oi^ixos- N|NG DO CTO R*^» Ê M! ISSUE152 $3.80 ► CONSTRAINTS ► CONFLICTS ► SEDUCTIONS COURTING ^)IS 'F EDUCATE ► INCEST AND ACCESS WOMEN FIGHT FOR ---- THE ENVIRONMENT THE GRIPES OF ROTH ► NEW COLUMN! €>lSP:ĀYr BEAUTIFUL NEW BOOKS TWENTY-EIGHT DAYS IN KIRIBATI W V, ? « ft* _ *sG# % CANDLES #■ AND CANVAS # * 5 * % A DANISH FAMILY IN NEW ZEALAND % * ’ so# o w.A [[POULA LANGKILDE CHRISTIE]] k . CLAUDIA POND EYLEY •>& ^ ^ __ AND ROBIN WHITE ^ ^ ^ ^ Twenty-Eight Days in Kiribati Candles and Canvas By Claudia Pond Eyley and Robin White Poula Christie’s autobiography about Stunning images, many in full colour. growing up Danish in New Zealand. Reproduces Robin White's two wood-cut $19.95 series: Beginner’s Guide to Gilbertese and Twenty-Eight Days in Kiribati. Large format paperback. $35.00 feet dOros$A"«£a Herstory 1988 On women involved in the world of books in NZ — everyone from writer to reader, including designers, photographers, illustrators, editors, typesetters, printers, sales reps, booksellers, critics, librarians... Two Deaths In One Night With photos by Gil Hanly and cover by Poems by Janet Charman Jenny Dolezel. An illustrated diary with Very readable poems about nursing, heaps of reading. relationships, writing and Dettol. $16.95 $13.95 Feet Across America Anne Macfarlane's account of last year’s great peace march across America makes compulsive reading. $19.95 Available from all good Booksellers NEW WOMENS PRESS PO Box 47-339 Auckland ♦C*0 »N»T»E»N»T»S» OOTOBER ISSUE 152 1987 FEATURES 12 Targeting the Top Constraints, conflicts and seductions Jesvier Singh 17 Te Puawaitanga Maori and Pacific women’s art 18 Courting Disaster JS Incest, access and the Family Court system Pat Rosier 22 Lesbians Internationally Miriam Saphira talks about her trip 24 Protecting the Coromandel Women fight mining developments Julie Sargisson 30 Unwinding the Kimono Japanese Lesbians Katie Noad 34 Royal Commission on Social Policy Who, what and why Janet Cole 37 The Funeral Short story Eleanor Lysaght REGULARS 3 Letters and Fronting Up COURTING DISASTER 18 No child protection 4 Broadcast Screening the Doctors 0 Men in Primary Schools 0 South Into Sisterhood 0 “I’m Eating My Heart Out 0 Women Walk 0 63 » Ponsonby Rd l 28 On The Shelf 36 What’s New 39 The Gripes of Roth 48 Classified ARTS 40 Reviews A Lesser Life 0 The Feminist Encyclopaedia 0 Wing- women of Hera 0 Let Yourself Go 0 Look Homeward Erotica 0 Germaine Greer 0 The Handmaids Tale 0 Threshold 0 Secrets 0 Listing PROTECTING THE COROMANDEL 24 COOL BROADSHEET CALM BROADSHEET COLLECTIVE Sharon Alston, Ali Bell, Tanya Hopmann, Carol and Jillsun,Peta Joyce, Claire-Louise McCurdy, Jenny Rankine, Pat Rosier, C O LLEC TIV E Shirley Tamihana, Athina Tsoulis, Jude Worters. Editorial and policy decisions are made by the collective. Main areas of respon­ sibility are: Bookshop, Jude Worters; Design and Layout, Sharon Alston; Editorial, Pat Rosier; Finances, sub­ scriptions, Athina Tsoulis; Resource collection, Claire-Louise McCurdy and Ali Bell; advertising and promotion, Tanya Hopmann. Cover design and photograph by Sharon Alston. With thanks to Jan O’Connor, Jarvis at Transparent Images and Wall Textiles These women helped around Broadsheet this month: Janet Charman (poetry reader), Edith Gorringe, Diane Bush, Carol Jillsun, Bev Able. BROADSHEET is published by Broad­ sheet Magazine Ltd, P O Box 56-147. Dominion Rd, Auckland. Registered Office: 228 Dominion Rd Auckland, Phone 608535. Printed by Rodney Waitemata Times Mill Lane, Warkworth. Electronic pagination. Laser Type & Design Studio. Typeset­ HANLY GIL PHOTO: ting, Filmest. Photoprints by Shot/.. Members of the collective outside the bookshop. From left (back row): Film separations by Star Graphics. Ali Bell, Pat Rosier, Jesvier Singh, Jenny Rankine, Claire-Louise McCurdy Publication date: 1 October 1987. (Front) Sharon Alston, Shirley Tamihana, Athina Tsoulis, Jude Worters. BROADSHEET annual subscription As is the nature of collectives, there have been some changes since $38.60. Overseas surface $49. the photograph was taken: Jesvier Singh has left (but she's still Overseas airmail: Europe $80, writing articles - see "Targeting the Top" in this issue.) Jenny Rankine America and Asia $69. Australia is taking threemonths' leave and Peta Joyce is overseas. Tanya and South Pacific $57. Hopmann and Carol Jillsun have joined us. Tanya is working on advertising and promotion. Articles and illustrations remain the prop­ erty of the contributor. Permission must We are all very proud to be part of the m a ga zine 's 15 year history. be sought from Broadsheet and from the Some of our readers have been with us since those first days in 1972. contributor before any item in reprinted. Broadsheet has consistently been years ahead of other media in New Zealand in its coverage of women's