The Abortion Caravan-ebook : When Women Shut Down Government in the Battle for the Right to Choose
\"One irresistible story from the journey towards women owning their own bodies.\" -- Gloria Steinem
Praise & Recognition
"It is easy to underestimate the significance of the Abortion Caravan. ... But 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."
Quill & Quire"Canadian Authors Pick Their Favourite Books: 'Wells’s descriptions of political action in the days before social media and #MeToo are at times witty and always fascinating'-Charlotte Gray."
The WalrusOntario Historical Society Award's Alison Prentice Award 2021 - Winner
Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing 2021 - Short-listed
Details
Publication Date: April 21, 2020
Genre: Adult Nonfiction
Product Format: E-book – EPUB
Pages: 392
ISBN: 978-1-77260-126-8
Weight: 0
About the Author
Karin Wells
Karin Wells grew up in BC and now lives in southern Ontario. She is best known as a CBC radio documentary maker and is a three time recipient of the Canadian Association of Journalists documentary award. Her work has been heard on radio networks around the world and has been recognized by the United Nations. Wells worked – briefly – as a line worker in a pea factory, a school teacher, and an actor. She is also a lawyer and in 2011 was inducted into the University of Ottawa’s Common Law Honour Society.
Wells has documented the lives of influential (but often overlooked) Canadian women in her books: The Abortion Caravan: When women shut down government in the battle for the right to choose (finalist for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing and winner of the Ontario Historical Society's Alison Prentice Award), More Than a Footnote: Canadian women you should know and the forthcoming Women Who Woke Up the Law.
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