THE WOMEN'S KIT
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Contents of the Women's Kit


RECORDS

Black cover
Family Court. Training School. Experiences of a 16-year-old girl (recorded and edited by Pamela Harris) (Also: Court Transcript) illustrated by Claire Watson Garcia
Brown cover
An Inuit woman talks about her life
Nell Hall: Suffragette. Reminiscences of an English militant (both recorded and edited by Pamela Harris)
Blue cover
5 artists in conversation at OCA (recorded and edited by Pamela Harris)
Madeleine Parent on women in unions (recorded by Judith Lawrence, edited by Becky Kane)
Red cover (Recorded and edited by Becky Kane)
“Bread and Roses” and other songs- Cover illustration by Claire Watson Garcia
They Are Playing a Game, readings from Gertrude Stein and R.D. Laing (also: printed text for songs and readings)

HISTORIC NEWSPAPERS AND RELATED MATERIALS

3 suffrage cards
A Suffragette’s Story, by Grace Roe
Letter sent from Holloway Prison by Nell Hall
Movement Strategy, by Becky Kane – Canadian suffrage movement tactics
They Went to Prison – names of British suffragette prisoners from 1905–1914
Suffragette – a personal experience by Nell Hall-Humpherson (from Raft)
The Suffragette July 3, 1914
The Suffragette June 26 1914
The Suffragette, May 2, 1913, historic “raided” issue
The Toronto Daily Star, November 2, 1906: “Report on a Toronto suffrage meeting”
The Toronto Daily Star, October 18, 1929: “Women declared persons”
Votes for Women, postcard
Wahlstimme – statistics on women’s enfranchisement throughout the world
Women’s Suffrage in Canada – a tract put out by the Toronto Suffrage Association

MATERIAL FROM OTHER SOURCES

A Day of Care
A Marriage Agreement
A Play About Bread and Roses
Aphra, the feminist literary magazine (part 1)​
Aphra, the feminist literary magazine (Part 2)

​Birth Control that Works
Canadian Women Elected to Parliament (1921-1972)
Daddy
For boys only
​From Never in Anger
​In Times Like These
​Insiders' Tips on How to Get Women Elected & Suffragettes Who Have Never Been Kissed​
Lost Women, A Doctor's Diary (1904-1932)

​Male Chauvinism Permeates Medicine
​Manifesto of Quebec Women
Non-Sexist Children's Stories, a poster from the Women's Press
​​"Notes for a Case Worker" from a Man and Two Women by Doris Lessing
​"Shakespeare's Sister" from A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf​ illustrated by Claire Watson Garcia
Speaking Out on Prostitution by Susan Brownmiller​
The Arts of Life (excerpts from Robert Briffault's The Mothers)​ illustrated by 
Claire Watson Garcia
The Building of the Gilded Cage by Jo Freeman​
The Double Standard of Aging by Susan Sontag

​The Independent Female a play by Joan Holden​
The Ontario Women's Bureau, What Why, How Pamphlet

​​The Rising of the Women by Ronnie Lichtman​
Why Women Fear Success by Vivian Gorlick

Women and Film 1896-1973
​You're a What?

YEARS OF STRUGGLE ENVELOPE

Booklets
​
1916 Status of Women
​​Angela Arkell Speech Excerpt
​"Mother" Mary Jones
​Over the Counter by Linda Lane
​Testimony Eaton's Factory Employees
​Towards An Organization of Working Women by Jean Rands
Waitress du Jour by Joyce Betries

Large Cards

Bettman and International Museum of Photography
Farmers
Media and Methods
​​Royal Commission on the Status of Women
​The Home Lives of Factory Workers
Women in the Workforce
Women in the Workforce by P. Alexander

Small Cards

Orange Card
Purple Card
Women in the labour force cards

Pamphlet and Postcard

​Women's Bureau Publications Pamphlet​
​Suffragette Postcard

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​POSTERS AND LARGE REPRODUCTIONS

