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Jan-Feb 1989 EOHNODOOSROADSHEE GIVING BIRTH TO THEMSELVES ’RIN C IPA L LIBRARY AUCKLAiNli iUCCESS - 1 FEB 1989 iTO RY COLLEGE OF EDUCATION ■hamnain Pountney’s isions of learning PH AUCK 771 223 Classes and workshops for all ages. DISCOVER THE PERFORMER IN YOURSELF • Learn To Act • Have Fun • " NEW TERM BEGINS FEBRUARY 7 NEW FROM THE CROSSING ALIVE AND WELL: MANDANE’S WORLD. A novel A lesbian health guide. By Judy Grahn. A delightful, By C. Hepburn with B. daring first novel by highly Gutierrez. A guide to lesbian acclaimed poet, Judy Grahn health both mental and whose books include “ The physical. Subjects include; Work Of A Common legal issues, stress, coming Woman” and “ Queen out hygiene, survivors of Of Wands” . Mundane’s abuse and violence, AIDS, world is a woman- addictions, weight, lesbian centred novel set in mothers, and many more. a pre-historic world. $27.95 $27.95 RED FLOWER: Rethinking menstruation. By Dena Taylor. The book [mom OTira Fjig creatively investigates the THROUGH OTHER EYES: many different aspects of Animal stories by women. menstruation. A mixture of Edited by Irene Zahava. commonsense, compassion Stories valued by anyone and sensitivity will appeal with a kinship to the natural to a wide range of world. Authors include May readers. A useful gift Sarton, Alice Walker, Doris for young girls as an Lessing, Martha Waters, informative introduction Cathy Cockrell, Ursula LeGuin to menstruation. and New Zealand’s Keri Hulme. IRE» PAM $22.95 Distributed by ♦C^O*N^T*E^N^T ♦ S ♦ JAN/FEB ISSUE 165 1989 FEATURES 12 Feminism and Families Support and change on the home front Marjorie Cohen 14 Beating the Unemployment Blues Sue Bradford's vision of the unemployed workers' movement Lisa Sabhage 16 Giving Birth to Technodocs New reproductive technologies are not for women Pat Rosier 20 Learning to Live VISIONS FOR LEARNING 20 Charmaine Pountney's educational visions Pat Rosier 24 ME, me Women are coping, medics are not, with this debilitating illness Debbie Jones 28 Lies, Secrets, Silences Why does the media want us to shut up about child sexual abuse? Lisa Sabbage REGULARS_________________________ 2 Herspective 3 Letters Cartoon STALKING BIRTH CONTROL 16 4 Broadcast Working for Women 0 Our woman in the house 0 MWA Statement of Intent 0 Has TV sold its soul to SPUC? 0 Sex Industry Conference 0 Pacific Protest 18 The Spots on the Appaloosa Lyndsay Quilter's Cartoon 19 What's New 31 The Gripes of R oth___ _____ 40 Classified 32 Arts Aotearoa Moana Nui A Kiwa Weavers 0 Frontwomen 0 Sylvia! 0 Music 0 Reunion 0 Invitation Only 0 Reigning Tampons 0 Listing OWNING UP TO SEXUAL ABUSE 22 BROADSHEET BROADSHEET is published by Broadsheet Magazine Ltd, P O Box 56-147, Dominion Rd, Auckland. Registered office: 228 Dominion Rd, Auckland Office, Bookshop and Advertising, phone (09) 608-535 Editorial and Art Department, phone (09) 607-162 BROADSHEET COLLECTIVE Sharon Alston, Jan Cowan, Edith Gorringe, Tanya Hopman, Carol Jillsun, Claire-Louise McCurdy, Pat MacKay, Pat Rosier, Lisa Sabbage, Shirley Tamihana, Athina Tsoulis. H e R S P E C T IV E Editorial and policy decisions are made by the collective. Main areas of responsibility are: Advertising, Tanya Hopman; Bookshop, Lisa Sabbage; Design and layout, Sharon Alston; Editorial, Pat Rosier and Lisa ow we go to the beach, if mar­ abortion services: 3 -4 week delays for Sabbage; Finances, subscriptions, Carol Jillsun. ket forces permit. The blow­ abortions have become the norm in N flies and the ratshit and the Auckland, Wellington and Christ­ Cover photo: Gil Hanly spider webs are cleaned out of the bach church, while many rural areas and Cover design: Sharon Alston while very small children with very provincial cities have no services at all. Special thanks to Charmaine Poutney large voices complete the destruction What are the Labour women MPs of their xmas presents. doing about it? Waiting until we get These women helped around Broadsheet this The old outdoor skills return so that back to the situation or mteen or so month: Barbara Mundt, Michelle Quinn, I can slide a fish hook into my finger or years ago when mustard on a tampax Moira Glover, Shona Barker, Diane Bush, burn my feet on the rocks or half-drown and other similar concoctions were Veronica. in the surf within hours of arrival, or I popular with young Maori women in can ease myself into the lifestyle more Anne Fraser’s East Cape electorate as a Printed by Rodney and Waitemata Times, gently with video games and choco­ way of ruining their insides? Mill Lane, Warkworth, Electronic pagination by Laser Type and Design Studio, Photoprints by late. Times are hard. SPUC is having to Monoset, Separations by Star Graphics. It isn’t possible to ignore the sur­ advertise the “miracle of life” on televi­ roundings here as one sensibly