breaking the silence: a feminist quarterly

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Breaking the Silence was a newsletter published by the Feminist Caucus of the Carleton School of Social Work in Ottawa, ON, from 1982 to 1990. The newsletter’s goals were to raise the level of women’s awareness of social welfare issues, and to promote and strengthen a feminist perspective among those working in the field of social welfare.

More about breaking the silence: a feminist quarterly

Excerpted from breaking the silence. vol.1, no.1 (Spring 1982) – “Introducing the first issue…”

“Breaking the Silence is a project of the Feminist Caucus of the Carleton School of Social Work. The newsletter has twin aims: to raise the level of women’s awareness of social welfare issues, and to promote and strengthen a feminist perspective among those working in the field of social welfare.

We feel strongly that there is much work to be done to advance the cause of women throughout the social welfare system and social policy in general. We hope that this newsletter will provide information that will be of help to those working both within and outside the system.

At present, women constitute the vast majority of users of social services. Women also outnumber men as providers of direct services. In spite of this, the social service delivery system and the design of social programs and research often operate to the detriment of women. Not only do they fail to respond to women’s real and immediate needs and redress the existing disparities between women and men but they often succeed only in exacerbating already intolerable situations.

Social welfare issues cannot be considered in isolation. They reflect the inequality that pervades all aspects of women’s lives and are intimately connected to the structures and institutions that shape women’s reality. These include the legal system, the family, marriage and motherhood, paid work, etc. Consequently, work for change must proceed simultaneously on all fronts. And we must all work together.

The Feminist Caucus is aware that there are many women, individually and in groups, working actively in many settings in the community to alter sexist policies, programs, and services.

Publishing this newsletter will be a first step towards:

  • finding support for those feminists working in isolation in agencies or bureaucracies
  • establishing links between workers in different settings, with different job functions and interests but common goals
  • providing more useful information about resources, feminist research, policy developments, events, and actions
  • developing feminist analyses and strategies around key social issues of concern to women”

Issues of breaking the silence: a feminist quarterly

breaking the silence – fall 1984

  • Year created:

    1984

  • Author(s):

    Sherry Galey, Joan Holmes, Ellen Adelberg, Sharon Batt, Wendy McKeen, Linda Archibald, Lynn Jamieson-Clark, Marie Lacroix, Joan Riggs, Peggy Kelly, Liz Lamb, Helen Durie, Joanie Flynt, Betty-Anne Howard, Diane Chalmessin, Lee Fleming, Peggy Harris, Marie O’Shea

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

breaking the silence – spring 1985

  • Year created:

    1985

  • Author(s):

    Ellen Adelberg, Alma Estable, Debbie Gordon, Carolyn Siebert, Joanna Dean, Magda Seydegart, Suzanne Pilon, Dianne Patychuk, Jean Fairholm, Anna Lattanzi, Karla

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

Breaking the Silence – Vol. 1, No. 1 – Spring 1982

  • Year created:

    1982

  • Author(s):

    Helen Levine , Alma Estable, Suzanne Pilon, Wendy McKeen

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

Breaking the Silence – Vol. 1, No. 2 – Fall 1982

  • Year created:

    1982

  • Author(s):

    Alma Estable, Lesley Silver, Denise Stone, Dana Hanson, Sherry Galey, Suzanne Pilon, Joan Auden

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

Breaking The Silence – Vol. 1, No. 3 – Winter 1982

  • Year created:

    1982

  • Author(s):

    Karen Stotsky, Dana Hanson, Diana McLean, Diane Chalmessin, Suzanne Pilon, Ellen Adelberg, Denise Stone, Alicia Schreader, Sherry Galey, Margaret Evans, Joanie Flynt, Marymay Downing, Dana Hanson

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

Breaking The Silence – Vol. 1, No. 4 – Spring 1983

  • Year created:

    1983

  • Author(s):

    Sherry Galey, Mark Holmes, Carol Richardson, Joan Margaret Holmes, Suzanne Pilon, Dana Hanson, Diane Chalmessin, Marymay Downing, Maristella Palmieri, Monique Albert

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

Breaking The Silence – Vol. 1, No. 5 – Summer 1983

  • Year created:

    1983

  • Author(s):

