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NEWSLETTER to Keep Women’S Words, Women’S Works, Alive and Powerful — Ursula Le Guin Vol 32, No.3 — July 2021 NEWSLETTER To keep women’s words, women’s works, alive and powerful — Ursula Le Guin Brazen Hussies looking back – 50 years on In collaboration with the film’s producers, by thousands of women around Australia. talks explaining WEL to various groups and Andrea Foxworthy and Philippa Campey, In the 1970s, I had no time for feminist holding consciousness raising sessions at the Library hosted a screening of the iconic rallies, stuck at home with two small home. We were riding the crest of a wave. documentary, Brazen Hussies, on 24 May. It children. I felt oppressed and my career had Daniela Torsh spoke of her years at SBS, of was wonderful to celebrate the diversity and stalled but I was only vaguely aware of other the trailblazing Sydney Women’s Film Group, passion of the women’s liberation movement. women’s activism. Now as a volunteer at the of the women’s studies journal Refractory Thanks to Susan Price for all her organising Library my feminism has been reinvigorated. Girl, and of Women in Education. She work. I have discovered the camaraderie of women described researching for the 1975 Schools trying to preserve women’s voices, words Commission’s report Girls, School and View from the stalls and historical artefacts - those precious Society, so influential in removing barriers to I sat in the packed cinema surrounded by my records of women’s activism that will inform girls’ educational opportunities. sisterhood, and a few brave men, revisiting the documentary makers of the future. Barbara Levy recalled the early days of the phenomenon that was the 1960s and Young women who may not be aware of Sydney Women’s Liberation in Glebe, as an ‘70s women’s liberation movement. The the tremendous gains for women made by inaugural member of the Sydney University documentary Brazen Hussies depicts the the efforts of early feminists should see this Women’s Liberation group and the Mejane journey of discovery when women came brilliant documentary. Collective, the first Australian women’s together to question the status quo of Barbara Henery liberation newspaper. patriarchy and its prevailing misogyny. View from the panel Margo Moore was part of the collective Women met to share grievances caused by the After the film I was one of four panellists which established CONTROL, the abortion powerlessness and oppression that was the lot sharing our experiences. I spoke of being referral service and then Leichhardt and of most women in those days. They began to transported back 50 years, to the exhilarating, Liverpool Women’s Health centres in the organise to demand equality; to achieve their intoxicating days of second wave feminism. early 1970s. aims they had to learn to trust each other. When everything I had been conditioned Listening to these dedicated and talented The issues included unequal wages, to as a woman was up for grabs. Daily feminists, I was reminded of how their work mandatory retirement upon marriage, decisions ranged from, will I wear lipstick? changed attitudes to women’s rights to lack of childcare, no financial support for to how to help bring down the patriarchy realise their full potential. The struggle is not single mothers, limited abortion rights, while managing pregnancy, an increasingly over, but the Brazen Hussies generation of obliviousness about rape and domestic bewildered husband, domestic chores and a activists blazed a trail to inspire subsequent violence, and voicelessness in government. full-time job. generations, just as Jessie Street and her The Whitlam Government in 1972 listened to But it was WEL that consumed me. I was generation did before them. the protestors, appointed the first women’s part of the questionnaire development group Suzanne Marks advisor, and made legislative and financial surveying changes. Of course there was a backlash – candidates conservative forces and marginalised groups on women’s Brazen Hussies and Library co- felt threatened. Those groups too have their issues in the branded T-shirts are still available. $30 (plus $5 postage and handling). say in this film. 1972 Federal The documentary features iconic women election. Money raised on the night such as Germaine Greer, Liz Reid, Anne I was also (including the very popular Summers and Eva Cox as well as the founders organising Women’s Lib logo underpants!) of organisations such as Women’s Liberation local supports the film’s ongoing impact and the Women’s Electoral Lobby. It also Meet the campaign. includes freshly uncovered archival footage of Candidates Contact Susan Price: interviews, marches, meetings and protests events, giving [email protected]. STOP PRESS! Due to the continuation of the Covid lockdown, we regret that this year’s Annual Luncheon has been cancelled. Tickets for the raffle will be sent in August and it will be drawn on 12 