— suuuoi/\ adey JQJ soijsnf 00'1$ 9Z.6L HDyVlAI/AdVnHa3d N3IAIOAA aOd 3NIZV9VIAI NVIQVNVO Mrs. Phyllis Ellis Director Alberta Women's Bureau The Alberta Women's Bureau is an information and referral service for Albertans. If you have concerns withwhich you require assistance and don't know who to contact, call, write or visit us at our new offices. 1402 Centennial Building 10015 - 103 Avenue Edmonton, Alberta T5J OH1 /dberfa WOMEN'S BUREAU CONTENTS IN EVERY ISSUE Editor letters 2 Sharon Batt editorial Sharon Batt 5 Business law: Bape Logic Linda Duncan 28 Mary Alyce Heaton Design music: Discovering the Wheel Beverley Boss 32 Barbara Hartmann books: Morag Gunn - A Canadian Venus at Last? Art lona MacAlhster Laurie Bagley 39 Audrey Watson Margaret Laurence - More to her World Layout Marianne English than Facts Alison Hopwood 39 Diane Walton . and more books 41 Photography Alice Baumann-Rondez head way: When I Met the Lady Poets Diana Selsor Palling Anita Lerek 44 Fiction Karen Lawrence, Editor people in this issue 48 Candas Jane Dorsey Jeanne Perreault Helen Rosta FEATUBES Nonfiction Sharon Batt, Editor St. Joan in Silken Armour Susan McMaster 7 Marianne English From Atwood to Zaremba Peat Mary Alyce Heaton O'Neil 11 Jean Liebrecht Bape: Are We Paranoid? Jane Dick 30 Book Reviews Cruel and Unusual Punishment Helen Bosta 36 Karen Lawrence Law Conscience Came First Helen Bosta 38 Linda Duncan Public Relations Naomi Loeb WOMEN IN THE ABTS Susan McMaster Two Poems Bosemary Aubert 6 Administrative Nancy Caskenette Codpieces: Phallic Paraphernalia Karen Kohlman Tanya Bosenberg 13 Marg Sharon From the Other Paris Karen Lawrence 18 poetry: lions in the night sharks Mary Humphrey Baldridge 20 Image in Flux Toti Draginda 21 fiction: The Window Lygia Fagundes Telles 26 poetry: Black Bat Puberty Song Marilyn Bowering 46 Branching Out is published every two months by the New Women's magazine cover photo by Diana Society, Edmonton, Alberta Editorial office Selsor Falling located at 8627-109 Street, Edmonton, phone (403) 433-4021 Please do not send mail to the editorial office; send all cor­ respondence to Box 4098, Edmonton, Alber­ © Copyright 1976 by The New Women's Magazine Society, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. All ta T6E 4S8 Submissions should be typed, rights reserved. Unless used in a review, the reproduction of this work in any form, by any double-spaced and accompanied by a means, including photocopying, recording, information storage and retrieval systems, et stamped, self-addressed envelope. Adver­ cetera, is forbidden without the express permission of the publisher. Second Class Mail tising rates are available on request Registration Number 3517. Vol. III. No. 1 February/March 1976. Industrial Printing and Litho Ltd., Edmonton February/March 1976 1 letters "Women Who Won The West" was Men/Women inspiring. A baby in the rain in a tent! Ontario I like the magazine because women write the articles and manage its layout "Women Who Won the West" was too etc. I would like to see a broadening of simplistic. topics. Halifax Edmonton I just didn't respond strongly to this Resist those who wish men included in issue. the magazine. We are a long way from Edmonton equality and this must be achieved first. Ottawa Branching Out gives me the distinct This is the best issue you've put out so impression that the only way a woman far — interesting, positive, strong! will ever find herself is to become an Vancouver island or to surround herself with women who are also struggling. If we as The following are some of the com­ women are strong in ourselves we can ments from the November/ December draw on men's knowledge without fear reader questionnaire. of losing our freedom. Ontario November/December issue Feminism There should be less "up the female" Beaugrand-Champagne's pictorial es­ which to me is a putdown of females. say was worth more than a thousand I perceive that women are growing and Women should not be so small minded. words! their situation is changing. It's time to Calgary direct ourselves to the subtleties. The Ontario changes won't be made through anx­ I Less wailing please, especially in the I like the expansion of the book review ious pleas — we've made as much poetry and fiction. One would think men section. ground as possible that way. From here were the enemy. Quite a number of our Texas on in it's the cool, thorough approach that will do the trick. ills have seen self-inflicted. Edmonton I never agreed more with an article than Ottawa with "Enough" by Karen Lawrence. Articles of wider interest and Amen. What she said about many not just Arts/Politics the old women's Lib issues. New women's magazines also applies to approaches to Branching Out. Must you accept only old problems. More emphasis on economic and Montreal