(September 1974)Broadsheet-1974
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WOMEN IN THE ARTS registered at post office headquarters Wellington as a manning santerriw 1Q74 fronting up - broadsheet the magazine for women the workers' report who are learning to be liberated to the readers Broadsheet needs advertising to survive. The rates are very reasonable e.g. $50 for a full page. If there is any one in the Auckland area who could help us pursue potential advertisers (sorry we can’t pay you, it will have to be for love) please contact Sandra Coney, phone phone 764 893 urgently. Without advertising we cannot continue in this format. Also if any of you have any influence with firms placing advertising please put in a good word for us. Other ways you can help us survive financially are: — send a donation to P.O. Box 47261, Auckland — take out a subscription - send $4 to 48 St Andrews Rd, Epsom, Auckland. — take out a gift subscription for a friend — send us large envelopes for re-cycling (just fold them all in half, put inside another one with a 3c stamp on Send for a set of 7different and send to the subscription address — encourage your local bookseller to order Broadsheet back issues for if she/he does not already do so (either from us $ 1.00 directly or from Gordon & Gotch) — use our classified advertisements - only $1 per column inch to:48 St Andrews Rd., — send us any photos or drawings of women which might be suitable for illustrations — if you work in an art department save the thrown- Auckland 3 out Letraset sheets and send them to us - we can Future issues of Broadsheet will be on: always find bits to use, like lines and numbers - the October Local Body Politics The image of same goes for any other discarded art material Women in Advertising — if you can write or would like to work on Broadsheet November Older Women in some capacity, phone Sandra Coney 764 893 or write to P.O. Box 47261 Auckland for further details. December Women and Religion We would welcome any articles on these topics, We’d like to thank all those who so far have given dona- although articles on any subjects are welcomed. tions. This has helped our finances enormously._________ Manuscripts should be typed, double spaced on one side of paper only. If you want your manu scripts returned please include a stamped and Women and the Law self-addressed envelope. Women law students and law lectu Margaret Wilson, lecturer in Indust tain it directly, but also to communit rers at Auckland University are cur rial Law, and Kaye Turner, senior advice bureaux, legal referral centres rently engaged in the preparation of law student, are sharing the overall and all other social work agencies. a booklet called “Women and the organization of the project. Margaret The material will be clearly, simply Law in New Zealand”. This book will be assisted in her supervisory and attractively presented. Detailed let will present a factual account of role by Pauline Vaver, lecturer in accounts will be kept, open to inspec the various legislative provisions di Family Law. Kaye is responsible tion, and all financial contributors wi rectly applicable to women in this for the technical production of the receive acknowledgement in the bool country, supplemented by extensive booklet. let itself. information detailing how women They plan to produce 2 0 0 0 copies should go about dealing with judicial of the booklet for national distribu Send contributions to: and quasi-judicial bodies. tion in late 1974. Total production costs should not exceed $1000, as Kaye Turner Family law, the law relating to em all the work except typesetting and Co-ordinator “Women and the Law ii ployment, the law relating to social printing is voluntary. New Zealand” welfare and the law and commercial They are appealing for financial assis C/- Auckland University Students’ transactions will be covered in four Association tance with this project. The booklet comprehensive sections. A large num Private Bag will collect together new and useful ber of smaller miscellaneous topics AUCKLAND information and will be an invaluable will also be included. aid, not only to the women who ob contents Letters 2 Feminist Diary 3 Behind the News 4 Follow Up 8 Editorial Frances Hodgkins’ Legacy 10 Riemke Ensing on Women Writers 11 Una Platts on Women Artists 12 The Divine Ms M 14 Jan Kemp - Poet 16 Robin White - Painter 18 20 Artists 20 Women at Downstage Theatre 27 Susan Holmes - Fabric Painter 28 How to Succeed in Publishing by Really Trying 30 Printmakers 32 The Man Who Loved Children 34 The Feminist Eye 36 Multi Media 37 Kicking Against the Pricks 38 Hogwash 39 New Broom 40 p e o p le Broadsheet is published by Auckland Women’s Tnese people worked on this issue: