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Yet you may not believe it.

Oh, man, this alone believe,

All sleeping women now awake and move.

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SPEAKOUT: A FEMINIST JOURNAL

Vol. II Noe VII July-August 1973

WOMEN AND EMPLOYMENT/WOMEN'S DAY

Table of Contents

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One Woman's Struggle to go back to work. By Dora Levine

Equal Pay * Equal Work. by Chris Root |

The Mature Returning Student: Who Cares? by Sherry Sussman

Why Do Women Work? / What Does a Women Want?

Home Employment or Guess Who Got the Short End of the Stick

What Do Women Need? iia oot ele Women United for Shorter

Hours

Is N.O.W. on an Irreversible Road to Elitism? by Carol Bier-

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Oo ANOHANeE:

7 Women's Day 1973 by Dorothy Bellick
8-10 Women Legislators See Feminist Lobbying Efforts as Weak
by Margaret Waterson Figlozzi

11 The Maternity Disability Blues by Carol Biernacki

12 _ Mary Anne Krupsak on EEOC and Women by Mimi Sternberg

13. - Women Candidates: Statements of Policy

14 Abortion: Laws, Attitudes, Politics and Power

1S Shirley Chisholm at Emma Willard

16 Mary Anne Krupsak on Women In Changing Times by Sally Haskins
17 NYS Legislation Affecting the Status of Women

19 The Solitary Divorcee a poem by Carole Marks Schulkind
20 Women's Law Firm by Ellen Smith

20 Movement Leaves Middle Class by Toni Schiff

ral Women Take Action Page

an The One That Got Away a poem by Robin Morgan

23 Catalyst

R4—5 Group News

26 Amethysts and Oranges and Summer Days to Come by L. Rofes
a7 Calendar and Announcements

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CREDITS: Dorothy Bellick, Carol Biernacki, Paula Corey, Jenness >. .-:
Cortez, Margaret Waterson Figlozzi, Toni Schiff, Ellen
Smith, Sherry Sussman, Jo Ann Vertitis

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Our cover this month was done by Jenness Cortez. Interested patrons

may contact her at the Washington Park Spirit Office, 184 Washington
Ave. Albany, N.Y.

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ONE WOMAN'S STRUGGLE TO GO BACK TO WORK

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My story starts late one night the day agree to be a good little mother, the doc~
that I lost my job. It was a job that I tors even had more severe methods with

thought was going to rekindle my skills as

which to adjast you. Any intelligent

well as being very interesting in itself. thinking person like myself, realizes that

On that night, I couldn't sleep, I was al-
ternately crying, feeling great waves of
anger, and then great waves of sadness. I
looked out at the night and remembered how
it was when I was mch younger, thinner,
less tired. Every interview I went on, I
would get the job. Each job that I applied
for and won was better paying than the last.
Each had more responsibility since I al-
ways needed a challenge.

The last job I had before marriage was
as an executive secretary. It was a one-
woman office, I had to make all kinds of
decisions as well as take care of all the
details{because my bosses were out of the
office part of the day). TI worked 9-10
hours a day. I didn't have time for a
social life; nor the funds. I thought
marriage and children would deliver me
from all this. So, I tried to cut dom my
hours, and started to attend socials, in
order to meet men and women; have friends,
get married; and live happily ever after.

I put all my energies and thoughts into
where, when, and how to meet eligible men.
tI was successful at this too. So we met,
and married after a whirlwind courtship.
We moved from that lively crowded eastern
city, to a sleepy college town of 2000.
Here we were supposed to be deliriously
happy. It didn't exactly turn out that
way. My husband didn't like his job that
much, and I was nauseous. all day every
day for nine months.

After one baby, and one post partum, and
25 years later, another baby, another move,
a very severe post partum, and treatment:

{I regained sanity of a sorts. I became a
joySul mother and housewife. I beat the
system by joining every women's club T
heard of. My husband helped with thehouse-
work, (happily, because that was the price
he had to pay for a sane wife), After a
while I adjusted to my role, and I was
happy

Then came women's liberation. I started
to read articles,, Betty Friedan's book, and
the repressed anger came out. ft realized,

‘ou, (after great sums of money were spent)

a

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nd part of you died. If you didn't finally

she had better give in, if she is going
to have any sanity left at all.
after many years of volunteer work,

my kids finally got into school all day

and I could go back to work, After all,

in these years of women's liberation and
analysis of women's experiences, it fin-
ally dawned on me that if I hadn't been

_ brainwashed and adjusted to my role, I

would have had a college education. And
who knows, I could have been a doctor,
lawyer, or CPA.(What my mother wanted for
my brothers) ;

As I went from interview to interview
i was angry. I was applying for part-time
jobs. There just aren't too many of these
around. Interviewers kept telling me they
had 30 or hO applicants already, and that
I didn't stand a chance since I hadn't
worked in so long. i

I grew angrier each time because I had
been lied to. Didn't everyone know that a
woman is supposed to get married, reise
her children, and then go back to work.
Everyone had told me this. After all,
businesses supposedly wanted the mature
woman, she is more efficient, more depen-
dable, not prone to pregnancy, etc. What
I wasn't told was that I would have to
Start at the bottom of the pay scale, and
also have to compete with very young attra-
ctive college students and graduates whose
skills were sharp. They couldn't get jobs
in their fields so were applying for sec-
retarial jobs.

When I complained to some of my friends
they told me about their college age chil-
dren were also looking for jobs. I got
angrier. I finally said to them IAM NOT
A TEENAGER JUST STARTING OUT. I have a
developed skill, proven ability, and many
years of experience. Why do I have to
start all over again? I have discovered
that it is a lie to say that you can go
right back to work and take up where you

our housework, help with the youngsters,

The public schools have to change to see

that the kids are not’ sent home so early
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EQUAL WORK* EQUAL PAY higher peid person. His salary cannot be
lowered to meet yours§ fen and women
If you are earning less than a man may file complaints. To no one's surpris e
for the same job, call the U.S. De- men tend to have the higher salaries,
partment of Labor today! The liage
and Hour Division Area Director will ie ter, Gite tot ees
pits ars your claims (518) One Woman's Struggle continued
ea have afternoon school programs, etc,etc.
I have temporarily given up on working
Mr, Julius Chenu pledged to the men i ;
and women’ gathered at the N.Y. YWCA for pay. I have learned how to survive,

and I'm somewhat happy not working. There

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for Albany's NOW May open meeting to is a gnawing in my guts though, that

give his full support in enforcing

; even though I have adjusted, every woman
— — Mat Powe ioe hg om should have a salesbis skill. she ey
< ce ge si , = need it. Her husband could die, get sick,
. : get fired. Then there's the possibility
Derk. of tabor of divorce. Every human needs a means of
Las Gkalber direct supporting herself,
Roon M=-106 That is why I felt so sad that night
Albany, New York 12207 long ago. I kept reliving that morning
My Julius Sisiacaih when they;called me into their office and
aa said "you're too slow and too nervous.
Office hours 8:30-5:00 p.m. Evening This young girl has sharper skills, and

after all, she's a college student. She

SES SSS Se Sees Sas needs the money." (As if a married woman

The U.S. Department of Labor Viage in ine day and age with a home and family
naa ; doesn't need the money)

and Hour Division is charged with The small 1 4 errs

the enforcement of that part of the employer Goes not feel gui

Fair Labor Standards Act relating to When he lets his married secretary go. He
rohibition of discrimination in rationalizes that she has a husband to
te Schools, hospitals and SWPPort her. Obviously she just works for
i Baer are ar Oban The law P24 money and could get along without that
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was extended July '72 to include chatchka", I swallowed that line too.

teachers and other professional employees. Now I know what the older woman is

Unfortunately, an exemption was made Bm for. She is working for
for state and local governments, This eaeaineaneaniects

Law only applies bqohet not me promotion (pastor's Note: Next teen to
or job eligibility, For discrimination ‘\onen and Employment. We hipe to list
an those polos contact the State training programs available for the mat-
Division for Human Rights. ure woman. In our years as volunteers,
How to file-:a c waves we have learned many new skills. We hope
How to file-a complaint. to find ways we can harness these new
skills into our own businesses.)

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L) Gather as many facts as possible,

2) call or visit Mr. Chenu's office

and ask for a compliance office, You
do not have to divulge your name. You
do not have to prove the case, You do |!
not have to have the same job title
és long as the work is comparable. |

Self-determination

Women's Center Tssues

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The Wage and Hour Division will get the WOMAN:

facts without revealing your identity.
If necessary, they will take your
employer to federal court in order to Achievements

enforce the law, If discrimination is |Celebrate Women's Day, Sunday, Aug. 26
proven, the pay of the lesser paid per | .Washington Park, Albany, NY

son must be raised to the pay of the oe) to Yeoh,

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. The Mature Returning Student:

Who Cares?

Many of us fail to realize the courage it takes for a mature woman to

return to school. Too often she left school

her husband and/or family.

moré College held a

-, were Chris Palmer and Frieda Carnell,
ities “It ‘is.

Chris Palmer is a gtudent at Saint
Rose College. Frieda Carneis is a

June graduate who has been seeking employ=
ment since last October, They are both
mature women who returned to college after

several years spent in raising their famil-

ies. While they appeared almost apologetic
in their approach, they were right on tar-
get with their recommendations. Chris Pale
mer began:

Adult returning students set up psycho~
logical barriers for themselves upon re=

entering school. One of the first fears

is that of rejection by the younger student,

"When you go back to school as an old bag
whe has spent all those years as a wife
and mother, you feel as though you are a
zero, a nothing,"

There is also the fear that one has for~

gotten how to study, The returning student
will over-research and over-kill even th e

most mundane assignment, to the point of
missing it entirely,

The advice one receives from student
counselors is ridiculous, The 40 yr, old
woman who is told by her 19yr. old advisor
that her course load leaves her no time for
all the social activity that is part of the

college experience, is amazed at the lack
of common sense,

Returning students must expect a lowe r
level of order around the house, You will
be missed only if the creature comforts
your family is accustomed to are missing,
Very rarely will the family heip you with
what is considered YOUR housework,

The mature woman is accustomed to being
treated as a person capable of making in-
telligent decisions, Upon entering the
classroom, she suddenly loses all her years
of decision making and is treated just like
all the other 19 year olds,: ie, irrespnn-
sible children who have little sense of
worth,

Terminology and vocabulary must be
explained to the returning student, She

may very well be aware of certain procedures

but because of form and terms, it may be
unrecognizable to her, Thus, she is wnaware
of what to do. This shakes her confidence e,

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when young to take a job to support

Or, having swallowed the myth, she never concidered
her own educational needs and began raising a family right away. In June,
conference for college placement officers,

Skid-
Among the speakers

It was exhilarating to listen to them tell

In class, asking questions to clarify
a point is discouraged by the other stu-
dents, The younger student tends to see
college as a way of life rather thah as
a way to gain knowledge,

Unfortunately, teaching methods are
aimed at the 19 year old mentality. Tea-
chers fail to realize the responsiblities
of the mature woman, Last minute time to
complete assignments is unavailable due
to many family pressures,

Orientation and cutting classes are
taken seriously. Too often babysitters
are hired and women drive great distan-

ces only to find their time has been

The counseling of returning stuments
must be completely oferhauled, Returning
students are grouped with transfer stu-
dents, Their needs are quite different.
Serious counseling is reserved for full-
time day students, It is unavailable fr
part-time or evening students, This
counseling is vitally important. Too many
students spend valuable time and money
taking all the wrong courses.

Frieda Carnell pointed out that the
teaching available ranged from excellent
and responsive master teachers at small
private colleges to teaching of poor
quality conducted by immature graduate
students at the large universities, This
does not mean that quality teaching is
only available ab private schools, but
that such schools are anxious for the
high tuition money they charge and, at
least for the upper level student, provide
quality teaching commensurate with the
Gost,

The returning student is sure that the
teacher holds the magic key to knowledge.
For this reason, they are hesitant to cut
a class, Every pearl of wisdom is to be
recorded. Thus, the quality of teaching
is vital. These women have taken money
that would otherwise have been spent on
their families and spent it on something
as intangible as an education, There is
& certain amount of reluctance and guilt
that goes with such a decision. (cont.p 19

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WHY DO WOMEN WORK?

The myth that women do not. need jobs,
promotions and raises as much as "bread
winners," i,e,, men, do, is one of the
most persistent with which feminists have
to deal, It dies hard, and just a year
ago President Nixon transfused new life
into it by estimating a "relatively high
level of transitional unemployment" be~
cause of more women entering the work
force,

This year's Presidential economic
report does not blame women for unemploy=
ment; in fact, it states that the "entry
of women into the labor force has not
"been of the type that contributes to
the problem. The role of women workers
is detailed with approval and the fact
that jobs are as sex-segregated as they
were two decades ago and that equal work —

does not yet bring equal pay, is deplored,mative action programs will interfere

The report further states that "women
work outside the home for the same rea-
sons as men," This statement is suppor~
ted by a recent University of Michigan
Institute for Social Research survey,
discovered that 40% of all working
women are dependent on neither a husband
nor a father for their support. About
32% were the sole "breadwinners" in
their homes, and 8% were the major if
not sole earners.

Further analysis of the data reveals
women workers and their families are
concentrated in the two lowest economic
brackets. Fiftey-seven per cent of
families whose income is below $5,000
are headed by women, Thirteen million
women workers in this country are res~
ponsible for the welfare of ten million
children under the age of 18,

A bit higher up the income scale, the
evidence shows that it is the working
wife who has pulled some of the normally
poor into the middle class, Last year's

Census Bureau shows that only in young
married Black Families outside the South
where both husband and wife work do
incomes equal comparable white families,
It is a rare thing indeed where blacks
in America can equal comparable whites
in earnings.

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WHAT DOES A WOMAN WANT?

Parade Magazine, the supplement to
many local Sunday newspapers, sent poll-
sters out to ask that classic question
of men and women over 18 from coast to
coast. One of its findings should sur-
prise area feminists: those supporting
the goals of the women's movement are non=
white women, single women and those under
25 and/or earning over $10,000, and men,
Nationally, married women agree with
women over 60 and men between 30 and 40:
"women are treated fairly most of the
time and, in fact, have an easier life
than men." Regardless of the tactics
used, they disagree with the goals of
the movement,

Why men between 30 and 40 differ from
all other men is somewhat puzzling. Those
are the years men are engrossed with
"making it," and perhaps they fear affir~

with their upward rise. These are also
the years when their wives are at home
with young children, and they may well
want to keep it that way, Why the women
themselves are not interested in their
own lives is an unanswerable puzzle.

Besides the liberation movement, inter
viewees were queried on two other categor~
ies: sexual freedom and employment,
Sexual freedom for women is endorsed by
men by a margin of 5 tol, while barely
53% of all women support it. Interesting-
ly, this breaks down to 58% white but
only 20% of non-white women believe "wo-
men should have as much sexual freedom
as men." On the emotion=laden question
of unrestricted abortion, 57% of all men
agree to it, while only 50% of women doe
The greatest disparity between the sexes
is in those over 60, Of these, 62% of the
men endorse abortion, while only 35% of
the women, On both sex-related issues,
divorced/separated/widowed women were
most conservative, married women were
almost as much so, and single, never’=
married women were very, very liberal.

‘Insofar as Women and Jobs are concern=
ed, 95% of all women and 93% of the men
believe in equal pay, Furthermore, 92%
of both sexes feel husbands of working
wives should help around the house (how
many actually do was not established),
Despite these stands, 76% of the women
and 70% of the men turned around and said
"women should stick to what they do best
and let men do what they do best,”

In the last two questions there was
more of @ racial difference among women

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GOT THE-SHORT END OF THE STICK?

£ survey by the Chase Man-
hattan Bank estimates that the
work week of a mother with young
children is 99.6 hours. A survey
by the General Electric Company
reveals that the average work
week of employed wives is 79
hours- 40 hours on the job and
39 hours in the home.

The average husband contributes
about 11 hours per week to home
maintainance, whether or not his
wife works outside the home,

This makes his work week...51 hrs.
If his wife is employed outside

the home, her work week is...70Ohrs.

If his wife has no young children

and is not employed outside..5lhrs.

If his wife has two young children

and is not employed outside. 99.6hr

If the woman holds an outside
job, she usually spends 5 hours
per day in home chores, receiving
no help from her spouse in wash-
ing, ironing, or sewing. However
is some cases the spouse does
increase his cooking help from
6-12 minutes per day.

Schenectady Gazette
1970

NO-FAULT INSURANCE COMPENSATION
FOR HOMEMAKERS

The current NYS no-fault bill
does not compensate for the loss
of earnings which a homemaker
suffers when her work is not
performed for income. An amend-
ment to the workman's(!) compen-
sation law proposed in February
of the session woukd have fairly
compensated the homemaker for the
monetary value of the services
performed. Recognition is neces-
sary that time is money. Lost time
or service is compensable loss
for the party who has been unable
to perform her work.

The basic economic losss would
have beer up §1,000 for three
years to compensate injured
homemakers. It was proposed that
this bill would have insured all
citizens, whether male or female,
wage earner, or non-wage garner,

equal rights under no-fault. When
did you last hear of a $1000 law

$1213.

5.
T DO WOMEN NEED?

THE SHORTER WORK WEEK--WHY?
il. Full time pay and benefits at
what are now part time hours.
2. 350 hr. week-more jobs, end
to forced work programs
3. 6 hrs. work for parents and
6 hrs. school for children

4. 30 hr. wee= men and women
sharing child care and house care
2- more leisure time and better
health :

A working mother is thoroughly
exhausted by a full 8 hour day
when she has children and house-
keeping and social responsibilities
If she has school-age children,

the family must arrange for their
Gare after school until the end
of the work day. The cost of

such care adds up to 1/3 or more
of her paycheck. The 6<hr day
would mean york hours while the
children are in school, more time
to rest and be with the children
after school. Fathers working 6
hours would have more time to
share in child raising and house-
work.

Some people have put forward
the idea of the 4 day week/ 10
hour day. For working women this
would be a great burden. Others
suggest part time work--two
women gplit one job and each re-
ceives a half salary. But that's
not the idea. We want the right
to work less hours with no loss
in psy. This has become an imp-
ortant union contract bargainng
point..

Women are also affected by cuts
in public day care services. The
administration wants to force
women on welfare to work forless
than union wages at previusly
unionized jobs, in otherwords be-
come scabs. Inflation continues
and unemployment. 30 hours work
for 40 hours pay is our answer to
these attacks. If we win it will
mean more jobs with full benefits
for all women who want to work.

Reprint of leaflet issued by
WUSH (Women United for Shorter

Hours) write WUSH %Deak
509 W. 110 Sst. Avt. lla nye

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18 N.O.¥. ON AN“ LRRWVERSIBLE ROAD -TO ELITISM?
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Lynn Webster and Sharon Menard
of Colorado N.O.W. went to the na -
tional N.O.W. conference in Wash-
ington D.C. this spring to push for
dignity and economic protection for
the housewife.

"If N.O.W. doesn't concern itself
with the problems of the housewife
it will become elitist", maintains
Menard. This charge has its echoes
in the city streets and suburbs of
America. Its refrains are right up
there with "I've been liberated all
my life", and " I'm happy now. Why
should 1 change?"

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“Many women feel threated by _.1
N.O.W. and other feminist groups.
Part of the problem lies in the
stereotyping of N.O.W. members ag
unhappy, particularly unhappy sp-
ouses. Webster, the Colorado N.O.W.
coordinator, has been married 10
years and happily. While recognizing
the frustrations of housewifery,
She enjoys being one. For her, it is
a@ personal choice. Quoted in a March
issue of the Denver Post, she says
"I can't think of a better job. What
better way to influence my children
and community. 1 can choose my hours
and wear what 1 want.It's what you
make of it."

Webster unlike many feminist
leaders, is also a community acti-
ist; she is on a citizen advisory
committee for mass transportation,
was on the Plan MEtro Denver board
which defeated downtown parking
garages, helped to write the Colorado
environmental policy bill, direccts
public information for the Denver

League of \fomen Voters And coordi-
ok eect high activites at her
church.

Akt the_conference the Colorado
women called for 1) parternership
marriage with no senior partners
and with all income and properties
belonging to the corporétion.

2) all children regardless of sex
shall be equally trained in household
duties.

3) Social Security benefits for
housespouses and IRS maintained
resumes Of housewives "work" exper-
iences.

4) mandatory marriage insurance,

6,

%) a mental health study of
housewives syndromes and a i
positive ngtional information
program to inform society of
the results

Menard maintains that unless
N.O.W. deals with the problems
of the housewife in a very
real way, N.O.W. will be elit=..
ist. A charge paralled by one
a similar one from working cla
class women. To study and work
for legal rights, employment,

and education reforms is no

longer enough.

Webster urges women to be an
entity onto themselves. "If
you choose to be a housewife
don't be a martyr about it."

As for N.O.V., she hopes it
will, "Let out housewife sis -
ters out of the closet."

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WOMEN'S RECORDS NOW AVAILABLE

Harmanus Bleeker Library in
Albany has two new women's
records: "...But the Women Rose
Rose...", Vol. I @ II, Voices
of Women in American History,
compiled and edited by Susan
Kempler and Doreen Rappoport.

Volume I opens with Anne
Hutchinson, who was banished
from Massachusetts Bay Colony,
and concludes with the trial
of Susan B, Anthony. The record
also includes Sojourner Truth's
"Ain't I a Woman" speech and
Elizabeth' Blackwell's poignant
story of the opposition to her
becoming the first woman doctor.

Volume II includes speeches
of Mother Jones, Betty Friedan,
Shirley Chisholm and lesser
known women whose names will
emphasize the need for women's
Sstudies* Eleanor Holmes Norton,
and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn.
The records are available from

‘Folkway Records, FD 5535-6

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WOMEN'S DAY 1973

Capital area womer have set
asid Sunday, August <6 as a day of
sisterhood. We are planning many
events to commemorate National Wom-=
en's Day, 1973. Area libraries have
been requested to set up exhibits
featuring the accomplishments of

7.

cf the large number of local women
involved in the movement. Those of
us who worked on the festival were
so tired and harassed that we could
scarcely enjoy the beauty of the

event.
Too many of us in the movement

women in literature, science, educa~did not feel committed enough to

tion, etc. The actual events will

come out and support Women's Day.

begin with a march up State Street, We were kept away by "vatation and

followed by speeches by prominent

family plans." Bella Abzug has sub-

feminists. At Washington Park, theremitted a bitl to make Women's Day

will be entertainment, booths, and
displays to interest people of all
ages. We anticipate a large crowd
to’rilli up the Park,

The celebration of Women's Day
began in 1970 with a march down New
York City's Fifth Avenue. 25,000
women marched to advance the goals
of women's liberation. It was also

a national holiday. We may have

more luck for a mass celebration

once it becomes "officially permis-~
sible" to be a woman. I wonder what

men will do when Women's Day becomes

a national event. They'll probably
dismiss the whole thing by giving
us a Hallmark greeting card.