articles, stories and poems from political issues, less on the arts. If women? women are to become truly equal they A more radical approach would give Edmonton must be at the top of the power structure Branching Out more punch. in significant numbers. Because these Ottawa Karen Lawrence is so right. There are areas are so foreign to most women times when an artist can use the things they are afraid to tackle them and stick around her to create really great, More articles for or by women who do to creative areas. imaginative work but this seldom not appear so radical in their "libera­ Alberta happens when "problems" are aired. tion." Many of us have come to terms Ottawa with our life and enjoy harmony. We have to stop moaning about our sad Manitoba lot and turn to action. Even letters to Most articles were too dry and with little M.P.s and M.L.A.s supporting legisla­ "people interest" from paragraph one I get tired of angry feminist rhetoric. tion would be helpful. Women need to on. Ontario agitate more! Edmonton Edmonton More items on women's progress and "What did you think of IWY?" was a less on the actual liberation aspect. More on social and political events good idea but didn't reflect enough Most women who read Branching Out concerning women rather than concen­ variety. are already liberated. trating on arts. Ontario Ontario Peace River, Alberta Branching Out More information on women in the arts. Etcetera I'd prefer shorter articles. Keep up the book reviews. London, Ontario Brockville, Ontario Keep your integrity in advertising policy — avoid cosmetics ads, for example. The magazine is "samey" and perhaps Branching Out is my favorite magazine Willowdale, Ontario cliquish. because of its promotion of women's Bonnyville, Alberta arts. I recognize myself in experiences I really do object to articles that seem to and feelings expressed by your con­ revolve around bad language and More French. Layout generally good tributors. vulgarity. with some inconsistent lapses. High Ontario Manitoba gloss paper very distracting. Ottawa The magazine should broaden women's horizons not only on a social but a I would like to see more articles about political level. It should be more infor­ women in other countries and how they A past issue had a great short story mative than entertaining. It's not that are coping. about two women falling in love — so women's progress in the arts is invalid Montreal accurate. We chickenhearts need but I'm puzzled as to how it can benefit guidance about the manifold the oppressed female factory worker or The magazine needs more social con­ possibilities. The present categories are it be the single parent struggling for survival. science. It is too "high culture" — we so ironclad and exclusive. Won't Montreal are not all literary. nice when we can freely express our -St. John's feelings for each other without fear and More women in the arts, history and restrictions. Ontario literature. I like the poetry. More film Branching Out's high quality and all- reviews. encompassing nature commend it. The Ontario assumption that the reader is a mature, I feel I am becoming more liberated in intelligent, many-faceted human being my old age and your magazine certainly The poetry is absolutely meaningless to makes the magazine special. has its influence. Edmonton anyone but the poet herself. I've never Alberta read such a lot of stupid verbiage trying really disappointed to pass for poetry anywhere else. Edit your letters to the editor. Branching Out has Alberta Ontario me. For about the past six months the quality has dropped noticeably. The in such a boring Your poetry and photography continue Many of your articles are boringly wordy topics are handled controversy, to be first class. and some are too esoteric, especially unimaginative way — no Ontario book and film reviews. no new viewpoint. Can't you please, Ontario please put in a bit of freedom, a bit of fire? If the magazine continues to be so reading Regionalism The book review section seems without uninspiring and dull I'll just stop direction. Adult and children's books this golden opportunity gone stale Too much emphasis on western Canada should be clearly separated. How about through lack of courage. Edmonton (especially Edmonton) in the advertising selecting books that will make a real and some of the articles. contribution towards women's equali- Ontario ty? Newfoundland NOTE TO SUBSCRIBERS Since I'm a western Canadian I'd like to of Branching Out was see lots more articles by and for us. Keep serious, not flighty. This issue Alberta Saskatchewan delayed one month because of dif­ ficulties caused by the postal strike. We More material from women gleaned Publish a humorous article or story — hope to produce six issues of the if this proves from all provinces.