does in sion. The miracle doesn’t seem to in­ Publication date: 15 January 1989 town. The hills must be climbed, the clude decent child health services, old Maori pa sites re-inspected, the sea parent support or sex education. Femi­ admired and pigs hunted through mile nists wil be watching the Ministry of BROADSHEET annual subscription $40 Overseas surface $56. Overseas airmail: Europe after mile of thick bush, but even Women’s Affairs to see how effective $101.65, America and Asia, $85.40, Australia through the exhaustion one can see that it is in blunting the government’s attack and South Pacific, $66. it is a very beautiful place. The beauty on women - who are most often the of it tempts one to philosophy - and poor and the powerless. Articles and illustrations remain the property of then to anger. Anger at the mean and There are many issues that have to the contributor. Permission must be sought from miserable life society tries to foist on be dealt with before democratic New Broadsheet and from the contributor before any women. Zealanders can sink back into their item is reprinted. The rapes, beatings and muder are complacent smugness about what a HERSPECTIVE is written each month by a the “glamour” side of oppression. Just wonderful country this is. We feminists member of the collective or an invited as tragic is the Quiet, commonplace have justice on our side but it is no contributor.This month’s writer, Helen Courtney is a regular Broadsheet cartoonist. pressure on women to sacrifice their comfort. own (and often their children’s) inter­ LETTERS POLICY: The Broadsheet Collec­ ests in favour of men. Why let men get tive may not agree with or endorse views expressed in letters. Nearly all the letters we away with it? It only encourages them. are sent get published. Those that are not Men, no matter how well Qualified they published in full are edited in consultation think they are, have proved far beyond with the writer. We do not publish personal attacks. Letters from men are published only reasonable doubt that they cannot pro­ when they correct matters of fact. We particu­ mote women ’ s concerns. It is up to us to larly welcome letters about the content of the attack the status quo, to make the magazine. Letters that are addressed to the collective or to the editor are assumed to be changes. intended for publication. Please indicate One topic on which I have abso­ clearly if they are not. lutely no interest in men’s opinion is abortion. When are women going to be BROADSHEET is on file at the women’s Collection Special Dept, northwestern treated like adults? WONAAC’s latest University Library, Evanston, newsletter points out that Labour’s Illinois 60201, USA economic programme is affecting 2 BROADSHEET JAN/FEB 1989 NEW AGE, RIGHTS AND social change - in fact for every­ WRONGS? body. Dear Broadsheet, One of my first reactions to the How can Pakeha feminists em­ Forum when I heard about it was brace New Age philosophies that very similar to Sue’s. “What a conclude rape victim/survivors load of white middle class male ask for it? Or not take responsibil­ shit.” However, having seen the ity for the injustice, racism, anti­ wonderful transformation in a semitism, colonial crimes and close friend (also lesbian) after violence they are part of and wit­ she did her Forum, I chose to go ness to? ahead with it. Is it such a relief to have an The Forum process itself put excuse for being heartless? my initial negative views into per­ MARY DURING spective - I “got off’ them and Ponsonby “got on” with gaining what the Forum can offer, and the whole Dear Broadsheet, experience - which is still con­ I totally disagree with Sue tinuing now - restored my faith in Fitchett’s gross assumptions humanity, and made me more about “The Forum” in her article accepting of myself. “Brave New Age, Right?” No­ I cannot speak for any other vember Broadsheet. course Sue mentions in her article Ironically, as a lesbian I am - 1 had never heard of any of them. one of the people in the “didn’t All I can say is go for it women, do make it” category Sue claims the the Forum, and get the same self­ Forum excludes, yet one of the empowerment and confidence I biggest things I got out of doing did. Forum was affirmation of myself I would also like to challenge as a lesbian, and a hell of a lot Sue Fitchett to do the Forum. more courage to be “out” than I MICHELLE RUSH had before. Wellington I challenge her view that it is individualistic. On the contrary, I Dear Broadsheet, learned to ask for support/guid- One of the many problems with ance from others in all parts of my self-growth courses like Self life, and to realise the great value Transformation and The Forum is in netwroking and communica­ that they aim to make us better COURTNEY© 1988 tion between people.
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