Here in Albany it seems that the

a chance to be visible so that womenmany women in the movement belong

with similar concerns would know
where to find their sisters.

On that same day demonstrations
were planned all across the country.

to many little gnoups. We each have
allegiance only to our own group.

What we all seem to be missing is

the sense that we belong to an

Women in most major cities were mark-entire movement. This could be a

ing the 50th anniversary of Women's
Suffrage. The women of Utica, N.Y.
were not celebrating. One reporter
Stated thet he couldn't find one
woman out of ten who found any juse
tification for the women's movement.

In Albany that year, things were

not much better. No celebrations
were planned. In fact, this reporter
was present at @ crafts meeting of
the UUWF making a rug for the minis-
ter's study. I remember suggesting

to the other women that we should
be striking that day. Betty Friedan
said that we should take that day
off and come down to the march."We
shouldn't do what we usually do,
this is a momentous occasion." Well,
I didn't receive much encouragement
for my suggestion, so I went on
making that rug. Albany's women's
movement hadn't gotten off the
ground yet. That was our excuse in
1970.

Last year we had our own First

time of really sharing and getting
to know each other. Every woman from
each little group gathering together
at Washington Park on Aug. 26, and
celebrating sisterhood. Until we
band together here, the women's
movement will never be a movement.

The goals of Women's Day '73, as
set down by the steering committee
are many. They focus on two major
issues: 1) the necessity of estab-
lishing a women's center in this
area and 2)the importance of women:
being aware of their own history °
and accomplishments.

A Women's Center will only be
established when we all are willing
to make the necessary sacrifices.
This will be when every woman in
this area says 1 AM COMMITTED, md
each woman gives of her time and
substande to make our goal come true.

SPEAKOUT will have a booth as
the festival. We will sell our pub-
lication, subscriptions to MS., our

Annual Women's Day Festival. In spite Susan B. Anthony poster, Mountain

of refusal on the part of local
stores and offices to allow us to

Moving Day (an all women's band rec-
ord), baked goods, and we'll feature

publicize it, we succeeded in getting a MYTH EXPLODING DART GAME.

some women out. The few hundred

women who came weren't any indication beauty

Come and join with us to share the
and glory of this day.

THE TIME FOR REVOLUTION IS NOW,

WOMEN LEGISLATORS. SEE FEMINIST

LOBBYING EFFORTS AS WEAK
The six women serving in the New York State Legislature are very different in
politics, experience and style. But their common interest in women's rights
brought them together to ‘co-sponsor six "unity bills" on credit, divorce, jury
duty and protective labor legislation. During the last busy week of the '73 ses
a. each of these women took a moment to share her thoughts with SPEAKOUT:

SENATOR CAROL , BELLAMY she is a Democrat and new to the legisla-
23rd District ; ture, but she believes a man in the same
Bade circumstances would be accepted faster.
"Next year get here the first day of The Senator cites an official leaflet
session.:" Senator Bellamy urges women's titled "Profile of a Senator" which has
groups. Though women's lobbying efforts been rewritten to eliminate references
were greater this year than in the past, toa senator as "he". The tone of the
groups need to become more sophisticated new text, however, still presents a
in their tactics. Mental commitment to woman sénator as a kind of oddity. The

issues must grow into a commitment to first paragraph reads: "A typical sen-
- following through until meaningful laws ator is under 50, male, married, has
are actually passed. children in school, and carries a mort-

The Legislature has clearly not respon- page on his home, Not typical are the
ded to the real women's issues yet, Sena- three women Senators, all lawyers, who
tor Bellamy explains. While it is no are recent additions to the Senate. The
longer fashionable to be openly racist, Senate also has three black members and
sexist talk and behavior are still wide- one Puerto Rican."

ly tolerated. Bills on women's rights ‘Before the '73 session, Senator

are still considered peripheral, as Bellamy points out, there had been no
demonstrated by the fact that so many ne~ woman senator for seven years. The
ver got out of committee. Some bills presence of three women at one time has

that did pass had patronizing tones (allowto have an effect.

ing women to return to work right after

pregnancy but requiring a doctor's note SENATOR J KAREN BURSTEIN
on their mental and physical readiness). 9th District

Other bills were inconsequential (chang- "Everytime you see a woman in an

ing the word "male" to "person" to meet unusual place, it shakes your precon-

federal regulations. - ceptions of where women belong." So
Senator Bellamy describes New York Senator Burstein feels the mere presence

State as being plagued by the "first of three women in the senate this year

step in the right direction philosophy". has been significant. It is hard to
E.G., New York has a liberal abortion law, measure a change in consciousness, but

but there has been little subsequent - it mustwar away at people when
action on other issues. The Governor's | —— Page 9,
office now has a Women's Unit with good He oR ee eG a
staff people, but much of their time is P SOS SAVE OUR SPEAKOUT _SOS SISTERS!!
taken up with "public relations" work LI
for the Governor. Women are being ap- KE Speakout, your newspaper, is in
pointed to visit prisons, but not to A ee
hold top positions in the state governmentS ee Peg Mipeok «to
As a woman legislator, Senator Bell- E very high, We have been carryine
amy has been treated courteously both oven 180 sisters sinte van. '72.
se 9 tein cthewe ee 9 4 A Those of you who have Been getting
as not yet been admitted t ad- Me . PAY UP. We~
erie that leads to real acceptance and z Spears. aes BRE , BS .

would like to carry other sisters.

influence. This is partially because Sg Se ge oe ee oy Per

9.

WOMEN IN THE LEGISLATURE CONT.

. they have to address the Senate as
"Gentlemen---and ladiesi"

Senator Nurstein believes that,
if you do not have the power to
_ change the rules of a system, you
should confront those who can ch-
ange them. The system simply co-
opts people who plan to work their
way to the top quietly and then
initiate change. She feels that she
was personally difficult for the

Senate to assimilate. The intangible

‘club' of male senators has no
place for an independent woman yet,
because American society has no
place for her.

A woman senator lives with the
tension of being considered the
authority on women's rights--and
nothing else. Senator Burstein re-
fuses to be limited to women's ig-
sues, but must be ready to speak
for women because there are so few
women in the chanbers to do so.

This was supposed to be the big
year for women's isssues--but it
wasn't. Senator Burstein found that
the enthusiasm faded from the a-
bortion lobby after the Supreme
Court decision, and only one or
two women a month were lobbying on
other issues. She would like to see
an umbrella group of paid lobbyists
set up in Albany to organize an
effective lobby on women's issues.

ae MARY ANNE KRUPSAK
1stric

Senator Krupsak plans to help
women lobby more effectively next
session. She will meet with spokes-
women from various organigations
to advise them on ways to get their
legislation passed.

Senator Krupsak served for four
years in the Assembly before heer
election to the Senate in 1972. In
the Assembly, she found that women
often had a hard time being taken
Seriously. The Senate, however,
generally listens attentively when
one of its women members speaks.

Because she has shown herself
to be a conscientious, informed mn-
ber of the Senate, Senator Krupsak
believes she has some credibility
when she speaks on women's issues.
In addition to working on the six
unity bills, she strongly supported
@ bill which would make it i1lacar

0 eee

for an employer to ask personal
questions in an interview. (e.g.
what kind of birth control a
woman uses).

Senator Krupsak is disappointed
that the Reilly bill on protec-
tive labor legislation merely
states that an employer may
hire a woman immediately after
pregnancy if she has a doctor's
testimony of her mental and phy-
Sical fitness. The six women
legislators had sponsored a
Similar bill simply eliminating
any prhibition of employment after
pregnancy. The fact that a male-
sponsored bill on this topic
passed over a bill by the six
women is significant in itself.

Senator Krupsak notes a pro-
blem about who is going to spon-
sor bills on women's rights. An
older male Reublican may have the
power to get a bill passed, but
he may not alwyas have the com-
mittment to push it through. Sen-
ator Krupsak feels that the won-
€n in the Senate have power be-
cause there are three of them and
they are highly motivated toward
getting effective legislation on
women's rights.

& wide range of issues which
will concern Senator Burstein
next year include juvenile court
state auto, health, and accident
insurance, freedom of information,
bank accounts, home repair licens-
ing, ambulatory care, and local
government units. She would like
to show that small revisions in
existing laws can eliminate many
problems. She would also like to
move aggresively into new areas,
researching and creating new ideas.
To get maximum response from her
district, she plans to hold public
hearings and ask for comments
from her constituents on a reg-
ular basis.

ASSEMBLYWOMAN CONSTANCE COOK

128th District

Assemblywoman Cook .is the ony
NYS legislator who has an aide
working full time on women's ig-
sues. This fact reflects the pri-
ority which she has placed on wo-

men's rights in her 11 yearn ~4°,2

WOMEN LEGISLATORS CONT. 10,

CAREER IN THE Assembly. Ms. Cook
has gradually earned the respect The whole legislative process
of the other legislators and is can be bewildering to an outsider,
currently Chairman of the Assembly vg. Diggs explains. So making
Education Committee. contact with a sympathetic legis-

Ms. Cook's aide, anne Borel, lator in_each house_is a big
was originally hired to work on first step for lobbyists. A
the abortion issue and later br- geasgoned legislator can give
anched out into the whole field valuable advice on the mechanics
of women's rights. Among her other of getting a particular bill
duties, she compiles a newsletter, passed. Ms. Diggs feels that she
which keeps Ms. Cook in contact still has much to learn after ©
with women around the state, and only one year in the Assembly,
acts as a valuable contact person pyt her. office is always open to
for women interested in lobbying. women seeking help.

Ms. Borel thinks this years's Ms. Diggs found her first
lobbying experience has been very term all together different from
educational for women's groups. her anticipations--and very fru-
Lobbyists from NOW and the Women's strating. The 'fellowship' of the
Political Caucus have learned that legislators was extended to her,
a polite reception in a lwgislator'But not in the real issues. She
office does not automatically feels that this is partially
translate into favorable votes on pecause ghe is not a lawyer and
the Senate or Assembly floor. They ig new to the Assembly.
have learned that there are some Ms. Diggs is committed to bi-
very basic prejudices to deal with partisan support of the 'goals
in the legislature. One group of of the people'. She considers
women concerned with credit re- herself an independent voter who
strictions were told by a counsel thinks in terms of peoples needs
to the Senate Finance Committee: not party isspas. The six unity
"When my wife can earn the same _ pills are a priority for her,
kind of salary 1 do, she can have along. with bills on busing, day

care, housing, mental health,

the same kind of credit."
Because Albany Area women can drugs, social services, amd
senior citizens.

lobby so easily, Ms. Cook urges
them to be more visitle to the
legislators. They can get a cal-
endar and attend sessions, even

if only on a lunch hour. They can Ba ht, pease

talk with legislators and research #SSemblywoman Gunning.feels that
issues. then get their professiona]Women's groups lobbied poorly this
organizations to take positions year. They have stressed extreme
on legislation. The Women's Unit @nd unpopular measures which can-
in the Capitol maintains files on Ot pass, and ignoped the "bread
women's legislation and compiles and butter" issues women need and
lists of bills affecting women : want. A&A long lkst of issues wa-

which are very helpful. Ms. Cook's ters down a lobbying effort;
office, of course, is also open women should try to concentrate

to groups. on a few issues at a time.

Citing the Reilly bill on pro-
ASSEMBLYWOMAN ESTELLA B. DIGGS tective legislation as a major
78th District

accomplishment of the session,
Assemblywoman Digges advises

she plans a special emphasis on
women to “get all the facts" before

becomes a law.

~

ASSEMBLYWOMAN ROSEMARY GUNNING

domestic relations where changes
they begin to lobby. It is easy to

are despearelty needed, and to
lobby if all you want is a friend-
ly reception in the office of a

secure sensible lobbying efforts
for them.

legislator. But to get legislation Margaret Waterson Figlozzi

actually passed, a lobbyist needs
to know all about her area of con- necessarily brief due to the dem-
cern and to understand how an idea ands of the last wek of the sessiongd

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(Ed. NoteLegislators comments were

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"THE MATERNITY DISABILITY BLUES

due

"he most frequent of official complaints are half truths. An important factor is

lodged against employers by women concerns
maternity leave." This statement (In a
Knick News reprint of a Chicago Daily News
article by Patricia Moore) underlines the
pressing need for maternity-related employ-
ment reforms.

During the last session of the NY State
legislature, the N.O.1/J. Committee on Repro-
duction and Its Control solicited support
for two bills sponsored by Assemblywoman
Constance Cook: the first would repeal
labor laws prohibiting the employment of
women for four weeks after childbirth; the
second would repeal a section of the work-

revealed by the following example. Illness
caused by long term smoking or injuries
incurred by driving while intoxicated are
covered by temporary disability. Thus,

the exclusions applied to maternity cases
aren't applied elsewhere.

The third fallacy is harder to fight,
since its source is in the employers men-
tal pocketbook, The arguement that costs
for disability plans would soar is neatly
tackled by Ms. Greenwald. The staff of
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston wag used
as a case study to show fairly the costs
to employers of the libéralized benefits.

man's compensation law which excludes preg-*Since it is impossible to know beforehand

SS

nancy as a disability for which benefits
are paid.

The first bill eventually passed under
male sponsorship and was amended to the

Ao oe

.physical and mental health of the mother.

This restriction is viewed by some femin-
ists as unnecessarily limiting rather than
protective. The mental assessment of the
mother's health is particularly criticized,
a curious ideological turnabout considering
the efforts of women in the 60's to public-
ly emphasize the effects of pregnancy on
mental health.
"Maternity Leave Policy"

A January '73 article in the New England
Economic Review suggests that changes in
the resistance of firms to the employment
of pregnant women and the extension of
maternity leave without pay are the prac-
tical results, of the new Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission guidelines. These
guidelines, issued in April '72, signifi-
cantly broaterned women's employment rights.
In short, the guidelines established that
"penefits from health insurance plans for —
sickness of temporary physical disability
must be extended to women employees dis-
abled by pregnancy, miscarriage, abortion,
childbirth and recovery from any of these."

in this article, Carol Greenwald notes
that while the guidelines are advisory,
employers and labor unions can be taken to
federal court to enforce these decisions.

What then is the stumbling blozk to
achievement of maternity employment bene-
fits? Assemblywoman Cook's office outlined
several basic fallacies that charaeterize
the opposition's arguments. Two were myths

the number of days a pregnant employee
will be unable to work due to pregnancy,
two assunptions were made:
In Cegse A, the pregnant woman would
work until the end of the 8th month
and then take one month of sick leaye
at full pay. Following the birth, she
would take a 6 week maternity leave
whil still receiving accumulated
sick pay benefits.
In Case B, pregnant employees would
take all their accumulated sick days
either during pregna@cy or durtne
their maternity leave.
It is noteworthy that "On the average,
employees taking maternity leaves had
accumulated 5 45 weeks of sick pay at full
pay, and 8 *; weeks at half pay in '71
and 10’ weeks at half pay in '72. In case
B, women took a maternity leave of 1-16
weeks at 70% of full pay over the entire
period. In both cases, a doctor mst cer-
tify that a woman cammot work for medical «
reasons to be ‘entitled to any metlical
benefits. An insignificant number of
women could be expected to take longer
maternity leaves for medical reasons than
assumed in Case B,"

Of special interest is the negligible
impact ¢n overall labor costs. Under
assumption A, hourly medical costs for
women under 35 would have risen 12¢ an
hour; Under B, 13¢. In both cases, the
cost of the medical pevments to women under
35 would STILL BE IESS than to women over
35 and to men over 55,

In Yarch '73, The Social Services Employ-
ees Union, local 371 in NYC began disabil-

that can be exploded with feminist pressure: ity payments to women incapatitated by

1- that pregnancy is alweys voluntary, and
é-that pregnancy and maternity are normal
physiological conditions. These, of course,

childbitth. A.E. Alexander, chairmam of
the Board of trustees said:"It waa <¢ ohony
Situation that nobody had ever examined.
But we got some protests and (cont. 9, )

ans
Y «A NE KRUPSAK ON EROC AD WOMEN .

On June 19th end 20th Placement Coun=—
selors from a¢‘oss iiew York State gath=
ered at Skidmore College for their 2nd .
Annual Conference, After we were wel-
comed by Sara Kearsley, Placement Coun-
selor at Skidmore, Mr. Palamountain,
President of Skidmore added his welcome.
Did you know that Skidmore was originally
started to provide training in employ~ _
ment alternetives to prostitution?] Stu»
dents were trained to be cooks, gover=
ness', etc, Skidmore has continued to
have great respect for practical exper~
ience. One-third of its students are
in professional fields-education, nursing

and social welfare being the ones mention

ed (all traditionally women's fields} ).

The first main speaker of the day
turned out to be the most exciting, and
created the most heated discussion, The
Honorable i‘ary Anne Krupsak spoke on the
Laws on Equal Bnployment Opportunity
and Women, and I'd like to share some
of the points she made with you,

Mary Anne is confident that all fields
will open up for wo-en, Federal and
State Laws are clear; it is illegal
to discriminate in hiring beceuse of sex.
Presumption is on the employer as to
why sex is a legitimate excuse to deny
a job to a person, Also, equal pay
for equal work laws since July, 1972
include all Professional, Administrative
and Executive positions, On March 27,
1974, the Equal Employment Opportunities
Commission will be empowered to enforce
these laws, taking discrimination cases,
on their own motion or on an individual
complaint, to court. A woman must be
informed as to the requirements of a
job, be sure she qualifies, and be armed
with a knowledge of her rights under law.
Laws are her tools, precedents in court
decisions and enforcement of the laws,
her building blocks.

By attending hearings all over the
state with the Joint Legisletive Com
mittee on Industry and Labor, lary Anne
has heard women of many different per=
suasions all voice their concern about
discrimination in employment against
women, They are taking action too,
documenting evidence ‘in their localities
which they cen turn over to the JLC and.
the Human Rights Commission.

Now that there are women in the
Senate, some bills on discrimination

are finally getting to the floor, For
instance, a law which would make it
unlawful to ask unrelated questions in
job interviews was debated in the N.Y,
Senate and will definitely come up
again next year, Mary Anne urged the
counselors not to discourage students
from seeking employment in any field,
The floor was opened up for ouestions
and here are a few gems. Comment: if
a woman becomes an executive, and the
company asks her to move, she will
quit. Mary Anne: Few men are asked if
they will move or how long they plan to
stay with a company before they are
hired, but women are continually asked
these questions, A woman knows the re=—
quirements and conditions of a job just
as well as aman, People are living.
their owvm, flexible life styles; some
women will be willing to move, just as
some men; others will decline. Assump-
tions should no longer be made because
of sex, Copment: Harvard Business
School sent out a list of questions which
recruiters could ask when interviewing
there. If they would not agree to limit
their auestions to the prescribed list,
they were not invited to interview at
the school, Comment: You have to
consider the employers situetion as well,
If they hire women in managerial or
executive positions, the men won't work
with them! Comment: (very indignantly)
The women students at my college are
being asked to many job interviews,
The men students aren't being interviewed
and can't find jobs, That's reverse
discrimination] Comment: Industry
many times requests a list of outstand-
ing women and blacks, We refuse, ~
offering only to set-up interviews, not
on a sex or race basis, as this would
discriminate ageinst white males
Mary Anne: Corporetions are under
pressure from affirmetive action plans
to hire more women and minorities,
This is to REDRESS PRIOR DISCRIVINATION,.
Men have been so concerned about women
that they heve passed laws limiting
jobs which recuired the lifting of heavy
weights (never mind thet a woman with
two pre-schoolers and a shopping bag
lifts heavy weights every dey), and
night shift jobs from women (never mind
thet the lete shift salary was higher).
They were so concerned for women and
children, that they were restricted
from working in the fields except during
peak harvest time, when an exception
Cont. Page 20

WOMEN CANDIDATES

13.

STATEMENTS OF POLICY

BETTY GROSS

In the Spring of 1973 the Republi-
can Party in the City of Albay
asked me to run for Alderwoman in
the Fifteenth Ward. Although I am |
enrolled Democrat I accepted the
challenge.

For many years I have been active:
in community and civic affairs,
always in an effort to improve the
city md neighborhood in which 1
live with my family. My record
shows: this consistently. ~.

As past president and vice-president
of School 16 PTA I was instrumental
in inagurating the first lunch
program, providing a tot playground
at School 16, and placing a police
crossing guard at Manning Blvd.

and Washington Avenue.

I am a member of the Association
for Neighborhood Recreation which
is credited with saving the Rose-
mont playground from being sold by
the city. Presently, the committee
is working to develop the Colvin
Avenue recreation area,

As a member of the League of Women
Voters I worked on the Elected
School Board Committee which pro-
moted the concept of an elected vs.
an appointed school board in the
city. This committee was responsi-
ble for having that proposal placed
on the ballot for the voters of the
city to. choose.
I was a delegate to the Citizens
Convention for an Elected School
Board and then became campaign
manager for the Citizens Convention
Candidates, one of whom became the
first non-machine office holder
elected in the city since 1921,

If elected, unlike previous alder-
men in this ward, I pledge to be an
active, dedicated, independent and
visible legislator. My record shows
I Know how to get things done and
that I can think for myself.

Some progress has been made in cere
tain areas of our lives in the city
but the effort has been much greate-
er than the accomplishments. It is
time for a chage and 1 believe we

are at the threshold of that
change. 7

BERNICE SPITZER

It has come to my attention over |
the past years as a homeowner, that
most people are ignorant of their
rights and responsibilities as
citizens in our town. This situa-
tion exists because the means to
determine local laws, establishing
duties and rights regarding proper-
ty, and with regard to many other
concerns, are obscure. No one seems
to know where the ordinances are,
who is in charge of them, or if
they do in fact exist. Consequently
misinformation, rumor, even super-
stition have been allowed to grow
and flourish and run rampant over
the. years.

As Town Clerk, in the Town of

Colonie, I believe that my first

duty to the citizens of Colonie
ought to be to collate and list in
a pamphlet all of the pertinent.
ordinances of importance to the
citizen. Every new homeowner ought
to be sent a pamphlet upon record-
ing his or her new deed. Every
other taxpayer ought to be sent a
copy along with his or her assess-
ment. The minutes of the Town
Board meeting should be available
on request to every citizen.

It is necessary for government to
reach out, contact and meaning-
fully relate to the people whom it
serves. It is the job of those in
government, especially in a town
such as this with its rapid growth,
to. take the bold initiative and
assume the leadership necessary to
achieve only the very best quality
that our society can offer. The
very first step is’ in communication
with the citizen for whom we
govern. Before there can be input
to government from the private
citizen, government must take the
first step and invite the citizen
to participate. I believe that
the ideas I have set forth in
terms of the duties of the Town
Clerk can certainly be a big step
in that direction.