October. Book Club report We also discussed writer Kate Jennings who recently died in New York. We recalled how much we enjoyed her book Moral At our April meeting a lively discussion was prompted by the book Hazard. Several of us went on to read her other books, Stanley Truganini by Cassandra Pybus. This revelatory story and Sophie about her beloved border terriers about a remarkably resilient woman could not be said and Snake. Both books are autobiographical to be ‘enjoyable‘. The ugly truth about the European and recommended by book club members. treatment of indigenous Tasmanians, and especially the women, was never going to be an easy read. For our meeting on 23 June we had Our generation is gradually learning what has been planned to discuss The Fictional Woman swept under the carpet since European settlement: by Tara Moss, but we went into Covid colonisation is all about theft and theft involves lockdown a day or two before everyone else. violence. Added to that are all the ‘benefits‘ which our We have decided to read more non-fiction culture shared with the ‘primitive‘ culture it displaced so are now planning to discuss A Certain - guns, germs and alcohol. Government approved Style: Beatrice Davis a literary life by Jacqueline genocide was just Kent for 28 July. Wolfe Island by Lucy a step further! Treloar is our book for 25 August. Both are The book subject to the situation with the virus. planned for May – Eleanor Dark, A Barbara Henery Writer’s Life by Barbara Brooks – proved hard to obtain, so we moved to Fugitive Blue by Claire Thomas which had Capital Investment Fund been planned for June. Since the Capital Investment Fund was launched in Fugitive Blue highlights the September 2009, the Library has aimed to reach a endurance of art, following target of $500,000. the journey through the This target has now been reached with your generous ages of a forbidden painting donations taking it to $507,309! created by a girl constrained by her gender in 15th century The interest from the Fund provides essential support Venice, through many hands for Library operations. We are always grateful for to those of a contemporary your support which helps secure its future. art conservator in Melbourne. All of us were relieved that the multiple stories in this beautiful and cleverly written debut novel If you would like to contribute, please indicate on the spirited us away from our troubled times. Furthermore, it was not membership/donation form on page 7. replete with angst, though the ending bothered some of us. Highly CIF donations since February 2021 commended. Bev Kingston, Kathleen Lamoureaux, Christine Yeats, NSW Retired Teachers Association Jessie Street National Women’s Library Patrons Australia’s National Women’s Library is a Quentin Bryce AD CVO; Elizabeth Evatt AC; specialist library, its focus being the collection Clover Moore Lord Mayor of Sydney; Professor and preservation of the literary and cultural Emerita Elizabeth Anne Webby AM heritage of women from all ethnic, religious and socio-economic backgrounds. Board of Management Aims Jozefa Sobski, Chair; Suzanne Marks, Vice Chair; Jean Burns, Treasurer; Sherri Hilario, Secretary; To heighten awareness of women’s issues Wendy Chester, Suzie Forell, Michele Ginswick, To preserve records of women’s lives and Robyn Harriott, Barbara Henery, Beverley activities Kingston, Susan Price, Janet Ramsay, Beverley To support the field of women’s history Sodbinow. Christine Yeats To highlight women’s contribution to this country’s development Editorial Team Kris Clarke, Jessica Stewart, Jan Burnswoods Editors; Tinderspark, Graphic Design The cause has been taken up by Lesley Hughes, our proposed Annual Luncheon speaker this year; see her article ‘Louisa Lawson, our first public feminist’ in The Monthly, August 2020. If you would like to support this important project, please consider donating: louisalawson.org.au Kris Clarke Nola Harris – life member and centenarian When we were advised, in a very courteous letter from Nola, that, because of her advanced age – 103 – she would be resigning as a member of the Library after more than twenty years, we immediately decided to award her Honorary Life Membership. As Board Chair, I arranged a time with her to present our framed Certificate. Nola lives at Simmons Point in Balmain in a three storey brick house with panoramic views of the harbour. She is fit and ascends the stairs daily. Her bedroom is on the top floor with the best views! She has lived there since the 1980s and enjoyed the friendship of Margaret Fulton who lived across the road. Commemorating Louisa Lawson Nola travelled extensively in exotic and unexpected parts of the Born in 1848 near Mudgee, Louisa Lawson was the archetypal world when these were not so fashionable. She collects postcards and country woman, hardworking and resourceful, as portrayed in the I saw some from Yemen and Tunisia.
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