Runaway Wives and Rogue Feminists: The Origins of the Women's Shelter Movement in Canada

by Margo Goodhand

Book Overview

In the supposedly enlightened '60s and '70s, violence against women was widespread. It wasn't talked about, and women had few, if any, options to escape their abusers. Yet in 1973 -- with no statistics, no money and little public support -- five disparate groups of Canadian women quietly opened Canada's first battered women's shelters. Today, there are well over 600.
In Runaway Wives and Rogue Feminists, journalist Margo Goodhand tracks down...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1552669998
• ISBN13: 9781552669990
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Fernwood Publishing
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.4"