Vashti's Voice, Women's Liberation Newspaper, Issues 6-9 (1974-1975)

=== [PDF page 1] === VASHTIS VOICE 350 A WOMEN’S LIBERATION NEWSPAPER. MARCH 1974 « RNATIONAL \s omens a ISSUE NO6 === [PDF page 2] === RAPE CRISIS A/F LLNS N All over Meibourne, as all over the world, women are afraid to stay in their homes alone, afraid to drive out at night slone, &frsid tc take a shower with no-one in the house, afraid to walk around by themselves. The non-working wife is supposedly the most protected member in our society, and can feel the most wwinerable. The 'liberated' woman is libesated inte facing threats and innuendos directly. No woman is free from sexual terror. If we are not threatened directly, the news papers undermine our confidence by glostingly featuring attacks on women, where the most sympathy goes to the victim who was a virgin or married and killed, and the least or non2 at all to the woman who was hitching or otherwise stepping over the boundary of being a ‘good woman’. Occasional accounts of women who resisted attack are about a paragraph long. We're not encouraged to stand up to rapists. Police advice is to play up your femininity and scream. If your voice dries up, you've got nothing but your femininity. We have to understand what kind of power the rapist has, and then over= throw him. We have to stop rape before liberation is more than an expty word. So, what ts rape? In short, rape is sexual intercourse without consent, which is easy enough to understand, but still involves shades of ethics that are difficult for the law to take into account. Se, in claiming a rape, it isn't enough simply to sey: "I didn't consent." Bruolses, screams, pref— erably - though unlikely — 4 witness...all these things are necessary for a prosecut— ion with any chance of success. As you can tell from the low number of rape cases in Victoria, rape laws aren't centred around the protection of women. Oddly enough, they are greatly concerned with the pretection of men = from false assault. One of the great preconceptions about rape is that 25% charges come about through women who As with men, get scared and cry rape. Women do indeed try to frame men from motives of fear, revenge, need for an abortion, but only at most in 20% of cecorded cases, and it's usually discovered pretty early. As for the rest of it, rape laws are working for the men who make them - they are basically concerned with patrimony and legitimacy, and the woman is complaining, not for retaliation, but td show that she didn't go along with this attack on property. Men dre concerned with vengence on the rapists of their wives and daughters: they are not concerned equally with oll women. The man who wants to kill "his" woman's rapist and tne man who will join in a gang bang might easily be one and the same. MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT RAPE (oS a ae Misconceptions and side issues about rape are what moke public attitudes so hard for a woman to fight. The greatest misconception £8 one which suggests, in different forms, women can't be raped, women ask to be raped, women enjoy rape. Women gener=, ally believe the first, hoping that it is true, while men tend to believe the other two. There was on American district atterney who began a rape trial by spinning a coke bottle on a table and trying to insert a biro at the same time, as a demonatration of how physically impossible rape is. This-is a pretty irrelevant comparison = only a man's perspective could separate 4 woman's vagina from the rest of her body like that. Women can be raped, and it's only necessary to think back to the definition of rape = sexual “intercourse without Consent = to see that it isn't something “anyone could ask for. But as soon as sex comes in the whole issue is confused. If two. men went to the pub for a drink and one man started pouring drink down the other's throat, no-one would doubt that it was a clear case of assault. But even when & man is forcing sex on a woman, the old preconceptions of a woman as passive, receptive, eternally responsive to men, have to intrude. Women are sex objects to a point where men can't believe they didn't invite rape or enjoy rape - even eee theugh the responses of your sexual nerves are something that just can't be forced. One woman said: "Even the quy who raped me asked me why I didn't enjoy it." Stili more degrading is the iden that if a woman responds physically while she is being raped, the assault somehow ceases to be an ossault. In every rape case, o man has invaded 4 woman's private space. Why isn't this immediately obvious to everyone? Why does rope seem such a fact of life that only the rape of children couses large scale indignation: Why the myths that excuse the rapist from responsibility? AN EXTENSION OF MALE DOMINANCE The way sex roles ore set up we are supp— osed to believe in the natural sexual aggressiveness of men, their natural physical superiority over women and women’s passivity and receptivity. Rape ia just on extreme version of this. It is an only slightly forbidden fruit. As Germaine Greer writes: A man has to very unlucky to be convicted of the crime of rape. He has to be stupid enough, or drugged or drunk enough to leave a mile-wide trail of blood, bruises, threats, semen, screaming and what have you, and he has to have chosen the kind of woman about whom the neighbours have nothing but qood te say, who has enough chutzpah to get down to the police station at once and file her complaint, and, if it cesults in a trial, to face down public humiliation for hear-say evidence about her morals is admissable. The capist is the policeman of the patrciarchy. Men who would never offer any kind Of violence to « woman get the benefits of his activity. Rapists and their cousins, the verbal rapists on street corners and in passing cars, provide a very practical xreason for women to want the protection of amen. The terror of rape ensures the final acceptance by womon of male dominance. Any move towards independence brings women up against fear time and time again. No wonder that rape is supported by « consensus in the male class. Journalists, judges, dectors, lawyers, writers of hard core pornography, writers of the pornaography otherwise known as ert, anti-woman moraliats inside and out of the church and all men who believe women enjoy rape = all these men are vicarious rapists. The Now York capists write: "Rape is seen by men as an act of freedom and strength", and I thought this was an exaggeration until Tf remembered the Sydney judge who complimen= ted a rapist on his athletic ability, and then read in «4 Melbourne University magawine ceview of Alfred Hitchcock’s film “Frenzy”: indeed, the rape-murder of Blaney's frigid wife almost has our blessing...It is hard for me to believe that Rusk (the rapist) is not, for all of us, the man most alive, even if, comet like, he will scon be snuffed out. The assumption there, of course, is that "all of us" are men. A woman watching "Frenzy" would find the rapist as faceless and anonymous as this male reviewer finds the women: for her identification would automatically be with the victim. PETTY RAPE Not all men are rapists. But any man might be. A rapist can't be spotted by the insane glint in his eyes: he is not necessarily what this society describes as "sick’, except that he takes the desire to humiliate and to lord his strength over someone weaker a step further than is socially acceptable. While women remain unable to defend themselves, and while men keep their enormous investment in their own EEE power, then the repist is a natural phenomenon. And while cut and out rapists are the exception, Germaine Greer talks about another kind of rape which she calis petty tape, commonly known as seduction, oa sexual rip-off happily practised by o large percentage of men who would never consider themselves as rapists and could never be brought te court. Petty rape plays on « woman's oppressed and servile status, on her affection for the man, on the need for a woman to be with a man in her social life. Petty rapists are the men who take advantage of @ woman being drunk, of a woman being hospitable, of a woman being unwilling to cail police or neighbours, of & woman who is intimidated by being called & cocktesser, of a woman who believes what they say to her. We have all had some contact with them. Petty rapist and rapist proper alike destroy women's self esteem. The woman who has been raped by force feels that she has been thrust into an-intimacy she does not want and cannot reject. ‘She feels, as she is expected to feel, shame and guilt. She takes the sins of the rapist on herself. Even if she understands enough of sexual politics to fight the feeling that she is to blame and to see the fape as simply something that happened to her, her sense of fear must be increased. Being at home alone cr going out alone at night may become impossible or traumatic. The rapist, in attacking her body, violates her sense of herself. And the same is true with petty rape. The way the man treats her is the way in which she comes to identify herself, since there are no pes= itive alternatives offered. ACTION AGAINST RAPE We will only begin to discover the positive alternatives for curselves when we estab— lish mutual support among women, enough to enable us to stand up against the patriar-— chal bonding of the boys. We have to agree on an understanding of rape that we can pat against the present anti-woman thecries. We have to know that others are with us as wo try to free cur minds of the stereotypes of guilt and shame and passivity. Then we Can take action. We can help ourselves, peoling cur women's jungle lore of self defence, learning judo or karate, practising with weapons to increase our self confidence. We can work now to stop petty rape, which is beyond the law, but well within the range of women with a new sense of self-respect and independence. We can work to help victims of cape. In America, 24 hour phone services have been established where women can ring for counsellina, for advice about police, doctors and hospiteis, for support during the case and during the trial; and the Rape Crisis Action Group at the Women's Centre in Melbourne is trying to establish something along the same lines. This ts necessary and immediate action, and at the same time it is only «. band-aid on the sore. For what we have: most importantly to do if we are to STOP RAPE, is, on 2%ne level, to change community ettitudes about the naturalness of rape, and, on another level, to try in yet another way,.to undo the conditicning of female and male into their complementary self-and-cach-other destructive ways. As Rebin Morgan says: Just once in this my only lifetime to dance all alone and bare on a high cliff ubder cypress trees with no fear of where to place my feet. To even glimpse what I might have been and never never will become, had I not had to "waste my life" fighting for what my lack of freedom | keeps me from glimpsing. It is to achieve this that we must stop rape. For details of the Rape Crisis action group write to or phone the Women's Centre, 16 Little LaTrobe Street, Melbourne, 347-1564. pagel [Unreadable] === [PDF page 3] === Dear Vanhti, raiaing has ence for m i no i my life. I cannot they are, not simply my situats a frustrated housewife, living in @ cocoon, but the situation of life itself. is growing from this however, im still tho old et the yarra hat EF deo tw t te pave in th t a an de € november husband and children behind, I would have probably get a job as soon as t ould (when the kids ere yilder) and, d those frustratico with the 3 sling that 1 was now going ‘out to the world’. Hut inde ividual fulfilment ia just not good enough. There are so many levela on which I am fighting this battle...» for a battle it is indeed, certainly with ay busband, but = * so with nywolf. sot disregard the children's aut thie etage having alloved ww im the home situation, dependent on ‘Mummy'. I cannot change yur in s@idstrean. In fact °o, for An 1 come from a middle lanes situation 1 have house help, baby-sitters, * helpful mother ally. intel lec soned, surrounded oy people a’t an Though far from complacent when I firat joined m conscicuaness raising group & your a now find I have two realitic and that of the home becoming leas and less roal. VIVIEN. BROAD ¢ D WRATH. Simei te Bast Cee TET I ne, INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S Day! | FRIDAY, MARCH 8 STOP WORK MEETING 2.00pm AT CITY SQUARE WOMENS DANCE 7.00pm SATURDAY MARCH 9 MARCH AND RALLY 10.30am CITY SQUARE FOLLOWED By A | PICNIC IN THE GARDEN } CAMPAIGN im. e Siesta ee Sars Sees 80:0 entey ae XS 2 SO i wee DETAILS ON BACK PAG! etek ites OARS Tees. 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UNDERSTANDING worst frustration ether pe aml per - is the barrie understanding. 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As I grew older I learned to understand the meaning of well-wishes. To be happy, I find » rich husbend as I wouldn't get from God. = came to Australia to escape Hitler, bu fain hope came with that of finding sy rich Prince Charming. ortent criteria than the === [PDF page 6] === INFERIORITY ATION od alwa oT UDY TIREDNESS IN GROUPS VALIUM TIME TO STUDY ANY WOMEN WHO WOULD LIKE HELP IN FORMING StuDy GROUPS MAY | CONTACT JUDY KING ON 857-7371 === [PDF page 7] === MARGARET MEAD Page!0 rentation liar stance - ap lor le since our alliance hie the chance voke my « t reatter ght hed ill-concenlod amuse th the meok and who'd dutifully paid h should suddeniy shake off the shackles to defy his lawn and domin and demand equality and rec tonight course he 10 'd seen bef the subterranean rusbles und merely yaw pon his throne secur idle joke to? that I, the ild ever hope to shake structure of h he’ but brief agony inten ruthlessly we fought his laughter » betrayed « sudden fear hie fece contorted with the pain eof dishelier that pert s hie kingdo not, after all, his complacency sauce fear now kindled his aggre he struck Deck wildly with an avalan which bad formerly inflicted erippling tonight entlessliy he fixod his - ittmilts, Accusttions, « aimed to strike my coracio © @ Sense of guilt and secure my ultimate rep ut tonight » found his weapons ineff audi he had no others to withs tuthlessly I battered down the barriers penetrate the crushed facades of hypocrisy ally oxpose steia tic stone « nesty and truth have sufrfic id anew on bare found eoreate a franevork based ble HAIR TODAY AND GONE TOMORROW === [PDF page 8] === REVIEWS! CHILDREN'S BOOKS 220 EE tries and whispers FILMS - aluin purple | PX PRB SSC AMQm&® MQ. === [PDF page 9] === INDONESIA FAMILY PLANNING JAKARTA FAMILY PLANNING Datangloh keklinrk Keluarga berentyang fertolonaan Aan nasehat akan diberi kan come to the family planning clinic; help and advice will be given. POSTERS menudju | omen aepon ORG Oman can Terdjamin casei for peaceful and secure future. WOMANEWSWOMANEWSW)AEV7zENs THE: PEEL NURSES now have retraining for wowen whe have CASE HISTORY ENT; Jane to find an er matant pain. OOTORS 1 Family doct experimented and preser imumerable tourer vithoat JURY janet returned h SERVICE PERU Pomted wth Meet te 8 AG Melery Poimhery Fly ith = Bae from page12 BOORS === [PDF page 10] === ATION, 16 UT LATROBE koiit 2 [Unreadable] going ple to p I AS e: nf of money weekly, mR; ap OUTBACK PRESS WILL SHORTLY BE PUBLISHING ally. The entrs 4 ‘: A BOOK OF POETRY BY WOMEN. ANYONE INTER twelve months;: ESTED IN POSSIBLE PUBLICATION CAN SUBMIT provided a; yd THEIR MANUSCRIPTS TO THE EDITOR: KATE ction j itz JENNINGS, C/-— ENGLISH DEPARTMENT » SYDNEY g - and has Re; “ aa UNIVERSITY, N.S.W., 2006 BY APRIL 30 given hund of women inside ‘Ue ee ‘Bey 1974.. i side the movement help sine?: Seer acoe Women' j farch 8. p Work Meetin ity Square. ne:: duced to two ‘phy Hall, Melbourne Uni ef Biigenardly enough Pies, We need staff, Saturday March 9.; icularly art re\ wmion — and any March and Rally 10.30am “ EOD City Square follies by ic BS a srtion Action Coalit-§ Lower Me as Town Ha I 21, 7.30pm. Speakers will be Dr. Janet Delys Sargent, Joan i ie! workers sg eet Ge 6S) 6 this: issue Sf # § adri, alva, kath. === [PDF page 11] === VASHTI'S “2 VOICE 50 A WOMEN’S LIBERATION NEWSPAPER ISSUE NO7 JUNE-JULY 1974 MS aieo === [PDF page 12] === BRAZILIAN WOMEN... the only woman in. Later in the voluntary work not marriedand think much of it. Pocheo and justthe bored un men, uphill battle in the type that revf and led by. She ance exam with flying 12,000 applicants), a day as a telephonist and become a journalist. She t but I'm sure we will be her one day. Salvador or p her, she comes from a Slave background. just so much quicker to my almost non-existant Porty would do anything to help just think you are one big jou are a woman. sce the samba groups parade (I can hardly hear the scores of bands and ces roaring) with