The Origins of the Women’s Shelter Movement in Canada
by
Margo Goodhand
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
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...