More about New Feminists

According to the New Feminist constitution, the goal of the organization “shall be the elimination of sex roles”. The first issue of the The New Feminist expressed the basis of the group this way:

“New Feminists are a group of women in search of their humanity in a society that demeans them.

We are children of our times and our world. Each of us bears the scars of having grown up as women in a man’s world. We are groping to understand and change – first ourselves and then the distorting society.

Our ideas vary. Some of us believe that marriage must be abolished. Others that marriage can be reformed and be saved, much changed and for the few. Some believe that all women must have a job; some others think that whether man, woman, both, or neither are employed is irrelevant, providing their lives are productive.

Some think political and economic revolution is necessary for the liberation of women. Others think that 19th century ideologies are not the answer to the problems of the 20th century woman, that we must find our own way.

On this we are all agreed. Our society is fundamentally built on separate but unequal sex-roles for men and women. The first, fundamental step in the liberation of woman is the rejection of a society so ordered. A new society where prepackaged sex-roles are irrelevant is our objective. We must be humans before we are male or female, and society must be reconstituted to express this.”

Archival Materials

Documents

Agenda: 1st Annual General Meeting Agenda – New Feminists
  • Year created:

    1970
  • Region:

    Ontario
  • Language:

    English
Constitution of New Feminists
  • Year created:

    --
  • Region:

    Ontario
  • Language:

    English
Critical Actions
  • Year created:

    1970
  • Region:

    Ontario
  • Language:

    English
Letter to Trudeau Government on Abortion
  • Year created:

    1970
  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)
  • Language:

    English
New Feminist Suggested Reading List on Feminism
  • Year created:

    --
  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)
  • Language:

    English
New Feminists Letter on Human Rights Code
  • Year created:

    --
  • Region:

    Ontario
  • Language:

    English
New Feminists Letter to Members on Consciousness-raising
  • Year created:

    --
  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)
  • Language:

    English
New Feminists: Early History
  • Year created:

    1970
  • Author(s):

    Val Perkins
  • Region:

    Ontario
  • Language:

    English
Notes on Discussion at Toronto New Feminist Meeting (August 3, 1970)
  • Year created:

    1970
  • Region:

    Ontario
  • Language:

    English
Women Only Party
  • Year created:

    1974
  • Region:

    Ontario
  • Language:

    English
Worksheet for Feminine Mystique Seminar
  • Year created:

    --
  • Author(s):

    Bonnie Kreps
  • Region:

    Ontario
  • Language:

    English

Periodicals

The New Feminist

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The New Feminist – No. 1 – November 1969
  • Year created:

    1969
  • Publisher:

    The New Feminist
  • Author(s):

    Janet Lawler, Joan Johnson, Ruth Glass, Margie Stamberg, Joan Lawler
  • Region:

    Ontario
  • Language:

    English
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The New Feminist – Vol. 1, No. 2 – December 1969
  • Year created:

    1969
  • Publisher:

    The New Feminists
  • Author(s):

    Joan Harries, Laura Sabia, Bonnie Kreps, Joan Lawler, Aline Gregory, Cecelia Wallace, Iain Paterson, Elizabeth Willmott
  • Region:

    Ontario
  • Language:

    English
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The New Feminist – Vol. 1, No. 3 – January 1970
  • Year created:

    1970
  • Publisher:

    The New Feminist
  • Author(s):

    Bonnie Kreps, Judith Masters, Joan Lawler, Barbara Chaplin
  • Region:

    Ontario
  • Language:

    English
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The New Feminist – Vol. 1, No. 4 – February 1970
  • Year created:

    1970
  • Publisher:

    The New Feminist
  • Author(s):

    Janet Lawler, Bonnie Kreps, Corileen North, Phyllis Graham
  • Region:

    Ontario
  • Language:

    English
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The New Feminist – Vol. 1, No. 5 – March 1970
  • Year created:

    1970
  • Publisher:

    The New Feminist
  • Author(s):

    Dorothy Curzon, Joan C. Johnson, Corileen North, Joan Lawler, Elizabeth Willmott, Howard Harries, Aline Gregory
  • Region:

    Ontario
  • Language:

    English
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The New Feminist – Vol. 1, No. 6 – April 1970
  • Year created:

    1970
  • Publisher:

    The New Feminist
  • Region:

    Ontario
  • Language:

    English
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The New Feminist – Vol. 1, No. 7 – May 1970
  • Year created:

    1970
  • Publisher:

    The New Feminist
  • Author(s):

    Joan Lawler, Corileen North, Johanna Stuckey, Joan Johnson
  • Region:

    Ontario
  • Language:

    English
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The New Feminist – Vol. 2, No. 1 – January 1971
  • Year created:

    1971
  • Publisher:

    The New Feminist
  • Author(s):

    Lida, Dorothy, Sara Bellum
  • Region:

    Ontario
  • Language:

    English
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The New Feminist – Vol. 2, No. 2 – May 1971
  • Year created:

    1971
  • Publisher:

    The New Feminist
  • Author(s):

    Val Perkins, Dorothy
  • Region:

    Ontario
  • Language:

    English
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The New Feminist – Vol. 2, No. 3 – July 1971
  • Year created:

    1971
  • Publisher:

    The New Feminist
  • Author(s):

    Gwen Matheson, Val Perkins, Maryon Kantaroff, Dorothy, Sherrill Cheda, Dorothy Curzon, Joan
  • Region:

    Ontario
  • Language:

    English
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The New Feminist – Vol. 2, No. 4 – October 1971
  • Year created:

    1971
  • Publisher:

    The New Feminist
  • Author(s):

    Sherrill Cheda, Val Perkins, Rita Mae Brown, Joan Harries
  • Region:

    Ontario
  • Language:

    English
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The New Feminist – Vol. 3, No. 1 – January 1972
  • Year created:

    1972
  • Publisher:

    The New Feminist
  • Author(s):

    Joan Lawler, Sherrill Cheda, Abigail Hoffman, Dorothy Curzon
  • Region:

    Ontario
  • Language:

    English
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The New Feminist – Vol. 3, No. 2 – April 1972
  • Year created:

    1972
  • Publisher:

    The New Feminist
  • Author(s):

    Val Perkins, Virginia Simpson, G. Matheson
  • Region:

    Ontario
  • Language:

    English
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The New Feminist – Vol. 3, No. 3 – July 1972
  • Year created:

    1972
  • Publisher:

    The New Feminist
  • Author(s):

    Joan Lawler, Esther Greenglass, Marilyn Goldberg
  • Region:

    Ontario
  • Language:

    English
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The New Feminist – Vol. 3, No. 4 – December 1972
  • Year created:

    1972
  • Publisher:

    The New Feminist
  • Author(s):

    Nelly McLung, Val Perkins, Gwen Matheson, Eleanor M. McDonald, Lois Darroch Milani, Donald Curzon
  • Region:

    Ontario
  • Language:

    English
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The New Feminist – Vol. 4, No. 1 – March 1973
  • Year created:

    1973
  • Publisher:

    The New Feminist
  • Author(s):

    Val Perkins, Patricia Grinsteed, Mary Hill
  • Region:

    Ontario
  • Language:

    English
The New Feminist – Vol. 1, No. 8 – October 1970
  • Year created:

    1970
  • Publisher:

    New Feminists
  • Author(s):

    Joan Lawler, Kate Millett, Sherrill Cheda, Anne Koedt
  • Region:

    Ontario
  • Language:

    English

Photos

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
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
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