the camping it up in women's >, wigs, etc. with pillows er their dresses on their behinds — parodying women in esque sick way. The men all huge joke not insulting towomen a least for a change they are ating them with contempt, they usually Ut these wor 1 *t think of them at all. have 5c >: a rade and they perhaps are state of Bahia i e cultural centre emanating from the blacks) of Brazil. , poets, artists get their here. All the Brazilian music Bahia and right throughout the writers a creativeness, they set out their little m which you can literally which is The loc when they put === [PDF page 13] === ——WOMENS VOICES —— HALFWAY HOUSE \KRBARA JONES === [PDF page 14] === Miriana and wor said: frivoloe appearance, otvertining, the ste challeage » degrading aen ao on on ution or nindless competitive potion the ether wor that « w im the dare oven, oafidence sperm att and thee some man" for + for darin counted, ide ami control tivities life they ant ridiculed, they Homi it, 1 oe by stude . out signif upon i ané pobais elied -as one John ed thes io Thoreday atice’. eaniacn sare these They tell hourotir pAt the Apr frightened een Cat on calling u they cot in thelr reyardl f all to fight evel long bard proces of itt women. sisters, respocaibt tion creat anti for wwe child care groups cisic timer atucl have abdie She MTt's added: than just tbe repeal child pay with anus educatioo that sore forme such as ortion lins, free Because of centres, oquel planned 4 wage for women me 0 people, ames € liom in opr ations gathered ctuni ties speak abc neck; Siacciett an thoor into ire a of th ie people women s particular Sow. sell [ite starte intere For the last to the university council and fused to accept a responsibili }igate the problets involved with setcing up mtemding to do trivialized NO ROOM AT THE INN ABORTION About 2,000 people marched through Melbourne etrect Lith to deseastrate against the existing abertion Laws and favour of freely available safe contraceptives, The demometration was organised by the Womens Abortion Action Coalittom, It was the Largest demoostretion that has taken place in Aust~- talis in the demand for the repeal of the abortion Lawes. sumer of e isforsation on three years propose for child requests banmers giving the telephone centre for women who vanted to pet an abortion. ave deen nade ther comelttees versity withslows care on May in how of the | amd staff ieamt results, a few abort Pausacker The demonstration ended epeeches in the gardens spoke t the work trol Clinic in East vorks as 4 counsellor called for as many woner take part in a silence vigil the following day at the Right to Life demonstration. with Jenny Fertility Conlhourne, where she Sehoookel (not the lity) for child care. Another sefing an advisory group (to invest~- Deb Before the march itself, 2 large crow gathe- as possible. reé in the City Square to listen to the val epeakers @ street theatre, The Weeen"s Theatre Group staged a parody of a beauty contest to dramatise th of scctetyse attitudes, which expects to be save= a fecilities so as to edvise OTHER avd to watch th so) wat passed. There that the university wsibility and the seen ated the to imply urgecey e hypocriay ‘eo wouen iasue, sed eh the tight to abortion and contraception. tive, yet virtecus, and on denies adequate this Group » the Child Care Action demonstration for May 6th, Abox ling pareats with x in, arches or child versity Janet Bac and hei om spoke of the need for women to ecate help themselves by WAAC in ama toary massive wi -aboret eare campaign thi and ages inform n OF meth studer and at fecilic parents care tab Joan ie Coxsedge, of < ‘conscies thet ALT the demands an the vee said he itful discuseen. st on th b woman whic ® while te octane, arc Tre ast === [PDF page 15] === a BEHIND BARS. GIRLS RECN == a oe pS die ay FAIRLEA Hat. Se WOMEN’S younger CHALLENGED POEMS FROM INSIDE PATRIARCHY BY JAN DOUGLAS Jas te at present servic sentence im Fairlea Prisco ons and pars laid bare this moment hate, I hate hate my very beginning no avail for now it's too late I'm destine to continue living. Lt hate not only me directed towards another giving me eyen, cyes to see many reanons why I smother. My mind is swirling twirlin The ache j sy heart increased Pain deep, deep down Ie eradually replacs have sade mo see Seaii thin that co wounds and scars th dessert san === [PDF page 16] === THE THREE MARIAS ts —— a ae The following extracts are froe a book Salled MEW PORTOOUESE LETTERS, pabili shed in Vortgal In i3)e- The Bock includes stories, exsaya, letters and poese colating to the copresaion of wouen in Portugal. The bouk wan seized aft banned by Portugalts political police ant the Three Moctas were charged with “offending @gainst public morals end good customn". Sincw the recent coup in Portugal the chorge egoinat thi woeen has dropped. oo “The new authori ties wate nt wan ropes er a emma Three Marias wiwid write sore good liter« ature in the future. tt A= to be hoped that with the more Iibweal regione now in Portugal western will be given a-chance to coatrs) thele liver, This wilt cnly be posaibie ff the power of the Catholic Church is broken. Oniy futuce: political developeente in Portugal will show whether the new free- Goq promised ie to include women. Only then wiki tragic episodes like the ones ‘ Selow, comm to an end. And of eroticiss, gentlusen, and of eroticlest tr almost all books called erotic that are abundant today, tee eH EE SEES Thin: 38 ration sen offer us, from the resting place of the warrior wa tome te be the remaina of the ware Ant she died, for haring done at) dbortion with a atick of celery, she died of sapticesia, the woman that Gays ago cleaned the office where 1 work acd I heoed tater, through « friend of here, that tt was ber twenty-third abortion. And f Was told years ago by a frieed of site, a gector, thot in hocpltsl beds, women are despleed and bedly treated who come In with thele wterumes perforated, shredded, wrecked by home atteepts at abortion. with kiltting needles, sticks of wood, stalks of-kaie, everything penetrating and hard-edged found at hand, and thelr utervans are ectaped, coldly, without anovetbeala, cediaticaliy, "se they wilt tearn". Cearn what? Mith Uitcghtening?!. tearn that upon thee fable, easket ne the Eetality of destiny, the cantraiiction that scelety cceated between fecundity — demanded + of the wimer's word, art the Dlece = denied - for chiliicen? Since the Bestiny of man and woman has been divided inte two brenches — but when, tet whan? = upon the woman bas fallen, bestdee ali the wetstential angules and #12 the eotinl cepraasioge that are coseon te both mine and woman, Upon her bas fallen the anguish ef ner bislog= ical Gentiny, which sakes her crease no longer the dramatic experience of the apectes, and upon the women tt hee fallen that her tielegical destiny becoses the instrument of repreaston in her tadividual dresn. And lovere pass, and et know thes irreceenatly distant, tor there ta ao love of two that be worth it, in love, a woman stands tn the ‘enguishing oxtraeity, in @ repressive ané solitary destiny that society invented for her. hat could Hoeeo and Juliet do? ‘My! slaters: tut what can iiteratvre Gol Or, what can worte do? [Unreadable] THE FATHER; the was perveroe? 1 the slept raked, her breast free amd Cale, vety white, and vxposed with the nipples, larce, cosy. celaxed. a |} During the day she walked argund the house with ber Riouse tine buttoned and sat every which way with her skirt crimplieg up +2 along ber thighs, « suggestion Betwers her legs of « soft iF Sarkones, half-hidden.. She was perverse! | She would Lie on the sofa, her ares thrown ever ber head, end ahe would atay like that, mecothiy, within coach, without evil, running her sharp tongue over her alcaacy molst ilps. | She was perverse:: | She was dark blonde, sowny-skinned, with eyes of « hard blue, always sleepy. ‘ She was perverse: She would wrap her arma around his neck, her breasts pressing ageinst hie chast, her ware beepth Like satin ageinet Nie south an if her lips were meh with saliva. ' She was perverse: She would leave the door ajar, forgotten, while she undressed Slowly, Giscovering her soft belly, thin shoulders, slowly in Little movements, in secret sounts, anc pects with childhood. 4 sta as sa nedeedn i | She was perverse:? oe i She slept naked, her beeast free and calm, very white. oof de f poted with the nipples, large, resy, relaxed. a When the man enterec the room, he hesitated, Jocking ae her, ere ot her 1) her sleep, Dut soon he advanced, alientiy, ' end giletly stopped beatde the ted, hesitating egein. Than he “3 stretched out one hand, sliding Lt over the smooth curve of é her breast, over the Warm hips, sweet, the hard fingers «lmeaty coming into her satin pable hair j He beads over ber as she awakes, covers her south with fhe d hand, stréng, Seutally, keeping herosown, finely, vedernenth: bie body How tying an top of hee,”; She was perverse: Her twughter wan free, thirsty, and she looked at people with « kind of imttaacys; » maddening odour, spreading slowly, like « feutt, obtseaaiver tispesalvely, cbaseaetvely. Tndifferent, Mattans feels hia come oat free inaide her, tietying te with sperm outside «leo. She sees hie get up, get dressed In « hurry, end go away Witheut Tonking at her, «11 the tine mute, wvyen when he hed forced her, sute evon when hu Ned fet hee, Ssrrocdered, drowned? in that torpor froe whith the «inte never to emerge. each woeett more deeply lost. PaonYou have {6 leave thie hesse——-" mn sellin « nevival kort. WaanWe cannot continue to ilve here together 40 the seme bouse after whet has happened. It ts you wht are gellty of hyety= things Tee e mnnt- f em @ mat. en yos are Erovecalive, pice 7 worse. You ate pervetss. A woman withoot shame, «i thvit eode enty. I sever want to wee ytd sgatn, you disgust ae, you make we sick to ey stomich, you Bote me adhowed cf you. Vou Ente, i knew you knew, you xnew what yor wire déing tome, | ote San, my whore? Seeenf course 1 «= « whose, you cam cest sasered, fathnr, © = a whore.” Penebig bitch-==* the mather cabiee her ae she walked towset the doar te the street. gripping the walle te kesp froe fallinge “eesfitch! iq hitch." [Unreadable] MOTHER J gJntonio cave to est me ta qo see you and forgive youss-wiil you also atk me to forgive you? Bo you expect me to bend over r the bed when you have alreedy Begun to putrity and kiss your forehead so you will be able to die in peace? ¢ fut-what right have you to die in peace, te close your eyes. in peace, to close your wyes without the knife of resorse c twisting in your breant? It i mot @mough to be 4 mother; tt “Le not enough to have borne w child in your womb to meke her love ‘you, but to aake her hate you, hew much evil you sust 1 have done! Yoo ignore, surely, the weight of my hatred, not a because I have hidden tt fcom you, but because T could Fart you with the koife point of sy histred, ispatent was Tt for r that: you are nenetheless conacious of the trine you have 1 daner today you deny me my fon, who lookea at me as if 2 were mod, « person to pity. I can imagine what you have told his, p how you distorted what happened. Together with Antonio, you - beceght him up in your ewn way, gleefully Igighing at my des- 4 pair and anxicusonan to hold in wy arma the san you have » wrenched from me, connivers, beth executioners and judges, € cpabined to sake me suffer and uiterstand your power put away t here, where now you come to Jock for me to forgive you the “puntshaent™ that you have giver ae. ‘ Puntshment? Sst what punishsent did 1 deserve? a Can it be that a wosen is obliged to take from aman all the humilintion only becmuse te is the muabendr owner, lord?: Can it be that to be Bort « women means to be unheppy, and to; earry a burden far beyond her capactty to carry? t You are wrong, from sy south you shall never hear one word “ that in any wey could rebesble forgiveness. On the contrary; i until death and even after death my hatred shall follow yous P did you not oo desn ee forever to this prisan where they heve f pot se for satnesn? ft And can nee, sother, ask for the lucidity of true forgiveness. from pomnone who te demented?, * forgiveness of what, ané for whet, after all? Were you sot a Fight end wes I mot mad? Are you not normal ond um TI not de- * pented? Then I con have nothing to forgive, you can die with t my hatred without letting Lt bother you in thw least, as has * been your habit, ten't it aot You know, nevertheless, that to free myenit 1} hove put myself. behind bars. and I am not sorry...only bow imprudent of me not 3 to have reckormed with your claws and the welght of the low! 7 ‘ gefupe to une guile, the only weapon permitted. # woman, I used b ao dhatnads Royalty, 10.0 fight where cone enly gets knifed in the,; Ang once more I fall, mother, in the war between the two of L us, for I ksow thie letter will never get to your hanis. t Qt what a strange letter to be written by a sedwoman. Antonio; eecwon't you want, equally, my forgiveness one day? And when ’ thie happens I will give you all sy hatred, tntect snd brime- 4 ing, overflowing with sore hatred, as I now give tt to my sothec, to whom you will sever read these lines, badly written © by wy hand, unaccustesed to holding « pen. r Nothing keeps you from taking me (1 know) by force, a you brought se here, to the bedside of this woeen so she con see { ee and in her half-death, waderstand my pretence as that of forgiveness. Then, you may rest aemired, Antonio, that when 1 u spit in ber fece, I shall be thanking you sincerely for the ¥ opportunity you have given se tc do it. Mariana. 1 [Unreadable] Toxt of heneur or cf interrogation, written ty « woeen named Joanne = say1 The etulterccus woman is etill stones to death in Afganistan and Saudi ArobSa. (l wsk: Ts also the adoltercus mati atooed in Afganistan or Saudt Arabia?) I sey: Indicectly, in America, es in many other. countries, the law protects a strenge Eind of "death penalty® applicable to woeen, who deny to the law “control” of thelr own bodies, lesding thee thus to Lilegal abortions: “It iw metingted that between two thousand and five thousand women die every year for this ceason” in Aserica. (ft ask: What happens to the five thossand‘or teo thouaacd men that impregnate these two thousand or five thoeaahd women dead in america every yeart? Tt way: Im Portugal, the sajority of wenen ere not only and simply "slaves" of mtn, tut act out, "cheerfully", with conviction, their role of womnn-object, and it le mot necessary to be adulterosa to be “atonmed", to be annihilated - 4t is encugh that abe sserges end speaks an "o man". And siece abortion ts alas illegal in Portugal {the wonah here, not objecting, in always passive), and knowledge of abortion ia distected through in= formation received by people who preterns to ignore what can ne longer Be ignored...And since everything seems to be fine, and the women seems to like her secondary and subordinate role where she limits herself to sotherhood and evan when highly @ducated chooses marriage oa tf it were « profession, unren— umerated, or remmecated through the giving of her own body ont thus we come to prostitution pure and aimple...Ané since cee Lees in thie inoffensive and well seaning way to the satisfaction of everyone, whot is twft for us tut to enter the battie? (t onk: Sisters, how many Anas or Marlanas must still te resurrected or while alive be put to the test, idiotined, weak, fragiia by low, convenience, belief, and religion?) LP agye Peat en, er Rk rar ws ae < J Lat us refuse the frmadulance of masculine aid, we de pot need ity or more proctoniy we do not want to accept this Cheistmas "gift" with ite besuttful weapping that hicas the bomb that, certainly, once more, will explode in our hanis, 5S always. Tf 1¢ £3 we who want, it can only be we who demand. ~ Let ue pot an end to mystification and falae modesty, let us break through to the bottem of the waters where we «ink, and we eink without Breathing, without breathing, ever. AT ank; lave we pot come to the tine to speek cut, for example, about what we knew to be true about our plesaurea in bed, denounce ing clearly the man's game that sakes the syth of vaginal orgasm, ecevsing of frigidity the woren who coepiains that she doesn't reach the speam through simple coitus? Ushapptiy felling tnto the trap of set the women heccees again and once aore, Ris ecnptive, hie inferior. Cam we still keep #titiz) I say: And in spite of everything there will come these whe wilt Call the battle reactionary. the battle that will stretch on a long and stremuous path, that the Portugese women wil) have to endure plone with her Rengre weopone. And there will come those who will attack, and from abl sides will emerge knives and arrows and upon our backs will Fall nomes like stones; but whores or leablane, we de pot care what they call us, af long an the battle ta fought and not Toast. ( ask: Tf eo other alternative {s given us bub open warfare against a whole social aystem which we tefues at base, and if we must deatroy everything, Including 1f necessary cur own homes, will we turn beck?) Tsay: Enough. It ts tina to cry: enough. aa Zor= # block with cur bodies.: UIT page 9 page 8 page 9 === [PDF page 17] === a review SCIENCE REBIRTH OF FEMINISM. FICTION sone call ries include tor on beard ship. notable optic wad pleas 6 if any furtherexceptions Theodore Sturgeon's bool enus Plus X" has a visitor being show: the many faces a great t pia. There 4 anatomical ni idbeart group distinguishat all people can ceive and cause contien. The people are androgynous, {Al re bot? reative and tender, intelligent an frivolous, as it suite. The atory line in thin but the trayed world ustainn interest ¢t which ia possimistic. Ureuls Le. he Left Darkness* jomie with I eplex « lit ninine, but ople. There he 80 ak an page 10 === [PDF page 18] === AAV ESV ARI, PVN SY POMEROY ES SYNE: NESS ME SIE [Unreadable] wa az pie Ts Sai CRS er the < i ee? x 7 DETAINEE VES SINE NINE EIEN IS, ZS 2 [Unreadable] Pie SASS Saore aS 75) 8 ORM RON SRI === [PDF page 19] === pagel4 shee Aebe AY, [Unreadable] laa i. ots PeP ee OO eitian apears IN HISTORY Bibliography: 1, Evelyn Reed - Woman: Caste, ass an Oppreseed Sex? in Problems of Vomen's Liberation, Pathfinder Press B.