No Place to Go : Local Histories of the Battered Women's Shelter Movement.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (183 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Assisting Our Own: Beendigen, 1972-89 -- 2 Maybe It Wasn't the Best Way to Do It, but It Got Done: Faye Peterson Transition House, 1972-85 -- 3 We're Here to Help: Kenora Women's Crisis Intervention Project, 1975-85 -- 4 It's a Band-Aid Service, and It's a Damn Needed One: The Nelson Safe Home Program, 1973-89 -- 5 It Was Never about the Money: Crossroads for Women/Carrefour pour femmes, 1979-87 -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Interviews -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
The first history of the battered women's shelter movement in Canada, this book traces the development of transition houses and services for abused women and the campaign that made wife battering a political issue.
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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 -- Case studies. Feminism -- Canada. Women''s rights -- Canada.