File F4296 - Women's Press - Correspondence

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Women's Press - Correspondence

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CA ON0034 10-001-S1-F4296

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  • 24 May 1988, February 1992 (Creation)

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0.1 cm of textual records

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(1971-)

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"The Women’s Press (also known as the Canadian Women’s Educational Press) was founded in 1971, by a subgroup of the Toronto Women’s Liberation Movement, one of the first feminist political organizations in Toronto. The initiative for a feminist press grew out of a dissatisfaction with the mainstream publishing community which had rejected Women Unite!, the first compilation of Canadian contemporary feminist writing. Their mandate was to provide an alternative means of making feminist ideas widely accessible and continue their involvement in the growing Canadian women’s movement. The Canadian Women’s Educational Press, more commonly known as the Women’s Press, was started officially on a grant from the Toronto Local Initiates Project (LIP) as a socialist feminist collective publishing feminist fiction, non-fiction and non-sexist children’s books.
In 1988 the Women’s Press began public discussion of an internal dispute regarding a proposed anti-racist policy. The discussions ended in a split within the Press with some original members departing to form the ‘Second Story Press’.
Women’s Press is Canada’s oldest English language feminist publisher. For over forty years, Women’s Press has played an integral role in the proliferation of high-quality Canadian writing in the fields of gender, sexuality, and women’s studies.
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La Women's Press (également connue sous le nom de Canadian Women's Educational Press) a été fondée en 1971 par un sous-groupe du Toronto Women's Liberation Movement, l'une des premières organisations politiques féministes de Toronto. L'initiative d'une presse féministe est née d'un mécontentement à l'égard de la communauté éditoriale traditionnelle qui avait rejeté Women Unite !, la première compilation d'écrits féministes contemporains canadiens. Leur mandat était de fournir un moyen alternatif de rendre les idées féministes largement accessibles et de poursuivre leur engagement dans le mouvement féministe canadien en pleine croissance. La Canadian Women's Educational Press, plus connue sous le nom de Women's Press, a été officiellement créée grâce à une subvention du Toronto Local Initiates Project (LIP). Il s'agit d'un collectif féministe socialiste qui publie des ouvrages féministes de fiction et de non-fiction ainsi que des livres pour enfants non sexistes.
En 1988, Women's Press a commencé à discuter publiquement d'un différend interne concernant une proposition de politique antiraciste. Les discussions se sont soldées par une scission au sein de la presse, certains membres d'origine quittant l'organisation pour former la ""Second Story Press"".
Women's Press est la plus ancienne maison d'édition féministe de langue anglaise au Canada. Depuis plus de quarante ans, Women's Press joue un rôle essentiel dans la prolifération d'écrits canadiens de grande qualité dans les domaines du genre, de la sexualité et des études féminines."

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This file consists of correspondence relating to anti-racist policies and Women's Press' twentieth anniversary. It contains two letters.

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115-9

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