¥, 1972 Edition 2. Linda Goréon ~ Tovarés a Radical Feminist History. 3.Lin Hasmerton « A Womans Hier Vorkehop 3. Lin Hasmerton ~ A Mooan's Histor reshop Refactory Girl, Winter 19/3, &, Anme Davin - Woean and History, quotes in Refactory Girt, Ko. 3 1973. Aewe Curthoya « "Historiography and Womens Liberation” Arena 22. 6, Linda | - op. elt. ADRIANA K RISING KERRYN chorus chorus JOOY, KATH, & Cootrifvtions for Vashtt are welcomed Gext issue we are espectally intersted fron any in Womer HIGGS im. For the nS Education Prete wt oteet by HHA Pronr= © Retiry Prmtery Phy Lhd ~ deat bt pagels === [PDF page 20] === ‘i 5 TT mrmaTInIAN mri PH. 347-1564. | House WoRK CAN Be CAEATIVE, You KNOG =. CARTOONS BY NANCY HELLIWELL wee oh aarpuot on | '@) er atk ACTION GROUPS Within the Melbourne Liberation Movement there various action groups which work in particular problem are qiven WOMEN'S ABORTION ACTION COMMITTEE (WAAC) OMEN AGAINST RAPE At the moment this group is clist 7s of Pausacher or 27 Nicholson STUDENTS GROUP group has just recently formed. It will deal with the problems confront-— ing secondary student women. Some of the groups demands include education courses in schools without moral jtudes intruding. MAN _eCryTer PB wv NON-SE Al S: BOOK e article this Jashtie Contact 5834. See article this issue of Vashti. Contact Half-way House Committee, C/- Womens Centre. ago === [PDF page 21] === VASHTIT’S VOICE A WOMEN’S LIBERATION NEWSPAPER ISSUE NO8 OCTOBER 74 Special Education Issue 30° === [PDF page 22] === ADVERTS. WHAT THEY education and because ads take up 60 much TY Television plays a large part in our time and are so expertly designed, the probably influence us as much if not more than the programs. Although a small minority of people may be immune to ads, obviously the majority are not, or companies would not spend on them the millions of dollars they do. Because of the great influence which TV ads have on us it is interesting, albiet horrifyjing, to see how women are protrayed in them men’s products If you look at TV ads as a whole you will There is Falcon - '' a man's car", Marlboro - "a man's smoke", "MEN smoke Drum" and there is naturally "'a man's beer" notice that men ‘own’ many products At first I thought these ads were defeating their own purpose. By appealing only to men they would miss out on many women who would otherwise be tempted. But I had forgotten that women have been conditioned to think that men are more important than they are, So if an ad is for a "man's" product and women fancy it, many will feel flattered at being allowed into a ''man's world” if only by being allowed to use "man's products”. On the other hand, can you imagine Australian men rushing to buy a "woman's car’, smoking a ‘woman's smoke", etc? The ad men know what they are doing! ei Women who are allowed to participate in these ''male products" ads are almost exclusively there for sex appeal. They quite often say nothing - just ooze "charm" and sex. women’s products With products which are practically exclusively used by women, household cleaners, perfume, make-up, etc., women are allowed to speak, Their remarks are usually innanities about whiter washes, softer hands and so on. One objectionable one shows former Olympic runner Marjorie Jackson advertising Whirlpool. ‘The only running I do these days is around the house’. Judy Pollock, who is 4 wife and mother and still competing in athjetics, could have been used just as effectively to sell Whirlpool. But the men who made the ad had a deeper purpose in mind. What they actually have said in the ad is "Even if women do compete in the outside male world, they cannot sustain it for long and prefer to settle back into the cosy safe home." So the ad keeps women where they belong and justifies to men their role in keeping them there. Even in these 'women's products’ there is {almost always a male commentator. In \other words the advertising boys know we are all conditioned to respect male judgements. SAY ABOUT US. in a bad light As well as being portrayed as of less ii..portance than men and of being interested in unimportant things, women are usually shown in a bad light. shows this quite well The Toyota Corolla ad The man has a new car and shows it off to his many women "friends'' (?). Number one is very dumb, number two is the know-all type. She talks in a superior manner about the and has disc brakes and a compression ratio of nine to one...."', The last female "friend" says in a soft sexy voice "My mother doesn't even know you've got a Toyota Corolla". The message of the ad is clear, Women are either dumb, boring know-alls, or sexy marriage traps. The car ig more important than any woman. It runs smoothly and quietly, it is easy on the nerves, it performs when the man wants it to perform and one can get away from all those terrible women in a Corolla, non-stop features of the car " In almost all ads about cars men do the advertising, although the latest Datsun one has attempted to portray what they think is a ‘Niberated woman’. A well-dressed male is nagging on about "“dise brakes for a man's car", "floor gear shift for a man's car’ and so on. His well-dressed woman companion gets annoyed "fora man's car?!" she asks. She drives off leaving this chauvinist and drives out to the country right into a male fantasy. She meets a burly singleted, roughly spoken farm worker. She moves over to the passenger seat. He takes the wheel and says ‘You should never underestimate a certain type of woman". In other words, no matter how sophisticated, women are basically earthy and want to be carried off by cave-man types. At least the ad ends up with the comment ''A man's car - or a woman's.” ads attack us ‘The ads for Roses Chocolates and the one for Remy Martin whiskey are straight out nasty attacks on women. In the latter a man impersonating W.C, Fields is pouring himself a whiskey, His wife calls out three times that dinner is ready while he makes scathing, nasty remarks, ‘Drove me to drink that woman - only good thing she ever did for me". Loudly - ''Coming my little turtle dove". Softly - "She's more like a turtle than a dove". If no women have complained to Roses Chocolates yet about their ad, then Women's Liberation has a long way to go. A man offers his wife some chocolates and she is so nasty that it's a wonder Roses have sold one box to women or men since. The usual anti-woman jokes about interfering or bitchy mothers-in-law are prevalent. Pure and Simple spray on oil is an example, go too is the one for tea bags. Are there no pleasant mothers-in-law or interfering fathers-in-law in the world or are the ads just reinforcements of male myths? apprenticeships The ad by the Apprenticeship Commission for Apprenticeship Week showed apprentices in various trades - about eight young men doing all sorts of exciting jobs. There were 3 wom- | en involved - all beautiful and blonde. One was shown having a tiara put on her head by a man who apparently made it. Another woman was drinking from a jewelled gobiet one of the men had made, The third woman was walking along in a tight T-shirt and mini skirt. Another picture was superimposed over her of a man grabbing the handlebars of a motor bike he had restored. The film gave the appearance of him grabbing the woman's breasts. And yet the powers that be have the gall to say that women don't seem to be interested in apprenticeships! So what is the general image of women portrayed in TV ads? We are overbearing mothers in-law, or happy happy housewives or dumb girl friends, or know alls, or appendages to men. We rarely say anything knowledgeable, we never say anything knowledgeable in a pleasant manner, we rarely take the initiative and when we do we are nasty, and we are bitch) and overbearing when we get to "the top”’. (e. g. the Drive ad with the hospital matron who says to the nurse "I use it, and look where its got The ad for Vitabrits is a classic and shows where women are supposed to fit. The woman sings "Two men in my life, both need Vitabrits, To one man I'm a mother, to the other I'm a wife", Few ads on TV seem to be concerned with women as intelligent, pleasant, interesting people and they are not interested in the question ''When am I me?” I suggest that when these and other ads appear on TV which are anti-women, women ring the TV stations and write to the manufacturers to complain. Only if women protest will they be changed. Meanwhile, the ads are educating people to accept women as the ad men want them to be. Also please write to Vashti's so that we can publish the information and ask women to boycott the products. 9999 ALVA. === [PDF page 23] === women’s voices Dear VASHTI, Tl reckon that Vasiti's Voloe is tremendous if ever you need some po ole six years’ work lying around so Coggratulations on the response to the International Wamer Day March I wear the ferminial badge ut achool (all giria) and the number of girls that've asked what it is really surprised me Could | suggest « bit more propoganda using the badge and algo the inverted pink triangle A lot of the kids at my fifth form level ve Women's Movements are DEAD and was a phase thal passec The @ March was extremely patronining at about four poragraphe long and deli that publication on one phute Perhaps posters could be billed, etc I don't suppose what I 've told you is very original tut I'd reckon thal out ¢* nearly 900 girls only 40 would have any clear iden of what the Moverment's abcet and only 30 would regard themselves a« femininta and that 30 would include staff too A greater awareness myst be achieved! But how? I'm not sure restructuring of the edecation system and the media ephere, it's difficult to do very much Mind you f reckon staff have a huge reeponsibility and they're not rising to it! Why? Becaune they themselves are largely pot aware! t's a vicious circle but i CAN be broken and will be broken Yours in Sisterhood and with Love, Elizabeth Dyall Ps I think I'll send you in my more femminiat orientated poetry soon! you'll like it! Hope WHO WV VA crited in the book of Ee th the «rows royal, ¢ HEL, @ Biblical queen her to appear place, on the grounds all weeen so that they shall despie: Leept and wrath". women w I shands are lighter sentences than they given much would receive if they killed someone outside the immediate family circle The newaepapers often comtain reports of trials where omen who stab or shoot husbands are convicted of manslaughter rather than murder, often receiving short sentences of p lwo or three years Of course, in almost all these cases the wife gives evidence of bashings and assaults by the husband on her and/or their children and the courts obviously take this into account when determining guilt and penalty, which te only fair onl ‘The problems of women involved in marital violence were recently browght really home when a close relative revealed to me that ber husband frequently, when drunk, threatened to kill her, their two children and himself She cannot leave him because of fear that he will carry out his threats that he will find her and the children and kill them all, and ahe cannot leave the children with him and expose them to his violence legal system is virtwally mo help in the police are reluctant to “interfere” in marital problema. She could take legal action privately and have him “bound but action of this sort this situation over to keep the peace”, would almost certainly antagonise him into committing further violence. A piece of paper from the court ordering a maniac of this type to behave himeelf ie hardly likely to have any effect on kim Even the prospect of teking her children to the half way nouse when it le functioning does not hip thia woman, as she knows her husband ie capable of terrorising friendé and relatives, and perhaps killi one, in an attempt to find out her whareabouts It te easy to wee which sex controls the Short of a complete legal system in our society - = policeman who was asked for help admitted that if this man were threatening to kill someone in the pub, the atrect or his place of work, the police would charge him with criminal offences - because he is only threatening an almost helpless woman eand two totally helpless children, they will do nothing Undoultedly the police will ruah to their home, sirens screaming, after he's killed his wife, children and himeelf - cases where this happens are being reported in the newspapers with terrifying frequency lately In the meantime, thin woman continues to live in terror In Sisterhood, Judy. Snti ther, © shew Ube wife of King Ahaveuras, the princes her shment she should be banished ad of tha the qv « their bose one the shall BERK ERE women’s Premiere films showing in Melbourne of 100 minutes of filme made by Sydney Women's Film Co-Oporative, including TAKE FIVE/RUTH/ALL THIS JUICE AND ALL THIS JOY/WHATS THE MATTER SALLY? [Unreadable] DREAMS OF CHARLENE STARDUST/ WOMEN'S HOUSE/ STILL LIFE. PLAYBOX THE SUNDAY, CCTOBER 20th $2.50 ATRE 2 pa - $.30 pm Coffee & Di 2 F7'9559 Tickets from VASHTI collective or on sale at door. Organized by and in aid of VASHTI"S VOICE escovuseeseion Dear VASHTI. Congratulations on the last iseue Terrific improvement a plea for some humour in the next issue? Every general (and group) meeting of sistern that I've ever attended there has been, at some stage of the mecting, over someone's caus comment and/or wiidly unreal suggestion Why doesn't any of this galety get reflected in our magazines and newsletters? If one touch of nature makes the whole world kin so does one touch of humour draw women cloger together (Male chauviniste are ec fond of saying "women have no what they're really complaining about is that what we find funny they don't Which ts their t tuck, ) But may I put in ea of laughter sense of humour", Barbara J Dear VASHTI, The most obvious thing I noticed about gitis, while teaching in a High School, was their lack of an image of themscives an freely operating self-determining individuals Most children act along stereotyped patterns and assume methods of behaviour and values approved and demanded by parents, peers teachers, In particular girls ideas of them@elves are determined by what males {immediately their fathers, teachers, boys at school; more remotely, media run by men, education departments and achools rus by men) wast of them The moat firmblished goal they have is to be spprecand accepted by men, and eventually chosen by men (bosses, husbands, media Debra Robinson wiably migraine vagion) discharge sex drive, 1 that 101 by the by wor i anxious alx (bow unreasonable wor about damaging their t reporte aid headache 1 adverae rersion and loss of largely to be caused ed over-reporting ut ite pos nen are, nealth ible effects" worrying which in o i importance to anyone but themselves) ind ‘there was no evic bate er term studies were This reae jence that t sterment ie followed by Pill was i with cancer of any kind although long needed the tather querulous olmerrvution that a die high propeastion of women gave ap Pil regarded as (very pelt valli svems that ‘or no valid reason d reasons imated risk at the present time is ome s properly infor to take 1 you take might of d wees you the Pill: wet wil the urn g Thee ephin designed to play risks the rink Of me sr to thw male dom inuty 1 cancer nditior hecauuse ‘ate alee prane) seem to get mor her lrvestigation a defen Ale ere ruchia of hy weutied te cwuree oot cases to sciaticn we should t i them all Their