Liberation, P.O. Box 47261, Auckland and Elizabeth Dowling, Val Cole, Robin Mack, Sandra Coney, printed by Wanganui Newspapers Ltd, 2 0 Sharyn Cederman, Anne Parsons, Angela Preece, Ed Haysom Drews Ave, Wanganui. Shona Abernethy, Julie Thompson, Sandi Hall, Cheri Apple-’ ton, Lorraine McArthur, Rosemary Ronald, Kate Jason- Permission must be sought before articles may Smith, Mane Hamer, Liz Sadler, Shirley, Sharon Alston, be reprinted. Gail Montgomery. Cover: Kate Jason-Smith Illustrations: Page 10 - Barbara Stanish Pages 1 and 11 Vanya Lowry. Photos: Page33 Christine Drummond Page 14 Alexander Turnbull Library Page 27, 32 Kate Jason-Smith Page 22 of Bronwynne Cornish Thursday magazine 1 letters Dear Broadsheet, I want to let the Broadsheet Collective know that one of encouraging to see N.Z. women moving in the same direct* the silent body of Broadsheet readers is impressed with ion - we certainly need in our magazine racks this viable the fantastic effort that Sandra Coney and the others alternative to current women’s magazines. Hopefully, have put into producing Broadsheet for the last couple Broadsheet will become for more and more women a of years. The effort is all the more impressive because of “breath of sanity”. the apparent lessening of enthusiasm in the Women’s Ruthie Beaglehole Liberation Movement. Wellington. Often I felt critical of the quality of the writing and would personally have liked a more radical feminist Dear Broadsheet, line to have been taken (but feel that I should have put The way the Kirk family has been going, I am momentarily the effort into contributing too). expecting a press statement from little Robyn Kirk announ However, the latest issue “Women and Violence” is ex cing her support of corporal punishment in schools and the cellent. The quality of the articles is great and the pre continuation of the prefect system. sentation really effective. On the eve of my departure for England, I want to Nellie Catt encourage your great work. Auckland _______ _____ Fern Mercier Dear Broadsheet, Dear Broadsheet, I’m greatly impressed by the new format of your publication and particularly admire your choice of graphics for the Sandi Hall’s note on “The Hidden Crimes of Women” poetry section. misquotes me. It was not one quarter of complainants but three quarters who, in Mary Schumacher’s research, However I’m dismayed and angry too, that you are making had provoked their own rape. use of “supportive males”. I think a feminist publication Sandi missed my point that interspousal withholding of should be the work of feminists, i.e. women not men. affection is itself a violent crime - perhaps because as a I can never believe that a man, however understanding he feminist she regards war as the proper form of inter thinks he is, could be truly feminist in his actions or his course between the sexes. thinking. Men are not women, whether they cut oft their Again, Sandi can’t see the need for a wider recognition genitals, grew breasts and wear women’s clothing or not. of female criminality. The point is that programmes to Nothing they can do will make them a woman, even by reduce crime must include female offending. And in a proxy. country where only 10% of the crimes prosecuted are If they want to help the feminist cause let them enlighten those of women, we must begin by identifying the un their brothers, put out their own enlightened publication, prosecuted areas of female offending. let them picket Parliament, write to the Prime Minister! Did I was cheered by Sandi’s complaint that I lacked com Ed Haysom, Murray Ball (forgive me if they’re women) or passion for female offenders. Professor Taylor’s review any of the other supportive males go to the sessions of the of my “Child’s Guide to Crime” complained that my Select Committee on Women’s Rights? Were they angry at the Labour Party Conference for not giving consideration in compassion for women offenders did not also encom full to women’s affairs, and if so, who did they tell? pass men! Condemned alike by feminists and their opponents I must have my values right. What is so good about the cover that it couldn’t have been Yours for ever, done by a woman? Why do we have to smile at Stanley (is his nose supposed to be phallic?) when we have Peanuts, Allan J. Nixon Bristow, Wizard, Phantom, Jeeves, Andy Capp, Injun Joe, Briggs and Eric Heath? Dear Broadsheet, Where are Super Ms, Wonder Woman, Clitora L Orgasm and I’ve just received your latest new-format edition and am Lezzie Lon? delighted with it - the new layout looks much more pro fessional than the old and the articles were uniformly good. As long as the sexist society exists, men are still our Am enclosing $1.50 to cover rise in subscription costs - oppressors.