Publishing & Bookstores

Poster for the 1988 3e Foire Internationale du livre féministe - 3rd International Feminist Book Fair held in Montreal.

This subsection contains material on feminist bookstores and publishing houses and their role as part of the women’s movement. These women-led organizations provided platforms for works such as feminist theory, history, literature, and artistic expression by and for women, including LGBTQ+ women, women with disabilities, and Black, Indigenous, and women of colour.

Archival Materials

Buttons
Booksellers against Mike Harris

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
This button supports Broadside, a Canadian feminist newspaper published in Toronto between 1979 and 1989.
feminists are everywhere: they read Broadside

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
No Sexual Harassment

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
The button shows the phoenix of the bookstore rising from the ashes after the 1983 firebombing of the Morgentaler abortion clinic. The Toronto Women's Bookstore was in the same building and was severely damaged by the attack.
Toronto Women’s Bookstore: Rebuilding with Your Help

  • Year created:

    1983

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Women’s Books for a Feminist Future

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English

Documents
a book about sexual assault – 1st Edition – Fall 1979

  • Year created:

    1979

  • Author(s):

    Shirley Gardiner, Janet Torge, Marilyn Bicher, Donna Cherniak

  • Region:

    Quebec

  • Language:

    English
An Account to Settle: The Story of the United Bank Workers (SORWUC)

  • Year created:

    1979

  • Author(s):

    Bank Book Collective, including , Jackie Ainsworth, Sheree Butt, Charlotte Johnson, Helen Potrebenko, Denise Poupard, Jean Rands, Linda Read, Ulryke Weissgerber, Dodie Zerr

  • Region:

    British Columbia

  • Language:

    English
Canadian Feminist Periodicals / Périodiques Féministe Canadien (May 1986) – Agenda

  • Year created:

    1986

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English and French
Canadian Feminist Periodicals / Périodiques Féministe Canadien (May 1986) – The Politics of Editing

  • Year created:

    1986

  • Author(s):

    Carla-Krystin Androtte, Michele Paulse

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
CORA – The Women’s Bookmobile is Coming!

  • Year created:

    1974

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Feminist Periodicals Conference/Colloque sur les périodiques féministes (June 1985) – Letter to Participants

  • Year created:

    1985

  • Author(s):

    Susan De Rosa

  • Region:

    Quebec

  • Language:

    English
Feminist Periodicals Conference/Colloque sur les périodiques féministes (June 1985) – Letter to Pat Daley

  • Year created:

    1985

  • Author(s):

    Susan De Rosa

  • Region:

    Quebec

  • Language:

    English
Feminist Periodicals Conference/Colloque sur les périodiques féministes (June 1985) – Notes on Facilitating

  • Year created:

    1985

  • Author(s):

    Connie Clement

  • Region:

    Quebec

  • Language:

    English
Feminist Symposium / Le Symposium Féministe Brochure (French and English)

  • Year created:

    1973

  • Region:

    Quebec

  • Language:

    English and French
Feminist Symposium Féministe – List of Panelists

  • Year created:

    1973

  • Region:

    Quebec

  • Language:

    English
Feminist Symposium Féministe Brochure (English)

  • Year created:

    1973

  • Region:

    Quebec

  • Language:

    English
Feminist Symposium Féministe: Community Announcement

  • Year created:

    1973

  • Region:

    Quebec

  • Language:

    English
Feminist Symposium Féministe: Press Release

  • Year created:

    1973

  • Region:

    Quebec

  • Language:

    English
Feminist Symposium Flyer (English)

  • Year created:

    1973

  • Region:

    Quebec

  • Language:

    English
Harassment of the Body Politic Continues

  • Year created:

    1979

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
In Celebration of Lesbians of Colour

  • Year created:

    1985

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Kinesis Distribution Letter

  • Year created:

    1985

  • Region:

    British Columbia

  • Language:

    English
Letter – Montreal Conference (1975)

  • Year created:

    1975

  • Region:

    Quebec

  • Language:

    English
Pay Equity: It’s Only Fair

  • Year created:

    1990

  • Region:

    British Columbia

  • Language:

    English
RFR: A Canadian Journal for Feminist Scholarship

  • Year created:

    1980

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Second Story Press Feminist Publishers –Brochure

  • Year created:

    1989

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Second Story Press – Fundraising Letter

  • Year created:

    1989

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Second Story Press – Images By and About Women’s Lives

  • Year created:

    1993

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Symposium Féministe Flyer (French)

  • Year created:

    1973

  • Region:

    Quebec

  • Language:

    French
The Book Store Balance: Keeping the Doors Open

  • Year created:

    1995

  • Author(s):

    Eloise E Burke, Michèle Lonsdale Smith

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
The Women’s Press – 1981-82 Catalogue

  • Year created:

    1981

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
The Women’s Press – Books for Fall

  • Year created:

    1981

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Third International Feminist Book Fair – Press Release 1987

  • Year created:

    1987

  • Author(s):

    Diana Bronson, Ariane Brunet, Odette Desormeaux

  • Region:

    Quebec

  • Language:

    English
Toronto Women’s Bookstore: Catalogue

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Toronto Women’s Bookstore: Speech by Patti Kirk on TWB’s History

  • Year created:

    --

  • Author(s):

    Patti Kirk

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Toronto Women’s Bookstore: Writers in Dialogue (1980)

  • Year created:

    1980

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Webspinner Letter to Subscribers – 1985

  • Year created:

    1985

  • Author(s):

    Meaghan Dean, Suzn Morgan, Mair Smith

  • Region:

    Alberta

  • Language:

    English
Women and Words / Les femmes et les mots (1983)

  • Year created:

    1983

  • Region:

    British Columbia

  • Language:

    English and French
Women Unite! An Anthology of the Canadian Women’s Movement

  • Year created:

    1972

  • Author(s):

    Ruth McEwan, Gil McEwan, Sally Mahood, Judy Bernstein, Peggy Morton, Linda Seese, Myrna Wood, Anne McLean, Gwen Hauser, Bonnie Kreps, Lynn Lang, Sarah Spinks, Barb Cameron, Cathy Pike, Melody Killian, John Foster, Donna Cherniak, Allan Feingold, Adelyn Bowland, Doris Power, Alice James, Bronwen Wallace, Jean Rands, Paulette Jiles, Jane Likely, Judy Gill, Diana Chastain, Linda Carmen, Mary Bolton, Jenny Robinson, Robin Roger, Mary Burnham, Carolyn Egan

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English

Ephemera
Toronto Women’s Bookstore: Book Bag

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    Ontario
Toronto Women’s Bookstore: Bookmark

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    Ontario
Toronto Women’s Bookstore: Cloth Book Bag

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    Ontario
Toronto Women’s Bookstore: Photo of Mug (1)

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    Ontario
Toronto Women’s Bookstore: Photo of Mug (2)

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    Ontario

Periodicals

Abeng: Sister Vision Newsletter

Abeng: Sister Vision Newsletter – Feb/March 1990

  • Year created:

    1990

  • Publisher:

    Sister Vision Press

  • Author(s):

    Daria Essop, Rozena Maart, Catherine Brett, Himani Bannerji, Ahdri Zhina Mandiela, Afua Cooper

  • Language:

    English

Women’s Words: Toronto Women’s Bookstore

Women’s Words: Toronto Women’s Bookstore – Volume 1, Number 4 – Winter 1995

  • Year created:

    1995

  • Publisher:

    Toronto Women's Bookstore

  • Language:

    English

Photos
Interview with Léa Roback: 3rd International Feminist Book Fair (1988)

  • Year created:

    1988

  • Photographer:

    Judith Lermer Crawley

  • Region:

    Quebec
This photo of the members of Montreal Health Press appeared on the back cover of the French language handbook "Le Contrôle des Naissances" in 1986. Credit Judith Lermer Crawley.
Members of the Montreal Health Press in 1986