Lordships the curdling r clot merita hlewe are ¢ mec were eurt Vhat's a ff anything from dow it'a 1 whould be ria. te jus tess pecul~ 1 medival mbosis tb more cure discanes however of the aniame Sof eclaticon pertensior lone content severth pain is the bloc bosis of the in the lungs be (pala from Britieh GPa f seeme nexplained the Inethigh blood m offer could be few thousand extra herve of cd pressure o take a tab on ote (ng pun intended leg - which was CONTRACEPTION Back To The Bad Old Days? reported five or aix times more often in Pill ther Bat thie inci quarter if p users Uber fence was cut hy « of ceutroges ls containing lower done were used Too ted about that other three-quarters jun*t it? IN, CONFUSION The report was publis in Australia on May 21, On July 18 one of Britain's top issued « wtatement warning yourg women experts on breast cancer, fan Bart, | not to take the Pill contiqnucualy over several yeary. Reason? It causes changes ir ead to iguting teum of GP's the eat which could cancer! The responded like wounded buffaloes at thin dastardly attuck ; On thetr reassuring fumdings, tut Dr, Burn airily replied, with all the callous indiffer ence we have come to expect from these men, that he bad “no objections to GP's continuing oO prescribe the ae hey are aware how bh | He added that he was the effect on older women iren who look the f childr four chi apre a before the cluded i the wintiater obwervatior y might well be the to take the Pill” | Which seems to indicate that the older wom- | right type of womer having ¢ d her biological role i can be regarded ax expendable. Or she doesn't matter as much as } her younger sisters wtill to be lined-up for the reproduction stakes Ret another bilter blow to inh € wan already Looming Lime from wothes ran the Atlantic On group of American doctors warnlink Frill liver + ’ ik t the t our if & possible between the and a dangerous {ors have tr nm thre women who use the Pill { Janet EB referring to an additional 50 to 60 cases which p since been identified, aa: th | type of art hae previously been sx rare the 3 Li, past | creased detection the tumour co-incides iiereused une The common thing or oral contraceptives men t im the these u ahe said Wome from the ute joontr and carry a assoviated with pregnancy ¢ comple safer mo a to follow references to the Dalkon ahield by be rred i and also ma ptic abo i who dor MORE CON} lower risk < have been cheers 1 breast cancer or USA (July ‘A Government survey has found ne devices are a anfer ception than the birth contro) pill SION hh aking any chunces ver tumour may d up by the latest report which opens with;- inirameth of f death than that (But only ly safe’), Worse The report proceeds with & the temporar- SA because it in suspect- ¢ responsible for about 100 tions led of having caused several maternal deaths Other complications with er 1UD‘'s include pregnancies which occur Jespite the lons jwomen wh lee jones here rare’ Now a Nullip Si Pharmaceut jplusie for ure device; here) replied th with this s uterine perfora and bleed cal authority, questi Dalkon shield (the mplaints perhaps [ rare Just ew 10D haw hb {-T-Coil pelvic and other infectltestinal obalian medmout dtu no serious jhave been made about it’ » Like, be pr uield The Company's Agatrallan manager stated that septic aborthow t the headlines The i by Protea marke Pty Lid. This Comp hopes to capture one fifth of the Austra rvices) through the Auast- Plunning Associa it sad & severe ect rcrotary, fit tO une this ¢ have a high endency t haging director als fall out » finance back 21 bonanza, he Our Fa States she has no wever, h sly Pilar ecause it appears to ate They have a ahe suid of Protea Pharmom the trail of all that fastdisappearing loot iprotesting that the United S$ wellt Furthe studies demonatrated impede preg lates ~T-Coil as an ney the lerated IUD Scandinavian THE uubstantial AUSTRAL ce from establishes the writes to evid however ng the most efficient and in existence ited Kingd a better abilit cont. Page 15 === [PDF page 24] === Breast Feeding MENOPAUSE === [PDF page 25] === Miss Smith was an old maid. She didn't like to think she was, RATION OF MISS SMITH A STORY FOR CHILDREN aa pe) erent Re ial | Wiis UT ay company. "no" she said aloud, “that will she knew she was ny people said go and they would know P old maid," so she stopped thinking about it times peopie kindly called her an “unclaimed treasure a lem over After tea, she started to read the book again. It was ali about womliked that even leas It made her feel li She worked in an old grey office in the city for a atockbroker The become genius and things Children and husbands and other peoples’ work was always the eame but she didn't peaceful. The other people in the office were like her, middle aged and liking the daily routi of their work, wis married and talked about their lives outside the office thought about it bat tf it was true, she would feel so Bat ehe en through the ages who had not room of their own and so didn't mind that as it was aleo doings took up all their time, The writer knew that women co except that everyone cise to be something. Miss Smith didn't know tf they could. She hadn't guilty because she had had those things that were supposed to be Every Monday morning they asked "Did you have a good weekend >" needed and ahe hadn't done anything at all, hardly And everyorue chatted and joked about it to tell abou! her doings, but she found that no one was listening So instead ehe listened to the much more others did Once Mise Smith started At her usunl bedtime of 10 o'clock Miss Smith glanced at the clock interesting things t but kept om reading. it was a little later that she finished the tx {it was @ thin book) and went to bed Miss Smith had « sister who would confide in her all her marriage The next few days were strange; odd thoughts kept popping into troubles (whi seemed to be many) and sigh and say with pity ‘You Miss Smith's head and surprising her. ‘The office work is almost don't really understand though Poor Mise Smith wondered what boring," popped up one thought hurriedly banished it. “Of she cou to understand. She didn't know any men who enjoyed course not. [t's been like this for years." “That's what I mean" yelling at her, or children who were rude and ungrateful, and even popped up another thought Horrified ahe forced herself to if she did ehe didn't think whe could ask them to treat her like that harder #0 she couldn't think Miss Smith told her aleter that she was trying to understand and euid she was sorry that she didn't have problems like that her aister’s house for tea, one thought even came out aloud of her nephews were quarrelling loudly and ber sister said fondly Now, Miss Smith hag many friends, some who asked her to dinner ‘You don't know what you're missing. When Migs Smith eaw that and to babysit and some who asked hér to would tell her about their troublesome children, Miss Smith sever do, und I'm grateful babysit. Often her friends she meant the children, it popped oat before she could atop it. "I offered any guggestiona, ahe knew nothing about children exc t that g@ and abe knew that the children were gov< Mrs. Brambles (she was a Miss Smith too unti! abe had met Mr rents told them to be ally felt that the children did to good In fact she o Brambles) was very surprised at Mise Smith. No-one said anything for a moment and then Miss Smith quickly staried taiking about a friend of theirs Sometimes ane felt that ahe should be envious of ber sister friends for having heashbenda and children very hard One. Misa-s room of one's own an she not only had kitchen and tram going home When she went into ber empty house, she She tried but found Earlier thon usual Mias Smith wert home half cross at herself for saying such o tactiess thing. "Bbut it was tree Good heavens ‘ies Smith "That's another popped up thought. What is happe t having « to me? ¢ couldn't thi what it was #0 she went home end took book should # ne of codl in case ut she had five if i read it on th it dt didn't, tt got wo tn front of w shop window full of jumpers ara of the eunghine and (he aky Misa Smith found herself atopp- 4 looking and before she could stop herself, she bad bought thous f i a, a beautiful asure blue jumper and rlorious yellow one geniuses and things tf they had a room and money and me and tried ung mer thlerentet mie nnt isked them their They looked at each other at ght tha aint hee for hames and said they rat her nacre wes in df usked her around ta dinner soma edelth men and children but nt Out such A he Mise Smith more than she had ever me Short Story parmethys hed iahed weeds with her { them weren'’ anked ber thought they anal they didn't that hed start- * told them rf pome i Mine Smith amiled at had sern her often and in her garden young maids to babysit old and women whe A bulcher’s a send sprinkled roand the back of the shop reminds me of bullfightw and landscapes of Spain I'll never see Stepping into antiseptic white tiles that march wp lo the counter, in tight mentx, Why ore they all so even’ [ want fo rip them ou t round on all fours The butehers stand laughing: ome a show for the boys before they a he poor hysterteat thing Walking to the cow d v lege. breaut aucked in, back bent. shoulders hunched and belly meltin liquid legw to awold thoge eyes Poor grotesque body one day be abl’ to straighten up again young boys strut behind upeing, tll be and @ giel hurrying past unconsciously starts to suck her bre al Hause Fingers tap the “r bim swushge mer dangle on a tightrope in the n nl is apple gleama S red apple forced in jows like @ prize Lock dopen, eyes popping wquirming on his belly in surprise litle leggy trotters dipping inte trays Fat sausage fingers tap the couster, Grvat tecth white and even ax the tiles He ssunters towards the back « shop, knives clattering on his hip, 1 bet he sneaks back into the freezer at night and has it off with some poor cold cow mbly why place; the thougtt of all those iret he took up butchering fa the onrcasses dongling he 6 their hooks The bate u. 1» exhausted carcase lung over hina shoulder hits the cutting up bunch. Chopper rises an i c o"« got favourites Now eg out the liver lot off and wrap them up with the be bones aking parcel « iver and xpenking in whispers aa tf we're iapiring to wrap ¢ ur secret thoughts In the red etained paper liver in red stained and thinking of bis sr old virgin woman going mad of ¢ Greek isle. #orlo the a On the way to the dowr | turned and ear g away ir atared back af bim f nag Bim up into choier cuts of meat Sandy Slater === [PDF page 26] === EDUCATION -..: PVE eA a i Ye N Me, MOS eS AS OS CINETR Yee) Saco aces Sah pals speech G preparation reke dant. J orisay. === [PDF page 27] === 10 EDUCATION caw, earning about sex liberating which * Jeurne ‘a ith those years, wv ' % through wh problem tr nintry, or he. j > che we will they invite someone able to we wer tne re vi perndomn ett f the subject 5 malt jecta which course @ guest, one of them, described the curei ustion of any authority enterir mattere nd it mattered in a crucial hould know: i t eacher Ihe other possibility tw to start ate 5 was lilich's hidden curriculum how ‘s more ly sk. ‘“;,: ais mares Bis Se eens that, although the rocess. © ine 3 perpetuate € the imprew 1 get; wo groupS cut liuke the forsr Lon cipline, fear, how diao transform ind new = of be., Sore r shock E; visian: ‘bet- is of which w dt f urtos) iv edom ard the ‘y er wus ¢ ". '. between those xaion by the par wh should be joy an arid « ed by c boy at schol t and that 1 w; howe who pass judged, rewar eters and asked what it meant I'd never heard < d pieces of towel during rf Jichotor t niliar frontiers the word before Another child explained c had to be wuahed out nev similar to thet line pertaining to wore sity what it meant, and deacribed the sex act - din secret in caae any< al ‘ eomer ane of these bookw of the future which are I decided I must have been adopted, as ft 1 been wued for the er olng deal with everything, diff rent as $ eidewny lly and were ex le teachers ure asal pects of their sole subject; life}; it would tremely inconvenient to take to wchool J on pupils what they sho develop towards: { our experparents would never have done anything slippe pen sur oe dirty am that! evelopment of a group inter. it have been very diffieull for my Uetil | went to work and had money of my 5 very of the world, lence-. irc eT { particip mus video pro aselat- parents to keep the reproductive process 3 own we fought continually about this art fascinating thing in hum- to literature,, y 1 “y sciences levelooment of migrant and am 1 < y - i we owned we aleo disagreed atrongly on whether or takes place on this one ’ om gre » secret from their children, as w wre k etc in ane word politics modern il ec t ties outside the serv °, dog > were always prod- pot | could wash my heir, go to the o dns The cesull ie boredom on both 4 educati ities ide tt er wevera ' fogn who were always 5 ann ';, snd rightly expanded meaning r sti ‘ ioe ned ro s were oene- ride a horace © ve a bath during a 5 peaker knows wt ‘ > ie provided by existing institutions and ucing pus » bot ae far as we were own ride horae or have « bath during ker k wi whal ( he i erned the knew nothing 3 matings or t. lens women ¢ ond others eppeared “and we period 5 he silence of the tener The boredom, the compulsion which pols actual At least T was better off thar ‘ eliminates any feedbeck and prevents the od the one-way exchange would give place This appears already in the number gto pul ay idea info practice, we att eae sate in-eecend form whose mother t Boekker new: the to cur ' To that fuscinat year etudents ven moce in the member of rmiptied to ganisation » rite } 5 1 7 Pt emptied create an organisation ghich we that all thin talk about periods wie 4 pack Lintener's pagal wits c r hund, ton with which children their first dishoped reflected some of values implicit When | wax about 11 was given a armall of Hes and nothing of the kind would happen he idea - nes { 7 he ide eas atid on the inhibit a: rest in the verbal coverion and at the god-like level of pr to her When she finally had her firs flow c i new woman pr awor haw usually a out of “ied ah eee Bin } Such a maniter of learning would ulao, of poriod she was away fre aC neceseary. $ ‘ 2 he ourse, put an end te m of 3 qe ana t y stomach, but didn't explain how week und reappeared with a mysterious #mile COUF ee, PUY an one OFA aniqe sriawity not unlike « woman prime m What one should deduce from this mar truth, of the objec Ane in f life 1 cleared up p of lf t responmibilit w mysteries about how habies got to be welcomed by the medias, an Vhe Leur two; e + there in the first place - 1 found sumer £ sid the whispered tnfarr t shy | never ‘ d out ‘d forgotte he des- " of exct wre ia only one mce the fals mings are ag I'd forgotten tht had ber “womanhood wr of exch r y on on nh 2 lings ar snd he the ire prepared to make ly wu ' tion my #choolfriend had ith how her mother explained away vious ne I wurviver of a very pozziing,:; Z sir truth, the one that the speaker transfers (sociology, chemistry, language c), = Now, given the educational to the listene The truth that the speak- many pousible ways will emerg msid- r Limited scope that those #tructures, should we fc reforms est probler wwe ig to enc. wex i was too embarrassed to amk, gometh »f my parents any questions objective without ering ‘© infinite var ‘ Readers y hnve the idea f » the fo. Seria the monoll i 1 to one var- noreased number of women students, When | wwe about 10 an older girlfriend versity teachers? We, who are going that I'm recalling events which happer jant the subject under discussion will upp-? = I'd never beard; 7 ri ed fifty years ag fact, 1 | under, f i not keem ace- ear in t light? us an #ffort to suff- for new values, do we wa : she mentioned my ignorance to 4 ' very } < to be lecorpe Be © insti: periods - she mentioned my ignorance 1 go very ag ‘. b way ¢ arning just op- ot f 6 be incorporated into institutions wor surprised to learn that t more ber mother, who suggested to my mother ng the old valuva In other words, Seteohed coh ey that it was time 1 was told about menatruat growing up h eee different het actually contrary to the ator sexual matiors < at leas ' St actualy cone © learning can become to the lugubrious state t to take oe of men? ja) teaching yas r ae: R affairs in exiating institutions whose pro- and what lo therefore with the to me two booklets from t ool 1ut these aeem to conc fhe discovery simuliancously of our conse- Claimed uim is to teach, we start wondering: ti women and educatico ¥ ina f women, has appeared in «a fore If n f now we compare this vialon of what fotu j 4 ap 1 4: what future question already raised mony times: guidnasice ant: jon. | remember very clearly m ie blush jously and obviously embarruny m to be some attempts to give sex ed, tossing 7 itary napkin mamufecturer, saying Read entrate on reproductior lousnvss, ¢ heart and of the world, « is it possible that t organisers, the mastttury napkin ul r. ~ ". It seema to me (although it fs fa eas obvthese and ‘. hing you don't under- still only reproduction ex mn rat yur pus! and fulure, and our perspectives, is ¢ru, the authorities perceive this gap it seema to me (although tt fs far leas P re enu.