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
