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JANU, '/FEBRUARY 1982 UBRARY-AUCKLAND 'COtLEGE OF EDUCATION NEW ZEALAN WOMEN NOW?? : The Smith Women" ^ - What do school^irf^x ^ want •< , . A woman called Mary Thomas % New women MBs in the House Don’t keep yourj^idflk the closet & } % f e m in is t COMMENT N% Andrea Dworkin o n l Pornography * Interview Simone de Beauvoir t ^ Funny Murimiē^ Feminists on | | | motherhood FRONTING UP women who’ve created their own welcome. Thousands of us marched BROADSHEET OFFICE jobs and workplaces. — what did we learn from it? We’re also interested in hearing is at: 1st floor, Gane Building, from readers and women’s groups 43 Anzac Ave, Auckland. ideas for articles, women who would Office hours: 9-4, Mon-Fri. be good to interview, women who Phone number: 794-751. you think have a story to write up for Our box number is: us. Is you group taking part in a pro SEMINAR “HOW TO PO Box 5799, Wellesley St, ject or political action you’d like to Auckland, New Zealand. see reported in Broadsheet? 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We’re also keen to provide a Deadline for April issue is February 10 Donna Awatere, Judith Aitken and forum for women to discuss the more Display ads, classified ads, small an Ros Noonan, or exposition of other theoretical side, and what we’ve learn nouncements, “What’s New” , and ideas the struggle raised for you. ed from our tactics and actions over the news can reach us up to two weeks Contributions long and short, most past ten years of struggle. after these dates. Remember no February issue! ENVELOPING_________ Stuffing of the March issue of Broadsheet will be on Saturday, 27th February, in the Broadsheet of fice. All women and children welcome from 10 a.m. The Broad sheet shop will be open for perusal of new arrivals during this time. 1982 We’re currently planning what topics we’ll be looking at in 1982. We plan a feature on women in “new” jobs for the March issue. That is, women who have jobs in ^broadsheet & what are traditionally considered “ male” fields. And we’re especially interested in women in the so-called BROADSHEET’S NEW POSTER unskilled, semi-skilled jobs, women in the manual trades and jobs which Designed by Claudia Pond Eyley give on-the-job traJning rather than those requiring university degrees Printed in black on heavy matt cream paper or professional qualifications. We’re also interested in work coops. Cost: $2.00 (plus 35C postage and packing if posted) Are you part of a coop, or is there Send to: Broadsheet Posters. P.O. Box 5799. Auckland. one near you? We’d like to hear from CONTENTS FEATURES Four More Women in Beehive 10 Exquisite Volunteers: Andrea Dworkin on Pornography 12 Motherhood, Motherhood and more Motherhood: Don’t keep your Children in the Closet by Miriam Saphira 17 Waking up in Hospital by Maureen Scott 20 Feminists Flounder on Motherhood 22 Schoolgirls’ Aspirations 23 Funny Mummies — cartoons on motherhood 24 A Day in the Life of a Polish Woman 26 This is Simone de Beauvoir Speaking 28 “You always feel alive’’ — an interview with Mary Thomas 30 FICTION ' Wild, young womin by Rachel Sutton 34 THE ARTS A Morning at “Mothers’’ by Elizabeth Eastmond 42 Freedom Flyers Project 45 Battered Wives Take Centre Stage 46 Film Review: “Gloria” 46 REGULARS Letters 2 Comment: New Bill to Protect Battered Women 4 Discussing the Differences — a Response 5 Behind the News: The Smith Women/Crime and Secrets 8 In Brief 41 What’s New 33 • Theory: Feminist Fathers — a discussion of Nancy Chodorow’s “ Reproduction of Mothering” by Phillida Bunkle 36 Classified Adverts 48 THE BROADSHEET COLLECTIVE Sarah Calvert, Sandra Coney, Sandi Hall, Sally Hollis-M cLeod, Miriam Saphira, Anne Macfarlane, Heather M cl.eish. 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ISSN 01 10-8603 Registered at the G PO as a magazine LETTERS \ Rural Life Rugby, racism and marshals’ committee, Alick profess to be non-sexist and Shaw, in true male “radical”, Dear Broadsheet, non-racist, yet in practice often riot gear leftist fashion. Shaw was very behave in direct opposition to Thank you for sending me. a intolerant of ideas other than free copy of Broadsheet with their “ principles” . They also Dear Broadsheet, his own (the Party’s??) and seem to rely heavily on hierar the rural articles in it. Very Having just read Donna often rubbished them openly at timely as I am about to take a chies and power-tripping for Awatere’s article on the Spr meetings. I for one felt too their organisation. Just how workshops on “ Rural Women ingbok tour, in particular her threatened by the atmosphere and Isolation” . radical are the radical Left? criticisms of the Wellington of the meetings to speak; and Isn’t it about time they In our community we have anti-tour movement (the I’m sure that was a feeling an eighty-year-old woman understood the relation bet November issue of Broadsheet) common to many women. ween the personal and who, during the thirties, with I feel I must write and express , So, as a result of the ineffec her husband, built a house of political? my own dissatisfaction with the tiveness of the plenary meetings In sisterhood, clay and tin cans and panned leadership and organisation of as a restraint over the actions for gold in the Lindis Pass near the movement here. I was in of the marshals’ committee, the Caren Wilton Omorama, Otago. She also volved in the campaign from its committee operated more or Wellington rabbitted, and once beat a man early days and became increas less autonomously: and it was, who boasted that she couldn’t ingly concerned, and then as I’ve said, male and pakeha- Dear Broadsheet skin a hundred rabbits in one angry, about sexism, racism dominated in the extreme. At There I was, reading Donna hour. She did it, and proved and lack of democracy in the times the secrecy surrounding she could be better than the Awatere’s views in the events organisation COST (Citizens committee decisions was quite of the tour, (November issue) men. She still has photos, taken Opposed to the Springbok frightening. I acted as a mar agreeing with her analysis, en for the then Auckland Weekly, Tour) which directed the Well shal on several occasions, and joying the way she writes, and of their sod house and their ington campaign strategy and even then frequently didn’t Pow! I was slapped in the face goldmining camp in the Lindis actions. know the full details of the pro by another attack on white Pass. COST’S mode of organisa posed actions. At times I was as middle-class feminists. Perhaps Because of their isolation, tion was characterised by an ex bewildered as the protesters, I should have been expecting it women living in lonely houses treme hierarchicalism. At the who were seldom given even an — it was hardly the first time. are easy game for men return top of the hierarchy was a mar indication of what was planned On other occasions I have not ing from the pub, thinking that shals’ committee, consisting of for matches until immediately wanted to counter-attack, I the women must be wanting a seven men and only one beforehand. And as a woman have told myself she has plenty man. So you have to cope with woman. Only two of the com marshal I was not treated with to be bitter about, and I have a man in your room, drunk, in mittee members were Maori; the seriousness accorded to refused to take these attacks the middle of the night. This most of the members (the two male marshals — this generally personally. But I am tired of girl was sleeping badly, with black men excluded, in from “ higher”marshals rather letting them go unanswered. her husband away, had taken a terestingly enough) belonged to than from protesters (surprise, It is always distressing to be sleeping pill, and woke to find one communist organisation, surprise!) let down by another woman or a drunk guy wanting to rape which was extremely reluctant I find the lack of com to be attacked by one from her.