* ’ kk door sex educati It stems 7 set} 1 col ive expert © takitig place between between what existe and what ie posatbl us than seceme= at firet) that we should then ally running ou T ' demand an increased participation of women thut such cowrses inchude - without a j s! a teacher That they don't notice the lack of efficiency birth centrol (includin, i sour ue of the prese rilary educ¢ on First, because it to attract attention te the existing 1 read Necase and human re 5 ‘ ‘ ~ to attract attentioe he existing The answer is d - or ev:. ‘ had periods und boyn didr. a ';: 3 cond, because ane should n irth were [gnorance Of ex short-sighted I happy co : give up what can be done from irk but it ‘ously the g r « 5 incidence that thin im out luckier inside. That does 5 mply, of course, at periods and God's puniehme women becnuse: s tia most from the eonsequences 4 rieaitive: i ' } « «in in the Garder { ide and sugg for ‘ ee kaiahe s I based the insight into the future learning on any illusion that the situation would bka-. ‘ cept uninformed on contraception ‘: eated that I read the book of Generis id the experience of the C. R. proups - which fa ioally improve Lif only text booke,“tteacht: f gros ’ Pressure must be put on the school 7 J a model of learning as # liberation process laboratories, aspects of Beining, ¥ then} the imp- to ensure that repressed inhib $:,. thia framework, learning means develo P etc were © = vesiie: a jen dirty animal thing have > i; Sa: through the discovery of the present What we should do to continue the effort sheng han which married couples animaia did very for thal ~ oe = SS Ane AR Oe De of quite a ng radicals who became occasionally when they wanted to reproduce- et sue. oe Braga yp Is ’.. ~ secondary te. help create nothing I'd heard or read suggested that it u tand that all aspects of sexu s help kee lationship: e taught without moral contradictic; help students De;. elationships are taught without moral paper:; iY a¢ might be an enjoyable relatio: 1 P: gz the descrip views intruding firs period extens mr fortunately, it seems that it will a system does shat was wrong wi r wore tin efore sex education in the he on quite diff t myself someh fullest sense of the term in available te 4. y:: Sealy. eget was very upset when 1 finally pi 5 everyone in this society, hut the me. ote; ne the courage to ahow her © tuined pants es outlined above would af least be t * oe a — s i: - ale d: Oh no, not 4 dy, I thoug? janing to the figt put an ond to } r ypocriticul exercise you! eo of that fo t we apent there Learning Exchange anee os i t nemory ag A Maivern Phone 211 you === [PDF page 28] === a book review WOMEN AND MADNESS by phyllis chesier === [PDF page 29] === advertisement THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE gabeth Stree Varner neany. way House Group: 7 s eust also. terested happy housewiven’ that orestec every man testifies to when the role mepurpese behind working women ix ing discussed are simply aes ant ve ae Tt t ney, particularly hose women who have suocesufull sah (0; sbor ond why havetbey foldec ar amounts, Uny have re beer forge r they might have ngle iseve furniture and how ibe and women we're at? 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Phone 313237 } of this famot k, reviewed in TALK WITH We OMEN W HO CARE ABOUT Y O « tesve of Vashti's Your order. wtsion groupe will be welcomed, You will be notified tire inndeal, geeceai balan a immediately shipment ia received 10¢ WET LINTON POS EAST MELBOURNE Jerrad sereies ‘ 7 Encel eic. "Women and Society: An Seas Nantes Wee te, Australian Study. $6.95 If a's neodes Inequality, work, education, political ction - a thorough and detailed uegearaar CONTRACEPTION _ continued from Page 3 More creative and lees woman-orientated "" Pantyhose, tights, or socks to be offered > 41 Marxiam and Femintem" $1.00 Most efficient among IUD at present in doctors aa abhorrent. (What IF the man ————$———— existence - with all their incidence of pel remained sterile and his god-given ability pottery, crafts and tradca te An examination of Feminist thought from and other infections, uterine perforations, to impregnate till past middle-age has Girlie to be allowed their own underwear the 18th Century to Firestone: the book intestinal obstruction and bleeding - and been taken from him? Setter to play it Lesbianiam, where it in fact exists, should if they wish, with alternative fitted under- argued that fighting againat women's ill only a “better”, never a total, ability safe and leave all the risks to women) occupations to be offered e. printing, ae a choice to all prisoners not he diseriminated againat, recognised wear supplied oppression is part of the class sl ruggte lo impede pregnancy? Come, come, couples should sot be separated againgt capitalivn ~ from Canada gentlemen We demand better odda t So what are the alternatives for wo A gleam of light at the end of the girls one night cach week. The Dialetice of Sex” ix still available been provided in an article tn the July nighta to be a film night with engtt in paperback). SELF HELP issue of Sydney Women's Liberation newsfeature film at leaat once a month letter by Nancy Heseler She concludes nly with express permission of = ‘ont ot theaa dights to be a free: Row ee “ Woman's Consciousness, Contraception is manipulated and controll- that for the protection of health plus greatent. Man's World $1.20 ed by money-grubbing pharmaceutical efficiency the simple, harmless, messy, giants whowe only motivation fe profit and troublesome and effective diaphragm” whose least concern is our health, their provides the answer, She points out that to scientists who concentrate thelr experim- use a dlaphragm a woman has to have a ents only on the female reproductive system, sense of her own anatomy, she knows what and the doctors who readily prescribe for her uterus feels like, where it is, its nature, ue on the sutormatic assumption that all the This is 4 basic self-help concept and necessary for women to have ‘control of thelr bod- A recreation night to be had t t Shulamith Firestone'’s feminist classic- these! Venereal vase teuts to be done by blood sample and P urine gample. Pap amear and niternal pelvic examination to be perform - rigoner discussion and criticiem and prisoners Trained reing eixter on roxter 24 hours argued b & to be poblivhed y on women's liberation. [ft is a “muet™ for One of the ost clearly and lo with fully comprehen » dispengary at Favouritiem to be recognised and fought ber disposal and medical practitione 1 against, all girls te e treated equally all those w tand the WOMEN'S D pS: her call of Movement hin prison be rogarded aa a reh Eyes or other protein t tered " our lives are ee dec- Hees or other protein to be offered every i centre rather than « punishment c J dange in contraception will be ours alose re ¥ b E oa r 7: ica" The publication “Our Bodies - Our i by, by both officers nl times his in mind aah spo will even: consider eg ay Selves’ approves of the diaphragm for the mindemeaners attempts to change the Gate Gh cee eame reason; “Using the diaphragm can be e discussed by the k leave to those long term gir » %* THE GOVERNMENT RECOGNISE THAT SEC: Enya Nae on) WER eR od kind of body education.. and in the ig concerned Jecisions on actior only a short time left to serve REGARDLESS OF WHAT PRISONERS HAVE. Reaction to & group of Melbocrne _ g run the sre familiar you sre with be cecided by the win misdemeaners DONE, THE GOVERNMENT ITSELF HAS The International Bookshop has the best rk areas, mess ¢. to be discussed Correspondence to be allowed to all other MADE THE DECISION TO LIMIT PREETI ock in Melbourne of all feminiat literature : y decis- penal in ution F RESPONSIBLE FOR If it has been published we usually know ab ) fant and fresh fruit at all tables at and these sap decis« Feakfant and fresh fruit ull tables ir d every action be geared with and who fight to the: ch before they work on &@ contraceptive pill for men, your body, the more r mex announced early this year, was an Australia-wide disbelief that its use would be era collect 1 Aer a + we t. ie countenanced either by a majority o ye made relatin punishment or ISONERS MENTAL AND PHYSICAL it, have it or can get it for you es aie pr at transplanting bs nV hane e:. Australian men or by their doctors _ n, be made the collective, Sentenced > be allowed ome visit of WELL BEING $ hearts and kidneys and yet so strangely in- » hour ots ndnie Senay " » tan rT > 7 * > Occasional press reports on the nereasitt. ¥ Ae Hour s a per week and at least ONG nee I entio one year's subscription competent at perfecti he reveraitie va SUPPORT OUR SISTERS STRUGGLE to Vaahti's Voice (Cheque/M« Order) number of men having vasectomies are the cell and solitary section one letter out per week 3 ectomy) mu ace up t wir share of res- Slots the trade ent of thatechnes FREE OUR STERS - FREE OURSELVES, to - almost equally discounted by « splaints por aid the prevention of unwanted ipation with appropriate union Toothpaste, shampoo, soap and tampons oni from men who have been denied this minor okildvas wards o be supplied to ali girls ” operation by thelr doc sore Even 'revers- » Vasectomy’ is regarded by many ead === [PDF page 30] === meoia, "Prostitution is a bizarre crime: two consenting adults have sex for money, but only one of them - the woman - is subject to arrest, trial, conviction and incarceration. If the same principle applied throughout the criminal law, that glamorous bushranging couple, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, would never have sunk together under a hail of FBI gunfires Clyde, according to law, would have walked away, " From ''When the law brands only women" - Article by Robert Pullan, The Heraid, 15/8/74. '.. ay tt "Is it any good for use in the home? Lou Richards asked a guest who demonstrated a sporting pistol on Channel Seven's World of Sport on September 1. |) mean on the wife’, he added, bursting into laughter. Any women who don't find the concept of husbands threatening wives with guns funny, are inviled to contribute to a fund to purchase Ms Richards with a pistol of her own, complele with instructions on use "The housewife who feels that in her houseand target! keeping she is offering up her talents to God, to His Glory, and for the comfort and welfare of her family, will finish the day with a feeling of fulfilment. She will never be in any doubt as to her purpose and usefulness in life. I am certain that this is the best answer to the problem of the house-wife who is searching for fulfilment Kather J..G. Cashen, for the Catholic Enquiry Centre, quoted in advertisement, Age Television Guide. 16/8/1974. More than 20% of industries say they will put off women workers with the introduction of compulsory equal pay and 59% would reduce the fenrale workforce if conmpulsovy paid maternity leave is introduced, according fou surves by the Victorian Chiumbor of Manuléaturers of 947 Victorian factories Report in The Ilerald. 21.8- 1974 Women who co-operated on this issue: Helen, Jo, Julie, Judy, Kath, Kathie, m’ oear! When the Reverend Carter Heyward was distributing communion at Riverside Church New York as an episcopal deacon, a young priest in front of her at the alter sipped the wine and drew his fingernails across her hand on the chalice, drawing blood. "T hope you burn in hell, "' he told her. Ms Heyward is one of 11 women deacons ordained to the priesthood early in August in an irregular ceremony which is now being investigated by the church's House of Bishops. Report in The Herald, 21/8/1974. A judge in Cincinatti Ohio apparently became quite bored with the evidence being given in a rape trial - he fell asleep and after protests by lawyers appearing in the case, a mistrial was declared. Nice to know that the judiciary are so interested in the plight of raped women! "A double standard has operated here for years, where it is all right for boys to be interested in sex, but not for girls Another problem peculiar to Australia stemmed from the fact that the earliest women here were convicts and voluntarily or involuniarily used as prostitutes. The end result is a whole tradition of regarding women as sexual chattels - something to be bought and used in the house. " Dr. Bob Montgomery of La Trobe University's Behaviour Modification Clinic, quoted in the Herald, 5/7/1974. Peter James of 3AW's afternoon talk-back program, was astounded to learn that a recent series of interviews with Australian women reveals that many housewives regard themselves as slaves in the home and their husbands as either kind or cruel masters, depending on their circumstances. Nir. James found this information so astonishing that he repeated at least three times that he “'e¢outdn't believe women really feel that way'’ - how about asking a few of us, Peter”? Alva, Bon, Chris, Diane, Fima, Hania, Margaret, Meryl, Nancy, Rose and Sophie. === [PDF page 31] === A WOMEN'S LIBERATION NEWSPAPER VASHTIT’S VOICE Summer74/75 Inside: Half-way House in Action Women pushed out of Jobs Womens Suffrage in Victoria Feminists in the community Womens Theatre === [PDF page 32] === SESE AES: SIOP-Press « the ecember 6) ore restr accommodation, 11 Or aA been con ict the ouse linic aware StOP-Press = dance being shou one in exams aie whic or percentre basi And cerned past there's appeat Sos SDSS TREES Feminists in Action S52 ent Movemen ave d we am women wonen here MORE Womanpower & Money NEEDED for general deri re their the women's the we Centre certainty our reality, aeina, there new Gentre our own the who afford those » any check out eeds plan- Or come with you Movement wor Vashti's The Women's Latrobe Street, LO m to (hopefully) abou fay sch ionth, Meeti are no sotions' procedures, no General affecting etc, ACTIONS === [PDF page 33] === "The bo bereft of desire; a anical in Off-Our ia The abilit is peculia practise i ernaent, i law cc ts “Shed. Heme is the hig wouldn't w {instead tracing th ability hips with ing to por many Amr luce to thing bocone son jousne lewd, gro trum t of ke, USA) y to dehusanise r the mal t constant: mdasatry, medicine, the » in the rwedia and in mbering that imitation hest form of fiattery, e be better occupied r nea) in @ link botwe & man's to han > his ation=- women and his ‘sortnography were not Your in sisterhood, BARBARA JONES hti* ibecribe. very inte ted to read te article on "Sexies in Fors Ii". Personally, I believe that san girls gain the; inferiority large! = t of demanding, telf-cents boy can o rpower her, attitudes 4 the media, course, Go their part, but I believe that this fear af ertority ts wint men to avoid to publicly dertc s Movoment, They and with good reason, round, T have found that Bost women a new res- « Wosen's Liberation Movenents is tt ettin hones for battered wiv Feminiate, from what I've gathered, place their faith in careful, carly socialization of youngster but will this really Sooner, or later, boys will realise that for all the equality in other ficlds, they are stronger than most Little girl eee Less analyses have been sade of why sales dominate Western, Semitic and Oriental cultures, It might be sore useful to look carefully at the few femaledominated societies to see just what give wonen such power. Is there any book which explains this dominance, apart from serely describing it? I don't believe we can ever be a true BASS movement antil we've found & way to relieve women of their physical fear of men, (Without, of course, reporting to such ancient Amazonian tactics of dislocating the liabs of boy babies!) Te counter sexise in school story and text-booi someone actually look from poli and Royal Humane sclety records of physi i herois (only adolescents appreciate moral heroiss) by both males and fenales and present thes perhaps as stories “Heroes for Grade 6 or orn at leant, could not be dis sed as minist wiehful thinking fiction, Unfortunately, I's tied down with two young children and couldn't Go the task myself. All the best to you «411 YVONNE SULLIV BREAST FEEDING Dear VASHTI, The article on the TY amusing = and so very true! Not only is that Datsun ad amazing in its stupidity, but the apprenticeship ad alnost atirr sc to proteat for the reasons you describe. While Vashti's Voice has had, ani continues to have, many ieportant things to say about education, medical care and legal fights liberally laced with totally inrenson le anti=-man