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  1. Shelley Brian Brown, LL.B., LL.M, Employment & Human Rights Lawyer
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
    Shelley Brown specializes in workplace and employment law and human rights issues. He was Director of Human Resources and Ethics Officer for an international insurance company and offers a unique vantage point and extensive understanding of how company employment issues affect individuals. He is available for comment in the media and speaking engagements. Bilingual.
  2. Canadian Association of Sexual Assault Centres
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  3. Canadian Union of Public Employees
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  4. Connexions
    Volume 9, Number 2 - Summer 1984 - Rights and Liberties - A Digest of Resources & Groups for Social

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1984
  5. Connexions
    Volume 10, Number 1 - Spring 1986 - The Arts and Social Change

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1986
  6. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1988
  7. Connexions Digest
    Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1989
  8. Connexions Digest
    Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1990
  9. Connexions Digest
    Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1991
  10. Connexions Digest
    Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1992
  11. Eating Fire
    Family Life, on the Queer Side

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2001
    An inside look at a rainbow of relationships, sexual and otherwise, that gay, lesbian, and transgendered people create to animate their lives: lovers, partners, parents/kids, quick tricks, torrid affairs, sweethearts, crushes, exes, friends, bottoms and tops, threesomes, butches and fems, bears, cubs and johns. Based on hundreds of intimate conversations across Canada, Eating Fire explores the deepest currents of life: sex, love, loneliness, abuse, power and consent, giving birth, death, being a wo/man, pleasure, fear, joy - risks and rewards of creating family without boundaries.
  12. Ethics and Gender: Equality in the newsroom, Brussels Declaration
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Brussels Declaraton on Ethics and Gender: Equality in the newsroom.
  13. Excellence at the National Gallery of Canada
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Terms like #the good# and #excellent# have been used to exclude minorities and perpetuate a dominant monoculture. NGC#s current mandate of #excellence# raises serious questions about its ability to represent a culturally diverse nation.
  14. Gender segregation is humiliating and damaging
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    The author looks at gender segregation, drawing on her own personal experiences in Iran but also in a broader context and the resulting psychological damage done to girls from a very young age.
  15. Getting the Balance Right
    Gender Equality in Journalism

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Gender equality in journalism.
  16. Good Girls, Bad Girls
    Sex Trade Workers and Feminists Face to Face

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
    Looks into issues like racism in pornography, reclamation of the label "whore," the concerns surrounding censorship and the myths and stereotypes that have made sex trade workers outcasts.
  17. Healing the Wounds
    The Promise of Ecofeminism

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    An anthology of writings on ecofeminism.
  18. IFJ Calls on Unions to Confront Crisis of Gender Bias in the News
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ)calls for a new debate in newsrooms over reporting gender issues and gave its backing to a global campaign to combat sexist reporting.
  19. IFJ Conference: Ethics and Gender: Equality in the newsroom
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    What is women's representation in the news management? How do women journalists make their way in today's media changes? What role can journalists unions play in promoting gender equality? How can media strengthen gender portrayal in the news?
  20. IFJ Launches Booklet to Engage Media Professionals in Fight Against Gender Discrimination
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has today called on media professionals and unions activists to join the fight against gender discrimination by releasing a booklet on gender equality.
  21. IPS Africa Launches Reporting Gender-Based Violence Handbook
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Inter Press Service (IPS) Africa has launched a new handbook for reporters to support sustained media coverage of gender-based violence beyond 16 Days of No Violence Against Women and Children.
  22. James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
    James Tiptree, Jr. burst onto the science fiction scene in the 1970s with a series of hardedged, provocative short stories. After years, the cover was blown on his alter ego: A sixty-one-year old woman named Alice Sheldon. This fascinating biography, ten years in the making, is based on extensive research, exclusive interviews, and full access to Alice Sheldon's papers.
  23. Learning to Love Patriarchy
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1998
    A Canadian Catholic school teacher's struggle with the patriarchal values of the Catholic Church and their instruction to teachers to impress upon their female students the "value of motherhood".
  24. Making Sex
    Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    This is a book about the astonishing story of sex in the West from the ancients to the moderns in a precise account of developments in reproductive anatomy and physiology.
  25. Media Think
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
    Increasingly the news media are owned by a small group of very large corporations with extensive interests outside the industry, run by the corporate elite.Winter argues that instead of offering diverse perspectives on events and issues, the media portray an increasingly dogmatic and orthodox corporate picture of the world around us. The consistency with which they do this has its consequent, intended effect on public opinion and policy formation.
  26. The Missing News
    Filters and Blind Spots in Canada's Press

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
    Asks a number of questions, including: How well do the news media filter reality, for what purposes, through what processes and in whose interests? How do newspapers and TV stations choose what news is printed or aired, which letters will be published, or who will be accorded credibility?
  27. Poverty in Wealth
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1976
    A critique of existing poverty research in Canada.
  28. Recast Dreams
    Class and Gender Consciousness in Steeltown

    Resource Type: Book
  29. Red Emma Speaks
    Selected Writings and Speeches by Emma Goldman

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
    A collection of essays which provide a comprehensive view of Emma Goldman's theories and beliefs.
  30. Reporting Gender Based Violence
    A Handbook for Journalists

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Violence Against Women has presented particular challenges to the media and to society because of the way it has been consigned to the "private" sphere -- dampening public discussion and stifling media debate. Yet, the media has the potential to play a lead role in changing perceptions that, in turn, can help galvanize a movement for change. This toolkit seeks to help reporters and news managers grapple with the challenge of reporting gender based violence is a way that doe snot perpetuate gender stereotypes but informs and encourages public debate.
  31. Rubin Thomlinson LLP
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  32. Targeting Iran
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
    A critical analysis of the Bush administration's policies towards Iran.
  33. Transgender oppression and resistance
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Miles discusses how socialists approach the question of fighting oppressions like transphobia is not an abstract matter. It goes to the heart of how we work with oppressed groups and individuals such as trans people and how we persuade them to become part of building a mass united working class movement to overthrow capitalism and create a socialist society.

Experts on Gender Bias/Discrimination in the Sources Directory

  1. African Development Bank
  2. Commonwealth Secretariat
  3. Rubin Thomlinson LLP

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