Sts setts sesh

SUPPORT YOUR SISTERS & YOURSELVES
VOTE

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ABORTION: LAWS, ATTITUDES, POLITICS AND POWER

Stern ene esteem se sed SSA RAISED

Nearly six months after the
Supreme Court struck down re-
strictive abortion laws, women in
many areas of the country still
find that terminating a pregnancy
means. leaving their hone state,
paying high prices or running the
risk of exploitation by commercial
referral services. Depending on
what part of the country
a woman can pay from about $125 to
$500 for an early-term abortion.

In many places, there is open
competition among agencies ad-
vertising solutions to "problem
pregnancies." And there is almost
no regulation.

sn¢.i6 .in,

much as $50, or in some cases, even
$100. Often the referral fee is
included in the "package" cost of
an abortion, with the woman having
no idea how much she is paying for
the referral.

Across the countr feelings
about abortion continue to run
h and opponents have been
fighting the loosening of restric-
tion with renewed zeal and in many
areas with telling effect.

In St. Louis, the City Attorney
has threatened to arrest any
physician who performs an abortion.
One result, according to Lawrence
Lader, Chairman of the National

For a woman seeking an abortion,association for Repeal of Abortion

the situation now varies greatly
from state to state, and even from
city to city within a state. Thus
a@ woman wanting an abortion in
New York City can get it readily
for a fee of about $125 for an
early pregnancy. But if she lives
in Utah or Indiana, for example,
she will probably have to leave
the state. Resistance in Utah
stems from the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter Day Saints, which
owns and operates most hospitals
in the state and exercises con-
siderable political power. In
Arkansas, any woman can get an
abortion if she wants it--and is
rich. State law in Arkansas re-
quires all abortions to be done in
a hospital and the result is that
fees run to about $500 for a first
trimester abortion.

In New York City large clinics
dependent on referrals from out
of state have cut down on their
services. Women's Services on
East 6lst Street now operates four
days a week instead of seven;
Eastern Women's Services also now
provides abortions just four days
a week. Even so, New York remains
the center for abortion, in part
because of the prices. The fees
for a referral by a commercial
agency vary. In some cases, it
might be $25, but previous prac-
tice indicates that a referral to
New York might net the service as

Laws, is that the association's
new abortion clinic there has
lost the services of its doctor.
The association has sought an ine»
junction against the City Attor-
ney to restrain him.

In Green Bay, Wisconsin, Mr.
Lader reports, the association
has brought suit in Federal court
alleging that the Methodist hosp-
ital there has refused to perform
abortions under pressure from two
other hospitals in the city--both
Roman Catholic. |

Mr. Lader said the association
is going to court against 10 pub-
lic hospitals in 10 states to
force them to provide abortion
services = a step that would be
difficult under provisions of a
proposed Federal measure that —
would assure hospitals the right
to refuse to perform abortions
and still receive Federal funds.
The measire has passed the Senate
by a vote of 92 to 1 and is being
considered by the House. A half
dozen state legislatures have
already adopted such provisions,
and similar proposals are pending.
Also proposed are constitutional
amendments that would either out-
law abortions or leave the matter
to the states.

Shirley Chisholm at Emma Willard

——

On June 9, Shirley Chisholm
gave the commencement address to
the graduating class at Emma
Willard in Troy. In her address,
Congresswoman Chisholm claimed
that "opportunities for advancing |
to the top in most fields hereto-
fore opened readily for white males
are being thrown open to women to-
eee Kt
"The male of the species is
not exactly known for his sensi-
tivity. This is frequently in-
dicated by his making jests on the
subject of women and women's
rights."

‘There are roles which have
been ingrained into the minds of
all of us and any attempt to rise
above these prescribed roles was
frowned upon with apprehension by
the males who wielded the power in
the establishment. All too often
- the potential for full intellece
tual development and goal reali-
zation on the part of women was
suppressed by denying to them the
appropriate job training and edu-
cational opportunity necessary to
assume positions which males con-
sidered to be their domain."

Ms. Chisholm objected to the
“assigning of certain roles,
either consciously or subconscious-
ly, to groups or human beings in
a democratic society on the basis
of sex or color when there is no
generic reason for acting thusly.‘

Chisholm went on to say that
"anti-feminism as well as anti-
blackness are two of the most
strident issues whose bulwarks
have been tumbling within the last
few years because of the overt
activities of both blacks and
woman." ,

She claims that "the myths
which suggest that women are too
fragile and too emotional to be

15.

During the 9lst and 92nd Congress
major legislation affecting women
was approved, including the Equal
Rights Amendment, the Equal Em-
ployment Opportunities Act, the
Omnibus Education Act and the
Comprehensive Child Development
Legislation, vetoed by Nixon.

The 92nd Congress also approved
legislation to include sex dis-
crimination within the jurisdic-
tion of the U.S. Commission on
Civil Rights; to prohibit discrim-
ination in admissions to medical
schools and health manpower train-
ing programs; to increase allow-
able tax deductions for child care
expenses for wrking parents and
to authorize the President: to
proclaim August 26th Women's Day.
- Chisholm said that “the fact
remains that we cannot reconcile
some contemporary remarkable in-
equalities affecting women with

our stated national principle of

equality for all citizens. Every
American has the natural desire
to feel useful and needed--for
those to whom the route of self-
fulfillment is through work, we

must help open job opportunities

free of discrimination. As a
nation devoted to high living
standards, we can ill afford to
waste skills and talents. It is
disturbing to realize that society
may have been denied a Dr. Frances
Kelsey or a Rachel Carson because
some woman was dissuaded from a
career in medicine or science
simply because of her sex."

She finished her address by
telling the graduates to "re-
member the challenge to break down
barriers which are not humanitar-
ian is raging=-your education has
been a failure if it has failed
to open your hearts to all mankind."

advanced to higher echelons in our ****# *#¥## HHH HH HRHHR HH HH HH

society have been exploded." And
she exhorted the graduating class
to"develop the kind of conscious-
ness which will make you intoler-
ant of injustice and inequality
wherever they exist."

"In education, in marriage, in every-
thing, disappointment is the lot of
woman. It shall be the business of
my life to deepen this disappoint-
ment in every woman's heart until
she bows down to it no longer."

Hee HH HH eee WGShope, 1895...

Mary Anne Krupsak on "Women in Changing Times

Mary Anne Krupsak spoke before the In-
ternational Honorary Society of Women Ed-
ucators Saturday, May 19th. Preceeding
her talk was the Society's orders of
business which included announcing awards
that went to undergraduate women that
showed financial need, seriousness of pur-
pose, professional promise and academic
achievement and a resident of the capital
district. The 1973-7) awards for a five-
year period totaled $2,500 for assistance
to undergraduates. Elementary education,
English, Business and Biology were the
majors of the women who won the awards.

Ms. Krupsak, who represents the ))jth
senatorial district and has served in
the Assembly two terms, spoke on "Women
in Changing Times". She cited areas of
work to be done: employment discrimin-
ation, marriage laws, and ERA. She
stressed the point of working together
as women and realizing the things we
have in common. With allies, she said,
we can seek and gain objectives. We
have reached State plateau and are learn-
ing through scales of communication with
experience in lobbying and legislative
momentum. We should focus on those things
we do have in common and work for some
change. Presently, she pointed out,
women's organizations are focusing on the
Equal Rights Amendment being passed.

The ERA provides a constitutional pro-
vision which spells out that women do
have rights. lis. Krupsak pointed out that
if this is not passed, we will continue
to have this slow process of case by case
and appealing to Human Rights Commission.
Some women are saying that under present
interpretation of law women have the edge
in custody fights. She argued that giving
a child to a woman instead of a man is
tragic. Welfare of that child should be
paramount. Under present law woman is
mother of child, man is part of that fam-
ily. The Judge should be free to evaluate
the worth of those two individuals and
award that child to the right parent.

Ms. Krupsak raised the question, "Why
are there only six women in the Legisla-
ture? Shouldn't women be seeking to

help make those laws and change priorities? Donations c

We are not only talking about ourselves
and ability to function but the ability
of women to have a choice in changing
priorities and changing directions and
participate in policy making decisions."
As a member of the Senate Education
Cormittee, Ms. Krupsak told of two bills
which came in as part of the austerity
budget-- one would have made libraries

16.
part of the budget and one athletics.

The athletics got out of committee. May
Anne Krupsak said if more women were on
committee, the libraries would have been
the work priority. This, she says, is
what it is all about.

Susan B. Anthony was mentioned in her
speech and the question was brought up
why we did not learn about her in our
history books. The pages were blacked.
out. We are now learning about it because

there are more books written about women's

studies and there are now courses being
taught. ;

Some legislation against women was
pointed out--working married women are not
eligible to keep their own money; married
women not having the right to own property
and having a say about their own children.

She feels we cannot blame men all the
all the way. If we women want equal
opportunities, we have to work together
and fight for them.

Ms. Krupsak pointed out the work to be
done is attitudinal--we need sensitivity
of men and women alike toward the discrim-
ination against women. Women are gaining
recognition on merits of their complaints
through the Human Rights Commission. One
decision she reported resulted in a Pub-
lishing Company in Rochester making resti-
tution to every single woman who was an
employee of that organization. Ms Krup-
sak advocates using the legal route by
all means when there is a case of discrim-
ination against sex. There was an announce-
ment on a bulletin board of a school for
an executive administrator and it said
"male wanted"--this she pointed out is
against the law!

f will end this article with a quote
from Ms. Krupsak: "There is no reason
at all why any women should have to apol-
ogize to have any drive or ambition to
be anything she wants to be .." "We need
to be able to recognize that .. we have
to support each other,"

by Sally Haskins

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NYS LEGISL”: TION

PASS:D LURING THE

FFECTING TH: STATUS OF WOMEN

ia 17
1973 SESSION

(The Governor is exnected to sign all of these laws; * indic.wtes
those already signed into law before June 20.)

ON CGLILD CRE

Aw1849 amends Social Service law,
providing thut number of children
to be cared for--for diy ccre--in a
family home will be culcul<eted in
accordance with regulations promul-
gated by Social Services benvartment
in accordence with Federal regula-
tions and strike out method of cal-
culating when there are other
children in the home. (Hausbeck)

A-1850 crovides that before permit
of institution or agency to provide
is denicd, the aoplicant or holder
shall be entitled to a hearingbe-
fore the Social Services fienartment.
(}. ogan)

#A-7326 reimires iducation Devarte

ment to cllocete funds to continue

support of exoerimental preekinder-
garten progqrems in anticinvation of

federal reimbursement under Title

IVes, Federal, Social iSecurity Act.
(Margiotta, et al)

f=O0207 amends uxecutive Law to re-
quire that Social “elfare Doard
‘ublish rules soecifying reyuire-
ments for aporoval of apalication
fon, certificate of «hic orpore tion sand
enumerating documentation needed

for avproval with no rule to be pube-
lished rejuiring that day ccre cen-
ter be operational et time of apnro-
val .of -incorporetion certificate.
(Wemple, et al)

ON CREDIT

HAK16CZ amends “xecutive Law to
include extension of credit, in pro-
vision makina it unlawful discri-
minctory practice to refuse, with-
hold from or deny to any person
beceuse of race, creed, color,
national origin or sex. (C.E. Cook)

ON DOMESTIC REL’ TIONS

#ie134 repeals Domestic Relations
Law, relating to divorce obtained
outside the st:te to eliminate
confusion created with respect to
Out-of-state divorces and witl
revert to the common law which up«-
held the validity of such divor-
ces when both Parties had anpeared
in out-ofestute court. (Burrows)

%Ae1119 amends Domestic Relations
Law to extend definition of state
under Uniform Support of Dependents
Law to include a foreign country.
(Taylor)

#A-815 adds provision to Domestic
Relations Law that in matrimonial
action for divorce or annulment,
judgement or decree shall contain
provision that

women may resume use
of maiden name. (Crawford)

#A=0164 amends Family Court Act,

to extend definition of members of
same family for jurisdiction pur-
poses to include man and woman live
ing together with child or children
of one or both as family whether or

not they have married one another.
(Mannix)

AG183=A/ S=1650 amends Domestic |
Relations Law to require that matri.
monial action be commenced by ser-
vice of summons and verified com-
plaint, to strike out exemptions
to commencement by service of sum-
MONSe.ee and to repeal provisions
establishing conciliation bureau
in each judicial district.

({T. Murphy/Goodman)

ON EMPLOYMENT & EMPLOYMENT BENEFITS

*#A@G amends Civil Service and Exec~
utive law, to make applicable to
both male and female provisions re-
lating to the eligibility of males
for anpointment in competitive class

of Civil Service as police officer.
(Bell)

#A-1109 amends Workmen's Compensa~
tion Law to change (cont. p. )

The Mature Returning Student cont.

Both women state that there is
a need to have one single person
follow a student from the time of
entrance until she leaves the uni-
versity. This counsellor should be
attuned to the needs of mature
women students. She should also
be aware that family pressure ma
life styles change drastically.
Women going through divorce, for
example may or may not be up to
taking a heavy course load. To
explain such a situation to somenne
you have never seen before is very
difficult. Some women may not reale
ize their own situation until they
are in over their heads. A Counselor
who knows her, can be of great
assistance to such women,

Financial aid is another shoft.

coming. Many women take only the
number of courses they can afford

18.
Frieda Carnell had some thoughts

that we would do well to consider.
Those of us who are in the position
to influence persons in the burniness
world could push for our sisters
who are about to enter it.

--On Civil Service tests, extra
points are given to veterans.
These points even up the difference
between the veterah and those whose
skills are sharp. Well, isn't the
dozen or so years a woman spends
raising the next generation just

as important as the four or less
years the veteran spend in the sere
vice of his country?

--Women have been taught how to
be mothers and wives. They must also
be taught that they can be career»
oriented too.

--Men have always been oriented
towards earning a living. They must
be taught how to be fathers and

to take each semester. If they were husbands as well.

made aware of Scholar Incentive
‘awards, student loans, and of pri-

e-In our society, asking questions
is frowned upon. We are supposed to

vate funds usually available at each know what Our needs are, what is

school, they could shorten the amount the right théng to do. If this

of time spent at gaining their degree. is the case, and we cannot put
These women presented a list of our needs into wrds, then more

suggestions. 1 would consider-them information should be readily avail~-

demands that the conscientious able to us so that intelligent

schools would do well to heed. decisions can be made.

--For several years I have been
taking money from family finances.
I have been spending this money on
an education. 1 would like a job
so that I can return this money
back to the family. The job should
be something I wouldn't be able to
do without all this education. Why
else take all this time ad money?

-~Counsellors have broken ground
for the veteran, the 22year olds,
the minority men. Now, what about
the older woman?

by Sherry Sussman
TL

Don't Just Sit There Reading SPEAK*
OUT ! Support your sisters. Ceme

to the Women's Day Festival and
show us how you feel. Support us
with your presence. August 26 at
Washington Park in Albany.

THE TIME FOR REVOLUTION 1S NOW.

enna

A Survival Techniques Handbook
listingsdirections to the school,
location of buildings and what
is found in e¢ach‘one, city maps,
'. Bus routes, DAY CARE CENTERS,
financial aid information, other
library facilities in the area,
facts about.essential tests that
must be taken and the dates for
each. :
Course descriptions should be
more accurate. List whether a
course is lecture, seminar, etc.
so that the student will choose
the cburse in which she'll be
comfortable.
Individual counsellors that will
follow the student through her
staf? at the school. These persons
should also be trained in evalu-

ating previous work and volunteer

experience. :
Placement Counsellors should make

more effort in finding emplovers
as willing to hire women as they

are tb hire veterans.

WH AT WOUEN |.ANT CONT,

Than a divergence between all men and all .
women, Thirty—five percent of nonwhite

The Solitary Divorcee

Behold her, single in the field
Unmarried to a silly ass,

19.

oe eee ee ee

and Staff, Inc.
‘that the divisions and contradictions of

f

t

which is plausible,

'
'
it

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t
,

women feel working wives should keep their’
salaries and spend it as they please and .
54% of non-white women feel entitled to
alimony (not child—support) even if they
work, Men agreeing with these two posi- =
tions were 15% and 13% of all men, res—
pectively, and same~minded white women
were 9% and 22% of those oueried.

The Parade Poll was conducted by the
opinion research firm of Daniel Starch
The magazine concluded

' Opinions are a sure sign that the pro-
, cess of change is still taking place,

hours of labor
They further deduced repeal certain related provisions

applicable only

establishwhent under certain condi-
tions, to emplo

that while "equality of the sexes is yet
to be achieved . . not all woren want it,"
which is not supported by the data and the

Reaping, singing by herself,

Let us reassess the lass:
Alone she stands, a person, whole;
Her thoughts are hers, as is her soul;

She knows the world is hollow, round, =
And stands there waiting for her sound, |

Carole Marks Schulkind |

<lasepesimestnentitecahensipisgimischtentbieinlsthansikcim ’
STATE LEGISLATION cont.
visions relating to employment and

to minors and to
to women; allows

females within

, Limited scope of the questions, four weeks after birth of child.

at 5 te yt hE = ‘ 2 . és Se 4 > Oise Reilly, eti- als
‘Maternity Blues Cont.
ON HUMAN RIGHTS:

_we stopped to reexanine our policy.! |
“N.O.W.'s Cormiitee on Revroduction under- ‘a :

cored the situation by entitlin: its leagl- ost Se —— Executive Law, to

tet "Are You Sick and ‘red of .I'ot Receiv- chin whi ok OF: 52 of ey pe aie
ing Satisfactory Disability Benefits for cn may be granted by human

}Childbirth? appots civision to study discrimin-
, ‘he answer is aa emphatic YES! It is steed ecause of age, race, color,
: time to "Throw up the lie!" x creed, or national origin to inclde
: Carol Biernaclki 5a (Strelzin)
, * Editor's note. Line from "There Was A
‘Yong Woman Who Swallowed | Lie" by
feredith Tax. |
a

The September SPEAKOUT will list
bills which will need our lobbying
efforts next session.

pee LEGISLATION AFFECTING WOMEN "The liberation of women is for
NT.

; women, not for men. This really is
ae pt eo pp a 99 the political revelation of feminism.
pe een Reili ete wie) The continued economic dependence of

gee Ys 4 " women upon men, both individually
“uA. 2AG and through social instttutions. is
oe — Samer Lew 26 prohib~ perhaps the central concrete factor
t contractor, subcontractor or “"Ynolding back the liberation of women
P person on his behalf from discrim~ 2

inating against or intimidating Blacks in America were the first to

derstand that an oppressed arou
hi 5 Ges Pp group
enpoay ere red for performance un must withdraw into itself to estabe

ublic works contract because |
of vex. et lig ee aT lish its own identity and rebuild its |

Strength. Feminists who still sleep
*“A-4185 amends Labor and Education Vp titee wey delivering their wpa
Law to provide that all references V**2* energies to the oppressor.
~O male employees in Labor Law
shall be deemed to include female Jill Johnston
employees, to change various refer- nena tees

ences from boys and females in proe————-.
ae Toman ines iRttr ian hell hele

a :
VOLEN'S: TA - PRM KRUPSAK ON EEOC CONT. Lt. 4

er eee

Albany feminists were amon; the many was made when the labor was needed concern
local residents who welcomed the recent disappeared! FULL EIPLOYIENT in society
openings of the city's first all-voman law should be our goal. But until then,
firm by :argrethe 1%. fovers and Katheryn 1iAYSE THE SHOE iS ON THE OTHER FooT Nov!
Katz at 1 Columbia Street. ‘Jndeed, any- © Hurrah for Mary Anne! This ended the
one living in the area has been mace aware question period unfortunately, as it was
of their work in domestic relations, civiltime for lunch. ‘he comments after lary
rights and anti-poverty lat. “hat is sur-Anne's speech showed that aititudes of

prisin: is that these to out-standins many Placement Counselors throughout
atvtorne’s have spent dvi thirveen ears New York State include a real. lac!s of un-
- before the bar. derstanding of the needs and problems of
Yume and again women say that the ‘their women students in seelzing jobs and
movenent will benefit their dauchters .. planning for careers. It is hoped that
but that they are too established, too — the next conference will allow more time

old (this at 30-l0!), too nroyranmed to to explore this further. |
change. -To these women, the e: erences °

of Povers and Katz should »%rove inspiring, . by Mimi Sternberg
30 th vthese wonen devoted thenselves tO SLaS LAN a SASL Sit SZAZ SANA boca AZ ek ke ken SESS AZ harks ATA Fy SZ Taal A A
raisins their children “sefore beginn: ne DT ODNT TITIAN TAI ODN ATIC TAN ICIS TCI CT CT CT OIC IN PCT CT CT OT CECT T CECT CT OTOP OTC TOIT

their professional studies. “oth women = yioyEMENT LEAVES MIDDLE=CLASS
started law School in their 30's, ‘ar- ;

erethe and Sarmel Powers have four row
children, “athern and ielvin Katz have is the title and emphasis ef an

two teen-agers. Once begun, however, article in the New York Times Maga=
both distinguished themselves as out-. zine (June 17) by Susan Jacoby, A
standing students at \lbanv Taw School. group of middle-aged thet hee

is Powers was graduated with high honors women in Flatbush grapple with this
as the Class of 1963 valedictorian and question and other consciousness

winner of the trustees' prize. .lis. Katz raising issues weekly in their group
was graduated seven years later a member and daily in their lives.

of the law Review. She received the Most of the twelve members of
Ruth Miner Law and Poverty Fellowship the group have known each other and
and a Reginald Heber Smith Fellowship shared life experiences as neighbors
from the 0.E.0. for the past 20 years, making them
Prior to the founding of their own firmanique as a CR group, They iden-
‘Ms. Powers was an-associate of DeGraff, tify with the women's movement on
Foy, Conway and Holt Harris. She is a many issues = "child day care cen-
cooperating attorney with the American - ters, equal pay for equal work,
Civil Liberties Union and handles area the right to abortion and contra=
cases for the organization without remun~ceptive information, the need ta

eration. Some of her clients have had educate young girls tea think of
problems with the Selective Service Sys- themselves as individuals in their
tem, drugs, student rights and racial own right instead of viewing them-
discrimination. | _ Selves only as future wives and

lis. Katz's first year as a practicing mothers", However, they feel
attorney was with the legal Aid Society that most movement women da not
of Albany. Some of the vital areas with understand how it feels to be getting
which she has been concerned were social older with very little money and,
services, housing, education, consumer in most cases, no college education
practices, family law, juvenile detentionor skills,
and campus disturbances.

SHEACOUT is always babar to report on 1% 1S encouraging to see that,

phi ae a We'wish Powers © oe-m-migdie class college~oriented
— ee ’ movement but is branching out to.

-all women, :

"What de I do for the next 29 years?!