Statenants t must 5 mt the “foply t Article bSreastfoeding” | Freecom of choice has long been a ma for al of the Liberation Movement, and rightly so. But any ideal can be carried to their o; But “Mother limits, and r hoice © * baby), * down on other possible choices poing mountain climbing), There's nothing xe in tant than being 4 9g motherl A and o 2 you've chosen have a child, you cannot hen choose not to fulneeds, tz you do just add ther uptight Ff being crowded worl - and we enough of thar? greatness of a good that she often ha more than she receives {or love, u Tetandin ana care) and if weren't for a lot of women who managed to do just that, where would the human race be today? Those sigters who want to push & lifestyle of total selfishness are free to do eo (until, hopefully, they overcose their hangups) but I hope they will all choose to remain childiess and leave the sothering to those who are willing and able to Love! In sisterhood, RONA. REPLY RONA = Your comments on my reply to the breast teeding article are based on a number of aisconceptions. Firstly, you arsune that wooo choose to be mothers - recent Btantics compiled by Pret. John Leeton of Monash Uni. indicate that about two-thirds of Aurtralian pregnancies are unplanned (i.e. unchosen). Even with the deliberately planned ones, how many women know what they're setting into when they decide to become mothers? Secondly, you ass et that only mothers can ft obild' needs « thi sox view is ong of tho sain instruments of our oppressio: Thirdly, you falsely equate the choice not to have a child or not to devote oneself conpletely to its care with Total "hangselfishness” because of ups" and an inability or anwil ling to. Please do mot make value } yments on your sisters' decision morally the decision not have a child is as valid the decision to have one. In ay opinion there are few acts selfish than the creation » husan being who is not really wanted, solely because of social pretsures and the desire to conform to others' expectations. Judy. HALF~WAY HOUSES... sisterhood odatior till operating entirely on voluntary donation has received no fin All from government sour donations are urgently house is ta remain op wonen are alse required tend the house on roster (p. ularly over the holidays) and nm propared to take one or more the children at the house for a day of even a fow hours, Donations can be forwarded to the Halfway House oup c/=- the Women’s Centre and messages can also be left at the centre regarding offers of help, Most of the women who cone to the house are escaping from marital sitwations which have become intolerable because of drunkenness and/ or physical attacks, and many arrive with injuries which require medical treateent. In addition to fulfilling the basic need for emergency accomodation, the house also provides food, clothing and information on legal, sedical and social’ wolfare assistance. ost importantly, the hou pre- Vides an Atmosphere of wareth and support where women can be free, perhaps for the first tine in years, from lives of degradation, fear and humiliation - free to budid new lives for theeselves and thoi children, Nearly all the women adopt new nanes, either as a sysebolic gesture to the new lives they hope to build Or because of their fear of discovery, an ny of the children also take now moe, Four of the lfway s@ residents ha given Vashti'sVoice the following accounts, in their own words of the events leading up to thoir Arrival at the house: QUEEN'S Fen Functions To heip financially Any woman resident in Victoria without a male bre or whose husband is incapacitated and in receipt of a pention. Disbursements; The income from trust fund founded in 1! Loch, the wife of the Govof Victoria, from money collected to commesorate the fiftieth year of the reign of Queen Victoria. Addrese;:; Secretary, Queen's Fund, Town Hall, Meltourne, Victoria, 3000, Publications: Annual nited distributio Directary of Trusts in Au in action The Age he rang been thinking husband «- I knew I wanted to, but I needed soseone to make that phone call, IT wa ent here by a Social worker froe the Alfred Hospital because continual hing by mania, sloate houlder and ent a doctor, being moothly Ty go 5 of ene ifeline shou not be alle ot t oe oumber way House to anyone." "A friend of aine rang Halfway House And got se omodation, My husband was pushing se into a suicidal State, to I decided to leave hin to keep my sanity, The res ents of Halfway House should be allowed to get flats or houses when they have had time to adjust themselves. As far aS some estate agents are concetned the residents are not suitable to get them.” "I cane to Halfway House through one of the roster women who knows my girlfriend. I had gone to ay friend in a very distressed state and told her the full story of stancover tactics and beatinas, also threats on sy life. My friend went to see this woman and within & fow minutes it wax decided that I should come here, The people concerned with running the house are so involved with the residents that nothing is too much trouble for then. I came here with no money or clothes and within a week had both, I think Halfway House shoald be sade known to women who are in dire need of moral support and don't quite knaw what to do." "Gradually, after years of degradation and an intolerable situation, mainly precipitated by an unstable husband, f came to the conclusion that I had to leave his After many emotional disturbances upsetting sy work and other facets of my life, a girlfriend finally made the telephone call to Halfway House for ne. Here, I have found strength and support from other women, sone in similar, some in worse situations 1975 is International Wonen's Year, so let's celebratet A umber of women are organising A week for women at Monash from Monday Jamuary 20 to Friday January 24, It's called etting Together" - which expresses the informal coop tive mood of the entire ven Morning #essions from 9.30 3 pP.@. will be pract oriented, including film-saking and apprec photogrags . “o, dras pent, susicing, painting and drawing, video and a "handyperson's workshop", Afternoons will be taken up by sore relaxed activities an film scree ings, speakers and discussion yroups On women's issues (oducation, health, law, family, ‘force, eounity urvival, chidcare. We will be asking woeen from all Melbourne to contribute periences, and we will join oapnere, relief se Teel one halfway house expect » cope with all the dation, one day - let's hope it’s soon there'll be a nem who mn type of acco7ohal tw, he: every municipality. Int’ time, energy, none ove of as any women as possible is urgently n fed, both to keep the existing house functioning and to work for the establiahment of other halfway houses. A gtoup of women in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne is already working towards setting up another house in their own area. The initi- Ally from Urekine Rodan of the Nunawading Free Lagal Service, which opened earlier th vear. He found that he was receiving a laroe number of enquiries fron woren in intolerable sarital situations - women who couldn't be fully assisted with legal advice, as their real need was for sonmewhere to 90 where their husbands couldn't find thee and they could atart to build new lives. Erskine discussed the situation with two woeen who work at the Legal Service - they discussed it with other wosen in the Women's Movenent and out of these discussions a snall group was forsed. impetus for this move came This group - called the Maroondah Halfway House Group - is now starting to look for a property where it can ostablish a hatfway house on the sane principles on which the existing house is banned - that is, a place where wonen can be free to help themselves, mot a charitable institution which will keep woaen dependent and passive, The present members of the Grou urgently need as sany woeen as possible to join thes in housebunting, fund-raising, publicity and furniture collection and atorage. Anyone who wants to help in any way can ring any of the following: ne Raphael he Darnody Judy Gensel Pat Allison Jan Plumer The cost will $10 for the weok or $2 a day. Childcare will be discussed and arranged by participants in a seoting prior to the commencesent of the week, We need all the Support we can get, so please ome Along. Registration forns and sore information can be obtained from: The Susser Group, c/= The Unton, Monash (miversity, Clayton, 3168 or ring = KIM or JILL on 874 4318 CHRIS (A.H.} on 541 3 5 4s Gon av possible, Tation of Mi appeared in our last written by April-Kay We did'nt know who wrote the time of publication, are happy to acknowledge thank April-Kay for her === [PDF page 34] === eee WOMEN PUSHED OUT OF JOBS! MARGARET; === [PDF page 35] === INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S YEAR 1975 or women we: do 38; trinciple claration, I feel WOMEN and MADNESS CONFERENCE S Alternatives t Media She Patricia Edgar Hilary McPhee A recently thed book about the distort rpetrated upon cid TAVOUTS euch a nference women by tik eployed in mass medias the sooent we are writing a organization hese excerpts spaak: ssion to meet the proposed For the last ort hs yroup of ter omen) hav ized Psychiatry ine & ord to organise Conference on "Women and a 48 part of International w “ IUEQeTY. 1975 J t and the Psychiatric 7 ca fession. en and Suicide. not mad, I'm just nist", shock Tr@atrent. The Mental Health Act Year - t t until ere is an isprovet he year 1975 sent in the « ne and labour ag oe Opporturs 8 are wore available, i marriw! wren outside the catefor thon: the way we are seen » are planr to invite “ @ cate by the ax y is Chesler, author of "Women Depression, Mary Drake may not be an accountant but she knows it was worth S10’ more to have all copper plumbing ot to open the conference, planned for the last weekend in June 1*: The Conference will be preceded by a closed Commission ch: which we hope to hear from women and workers in the psychiatric field who would not otherwise testify at a public hearing, The confer » itself will include: papers fiscussion groups personal testinonies film for discussion, e.g. Family Life/Asylun forum with a panel of psychtiatriste and psychoiogista (this part of the conrerence will » open to men as well) focial get-together women's dance. Suggested topics so far include: (1) Women and G.P.'s, (2) Getting In and Getting Out - The Treatsent of Wosen in Psychiatric Inetitutions, Therapy as Power. the "Mad Woran'’’ ore interes 1 in presenting and/or in helping in any @® contact us, Yours in Sisterhood, The Women for WAM, farb, Jan, Ail m = 489 7830 He Stroet - 4E S747 tanet - AF 4556 Meetings: Portnighti,s Next Meeting: Thursday Deceshber 10, at 2G Berry street, Clifton Hill, phone 48 874 Speakers Nights: We are also arrang *peakers mights at the Women's Health Clinic 65 Johnston Street, Collingwood, The first speakers night will be on Decesber at 7.30 p.a. Speaker: Jan Van Bommel Supper and discussion afterwards, ALL WELCOME the day......march 8 gories santioned should make way or the past few years women everywhe ve been on the move for equality, From undeveloped Africa to afficent (ts wosen have been taking a ha look at their status, examining their role in society, comparing their lives with those of men.... and finding such want ing. Women are getting together, discussing their probleas and ralising their Gemands, In Om? countries, the cry ma y be limited to education for wonen oF the right to divorce... in others, the demands run the whole Gasut of sexual equality +e-0qual pay, equal opportunity ehiidcare, free contraceptives, equality in marriage and sexual relationships, This sovenent of women has finally percolated through to United Nations Organization, which declared 1975 to be the Yoar for the Advancenent of Wormen. This idea was first put forward by the Women's Internatio- Hal Democratic Pederation, and enthusiastically supported by other international wonens' organizations, The purpose of International Womet'« Year is to turn the Spotiioht on the status of woren in every country to help them express and achieve their needs, Hut whether the aotivities of IWY¥ turn out to be infused with soothing syrup from sale heirarchies, or the stimulating tonic of feminisn, will pend on women thenselves. The Melbourne International Woten's Day Committee intends to sake Internationa Woren'« Day 1975 an exciting day for women = a day to express their feelings about their lives, to raise their self-confidence, to prosote pride in the achivements of their sex. The 1975 IWD Committee conists of members from organizations with diverse ideas and policies, such as the National Council of Women; Local Governsent Wosen's Organization; m of Australian Women; Women's Liberation Movement; Women's Abortion Action Coalition... in all, 22 organizations ate represented on the Connittee, To cater for wosen with Such a broad range in age and ideas the Committee is planning two functions for IMD. Carrying on the tradition set by the Past few years, aA women's march through the streets of Melboune Ll be held in the morning. The Committee has drawn up a list of issues to be highlighted at the march (though all of these issues are not cessarily accepted by every liated organization, } In the event » & Feception will be held to our piloneering women, i.¢. women who are or have been plonwers for ther sex in the traditional spheres of mon, Already the comsittee has located the first woran to gain 4 'R' class pilot's liceme ami the fir wornan tinber worx, amd i hot oo the trail of the first woman tram conductor. It is anxious to locate more ‘firsts’ so if you are able to assist please ring 637049 or The reception will be held in the former Federal Government offices butiding, Customs House, Melbourne. A subsission bas been tent to the Federal Government asking for A grant from the $2 million allocated to IWY in the last budget. If this grant is received admittance to the reception will be free, but by ticket only, If finance is not granted, an adaission charge will Mave to be meade. The Committee has enbarked on A wide publicity campaign. A press statement has boon Sent to the dailies and suburban papers and an article has been subseitted to union journals, Letters tave been sent to councils and shires asking them to co-operate by organizing activities in their areas - not only on IWD but throughout 1975. Several have replied - some gave a fiat refusal but others oxpressed support. In Sunshine the Council Sponsored a meeting of women to formulate ideas, From this meeting A committee was sot up with sub-committees to research local needs on such matters a8 childcate and wosen in the workforce, Caulfield Council is making plans and others have asked the IWD Conmsittee for suggestions A little interest shown by ratepayers woald undoubtedly inflsmca other council is, To raise funds Tf shirts and buttons have been produced < both bearing the internation esbles for Iwy designed by a young American woman to stynbolise “equality, development and peace", the objectives adopted for 1975 by the; (See advertisement page for details of sizes,prices method of ordering). Let's set the scene for International Women's Year by saking International Woren's Day, March &, 1975 4 joyous, exhilarating day for women everywhere! for sa SHIRTS sixes 12 to 16... 