    Deb Ellis, Joan Riggs, Cindy Player, Alma Estable, Sherry Galey, Alicia Schreader, Dana Hanson, Anne Bird, Wendy Irvine, Hilarie McMurray, Rosemary Knes, Evelyn Gigantes, Marymay Downing

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

Breaking the Silence – Vol. 2, No. 2 – Fall 1983

  • Year created:

    1983

  • Author(s):

    Cindy-Kenny Gilday, Alicia Schreader, Nora Sobolov, Joan Holmes, Brenda Elliot, C.L Moriarty, Alma Estable, Cathy Culpepper, Pamela Connolly, Jean Fairholm, Diane Patychuk, Margaret Randall, Sherry Galey, Diane Chelmassin, Joan Gillesple

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

Breaking The Silence – Vol. 2, No. 3 – Winter 1984

  • Year created:

    1984

  • Author(s):

    Alicia Schreader, Alma Estable, Cheryl Boon, Claudia Currie, Deb Ellis, Elizabeth Shein, Ellen Adelberg, Jane Keeler, Joan Holmes, Joan Riggs, Joanne Walton, Sherry Galey, Suzanne Pilon, Kathy O'Connell

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

Breaking the Silence – Vol. 2, No.4 – Spring/Summer 1984

  • Year created:

    1984

  • Author(s):

    Aline Akeson, Alma Estable, Carol Whitehead, Cheryl Boon, Diane Chalmessin, Dianne Patychuh, Ellen Adelberg, Gabrielle Nawratil, Geraldine Finn, Helen Durie, Joan Holmes, Joan Riggs, Joanie Flynt, Maxine Stata, Wendy Mckeen

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

Breaking The Silence – Vol. 3, No. 4 – Summer 1985

  • Year created:

    1985

  • Author(s):

    Carolyn Sinclair, Cathy Cameron , Deborah Gordon, Sherry Galey, Yolande Mennie, Diane Patychuk , Joan Riggs, Liana Wadsworth, Marie O'Shae, Nancy Lewis, Ruth Olson, Suzanne Pilon , Sapphwit

  • Region:

Breaking the Silence – Vol. 3, No.2 – Winter 1985

  • Year created:

    1985

  • Author(s):

    Beth Follet , Debbie Gordon, Diane Chalmessin, C. Mitchell, Jean Fairholm, Joan Riggs, L. Belair, L. Ford, Marie O'Shae, Marymay Downing, Nancy Beauchamp, Meredith Levine, Ruth Latta, S. Pilon, V. Hogg

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

breaking the silence – Vol. 4, No.1 – Fall 1985

  • Year created:

    1985

  • Author(s):

    Deborah Gordon, Karen Dubinsky, Kim Bailey, Debra Pilon, Joan Holmes, Cynthia D’Errico, Helen Durie, Carolyn Strange, Joan Riggs, Marie O’Shea, Martha Muzychka, Catherine Labelle

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

breaking the silence – Vol. 5, No. 4 – Summer 1987

  • Year created:

    1987

  • Author(s):

    Cindy Moriarty , N.M. Laviolette, Catherine Lambert, Julia McMahon, Carmen Paquette, Denise Veilleux, Melinda Wittstock, Lee Fleming, Joan Riggs

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

Breaking the Silence – Vol. 6, No. 2 – December 1987

  • Year created:

    1987

  • Author(s):

    Joan Condie, Ruth Scher, Brendalyn Ambrose, Debra Pilon, Sandi Howell, Irene Harris, Martha Muzychka, Angel Paez (translated by Donna Johnson), Shira Bernholtz, Adiat Fae Junaid, Ellen Adelberg

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

Breaking the Silence – Vol. 6, No. 4 – June 1988

  • Year created:

    1988

  • Author(s):

    Laurie Rektor, Lesley Oak, Denyse Cote (translated by Tunde Nemeth), Joan Holmes and Joanna Dean, Louise Guenette, Jo-Ann Mayhew, Martha Muzychka, d.i huron, Ruth Latta, Beth Follett, Si Transken

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

Breaking the Silence – Vol. 7, No. 1 – September 1988

  • Year created:

    1988

  • Author(s):