INTEGRATING ShOP AND HOl® ECONOMICS
COURSES AT ALBANY JUNIOR HIGH ~

On Tuesday, June 12, Gloria DeSole and I
attended a meeting of the Albany Board of
Education, The purpose was to bring to

their attention the present discriminatory

practice at Hackett Junior High School
which requires boys to take shop courses
and girls to study cooking and sewing for
two years, and to read to the Board, the
Law, which makes the practice illegal,

Title IX of the Education Amendments
Act-—Prohibition of Sex Discrimination
States that:

"No person in the United States shall,
on the basis of sex, be excluded from
participation in, be denied the benefits
of, or be subjected to discriminetion

OUTRAGE! 21s

Maria Isabel Barreno, Maria Teresa Horta,
and Maria Vehlo da Costa, all published
Portugese writers, have been in jail since
last Spring for committing a "moral out= -
rage." The moral outrage was how the Portu-
gese authorities viewed their book-= a °
strong, devastating, and angry 400 page
feminist novel. One passage deals with a
poor woman who cleans offices dying from

her 23rd self-induced abortion, There is

a moving story about incestuous rape where
the father proclaims that he is not guilty.
He is ‘a man, and the daughter, perverse,
provocative, must leave home. There is a
letter from a woman in a mental hospital
who speaks with hatred against her own: ~

‘mother who took away the woman's illegit-

under any education program or activity imate son. And finally, there is a manifesto

receiving federal financial assistance ,

The Albany Schools are heavily funded
with federal money,
deny any child access to any course on
the basis of sex,

proclaiming, "But whores or lesbians, we

do not care what they call us as long as
the battle is fought and not lost..,

Thus it is illegal to mough, It is time to cry, ENOUGH, and to
form a block with our bodies,"

They have set their novel in what the

This was the first time this situation authors describe as the three cloisters:

had been brought before the Board, and

the convent, the mental asylum, end marriage

the issue sparked much comment and discuss— We have heard for years of the jailing of

ion, We were very pleased by the number
of women who supported us, The Board
made the tentative suggestion that the
courses be made electives, Gloria made
it quite clear that only by completely

integrating the courses would all students
be given equal opportunities to study both

shop and home economics in a confortable,
non=sexist environment. If the courses
were elective, many boys and girls would
be subjected to peer pressure—the boys
would feel reluctant to home econcmics
and the girls would be reluctant to sign
up for shop.

The subject was formally put on the
agenda for the next Board meeting. That
meeting was held cn June. 27,. At that

time, a committee was formed to come
up with a solution. At the next Board
Meeting July 10th, the matter of the
committee and how it would approach the
subject will be announced,

The law is very clear, but what has
been done by your school district to
implement it? Please speek to teachers
and administrators on this importent
issue,

Call Gloria DeSole at 438,643 for
more information,

Phoebe Sheres

(Ed, Note: See NY State Senate law
‘and Regents Position Paper '#14)

5:30—A

male writers —~ this may be the first
jailing of feminist writers — acknowledg—
ing Feminism as a political force, Portugal
is a repressive country, wallowing in
fascism, religion, and machismo. The New
Portugese Letters Committee had an emer=
gency fund raising party for the jailed
women on June 27, (n July 3 a demonstration
was held outside the Portugese Consulate
in New York, Wie may not know the outcome
of the trial for some time.

The jailing of feminists boggles the
mind { Still, here in this country we
must deal with insidious forms of repress—
ion taking the shape of critical antagonism
or critical silence, poor distribution of

our books and manifestos, failure to notice
them. KEEP CRYING ENOUGH }

The Portugese Consulate is at
630 Fifth Avenue, New York City.

Paula Corey

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THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY or THE WOMAN WHO MADE IT

We all know who I mean, even me.
She is the one who slid like an eel
from knowing any truth larger than herself.
She wheezed orgasms through all her rapes,
married well and joined clubs
_ and married average and glowed in the.
perfect home and kids, )
and didn't marry but "kept her freedom,"
fucked around in a Virginia Slims
imitation of men, )
never felt oppressed, of course,
made it into the Senate or
the Weather Underground,
impressed even corporation execs and
. cookiepattern Che's.)
And she took up Zen, ‘
went back to the earth, wore ankle-
| eneth dresses):
and madonna mystical smiles,
baked natural bread, did astrology
and good works,
got elected to the Board of United Fruit
and the National Welfare Rights
Organization Committee, )
became a famous artist/engineer/pilot/
architect/doctor--)
"anyone can, I did; pull yourself up by
your own G-string.")
She played matriarch with a sense of humor,
tough broad, fragile flower, spiritual
seeker,
Jewish princess, a real pal, earth mother
_ goddess, )
tripper, capable unhysterical real woman
friend, )
juicy cunt, boyish gamin, lyrical lover,
chic ‘swinger, and)
"your equal"
--and anything else the boys dug ina
female) .
at any given moment.
She even "expanded" her straight
| consciousness into being gay,)
then bloomed into a macho copy of what
is easier) |
to confromt in men than in a sister,
of what women in love never meant, not at

1° )

And yes, we know why.

We can pity the terror and comprehend the
threat)

to her woman's revolution.

We can understand that, until yesterday,

there were no other options.

We can even envy the i ee rewards

She seems to reap
for placing women last, after everything,
anything else.

22.
How she. hates us in herself!

How we detest her in our mirror!

And she got herself killed, of course, —
trying to shout Black Liberation Now :
while her black brother's foot was
plented on her throat, )
and then took one too many middleclass
pills, committing suicide, )
and after that had a heart attack at the

Fashion Industry Convention Annual Awards,
subsequently breaking her neck in a
ditch, while stoned, )

at the free farm in Vermont,
only to get her head blown off ina
townhouse explosion, )

two dayS Jater hemorrhaging out from a
safe, expensive abortion, )

afterward drinking herself to death or
overdosing on smack, )

and gave up the ghost forty years later,
children ail married,

while the other old ladies at the home,

or the entire congregation, or commune,

or college, or congress,

or movement, or family, or firm

Felt Her Loss Sincerely.

She refused to understand she was doomed
from the start, )
and she still doesn't like being reminded.
Too bad, sister.
And cheng? s less and less time for her
to.find her own way at her own speed.
She will hide behind our sisterhood,
not hers.)
She will Say this is an anti-woman poem.
She will be the ultimate weapon in the
hands of the boys, )
And I've just begun to realize
that I must not only destroy what she is,
but if I have to, kill her.

And then cradle her skull in my arns
and kiss its triumphant grin,
and not even cry for us both.
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This poem was written by Robin Morgan.

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Monster, a paperback published by Vintage
Books. [t sells for $1.95. It is nearly

unavailable locally. Ask your local
bookstore to order it for you.

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nursing, teaching and social work
still provide the best employment
opportunities for women’ Answers to
all these questions can be found in
three series of publications from
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organization devoted to expanding
employment opportunities for college
educated women who wish to combine
career and family responsibilities.

Priced at 1.25 each, booklets in the
self-guidance series include "Planning
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designed to provide the kind of practi-
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her through the crucial stages of pre~
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Booklets in the Education pportunities
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appropriate educational program if
graduate study or additional training
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info on partime opportunities and all
include actual ease histories of women
who have successfully combined career
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To get a publications order form, an
interested woman must request the
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woman who completes’ the queStionnaire
and feels she is ready for immediate
employment can indicate that she would
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Roster, a computerized listing of qual-
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rather than name) which will be dis-
tributed to interested employers. She
will also receive a list of resourse
groups in her area that are part of
the Catalyst network and offer educa-
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referral or placement services. She
is invited to participate in Catalyst's
Partnership Exchange based on computer
printouts of data on other women in
her geographic area who are seeking
partners in a given field.

Catalyst is condi cting an extensive
campaign with national employers to
increase assimilation of women at
responsible levels and to promote
flexibility in work schedules. The
national program is funded by Kellog,
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Interested women should write to Cat-

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10028

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I am very interested in creating *
an employment agency specializing
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job development with potential
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working on this, wr would like
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GROUP NEWS 2h.

Albany Feminists Refer, cont.
The Feminists is devoting the cial situation is poor. Money is
summer months to recruiting new needed if the switchboard is to cone

members. We anticipate closing our tinue to offer services to the peo-
group in the fall while we get to ple in this area. For this reason,
know ourselves and each other better we are holding a benefit dance at
Women interested in consciousness= tthe Bethlehem Coffeehouse on Adams
raising should call Dorothy Bellick street in Delmar. The date is
(355-8704) for place and time. Monday, July 9, from 8 to 11 pm.

We are considering returning to The rock band SAUCE will be donating
Wednesday night meetings. Former its services for the benefit. The
members who would like to return proceeds from this and other events
are most welcome. One of our found= will serve to maintain md expand
ing members, Barbro Wilson, will be the services presently offered by
moving to the Springfield, Mass. Refer.

area. Any of our readers Knowing of

CmwR groups in that area could send (Coalition For a Free Choice
this info to Speakout, and they will” When Speakout decided to include
forward it on to Barbro. The Femin= gq column from the Coalition, I

ists are also planning their contri-yolunteered, partly because no one
bution to the Women's Day Festival. else did, and also because I like
We hope to see all our d sters at to write and I'm absolutely committe
Washington Park on August 26, ed to the right to abortion, After
; the issue had been printed, I hunted
HeOets Reproduction Task Force through it for the column. It wasn't
The Reproduction Task Force held there. Instead there was one list |
its first meeting on June 3. We ing the various activities of the

discussed our priorities at nationalcoslition for the past month. What
and local levels. Nationally, our j nad written. was a half-page con-
priorities inelude preparation for yincing readers that the abortion

a possible fight over the "fetus" issue must not be lost. Somenne
amendment and the '74 Congressional 4614 mes"You don't have to sell
elections. Locally, the task force Speakout renders bon ahertton,"
decided to work on two projects for I wish 1 had my original column
the summer. The first is to preparenoy. 1 know YOU don't have to be

a presentation for use by the Speak-.51q on it, but I am sure you have
ers Bureau of N.O.W, The second no idea how close you are to losing
project is to conduct a survey of the right to abortion. When Jetters
thé local health industry. This will are received on the Federal level
involve writing and distributing a a: the rate of 2,000 against to ONE

questionnaire to local women. The SINGLE LETTER FOR abortiones...the
information received will be summare law is in jeopardy!t

ized and made available to interested | can remember the looks on the
women. The Reproduction Task Force faces of the people who had worked

needs more members to be effectiveeso hard on the McGovern campaign,
Contact Shari Micheli 399-4338. after the returns were all in. They

were crestfallen = even though they

Refer Switchboard of Albany knew there was a slim chance, if any,

Refer is a crisis center based that he could win. How will we feel
in Albany. It has been running when the right to terminate a prege=
successfully for three years, Prob=nancy is taken away? 1 keep mentally
lems such as drug abuse, legal dif=- drawing an analogy between this
ficulties, pregnancy, emotional situation and that of a homeowner
disturbances, family and peer group who has seen a few termites and
conflicts, sex, loneliness arejust gone nothing about them. One day,
some of the many problems handled the floor arourld him suddenly caves
by Refer. We are an independent, in. Until Jan.22, '73 women never
non-profit organization. We depend haq the right to control what happene:
upon private funding through contriwithin their uterus. If we fail to
butions. Presently, Refer's finan= pola onto this right now that we

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Group News Continued

Coalition news cont.
have it, how can we ever expect to
get it back again? It doesn't mat-
ter if you would never have an abor
tion yourself, the real issue at
stake goes far beyond abortion. It
is one of personal freedom... the
“most personal freedom there is.

Help us. We are here to defend
that freedom. Tel:462=5083

Jane M. Dwyer

P.S. Many thanks to those workers
who helped with the recent garage
sales. We raised enough money to
Keep us going for a couple of month

Women's Political Caucus
The June 20 Steering Committee
meeting was a particularly fruitful

one. Three local candidates met with

us to discuss their campaigns.
They are Madonna Ghandhi candidate
for County Legislatire, 25th Dist.
Betty Gross, candidate for Alder-~
woman, 15th ward, and Bernice
Spitzer, candidate for Town Clerk,
Town of Colonie. The steering com-~
mittee agreed to help them with
their campaigns and asked them to
become active members of the Caucus
The Statewide convention at
Syracuse was discussed. After Jan.
1974, Alba y will be the location
of the statewide headquarters. Jane
Small Sanford is now the temporary
treasurer of the NY State WPC. It
will be ap to our local members to
set up the headquarters office and
to obtain the necessary equipment.
We will be setting up a speakers
bureau which will obtain speaking
engagements with local groups.
With elections coming up, it is

hoped we will be in demand from the |

media to supply informahioh about
the candidates and the issues we
support.

We have been asked by Mr. McNult
y "i PS Bok Ad

to advise him about the condition
of women at the Albany County jail.
We are also advising the McKulsky

Committee about the representation

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CALENDAR AND. ANNOUNCEMENTS 27.

July 6 Field Trip to State Capitol,
Sponsored by Albany Public Library.
Children grade 3 and up. 10am=11:30
Meet at Harmanus Bleecker Library.

Call 465-1463 to register Child.

July 11 Refer Switchboard Benefit

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Place: 83 Melrose Ave. Albay.
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August 26 WOMEN'S DAY FESTIVAL
Washington Park, Albany. Support
the Movemeht with your presence.

July £0 Field Trip to Police Station March, Speakers, Draft Demonstra~

Meet at Howe Library. Call 472-9485
to register your child. 10am

July 25 Child Development Council
of the Albany Area welcomes all
people concerned with Day Care.YWCA
55 Steuben St. Albany. 7:30 pm.

July 27.Field Trip to Animal Museum
Meet at Harmanus Bleecker Library.

tions, Literature, Games, Enter-
tainment for all ages. Bring your
Sisters, bring your family.

Begins about 11 AM. Lasts all day.

JOB WANTED Mature, experienced women
wants a job ¢s « “other's helper, bebysitte 2

or elementery reading tutor re-soneble
rates deys, nites, weekends Call Jo

Call 465-1463 to register child. 10am 462-2041

Troy Women's Liberation meetings
changed from Tuesday to Wednesday.
7:30pm at the Sth Ave. Presbyterian
Church,Troy. (Between Grand md
Fulton Streets on 5th Ave,)

& Free Cate: Loveable, fuzzy, gray-
white young male cat.; All white

male (adult) with green eyes, 99 9/0

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DEATH ROW at local pound. Please
Help. Call Carol 463-6897,

August 3. Field Trip to Fire Dept.

Meet at Delaware Library 10am. Call
463-0254 to register your child.

August 6 Capital District Women's

NEWS FLASH

The Office of Zconomic Opportunity (CEO)
is the defendent in e case of sex dis-
criminetion due to its proposed $3 mill
grent to the US Jaycees.

Vary ‘ allach, NOW, end the 'omen's Le-
gal Defense Fund of 'iashington, D.C.,
plaintiffs in the case, ere esking for a
decleretory judgement thet an OIO grent
of funds to the Jaycees is unlawful under
the provisions of the Zconomi.c Opynortunity
Act. of 1972. (io person shell on the
ground of rece, sex, color or netional
origin be excluded from perticipstion in,
be.denied- benefits of, or otherwise be
subjected to discriminz-tion under eny
progrem or activity receiving finencial
assistcnce pursuent to the cect.)

the plaintiffs cite as the basis of

business meeting. Contact Joan Schulz their case the fect thet the Jaycees

4155 East Shore Dr, Heldeberg Lake,

August 10 Field Trip to Dandee Donut

Meet at Pine Hills Library, 10am.
Call 482-7911 to register child.

If you are a high school woman or
know of one interested in joining a
Women's Liberation consciousness-—
raising group call: Andria Lurie

bar women from membership in their netion-
al orgenizetion end locrl chepters,

The pleintiffs ere asking for e tem-
porery restreining order end e perme=
nent injunction against grenting ony
funds to Jaycees so long as the orgeniza=-
tion continues to discrim nete egeinst
women,

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(Loudenville,days), Joan Schulz

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We are all in new country when it comes to our ideas about
women. And nothing is changing so fast as old-country
notions of what women can and cannot do. Today more
women earn theirown money than ever before. That changes
how they think, live, soend, save, marry, care for their homes,

New country. bring up their children. It doubles the talent and brainpower
available to help with all the work we have to do in this
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Vol. Ii No. VIII Septeuber 1973

Table of Contents

L. Stateuent of Policy Q- Jenness Cortez: Artist
e. Sex and a Vibrating Issue 16: Letter Frou the Editor
11

Growin; Up Fenale - Who's The Dope?

3. I an a Lesbian 12. Employment Opportunities
4. The toad To Truth and Free- Announcenents
dois; quotes from the fenin- 13. Why Abortion?
ist pueEs 14. PeMshe st hG"e TOR! BEnk¥Sh pro

5. Free Fro. the Governuent:
Sterilization. Paula Corey
6. Oldies But Goodies

TS. Calendar and Announceiients
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Hot Flashes Christ Chunch — 4
etters To the Editor ‘ak ecto: Worn” cat aean’
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So while I do not pray for anybody or any party to commit outreges,
still I do pray, and that earnestly and constantly, for some terrific
shock to startle the women of this nation into a self-respect which
will compel them to see the abject degradation of their present
position; which will force them to break their yoke of bondage and
give them faith in themselves; which will make them proclaim their
allegiance to woman first; which will enable them to see that man
can no more feel, speak or act for woman than could the old slave-
holder for his slave, The fact is, women are in chains, and their
servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.
O, to compel them to see and feel, and to give them the courage

and conscience to speak and act for their own freedom, though they
face the scorn and contempt of all the world for doing it!

From a letter to a friend, 1870. Susan B. Anthony

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Liberation is not to stand at the door of the male world, beating our
fists, and erying "Let me in, damn you, let me in!" The point is to
walk away from that world and concentrate on creating a new women, a
woman who will take no place in that world, a women who will make that
world fall merely by refusing to populate it, a woman who will remeke
herself, and her daughters, in a far more divine image (more recog-
nizably human) than the one she now occupies.

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SEX AND A VIBRATING ISSUE

EE ER AE A I A,

In June '.C.%, sponsored a conference on
Sexuality, or plain old SE” as the mem-
bers of one workshop decided. 2eported and
previewed somewhat drily in the W.0.W.
press, &.3. Dreher in the June ‘ssue of
Yajority Report has cone through with a
piece which come right down to the nitty-
gritty, "Come Out, Come Out, “hatever

You Are',

N.O.%.'s struggle with the presence
of men at any event was very much in the
foreground, she reports. A conflict which
, reared its ugly head undoubtedly at the —
slide show, "“Cunts} a presentation of
artist “etty Dodson's paintings and vari-
-ous other representations "Creatinr a
Female Genital Aesthetic", (the official
N.O."7, title).

Dreher also levels a well-placed punch
at the sale of vibrators by a man assisted
by “omen at a price $5 higher than avail-
avle elsewhere. Naturally the salespitch
was also from him.

workshod topics included "lisexualiity,
Lesbian Nation, Child lolestation, Older
Women, fantasy" and 35 other gems. Good
feelings seemed to have surfaced in many
of the workslons with omen affirmine “
their se:sual selves as healthy and vosi+
tive. Dreher feels the workshoxs which
used consiousness-raisin« techniques
worked better since they allowed all of
the “omen to express themselves. She feels
that the CR techniwues were generally un-
familiar to workshop leaders who tended to
instruct rather than to Hearnand learn
from every “oman present,

Dreher concludes that while having a
Sexuality conference is a political act,
we rust not set lost in the politics of
sex alone. "She Revolution" will be achiev-
ed by both men and omen. A conclusion *
hard to swallow, unless you've also swal-
lowed the 7.0... line,”

~-0,

* *

GROWS UP PEMAT

Girl Scouts in Philadelphia have
missed an opporvunity to vet a new
merit badse called "“'o Be a “oman. !
The *adge program sought to provide
caceite scouts (ages 12-1) with a
becter understanding of se:mal inter-
course, pregnancy, lenstruation, ven-
ereal disease, birth control, rape,
and abor‘sion.

Parental permission was required

to parvicipate in the program. Hut par x=.

en'.s and the Philadelshia Catholic

“-Arentocese, which sponsors 6,500 in

33h troops, launched an attack: vhat
killed this pilot prosram in sex edu-
ca‘ion.

Ona parent explained it this way:
"Yo me a Girl Scout means valcing cook-
ies for the old ladies on Christmas,
wavering the planis at the railroad
Station and valine nature hilzes. I see
the bedse as representing the radical
element of the women's liberation
movement,

“lonsense!’, replied Iuriel lehman,
president of the -biladcelphia.Council,
which as 29,000 scouts. She says, "the
badge supports women in their strugele
for par:.ty. Tor too lone women have
been iJl-informed, timid, inactive, or
Ceniec. the opportynity to be try] ac-
chve citizens,"

wequirenents for the badge would have
included a lmowledve about, menopause,
hysverectomies, termination of a preg-~
nance’, women in hisvory, how woiten live
and how to handle a rape emargenoy.
Cirls would have been urgec to visit
a} clinic, to use a stethoscoxe and

Sealant: i 3 : 1 ee
-listen’ to their hearts and lungs and

those of their friegds, anc to prepare

a skit on how to deal with a rape

situation, Really redical -stuff,

aS a4
# "y

“Ho senuine social revolution can be accomplished »y the male, as the
male on top wants the status quo, and all the male on the bottom wants

is to be the male on top. The male "rebel" is a farce; this is the male's
"Society", made by him, to satisfy his needs. He's never satisfiec, be-
cause he's not capable of being satisfied. Ultimately, whet the male
"rebel" is rebelling against is being male. The male chanves only when

forced to do so bv iechnology

when he has ,no0 choice, when "society"

reaches the staze where he must chanve or die. Ye're at that stage now;
af women don't get their asses in gear fast, we. many very well all die."

__ Ee

Valerze Solanas

er oe ce eee eons
I AM A LESBIAN 3

me ee

fugust 26, \.omen's Day, is e greet dey for us all end one which I celebrate with joy
and pride. But it is also the dey on which I heve to confront what is at once my orn
perticuler sorrow end the sorrow of our women's movenent, ly sorrow is thet I am not
free to speck openly to my sisters sbout my experience as a gey voman but rether must
stend beck end listen while soeone else t:lks to other women snd to men ebout my Cx
perience, jot free because of »ossible loss of job, not free beczuse of OSsivle
loss of housing, not free because of the potenticl harzssment end violeice which may
result—not free prin: rily becuse of my fecr of such consecuences,

vomen who ere feminists certeinly know the n ture of fe:r but for lesbisns the por=
tion is double beceuse we ere douzly depised, es women end es homosexuals, end be~
ceuse while women hove e structure of lews, however fr.il, to sunvort their right to
exist, we heve none. Inceed, it is not simply e metter of not heving lews to protect
us; in most st:tes we ere defined es criminels cud our sct of lovine one enother is
punishable by jeil sentences of enywhere from 30 devs to life ir»risoment,

Living with fe-r is a horrible experience; it is the worst for of existential nausea
thet I know. ~Yothing makes re hete -yself more, nothing mekes me feel less humen,
nothing so cle:rly defines my »osition in the voric es continuclly offensive, contin-
ually one-down, continuelly outside es the ferr which 7 xperience ech tine there

is ai opportunity to sperk out end Te: <freie to. I like my jop end I like rhere

I live enc i hete the fect thet I have to choose betreen these things which sre es
vitel a pert of my identity es my semel »references anc my aesire to be completely
open edbout my lesbieitism.