3% with IWY emblem in black on white/green/blue/red and purple HEAD SCARVES = Cotton square $2 white IWY exblem on navy blue or scarlet BUTTONS ~ black IWY esolen on Place orders for T Shirts and Scarves on 637409 or 3472226 tons on 3471564 unt available on T Shirts qwantities ordered by wonen's organizations /oqro. for single depentent wonen, To September 30th, 1974 there wore Junior fomalest seeking e=aplos in the area and there ar@® & Fecord number of school leavers. ar to add to the the UAW can understand concern with the lack of jobs in Geelong, it considers that his solution is extrenely shorteighted. Why not campaign for sore industri in Geelong 7? t about hasmering at Haser to, decentralisation happen? Mr Darcy's proposal brings up for an airing the general attitude of the trade union sovenent to sarried women in the workforce, During the present economic slump, the traditional principle of "last to be hired - first to be fired feoms to have been replaced by “married women first", True, the "last to be hired" idea can be grossly unfair, ant it is difficult to find a principle which does not discrintnate aqui somebody. The Trade Union Movemont's aim of full esployrent - with which no worker woald disagree = doean't give an insediate solution to the worker who can't find a job. Undoubtedly the Current epidesic of sackings is presenting serious problems to ail unions, hut a married woman worker should not be treated as a selfish forale who ought to be at hone living on her husband’ s wages, but as a worker no differont from any other. To get this point across to union men may prove to be as difficult as setting management and government te subsidise childcare centres. by Joan Curlewis VASHT I'S COMMENT shti Collective would comnent that Although this icle refers specifically to the situation of married working wonen in Geelong, it is in fact « situation in which married working women all over Australia are currently finding thestelves. Froa formation we have, it is also obvious that married wosen who have been retrenche (that is, have lost their jobs due to businesses closing down as a result of the economic crisis) are at the bottom of the list of the governsent's retrain’ sthees, and several we know of are having to fight their way into retraining, past officials whore policy it apparently ts to “discourage” women from pursuing their opportunity for retraining, hoping we will eventually go away, The fight to work, and the richt to get rotrained, aro basic husan righ So im our right to FYonr Yor what we, 4% basie husan working are discouraged from either knowing about or obtaining. The Schools Comntesion has 79% to the Children's Book Gro Posters, printing sore non-sexist librarian and an edocation officer, CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR SISTERS! === [PDF page 36] === pionsering i@ Union two book Lowing compiled of Au take current teath ir High Ideals provi ly rese ng English tory law, In anything comernead there was yostion of c let Progress. were primitive, Pioneers thenselv were too od in the daily atruggle xistence to give thought their E handi-« itt and = entirely hush iat & highor minds of a am influential give oxpression «a His m, atterwards Justice. “A model won atk * » Very pr is little an amiable fool, cornfully ¢r evinces stron int t of derision, and butt for the feeble fa Aer of the mentally destitute of the ther sex,' hen editor of the Argus as far back as 1857 wo find hin advocating votes for women, The Argus, too, was the channel of the earliest plea from A WORAN. tin 1869 the name of Harriet Dugdale was signed to a letter arguing woren should have 11 5 i fenship cont discus Dugdale (afterwards Johnton), backed by hor friends “No Female Shall Be Allowed To Vote ” whether tle 3 and rovision recit i be #li on i ed -unvarythe sar until eligitte The present An exptess provisi women wore itlors. women being elic rs. And there i poneral oxtennic sitions, in 1926, r no longer Qualified by mm Of Sarriage from exercising public functions. There a@ems to be little doabt that. from 1463 to 1865 women ratepayers were also considered qualified ta te for the Assenubly. Indeed, in tha course of debate, ane seaber Assezted that "sany forales" had ed £ © poseibility chisement was formally before th blative In 12 Willias wa nior wenber of FUEL,: Keen, 4nd proved, ual samso of Outspoken ar oney w freak into politics, fs I like st Whereupon Clonel up to the nerve ovice, sit. Domed taken, ling. Womens Christian Temperance Union Spearhead Battle far women, proper quarter, After further icity, it: contiz sure noentrated ne Ary, anc i Ooreat jue WA long before there ur mS in Fitzroy swick, Bendigo, Within th elf increaing atte ion ’ ing ubject Hobb WAS engaged Geelong, frintendent, nine years: s} peaking and enli fron Ll wuarters, etre ly aided both the General Secretary, Mee Press, whor p bec President. H1s0, no littie assiatance was givon by Mre & W Nicholls, the Australian President, resident im Adelaide, both by her roports of Victorian projress, appearing in the 'Tesperance Nows' and by her personal ir Durim sany yoars uence whenever she paid. her Fegqular of ficial visits bourne. After the victory in South tralia 8 never tired of quoting the exarple of her on colony, to set before pro ives and reactionaries Alike, > uable supr was afforded o: hen of the Victorian Tesperance Union, UFFRAGE 1850—1909 Pioneers wucational ward ir jenz Crawford) ¢ eu a Viollance Association to t the int erest hiledr wanwhile ir ome lines there had been advance, Adin i - ion to University had beech. we? tudent. in the Voice) ouncil). on the nenber sere not wanting. ter, (aftetwards Mrs tson) presented oppowith a formidable list of mon's disabilities, Au a her, she had no right to tt Are and ntrol of her children, father being sole le 2 rdian. The for divorce were not the sar Selsicitation h the Street by a fan was not punishable. A girl could be arre for it, and brought court, to be fudsed by the class f men who wi fond rocial inti in exisgtenc f een. *Non- Labour’ the glaring inequalities in both munetation and position anong the thousands of men and women who were State servants, teachers, poat and feferred ohildre licitatic bot? exe eard f inder it c oO-operation song progre had been the formation of ounoil for Woman enernited with ident, to + nusher f repre iotios yupathetic ecret Ina Miggine honorar rt umcil ncticarried on Progressive gues, branches of the Cou ¥e While the securing for woeen of equal civie and polisl rights with men was the oancil’ ais, these varied & encouraged discussion any question touching the and « velfare of hore and fam The story that the snail boy of one of post active workers wa % ged leaving bilis round neighbourhood, and wa wsked passer ¥y what he as abot Oh, mother & those are for United the ‘Woman's Sphere teresting sont ying news fr all » @dited and pu Vida Goldstei Working Class Support these the progive wx the vote ered fate in Parliae Every yoar it cane uw jonetines sore than once in yoar, Prom 1891 on it usua went through all the stages the Assonsbly successfully, variably it was thrown out the ¢ il, Working clas me ore havo \Vour,. An OVer elect les Jar sdvocated 4 abort fron the beginning consistently supported it. In the year 1900 with Federain sight, the ‘situation had ation existed the for alread broad wor sonweal tion Act contain ive < the ary Federal slian tented intern Cor f or < ntermaticnal where was the amc and Sts always nteres the reqolar me parliament tha he Assembly} @ procecdin ften amusing oft the tion In 1 ) the As of the long and in winning the Assused contre suffrage nove title of the Asscoiation Goldstein, lause their Victory earl the State of fred Deakin, wornen S$ the list wore repretionally in 190) nce f the newly ffrace Via Golddelegate for bot New Zeaiand, ww that feral woRen posote, Miss 1 the Aosen' Associa the in both Fedt new citi-eg affairs, An sting occasion was peving t used of the mock to sit in Ll, Collins 5t., 38 live enough and enough s1 of ent, women’ born to attract Hewepa pers, ciation, tired irposed delay vote, » State nder eli L569 Contd page 13 === [PDF page 37] === 5 Johneton inmowood,; taffed by women CO ‘ lors Bs You can « there contracoaptive ice and Ption, pregnancy or abor ferral, pregnancy or VD cervical wabs, for diagnos vaginal or urinary infectio ny other 2ical problen « the flu ) referral to an sFASt Or you can just Hecaut we Are al voluntary workers, 12 clinte open oniy on Monday and Wednesday evenings from 5 pm to & pe, and on Friday sornings from 9 to 12 an The phone nustwr at the Clinic is 419479 but you don't need an appointsent, just come in. We applied to the Health Coemission for a government grant to fund the Clinic, but recontiy were told that the location was unsuitable and that they would pot fund un for this area, we intend to “rite to thes explaining our reasons for choosing A central suburb +++ for instance, two bundred women have come here already froe places at far apart as Upwoy, Coburg, Greensborough, Port Melbourne and Ballarat, In the meantime we will continue operating the Coinic, The Collective meets on ailternate Thursdays and Saturdays at the Woren's Health Clinic, and all interested wonen are welcone, Phone contacts: Samy 262627 Janet &14295 Jenny 4165887 RAPE CRISIS CENTRE The Melboune Rape Crisis Centre opened for business on Monday Novesber 25. The Centre is situated at 85 Johnston Street, Collingwood art will operate a phone service between 6 p-. and 10 p.s. daily, women can contact the Centre daring these hours on 419 4644, The Centre aims to provide Support, help and information for victims of rape and sexual aSSAUIR, The work of the Centre will inclede:- i. Providing company and support to tape victins at police statfons, hospitals and courts, Countelling and group discuision for victias and their families to overcome reattions of guilt and shane, 3. Medical care where necessary. %. Community education regardhg tape and fape prevention, The Centre will also provide speakers and information to schools and interested groups an the community, For further information ring: Rape Crisis c The o ition Actior hition (¥ —~) was formed in to fight for + ml‘ abortion Laws ar for {ree available contraceptives Since ite inc on WAAC forward the A woman's rd that all worsen Opportunity t or thenaether or not they want an abortic av on the nee ral of the laws because we believe that the 5 ont liber. alised conditions in soso stat rests to A large degree on the ignorance of the great majority of wosen their Fights While the 4 #tignma to abortion am! while wWidered illegal in any women will not few) free seek an abortion through safe medical channels, but will contin to suffer at the hands of backyard abortionists, or to continue with a pregnancy which may have disastrous personal, social or economic cConsmuences, In short, then, WAAC is fighting for the right of women to control their dostintes, WAAC haA® organised many activities in the past to focus attention on and dispel the many myths of the abortion issue, In 1973 WAAC organised the very successful march on June 30, Earlier this year we held a public mecting with guest spenakere including Joan Coxseige, DOr, Janot Hacon, fion Hull and Delys Sargent, Then om May 11 thie year we organised another very successful march in which approxinately 2000 people participated, Although this was not as Jarce as many of the marches which the anti-abortioniats had in the past organised, it was «ignifigant, Its signifioance lay in the fact that many more people bad decide! to publicly show their support for the repeal Of the abortion laws than ever before in Australia, Besides this, the anti-abortionists were having a very hard tine rallying anywhere as many as they had proviocusly been able to, and surveys taken by such conservative daily new APELs as The Herald and The Age have shown that the sajority of Austraiians favour a liberali- Sing of the abortion laws, WAAC publishes an eight page newspaper called "Right to Choose", which deals with the campaign for contraception and abortion locally and internationally We have also produced purp "A Woman's Right to Choose - Abortion" badges, and plan to produce the sane type of car stickers, For International Women's Yoar 1975 (as proclaised by the United Nations) WAAC ia organi- 9 Conference around abortion and contraception. The conference will held over the Easter weekend 2 The first day will t f everyone interested in the campoign, and it will include poaker from WAC, politician variousr rties, doclawyers ‘poakers. be open only t ed in the camp WAC's future. ° mon interestaign, planning to col Ami record infor t we Can wit! the knowcommuni ty tions concern contraception. aference is int end. invelve a any women ible and we think able ir ing the direction of cam gn. WAAC has atked the federal erneent for a ora towards the cost of the conference and tho ~rign - hwover, we are still, like many other women's groups in desperate nee financial help. We are helping to pay for our onal coordinator and also ng rent of i0 per week, plus ang out money for posters, aflets, telephone bills and hewspaper advertisements, as well 4S preparing for the national conference, Any help towards the conference and the campaign is sost welbeth financial and woman WUC meets overy Wednesda, night At 7 p.m, in the women's 50 Little Latrobe Street. more information about the coalition, write or ri the Women's Centre on 347 15 C's emphasi«a on the to choose" is of course ossential to the campaign, but in fact will be & right unable to be exercived by poorer women unless abortion is also FREE, Repeal of all laws relating to abortion, and FREE ABORTION for all women who exercite the ‘right to choose’ is the eventual aim of the Wonen's Liberation Movement, not fust the acceptance of the ‘right to choose’ principle, which seems to be the only issue with which WAAC is concerned, YOUNG GAY WOMEN’S GROUP A group has just been formed in Melbourne for gay young worsen, It is basically a discussion and contact group, covering such topics as wosnen's sexuality, lifestyl and our sxession as women and lesbians, Meetings of the YGWG are held every Secon? and fourth Saturds Ys at 1 p.s. at the Women's Centrre, 50-52 Little Latrobe Street, Melbourne. For nore information; ring the Centre (347 1564) or ANTI-FACIST STUDY GROUP Some things we are interested in looking at are women and faciam, historical information about Australia, Chile, Viotnam, Greece, Nazi Germany, Indonesia, Portugal, otc., economic pr conditions for facism and present day activities of facist and right wing elesents in society, We are collecting information and will soon be distributi: e of what we've cone up with, Sto News sheet for further details, mer non-sexist children’s book group The Women's Movement Children's Literature Co-operative has published their first book, "The Witch of Grange Grove," This Cooperative was forsed im Jume 197% our aim being to write, tllustrate and publish a series of non-sexist children's books. We wore previously Known an the Chilir or. Group; we have been working together for over two years and in that time have written and illustrated on books, of these have bt by Wren Publishing ami will be available in April 1975. As well as this,, we intend to continue publishing books course) The eight titles which will be available in April are:- cation between indi nis a groups within the wor vf n sf sOvVement, stage is ineffective. (b). the belief that women’ s Joment when in practice and not theory an effective movement must be aware of all the things that do affect and oppress woren And women must then loarn how to fight against those thinos, t we intend (a) Atteept to put women and groups within i goverment in contact with each other that the soverent de atrong and united, (6) Provide information and resources’ available to wonen to enable th < : ox the things that $ us, For example, we sust learn to understand inflation = how it is caused and how it affects women, We hope that fron conmuni- UDY Fest t onal JAD BATHIE. "4i-Rise Gang" written and illustrated by Judith Crabtre "The Patten Family” written by Jan Harper & illustrated by Judith Crabtree, "The Three Dragons” written by Jonny Pausacker & illustrated by Rae Dale, "The Princess and the Painter" written by Judy Bathie & illustrated by Judith Crabtree, “Emily and the Grusphfs" written by Judith Crabtree & illustrated by Sue O'Brien, "Carolyn Two" written: by Judith Crabtree, ‘What Parents Do" written by n Harper & illustrated by Vick# Nelson, "Nicking Off" written and illustrated by Judith Crabtree, We have also had another book accepted for publication - "The Go-Cart Money", written by Carol Pavey. This will be published the Institute of Early Childhood Development in 1975 Cation within the movement, and when A® A movement we agree on ATOAR © kch2on, that we will AS oO movement begin in a deterined way to contact women all over and draw women we preously have had little contact chuse the effort was ting for a few into the women's sovement. Then we wonen united can fight our oppression. ({d) That from groups that are to b t up to study infiation, capitalism, U.S. ispertalisn, Chinese and Russian revolutions, etc. etc, that women will be able to assess for thenselves their own political reho. and direction, WE HOPE THAT FROM COMMUNICATION WILL COME COORDINATION, PROM COORDINATION WILL COME ON THE ACTION THAT WILL LIBz WOMEN, So Tar, we have - contacted present and FrQUps to wEite herator begin work on a pamphlet Give to women looking for information about the novenent; updated the box files in the office; begun the organisation of « inate ts books. ereopre the vidual e write the deve its all n opposition to sod role oles. have written stories whic attempt to ras noss aml stories portrs both the effort and conflict invelved in recogn ng and overcoming role-conditioning. We portray male and female in nurturing situations in both childhood a adulthood, and demonstrate the possibility alternate lifestyles for We write of boys and conscious ls who possess sensitivity insight, courage and init ative, yet children who also fear, doubt PSitat that essentially vidwalistic. We have applied for a few government grants to assist us in our work and we are optimistic that we may hve some succe in this area. We