Sport & Leisure

This section contains material on women’s participation in sport and leisure activities as well as organizing efforts to challenge the oppressive institutions and discriminatory ideologies and practices underpinning both these spheres.

More about Sport & Leisure

Key themes include:

  • Health and other benefits for women through participation in sport and leisure activities
  • Women’s rights and opportunities to participate fully in a range of sports and leisure activities at all levels
  • Recognition of women’s abilities, skills, and achievements
  • Legal and social challenges to women’s participation and equal treatment in professional sports, including issues around pay, promotion, and opportunity
  • Sexist, racist, homophobic, and ableist culture in sports

Archival Materials

Audio

Dykes on Mykes: Lesbians and Sports Part One – 1991

  • Year created:

    1991

  • Musical Artist/Group:

    Dykes on Mykes

  • Region:

    Quebec

  • Language:

    English
Dykes on Mykes: Lesbians and Sports Part Two – 1991

  • Year created:

    1991

  • Musical Artist/Group:

    Dykes on Mykes

  • Region:

    Quebec

  • Language:

    English

Buttons

Founded in the early 1980s, the NOTSO Amazon Softball League has brought together lesbians, queer positive women, and trans people of all abilities to play recreational softball in a positive and fun environment.
not so amazon – 1985 Softball League

  • Year created:

    1985

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Sport for All 1982

  • Year created:

    1982

  • Language:

    English
The She-roes were a lesbian baseball team that competed in the Gay Games 1990.
Toronto She-roes

  • Year created:

    1990

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Wen Do was developed as a self-defense course for women and girls and continues to be an important feminist initiative that focuses on issues of sexual violence facing women and teaches women how to protect themselves. It is trans inclusive.
Wendo Women Only

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English

Documents
CAAW and S Atlantic Conference – Sport and Feminism

  • Year created:

    1986

  • Region:

    PEI

  • Language:

    English
CAAW+S Suggested Educational Resource Materials

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Cycling Women: A Conference for Bicycle Riders

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Dyke Dynamos – Women in Sports Article

  • Year created:

    1983

  • Author(s):

    Dorothy Kidd

  • Region:

    British Columbia, Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Human Rights and Sports Policies Affecting Girls and Women

  • Year created:

    1984

  • Author(s):

    Helen Lenskyj

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Introduction to the Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women and Sport (CAAW+S)

  • Year created:

    1987

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
National Women’s Running Conference Letter

  • Year created:

    1979

  • Author(s):

    Phoebe Jones, Maude Benz

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Out of the Kitchen and Into the Streets

  • Year created:

    1980

  • Author(s):

    Ellen Agger

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Women’s Running – Coming of Age in Canada

  • Year created:

    1980

  • Author(s):

    Ellen Agger

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
 Address given to The Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women and Sport

  • Year created:

    1986

  • Author(s):

    Murielle Young, Ellen King

  • Region:

    PEI

  • Language:

    English
 CAAW+S Membership Form

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English

Films

Still from the film "Spirit of the Kata" depicting four white women doing karate in a gym.
Spirit of the Kata

  • Year created:

    1985

  • Filmmaker(s):

    Sharon McGowan

  • Language:

    English

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

Periodicals

Branching Out

Branching Out – Vol. 5, No. 4 – 1978

  • Year created:

    1978

  • Publisher:

    New Women's Magazine Society

  • Author(s):

    Sharon Batt , Helen Greaves, Aritha van Herk, Diana S. Palting , Karen Lawrence , Betty Mardiros, Nancy Schelstraete , Donna Rae, Judith Mirus, Kris Purdy, Alison Griffiths, Mary Lou Creechan , Elaine Butler, Patty Loverock, Jolanta Samler , Frankie Ford , Maria Jacobs, Paddy Webb, Barbara Brown, Rebecca Burke

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English

Toronto Women Running Newsletter

Toronto Women Running News Bulletin

  • Year created:

    1978

  • Publisher:

    Toronto Women Running

  • Author(s):

    M. Copeland

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Toronto Women Running Newsletter – Fall 1978

  • Year created:

    1978

  • Publisher:

    Toronto Women Running

  • Author(s):

    Ellen Agger, Patsy Cook, Margaret Copeland

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Toronto Women Running Newsletter – Fall 1980

  • Year created:

    1980

  • Publisher:

    Toronto Women Running

  • Author(s):

    Iris Weller, Nicole Nossal, Beverley Green, Pamela Hayes, Ellen Agger, Jo Campbell

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Toronto Women Running Newsletter – Fall 1981

  • Year created:

    1981

  • Publisher:

    Toronto Women Running

  • Author(s):

    Gwen Dunlop, Kris Cruikshank, Sally Kerr, Marlene Mawhinney

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Toronto Women Running Newsletter – Midsummer 1979

  • Year created:

    1979

  • Publisher:

    Toronto Women Running

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Toronto Women Running Newsletter – Spring 1980

  • Year created:

    1980

  • Publisher:

    Toronto Women Running

  • Author(s):

    Judith Arbus, Kathleen MacKinnon, Susan Wortman

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Toronto Women Running Newsletter – Summer 1980

  • Year created:

    1980

  • Publisher:

    Toronto Women's Running

  • Author(s):

    Judith Arbus, Jessie Price, Pamela Hayes, Ellen Agger

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Toronto Women Running Newsletter – Winter 1981

  • Year created:

    1981

  • Publisher:

    Toronto Women Running

  • Language:

    English
Toronto Women Running Newsletter – Spring 1979

  • Year created:

    1979

  • Publisher:

    Toronto Women Running

  • Author(s):

    Ellen Agger, Ellen Woodsworth, Mary Marks, A. Hoffman, Frances Gregory

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English

Vancouver Women Running Newsletter

Vancouver Women Running – Fall 1979 Newsletter

  • Year created:

    1979

  • Publisher:

    Vancouver Women Running

  • Author(s):

    Maureen Marshall, Heather Ellis, Janet Brooks

  • Region:

    British Columbia

  • Language:

    English