AN INTERVIEW with SHERE HITE Registered at the GPO, Wellington, As a Magazine Fronting Up
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D iS P i A Y new Zealand’s feminist magazine may 1978 no 59 60 cents | -3<M q-iXoS 0& D WOMEN PERSECUTED 4 TUCiCRS CCI1EGES MOTHER ARSON ATTACK ON ABORTION SERVICES «LAND WHAT IS SEX REALLY LIKE?— AN INTERVIEW WITH SHERE HITE Registered at the GPO, Wellington, as a magazine Fronting up Office Wanted if you could send us the extra money. You don’t have to, but it would help Office hours for Broadsheet are: More advertisements for Broadsheet. a lot! Mon — Thurs: 9 a.m. — 3 p.m. Readers are beginning to make more Friday: 9 a.m. — 12 noon. use of our very reasonable Classified Now you see it, now you It is best to ring first before visiting as Advertisements service (roughly 5 cents don’t we are sometimes out and about. per word) and we hear that most of There are sometimes people here our advertisers get a good response. 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We have A multi-media women’s show has been advertise with us we’d be delighted. had to make a rule that nothing in the planned for June 30 — music, drama, readable line is to be removed from film, etc. To be staged in the Maidment Price Increase the office unless for review (to be Theatre. Proceeds will go to Broad returned as soon as the review is sheet. If you would like to perform, Well, it had to come sometime. With written) or for Xeroxing (to be or become involved in a drama group, inflation running rampant we have returned the same day). Meanwhile, please contact Glenda, phone 685-924. managed to keep Broadsheet at only we would ask our friends to examine See the June Broadsheet for further 60c a copy for two years. The big their bookcases carefully to see if they details. circulations magazines (The Listener, can locate any of the nigh on fifty (!!!) The Women’s Weekly) have increased books which are missing from our Fooled You? their prices in that time, and most of shelves, not to mention the numerous the small magazines already cost Did you think that the absence of the magazine issues, including the precious i t ore than Broadsheet (e.g. Out is promised April Fool’s Day game in the and very useful Spare Rib. It goes 80c, Mushroom $1.20). We have April issue was a deliberate trick? Well, without saying that we’d appreciate decided that we will have to raise the it wasn’t, and the Joke’s on us, because, them back as soon as possible. price to $8 for a year’s subscription the expected game didn’t make it to (10 issues) and 90c for a copy bought the printers in time. It’s no joking on a newsstand. Distributing the United Women’s matter really, because we’re afraid magazine in bookshops is expensive Convention 1978! that the game (a sort of abortion because the distributors and the snakes and ladders) will be Just as retailers both take their cut, whereas The bi-ennial United Women’s relevant when we print it next month. the only extra cost with subscribers Convention will be held in Did you hear the one about is postage. Subscribers are important Hamilton on the University Cam as they provide a steady financial pus over the four days of Easter the feminist and the . base from which the magazine can operate, and we hope that more 1979. Planning has commenced We’re still eagerly awaiting more people will subscribe. and the organisers are expecting feminist jokes. Or is it true that we’ve 3000 women from all over New got no sense of humour? Not likely — let’s have ’em! The price goes up in June, and from Zealand. Further information June 1st the new subscription rates will be published as we receive Brainstorms will be: it. One year, New Zealand — $8. Don’t forget our new Brainstorms One year, overseas, surface mail — column if you’ve got some ideas you $10.50. (Airmail extra by arrangement). want to get off your chest. Your thoughts and insights on any aspect of If your $6 subscription runs past June, women, their oppression, and their you will continue to receive Broad movement. Doesn’t have to be fancy — sheet at the old price until that sub. anything from 100—800 words. expires, but we would appreciate it contents Letters Behind the News Arson at SOS 6 Child Rape 8 Reporting on Hite 10 Editorial The Women’s