This is not e false dichotomy end it is not percnola, I heve experienced enouch of
our culture's homovhcbia not to Ve teken in oy the Jibercl rh@torice which sugcests
thet people ere more open then I thialke cad thet I siculd be more trusting. The
annels of gey history ere full of the consecuencés of such trust—-ostr:cizetion,
heressment, loss of jov, errest. Lbeccuse unfortua:tely, oetheticclly, for neny
people experience does not invorn stereotyves; rother stereotynes ore tricen es the
guide to experience end once one is defined es e lesbien one is Simply seen different
ly. wothing is nore depressing thet wetehing one's personelity cisenperr in e haze
of pre judice—one is sucdenky not "fit to tesch children" or to live in e "e000
neighborhood" or fit to srist. _

I think one of the bitterest things in ry ow: exverience hes been vitehing this phe-
nomenon et work in the herds of my owa perents. I heve not chen ec their cttituces
about lesbisnism ceszite their sre t respect, love, end edmiretion for me; rether
their stereotype of a lesvien so controls their thinking thet ther no longer know how
to relete to me beccuse while ther still love cad respect re they elso know thet I

,

must be sick, cueer, perverted, natur-l,
A lesbiens fecr is not perinoie; it is r reclistic, eve: necess*ry, pert of her ex-
perience, She wust continuelly be sensitive to her every ¢ sture end whet it might
reveel; she must continuelly "cheeks out" the crovia tefore she does or s-ys anything
to see vho might be there from work or from her neivhborhood. Jnd like so meny of
my sisters, I am unwilling to ley into the hends of @ culture vhose hyper-sexuelity,
besed es it is on a tlorough-going hetred of serurlity, insists woo cefining a. vest
segnent of its populetion entirely in te:ms of sex. I will not become the plaything
of someone else's sick fentesy; I will not give un my job to someone else's vet
dre:m. ‘nd so I compromise: I en open with »eople I !mow énc trust, I sverls vhen it
is safe to sperk, I write erticles for SruaiOUT but I don't siga my neme, ind I am
aireia, «and I hate it,

The massive cultural eortheuake recuired to oelter the essumpation thet heterosemelity
is bot:. neturcl md univers:1 is so overwhelming to conceive thet one feels uncble to
initiete politiccl cestures which ridegnt help, The women »resent on “ioman's Dey are
going to ve invited—chellenred-to teke such - ste), They ii] be asked to weer leven
der ermbends és a tolten of support for lesbiens, ‘hen 711 women sey I ena Iesbien,
when e211 women embrace the bedge of lesbianism, then lesbicns ernnot be discririneted
aginst end the vower of womer ernnot be cont: ined,

4

THW ROAD TO TRUTH AND FREEDOM: sclections from the fcuinist press

LL CLC CE LE Et nee unease senna mune

WOMEN AND CHILDREN LAST...There
are -> Million mericans with
incomes under $4,000. Nixon's bud-
get cuts fall heaviest on the wom-
en and children at the bottom of
the economic ladder. Specific pro-
rans being cut are school milk ,
nursing and health personpower, ed-
ucation for the handicapped, publiz
assistance, social and individual
services, benefits of disabled
coal miners( by 35%!) low and mod-
erate income housing aid, job tra-
ing, day care, family planning, etc.
"This means that in some states the
services to poor women and children
may be cut in half."

ON FARM TRAINING has been proposed
in a senate bill introduced by

McClellan, and Arkansas Democrat,
to aid elgible wives and widows
of Veterans.

PEMINIST DIES: Gladys O'Donnell,
pioneer aviatrix, former president
of Republican Women and fighter

for the ERA.

the above selections are
from The Woman Activist

May 1973

OBSTETRICIANS AND GYNECOLOGISTS
BLASTED BY STUDENT NURSES speaking
at a New Jersey N.O.W. meeting..
They found OB/GYN's overtly racist
and sexist. Women in the city hosp-
ital Clinics are automatically
prescribed milk-drying medication

MALNOURISHED PREGNANT WOMEN ng
MAINOURISHED PREGNANT WOMEN

infant children have yet to
benefit from an unimplemented
food program. At the present
time 154,000 women and children

benefit from surplus commodities

distributed by the Dept, of Agri-
culture, but last year 16,000
people were dropped due to fund
cutbacks, and moreover, unsuit-
able commodities such as fruit
packed in sugar syrup have been
used to replace much needed pow-
der milk. In NJ there are over
200,000 poor people who get no
food assistance. In Newark--al-
most 50,000. Newark also hag
one of the highest infant death
rates in the nation(ed. note,
God Bless America!)

ALBANY AREA NOW prepares a compre-

hensive chapter/member handbook
aimed at both new and old chap-
ters as a "how to do it" re-
sourc. The handbook will include
NOW materials, thet Set papers;
guidlelines for CR*(Albany Now!!)
actions, etc, sources of materials
ie. Dick and Jane as victims;
steps to take in confronting the
opposition; federal guidelines;
sate and local laws. The chapter

_. 1s committed to providing such

a source to help integrate( gia)
its own members; if other chap-
ters wish copies, they will be
made availablr. An appeal is now

and not asked if they want to breast-being made to Eastern regional

feed; post partum depression is
not dealt with. On another sub=
sect women were advised to accept
certain body odors as natural, and
truly unpleasant oders can be a
sign of trouble and should be
checked by a doctor. Using talc to
eliminate odors should also be
avoided as it has been shown to be
carcinogenic (cause cancer) in lab
animals. Cornstarch or arrowmnoot
are safer substitutes.

HOUSEHOLD DOMESTC WORKERS

will soon
receive a@ minimum wage for the first

time; $2.20 an hour plus overtime.
cont. top of page

to help with this project. A sur-
vey questionnaire will be sent to
each chepter in the near future.

# Speakout editorial comment
the above selections are

from Essex County N.O.W.

Chapter News
July-August 1973

FREE FROM THE GOVERNMENT: STERILIZATION

The involuntary sterilization of °°:
girls and wemen has been going on in this
country for some time. It is free to the
poor end those women judged "mentally
incompetent," This method of "birth
control" is fairly common in Puerto Rico,
A number of orgenizations, such as the
Association for Voluntary Sterilization,
and The Human Betterment (?) Association.
for Voluntary Sterilization, were formed
to popularize the idea of sterilization
in this country. Threatened with the
cut-off of relief funds, scme poor women
have been forced to undergo this sterili-
zation procedure in return for a con-
tinuation of welfare "benefits,"

Recently the national media have
given considerable attention to the
Montgomery, Alabama lawsuit concerning
the sterilization by tubal ligetion of
two young sisters, ages 12 and 14, They
are black and poor and the 12 year old
is considered mentally reterded. Both
girls had been used as guinea pigs by
the federal government while receiving
a long lasting injecteble contraceptive
drug, Depo-Provere, The drug was with-
drawn from use following Senete heerings
held by Senator Kennedy. The older girl
then signed a consent form for her own
sterilization, (Alabama law permits com-
petent persons 14 years of age end over
to consent to their owm medical cere, )
The mother of the sisters Signed an X
on a piece of paper she did not under-
stand given to her by people who lied to
her=-her 12 year old daughter was then
sterilized,

A suit seeking 1 million in dam-
ages for the sterilization of the two
young girls was amended to include those
two staunch defenders of law and order,
John Dean III and John Ehrlichman, The

suit claims that the girls were sterilized

without their knowledgeable consent by
an anti-poverty agency operating with
federel money. The Montgomery County
Community Action agency is the lergest
organized provider of family plenning
services in Montgomery. It arranged but

did not pay for 11 tubal ligetiions during

the last year. The patients ranged in
age from 12 to 33. Seven patients -~
ages 21, 19, 17 (2), 16, 14, and 12 --
were considered by the progrem to be

ee A Se a a ae

mentally retarded,

Neenwhile, in another action, the
ACLU filed a $1 million demage suit on
behalf of a black teen-age girl on wel-
fere who was sterilized eight years ago
without knowing the type of overetion
being performed, The ACLU says the girl's
mother was coerced into consenting to the
operation under the threat of being ta'-en
off the welfare rolls and that the family
was told the operation would only be
temporary. The suit was filed in North
Caroline on behalf of !‘ial Ruth Cox,
who was 18 at the time of the operetion
and judged mentelly incompetent.

The mele lawnekers of liorth Caroline
have a statute that provides for sterili-
zation of mentelly defective persons
(women), It is not cleer at this time
how such conclusions of mental defective-
ness are reeched, Perhaps being poor,
black, and femele is enough,

Paule Corey

4 WAY OUT OF THE POVERTY MESS

A very large portion of peverty families
(ferty per cent) are headed by women,
Among poor black families the figure is
even higher, Over 50 % are headed by wom=
6m. Most of these women have few mar-
ketable skills, so many ge inte demes-
tic work, Unfortunately it is very hard
to make it in the job world as a domes=
tic. The work is long and hard, There
are no vacathens with pey, health ben—
efits, or retirement benefits which
most American families take for granted,
If the familty for which she works moves
or tekes a vaction or just decides they
do not need her services that week she
has no severence pay, she must simply
make do any way she CANS eee

‘These women are struggling to make
ends met end keep their families toget~
her, They are proud herd workers who are
doing their darndest to stay off the
welfare rolls and are getting precious
little hekp for their efforts, Let's
provide some help for those who help
themselves,

Congressionel Record May 1973

Shirley Chisholm, Patsy link, Martha
Griffiths, Elizabeth Holtzman, Bella
Abzug, and other ‘embers of Congress

OLDI:S BUT GOODIES

"The mele claim thet femeles find fulfill-
ment through motherhood end sexuality re-
flects what males think they'd find ful-
filling if they were female. Women, in
other words, don't have penis envy; men
have pussy envy."

", . « the female function is to relite,
groove, love and be herself, irrepleceabJe
by anyone else; the male function is to
produce sperm. ‘/e now have sperm banks.”

"Screwing is, for e man, a defense against
his desire to be female. Sex is itself a
sublimation, "

"Uneble to give love or affection, the
male gives money. It makes him feel
motherly, The mother gives milk; he
gives breed. He is the Breadwinner,"

“Every male's deep-sected, secret, most
hideous feer is the feer of being dis-
covered to be not e female, but a male,
a subhumen animel,"

If ell women simply left men, refused to
heve anything to do with any of them—ever,
all men, the government, end the nationel
economy would collapse completely."

", . « love cen exist only betieen two

secure, free-wheeling, independent,
groovy females, since friendship is besed
on respect, not contempt,"

"Z,lthoug: completely physicel, the mele is
unfit even for stud service. He is not em-
pathizing with his pertner, but is obsessed
with how he's doing, turning in an A per-
formance, doing a good plumbing job. He is
a walking dildo, It's often said thet men

use women. Use them for whet? Surely not
pleasure,"

All quotes are from the historicelly
classic SCUI Manifestom-2 book not
generally available at your loca] booke

store, Nor is it's author, Valerie
Solanas, generally aveilable since her im-
prisonment in 1969 for her essault with a
deedly weapon upon Warhol. For the male
point of view, the books of Norman Mailer
are always available, So is he. He did
not go to prison for his assault with a
deadly weapon upon one of his wives.

_HOT FLASHES
Keep _on Tricking

A "small: but prosperous" prostitution
operetion by two young women working out
of the Holiday Inn in Menands hes been
smashed by the ever vigilent State Police,
When the manager of the motel ("this is

a femily motel") asked for St-te Police
assistence they sent in a team of five
dediceted investigators to entrep the two
women. The arrests were mede when two of
the investigetors were pronositioned by
the two women.

Keep On Divorcing

The stete has dropped its controversiel
requirenents for a 12Q-dey concilietion
period before grenting divorces end
seperrtions. Governor Rockefeller hes
signed e bill thet removes all reference
to concilistion in setting forth the
legel recuirerents for sterting e divorce
or seperction proceeding.

Keep On Kidding Yourself

In e recent telk in Princeton, New Jersey,
Gloria Steinem compered women to e ceste.
'" @ have to redefine our terns without
the old patricrchel racist tisms',"
Steinem begrn. "i omen area caste, in
anthropoligical terms, not 2 class, in
sociel or philosophicel terms, she ex
plained, Caste cennot be changed, it is
the rost besic of all divisions. The
depth of that definition mekes the
women's moverent a revolution, not a re-~
form. The male-domineted merriece struc-
ture "makes us feel that we ere nothing
without e men. Jt makes us man-junkies--
we need them to give us e shot of identity,
So we get 2 many eny men, to be there,
standing next to us, everyday, or just

on Seturday nights. If men only under-
stood how little it matters which one is
stending there..."

Keep On Pushing

A leader of the Troy County Viomen's Po~
liticel Caucus—Doris Trashen——seys that
she has received a fevorable resnonse
from the county Republicen Chairmen on
incrersed recruitment of women for public
office cendidecies in xens. County, The
Caucus begen investigetion into the ab-
sense of women's ccndidates in the
county after designetion days,

i eee
LETT:

RS TO The sDITOR

Dear Editor: .

We are in the midst of preparing
the letest volume of our annotated
directory of periodicals devling
with controversi.l issues, dissi-
dent views, or minority opinions.
Your periodical has been suagested
for inclusion. You would do us a
grect favor if vou would send us 3
different recent issues and fill
out the enclosed questionnaire.

Ted Spahn, =ditor
From, Radical Left to
Extreme Right
Roseryv College

River. Forest3° 311%

Dear Sisters:

Enclosed is my overdue “3 for a
subscription. Your publication is
really satisfying, not just the
current feminist information but
the noetry md other literary arti-
cles give me immense Pleasure. Keep
up the aood work,

Anne Karabin

Dear Sisters:

‘@ want to know more about your
publication. Ve are 2 feminists

who heve agreed to helo 2 university
professors with a book about women
and the media This project began
as the result of research that Dr,
Ramona Push, now.at the U. of Flori-
da, has done on women Ph.D.'s in
journelism and also of experiences
from one of the first courses in
women and the media at-the U. of
Michigan. The book will present an
Overview of how women ere treated
in and Under the
the chapter we ere doing about the
feminist press is one of the most
importent. lie are asking you to
help us make it a thorough and in-
formative section.

Joy Hart

media, but we think

Dear Editor:
The FDA has ennounced the proposal
of a labeling regulction for
feminine deodorant sprays. The FD"
has delayed for two years in taking
any requlatory action against these
noxious products. They are now
proposing a warning which does not
even include the FD/'s own conclu-
sion that the sprays offer no
medicinal or hygienic benefits!
The industry will no doubt attempt
to convince the FD. to retreat from
this mild warning and to water it
down even more. Unless the FDA
gets some response from consumers,
they will knuckle under, as has
been their custom in the past. It
is not too late for women to let
the agency know what they think
about these products mdthe way
the agency proposes to regulate
them.

Je.A. Page

Assoc. Professor

of Law

Georgetown University

Law Center

The HEW News Release follows:

The Food and Drug administration
On June 21 proposed a mandatory warning
on all labels for feminine deodrant
sprays,

To minimize any possible risk to
users, the FDA would require the fol-
lowing language on each can: CAUTION
For external use only, Spray at least
8 inches from skin. Use sparingly and
not more than once daily to avoid irri-
tation, Do not use this product with
a samitary napkin. Do not apply to
broken, irritated, or itching skin, Per-
Sistent or unusual odor may indicate
the presence of a condition for which a
physician should be consulted. If a
rash, irritation, unusual vaginal dis~
charge, or dis—comfort develops, dis-

continue usea immediately and consult
physician,

deodgrant spray which uses the words
"hygiene", or "hygienic" or similar words
implying medical usefulness,

cont, on page / 2
LeTTexS TO Tis =DITOR

Dear Sreakout:
fg one who worked with other women

8

(C. Reilly's labor bill prohibits
any contractor or sub-contractor

from all sections of the state bldg. with the st.te to discriminate be~

the foundstions of the feminist
lobbying effort during the vast
year, | tke issue with the extreme
ly negcetive tone of the article,
"omen Legislutors Sce Feminist
Lobbying :fforts as teak." Why not
emphasize the following more posi-
tive facts: 1. -cross the State,
NOW had ebout two-thirds of the
legislators actually heard of the
existence of such feminist issues
as maternal disability payments,
credit discrimination, divorce law
reform. Obviously more then one or
two women were lobbying, as the
article so erroneously claimed,

&e Thanks to the Women's Unit of
the Governor's Offics in kKkeeoing @m
up-toedate bill tracking service
and thanks to «nne Borel'ts daily
vigilence, we easily obtained info
to send to our lobbyists in the
form of newsletters and newsflashes
when necessary. Incidental ly, our
legislative newsletter wes among
the first of its kind in the entire
country. In acdition to its daily
bill tracking, the Women's Unit did
a superb wrap-un on the final
Stutus of feminist legislation and
circulated it widely. 3. Four very
Significant nicces of legislation
were Dassed: a. veillv's labor bill
repealed all so-called protective
legisl«tion, which prohibited women
from working the same hours and in
certain industries as men. lViomen.
may return to work within 4 weeks
after childbirth if willinag and
able. Why all the fuss about a
doctor's affadavit to do so? If any
of the critics of this section of
the bill were migrant laborors
being forced to go back to work as
soon or sooner than healthful, they
would be damn qlad that clause is
there. These reforms are not ine

consequential as one of the legisla-

tors flipantly declared. $B. Is..
Cook's bill makes it unlawful to
deny credit because of race, creed,
color, national origin or sex. “sk
any women who hes begn arbitrarily
denied credit how crucial this bill
is,

cause of sex in hiring or in inti-
midating any emdloyees after hiring.

~(D. Strelzin's humm rights bill

extends the authority of the Human
Division to create councils to
Study discrimination b-cause of sex,
Out of such committee's hearings
will come further recommendations
for chances in discriminatory laws.
4. Both NOW and the vomen's Politi-
cal Caucus held lobbying days dur-
ing the session. Members of both
groups Ccme en mésse to ..lbany
and' received much positive publi-
city for feminist legislation.
Raising of both the public's and
the legislctorst consciousness to
our issues is the crucial first
Sted toward passage of our legisla-
tion.
Certainly we are not going to s@
achieve our long range goals of 24
hour .community controlled day care
centers, further reform in the rape
law, or @ community property law
without properly layina the cround-
work. I feel the basis of a strong
feminist lobbying effort was built
Curing the past year. More obvious-
ly,remains to be accomplished. How-
ever, we do need suport and en-~
couragement from the feminist press,
not cerping, ill-informed articles
Such as his. Figlozzi's,
Politics is the pragmatic art of
the nossible. “ie must realize
that we cannot merely go to the
legislature and esk for reforms.
“e must be united: to cain C1 Ont.
well-informed to earn respect, and
persistent as all hell to achieve
our qoals,

Judy Merrill

‘n editorial reply can be
found on page

D458 88 A Se Se Se Se Ne ge A
Rah we ly fa ee arr ae Tal ae ar tier od

"They don't ask me anymore if I'm going
to blow up the world ‘during my period"
Linda Jenness
presidsntial candidate 1972

Socialist Workers Party

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Pe es a ee a

WOMEN’S ART

Jenness Cortez Started drawing when she was three. She sold her first
drawing when she was twelve. Later she attended the Herron School of
Art of Indiana University, followed by a one-year scholarship to the
Art Students League of New York, and an undergraduate degree in Fine
Art. She has exhibited in a number of regional shows in the midwest:

her portraits are in private collections. Cortez is a freelance

illustrator (clients include Central Markets/Price Chopper), and staff
artist at the Washington Park Spirit.

Ms. Cortez feels that the work of women artists has not been taken
seriously nor has it been critically well-received, Financially, women
artists have been considered “poor investments" by collectors who
assume women are dabblers who will marry, have babies, and no longer
produce a stream of valuable work. Male artists, critics, and a duped
public, view “women's art” as something less than Art (Great Stuff),
and do not consider it a valid pert of a developing culture.

As an art student, Cortez’ creativity and potential was minimized by
the one prominent issue in the minds of men~-the issue of her woman-
hood/the issue of “women's art." Her inability to overcome this
identification as a woman student, and the undermining of her faith

in her own talent, perceptions, and insights, she now views as a per-
Sonal defeat. It is women's strength that they have the inner re-
sources to rise from defeat. Cortez is not only an excellent ertist,
she is a proud woman, a feminist, And she believes that Women's Art,
like feminism, is a valid, developing, separate culture--a distinct,
vitally important part of our growth. AS an artist, Cortez’ work
reflects our womanhood --struggles, humor, values, warmth, depth--our
beauty.

A One~Woman Show of Jenness Cortez’ woman-identified art begins
September 4 at the Mayfair Gelleries (Washington Avenue at Lark),
Albany, New York. The show will] continue until September 29,

-~Paula Corey

JENNESS CORTEZ

(of washington park spirit and price chopper fame)

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LETTint FRO Tits iDiTOR

Dear Judy,

We at SPEAKOUT feel that Margaret's »iece
reflects her total objectivity as a re=-
porter, feminist or otherwise. Those
remarks you stress as having "carping,"
or 'extremely negetive" tones are those of
the women interviewed, |e assume that
each woman geeks from her own experience,
motivation, and interpretetion, A repor-
ter must accevt this as velid.

Please take another look at the last
three issues of SPiiAKOUT. The tionen's Unit
and the feminist lobbying efforts have
all been reported in a favorable light.

If you will re-examine Seantor Burstein's
remarks, you will see thet what she

seid was that after the enthusiasm for
the abortion victory lobb-ing subsided.
Cne or two women a month were lobbying on
other issues. Since the one-to-one
lobbvins efforts are mace not only at the
offices and corricors of the Capitel but
in the home districts of the legislators
as well, perhaps this statement is valid
from her sténce, It is noteworthy that
she concluded with a suggestion cn how to
elininste this problem.

SPEAKOUT has recently spent alot of time
examining our role in the women's move-
ment. Desiring to validate our experience
as women and as feminists, we wish to
function as a vehicle of communication
between women of similar needs. ‘ie must
do so with cendor as well as respect for
ourselves and others,

We appreciate your letter as it offers
information truly vitel for a total
picture of this year's lobby. !.e think
thet if you look again at the article,
you will find many st:tements which under-
line the continued need for the reeliza~
tion of our freedom and dignity as women,
Moreover, there are practical sugsestions
for improvenent in lobbying technique and
organization throu;hout the article,

In Sisterhood,
Carol

Who's The Dope cont.
It makes me suspect that the government

of this country must have set up’a com=-
mittee that is trying to keep America's
youth so stoned th:t they can't notice

a

how bad everything is and begin to initi- seoresuHEEHEEHHHEHHHEHAHEHHHEeHHHEHEHseEnHHe

ate change.
Nancy Lynn

“THE SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST 10

In one year, the ''omen's Action Alliance,
a non-profit, tax exempt orgenization,
has helped thousends of women to help
themselves. It has also gathered the
information and lnow-how to help thou-
sands, even millions more,

Now, all it needs is a little help from
you. This is why,

The basic nurpose of the Alliance is to
provide a netional information and re~
ferrel center for individuals and organi-
zations who are active in trying to make
life better for women in this country:
women of all ages auc all races. ‘e are
not a membership organization end there
is no fee for our services.