  • Year created:

    1986

  • Photographer:

    Judith Lermer Crawley

  • Region:

    Quebec
The photo is of the Montreal Health Press at a conference booth table, Toronto, 1992. Photo taken by Judith Lermer Crawley.
Montreal Health Press Booth at 1992 Toronto Conference

  • Year created:

    1992

  • Photographer:

    Judith Lermer Crawley

  • Region:

    Ontario
This 1981 photo was taken by Judith Lermer Crawley at the Montreal Health Press (MHP) office.
Montreal Health Press Office (1981)

  • Year created:

    1981

  • Photographer:

    Judith Lermer Crawley

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)
This 1978 photo of the Newspaper Committee for Union Woman shows members (l to r) Barbara Cameron, Tina Cartwright, Lynn Spink, and Susan Selde. Val Pakota, Mary Ellen Marus, and Joy Craig were absent when the photo was taken.
Organized Working Women Newspaper Committee

  • Year created:

    1978

  • Region:

    Ontario
This is one of several photos taken at a 1969 protest organized outside the offices of Maclean's magazine after it published a review of Lionel Tiger's book Men in Groups in which he theorizes about differences in male and female roles and male superiority.
Protest over Lionel Tiger Article in Maclean’s (1969)

  • Year created:

    1969

  • Photographer:

    Solveig Ryall

  • Region:

    Ontario
In this photo, protestors outside Maclean's magazine confront Alexander Ross over his article about Lionel Tiger's book Men in Groups in which Tiger theorizes about differences in male and female roles and male superiority.
Protest over Lionel Tiger Article in Maclean’s (1969)

  • Year created:

    1969

  • Photographer:

    Solveig Ryall

  • Region:

    Ontario
This is one of several photos taken at a protest organized by the New Feminists on May 1 1969 outside the Maclean's magazine office after it published a review of Lionel Tiger's book Men in Groups in which he theorizes about differences in male and female roles and male superiority.
Protest over Lionel Tiger Article in Maclean’s (1969)

  • Year created:

    1969

  • Photographer:

    Solveig Ryall

  • Region:

    Ontario
One of several photos taken at a protest organized by the New Feminists in May 1969 outside Maclean's office after it published a review of Lionel Tiger's book Men in Groups in which he theorizes about differences in male and female roles and male superiority.
Protest over Lionel Tiger Article in Maclean’s (1969)

  • Year created:

    1969

  • Photographer:

    Solveig Ryall

  • Region:

    Ontario
Photo of the protest banner created for the Banner Project by Waterlily, a feminist newspaper in Newfoundland and Labrador. Women's groups across Canada were asked to produce a protest banner that would become part of a huge banner in Ottawa. The goal was to show the strength and solidarity of women during the Third Commonwealth meeting of Ministers Responsible for Women’s Affairs in October 1990.
The Banner Project (1990): Waterlily

  • Year created:

    1990

  • Photographer:

    Amy Gottlieb

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)
Toronto Women’s Bookstore: Marie Prins

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    Ontario
Photo of Genevieve Leslie and Bonnie Ward (now Bonnie Shepherd) knitting while at Women's Press retreat north of Toronto. Photo dates from between 1972 and 1976. Photograph by Janice Acton.
Women’s Press, Toronto

  • Year created:

    1972

  • Photographer:

    Janice Acton

  • Region:

    Ontario
Cathy Carroll, now Billie Carroll, at the Women's Press office working on layout boards. Photo dates between 1972 and 1976. Photograph by Janice Acton.
Women’s Press, Toronto

  • Year created:

    1972

  • Photographer:

    Janice Acton

  • Region:

    Ontario
Frumie Diamond working on sales figures at the Women's Press office at 280 Bloor St. West, Toronto. Photo from between 1972 -1976. Photograph by Janice Acton.
Women’s Press, Toronto

  • Year created:

    1972

  • Photographer:

    Janice Acton

  • Region:

