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The Abortion Caravan
When Women Shut Down Government in the Battle for the Right to Choose
By (author):
Karin Wells
Second Story Press
- Toronto
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9781772601251Product Form:
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English
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Apr 21, 2020
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9in x 6 x 0.98 in | 540 grPage Count:
392 pages
Second Story Press
HISTORY / Canada / Post-Confederation (1867-)
Feminism and feminist theory|Canada
Canada
Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing 2021, Short-listed
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Spring 2020 marks the 50th anniversary of a group of remarkable women who helped bring about abortion reform. The caravan left Vancouver with 17 activists and arrived in Ottawa on May 8th 1970, where over 500 women rallied and shut down parliament.
In the spring of 1970, seventeen women set out from Vancouver in a big yellow convertible, a Volkswagen bus, and a pickup truck. They called it the Abortion Caravan. Three thousand miles later, they “occupied” the prime minister’s front lawn in Ottawa, led a rally of 500 women on Parliament Hill, chained themselves to their chairs in the visitors’ galleries, and shut down the House of Commons, the first and only time this had ever happened. The seventeen were a motley crew. They argued, they were loud, and they wouldn't take no for an answer. They pulled off a national campaign in an era when there was no social media, and with a budget that didn't stretch to long-distance phone calls. It changed their lives. And at a time when thousands of women in Canada were dying from back street abortions, it pulled women together across the country.
In the spring of 1970, seventeen women set out from Vancouver in a big yellow convertible, a Volkswagen bus, and a pickup truck. They called it the Abortion Caravan. Three thousand miles later, they “occupied” the prime minister’s front lawn in Ottawa, led a rally of 500 women on Parliament Hill, chained themselves to their chairs in the visitors’ galleries, and shut down the House of Commons, the first and only time this had ever happened. The seventeen were a motley crew. They argued, they were loud, and they wouldn't take no for an answer. They pulled off a national campaign in an era when there was no social media, and with a budget that didn't stretch to long-distance phone calls. It changed their lives. And at a time when thousands of women in Canada were dying from back street abortions, it pulled women together across the country.
- Large advance copy mailing of printed galleys to relevant/key media, reviewers, librarians. - Events in the main Canadian cities involved: Vancouver, Toronto, Ottawa. - Digital galleys will be available on NetGalley and Edelweiss. With advertising to support their promotion. - Ads and promotion with print media, radio, and trade and library publications, as well as coordinated social media.
May 2020 is the 50th anniversary of the Abortion Caravan.
The abortion debate is still active. Events in US politics have brought it to the fore-front again.
CBC will be re-airing author Karin Wells' radio documentary, The Abortion Caravan, which preceded this book.
Events in the main Canadian cities involved: Vancouver, Toronto, Ottawa.
Large advance copy mailing of printed galleys to relevant/key media, reviewers, librarians.
Digital galleys will be available on NetGalley and Edelweiss. With advertising to support their promotion.
Ads and promotion with print media, radio, and trade and library publications, as well as coordinated social media.
Link to radio documentary about The Abortion Caravan: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thesundayedition/the-sunday-edition-june-3-2018-1.4685998/50-years-ago-the-women-of-canada-s-abortion-caravan-stormed-parliament-for-reproductive-rights-1.4687293
For more information contact
[email protected]
The abortion debate is still active. Events in US politics have brought it to the fore-front again.
CBC will be re-airing author Karin Wells' radio documentary, The Abortion Caravan, which preceded this book.
Events in the main Canadian cities involved: Vancouver, Toronto, Ottawa.
Large advance copy mailing of printed galleys to relevant/key media, reviewers, librarians.
Digital galleys will be available on NetGalley and Edelweiss. With advertising to support their promotion.
Ads and promotion with print media, radio, and trade and library publications, as well as coordinated social media.
Link to radio documentary about The Abortion Caravan: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thesundayedition/the-sunday-edition-june-3-2018-1.4685998/50-years-ago-the-women-of-canada-s-abortion-caravan-stormed-parliament-for-reproductive-rights-1.4687293
For more information contact
[email protected]
"One irresistible story from the journey towards women owning their own bodies." - Gloria Steinem
"This lively, engaging tale of the women's uprising—chaotic, spontaneous, ingenious, heartfelt, funny, dramatic, and world-changing—will remind you of all that is possible." - Michele Landsberg
Wells’s powerful book affirms that such ongoing obstacles to women’s autonomy and reproductive rights are why the Abortion Caravan matters more than ever. - Kerry Clare, Quill & Quire
Wells’s descriptions of political action in the days before social media and #MeToo are at times witty and always fascinating. - Charlotte Gray, Canadian Authors Pick Their Favourite Books of 2020
