| 词条 | Vivian Dowding |
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Vivian Dowding (1892–1987) was a Canadian activist based in British Columbia who worked to improve birth control access for working class women. Representing the Parents' Information Bureau, and based in Kamloops, Dowding started travelling around the British Columbia's Southern Interior in 1937[1] to educate doctors about contraception[2] and to help low-income women avoid unplanned pregnancy.[3] Dowding operated in defiance of Canadian laws criminalizing birth control; birth control was not removed from the Canadian Criminal Code until 1969.[4] Dowding was influenced by the work of Margaret Sanger and saw birth control access as a necessary step to women's liberation and to lifting low-income women out of poverty.[5] She was an active member of Canada's Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and then Canada's New Democratic Party until her death in 1987. Despite facing obstacles, such as being thrown out of doctor's offices and having her birth control supplies being held by disapproving postmasters,[1] Dowding persisted in her feminist mission. References1. ^1 {{Cite book|title=Not just pin money : selected essays on the history of women's work in British Columbia|last=|first=|date=1984|publisher=Camosun College|others=Latham, Barbara, 1943-, Pazdro, Roberta Jane.|isbn=978-0969184409|location=Victoria, B.C.|pages=|oclc=12550657}} {{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Dowding, Vivian}}2. ^{{cite book |last1=Brown |first1=Debra J. |title=The Challenge of Caring: A History of Women and Health Care in British Columbia |date=2000 |publisher=BC Ministry of Health |location=Vancouver |page=49 |url=https://www.health.gov.bc.ca/library/publications/year/2000/challenge_caring.pdf |accessdate=October 13, 2018}} 3. ^{{cite journal |last1=Bishop |first1=Mary F. |title=The Early Birth Controllers of BC |journal=BC Studies |date=Spring 1984 |volume=61 |doi=10.14288/bcs.v0i61.1177 |url=https://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/bcstudies/article/view/1177 |accessdate=October 13, 2018}} 4. ^{{cite book |last1=Converse |first1=Cathy |title=Mainstays: Women who Shaped BC |date=1998 |publisher=Touchwood Editions |page=116 |url=https://books.google.com/?id=u52kjmxFNF4C&pg=PA116&lpg=PA116&dq=vivian+dowding#v=onepage&q=vivian%20dowding&f=false |accessdate=October 13, 2018|isbn=9780920663622 }} 5. ^{{cite web |last1=Diamond |first1=Sara |title=Vivian Dowding Interview |url=https://search-bcarchives.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/vivian-dowding-interview |website=BC Archives |accessdate=October 13, 2018}} 5 : 1892 births|1987 deaths|People from Kamloops|20th-century Canadian women|Canadian women activists |
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