    Carol Judd, Pamela Bentley, Susan Buchanan, Louise Guenette, Holly Hoop, Penny McCann, Morena Mazzara, d.i huron, Alyson Huntly, Wendy Gordon

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

Breaking the Silence – Vol. 7, No. 3 – March – July 1989

  • Year created:

    1989

  • Author(s):

    CCEC, Christine Conley, Ellen Adelberg, Jan DeGrass,, Janet Hollingsworth, Jo-Anne Stead, Linda Long, Lorrie Jordensen, Marilyn Nazar, Lucie Lafrance, Rosemary Warskett, Tunde Nemeth

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

Breaking The Silence – Vol. 7, No. 4 – Winter 1990

  • Year created:

    1990

  • Author(s):

    Alyson Huntly, Catherine Stuart, Colleen Lundy , Eleanor Albanese , Joan Selby, Joanna Kafarowski, Jo-Ann Mayhew, Liisa North, Lucya Spencer, Mary Anne Lamy, Pam Bentley, Patricia A. Monture, Sue Sorrell, Tunde Nemeth, Yola Grant

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

Breaking The Silence Vol. 7, No. 2 – December 1988

  • Year created:

    1988

  • Author(s):

    Surjit Virdy, Nancy Nachum, Ellen Adelberg, Dona Howse, Georgina Paul, Tunde Nemeth, Waterfall, Susan O'Leary, Diane Archambault, Denyse Cote, Alyson Huntly, Gwenda Lambton, P. Buncel

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

breaking the silence- Vol. 6, No.1 – October 1987

  • Year created:

    1987

  • Author(s):

    Cathy Miller, Janice Manchee, Martha Muzychka, Martine Rochon, Yvonne Van Ruskenveld, Nancy Russell, Sarindar Dhaliwal, Sandra Butler, Dawn Dale, Virginia Howard, Tünde Nemeth

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

breaking the silence: a feminist quarterly – vol. 4, no. 2 – winter 1986

  • Year created:

    1986

  • Author(s):

    Deborah Gordon, Ellen Adelberg, Sherry Galey, Cathy Cameron, Joan Anne Nolan, Adriana Santa Cruz, Mercedes Sayagues, Joan Holmes, Joan Riggs, Lynne Tyler, Nancy Lewis

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

breaking the silence: a feminist quarterly – Vol. 4, No. 3/4 – Spring/Summer-1986

  • Year created:

    1986

  • Author(s):

    Sherralee Galey, Jane Taylor, Alma Estable, Dorothy O'Connell, Sheila Scotchmer, Deb Ellis, Ruth Scher, Helen Forsey, Marie O'Shea, Martha Muzychka, Joan Holmes, Ellen Adelberg

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

breaking the silence: a feminist quarterly – Vol. 5, No. 1 – Fall 1986

  • Year created:

    1986

  • Author(s):

    Alyson Huntly, Sherralee Galey, Ruth $cher, Virginia Howard, Joan Riggs, Joan Holmes, Inge Feraer , Linda Irvin , Ellen Adelberg, Kim Curran, Annick Amyot

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

breaking the silence: a feminist quarterly – Vol. 5, No. 2 – Winter 1987

  • Year created:

    1987

  • Author(s):

    Ellen Adelburg, Claudia Currie, Susan B. Boyd, Kim Bailey, Diane Chalmessin, Ritchie Allen, Michelle Clark, Sally Smith, Martha Muzychka, Rosalind Currie

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

breaking the silence: a feminist quarterly – Vol. 5, No. 3 – Spring 1987

  • Year created:

    1987

  • Author(s):

    Caridwen O.B. Irvine, Joan Riggs, Maxine McKenzie, Joan Holmes , Janine Robinson, Jane Beauchamp, Ev Gaboury, Tünde Nemeth, Alyson Huntly, Miriam Edelson, Lynne Westlake , Susan Lott

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

breaking the silence: a feminist quarterly – Vol. 6 – No. 3 – March 1988

  • Year created:

    1988

  • Author(s):

    Adriana Santa Cruz (translated by Alma Estable) , Denyse Coté, Simone Thibault, Candis J. Graham, d. i. huron, Louise Guénette, Joan Holmes, Michelle Clarke, Olivette Falardeau, Gwenda Lambton, Patricia File, Martha Muzychka

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)