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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

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

Victoria Women's Movement Newsletter and Pamphlet collection

  • CA UVICARCH AR439
  • Collection
  • 1950s-2000s (predominatley 1970s-1990s)

The newsletters and pamphlets are listed in alphabetical order by author. They date from the late 1950s to the early 2000s (predominantly 1970s to 1990s) and cover subjects such as women's rights and human rights, pornography, the peace movement, nuclear disarmament and arms control, sexual abuse, family violence, women's economic social conditions, lesbian issues, environmental protection, feminist theory and women's history.