"Sexist" a billboard poster series by Pamela Harris
​Agnes McPhail
Birth Control Poster (French)
Birth Control Poster
Canadian Women's First, with drawings by Claire Watson Garcia
Misogyny (dictionary reprint)
Scorned as timber, beloved of the sky by Emily Carr
Six Canadian Women, photo and text by Pamela Harris
The Cat And Mouse Act, Suffragette Poster, WSPU

FILMSTRIPS AND SLIDES

Our Mothers’ Mothers – photos from the Public Archives (also
Women of Canada – identification list of images)
Canadian Women – photos and text by Pamela Harris
Photographs of Women by Women, from an exhibition
organized by the Women’s Photo Co-op
50 slides of work by Canadian women artists, with slide
holders

​BOOKLETS AND PAMPHLETS

[Original materials created for the Women’s Kit]


A Visit to a Junior High Women's Group by Marie Welton
Agnes McPhail biography by Becky Kane
​Cora Hind biography by Becky Kane
Could Be a True Story by Pamela Harris-fashion. Harassment and guilt
​Dr. Emily Stowe biography by Becky Kane
Dr. James Barry
Dracula and Sleeping Beauty a contrast card by Pamela Harris
Emily Carr biography by Becky Kane
Family
Fear of Women
For Women Have Sat Indoors: folder of illustrations by Claire Watson Garcia
How To Find Harmony In Marriage by Jill Renich
Improvisations by Tony Miles
Inaloosiak and the Grizzly Bear told by Melanie Anatiak, illustrated by Theresa Quaqiuak
Juvenile
Mind Wrap Angela Miles
Misogynist, quotes by famous men denigrating women through the ages
My Father's House by Barbara Dryzen and Claire Watson Garcia
On Being a Prom Queen, by Sandra Stienecker Illustrated by Claire Watson Garcia
Other Contributors, by Katie Seward- bibliography of biographies of women​
​​​Our Clothing Our Prisons by Maggie Fehlberg and Wendy Greene
Our Names by Pamela Harris
Our Psychic Spaces by Maggie Fehlberg
Paradigm by Pamela Harris
Rites of Passage, on menarche
Rock Revisited, by Pamela Harris- looking at rock lyrics- cover illustration by Claire Watson Garcia
​Scrap Book a collection of quotes and photos
Sex role reversals in Marriage
Teen Tales_Comic Inversions illustrated by Claire Watson Garcia
The Fashion Trap, a Mobius Strip, by Pamela Harris
The Great Goddess
The Politics of Housework by Pat Mainardi
Translation Cards (8) by Pamela Harris
Tying the Knot by Pamela Harris
Untitled author's name withheld (teen pregnancy)
Wages for Housework, by Marie Welton, illustrations by Claire Watson Garcia
We Are Women by Angela Rose
Witches by Becky Kane illustrated by Claire Watson Garcia
You Are What You Play by Karen Kuzmoc

CHINA ENVELOPE


Booklets

A Chinese Country Woman
A Divorce Trial in China by Felix Greene
Fanshen
Gold Flower's Story by Jack Belden

Pamphlets and Posters

​Body and Clothes/Women and Child Care in China
China Newspaper
Fanshen Blue
Fanshen Orange
​How to Acquire Multi-Media Materials on Modern China
Marriage
​Woman, Society and Change by Evelyne Sullerot
​​Women and Childcare in China by Ruth Sidel

​​POSTCARDS

Black Venus by Niki de Saint Phalle
Confedspread by Joyce Wieland 
Flood by Helen Frankenthaler
Forest, British Columbia by Emily Carr
Reason Over Passion by Joyce Wieland
Royal Tide II by Louise Nevelson
Women and Dog by Marisol
Zunoqua of the Cat Village by Emily Carr

Logo designed by Christina White based on an illustration by ​Claire Watson Garcia
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