We Need to Do This
In Canada, a woman is killed by her intimate partner every six days. Alberta has one of the highest rates of domestic violence in the country. Starting in the 1970s, Alberta women’s shelters have assisted women in crisis. Much more than a safe place to sleep, shelters work to prevent violence throug...
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2023
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| author | Zabjek, Alexandra |
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| description | In Canada, a woman is killed by her intimate partner every six days. Alberta has one of the highest rates of domestic violence in the country. Starting in the 1970s, Alberta women’s shelters have assisted women in crisis. Much more than a safe place to sleep, shelters work to prevent violence through education and training, connect people and communities, and support the complex needs of survivors through a multitude of services.
We Need to Do This is the story of Alberta women's shelters. Based on dozens of in-depth interviews, it traces the evolution of a progressive social movement in a traditionally conservative province. These are the stories of women whose voices may otherwise never have been heard: entry-level workers at fledgling shelters battling the assumption that their facilities would create crime, small-town shelter directors forced to self-censor or lose communityand financialsupport, Indigenous women fighting to serve their sisters in Indigenous spaces.
Beginning with the women who founded the first shelters, and continuing through the establishment of the Alberta Council of Women's Shelters to the present day, We Need to Do This is a story of hope and survival for the women’s shelter movement and for the mothers, sisters, aunts, cousins, and daughters it continues to serve. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1175872025-03-20T09:10:23Z We Need to Do This Zabjek, Alexandra women’s shelters;women’s safety;domestic violence;domestic disputes;gender based violence;intimate partner violence;violence response;violence intervention;violence prevention;community activism;feminism;women;history;alberta;canada In Canada, a woman is killed by her intimate partner every six days. Alberta has one of the highest rates of domestic violence in the country. Starting in the 1970s, Alberta women’s shelters have assisted women in crisis. Much more than a safe place to sleep, shelters work to prevent violence through education and training, connect people and communities, and support the complex needs of survivors through a multitude of services. We Need to Do This is the story of Alberta women's shelters. Based on dozens of in-depth interviews, it traces the evolution of a progressive social movement in a traditionally conservative province. These are the stories of women whose voices may otherwise never have been heard: entry-level workers at fledgling shelters battling the assumption that their facilities would create crime, small-town shelter directors forced to self-censor or lose communityand financialsupport, Indigenous women fighting to serve their sisters in Indigenous spaces. Beginning with the women who founded the first shelters, and continuing through the establishment of the Alberta Council of Women's Shelters to the present day, We Need to Do This is a story of hope and survival for the women’s shelter movement and for the mothers, sisters, aunts, cousins, and daughters it continues to serve. 2023-10-17T04:05:01Z 2023-10-17T04:05:01Z 2023-10-16T07:40:09Z 2023 book OCN: 1382783688 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/76814 9781773854915 9781773854922 9781773854953 9781773854946 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/117587 eng LCR Publishing Services open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/76814/1/9781773854939_OA.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/76814/1/9781773854939_OA.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/76814/1/9781773854939_OA.pdf University of Calgary Press LCR Publishing Services 388fac32-9167-49a8-bb2b-bc9412a7d937 9781773854915 9781773854922 9781773854953 9781773854946 LCR Publishing Services 137 open access |
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