In one year, we have filled over 12,000
requests for informetion and technical
assisteice, ‘e have helped local groups
start everything from child cere centers
to self-help health clinics, ‘ve have
provided basic facts of women's economic
end social position, and basic facts
about the “.omen's Movement, to both in-
dividuals and orgenizations, We have
helped groups of women--household workers,
stewardesses, city government employees
and others--to form conferences and or~
ganizetions of their own, and we have
helped existing organizations with fund-
réising techniques, press releti.ons and
reseérch,

In this process, we have used existing
information end expertise wherever possi-
ble. (A goal of the Allience is to see to
it that the tiomen's Movement does not
suffer from the costly waste of duplicated
effort.) nly in areas where there was
no existing information—how to start a
multi-service women's center, for in-
stance, or how to establish an early
childhood curriculum thet is free of sex
and race stereotypes--did the Alliance
develop expertise end information packets
of its own,

-e MUST have suport for the information
and referrel center that is the heart of
the alliance,

So we need your hely for survivel,.

‘women's action Alliance
370 Lexington Avenue
New York, jew York 10017

KING vs, riggs

September 2
SH BRHE HERE HHE RAB RHE BHHA CHEESE EHAGEE BAHT

WHO'S THE DOPE?

It seems that every time I am with my
friends, somebody decides to smoke some
dope. I don't meen when I'm at parties
on weekends, but everyday, every time I'm
with these people, It seems to be their
main idea of entertainment and way of
life. Since I do not heve any interest in
smoking dope myself, it makes me a person
who is considered very strange by ny peers.
Usually I get comments like "what's wrong
with you" and "what do you do?" but I
occasionally do get comments like "thatts
cool", "I wish I could stop" or "you're
lucky you do not need it to be happy."

It seems that many of the people who
try to maintain a continual high through ©:
drugs are having an internal struggle
about their situation but are afraid to go
straight because of what the other guys
might say. It really mekes me sick that
as a high school sophomore I cannot find
one guy who is not heavily into drugs or

Some of the women I know ean find
other things to do of more interest then
getting high. I don't know if itts be~
cause I have come in contact with more
women than men, or is it because for some
reason men heve so many problems that they
can't handle; such as peer pressure, status,
boredom, pressure frem school or other
reasons that they need. to escape reality
into an altered state of mind?

I can see why drug-users have these
problems; they are too lazy to do anything
about their conditions. Some ere even
under the impression that they are ef-
fectively rebelling ageinst euthority.

That seems ironic considering that the
authority they are fighting are doing the
same things, If they think the adults
don't use as many drugs (alcohol, grass,
pills) as kids do, they haven't looked
around too much. There are even people

I have met who are policemen or ministers
and who use intoxicants. Our whole society
seems to be regulated by some chemicels
that can do strange things to the mind end
body.

What is so terrible about life anyway?
Whatever the reason that life isn't per-
fect, it isn't going to change by escaping
into a world of processed emotions,
can people expect to have deep spontaneous
relationships if they are going to try to
filter out

they ceme across in everydey life, I

a ike

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ll

realize that today's institutions at~
tempt to dehumenize people and control
their minds and bodies. I can't under-
stand why people would want to put eny-
more things into their bodies thet would
do the same,

I am not talking about people who
occasionally get high. I'm talking
about the ones who never come down. This

isn't a chosen few who have rejected
their roles, this is a new role, teken
by at least 257 (and that is probably
under the true figure) of the people in
my school. I feel thet I am in 2 small
minority of the school beceuse I would
rather spend my time doing things other
than turning on, .

. (nee I was furious beceuse I wes
trying to find out from the guy I liked
why he was always "wrecked" and he felt
thet he couldn't enswer me becruse he
was tripping on acid, At thet point I
figured thet he didn't have enough time
when he could relzte to me, end thet it
wasn't worth putting my emotions end
time into what only could be a shallow
one-sided relationship, I was complein-
ing to another that it seemed like there
were no boys who weren't always wrecked,
His response was that I could alweys
like a "jock". The first thing I
thought of wes henging around with a
group of football players and cheer-
leaders; trying to become the typicel
female. Somehow being with guys doesn't
seem SO important to me that I am going
to fake things that I don't feel or deny
any feelings I do heve, Besides these
guys drink like fish and that disgusts
me more, I don't know why,

I must sound like somebody's
mother but I'm not, I just cen't under-

Stend why a person would want to
chenge their minds so they can't realize
all the bad things that people try to
force them into, instead of fighting
ageinst them. And I don't see how any-
body cen effectively fight any of
society's ills if they don't even have
their minds clear, Itts hard to chenge
things. Nobody is going to make chénges
if they are drugged into. a stete of
bliss @ one of fogginess, so they can't
even know how they feel in their own
heeds, " .

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EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

Assistant Soccer Coach part-time, School
year 1973-197 Qualifications: Interest
and ability to coach soccer on the college
level Salary: available upon request
Apply Thomas Rogan, Soccer Coach Hudson
Valley Community College, Troy Ny 12180
Assistant Basketball Coach, part-time.
Qualifications, Salary, and address as
above Address to Matt Kupic, Head Basket-
ball Coach

Multilith Printer High School or trade
school graduate with training in offset
reproduction. Two year8 eperience M.B.
Assistant Printer High school grad or
trade school graduate of a course in off-
set reproduction. One year's experience.
Apply: Donna J. Foy, assistant personnel
manager, Matthew Bender, 1275 Broadway,
Albany 1162-3331, ext. 225
Maintenance/utility worker $112. per wk.

requirements: ability to read and write,
1-2 year's experience Apply Matthew
Bender, above address '

Packer> $97 per week, two yr's high school
or satisfactory related experience
Matthew Bender ;
COMPUTER PROGRAMMER, fee paid. Salary
$10,500-$11,500 High School grad. with
minimum two year's experience. Emphasis
on COBOL and BAL languages M tthew Bend.
StudeNt Personnel Services Coérdinator

Tmmediate , Bachelor's degree in Psycholo-

gy, Sociology, or related field. Background

CAUTION: FEMININE DEODRANTS CONT 12

FDA acted on the basis of adverse
reaction reports from consumers and
pysicians. The reports complain of
itching, burning, and blistering after
use of feminine deodrant spray pro-
ducts. In some cases urethritis and
cystitis have been reported after the
first irritation or rash.

Although FDA judges that the report-
ed reactions are not sufficient to
justify removal of these products from
the market, they are considered suffici-_
ént’to warrant the proposed mandatory
label warnings.

FDA's proposal appears in the June 21
copy of the Federal Register. Sixty Days
will be allowed for industry and public
comment. Comments should be addressed to

Hearing Clerk, DHEW, Room 6- 00

Fishers fane, Rockville laryland 4
ELAM AE

THERESA COOKE AND JAME RAMOS welcome

contributions to their campaigns, Checks

can be made to lirs. Theodore Adams

112 Chestnut St. Albany, NY 12210

PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL
CHILDBIRTH CONFERENCE held June » 41973
at Stamford Conn. Available from New
Moon Publications, Box 3,88, Ridgeway
Station, Stamford, Conn, 06905

$2.00.  O page proceedings including

in program for the disadvantaged or community°ddowing topics: Our Heritage, The Sen

nity service through experience or educat
tion, inner city tecaching or counseling
experience. Plus adminiistrtion and
supervision exp. Apply James Sharp, Asso-
ciate Director, State University Urban
Center, Washington and Front St. Troy 12180
Instructor,English Skills-Urban Center
Masters Degree in appropriate discipline
preferred, Exp. See above address
Athletic Trainer 1973-7 school term
Qualifications: related ed. background
Apply. Joseph Puerello, Director of Physi-
cal Education HVCC Troy 12180
BookeeperRotterdam location WMHT call
Doroty Bell 356-1700

Administrative Assistant Capital District
Regional Planning Commission. Starting
salary $8.200 Benefits comparable to
State employees. Excellent typing skills,
shorthand, and knowledge of administrative
procedures. Duties-general secretarial
work, bookkeeping, project monitoring,
payroll, vouchkrs processing, minuting of
meetings. Phone 518 457-127)

sations of Childbirth, Obstetrical Practic
tices, Our Daughters Speak, Alternatives,
The Baby, Issues.

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13

If someone had told me a year ago
that I would have been through an abor-
tion, I would have laughed end said, "It
could never happen to me." Being a
divorced mother for quite some time, as
well as seeing someone for two years
without him ever touching me, I had quite
a bit of false security.

I became pregnant the first, and
only time he touched me. I knew--without
anyone ever telling me, His reaction,
although he knew me very well, was very
typical -—- HE WASI'T THE FATHER. (How-
ever, he told me when it was all over
that he was. )

I visited my obstetrician and he
confirmed my suspicions; eight to ten
weeks pregnant, I knew I could not bring
another child into the world. It would
hurt my mother terribly; moreover I heve
three children to clothe, feed end love
already, I'm not a murderous woman, but
I knew that although I was completely
at fault, I could not have another child;
not now, and not without a father.

My doctor made the arrangements for
me to enter Albany Medical Center a week
later, During that time, I cried and
verged on complete hysteria.

The morning came, and as I let my
mother out at her office, I told her I
would be going in for tests~--~she's not
a believer in abortion either. I drove
to the hospital in tears.

On the fifth floor, I was shown to
a room end briefed about the operation.
There were four others in my room and
all seemed happy. I felt a little
strenge, because I had been brought up
to believe that abortions were wrong
unless you were raped or unless it was
strictly theraputic. As we got to know
each other, I found thet the reasons
that all of us were there were similar,
but different too.

Cne woman was the mother of a seven
month old baby, and did not want another
child so soon, She was taking the pill.
Of two others, one was very young end
unwed, Her boyfriend wes at her side;
he was about forty. A third was also
unwed, pregnant and without anyone she
could turn to. In another room there
was a sixteen year old, sent by her
parents,

I was chosen the first to go, a fete
that I didn't like that much. A young
man named Bob listened to my problem,
understood, and got some medication to
calm me down. After injecting the Valiun,
I was wheeled into the delivery roon,
strepped in, end just as I turned around.
Ivwas given a shot of sodium pentothal--
I looked at Bob and passed out.

\hen I woke up I cried once more.

I was rether fortunate that I had been
anesthetized. I am sure my doctor knew
I would have flipped out right on the
table. After a period of time I would
go back to my room. They wheeled in the
sixteen year old. Someone had given her
too much medicine and she would not wake
up. I can see her to this day. Of the
other women, one still seemed bright and
happy. One cried most of the afternoon;
the other was sad, unable to sleep. The
young girl, still in the recovery room
was asleep.

I really hated leaving the hospital,
a safe cocoon, away from home, in a
"caring society." I drove home and
stopped at "his" place of business to
tell him what I had decided to do and
done. Numbness filled me and I could cry
no more. I went home and tried to just
continue living.

ly friends at college were very
supportive, They nursed me through many
hard times...eTimes when the guilt was so

bad that I could not stend it. There was
no way I could not feel guilty. It was
the way I had been brought up. Abortion

was murder...in my religion, to my
mother, and, once, to me.

I had seen those stories by the
Right to Life groups, complete with the
pictures of them holding up fetuses,
which seemed a little sick for those
caring about life. I still cannot see
"salting out" there have been too many
live or nearly live babies born...it
breaks my heart too much. There is a
doctor of another kind I'm seeing now,

a psychiatrist. I feel the abortion wes
good and bad. Good, in that it spered
the hearts of my family. Bad, because
the guilt, added to my other problems
seemed to paralyze me. There is nothing
as beautiful as a newborn baby but I
could not have stood hurting anymore.

LAURA X: NEW YORK OR BUST

We at the Women's History Library have
been urged to come to New York the week
of September 2-8 for a series of fund
raising parties and events, especially
one on September 5th, initiated by
Barbara Seaman, author of Free and
Female and member of the Women's History
Library Natioal Advisory Board and or-
ganizer of the Men's Caucus of the
Friends of the Women's History Library.

A crucial national effort is being | ey

launched by the Friend's of the Women's

History Library to raise the $25,000

needed to microfilm our wique collec-
tion of material on women.

Through microfilm copies of our collec-
tion in local resource centers and li-
braries, our collections of women's
periodicals and our Topical Research

system of clippings, graphics, poetry,
and original papers which document the
history of women; and especially the
international Women's History Archive
of our own movement, can be made avail-
able to people in New York C.ty and
all over the country. | ‘

Our library has always existed by gen-
erous donations of time, money, supplies
and material from individwl people

We need your help if we are to make

this important trip to New York.

Here are the ways you can help:

1) Volunteer to Coordinate a com- °
mittee or work on one.* Call
212-72h-LU67 if you will have
time, or fill in the form and
send in.

2) Make it known in your area that
we will be available for paid
speaking engagerents. Helen
Dutton, our reference librarian

will be available for paid speak= .

ing engageme rts. Helen Dutton,
our reference librarian, will be
available as a consultant on
women's resource collections,

3) Help us with our "New York or
Bust" fund by sending us a tax
deductible check. We appreciate

YOUR PEP +: bopgeraral Seinasi

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14

LAW FIRMS PLEDGE THEMSELVES
TO WOMEN'S RIGHTS

The commitment of women lawyers
to feminist issues has lead to the
establishment of women law firms. Two
such firms have opened in New York
City.

Lefcourt, Kraft, and Libow opened
Feb, 1 with attorneys Carol Lefcourt,
Veronika Fraft, andCarol Libow. Bell-
amy. Blank, Goodman, Kelly, Ross, and
Stanley consists of State Senator
CArol Bellamy (D. Brooklyn), DIane
Blank, Jan Goodman, Mary Kelly, Susan
Ross, and Nancy Stanley as partners.
Both firms have pledged themselves to
the area of women's rights.

Determined. to fill the gap that the
male legal profession has ignored the 2..."
firms are set up for general civil
practice, including wills, business law
and mortages. They are especially in-
terested in women's rights cases and in
certain criminal matters which relate to
women especially such as prostilution.

Bellamy et al is also deeply involved
in test litigationi in employment dis-
crimination and hopes to bring test
cases in job training programs, steri-
lization, juvenile laws, education, ~
credit, and divorce.

Both firms have been surprised by

the volume of work that they have
gotten mostly from women clients.
Asked if they would represent men,
Diane Blank replied, "Sure, we'll
represent men, maybe even in a divorce
case, but never in conflict with our
feminist philosophy. We would make
that decision case by case."

The goal desired by both firms. is
not money, but a good living and work-
ing for the cause of women. justice.

Donna Harshaw Albro
WHY ABORTION CONT.

bringing another baby into the world
that I couldn't give up, or facing
the complete breakdown of my head...

I just turned 23 yesterday. I feel
young yet really old. My friends and I
hope that I'll eventually come out of
this witha different outlook. I want
to like myself, something I haven't
been able to do in a long time.

x

aN ee
- Women who wish to become involved in

CALENDAR AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Sept. 4-29 One Woman Show. Jenness Cortez
Artist. Mayfair Gallery, Mayfair Bldg.,
Central Ave. Albany.

Sept. 6 Jane Addams, social reformer and
founder of Hull House, in Chicago born,
1860.

Sept. 10 The largest industry-involved
child care center, the North Side Child
Development Center of Minneapolis, is
formed, 1971.

sept. 14 Margaret Sanger born, as planned
1883.

Sept. 17 Working Women's Association is
formed in the offices of The Revolution
to regulate wages and assure equal treat-
ment with working men, 1868.

Sept. 20 N.O.W. Open Meeting. Program on
Education. Eileen Kelly, chairperson.
Madison Ave. Presby. Church Albany, 8 pm.

Sept. 23 Sunday at 2 Series. Children's
Program. Performance to be announced.
Sponsored by RPI Newman C & CC. 25¢ per
child. Call 274-7793 for details.

Sept. 28 Dr. Selma Gruber, a NY psychol-

ogist, is handcuffed by polite ang havhed
out of Congregation Shearith Israel on
Yom Kippur eve when she refused to leave
the area traditionally reserved for
Jewish men, 1971.

Oct. 2 N.O.W. Membership Meeting. Madison

Avenue Presbyterian Church, Albany, 8 pm.

Oct. 24-26 Conference on Women's Studies.

Queensbury Hotel, Glens Falls. Information
fie 8 : John R. Haines, State Ed. Dept. 7
_ Rm°1922, Albany, N.Y. 12210. . Ree

production of videotapes about family
planning, VD, sexuality, please call
Maureen 463-8011 or 462-7521 ext. 3351.
Background: film, video-tape, photography
graphics, dramatics.

Families For The Future wants to help you
learn more about the adoption and foster

care of “hard-to-place" children. To learn
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COOPERATIVE BABYSITTING WANTED.

I would like to do exchange babysitting
after Sept. 1 during the day (9am-3pm)
One day a week and/or as needed for doc-
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free lance writer), and other occasional
appointments. My daughter is 4 yrs. old
and would enjoy the company of other
children. Others with similar needs call

Carol Biernacki 463-6897. Albany-Troy area.

The Community Coordinated Child Care
Program brings together the community of
Schenectady - child care centers, parents,
agencies and interested citizens to pro-
mote quality child care. Chairwoman:
RoseMary Tyrell, Coordinator: Mabel Leon
(393-9051) mornings.

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ln? Time to Speakout/Diva Daims

3 Excuses For Not Moving/Robin Morgan

4 "Been Down So Long..."/Carol Biernacki

5 Poetry/Lee Lally

6-7  Poetry/Evie Safran and Valerie L'Herrou

8 Festival/Gloria DeSole, Barbara Gittings, Andrea Lurie
9 Rape/Jessie Chipkin After Twenty Years/Adrienne Rich
10 Black Feminists/Black and Female

11 Speakout News and Comment

12 International News

13 Hot Flashes/Cold Chills
14 Coalition Column/Letters to the Editor
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TIME TO SPEAK OUT! | 1

The only movement in the Women's Movement around here these
days is the women moving out. As for signs of life or action from
local Women's Liberation, they must be barely perceptible to people in
the capital district. I wonder if they know we're here, have been for
three years, so little noise do we make, so little action do we stir
up. Sure there's action by individual women, women who speak out
loud and clear. But I'm concerned with local Women's Liberation as a
group--it's non-action, it's failure to make an impact on the community.
The one day a year we do go "out there" as a group is Women's Day.

But what does the community think of Women's Liberation by what it
sees in the park?

There they find.us hands out, palms up, selling our baked

. goods and lemonade--a scene for all appearances very much like any
church women's bazaar. (One difference they may have noticedthis
year--there was no rummage sale, a change that came about only because

- last year’s sale was a failure.) In spite of all the other activities
provided, it's clear that our Women's Day. is a fund-raising day. In
the traditional American spirit we bring people together in large
numbers in order.to get money out of them, But shouldn't Women's Day
be something altogether different?

I believe it should be a festival, a celebration of woman-
hood, a chance to entertain the women in the community. It should be
a consciousness-raising day, a fun-raising day, NOT a fund-raising day.
There should be lots of music, dancing even, and the only thing we

" should be "selling" is ideas. Such an occasion would be one the
community would remember; that kind of day would make Women's Day an
effective action. Surely we can afford to throw one such party a
year without having to scrounge nickels and dimes from our sisters in
the community! |

Our kind of Women's Day points up the failings of Women's
Liberation in the capital district. First of all, we can't raise
money to do the things we should do, yet there are few poor women in
the Movement here or in the country as a whole (as everyone hurries to
remind us). Many of us have our own incomes. Others have husbands with
comfortable salaries. Surely these married women have something to
Say about the use of that money, or consciousness-raising has failed
altogether. It's ironic to me that we use Women's Day--the one day we
are in the public's eye--to raise money for a center when we should
be able to support one on our own. As a matter of fact, we should
have opened a center long ago. Then we would be visible in the
community every day, not just one afternoon a year.

We aren't visible because we talk rather than act. We hide
the Movement in our comfortable living rooms where we gather one

» evening a week, most weeks of the year (weekends, holidays, part of
Summer being reserved for more traditional activities). There we
discuss how oppressed we are, exchange "no, no" radical views on male
hatred, the family, lifestyles, revolution, and, ah, sip our wine and
cheeses. Some of us have been at it for three years! No doubt part
of that time represents necessary and vital consciousness-raising. But
by now some of us have had our consciousnesses raised to the point of
pure pain. We need to do something more creative if we're to keep
coming together week after week than pick the same old sores. Yet most
women of the area seem determined to do group consciousness-raising and
only consciousness-raising forever! Surely, Women's Liberation should

_take us beyond that. The major justification for organizing feminists,
it seems to me, is action.

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TIME TO SPEAK OUT! cont.

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What actim we do take is for all of us to speak out, to

determined and carried out by too
few women. They are our leaders
despite our expressed philosophy
against hierarchal group structure
(remember all those discussions?)
and despite everyone's efforts to
avoid it. Leaders emerge necessa-

share our ideas. And SPEAK OUT is
the most appropriate forum for our
opinions.*

Diva Daims

*Last month Carol Biernacki called

rily when commitment is tepid, when to interview me for an article that

too few women speak out, and when
we fail to emphasize group action.
Even in Women's Liberation, we
women seem too willing to be led.
We're too shy to speak out, too
afraid to express ideas that may
stray from "the party line." It's
difficult to get us to volunteer
for work to be done. We would
really prefer to stay out of sight
and let the same few women do all
the work. This lack of commitment
and exchange of ideas comes from
the fact that we aren't really a
movement in the sense that many

women take action together to bring

about change. We simply have not
stressed group action strongly
enough.

Most of us need the sup-

port of lots of women before we can

confront the community on actual
issues. It's one thing to sit in
each other's homes and discuss the

painful injustices of sexism; quite

another to take action against
them. But if we were to organize
into small groups that study and
recommend specific action on very
particular problems and if it were
understood that such action would
involve many of us, I believe we

could make local Women's Liberation

very visible in the community. It's
vital that we think of all future

action as large group actions in or-

der to keep women in and active in
the Movement.

It's an appropriate time
to look long and hard at local
Women's Liberation. Many of us are
coming back to regular meetings

after our summer retreat, hopefully,

full of ideas. Groups will be re-

organizing, forming new goals. Each

of us probably has suggestions for
our next Women's Day. It's time

was to include a number of opinions
on local Women's Liberation and
Women's Day. Unfortunately, un-
known to me, the article was des-
tined for the Washington Park
Spirit--a not so appropriate forum--
and even more unfortunate, Carol
could get no one else to speak out
at that time.

"I know we're termites. But if
all the termites got together, the
house would fall down."

