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Your petitioners therefore request that the house amend the Electoral Act 1956 to ensure equality of, and parity in, gender representation in New Zealand’s elected representatives. To redress the imbalance of 1127 men and only 36 women on the roll of the New Zealand House of Representatives, and to establish a truly representative democracy, we request a change in the Electoral Act 1956 to ensure equality of and parity in, gender representation in New Zealand elected representatives. Please return by February 1994, to: Women's Suffrage Petition, PO Box 669, Hamilton Mail Centre. Name Address Signature ISSUEBROADSHEET 200 iJ E S S B Y X U C K L A N D SUMMER 1993 15 DEC 1993 FEATURES DOTATION 14 THE NEW PETITION The story behind the petition to parliament and Georgina Kirby on equal INTERVIEWS representation. 28 SANDRA CONEY 24 PADDING THE BOTTOM 34 ANNE ELSE ON LIN E Exposing health and environ WOMEN TOGETHER mental dangers. 46 HARRIET SPICER 50 LORAE PARRY 32 BUT YOU CAN VOTE 57 JENNIFER FULTON A pictorial essay of how far we have to go, 100 years after women won the vote. 36 SUICIDE OR SORROCIDE? Personal experience and opinions of SHORTS working for Spare Rib magazine. 17 MAKING SENSE OF 38 LETTER TO WHITE MEN MADONNA Fran Peavy writes controversially. 18 UNITED WOMEN’S CONVENTIONS 44 SEX AND PUNISHMENT 22 HUMAN RIGHTS BILL The politics of cervical cancer. 28 26 EMPLOYMENT CONTRACTS ACT 48 RACISM IN THE IMMIGRATION 31 WE MADE IT POLITICAL DEPARTMENT REVIEW S One woman’s experience. 52 THE PIANO 54 STANDING IN THE REGULARS STORIES S U N S H IN E 56 NAIAD NOVELS HERSPECTIVE 2 20 THE TUTORIAL 58 SCARLET RUNNERS YOUR WRITE 3 40 SURFACING THE SELF 59 SHONAGH KOEA BROADCAST 5 59 OUT FRONT SUBS SPECIAL 19 60 TETIMATANGA: NELSON NOTES 23 TATAU TATAU GRIPES OF ROTH 43 62 ME AND MARILYN CLASSIFIEDS 64 MUNROE 63 MARINA WARNER RESOURCE KITS 65 her spective Broadsheet that the current structure was exclusive and asked why they wanted to include one woman from another culture, when it was clear that it would not address any issues or change the magazine in any significant way. One thing that has been learnt from our collective herstories is that participation in an existing structure does not create change - the structures themselves must be built to accommodate diversity. One option for Broadsheet is that it is a white woman's magazine and not attempt to have token women on the Collective. Another is to ensure that the Collective is representative of all women and that parity, once established, is maintained. What needs to happen right now is for Broadsheet to tap into networks that exist, through women like myself and indigenous women, and ask them, not only to con tribute, but to determine themselves what their contribution should be. There are many women, and groups of women, who was originally unsure about joining the This issue’s want to participate in this forum. But it is 8 Broadsheet Collective. As a woman of important that they feel safe about speak Icolour I was aware that Broadsheet Herspective is by ing out and to do that they must trust that had limitations and that problems might their voices will be heard and will not be arise. I was also excited at the prospect of Mandrika Rupa, silenced or marginalised. working with some wonderful women in an Broadsheet has a clear direction as a intellectually stimulating environment. I who is leaving the feminist magazine. But it must provide a have been on the collective for one year space where the theories of all women - and I have now decided to leave Broadsheet women of different races, classes and abili Broadsheet. While it was stimulating and Collective after ties - can evolve. Broadsheet cannot be exciting when we connected, at times the static - feminism is not static - and it must differences were too great. As the only eth one year. accommodate emerging and evolving theo nic woman on the Collective I did not share ries if it is to be relevant in the nineties. the experiences of the other women, which Mandrika explains Threads of theories must be woven togeth put me on the periphery of the Collective er and evolve together. This could take process. By the second issue I began to why she is leaving Broadsheet into a new and exciting way of feel that it was hard for me to have a voice, and discusses being and working, an entirely new para that when I spoke it was not just as myself digm. but that I had to represent the views of all some ideas of Rather than struggling to work within the ethnic women. basically Pakeha current structure of The material coming in to the magazine how Broadsheet B ro a d s h e e t, it is b e tte r th at w o m en of was also an issue. It was predominantly colour put our energies into our own com more specific to white women and did not needs to evolve. munities and issues, but be able to meet deal with the concerns of women of colour. with other women and share our political It was not pertinent to our way of being or thoughts through the pages of Broadsheet. our way of looking at issues. This con tributed to making me feel invisible and dis tanced from the collective process. I then discussed with the Collective the fact that Broadsheet was not working for me and that I was finding it harder and harder to have a voice. I explained to 2 / BROADSHEET Summer 1993 y o u r write DEAR BROADSHEET naires. Looking forward to the next | largely ignored by our politicians, and Especially since The Beauty Myth, issue with glee. we are angry! Angry with the MP’s much has been said about the negative Anne Ferrier-Watson who have ignored the call from ordi effect of the beauty industry on nary law abiding people for Harsher female self-esteem, and how women TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN Penalties! Angry, frustrated and sick are manipulated into believing we I regret to inform you that we must to death of those who maraude among must all conform to an impossible cancel our subscription to Broadsheet. us, violating the privacy of our homes, ideal. We have taken a $9000 drop in our assaulting, raping and harming our But are we so easily led, so docile contract with Community Funding loved ones. that we have to accept that this need Agency and must restrict our spending Inadequate sentences and lenient be? I believe that it’s not enough just in many areas, subscriptions such as parole laws frequently see the perpe to castigate the men (and women) of this being one of them. trators of crime back on the streets, the beauty business; women must also We would like to thank you for the many re-offending, while victims and take some responsibility for them information you have provided us their families are still trying to re selves. We can and will see through with over the years. build shattered lives, many not even the hype and if we don’t, or choose Barbara Bowyer entitled to costs for counselling from not to, isn’t that partly our own fault? (Papakura Women’s Support Centre, PO ACC. And yet I’m quite aware that female Box 909, Papakura) Sadly someone must be the next of insecurity about one’s appearance is a Broadsheet encourages our readers to kin to a murder victim. DON’T WAIT deeply ingrained thing, and that it’s a donate gift subscriptions to women's until it happens to you.