Environment

This section contains material on activism around environmental concerns taken up or supported by feminist organizations and activists. Concerns include those specifically related to women’s health and well-being, as well as to broader issues.

More about Environment

Key themes include:

  • Linking environmental problems to patriarchal frameworks
  • Raising awareness of and organizing to reduce the impacts of environmental degradation on women and children
  • Organizing around the threat of nuclear war and dangers of nuclear power
  • Identifying and campaigning around the unequal impacts of environmental harm on Indigenous peoples, specifically Indigenous women

Sub-Issues

Eco Feminist activism

Archival Materials

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Woman Symbol and Globe

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English

Documents
Issues & Campaigns (1988): Women Vote! Vote No to the Free Trade Deal

  • Year created:

    1988

  • Author(s):

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
The Review of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act

  • Year created:

    1995

  • Author(s):

    Liz Armstrong, Ailsa Curiel, Sabina Nagpal, Andrea Ritchie

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English

Films

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Mother Earth

  • Year created:

    1991

  • Filmmaker(s):

    Terre Nash

  • Language:

    English

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

Periodicals

Women and Environments International

Women & Environments – Vol. 10, No. 3 – Spring 1988

  • Year created:

    1988

  • Publisher:

    Women & Environments Education and Development Foundation

  • Author(s):

    Katherine Davies, Dorothy Dinnerstein, Susan Prentice, Najwa M. Sa’d , Susan Hobart, Elizabeth Forslund, Carolyn Keith, Gay Alexander, Schuster Gindin, Miriam Wyman

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English