"You've got to rattle your cage
door. You've got to let them know
that you're in there, and that you
Want out. Make noise. Cause
trouble. You may not win right
away, but you'll sure have a lot
more fun."

"Don't agonize. Organize."

-Flo Kennedy

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EXCUSES FOR NOT MOVING

are
---in number, age diversity,

and sheer prolific art---

the baroque high genius of the slavebrain.

we are; therefore we justify.

We fear. We know it will not really come
through

personal solutions,

organizing the workers,

picketing, voting, speaking, writing,
living with men, not living with men,
Sleeping with women, not sleeping with women,
having panels, speak-outs, speak-ins,
Speak-ups, marches, street theater,
learning karate,

or eating natural foods,

We know it will not really come

even from doing all these things
Sincerely, for years,

until, as elder eminent revolutionary

feminists, we can pass the flaming
matchstick

on to younger sisters,
We fear; therefore we have reason to fear,

Excuses for not moving
are too myriad to list here.

To even catalogue that ingenious procession
is to spend one's life, Successfully,
in hiding.

Excuses for moving, on the other hand,

are singular:

it is fear phoenix in paranoia;

it is despair Sharpening itself toward boredom;

it is activity in the process of discovering
energy.

It is what passes through the mist
of all my nightmares:

the axblade, rampant, carved in the profile
of a woman's face,

It is my own unutterable name
Which I cannot

yet

pronounce,

Poem by Robin Morgan
from "Monster"

“BEEN DOWN SO LONG..." | 4

I am no longer interested in
changing institutions. Change

Which supposedly starts at the top

and sifts down through courts and

laws and schools is not my kind of

change. Change must come from
within. I say this to you even
though I have yet to sever my
final bonds with their institu-
tions. I will, and on my terms,
not theirs.

I have often been told that I
cannot say such and such to eo cer-

tain woman: "She is too damaged

to take it." The truth is that we

are all too damaged. Those few
that move beyond their personal
vulnerability are the women who
will build our dreams into re-

alities. Those who are successful

will not barter with institutions
for their freedom, They will al-
ready have it.

Women, do not be fooled by
the polemics and rhetoric of or-
ganizations that say men and wo-

men together shall win our freedom.

This is a lie. The most deadly
lie of all for it brings our

enemy into our midst. Women them-

selves are often responsible for
this lie. They say it in front

of men at meetings and in the

media, They say it in private to.

other women. They may even be-
lieve it. Yet these same women--
our sisters, our friends, the
women sitting across from you--

have repeatedly been raped, physi-

cally and emotionally.

Some men come to our meetings

looking for dates. They plot
their rapes in our midsts. They
chair our meetings, mediate our

quarrels, sway our sisters. I say
these things to you since you will
not say them to yourselves. I can

tolerate your anger but not your
dishonesty.

The rapists are among us.
They are your friends, your fath-

ers, your brothers, your husbanés.

Just as there can be no woman
rapists, there can be no married
feminists. Feminists who settle

for less than total freedom settle

for half a loaf, stale to taste,
hawked at too dear a price.

whhen you have your equality,
your equal pay for equal work,
your credit cards, your dey-care
centers, your law-makers, you
Still will not be able to walk
the streets alone. Strange and
too, too familiar men will still
handle you et parties, meetings,
and festivals in the park. You
will still lock your car door

when you are alone. When you go

home at night, behind your closed
Goor, he can still rape you.

Where are your armies? where
are your street patrols? where
are your Centers? Your communes?
Your strength?

We are all toovulnerable.

Our movement will be still-born
into their world of equality by
appeasement. We will walk on the
Sidewalks because there is no
walking in the streets for us on
Sunday, —

You say I am bitter, dis-
illusioned, I say you are blind.
I can no longer try to heal your
wounds. If you yourself do not
know you bleed, what can I do? I
have run out of tourniquets.

To the women who cannot com-
municate with themselves or with
others--to the women who lie to
themselves--I say my anger towards
you has been born of the sadness
of knowing how great we could have
been. Channel your strength into
changing laws if you must. I may
come to your meetings. If there
are men present I will not allow
them to remain. Prepare yourself
for my truth.

It is their land. Their law,
Their country. Our strides have
been dust on the surface. Amazons
live only in comic books. Matri-
archies will not come in our life
time. The pay will always be too
little. Your dreams will die bare-
ly they become visible to you.

While I write this, a kid out-
Side is calling his sister an
"ass-hole" for not switching her
bike into high gear. He shouts,
“she's as thick as can be." To
him and his fathers and brothers,
I say, "Don't kid yourself."

Carol Biernacki

OO

FOR YEARS I LOVED YOU

For years I loved you

my father, my brothers,
But I didn't fit the plan.
The designs were never mine.
Dances were called

sock hops

and I knew already

that hair, long ~ -

on my head was acceptable,
on my legs it was not.

The women never needed me.

The gentle men were next.

No threat but no place

yet for their painful glory.
I came into my own

in your presence,

You never defined a role for me,

Together we cried

over Billy Holiday

and Bessie Smith

as they told us

of the pain the men inflicted.
when I needed them most

they were with their brothers.

And now sisters

I am as high as I can go.
I found myself along the way,
some bits from rubble,
some brilliant new parts
I never knew before.

I am here,

Here I am

and I will wait,

not being afraid

of being alone,

Being alone,

hard
but not lonely.

Poems by Lee Lally
from "These Days"
printed and distributed
by Diana Press
12 W. 25th Street
Baltimore, Maryland
21218

HURRICANES

They name them after women,
You've been through a few

you say.

Hurricanes, tornadoes,

tropical storms,

women.

I understand that natural rage.

Tropical storm Agnes
swept through tonight
like a real lady.
Greeted rich and poor
with equal vengeance.
The poor will remember her
longer

with less detail.

With wild breeth,
unyielding

She spit.

Small rivers run

now

in the streets.
I understand that rage.

Tornadoes, tropical storms,
hurricanes,

they name them

after women.

YOU WERE BURYING US BEFORE
WE WERE DEAD

You told us the stories.

we did not like the heroes,

We did not like them then but
you kept us from our strength,
We could not speak.

The shovel slipped into the
earth.

The horses have ridden off
With whoever would go,

The prince should have

been here by now,

We are no longer waiting.

We are writing our:own stories.

“BRENDA & WHOEVER, FOREVER"

Brenda, when I saw your graffitti

on the bathroom wall,

I decided to write you a poem.

I thought, perhaps you have

the right idea,

Scratch whoever to find forever.

Or scratch forever to find whoever.

Oh, what a sad set of choices we have, Brenda &.
(You're probably too young to know that.)
When I was 16, at summer camp

my friends wrote graffitti

on the ceiling and walls of our bunk,
“Phyllis & Bobby," "Linda & Steve."

I wrote "Evie & Michael" which was
better than writing nothing and I
hadn't thought of "whoever,"

(Brenda, you're a genius.)

And I wrote "SHANK" which

in those cays meant Shithead,

I don't know the point of all that, Brenda.
But I wanted to share something with you.
It's miserable to be left out

and different.

It's fun to speculate,

(At 16, it's easier to be innocent.)
Brenda, listen to me, you snot.

If you insist on “Brenda &" some guy,
don't settle for less than

being able to somersault

into his arms

‘cause if he can catch you

he might be whoever,

forever.

Now, with that thought

my sisters will surely think,

"Evie needs liberating."

But I have passed advanced liberation
and, whereas Brenda doesn't know a fucking thing yet--
I'll still stick with her.

I don't know why. (Oh, I know why.)

I can barely hobble

much less somersault,

Damn, Will loneliness always come after
Evie &, with or without "whoever,"

Brenda, the next time

you write graffitti

try just

BRENDA,

Try it on to see how it feels, just
try it on for size,

and for me.

Evie Safran
* A POEM FOR MR. NEXT

I'm through writing poems for John,
My lost, last lover. |

There's no rhyme, or reason

For him to be beneficiary

Of my talent anymore.

I'll write poems for Mr, Next! |
Hopeful poems.

Dreamy poems.

Poems with possibility, and optimism.
And kitten paw prints!

A happy poem for Mr, Next!

(Surely pain has no place

In a poem for Mr. Next.)

Nor parentheses, for that matter,
Though the experience of one |
Often leads to the other.

I'm writing with cynic's pen

While Mr. Next is waiting out there,
Somewhere,

He wants me (til he has me).

I want him (til I know him).

Now this is getting rather complicated

And unpoetic.

What is fair between us, Mr, Next?
What is fair in the pursuit of
Something beautiful?

I bring less crap each time

But will you see that?

Oh,

This ‘was to be a happy poem,

And in some ways, it is.

Evie Safran

RAIN

This is the kind of
rain I like,
all dark and wet
While looking out
of the lighted
kitchen window
It is very beautiful
it falls on the
thristy plants and on
the .thirsty ground
which drinks it up
till it can drink no
more then it runs in
little streams. ..,
completely different from
yesterday, when the
horses lifted their

hooves, and dust arose

from just that little
movement. . .
Now, while s ceititae
out of the open
Window smelling the
beautiful
smell of wet earth. ..
yes this is the

‘kind of rain I like...

Valerie L'Herrou
Age ll

FESTIVAL FESTIVAL FESTIVAL FESTIVAL FESTIVAL FESTIVAL FESTIVAL FESTIVAL

", . . we have enemies, those who
would trivialize us, divide us,
who would tell us that other
"causes" are more important than
women, as if it were not they,
themselves, who have made our
joining together as women an im-
perative. We, together, have a
power we must recognize. This
time we cannot let it slip away
as others try to tell us what to
think, whom to trust, what to say.
We must trust each other; we must
define our own priorities and then
create that space where we can
live our values. Let them call
us the names they think we fear

most: manhseters, castrating
bitches, lesbians. We know who
we are: women who love and value

ourselves and our sisters; and we
Will act on what we know. Ne
woman is liberated alone. No
woman is liberated while her sis-
ter is oppressed. We know there
are no personal solutions. But
together, women, we can do any-
thing. Support our sisters.
Support ourselves."

Gloria Desole

"If the Albany women's movement

is serious in it's commitment to
women, today's donning of arm-
bands in symbolic support of les-
bians must be followed by meaning-
ful action, so that next year one
of you will be up here instead of
me. The women's movement will
have to realize that lesbianism is
as crucial an issue to feminism as
are abortion, child care, and
ending sex-role stereotyping. Gay
women have no monopoly’ on closets.
Any women who is afraid of being
called a lesbian--whether she is
or not--is living in a closet
marked fear. Any woman who thinks
that the problems of lesbians

have nothing to do with her is
living in a closet marked isola-
tion. Any woman who thinks that
lesbians are "giving the movement
a bad name," and should therefore
Stay in the background for public

relations purposes, is living in
a closet marked self-destruction.
Each of us holds in her hand the
keys to unlock these éloset doors,
Use those keys’*and come out into-
the sunshine of liberation and
love. —

Barbara Gittings

"It is too easy for straight women
to say: lesbians are okay, as long
as they don't display affection
publicly, as long as they stay in
the background, as long as they
don't give the movement a bad name,
It is equally easy for gay women
to say that they are the only au-
thentic feminists, and that all
Straight women are collaborators.
So, out of fear, and out of theo-
retical difference, comes a them/
us, Straight/gay split that saps
our strength. Until the women's
movement in the tri-city area be-
fins to openly include them, we
will never get our lesbian sisters
out of the closet and into the
revolution. And if the symbolism
of these armbands is to have any
meaning beyond this one day, those
of us who define ourselves as
Straight should examine that label
and see it for what it is. The man
has told us what is normal and
What is abnormal. And how nice it
is for him--economically and po-
litically and emotionally--that
heterosexuality should be the norm.
But as we no longer give all our
energies to the man and to his
System, so we must not be separated
by his lebels. We must recognize
that we are the most valuable
people in our own lives. Let us
each grow in our own way, not
scorning or fearing our sister's
way. Let us embrace our diversity,
end :-from it create not only a :
woman's center, but a new community
of peace and strength and joy. Let
us today celebrate our womanhood--
all of us together: young and old,
black and white, gay and straight.
Together, women, we are invincible:
Andrea Lurie

RAPE

Before it happened, I.Saw _.
rape as something political; after
wards, I became more aware of the
frustrating legal asnects; but
Curing the rape, I was only con-
scious of FEAR and WANTING TO GET
IT OVERWITH. Although the value I
place on my freedom of choice,
sexual and otherwise, is high, a
knife pressed against your throat
tends to have sovereignty. Con-
ditions like these can give you
the opportunity to affirm your
right-to exist in an unprecedented
way and, in retrospect, to come to
conclusions that might otherwise
be vicarious intellectualizations.
In this way I've realized that
rape cannot be limited to a po-
litical interpretation. Rape is
a contemptuous act and it is
Symptomatic of a sick society,
but at the same time it isa.
surreal confrontation between two
people that obliterates its poli-
tics in its intensity. ;

The potential of "rape"
literally surrounds us everyday..
For those of us who are learning

AFTER TWENTY YEARS

Two women sit at a table by
unevenly on both of them,
Their talk is a striking of

RAPE

RAPE

to affirm ourselves by. becoming
aware of our needs and eliminating
the obstacles that prevent their

Satisfaction, allowing ourselves to

be “raped” represents a lack of
self-worth. Gaining the objecti-
vity which enables us to see that
the relationships we're involved in
are exploitative and/or manipule-
tive is the first step in abating
the power struggle which charac-
terizes the general condition of
male/female relationships. But de-
fining rape in the seme terms is
paradoxical and eventually ineffec-
tive as a working solution, Any
display of destructive power by a

Male or female is a fundamental
human problem and the victim of

such an abuse is relative, It
took the experience of rape to
understand it in its human pro-
portions, i.e. my own sense of
mortality as well as a more mean-
ingful perspective of another's
weakness and fight for survival.

Jessie Chipkin
Forest Hills, NY

a window. Light breaks

sparks

which passers-by in the street observe
as a glitter in the glass of that window.
Two women in the prime of life. .

Their babies are old enough
Loneliness has been part. of
the dark edge of the clever

to have babies.
their story for twenty years,
tongue,

the obscure underside of the imagination.
It is snow and thunder in the street.
While they speak the lightning flashes purple.

It is strange to be so many

women,

eating and drinking at the same table,
those who bathed their children in the same basin

who kept their secrets from

each other

walked the floors of their lives in separate rooms
and flow into history now as the woman of their time
as in a city where nothing is forbidden

and nothing permanent.

Poem by Adrienne Rich

BLACK FEMINISTS

10

A group of black women have announ- black than white women in the

ced the formation of the National
Black Feminist Organization,
Eleanor Holmes Norton has called
the formation of the group "his-
toric" and said that one of it's
purposes would be to "demolish
myths" about the black woman's
relation to her family, to black
men and to racism. In recent
years of rising black awareness,
she said, black women often have
been expected to suppress their
aspirations and problems in defer-
ence to black men.

Margaret Sloan, an editor of Ms
Magazine and another founder of
the organiztion, said: "Black

women have suffered cruelly in this

society from living the phenomenon
of being black and female in a
country that is both racist and
sexist." The women's group she
said, will “remind the black-
liberation movement that there
can't be liberation for half a
race,"

Ms. Sloan also said the new group
would lend credibility to the

women's liberation movement, which,

She said, was not being taken
seriously now as a "political

and economic revolutionary force."
Chapters of the organization, the
sponsors said, have been formed in
several cities. The group in-
cludes lawyers, leaders of consu-
mer organizations, welfare-rights
workers, domestics, housewives

and professional women,

- BLACK AND FEMALE

A study of black professional
women suggests that double dis-
crimination can work in reverse.
Egged on by supportive families,
seen as less threatening than
black men, pushed by the feminist
tide, some women are vaulting
ahead. Cynthia Fuchs Epstein
recently completed a small and
eeographically isolated (NYC) sur-
vey of 31 black professional wo-
men.

The 1970 census has shown that
there are proportionately more

professions. Of the 31 black
women interviewed, all the women.
reported that their families had
supported their ambitions from
childhood and unlike white females,
none of the black women ever con-
sidered turning back once they
started down the road to a career,
Some of the black women felt that
they had succeeded as profession-
als in fields where black males
had failed because they faced less
discrimination than the males,
Black women have always had more
access to white society than
black men, as servants and sex
objects. This combination of

two powerless roles--woman and
black--made them appear safe to
White males,

The interviews found that these
women Seemed to have a higher re-
gard for each other and themselves
than white professional women do,
Some of the black women said that
they preferred women as colleagues
because they were more reliable.
Ms. Epstein believes that black
women get straighter treatment in
White professional circles than
white women, because white males
do not view black women as ro-
mantic partners,

Another sample of black college
graduates found that college edu-
cated black women had more con-
fidence in their abilities than a
comparable group of white women
&raduates. No black woman in the
Sample ever considered postponing
her own education to finance her
husband's schooling. They gene-
rally married late, if at all.

The black woman professional has
few marriage prospects since there
are so few black professionel men.
Caroline Bird suggests that the
black professional women's poor
marriage prospects liberete her.
In spite of the racism and sexism
endemic in our society, the sample
Shows that black women who aspire
to professional positions, have
the resources and the ability to
rise above the fear, hatred, and
ignorance of the white American
male,

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SFEAKOUT NEWS AND COMMENT

Speakout is facing a mini-
crisis. The Coalition For A Free
Choice, which had been kind enough
to share their office with us, pay
half the rent, and give us the to-
tal run of the place, has decided
that they can no longer share the
expenses. We are now faced with
paying the full month's rent,

Speakout has been lucky enough
in the past to have never faced
being in the red, At the same time
we have never had enough money
left over each month to buy better
equipment or experiment with
graphics or go into tabloid. This
is a volunteer organization anda
quite literally non-profit,

At the same time that we are
facing financial difficulties, we
are also experiencing staff
changes. The women who have put
in the most time on Speakout, both
physically and emotionally, will
be leaving. - Dorothy Bellick is
now working full-time. Carol
Biernacki underwent recent surgery
and after her convalescence plans
to do free-lance writing. After
this issue, Paula Corey plans to
collapse. There are other women
who will be doing the bulk of the
work beginning with the November

issue of Speakout, Hopefully, they
Will bring with them new ideas,

renewed commitment, and some fresh-
ness.

The important thing is that
the newsjournal survives. It is
the-only forum we have in this area
to express feminist ideas and news,
It is the only way we have of com-
municating with one another through
an alternative newspaper, Ido.
not believe the feminist community
has taken advantage of this oppor-
tunity and would hope that they
would not only support Speakout
through their #3 a year check, but
by contributing to Speakout through
their writing,

We sit up here isolated from
you, rarely hearing what is going
on out there, Dorothy Bellick

calls it q feeling of “cabin fever,"

It is important for our sur-
Vival that we have a free flow of

ideas in order for all of us to
&row 3 ;

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With the departure of part of the
staff some of the content, the
anger, Will leave as well. I
know that there are women out there
with just as much pain and anger
who can use this space to share
their views with all of us. Any
emerging feminist should heve the
opportunity to read this journal
for a wide variety of views. The
entire picture should be here in
Speakout and it will not be if the
feminist community doesn't express
itself through this medium,

We have pleaded with people
to write us their opinions or
original articles or poetry.
thing! We have hoped that you
would use this resource, While
checking the mailbox for all those
Cards and letters, we have relied
on reprints (much to the anger of
NOW), and the agony of writing our
own stuff, whether you like it or
not. In many cases you have not
liked what we write (we get this
through the most incredible grape-
vine I”have ever encountered), If
this issue does not pull in some
written response then I do not know
how much further we can go in
Speaking out,

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INTERN TION L NEWS 12

YNITED NOTIONS: /. study of the role

of Arab women by the United Nations
Children's Fund has called for a
wide variety of measures to in-
crease jobs and schooling for women
improve women's contribution to
politics and community affairs.

The study urged a year's leave for
childebearing for wrking women,
with guarantees of reinstatement;
children's allowances for working
women as well as men; revision of
laws that prevent women from di-e
vorcing men; a legal end to poly-#
gamy, and greatly expanded daycare
and maternal health facilities.

P\RIS: The French mother who
spends the best years of her life
caring for her man cen look for-
ward to a retirement pension. The
government pledged to reward women
in their old days with retirement
pensions like those paid to blue
or white collar workers. The pen-=
sions will be paid only to mothers,
whether married or not, who de-
voted themselves fully to family
duties and had no regular money-
earning work,

NEW ZEAL“ ND: Having just won the

struggle for an equal pay act, New

Zealand women are concentrating
efforts on a senarate act of Parli-
ment covering all aspects of sex
discrimination. In *uckland, cases
of discrimination are being collec-
ted to support a proposed bill oute-
lawing discriminstion.

ENGLAND: The campaign against sex

discriminetion here is directing

its energies in a @-stage push
during the next legislative session.
The first stage presentation of
petitions for effective and compre-
hensive legislation at the begin-«
ning of the ocarliamentary year 73/
74. 30,000 signatures have been
obtained at present, with October
30 as the deadline.

AUSTRALIA: Australian women are
getting their shit together. Their
newspaper, MeJane, is crammed
with informative and interesting
articles. A recent issue inclu-
ded: an exhaustive study of the
past, present md future of the
movement in Australia; an epic
poem, Come Back Little Mother; a
massive indictment of the govern=
ment's "Child Protection Racket,"
including a full case history;
all in addition to news, reviews.

Cs NADA: Women in distress in
Toronto can head to Interval
House, a cooperative for sole
support mothers adjusting to a
new life situation. The house
accomodates five women and their
children who can stay for one
month or more. The waiting list
is growing and the Woments Place
is presently organizing a second.
“lso in Toronto, Metro Police
have circulated a pamphlet,
"Women lone," which recommends
as safety measures: avoid hanging
lingerie outside, avoid feminine
identifications, etc.

PEKING: In China today, family
planning is a relentlessly effi-~
cient movement with its own pere
sonnel committees from the small
production team and its grassroots
cadres. In each street there is

a neighborhood committee, staffed
by two or more women, visiting
doctors and nurses. Families of
the area have to agree, between
them, whose turn it will be to
have, or not to have, a baby. The
pill is most in use in the cities,
and IUD's in rural areas. sbore
tion is on demand. National
minorities do not practice birth
control. Hence, the birth con-
trol drive only affects the Han
people (93 per cent of the total
population of China).

HOT FLASHES.

mee

borate on a’one-hour special pro-
gram, which is scheduled for com-
pletion in December. The pilot
program is the first of its kind to
be funded by a grant from the Cor-
poration for Public Broadcasting.
Gloria Steinem will be featured as
reporter-hostperson of the maga=
Zine format program. She explains:
“Women need the alternate national
network that public television can
provide. We need to counter the
false or incomplete image of women
on the commercial networks; to
counter it with compassionate, fac-
tual reporting and some real infor-
mation about how to change our
lives.

