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THE CHILLING STORY MAORI BOOKS - for WHOM? HARVEST WHOLEFOODS Natural Foods Shop 403 Richmond Road, Grey Lynn, Phone 763-107 FACTS ON AIDS: NO MORE SCARE STORIES OR HOMOPHOBIA 3oi . ^ * o s NEW ZEALAND'S FEMINIST MAGAZINE H M M - U4C6 W5' THIRTEENTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION DOG, HIG CAR MAY 1985 ISSUE 129 $2.50 &< M G G o t U G P V-FROMTG/, B e /AIN6, 6LOR/A, A U _ M IN 6/. THE LURE OF ROMANTIC NOVELS DEBENDOX - THE CHILLING STORY MAORI BOOKS - FOR WHOM? HARVEST WHOLEFOODS Natural Foods Shop 403 Richmond Road, Grey Lynn, Phone 763-107 Organic Beans, Grains, Dried Fruit & Stone ground Flours, Macrobiotic Supplies Fresh Tempeh, Tofu, Soy Milk, Fresh Goats Milk & Goat's Milk Ice Cream Vegetarian Rennet Cheeses, Fresh Organic Fruit & Vegetables, Herbs & Spices Homeopath First Aid & Bach Flower Remedies Natural Cosmetics & Cook Books LICENSED RESTAURANT Bulk Cold-Pressed Oils, Shoyu, Tamari, COCKTAIL BAR MOTEL COMPLEX Honey and Shampoos Hours: Monday - Thursday 9am - 6pm UNSURPASSED DECOR, 17 SUPERB UNITS Friday 9am - 8pm Saturday 9am - 1 pm SUPERIOR LICENSED RESTAURANT BYO CONTAINERS DINNER 6 am - 1 pm EVERY NIGHT DISCOUNT FOR BULK ORDERS ORDERS BY MAIL A SPECIALITY SUNDAY LAZY BRUNCH - LIVE MUSIC Please send signed open crossed cheque REGULAR ENTERTAINMENT Full detailed account of cost will be dispatched with goods. 508 Great North Road, Surrey Crescent, AUCKLAND'S NUMBER ONE Grey Lynn, Auckland, N.Z. (09) 762-058 NATURAL FOOD SHOP GOOD COMPANY! , a O ^ Broadsheet MYRANICOL needs MOWER AND GARDEN CENTRE VOLUNTEERS 479 RICHMOND ROAD, in it’s ph 761-769 AUCKLAND. Auckland Full motor mower sales and service. office Indoor & outdoor plants, fertilisers, potting mix, seeds & garden tools. Please Only woman-owned and operated phone if you Auckland mower service. can help us- Free pickup and delivery service. 794-751 CONTENTS FEATURES ROMANTIC NOVELS 14 AIDS - The Facts and The Homophobia 36 DEBENDOX 26 PUBLISHING MAORI MATERIAL 22 FICTION & POETRY Second-Hand Children 34 Offer To A Hero 25 ARTS REVIEWS Live Art/Limited Edition/Setting the Pace/Women and Russia/,Stone, Paper, Knife/The Reproductive Revolution/Sweeping Statements/Stepping Out of Line/8 Robes 42 REGULARS LETTERS and FRONTING UP ______ 2 BEHIND THE NEWS Rainbow Warrior/The Vancouver 5/Sexual Harassment/Gay Rights/ Disabled Women Work/“Always A Success Story’VHercus Assault 6 SET VIEWS 13 WHAT’S NEW? 39 ON THE SHELF 40 HOGWASH 33 CLASSIFIED _________________ ... 48 COVER designed by Judith. FRONTISPIECE Taylor’s Mistake - women’s alarm team, 1952. BROADSHEET COLLECTIVE Sandra Coney, Lynn Crossley, Sandi Hall, Heather McLeish, Claire- Louise McCurdy, Athina Reay, Trish Taylor, Jenny Rankine, Judith Ammon. THESE WOMEN WORKED ON THIS ISSUE Leonie Child, Jess Hawk Oakenstar, Catherine Lee, Kim Grant, Diana Nicholson, Errolyn. BROADSHEET is published by Broadsheet Magazine Ltd, PO Box 5799 Wellesley Street, Auck­ land ; Registered Office: 1st Floor Gane Building, 43 Anzac Avenue, Auckland 1; and printed by Wanganui Newspapers Ltd, 20 Drews Avenue, Wanganui. Published: 1 March 1985. BROADSHEET annual subscription $NZ24, overseas surface $31, overseas airmail Europe $43.50, America and Asia $39, Australia and South Pacific $33. Permission must be sought before articles may be reprinted. Broadsheet is on file atfne Women’s Collection, Special Department, Northwestern University Library, Evanston, Illinois 60201, USA. ISSN 0110-8603 Registered at the GPO as a magazine. Broadsheet, May 1985 1 FEMINIST THERAPY Great Oxford Debate but Dear Broadsheet, Sandra Coney damned him We read with interest and hor­ with very faint praise in her ror Jill Abigail’s article on the Hew Zealand Times assess­ Feminity Peddlers. It would be ment. a pity if feminist experience of After nine years of repres­ such “personal growth” work­ sion of minority groups and shops reinforced a suspicion liberals we have travelled miles of other kinds of therapy and since July 1984. Dear Broadsheet, personal growth techniques. womyn workshop and wanted Whilst I don’t agree with We are writing with regard to There are many alternatives to to continue as a group, or David Lange on quite a few Jill Abigail’s horror story on Babette Hayes’ methods, al­ wanted to start up as a group things, the areas of justice and the femininity peddlers in the ternatives that fit well within a and later attend one or more peace are of major impor­ March Broadsheet. feminist perspective, and we workshops. tance to me. A nuclear-free We would like to let you and see that Jill Abigail mentions Last year our group ran a Aotearoa is a step on the way your readers know: both self-help therapy groups four-hour introductory ses­ to disarmament, and justice • that some of us have been and co-counselling as among sion shortly before several for the Maori