    Ontario
Cathy Carroll, now Billie Carroll, working on office Gestetner at the Women's Press office on Bloor Street West in Toronto. Photo from between 1972-1976. Photograph by Janice Acton.
Women’s Press, Toronto

  • Year created:

    1972

  • Photographer:

    Janice Acton

  • Region:

    Ontario
Cathy Carroll, now Billie Carroll, and Kathy Jackman working on the Gestetner at the Women's Press office on Bloor Street in Toronto. Photo taken between 1972 and 1976.
Women’s Press, Toronto

  • Year created:

    1972

  • Photographer:

    Janice Acton

  • Region:

    Ontario
Photo of Cathy Carroll (now Billie Carroll), Donna Bobier, and Frumie Diamond taken at a Women's Press retreat, north of Toronto. Photo dates between 1972 and 1976. Photograph by Janice Acton.
Women’s Press, Toronto

  • Year created:

    --

  • Photographer:

    Janice Acton

  • Region:

    Ontario
This is an undated group photo of the members of Women's Press. From left to right: Meg Luxton, Peggy McDonough, Brenda Roman, Naomi Wall, Lois Pike, Jane Springer, Daphne Read, Judy Skinner, Margie Wolfe, Connie Guberman, Wendy Donner, Judy (McClard) Blankenship
Women’s Press, Toronto – Group Photo

  • Year created:

    --

  • Photographer:

    Judy Blankenship

  • Region:

    Ontario
TThis photo features Naomi Wallat a demonstration by Gays and Lesbians Against the Right (GLARE) in Toronto. at the launch for her book, Hard Earned Wages: Women Fighting for Better Work and published by The Women's Press in 1983.
Women’s Press, Toronto – Launch of Hard-Earned Wages

  • Year created:

    1983

  • Photographer:

    Judy Blankenship

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)
Barb Hicks and unidentified woman work newspaper of the Vancouver Women's Caucus, around the time of the Abortion Caravan.
Working on “The Pedestal”

  • Year created:

    1970

  • Photographer:

    Anne Roberts

  • Region:

    British Columbia

Posters

Poster for the 1988 3e Foire Internationale du livre féministe - 3rd International Feminist Book Fair held in Montreal.
3e Foire Internationale du livre féministe – 3rd International Feminist Book Fair

  • Year created:

    1988

  • Visual Artist:

    Danielle Blouin

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English and French
A Canadian Women’s Calendar – 1974

  • Year created:

    1974

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
A Canadian Women’s Calendar – Herstory 1975

  • Year created:

    1975

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
A Culture Retrieved: Yiddish Women’s Literature

  • Year created:

    1995

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Poster for the book An Account to Settle, published in 1979 by Press Gang Publishers in Vancouver. It is the story of the United Bank Workers of SORWUC (Service, Office, and Retail Workers Union of Canada) and their unionizing drive.
An Account to Settle: The Story of the United Bank Workers (SORWUC)

  • Year created:

    1979

  • Region:

    British Columbia

  • Language:

    English
Found Treasures: Stories by Yiddish Women Writers

  • Year created:

    1994

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Undated poster for Press Gang's "At Home" benefit, offering a Friday night to oneself at home for the price of $2.99.
Press Gang Benefit: Stay Home!

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    British Columbia

  • Language:

    English
Poster for Stepping out of Line: A Workshop Manual and Resource Guide on Lesbianism/Feminism by Nym Hughes, Yvonne Johnson and Yvette Perreault and published by Press Gang Publishers (Vancouver) in 1984.
Stepping Out of Line: Workshop Manual and Resource Guide on Lesbianism/Feminism

  • Year created:

    1984

  • Visual Artist:

    Nym Hughes, Yvonne Johnson and Yvette Perreault

  • Region:

    British Columbia

  • Language:

    English
The Other Woman: A Revolutionary Feminist Newspaper

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
This poster advertises the Writers in Dialogue event held in Toronto on May 1, 1981 and sponsored by the Toronto Women's Bookstore and Women's Writing Collective.
Writers in Dialogue

  • Year created:

    1981

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English