broadsheetMAY 1982 NO 99 $1.60 NEW ZEALAND'S FEMINIST MAGAZINE Registered at the GPO. Wellington, as a magazine i£ACHERS C Ohx LIBRARY-AUCKI» FRONTING UP BROADSHEET OFFICE Black women, older women, and les­ that happen in a busy magazine of­ bians, are especially invited to con­ fice. If you can help please phone AND SHOP tribute. If you want to discuss any the office and discuss it. is at: ideas you have send an outline to 1st floor, 43 Anzac Ave, Auckland Sandra Coney at Broadsheet, or if Phone: 794-751 you’re an Aucklander, give her a Hours: 9-4, Mon.-Fri. phone call. 10TH ANNIVERSARY PO Box 5799, W ellesley St Auckland. CELEBRATION_______ Looks like it’s going to be a gala VOLUNTEERS evening dinner and review with good WANTED___ fun, entertainment, maybe a speaker, and the company of hun­ DEADLINES FOR Our roster system for the office has dreds of women. Other events are fallen down a bit lately as women also planned. 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CONTENTS FEATURES The Davies Dossier: an interview with Sonja Davies 10 Inside Mautini Prison 14 Harassed out of her job: an interview with an ex-apprentice 16 Breaking the Ice in the Frozen Continent .......... 20 Nuclear-Free Devonport __ ... .... _ 24 Have You Seen a Lesbian Today? 26 The Job That Never Was _ _ _ ................... 30 FICTION AND POETRY Miss Sanders by Yvonne du Fresne 32 Poetry ................................ 23 & 29 THEORY Cultural Feminism: The Chador of Women’s Liberation by Brooke 39 THEARTS . _ Book Reviews: The Book of Esther, Original Sins, Blood 43 Sisters. Socialist Women, Elizabeth Fry, Lesbian Poetry __ REGULARS Letters _ _ ............................... ...... 2 What’s New 4 Comment: The Face of Protest in NZ 1982 __ ........ 5 Behind The News: Abortion Injunction/International Women’s 6 Dav. Auckland/Media Women Awards ........... ’ In Brief ............... 9 Healthy Women: Attacks on Home Birth _ _..._ 36 Hogwash .... ... .. 38 Classified Adverts 48 THE BROADSHEET COLLECTIVE Sarah Calvert, Sandra Coney, Julie Downie, Miriam Saphira, Anne Macfarlane, Heather McLeish. THESE WOMEN Worked on this issue: Peggy Ashton, Anne du Temple, Jasmine Hubbers, Sue Neal, Lesley Smith, Dorren Suddens, Jess Hawk Oakenstar, Chris McGehan, Jean Volkerling and the enveloping women. Cover: Self Portrait by Robin W'hite says farewell to New Zealand on the eve of her departure tor tHc Pacific Broadsheet is published by Broadsheet Magazine Lid. P.O. Box 5799, Auckland; Registered Office: 1st Floor, Gane Building, 43 Anzae Avenue, Auckland 1; and printed by Wanganui Newspapers Ltd, 20 Drews Avenue, Wanganui. Published May 1, 1982. Permission must be sought before articles may be reprinted. Broadsheet is on file at the Women’s Collection. Special Collection Department, Northwestern University l.ibrary, Evanston. Illinois 60201, U.S.A. ISSN 01 10-8603 Registered a iih e CPO as a magazine Broadsheet, May 1982 1 LETTERS Publish and be American and British the remark is stupid and debate and certain antagonisms, publishers in general, look for sadistic does not alter the fact between “ lesbian separatists” dam ned. “ the best-seller” rather than that Crayford repeats the com­ and “ heterosexual feminists” the “ quality publication” and ment in print and refers it to is banal, time-wasting and nar­ can order first printruns of up Campbell’s verse. This act is Dear Broadsheet, rows the spectrum of feminism. to 100,000 and can allocate a made more despicable by the It has always irked me that Who is to say that a house­ much higher budget for promo­ reviewer’s female identity. your magazine gives very little bound mother, living with one tion. A NZ publisher regards a It continues to amaze me that support to other New Zealand of the “ oppressors” is any less first print-run of 10,000 as high the supposedly intelligent and publishers (presuming you political or aware than a les­ — we just don’t have the com­ sensitive people who aspire to recognise that you are bian separatist? Such presump­ parative markets. (When I say the heights of doctoral fame publishers). You seem to have a tions are a form of patriarchal NZ publisher, I mean indepen­ can display such a pathetic policy of reviewing mostly chauvinism that too many sup­ dent NZ publisher, not a UK awareness of the social implica­ overseas books, and whenever posedly “ liberated” women are subsidised branch of a Pom tions of language. The only a Pommie publisher visits the guilty of. I feel there a tendency company). possible justification for prin­ country, she is hailed as the to a sense of elitism and or Finally, can I just point out ting the comment would be to Great Overseas Expert, here to complacency amongst strongly that of fourteen books publish­ tear it to shreds rather than give us some advice on separatist groups, isolating ed by us last year, only two of conditionally agreeing with it publishing. In New Zealand, in themselves from “ ordinary” these were by men. as Crayford, and by implica­ almost every publishing house, women. However, I still support tion, the Landfall Editor, does. a senior position is held by a Why do we need these Broadsheet (here’s my sub I urge Broadsheet readers to woman. In many cases, for ex­ classifications anyway? We are renewal to prove it), but how write to Landfall complaining ample Rosemary Stagg at first and foremost Women. about some support for us about this comment. Longman Paul, this is a direc­ Those who are more informed women in the macho NZ torship. On the council of the and aware than others have a publishing scene? We sure need Book Publishers’ Association Cathie Dunsford responsibility to raise the it sometimes. of New Zealand are two Auckland awareness of the others. The women — Rosemary Stagg, Deborah Coddington mothers have an added respon­ and Wendy Harrex, (who with sibility to raise their children in Alister Taylor Publishing awareness (this assuming that Anne French, almost Martinborough Vangardism singlehandedly run the NZ for the present time women continue to be the chief publishing of Oxford Universi­ Dear Broadsheet, minders and raisers of ty Press). And the Director of Conflict seems to be brewing children). the Booksellers’ Association is amongst feminists over the per- a woman — Kate Fortune. Landfall boobs sonal/political issue of Frances Raymer Then there are women who separatism and feminist Switzerland have their own independent Dear Broadsheet, politics. Some women feel they publishing companies — Ann In a recent Landfall review must “ become” separatist i Mallinson, Christine Cole of Meg Campbell’s The Way order to gather strength, avoid Catley, Bridget Williams, Pat Back (Te Kotare Press, 1981) compromises and establish a Dunmore, Judy Siers — all im­ the reviewer tried to show that more radical identity as Diversifying or portant and respected names in “ the quality of the emotion ex­ feminists. diverting the NZ publishing scene. I pressed is not matched by the This term separatism bothers myself am a director of two quality of its expression” by me: If it means recognising that Dear Sisters, publishing companies. quoting a disgustingly sexist the oppression of women under Lately I have become con­ While no doubt some and brutal comment which a patriarchal system precedes cerned at the ease with which feminists disagree with some of Nathaniel Hawthorne made: and results in all other forms of many feminists throughout the the books these women’s com­ “ All women, as authors, are oppression — racism, classism world are becoming involved in panies publish, surely the fact feeble and tiresome.