Ten Thousand Roses
The Making Of A Feminist Revolution
Ten Thousand Roses is a rich tapestry of stories told by over a hundred feminists from across Canada who organized, discussed, protested and struggled for change.
Legalized abortion, resistance to male violence, pay equity and employment equity, legal equality through the Charter, pornography, anti-racism, action against poverty, rights for Aboriginal women and child care: these are the issues that rallied Canadian women to activism from the 1960s through the 1990s, the second wave of feminism. Judy Rebick, feminist activist, weaves together an insightful and stirring oral history full of four decades of struggle, defeat and triumph. The book also offers honest and insightful discussions of the differences that simultaneously divided and strengthened the women's movement in its efforts to…
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February 22, 2005Judy Rebick is the Eakin Fellow at the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada. She is the founding publisher of Canada's irreverent web magazine rabble.ca, author of Transforming Power, and a regular on CBC Radio Q's media panel. A well-known feminist and social justice activist, Judy is the former CAW Sam Gindin Chair in social justice democracy at Ryerson University and appears frequently on radio and television across Canada. She lives in Toronto.
