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Feminist Approach

By a feminist approach, we means:

  • raising awareness of sexist stereotypes
  • pointing out the socio-political causes of individual problems, to relieve women's guilt
  • believing in the potential of each woman, valuing her knowledge and experience
  • demystifying the role of staff workers in order to develop egalitarian and equitable relationships between workers and participants
  • supporting women in a process to achieve greater autonomy ensuring more control over their lives; respecting their individual paths and choices
  • encouraging mutual aid, support and solidarity among women
  • searching for collective solutions to women's needs and interests
  • encouraging women to participate in democratic and social life


A Popular Education Approach

Through their services, educational activities, collective action and "vie associative", centres encourage a process of critical thinking and learning that allows women to come to an individual and collective understanding of their situation. These processes give women the means to take more control over their daily lives and improve and transform the emotional, social, economic, political and cultural conditions in which they live. As a result, the centres enable women to see themselves as agents for change and active citizens who participate in the democratic and social life of their communities.

L'R des centres de femmes du Quebec

Basis for Political Unity

Women's Global Charter for Humanity

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