issues. We were the first to LETTERS POLICY: The Broadsheet col­ write about child sexual abuse, Daikon Shield dangers, repetition lective may not agree with or endorse views strain injury, nuclear testing in the Pacific, the women's art move­ expressed in letters. Nearly all the letters we are sent get published. Those that are not ment, domestic violence, lesbian rights and other issues. We printed published in full are considered by the Donna Awatere's Maori Sovereignty articles and we published the whole collective and edited in consultation book in 1984. with the writer. We do not publish personal Many of the issues we were writing about in the seventies, like attacks. Letters from men are published only when they correct matters of fact. We violence against women and sexism in education, are now general particularly welcome letters about the con­ social concerns. tent of the magazine. Letters that are ad­ Our coverage of issues is informative, in depth and we don't let dressed to the collective or to the editor are go. We've followed every twist and turn of the abortion struggle. We assumed to be intended for publication. print information on contraception and health that is unavailable Please indicate clearly if they are not. anywhere else. Broadsheet doesn't ignore issues because they're BROADSHEET is on file at the controversial, they might offend advertisers or they've been done Women's Collection. Special Dept. before. Northwestern University Library, For wom en who are isolated evanston, Illinois 60201. USA. in their work for change the magazine is a link with action ISSN 01 10-8603 around the country. For those Registered at the GPO as a magazine. fired up about injustice to 7k Co/kctitf. women it is a mine of contacts and information. 2 BROADSHEET OCTOBER 1987 ■ E.ETTER S MORE ON AIDS Economics are certainly at to the other. ested in treating the cause Dear Broadsheet, work when you look at the I hope Broadsheet will con­ rather than preventing it, Thanks very much for Pat survival rates for people tinue to provide updates and otherwise I wouldn't have to Rosier's clear, helpful update diagnosed with AIDS: as of an alternative perspective on be telling you this, as they'd on women and AIDS. I’d like August 1986 in the US as a the AIDS situation. This is have made sure people would­ to add a few points. whole the average lifespan for essential not only because n't suffer by recognizing the First, although sexual trans­ a white person is 2 years; for what we know is changing so limits of physical endurance mission of the HIV virus is a a person of colour, 19 weeks. fast, but because government- of these eight hour long five major route of infection, shar­ These trends according to race funded information tends to be day a week occupations which ing needles while using intra­ are unlikely to reproduce them­ wrapped in a cloak of moral­ pay peanuts and cause much venous (IV) drugs is a greater selves in exactly the same ising. mental and physical damage. risk to women, according to way in New Zealand. However, The Health Department Young people should be American figures. The Centres it it essential that Maori recommend, first, cutting very careful as they have for Disease Control reports women are involved and con­ down your number of partners years of activities ahead that, in 1986, 26 per cent of sulted in AIDS prevention to cut down the risk, then (if which would involve constant women with AIDS are known work in New Zealand. My you insist on having more use of their limbs. to have contracted it through impression is that too little than one partner!) to use con­ The tips are: heterosexual intercourse, as consultation has been carried doms. In fact, unprotected sex - To open screw top jars, against 52 per cent who out so far. with one partner is much less place on floor and use undam­ contracted it though needle Finally, I agree with Pat's safe than protected sex with aged hand to unscrew lid. sharing. comments that lesbians are at any number of partners. In the Matches can be struck like­ Secondly, children born to extremely low risk of AIDS, same way, it is not IV drug wise. women who are infected are at providing they do not share use itself that puts you at - Eat most of your food raw, extreme risk, yes, but so is needles or have unprotected risk, but needle sharing. saves hours of preparation, the mother whose immune sex with men. However, there The usual recommendation fiddling with electrical gad­ system is depressed during are lesbians who do both of condoms as a barrier gets and washing up. pregnancy, and in whom the these things, and openness, method puts an exclusive em­ - Learn to be ambidextrous to course of the disease may very tolerance and honesty are as phasis on safe intercourse, take workload off injured well be accelerated.