Influenced Us: Publications Read & Recommended by Us.

Literature List in December 1970 Pedestal of articles Women’s Caucus reproduced, sold at events and shipped in bulk orders across Canada as well as books recommended to those who wanted to find out more about women’s liberation.

What Influenced Us

  • Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape by Susan Brownmiller
  • Born Female by Caroline Bird
  • “Bread and Roses” by Kathy McAfee and Myrna Wood in Leviathan (June 1969)
  • Everyone Was Brave by William O’Neill
  • Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer
  • The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
  • A Feminist Look at Children’s Books by the Feminists on Children’s Media Collective in School Library Journal. (Jan. 1971)
  • The Feminist Position by Ellen Willis
  • Gold Flower’s Story by Jack Belden
    The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing. (1962)
  • The Housewife by Suzanne Gail
  • “The Longest Revolution” by Juliet Mitchell in New Left Review, No. 40 (Nov-Dec. 1966)
  • McGill Birth Control Handbook
  • The Myth of Consumerism by Ellen Willis
  • “A Note on the Division of Labour by Sex” by Judith Brown. Radcliffe Institute.
  • The Politics of Housework by Pat Mainardi. New England Free Press.
  • Psychology Constructs the Female by Naomi Weisstein
  • Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
  • Sexism, Capitalism and the Family by Rosalind Delmar. Family Study Group of the London (UK) Women’s Liberation Workshop.
  • The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
  • Sexual Politics by Kate Millett. Doubleday (1970)
  • Sexuality and the Family: Two Problems of the Liberation of Women by Laurel Limpus
  • Sisterhood is Powerful – An Anthology of Writings from the Women’s Liberation Movement. Edited by Robin Morgan. Vintage (1972).
  • “Sisters, Brothers, Lovers … Listen…” by Judy Bernstein, Peggy Morton, Linda Seese and Myrna Wood. (Fall 1967).
  • Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft.
  • Wages for Housework by Giuliann Pompeii at 1972 feminist conference in Padua, Italy; translated by Joan Hall of Cambridge Women’s Liberation in Boston.
  • “Why Women’s Liberation?” by Marlene Dixon in Ramparts (Dec. 1969).
  • The Woman Suffrage Movement in Canada by Catherine Cleverdon.
  • “Woman’s Work is Never Done, or The Production, Maintenance and Reproduction of Labour Power” by Peggy Morton in Women Unite, Women’s Press, Toronto (1972).
  • Women in History by Mary Beard.
  • Women in Revolution: The Lessons of the Soviet Union and China by Janet Weitzner Salaff and Judith Merkle, Berkeley Journal of Sociology.
  • Women, Resistance and Revolution by Sheila Rowbotham.
  • Women: The Longest Revolution by Juliet Mitchell.
  • Women’s Liberation and the New Politics by Sheila Rowbotham in Pamphlet 4 May Day Manifesto.
  • Women’s Liberation: Notes from the Second Year by Robin Morgan.
  • The Women’s Room by Marilyn French.