ISBN:

• 9780458811007
• 0458811009

Description: x, 209 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:

• Proceedings of a conference on Women: social and physical isolation held in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in November, 1985.
• Includes bibliographies.

Contents:

• Introduction: the ecology of gender / Kathleen Storrie
• Wife battering: psychological, social and physical isolation and counteracting strategies / Lee Chalmers and Pamela Smith
• Coping with the fear of crime / M. Joyce Horton and Leslie W. Kennedy
• Social isolation and Alberta farm women / Nanci Langford and Norah Keating
• Women's networks: strengthening the bonds of friendships between women / Lorette K. Woolsey and Laura-Lynne McBain
• "Should I drown myself now or later?" the isolation of rural women in Saskatchewan and their participation in the homemakers' clubs, the farm movement and the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, 1910-1967 / Georgina M. Taylor
• Susanna Moodie revisitied: roughing it in 1986 / Susan Heald and Margot Blight
• Distance education for Native women / Barbara Spronk and Donna Radtke
• Overcoming structured isolation: a case study of consumers in hospital planning / Jane Gordon
• Structured isolation: immigrant women in Saskatchewan / Angela W. Djao and Roxana Ng
• Black women immigrants / Myriam Merlet
• Role models: a critique / Christine Overall
• Feminist philosophy and isolation / Deborah C. Poff
• The tyranny of stereotypes / Lorraine Code.

LCCN: cn 87093843

Control Number: 27129

Subjects:

• Feminism -- Congresses.
• Social isolation -- Congresses.
• Women -- Canada -- Social conditions -- Congresses.

Genre: Conference papers and proceedings.

Other Authors:

• Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women.
• Storrie, Kathleen, editor.