NEW ZEALAND'S FEMINIST MAGAZINE FOR TWENTY YEARS $7.50 SUMMER/RAUMATI 1995 ISSUE 208 Property of Auckland College of Education. Library Please do not remove from library. BROADSHEET RESOURCE KITS Collections of articles from the magazine have been grouped together under general headings. There are new topics, updated favourites and historical clas­ sics. More detail about the content of each kit is available on request. 1. Reproductive Technologies $10 15. Media Images $6 The techniques available and the issues covering their use; Sexism; videos; TV; magazines surrogacy and attendant issues 16. Women Writers $16 2. Abortion $6 Including - Keri Hulme, Nadine Gordimer, Joy Crowley, Historical action; update on the issues; RU486 controversy. Fiona Kidman, Fay Weldon, Dale Spender, Andrea Dworkin, Juliet Batten, Rita Angus, Jacqualine Fahey, Olivia Bower 3. Environment $8 Dioxin (245T); Coromandel; nuclear pollution; fluoride 17. Women Artists $14 Photographers; weavers; painters; playwrights; musicians 4. Drugs and Women $8 Smoking; alcohol; tranquillisers; heroin 18. Peace Studies $6 Nuclear pollution; ANZUS; NFIP; peace movement; 5. Violence / Sexual Abuse $8 Helen Caldicott; Pacific anti-nuclear struggles Rape; incest; violence between women; Refuge 19. Anti-racism $12 6. Gynaecological Health $14 Treaty of Waitangi Mastectomy; breast examination; cervical cancer; premenstrual syndrome; endometriosis; osteoporosis 20. Maori Women $14 Health; feminism; women's issues 7. Motherhood / Childrearing $12 Single mothers; lesbian mothers; sex; childbirth; boys; 21. Maori Sovereignty $6 personal experiences Donna Awatere’s articles that became the basis other book. 8. AIDS and Women $10 22. Women in Non-traditional Roles $8 Facts; issues; safer sex Taranaki women; woodwork; women in sport; sheep shearers; fisherwomen 9. Eating Disorders $6 Bulimia; laxatives; fat phobia; dieting 23. Women and Work, Equal Pay and Conditions $12 Employment equity; reasons for unequal pay; changes in work for women; unemployment 10. Disabilities $6 Blindness; cerebral palsy; chemical poisoning; disabled women speak out Please send me kit number/s: . 11. Contraception $12 VD; the pill; depo provera; daikon shield; condoms; lUDs; RU486 I enclose payment of ..................... (plus $2 p&p) 12. Lesbian Lives $14 Positive young lesbians speak; coming out as a lesbian; Post kits to: lesbian issues (name) ............................................................... 13. Sexuality $8 (address) ........................................................... Feminist heterosexuality; bisexuality; the politics of sex Cut out or photocopy this order form and post with 14. Language, Education and Sexism $10 Sexist language; sexism in children's books; effects payment to: Resource Kits, WomanFile Inc, of schooling on girls; mature students PO Box 56-147, Auckland. FRONTING UP ollective EDITORIAL DECISIONS Comment_____ Ali Bell Jacqui Fill H umour. M m m .....What makes you laugh? Oh, Linda Hill it’s personal, like beauty, it’s in the eye of beholders. Lisa Howard-Smith Anne Hunt I don t need to tell that it’s been a long standing Claire-Louise McCurdy point within the status quo’ that feminists don’t Deborah Manu have a sense of humour. Surely by now this idea is Alex Woodley redundant? With the wonderful advent of our own (broadly speaking) sub-culture complete with stand- CO-ORDINATOR Ali Bell ups, cartoonists, visual artists and comic writers. But still, politics considered and sometimes set aside, EDITING personal taste is always - well, personal taste. We Linda Hill came up against this with the decision we made Lisa Howard-Smith about the jokes and a contentious comic piece. We DESIGN had interesting discussions in the Collective about Kate Millington what constitutes feminist humour. They weren’t very funny conversations. But it certainly makes THANKYOU you aware how much of the world of the arts and Edith Goringe Kirsty Fathers entertainment is subject to individuality, cultures, Nerida Phillips sub-cultures and sub-cultures within the feminist community (and some would say a community as CONTRIBUTIONS: Women are welcome to send articles, such is a misnomer). photos, letters, and cartoons. We appreciate writers sending There’s plenty to entertain in this issue - a short graphics with their articles. Always include a contact phone story, a Christmas recipe, a film review of Tank Girl. number and your address so we can contact you regarding Sylvia Baynes writes about New Zealand female editorial decisions. If sending a disk please label document name and word processor system name. We welcome Mac 4 comics, musicians feature in Three Women in or higher, IBM Word 2 or higher, and WordPerfect. Ifyou have Concert, Mei Hill reviews Toi\\nhine, and the plethora interviewed people, please send their signatures