people is 143 in a consecutive series of them. We would like to rein­ workshops for those who years overdue. Positive steps force her endorsement of both groups (therapy/personal wanted to prepare to go on have been taken towards of these. Co-counselling has a growth) in Wellington, not workshops, or for those who these goals. inspired by any particular philosophy of self help; the just wanted to find out about Of course it’s not perfect. Of book though we found “client” is in charge, sessions In psychodrama. We would be course we’d all like speedier Our Own Hands and are always reciprocal (ie one prepared to do so again this reforms, and stronger action Mother Wit very helpful; takes a turn as being counsel­ year if there is the demand for for change in all areas of • that womyn have brought a lor and client), and the net­ it. domestic and foreign policy. work itself is organised in a variety of resources of There will be womyn, and But political action in a demo­ these groups, to share and non-hierarchical way. lesbian, workshops in Wel­ cracy needs to take some note develop, and these include Feminists often fear that lington throughout 1985. For of all shades of opinion to en­ visualisation, elements of getting involved in personal information, womyn could sure that gains are not just growth will defuse their anger psychodrama, relaxation write to the address below. short-term. etc; and stop it being channelled Self help therapy group, I consider that the Labour • that the groups have been politically. This is not true. P.O. Box 11494, government has done really all-lesbian groups arising Often our personal distress Wellington. well, and the personality of out of all-lesbian psychod­ overcharges that anger, pre­ David Lange has ensured rama workshops and con­ venting us from being clear Dear Editor/s, popular support - an impor­ tinuing between them; about our strategies and all I enjoyed the letter entitled tant factor in getting re­ • that we organise all-lesbian too often making group pro­ “Everyday Feminism” in the elected. and all-womyn weekend cesses difficult. Being able to March issue. I read Broad­ I ask Broadsheet readers to psychodrama workshops deal with our personal distress sheet mainly because it is in­ be realistic; to give our govern­ from time to time; can make us clearer about formative and in some cases ment solid support. If you are • that some group members that other level of distress, educational. too destructively critical you which comes from our strug­ are working explicitly to ex­ The article that most “raised help the CIA in its plans to de­ tend their skills including gle to survive in an oppressive my hackles” in the last issue, stabilise Labour and to substi­ society. psychodrama director was The Femininity Peddlers tute National as a government training; Jill’s article has prodded us or more to the point, the inter­ which, with Jim McLay as into doing something we have • that last year marked, as far view with Rita bloody Barnett leader, will fall over itself to get thought about for some time - as we know, the first totally that was tacked on at the end. back into the nuclear club. organising a co-counselling lesbian psychodrama work­ I suppose she would teach basics course for women. It shop in NZ (ie including Peggy Ashton her two-year-old daughter Devonport will take place some time after lesbian - directed); how not to be sexually arous­ June, and anyone interested • that we are trying in the ing ... is this in fact included in can write to Juliet at 98 groups, and in the work­ the course under, maybe, COPING WITH SEXISM Marsden Ave, Mt Eden, Auck­ shops where we can, to “Coping with parental pres­ land 4. take the various therapies, sures and responsibility.” I Dear Broadsheet, In sisterhood, and by criticising and would like to say a lot more in a This is to express my agree­ Juliet Batten ^ analysing them from a heated and more articulate ment with Heather Al- Ruth Bonita g feminist perspective, to be fashion but as I have a frac­ derslade’s letter (March ‘85). I Auckland aware of stereotyping and tured collar bone and am typ­ have always wished that the use of power in ourse­ ing this with one finger on my Broadsheet would publish ar­ lves and in the training we left hand, it would prove too ticles that would give me some have had and to be aware frustrating! help in coping with sexism that too of the context of our Susan Allpress occurs almost every day in the lives - this is a hell of a lot of Auckland lives of most of us. work! For example, yesterday one There are womyn in our LEAVE LABOUR ALONE of my colleagues (male) and I present group who would be had a meeting with the per­ willing to help us facilitators or Dear Broadsheet, sonnel manager of a large in­ resource people to help I get really mad because of dustry.
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