About Us: Publications About Vancouver Women’s Caucus

The Abortion Caravan and Antii-War Activism by Shannon Stettner. Part of the five-part series “Thirty-five Years After the Abortion Caravan.”

The Abortion Caravan and RCMP Surveillance by Christabelle Sethna. Part of the five-part series “Thirty-five Years After the Abortion Caravan.”

“An Arrow Aimed at the Heart: Vancouver Women’s Caucus and the Abortion Caravan.” by Frances Wasserlein, Master’s thesis, 1980.

“Clandestine Operations: The Vancouver Women’s Caucus, the Abortion Caravan and the RCMP” by Christina Sethna and Steve Hewitt. The Cdn Historical Review 90, 3. Sept. 2009. University of Toronto Press.

Coming off the Mountain: Forging an Outward-Looking New Left at Simon Fraser University by Ian Milligan.

“Contextualizing She Named It Canada” by Joan Sangster, Vanier Professor, Trent University.

“Debating Dissent: Canada and the 60s.” Edited by Lara Campbell, Dominique Clement, Gregory Kealey.

An Entirely Different Kind of Union (SORWUC) 1972-86” by Julia Smith in Labour/Le Travail, Journal of Canadian Labour Studies.

“An ‘Entirely Different’ Kind of Labour Union: The Service, Office and Retail Workers of Canada” in Drawn to Change – Graphic Histories of Working-Class Struggle, edited by The Graphic History Collective with Paul Buhle. Between the Lines, Toronto. 2016. (pp. 143-158)

“History of Women at SFU” by Micaela Evans and Cecile Favron. The Peak at SFU. Mar. 9, 2015.

How Did the Canadian Women’s Liberation Movement Emerge from the Sixties Student Movements?
The Case of Simon Fraser University by Roberta Lexier, Women and Social Movements in America, 1600-2000 Vol.13, No.2 (Fall 2009). Document List.

Margaret Benston’s “Political Economy of Women’s Liberation,” International Impact by Angela Miles. Canadian Woman Studies, Vol. 13, No. 2. pp. 31-35.

“My Body Belongs to Me, Not the Government;” Anne Roberts, Kathryn Keate and the Abortion Caravan Publicity Campaign of 1970 in Beyond Bylines: Media Workers and Women’s Rights in Canada by Barbara Freeman. Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2011. Waterloo, ON. (pp. 123-156).

“The New Abortion Caravan” by Karissa Patton. Part of five-part series “Thirty-five Years After the Abortion Caravan.”

“Radicals on the Road: Internationalism, Orientalism, and Feminism During the Vietnam Era” by Judy Tsu-Chun Wu. Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London, 2013. (pp. 219-243)

“Reassessing the Abortion Caravan” by Shannon Stettner and Christabelle Sethna. Part of five-part series “Thirty-five Years After the Abortion Caravan.”

“Rediscovering Radical Histories: ‘Second Wave’ Feminists and the Popularization of Canadian History.” Dr. Joan Sangster interviewed on Media Mornings, Co-op Radio. Jan. 15, 2016 (37:00-47:30).

“Snitch: A History of the Modern Intelligence Informer by Steve Hewitt
Ten Thousand Roses: The Making of a Feminist Revolution” by Judy Rebick. Penguin Canada, 2005.

The Sixties in Canada: A Turbulent and Creative Decade by Bryan D. Palmer. (Black Rose Books, pp. 115-120).

“Sweating and Uncombed:” Canadian State Security, the Indochinese Conference and the Feminist Threat, 1968-1972. 
By Steve Hewitt and Christabelle Sethna, Canadian Historical Association, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, May-June 2008

“Thirty-five Years After the Abortion Caravan” is a five-part series on activehistory.ca. Includes The Women are Coming: the Abortion Caravan of 1970; The Abortion Caravan and Anti-Vietnam War Activism, The Abortion Caravan and RCMP Surveillence, The New Abortion Caravan and Re-Assessing the Abortion Caravan.

“Unions Aren’t Native:” The Muckamuck Restaurant Labour Dispute, Vancouver, BC (1978-1983) by Jan Nicol in Labour/Le Travail, Fall 1997.

“We Are Forced to Declare War: Linkages Between the 1970 Abortion Caravan and Women’s Anti-Vietnam War Activism” by Shannon Stettner. Social History Vol XLVI, no. 92 (Nov. 2013)

“Winning Choice on Abortion: How British Columbian and Canadian Feminists Won the Battles of the 1970s and 1980s.” By Ann Thomson. Trafford Publishing, 2004. (Chapter 1: Feminism Arrives at SFU and Chapter 3: The Abortion Information Service.)

The Women Are Coming,” a CBC Radio documentary produced by Karin Well and broadcast on Sunday Edition, May 7, 2010.

“The Women Are Coming: the Abortion Caravan of 1970.” Introduction to five-part series “Thirty-five Years After the Abortion Caravan.”

“Women Must Do It For Themselves:” Organizing Women Into SORWUC (1972 to 1986) by Jan Nicol in Women and Environmental International, Dec. 2013.