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

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

Margo Goodhand

168 pages 2017

2 editions

nonfiction feminism history challenging informative slow-paced
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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 d...

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