Runaway Wives and Rogue Feminists
ebook ∣ The Origins of the Women's Shelter Movement in Canada
By Margo Goodhand
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In the supposedly enlightened '60s and '70s, violence against women didn't make the news. It didn't exist. Yet in 1973 — with no statistics, no money and little public support — five disparate groups of Canadian women quietly opened the country's first battered women's shelters. Today, there are well over 600.
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