Abortion Rights Conference 12 Getting Organised 16 Sharon Alston cartoon 22 The Barmaid and the Beasts 25 Interview: Marie Bell on child-care 28 Forum: What’s in a name? The Feminist Eye Broadsheet on the Arts 34 Healthy Women Menstruation Part 1 36 Hogwash 39 women Broadsheet is published by The broadsheet These women worked on this issue: Val Cole, Magazine Collective, P.O. Box 47-261, Auckland, Sandra Coney, Christine Dann, Anne Parsons, Jill and printed by Wanganui Newspapers L td , Ranstead, Rosemary Ronald, Jean Volkerling, 20 Drews Avenue, Wanganui. Meriel Watts and the enveloping women. Permission must be sought before articles may be reprinted. Cover Photo: Marti Friedlander Published by Broadsheet Magazine Ltd, Registered Illustrations: Office: 65 Victoria St West, Auckland, 1. May 1st, Vanya Lowry: p 8, 26, 27 1978. Sharon Alston: p 22-24, 32, 36 Broadsheet is on file at the Women’s Collection, Special Collections Department, Northwestern University Lforary Evanston, Illinois 60201, U.S.A. 1 Letters Sympathy from Canada balance of power. Dear Broadsheet, Val Cole however, goes further towards 1 was very interested to be part of a Dear Broadsheet, a solution — not simply the repeal of mini-referendum on abortion in the As a feminist, my blood curdles to the law, but the actual destruction of East Coast Bays electorate, conducted learn that the New Zealand govern the existing patriarchial class system — by the Labour candidate, Colleen ment, in its archaic arrogance, has seen as she put it — “We want the Govern Hicks, but feel it is a lost cause fit to remove socio-economic ment, the medical profession and the inasmuch that no way will she defeat considerations from its new Contra patriarchy off our backs”. In pointing Gill. ception, Sterilization and Abortion out the double-bind in which the East Coast Bays is too “Blue Ribbon Act. capitalist system is, she strikes right National” and the only way to oust at the profiteering heart of our system, As a Canadian feminist, I cheer for the Gill is to put up an Independent which is supported by Parliament. National candidate who would stand women at Broadsheet, who have Once we realize it is not simply by vowed to flout this repressive legis up to him on all of the issues as well as chance that SPUC is largely thee abortion, as I doubt that the people of lation in every way they can. The wealthy positioned “cornerstones” of determination of New Zealand women East Coast Bays are prepared to vote our society, that SPUC has huge funds Labour to get Gill out, but I am sure to demand the most fundamental at its disposal; then I think the Women’s freedom, the right to control their that an anti-Gill feeling exists in the Movement will begin to forge ahead Bays and that Gill will have to fight own bodies, has our heartfelt and again, to take steps forward. SPUC and total support. for his political life as will others like its supporters represent the interests him. Sisters, we are with you. of the same people described by Val Cole in a dilemma over the price of a Susan Charlton, Gay la Reid, possible abortifacient. These people Auckland. t .. Rosalind Sherrard, have a vested interest in maintaining Any takers? i Canada. the present system, with fingers in all pies — parliament, big business, law Christmas pagan afterall Abortion tactics courts — you name it. They pass the Dear Broadsheet, laws necessary to control dissenters Dear Broadsheet, There has been much disillusion within and “trouble-makers” i.e. the people Deidre Kelsall (January Broadsheet) the women’s movement over the lack who demand a say in the way they may rest assured that Christmas is not of direction and progress, and this is live their lives. Just for Christians. There is no record epitomized by the passing of the The Abortion Act is a perfect example, of when Christ was born. Some Abortion Act. The article on abortion as is the S.I.S. Bill. This class of Christian authorities believe that he tactics (March, 1978) makes it obvious people, the ruling class, is not couldn’t possibly have been born in that the time has come for the affected by the Abortion Act. The mid-winter because shepherds only Women’s Movement to take a giant wealthy minority can always get watched their flocks in the fields by; step forward.