cries out from a back row. There is some applause and a few whistles. Ferron puts her hands on her chest, lifts her eyebrows as if to say, "Who me?" Then she leans close to the mike and says softly, "I love you too." The intensity and poetic magic of Ferron's music has earned her It is in acclaim across the world. this spirit that Kamazon Productions is proud to present an evening with Ferron, tentatively scheduled for February 14, 1989. Originally from Vancouver, B.C., Ferron has progressed from coffee houses to sellout crowds in 2000 seat venues. Het two albums, Test imony and Shadows on a dime have sold more than 80,000 copies. However, despite success Ferron has maintained a low centre of gravity and an interview with her would more likely focus on the metaphysical, dreams or the mystery of songwriting than on tour schedules or record She is, in fact, an intimsales. idating figure to unenlightened "I'm a spirit who bereporters. came a person." She said in a recThis philosophy ent interview is not condusive to mainstream news reporting. Concert Planned But her substantial talent, wisdom and compassion have brought her above the need for media categorization, yielding fans who have remained unshakably loyal to the feminist/lesbian bard. Perhaps Ferron's hardest task was becoming the self-assured performer she is today. "When I was younger I was so afraid of the audience, because I needed their love so much," she says, "It took me a long time to realize they did love me." This bond of love between Ferron and her audience evolved because she is simply herself. Amid the stren strength of her poetic words the audience senses her vulnerability and honesty. "They honour me and I honour them." But I don't ionget about the iacto4y, I don't expect thi.z 'tide to aLway4 be, Can I give you what you want to zee? Can we do it one mate time? Tickets for Ferron will be available For more information phone soon. Kamazon Productions at 344-4811. Bookstore News Let's start with fiction this month. Heading the list of course is Margaret Atwood's new novel CAT'S EYE. (McClelland and Stewart) I've been saving it as my Christmas treat to myself, as I'm told once you start it you can't put it down. Of particular interest to Northwestern Ontario readers will be Ruby Slipperjack's HONOUR THE SUN (Pemmican), a first novel which gives us a glimpse of growing up in an isolated native community on the CNR line. From the eyes of a 10 year old girl we see the beauty, the pathos, the joy, the dispair of coming of age in an alienated community (so familiar to Northern Ontario). HONOUR THE SUN is not a gentle book, yet it is told in such a gentle voice, I'm left with a sense of awe. Several new titles from the small Saskatchewan publisher Coteau Books who in the past have given us such impressive books as Sharon Butula's QUEEN OF THE HEADACHES, and THE WEDNESDAY FLOWER MAN. This year they give us two short story collections that sound great: WOMEN OF INFLUENCE by Bonnie Burnard, and BEST KEPT SECRETS by Pat Krause. The most powerful indictment of violence against women I've ever read (and I've read many) comes from the novel WOMAN AT POINT ZERO (Zed Books) by Nawal el Saadawi, (translated from the Arabic by Dr. Sherif Hetata). el Saadawi is Egypt's foremost novelist. Her prose is magnificant but it is her passion that makes her books exceptional. We are very happy to find a number of great books back in print. Three of Margaret Laurance's early works - THE TOMORROW TAMER, THIS SIDE JORDAN, and THE PROPHET'S JMEL BELL. And finally I've had Lhe chance to read Marian Engel's THE GLASSY SEA - a very, very fine novel. Also PATIENCE AND SARAH by Isabel Miller, considered by many to be the best lesbian novel ever published. Turning to non-fiction, a title we mentioned last issue but one that bears greater description, THE COURAGE TO HEAL by Ellen Bass and Laura Davis (Harper and Row) is a guide book for women survivors of child sexual abuse. This is a practical and healing guide covering Recognizing, Coping, Breaking silence, Trusting Yourself, Grieving, Anger, Self-Esteem, Feelings and much more; as well as guides for supporters of THE COURAGE TO HEAL is survivors. proving to be a vital resource to survivors and counsellors. Two new books on date rape, both useful healing and prevention resources. I NEVER CALLED RAPE, the Ms. Report on Recognizing, Fighting, and Surviving Date and Acquaintence Rape by Robin Warshaw (Harper and Row), and WARNING: DATING MAY BE HAZARDOUS TO YOUR HEALTH: by Claudette McShane (Mother Courage Press). _Following in the path of tne essential health book OUR BODIES, OURSELVES, comes an equally important resource for midlife and older women, OURSELVES, GROWING OLDER, by Paula Brown Doress and Diana Laskin Siegal and the Midlife and Older Woman Book Project (Simon and SchusThis is the only book I've ter). found that gave me useful information about a recent health concern, I'm sure this comprehensive book will be equally welcomed by other mature women. Another new health book is ALIVE AND WELL, a Lesbian Health ,Guide, by Cuca Hepburn, Ph.D. with Bonnie Gutierree, R.N., CPNA (Cross"...a well-informed, ing Press). loving guide to lesbian health, both mental and physical. Rather than to prescribe specific health care, the goal is to present a range of health care options for losbians to considet:" Finally, for last minute Christmas shoppers some gift ideas: Motherpeace Tarot Cards and/or Playbook; records/cassettes by Kim Erickson, Karen Howe, Cathy Miller, Heather Bishop; posters, or any of a wide variety of calendars and date books. Or, if your imagination falters, give a gift certificat to the Northern Woman's Bookstore. HAPPY ROPY ROLINYs' Mar Phillips PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor NORTHERN NOMAN oaae 15 �Share your innovative and original expressions with all of us -7- same deal! him-tech YES INDEED WE NEED TO KNOW YOU'RE OUT THRRE We can be Our subscripticn lists are now on computer. Please date with our mailings. more accurate and up to check your label to see if your address and expiration date is correct. We haven't heard from some of you in a while. 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Title A name given to the resource Northern Woman Journal, Vol 11 No 4 Description An account of the resource Vol. 11, No. 4 (December 1988) Title: Northern Woman Journal Topics include: Newly elected conservative government Threat to social programs Privatization Winter solstice Spoken word The power of storytelling Rape Crisis Centre funding crisis Family violence prevention month Immigrant women’s conference National Association of Women and the Law Sexual harassment in the workplace Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue Call for lesbian stories for Women’s Press Thunder Bay Citizens Concerned About Free Trade Lakehead University harassment prevention workshops Transition house lobbying Poetry Job availability Working conditions Pay equity Employment equity Daycare acces Abortion access Feminist book review of A Passion for Friends: Toward a Philosophy of Female Affection by Janice Raymond Music review National Film Board of Canada films for women Feminist literature Ferron concert Northern Woman’s Bookstore news Authors/Contributors: Josie Wallenius Ontario Women’s Directorate Myrna Holman Leni Untinen Kit Minor Jane Saunders Donna Koivisto Carolyn Greenwood Mary-Ann Kleyendorst Jonie Mace Loretta Pavan Margaret Phillips Rose Pittis Cynthia Stolz Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Northern Woman Journal Collective Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1988-12 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Published on this site with permission. 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