have also compiled lists of m-sexist children's books that are already. available: these lists can be obtained from Judy Bathie, 1 Caroline Crescent, North Blackburn 3130 (89 5357). SEND.... COPIES OF THEE NON-SEXIST CHILDREN'S BOOK "THE WITCH OF GRANGE GROVE”. I ENCLOSE $..... ($1.00 per copy, including postage) NAME nose eeeeseacs ADORESS.ccevaces SEND TO WOM S MOVEMENT CHILDREN'S LITERATURE CO-0F, 62 RELOWE CR ENT, BOX HILL NORTH, 3229, VIC, serles oO oruns/discussions/ study groups on women's gles in other areas, hina, Vietnam = art other political issues, e.9. Faciem - mike information on this available at the Centre, Things we think we will be od next are trying to organise the distribution of the hows shec (see elsewhere in Vashti's rice) onething {but we're not sure quite what) about the roster at the Centre. There are other things we'd like to do and other things people think we ought to be doing - if more people want to be involved we could do it all a bit sconer. Contact JAY or GLENDA on 386375. and REWSSHEET: At the General Meeting in Novesber we decided to start 4 newssheet of coming events and wbat is happening generally, to be distributed around the sovesent. be insforsation collecting, typing and duplicating seems to be going O:K. BUT for this to work we need to know who can distribute copies, how sany and in what area, So cAn everyong please make sure their address and/or a list of sisters who want to receive this newssheet is at the Cc Fe §OOn. Once this distribution in organised it should act as an effective channel of communications === [PDF page 38] === |’ WOMENS THEATRE THE FIRST YEAR had aid sone things about adortising, female stereotypin initiatior Foach every part Vida Goldstein rate, the whole Stands For Senate sf winnir ' the q ¢ wroved partict toady ca th larly € ervativesn' forward of t t wor opr c s: rn as didate for the Federal Sanat ever, y nisgivings Miss Goldstein had the courage were shown in their organisins of her faith and allowed herself of a woman's Anti-Suffrage to be pominated on the first petition, for whic nearly casion when this was possible, 1¢ signatores were collected, the.elections of Dacestber, #6 Carrie Reid and Mies Freda She S$ as an inde- Derhas leading the van, The and carried her plat- Sir Thomas Bent, was a her woman's flag where- stunbling block, and h omen's Spoke, St did amazingly C led by the gather 51,497 votes, } Y Political thar ® Mr experienon the ticket ® would hMve been elected, consented to go a party ticket, or had there longer period allow League was formed Th fficially t in Gradually there weakening. Th more present od. cou Veo 70 of as he roxe the second reading. "Since I have been Treasurer” he been doing in connection charitable institutic Jona great wore Sir and nove eaid, "the good work that women have witt has cose under ay notice. The rosult of my cogitations on the whole wae that it was illogical deny to woonn the rig © Clearly demonstrated as fit to have w nce of responsibi The bill was «« ard on Marc datie Jo the vietary ith lit son sho the === [PDF page 39] === ieliberatel, * her descré t She wa eos as how the evidence contradicts ~ 7 7 Waste S250 TaAtenent of television that 7 F. me 2 a ne: entire Movement is porneated a \ oes 000 bably; eS ee tremendous selfishness and selfinterest. sinopot out Ne: S ° > contributic articles her definition When the absence of leaders was; los wrewit; an jer for | to Carole Ferrier, [nglish Dept., really bh she propo a6 University of Q fland, St. Lucia, to "Itberation". should know bett, unfortuna- a n to;:: interview, she stated that: tely, that he ignored defines: ation" ag "The removal irse t? Media publicity } riven artifice: of barr; ” opportunitic os yn can leve Anv= i u cription rate: 2 per year, pointed out to her tn a personal bat ove y rly bec ptior j - ‘ trisbane, 40¢ O'ld. . movement is 19 Structure it's Single copies:; ench. erficial of a very clever lives." She is really A movesent of disgru again the false snabke to explain how her view of led A & Liberation enan gation differs from the basic in their own extren total get ocean oe vert reinforced in the philosophy of liberation. She makes ineffectual except inasmuch as; Ro OS SE WONEN =, Pravsneu eyes ¢ he public = "The Pemale this totally artificial distinction intion Woren Concerned, Woman" wilt undoubtedly b me a between "emancipation and "libera- Rut rtance } distorted and: ng the way bitter individuals lLuxuriat they're spreading guilt and anxiety, } v ank God now women are wakins bestseller = and the public includes tion" throuahout the book, and per- up a they are listening sore to for sharing news - all See =:, > Of hawt >= 4ovfo Aad women who could gain from and con} sists in the face of all the evid- thorselves, articulating their own 2s new yful an ach = _ i i > > we) 4 3. tribute @ great deal to the Moves ont >, he cont y ¢ c viows and discarding the men’ x | - - a pairing, news from the world and q ent, ence to t contrary in stating a Women’ #: ot re Hum: the churches and from the depth that the WLM is intent on "forcing" Liberation Movement, T suppose one shouldn't be surprised Of “thrusting" liberatian on women Sy the fact that the media gave the who were quite happy in the tradit- StaSSinopoulos' attacks on the Women's Liberation Movement Almost ho tonal roles until we case along and movement are incredible enough, but chance to defend itself » inst made thom fee] guilty. coupled with her frequent assertions Stassinopoulons’ attacks, that she knows women are discrinina- Blithely unaware in her ivory tower ted against and that something sust relationships decide to restrict our hour Son. faith and 1:;:: of the way most wormen live and of be done to end that discrimination cearce, <o).5 Com, faith ans love with distortions, inaccuracies, gen- the recent -stastics whiter don:. et. ’ ae wu ied of. a deputy pre of ‘openings NAGDALERE “sppears SS tatestat he eralisations, quotations taken out 2% eee netics which indicate they become utterly unreal, She rt in comprise NAGOALENE Spp of context and contradictions « it that two-thirds of Australian prec- really seems to believe that women dent of the Australian Arbitration a Ene hha mane and is for women searching for - 7 nancies are unplanned, or of the can change their lives by individual 5 mn, Justice Blizabeth att; BVONS. WAG, GE: personhood = for full humanity pr nts A picture of a Movesent,: 9 y i G: Sead any time, contact JO PHILLIPS - pPOnnOGS =i Partch. BUNGRE Cy which exists only in Stassinopoulos' difficulties of the very many women action, and that there is no need the Anglican Archbishop of 488747 amd who wish to we ha 4 fovered imagination. However, to who lack access to birth control for mass effort on the part of waren bane, the most rov, Felix Arnott; in company with their sisters, i informat i nas a, y ) sydney fournalist Anne Deveson, anyone who has had mo contact with aha eaten tine coer ie It aes Bis Story we've all heard and -Sydne © the Movement and who has gained her that “No an ce Tae: a ae. 100) so O° nett foes am ceases ofr Subatesions will be received until rs na } a2 fore to have a ower and luence:, et impression of it through the e a, ose \ power and influence: I's free to the book reinforces all the usual child", do what I want most of the time - prejudices about bra-burning, manthere's no need for a Women's Lib-. ‘ Also unawar f th Over ' r y ton M = md € Lasues). hating, elitist revolutionaries who @ of the Movenent's work eration Movement I made it, and _ tr want to turn all women into imltatto evtablish women's refuges, birth if you can't that’s your probles:” ton men, forcibly do away with sentrol and abortion referral : Services, health clinics, rane motherhood and the family and force: 4 Oee. 7 x -, crisis groups and child care facili- a all wouen into "man! s ie er ecnited ties She erates on page 157 thee MM and ol} it implies - does she cx CAULDRON - A Feminist Journal cannot help ndering if this appeal the Mowe ment conce ntrate on" la perhaps feel some quilt hat her oem “; the Movenent > ates glan- ‘ to popular prejudice is deliberate - orous and trivial targets," ieee privileged background has allow f by; First issue now availabie at certainly such tactics are easier to being informed of the Australian her to escape aleost all the sexisn { the Women's Centre - 75¢ - maintain without facts and logical MoVement ts contenttationon such which affects les« privileged women;,: or send money to Cauldron every day of their lives? <—_ \ Collective o/- 25 Aiberta [Unreadable] s cribe, send forvay: 000; Women Geacnstrat To 5 Norway: 4, women desonst ead address with your f Women's Film Festival Group is Franc ‘Planning Femilial', an Yor abortion in the streets of ‘ p a a = Hy: 4 2 T and address - comprised of le - 15 women who organization with branches through- Oslo on October 29, There were Xe reve 3 iesues have joined together to create out France which gave information supporting demos in Copenhagun, covers 3 i a fils festival showing women's on contraception will have to close Stockholw® and Aneterdan. postage, films to woren. They have a Gown now that the government has Soledad Sister: { sage apa ue cauer eres grant from the Australian govern- Stopped sponsoring them, They had — é ghia icowen #54 ment to hold the festival which begun to organite freo abortions 5 YEARS FOR KILLING HER RAPIST »..; tedau s = andeuddestiona plone will be fn Spril 1975 in Canberra in France or send woren abroad for aa: Melbourne, Hobart, Adelaide, Perth,them if over & weeks pregnant, Brisbane ant Sydney. It is planned Some gfoups have been sued for this, to show about 19 feature and 30 short films, have discussions, seminars and video screenings of Sail Gardiiterstenes ten the Suisse ws VIRAGO, A feminist publi- found him 5 blocks away, being women who are going overseas to ah ng i print, mead ublish its beaten by her rapists, Jininez view and Select films for the aa oooke an. fay 1975. They and Castillo, They, ignoring her festival. There will be day- ea sake to hear fro= women in shouts, thrust a knife at her. Gave Laoilities Yor-kide and co move ent who are working on Ner option removed, Inez fired, repeat showings of filas to acco- prorat sock have ideas for feninist In that situation, who wouldn't? nth te Monat who: can tecat tend oes the: books tO Come cet soon Jiminegz, referred to by the Amerikan full tine. There will also be rhelied fea ee Rete Pe prtiease Ta Reet e tee aeeaSs) a) womans photographic “exhibition Savane the ae of women of Gied as a tTesult, and hopefully the festival will be photosraphs 5 Stale Phin At her trial the Judge said several the beginning of on-going projects. FORGETTING! S: Beers ere tines that dt was a murder trial, Plans are still being mde and a Stott f paperback) + MY SBCRET and not & rape trial, and labelited progras will be made available Yonon's Sexual Fantatios Inet 'a huntressa', Feminist Gloria later. y 3 Friday, intro by 11 Steinem statod «es “Sho (Inez) is MISS SECOND SEX, a young & political prisoner, a women who >a is sufferring free both a patriarchal ceime and patriarchal fuatice,” Denonstrations by women many places around the world are indicators & Growing international s darity of Woner. | Relations Pe am oy a of 4 woman's most personal oxterday. e wee f!. — porience, It tries to be open reference tal n aed of ichaotic, with one person on all honest and to provide a day some days and no-< at all ‘ rt for women who dare to be on other «. Either we have mselvei. It holds before it have more people doing it, the hope of a comminity of free- "The Fenale Woran” itself is crammed To subscribe, send $2.50 to ‘ » for later Vera Smith, 1 Henry Lawson Ave., the ond of next March for late Abbotsford WwW. 2066 - a subhearings. ription covers one year (6 it see to me that she is motivated ot least partially by fear of the Inez Garcia, a 31 year old Puerto " stasped sel f-addres Rican fare worker was bashed and eloe ou want thes raped by two drunken men, Ines ¥ loaded a.22 cailber rifle and took to the streets of Soledad to look for her room-sate (Fred) and Italy: An abortion bill was handbook for 14 to 26 presented before the Italian year olds y Carol Adass and Rac Parliament in tember, It is Laurikietis. NB about the G hlieation o abor- this book depends on Support it tion (something like the UK Abor-« ): thw teaching profession tion Act). The Hill has the would welcome help fron Support of 1@ Italftan; in the movement in aed na groups and the radical partd } accepted for school use, At & demonstration in support have been hunger ‘! fant to hear ideas for of Inez Garcia held cutside the dononitrations, he 4:. at * is kind, and an American y in London on ists app > Al) wos book on Wonen and Qotober < ix women wore for the Bi gE 1. Contact Viraso at Axkos (Their trials cane J WK yc r orati onmtre, 20% up on Oct 31, Nov 22, Jan 13, vn u're. ’: Wio's NEXT 7 Ou Yes! THE CRESAR IN WARD Porta Batounm Gardens, London W 6.fx: all at Great Marlborough Street iano, Italy. Court, London, Please Support), - The success of === [PDF page 40] === A Melbourne woman, nearing 40, divorced and the mother of three school-aged children, was told recently by a doctor that to be sterilised she had to have a man's 9.K....he suggested that she pick up a de facto and get him to oblige by signina the paper authorising the sterilisation. As far as I could find out, there's no legislation which forces a woman who wants to be sterilised to get a man's permission, Nancy Dexter, The Age, 9/11/1974. ANTI-FEMINIST QUOTE OF THE MO! D A Ms is as good as a male. One of the most heinous crimes of the 20th Century is to say that all Women's Lib ladies are ugly and lesbian and only libbers because they've been hurt and can't get on with a man, Certainly looking at those brawling aagaressive covens afresh, harpies who attend Women's Lib meetings or represent the movement on television, one would be forgiven for thinking while one sympathises with many of their aims, one can only deplore the stridency and violence and whining with which they try to enforce then, Jilly Cooper, London columnist and author of "women and Super Women", WAGES ARE EQUALISING,... SLOWLY Minimim weekly wage rates for women have risen 39.2% to $82.64 in the year to July, according to official stastics. In the same period, the male minimum wage rose 27.3% to $95.25 a week. The Age, 24/10/1974. SO WHO'S SURPRISED? “Nomen suffer more than any other social group in terms of job discrimination, says Leonie Green, executive officer of the Victorian Committee on Discrimination in Employment & Opportunity, Complaints from women make up just under one third of all those received by the committee, which was established last year by the Federal Government, The Age, 1/10/1974. Vashti workers: Kath. Fima, Di. Meryl. Adriana. Jo. Nancy. Rose. Jane, Hania, Judy. Yolette.Chris, and Beechey. M DE: AND ABOUT TIME TOO} Women on Britain's feudally ruled Channel Island of Sark are to be allowed to own property and open bank accounts under legislation voted for by its parliament. Sark, under its hereditary feudal ruler Mr. Michael Beaumont has no income tax, death duties or divorce and women among the 750 islanders are still legally their husband's chattels. The new bill means that a wife will no longer have to turn over her property to her husband, The Age, 6/11/1974. The Herald recently carried the following example of inane, patronising rubbish masquerading as journalism: Once upon a time there was-the most beautiful girl in the world, She had violet eyes and lona black hair and a shy little voice that had almost a lisp to it. And the most beautiful girl in the world grew up. And married. And married, And married, And married. And married, Five times the most beautiful girl in the world married. And each time she seemed to grow more lovely and tha world held its breath with awe at each conquest she made, And then something happened to the most beautiful girl in the world, She stopped being beautiful, The item appeared with a photo of Liz Taylor looking rather plump, with cigarette in one hand and glass in the other. No mention of the men who exploited her "beauty" and youth - apparently now that she is over 40 and no longer beautiful by film-star standards, she is not so exploitable! on. ab bee, cb) te 60 tt) (ee as am” ee 68 oe 6 ee, ee PLEASE SEND EXAMPLES. OF SEXIST ADS, APPEARING IN ANY SECTION OF THE MEDTA & SMALL ITEMS OF RELEVANCE TO WOMEN to Media M'Dear c/-=- Vashti's Voice with full details of date _item appeared and where. i A ee Necaen | eat) uae orm Gant came thet ia, ae: ane <a Published by Vashti'ts Voice Collective of Women's Centre, 50 Little Latrobe St., Melbourne and printed by G & S Rotary Printery Pty Ltd, 822 Lorimer St.Pt Melb. === CORRECTED KEY PASSAGES (proof-read by Claude, Oct 2026) ===