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Debby Yaffe interview / Women's Studies collection

  • CA UVICARCH AR430
  • Collection
  • 2009

Item consists of sound recordings of Debby Yaffe discussing her childhood, schooling and family life in California, including gendered family roles, expectations of femininity in the 1950s, university, marriage and life in Europe, her feminist consciousness raising experience in London, teaching high school in London, the differences between English and American societies, sex discrimination, radical feminist activities, restructuring of sexual relationships, life in Canada and involvement in the Women's movement in Victoria, Status of Women Action group, Everywoman's Books, disordered eating as feminist issue, work as a fitness instructor, abortion rights, impact on feminist awareness of the December 6, 1989 killings at École Polytechnique in Montréal, radical feminism, women's lives in Canada and England, life as a lesbian, resisting dominant domestic relationship constructs, teaching Women's Studies, feminist theory, and the Victoria Women's Movement Archives.

The Debby Yaffe interview was conducted by Joy Fisher as a research project in the course History 358A, "Women in Canada," taught by Dr. Lynne Marks, which covered histories of women in Canada from the era of New France to the present. Fisher"s resulting essay is entitled "Riding the Wave/ Watching the Wave: A Second Wave Feminist Talks about Gender Ideologies and her Life."

Yaffe, Debby

Canadian Federation of University Women Victoria fonds

  • CA UVICARCH AR175
  • Fonds
  • 1908-2010

Fonds consists of constitution and bylaws, minutes, committee records, presidents' files, financial records, special events files, newsletters and programs, ephemera, reference material and membership records.

Canadian Federation of University Women - Victoria

Women for Women in Afghanistan fonds

  • CA UVICARCH AR348
  • Fonds
  • 1999-2000

The fonds consists of educational reports, photographs, and a program for a dinner held March 9, 2000 in conjunction with the Status of Women Action Group. Includes a copy of "Women for Women in Afghanistan (W4WA Victoria), Victoria BC Early History (1999)".

Women for Women in Afghanistan. Victoria Branch

University of Victoria (B.C.). Women's Centre fonds

  • CA UVICARCH AR225
  • Fonds
  • 1972-2000

The fonds consists of office files and include budget, minutes, agendas, communication logs, policy files, posters and Women's Centre history. Also included are subject files which entail educational and activist undertakings relating to rallies, eating disorders, date rape, violence against women, women's rights, December 6 memorial vigil and racism.

University of Victoria (B.C.). Women's Centre

Status of Women Action Group, Victoria Branch fonds

  • CA UVICARCH AR119
  • Fonds
  • 1971 - 2005

Fonds consists of office logs, a daily record of events, 1972-1992; Downtown Women's Place Project file, 1992-1993; posters, 1987-1994; pamphlets, 1972, 1987, 1990; and several newsletters: Victoria Status of Women News, 1972-1990; Times Feminist, 1991-1995; Waves, 1978-79; and Women's Centre and Transition House News, 1974.

Status of Women Action Group, Victoria Branch

Faculty Women's Caucus Oral History Project fonds

  • CA UVICARCH AR145
  • Fonds
  • 1997

The fonds consists of 16 audiocassettes and transcripts of interviews with the following members of the Faculty Women Caucus: Marilyn Callahan, Radhika Desai, Jean Dey, Monika Langer, Hester Lessard, Margie Mayfield, Norma Mickelson, Phoebe Noble, Clare Porac, Alison Preece, Christine St. Peter, Judith Terry, Paddy Tsurumi, Jennifer Waelti-Walters, Barb Whittington, and Margo Young. Tapes and transcripts arranged in alphabetical order.

University of Victoria (B.C.). Faculty Women's Caucus. Oral History Project

Women Against Pornography, Victoria Branch fonds

  • CA UVICARCH AR197
  • Fonds
  • 1982-1985

Fonds consists of correspondence, "Bad Trick Sheet" newsletters, reports, clippings, petitions, questionnaires, a "Women as Animals" file depicting women in advertising, and a script for a slide show entitled, "Erotica: A Feminist Exploration." Files arranged in alphabetical order by title.

Women Against Pornography, Victoria Branch