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Women & revolution in Central America: an evening of solidarity
The item consists of a blue poster with a graphic of two women, one carrying a baby and bundle, another leaning on a machine gun. The backdrop shows a woman's gender symbol encircling a raised fist. The poster may have been placed among WWCC notices…
White feminist racism within the March 8th Coalition: Our responsibility
A memo addressing racism within the March 8 Coalition and around events related to the organization of an International Women's Day event.
Voyages and travels of an Indian interpreter and trader: describing the manners and customs of the North American Indians […]
This speckled calf binding is created using a technique of depositing fine drops of acid on the binding’s leather to achieve the visual effect. A late 19th or early 20th century rebinding, this binding is executed in the “Cambridge” style. Very…
Vocabvlario del hvmanista de Lorenço Palmireno : añadieron se en esta segunda impression, pons caesaris, selecta animalia, stromata, etc.
This work, published in Barcelona at the end of the 16th century, has two 20th century ex-libris labels affixed to its interior cover. These two ex-libris are associated with the same owner, namely Isodoro Fernandez, a Spanish collector and…
Valerii Maximi dictorum factorum q. memorabilium exempla : adiecto indice propriorum nominum, rerumque memoria dignarum locupletissimo
Sebastian Gryphius (1492-1556) was a German printer (born Greif, in Reutlingen), although he would establish himself in Lyon, France for the bulk of his career. Chiefly printing the works of classical Latin authors, Gyphius published the works of…
Utopia
William Morris (1834-1896), product of an upper-middle class upbringing of the 19th century, was actually a socialist with a great reverence for the skilled craftsman whose output was a product of labour done by hand, rather than that of…
University of Toronto's Convocation Hall during 1978 Toronto International Women's Day (IWD) rally
Woman sitting with crossed legs on an audience chair. Balloons behind her with the female gender symbol and a sing on a column reads "Flag".
Un rendez-vous avec l’égalité
Round grey button with lettering in white, purple and pink. Grey round button with white, purple and pink lettering. The Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women created 100 000 of these buttons and circulated them in early April 1985. They…
Towards a Non-Racist Women's Movement - A Handbook
A handbook prepared by various organizations to discuss racism, how to understand prejudices and stereotypes and effect change, The handbook includes definitions, activities, strategies, exercises and links to resources.
Toronto International Women’s Day Demonstration, 1987
This photograph shows women marching in the street holding a "Aboriginals united, the strength of the Nations" banner during the 1987 International Women’s Day (IWD) demonstration at Toronto.