on your of Disney videos are swept under the carpet. We article to show' that they have checked the piece. Material hope you enjoy our interview featuring Dale Spender, should be sent with a SSAE to PO Box 56-147, Auckland. Writer’s Guidelines are available on request. Jane Thompson and Liberating Education, and LETTERS: Views expressed in letters are not necessarily topical pieces on the Beijing conference. Lie back in those of the Womanfile Collective. Some letters may be the sand and enjoy. (And don’t forget to renew your edited for length orclarity. We do not publish personal attacks. sub in the New Year if you need to!) Letters from men are published at the discretion of the Collective. If you do not wish a letter to be published, please On behalf of the Collective, mark ‘NotforPublication’. this issue’s co-ordinator, A D V E R T ISIN G is in a state of transition at the moment, Ali Bell but Alex Woodley is very kindly covering for us in the interim period. She can be contacted on (09)523 3411. AnneHuntis also available to field calls and enquires on (09) 817 4349 NEXT ISSUE is Autumn 1996 RETAIL AND WHOLESALE sales are coordinated by Due on sale early March Anne Hunt (09) 817 4349 Editorial deadline is January 9 NZ Subscriptions: $27.50 Overseas surface: NZ$40 The theme is Mental and Physical Health Overseas airmail: USA/Asia NZ$56, Australia/South Pacific NZ$45, Europe NZ$60 OUR COVER WOMAN O S C A R Broadsheet is on file at the Women’s Collection Special PHOTOGRAPHY INGRID BOBERG Department, North Western University Library, Evanston, LIGHTING ASSISTANT STEF YOUNG Illinois 60201, USA. ISSN01-10-8603. Registered at the GPO as a magazine. Published by Womanfile Inc. PO Box 56-147, ACCESSORIES ETC K A T E M IL L IN G T O N Auckland, NZ. Printed by Printcorp, Tauranga. & A JOLLY GOOD TIME WAS HAD BY A L L ! m e r r y x m a s 1. BRO AD SHEET SU M M E R R A U M A T 11995 I d M 4 ### SummerIRaumati 1 9 9 5 IS S U E 2 0 8 Regulars 1 COLLECTIVE COMMENT 3 YOUR WRITE 3 HERSPECTIVE 4 BROADCAST 40 NELSON NOTES 41 A SPORTING CHANCE 42 OVERAGE 43 GRIPES OF ROTH 44 AMNESTY COLUMN 64 CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING Features 7 SUBVERSIVE SUCCULENCE: Three Marsick women bring us a feminist cookery page 9 THREE WOMEN IN CONCERT : Fern Mercier interviews three musicians 17 DOMESTIC DRAMA IN KIRIBATI: Claudia Pond Eyley interviews Linda Warren 21 CIRCE SOCCER: Deborah Mann and Ruth Renner write about CIRCE Lesbian soccer team 23 LIBERATING EDUCATION: Linda Hill reports Jane Thompson's visit 26 THE G O O D KEEN KIWI SHEILA: Sylvia Baynes discusses women's humour 31 NEWS FROM BEIJING: Brief reports from delegates to Beijing and Huairou 36 MURDER IN THE WOMEN’S MOVEMENT: Jocelyn Logan interviews Gillian Hanscombe 45 HANDS ON GUNN, CAMERAWOMAN: Sylvia Baynes interviews cam era operator Mairi Gunn 49 NATTERING WITH DALE SPENDER: Fe Day reviews the book and talks with Dale Spen Strokes and Art Attacks 53 TANK GIRL: Jane Marsick reviews the film 54 CAN YOU LEARN TO BE LIKE SOMEONE LIKE ME? Disney Films for Feminist Children 57 I DO, 125 YEARS OF WEDDINGS IN NEW ZEALAND: Sandra Coney's book reviewed by Lisa Howard - Smith 58 TOI WAHINE: Mei Hill writes about this stunning collection by Maori women writers 60 WOMEN COMPOSERS FESTIVAL 62 SHORT STORY - LOVE A RAINY NIGHT by Glenda Laurence 2.BROADSHEETSUMMER RAUM ATI 1995 V ourW R IT K Dear Broadsheet, I am looking for Little People who would be willing to talk to me as part of my research for a short film. It particularly concerns me that Little People are used in films purely for the purposes of voyeurism and I would like to redress this. If anyone can help me please write to me care of Broadsheet, or phone between 9am-5pm at (09) 444 4618. Athina Tsoulis A u ck lan d . Hello, I ’m a German musician and I ’m planning to come to New Zealand next year for two months (February' - PETRA WITH HER NEW HAICUT (AND HER MOTHER) PHOTO MARGIE THOMSON April). I’m interested in making contact with women hen I was fifteen I went to stay with my who play music, professionally, or just for fun. sister, a trip that was to make radical changes I’m a 30 year old pianist and I write popsongs for in my life. For there on her door was a sign, the piano. Also I like jazz, experimental music and and the sign read ‘WOMEN ARE NOT so-called ‘world music’ music from several cultures. CHICKS’. Too right, I thought and have ever since. Sometimes I play solo - at parties, weddings, openings WWe are not chicks, broads, babes, slags or any other of exhibitions and in cafes, too. Also I play, together derogatory term some male can think up. But it’s not with a violinist, classical music in cafes, and recently just men, it seems. I started a trio with acoustic pop (voice, flute, The other day a young woman, on viewing my percussion and piano).