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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780519703321

Autore

Janoviček Nancy <1968->

Titolo

No place to go [[electronic resource] ] : local histories of the battered women's shelter movement / / Nancy Janovicek

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Vancouver, : UBC Press, c2007

ISBN

1-282-59341-2

9786612593413

0-7748-5566-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (183 p.)

Disciplina

362.82/92830971

Soggetti

Women's shelters - Canada - History

Abused women - Services for - Canada - History

Rural women - Services for - Canada - History

Indigenous women - Services for - Canada - History

Women's shelters - Canada

Feminism - Canada

Women's rights - Canada

Maisons d'hébergement pour femmes - Canada - Histoire

Femmes victimes de violence, Services aux - Canada - Histoire

Femmes en milieu rural, Services aux - Canada - Histoire

Femmes autochtones, Services aux - Canada - Histoire

Maisons d'hébergement pour femmes - Canada

Féminisme - Canada

Femmes - Droits - Canada

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-163) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Assisting Our Own: Beendigen, 1972-89 -- Maybe It Wasn't the Best Way to Do It, but It Got Done: Faye Peterson Transition House, 1972-85 -- We're Here to Help: Kenora Women's Crisis Intervention Project, 1975-85 -- It's a Band-Aid Service, and It's a Damn Needed One: The Nelson Safe Home Program, 1973-89 -- It Was Never about the Money:



Crossroads for Women/Carrefour pour femmes, 1979-87 -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Interviews -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The first history of the battered women's shelter movement in Canada, No Place to Go traces the development of transition houses and services for abused women and the campaign that made wife battering a political issue. Nancy Janovicek focuses on women's groups in small cities and rural communities, examining anti-violence activism in Thunder Bay, Kenora, Nelson, and Moncton. She also pays close attention to Aboriginal women in northwestern Ontario, where the connections between family violence and the devaluation of indigenous culture in Canadian society complicated effots to end domestic violence. This book lays bare the aims and challenges of establishing women's shelters in non-urban areas. The local histories presented here show how transition houses became hubs in a larger movement to change attitudes about domestic violence and to lobby for legislation to protect women.