STATE MODIFIe©S Mo TERNITY LEAVE
POLICY. The NYS Civil Service com-
mission has liberalized the mater-~
nity leave policy for all state
agencies to "avoid practices which
Serve to deny equal employment
opportunities to women." In brief,
the changes are: employees may use
sick leave credits in maternity
absences; employees are no longer
required to notify employer of her
pregnancy by the end of the fourth
month; a pregnant employee may con=
tinue to werk as long as she feels
able; permanent employees may
qualify for leave at half pay if
they are still disabled after ex-
hausting sick and personal leave
and vacation pay; employees may be
granted unpaid maternity leave of
two years--with. further extensions
possible; pregnant employees who
are able to work are treeted the
Samé as any other employee.

EMM WILLARD RECEIV.S RECOGNITION
The name.of Emma Hart Willard, plto-
.heer in the movement for higher
education for women, is being con-
Sidered for election to the Women's
Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, N.Y.
She is already a member of the Na-
tional Hall of Fame in New York
City where she was the first wontn
member. |

COLD -CEILLS 13
SO WH.:T BLSE IS NEW-DEPT.

A study by a California State
University of Hayward assistant
sociology professor shows that
three-fourths of- all homicides
occur among peoole who have inti-
mate relationships with. families,
friends, or neighbors. |

‘nd, according to Dr. Schonborn,
most of these homicides are crimes
of passion involving a male whose
sense of dominance has been
threatened, : ‘6ui-

CONTE. .CEPTIVE CONTROZERSY.

The FD. is investigating firms
manufacturing intrauterine devices
after receiving reports that at
least some types of IUD's can lead
to serious médical problems,
During a House subcommittee hearing
a number of physicians testified
that they were finding a number of
cases. in which IUD's caused .ex=
cessive cramping and bleeding, and
occasionally, such complications.
as sterility, infection, hemorrhage
and tubal pregnancy. The FDi\ has
already seized 9000 IUD's called
the Majzlin Spring because of
possible dangers to users. i
befending the IUD, spokespersons
for the Planned Parenthood.dissoc.,
the Population Council, The :meri-
can College of Obstetricians and
Gynecologists, and a major manu-
facturer, all testified that the
devices have been proved safe and
effective, The IUD is used by
more than 3 million. women inthe.
United States, and 10 million
women in other countries.

LEB’ NON-LEGAL ~ MURLER

Abdallah “awhar Sharid wes recent-
ly released from prison after
Serving only 9 months of a 7-year
sentence. imnosed on him after the
strangled his 15-year-old daughter
for "flirting with boys." He is
free because custom and law permit
mén to kill female members of their
families if:women dishonor the a,
family through "sexual misconduct."

‘Such miscondtict can be Simple ges-

tures of affection between rela-
tives.

GROUP NEWS

Coalition for a Free Choice

On Wednesday, August 22, a de-
legation of ten people from the
Coalition and other organizations
visited TV Channel 10 Paul dughes,
Gene Collins and Dave Fields to
protest their refusal to show the
repeat episodes of "Maude" and her
abortion. Many arguments were
put out by them and refuted by us.
In brief: they insist they are
not anti-abortion, and that they
were not bowing to pressure from
such groups. Their refusal to re-
run the two episodes, they say,

was twofold -- 1) negative response

from the average, not pro or anti
abortion, viewer; and 2) Hughes,
the station manager, and Collins,
the program director, felt after
the first screening that it was in
poor taste to deal with such a
serious subject in such a light
manner in a comedy situation at

& pem, - when children were watch-
ing. We said we would not insist
on a rerun in that case, but would
expect to see the subject of abor-
tion treated in a serious manner
at a later hour at night and that
only in this way could they show
that they were sincere. They said
they would seriously consider it,
Letters from you could remind them
of their intentions,

On August 29, Janice Lee and Kim

Gifford spoke for the Coalition on
WGY Radio's "Contact" show moder-
ated by Steve Fitz. Every single
call that night was from Right to
Lifers, hostile and fanatical...
who were willing to wait "forever"
to get their calls through, (One
person said she had waited 45 min,
to an hour.) Next time, please
spread the word, call in, and hang
onto the line so that the abusive
people are kept off, It is the
least we can do to help our people
willing to speak for us.

Jane Dwyer |

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Dear Speakout,

I am appalled at the tone of the
September issue. My first concern
is your acceptance and promotion
of cultural stereotypes by self-
segregation. By suggesting that
the possession of a penis pre-
cludes the possibility of valid
contributions to Speakout, you are
accepting the modus operandi of
vast numbers of organizations in
this country. I have felt the
goal of the women's movement is to
overcome sex segregation, to pro-
vide options to males as well as
females, to rid ourselves of the
notion that biology is destiny.

Eileen Kelly

Deer Ms,

Have recently received your
September 1973 issue of Speakout,.
RIGHT :O iso

Nona C. Volk
Administrator
NOW Legal Defense
& Education Fund
New York

Dear Editor,

I always see the term “hysterec-
tomy" used in Speakout and other
feminist literature. You might
be interested to know that the
word derives from the Greek word
"hysterias" which referred to an
emotional state caused by derange-
ment or malfunction of the womb.

I think we should all get into the
habit of using the more appropriate
term “uterectomy."

Arlene Halfon
Schenectady

To Carol Biermacki, from all of
her friends -

A speedy recovery from her
uterectomy!

CALENDAR, ANNOUNCEMENTS, JOB OFPORTUNITIES, ETC.

Oct. 1-4: The Women's Video Fes-
tival at the LoGiudice Gallery, 59
Wooster Street, NYC, 8:30 pm every
night.

Oct. 2-Dec. 4: Seminar on Human
Sexuality led by Hedi McKinley and
Phyllis Sands, Tuesdays/7:30 pm -
9:30 pm/#35. Contact the College
of General Studies, SUNYA.

Oct. 24, 25, 26: Women's Studies

Conference, Queensbury Hotel,
Glens Falls. Contact John Haines
at the State Education Department.

Abortion Information Sought

Three students from the graduate
School of Social Welfare at SUNYA
are interested in information
about the emotional/beharioral
effects of a first abortion. This
information will be used for the
enlightment of other social wel-
fare students in the form of a
class presentation and paper.

hope this study will help to fur-
ther understanding about women.

If you can help them contact:
Marion or John Dwyer, 439-0556 or
Jack Richmond, 438-3922,

pe Sess niet

Interesting Work Wented for Three
People: Exceptional abilities in

thinking, organizing, communicating

and relating with people. Able to
function somewhat close to rea-
lity, of which “human kind cannot
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ence includes: research and field
work in sociological studies,
counselling, teaching, writing,
starting independent enterprises,
farming, and industrial engineer-
ing. Worked with college students,
drug users, handicapped children,
reformatory inmates, and adults

and children of other societies.
Previous contexts include: college,
schools, a day-care center, a film
society and restaurant, The Peace
Corps, The Teacher Crops, and

large corporations. Formal educa-

tion: degrees in anthropology, edu-

cation, engineering,
a job for us call:

If you have
436-1203.

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If you are a teenage woman inter-
ested in consciousness-raising,
contact Capitol District Women.

In Albany: Joan Schulz--436-0401.
In Troy: Andrea Lurie--438-4643.

Volunteers needed for pregnancy
counselling at the Washington Pk.
Free Clinic. If you are a woman
With basic knowledge of woman's
health and are interested in
helpine women, call 463-4083 M,
W, or Th, after 7:30 pm. A vol-
unteer is also needed as recep-
tionist. If you are an outgoing
person and have the need to ex-
press it, call Kethy at the clinic,
or at home--785-3780 or at work--
4744857,

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Asst. in Public Library Services
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‘SpeakOut

Why does my opponent (Lyle

Hoffer) need to work? His
wife alreadv has a fine
full-time Jeb: "

Théresa Cooke
Candidate, Comptroller,
City of Albany

tH]
I may only be able to move
an inch at a time, but when

I move, you'll know about 13%

Ruby Hughes
Candidate, Alderwoman, 5th
ward

Support Our Sisters!
VOTE NOV. 6.

"This city is interested
in giving money to the
Tulip Festival, not a
Women's Center."
Jane Ramos
Candidate, Alderwoman
7th ward

"Mass transportation is a
crucial issue for women,
Women are too poor to owh

cars;or get left home with

no car, or spend a whole
day chauffering kids,"

Madonna Ghandhi
Candidate, Legislature
Albany County

" I want to guarantee an
independent voice in the
Albany Common Council."

Betty Gross
Candidate, Alderwoman

"My daughter is three years
Old. I hope 15 or so years
from now, if she wants to gO
into polities, she will in-
herit a proud legacy of women
in politics,"

Bernice Spitzer
Candidate, Clerk, Town of
Colonie

Volume II Number % SPEAKOUT LIV#sS ! November 1973

Pare

1-5. Sveakout Survey of the Candidates. Cynthia Montilla, Sherry
Sussman

6, Women's Political Caucus Fund Raiser. Lois J. Uttley

- An Onsen Letter to My Sisters. Sherry Sussman

R, Manpower (sic) Non-meeting. Dian Terry

8. The Second Face of Peter J. Brennan? Lois J. Uttley

+. Women's Travel Arency Opens in Albany. Advertisement

10, Electric City Girls Athletic Club. Lois J. Uttley
11-13.Letters to Sveakout.
ier Hypoglycemia: Is this what's got you down? Liz Sussman

14. Education News. Chris Root

14, New Systoms of Education. Liz Sussman

Ls Images of Women in London. Nancy Hessler

16. Feminists, Take Note! Advertisement

Aas Jobs.

18, News From Coalition for a Free Choice. Jane M,. Dwyer
19. Calendar and Announcements.

CREDITS: Rezsin Adams, Margaret Figlozzi, Chris Root,
coni Schiff, Phoebe Sheres, Liz Sussman,
Sherry Sussman, Lois J. Uttley, Bunni Vaughn,
Jo Vertetis

Speakout is published monthly. Subscriptions %3.00 per year or 25%
per issue, Advertising $10.00 per quarter page. Moil subscriptions
to: P.O. Box 6165, Quail Station, Albany, N.Y. 12206. Speakout is
on file at the Women's History Research Center, 2325 Oak Street,
Berkeley. California

SPEAKOUT SURVEY OF THE CANDIDATES

In this year's spring issues, Speakout ran several articles about
the women candidates who were running in Albany's primary elections,
fs election day is close upon us, we felt that it was time ta ree
examine these women according to feminist and local issues.

We sent our questionnaire to the following candidates: Theresa
Cooke = candidate for Comptroller, City of Albany; Madonna Ghandhi -
candidate for the Legislature, County of Albany; Ruby Hughes - can-
didate for City Council, 5th ward; Jane Ramos = candidate for City
Council, 7th ward; Bernice Spitzer = candidate for Clerk, Town of
Colonie, and Betty Gross- candidate for City Council.

We are listing the questions asked each candidate and their response.
We regret that time did not permit us to interview the opponents of
these women. Speakout urges you to contact the candidates running in
your districts, ask them these questions and othere, draw your own
conclusions, and most importeht, VOTE ON NOVEMBER 6

Here are the questions: answers. Therefore, not every ans-

wer is a direct quote.
1. Would you favor and support the

establishment of a Rape Crisis RUBY HUGES, Aldermoman, 5th ward.
Center in the Albany area? dS ae
1. Rape Crisis Center:"In my com-
&e Would you support an abortion munity, there is not as much probe
clinic in your area? lem with rape as there is with
pregnancy." Ruby is concerned with
3. Could the city or county allocate how money for a center would be
money for free medical clinics? spent and what approach would be
taken toward the woman contacting
4. Should the City be responsible such a center. If a center were
for trash removal? _ established, it is essential that
there be no intimidation of the
5. What about City/County monies victim. Otherwise, members of the

for the establishment of more black community would not come
Day Care Centers? forward,

6. Are you responsive to the need 2, Abortion Clinics: Within the
te have nonesexist education in 5th ward, efforts by Planned Par-
the schools? enthood concerning contraceptive

methods are just beginning to be
7. How do you feel the budget can accepted. Some members of the Black

be reformed? community have felt that birth con»

| | trol programs are part of the over-
8. What obstacles do you encounter all plan to exterminate the poor

when you meet the voters? and black communities. What is most

needed is more education in the
9. How can Albany meet its housing schools dealing with contraception,
crisis? ccr ined with improved health ed-=

) ucation, and aimed at the preado-
Each candidate received the ques-lescent. :

tionnaire in the mail and was given

several days to think about it. We 3, Free Medical Clinics: The trouble
then contacted each person by phone with any service that is completely

and wrote down their response. The free is that tax money must pay the
ay vanes” AER PP iehes tether. Tall sest,. A feither Increass in

they were received. In some cases, city taxes for a program not all
it was necessary to condense the (continued page 2)

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SURVEY continued ’ :

the citizens would take advantage. needs of the entire city are. She
of would only alienate a majority advises that a study be conducted
of the voters. The clinics should by all those involved in the city
not be totally free. Payment could budget to make the city better.

be based on income.

8. Housing Crisis: "The present

4. Trash Removal: Ruby favors city conditions are boarded up houses,
responsibility for trash removal. houses in poor condition, inade-
She stressed that it £fs the respon- quate housing for large families,
sibility of the "community as a and an overall lack of information
whole to show reasons why they feel of how to get into public housing."
their tax money should provide these To remedy the situation, Ruby
services. People within the communi- suggests that each public housing
ties should continue to hammer away project have its own office, with
to get what they want." The person evening and week=en# hours so that
you elect must do her job, not just more people could apply for hous-
make campaign promises. She urges inge She also feels that large
all citizens to join together in families should have access to one
support of city wide trash removal, family housing units.

5. LDay-Care:.Ruby is the temporary 9. Obstacles: Ms. Hughes has poin-
chairwoman of the St. Phillipts Day ted out that few women are polite
Care Advisory Council. She is well ically aware. Until women are aware
versed on the subject. "Not only is Of what they can do about their
more day care needéd, but it is very Own situations, they just won't
important to have closer communica- be moving anywhere. Also, alder=
tion and cooperation between the manic races aren't getting the

day care centers and the schools." media coverage they deserve. The
"Day care is NOT a babysitting ser- entire Common Council needs more
vice, it is an educational service. exposure in the press. These:

The entire county, not just the aldermen are the first person the
city needs daycare." More city voter goes to see, not the mayor,
revenues need to be going toward and not the legislators.

improving existing facilities and

establishing new ones, JANE_RAMOS, Alderwoman, 7th ward.

6. Non-Sexist Education: Ruby felt 1. Rape Crisis Center: Jane supports
that there is a need for a "more the establishment of a center. She
realistic portrayal of home life" Says that it would be more feasible
in the city scheols. All the roles to have it connected to an already
women play should be shown, not existing community service center,

enly the role showing the stay-at=- Cage a hospital, clinic or coun-
home~in-the-kitchen woman. Too many Seling agency. In such places
children just can't identify with there is a full time staff. The

this. She also stressed that the expense of buying or leasing a

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public schools do not encourage building and staffing it would be
the students in her district to too much to expect from this ad-

rise out of their situations. These ministration. Such a proposal would
students have an unrealistic idea probably best be handled in the

of what college is and that it is county legislature rather than the
out of their reach. Guidance pro- city's Common Council,

grams need to be improved and up-

dated. The two year college should 2+ Abortion Clinic: "The 7th ward
be stressed as a possible means to is residential. It is not zoned
good paying jobs. for a hospital=like structure. 1

., would not support it in the 7th
7. Budget Reform: As an alderwoman, ward",

Ruby knows the needs of her district (Continued page 3)
but would hesttate to say whet the

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3. Free Medical Clinics: They are
within the legal spectrum. Alot
would depend upon the quality of
services and types of controls.
However, "when cities and counties
support free medical clinics, they
usually do so with less success
than privately sponsored free clin-
ics. Free clinics have a much better
chance of giving quality care when
they are privately sponsored."

4. Trash Removal: "The city could
and should be sesponsible fer trash
removal. With what we pay in taxes
for snly garbage removal, other
cities get both garbage and trash
removal. We need this, we pay for
it, and there's no reason why we
shouldn't have it."

5. DayCare: "This should be a pri-~
ority. The city has done very little
in this area. This is a program
that could begin immediately. The
expense of establishing centers is
not prohibitive. Once established
they pay for themselves. In this
area there are many qualified per-
sons able to staff and maintain
such a program. There are many
buildings suitable for day care
projects in the Albany area. The
only reason we don't and can't have
city sponsored day care is that the
current administration has not seen
it as a priority."

6. Non-Sexist Education: I am very

much aware @f the problem."I don't

have much personal contact with

the schools or the students, but

I certainly would support any pro-

gram or any effort te provide non-~

sexist and non=-discriminatory meth-
ods of education in the Albany pub-
lic schools."

7. Budget Reform: "The first prv=
ority is electing Theresa Cook
Comptroller." Secondly,"the budget
should be prepared in advance of
the fiscal year so that time is
given for the Common Council and
the pubiic to examine its provis-
ions before it is implemented,

om rer ees

perceive how their money will be
spent. Large, general items like
Street Maintenance costing $450,
O00 for labor must not be allowed
to continue if we want to quit
wasting money." Jane has spent a
great deal of time investigating
ways and types of budget reforms.

She will be glad to discuss them
at length with you.

8. Voter Obstacles: People are
Still. intimidated by machine pol-
itics. Many people are afraid
their vote is not secret, and if
they vote independently, they fear
punishment. "We spend alot of time
convincing voters that their vote
is secret and that their right to

vote independently will be pro-
tected,"

9, Housing Crisis: Jane Ramos
stresses that we must preserve
the housing that is already here.
Many houses that are structurally
sound have been allowed to deter-
iorate by absentee landlords. The
city does little to enforce the
housing codes that would protect
these houses and provide more
housing for urban residents.

MADONNA _GHANDHI, Legislator,
County of Albany.

1. Rape Crisis Center: There is a
definite need for this. It is ime
portant to have careful planning

and that there is a capable staff,
"It doesn't need funds as much as
it needs the right kind of people |
to spaff it." She suggests tying
in the crisis center with an ale
ready existing service, such as

the emergency ward of a hospital,

&e Abortion Clinic: Madonna has
gene on record as being in favor
of setting up an abortion clinic
as long as it is located near a
hospital. "The precedure is med-
ically safe especially since clin-
ics specialize in the termination
of early pregnancies. This cuts
dewn en possible complications,"
Madonna has lobbied to get our

criginal abortion law changed.
(continued page 4)

SURVEY continued,

3. Free medical clinicss Madénna
favors free clinics in préncipal.
There are such services already
within the city. She feels it is
also important to consider the
practical matter of funds, the
cost to the taxpayer, and the prie
orities for the tax money. She is
not sure that free clinics are
practical at this point.

4. Trash Removal: This is more
feasible in the city than it is in
the suburbs, where the distance

to be covered makes the cost very
high. Crowding in the city makes
trash removal a matter of health,
Thtsifs a necessary service in
cities where people have less money
and where health problems ane
greater.

5. Day Care: "While people aren't
ready to consider this, we'll need
day cgre in the suburbs eventually.
There is a tremendous need for day
care with fewer sitters available,
and the necessity of women working
in most households. If someone is
to take care of children, they
should be paid well for it." Ms,
Ghandhi suggests a Sliding scale
basis to determine the cost per
child. She thinks we'll eventually
have day care available to all whe
need it, although it will probably
be labelled something elsé, "It
will have to be available in commue
nities the way we have schools,
Funding can be derived partially
from tax dollars and companies that
employ persons in need of day cares
There's room for alot of new and
different ideas. I dontt think we!
ve explored it all yet,"

6. Non=sexist Education: "The most
effective way to make the schools
attentive is by the parents bein
ever vigilant. Ms. Ghandhi chbtived
a citizens mental health committee
in the Niskayuna schools. The women
on the committee were particularly
concerned with getting a mental
health curriculum established, SOX
education and openness in the roles

played by all members of the soci. -

ety were desired,

~4—

7. Budget Reform: Ms. Ghandhi
asserts that more money should be
spent on public transportation than
on highways. She feels that this is
very much a women's issue, as women
suffer the most from our highway
system. "If the family can afford

a car, it's usually the man who
takes it. If they can't afford one,
the economic situation is usually
one where the woman has to work and
has no way to get to her job. These
families are not just located in th
the cities. In the affluent families,
the woman often spends all her time
chauffering other people around.
That in itself is a fulletime job.
It's an enormous waste of time and
money, and woman power, as well as
an insult to our environment,"

8. Obstavles with voters: Colonie

is a Republican town and Ms. Ghandhi
is a Democrat. There is an overe
whelming relucéance to vote for a
Democrat. The voters have been very

receptive. "If 1 lose, it will have
nothing to do with me, or the fact

that I am a woman." She feels that
this is a good t#me for women to be
running for office. The response
has been "fantastic", Watergate

has helped. The feeling is that men
have made a mess of th igtj™s. In her
campaign, Madonna has gone around
to meet the voters during the day
when most of the women are avail-

able. "I feel that we both enjoy
this contact,"

B®. Housing Crisis: Madonna has not

looked into all the factors on this
subject and does not wish to make

a statement without coneulting

the persons most directly involved.

BERNICE SPITZER, Candidate for Town
Clerk, Town of Colonie,

1. Rape Crisis Center: "I'm defin-
itely in favor of this. Everything
right now is very centrally located
in Albany. I would rather see such
a service scattered throughout the
triecity area."

(Continued page5)
?

er

SURVEY continued

does not approve of wamen whoa are

2. Abortion Clinics: 1 favor abore activists. Many of them are suspi-

tion clinics on a sliding scale
basis. As this service has been
made available only in a few lo-

cious of the woman who takes public
stands and speaks out. Therefore,
my approach to these people was in

cations, I feel there is great neeathe frame of a “concerned but polite

for more clinics. The problem of
free medical serffice for such a
condition is that too many people
who can afford to pay, would not
do sSOe

%. Free Medical Clinics: This is
not within the realm of my kKnow-
ledge. I think medical services at
every level are in short supply,
but not Knowing the financial sit-
uation of the city and the county
of Albany, I hesitate to venture
any more than my opinion,

4. Trash Removal:
pass on this.

I would like te

5. Day Care Centersk I see no reas
son why daycare centers should not
be open to all persons wishing to
use them based on their ability ta
pay. Day care ought to be made a-
vailable to everyone regardless of
their socio-economic condition. By
having day care only for persons

on welfare, class distinctions are
only reinforced,

6: Non=Sexist Education: Bernice
Spitzer feels that the whole realm

lady", I did not feel that the men
would be as difficult since I've
had experience in converting male
chauvinists.

9. Enforcement of the housing codes
and getting landlords to correct
existing violations is the way to
keep the housing crisis from getting
werse. An administration that is
responsive tothe needs of the cit-
izens would sponsor construction of
decent low and middleinceme housing,
using the many sources of state &
federal funds, ,

I regret that I'm not more con-
versant with Albany issues. I have
had te deal with my own organiza-
tions out here in Colonie.

Ms. Spitzer made a closing state-
ment that touched many of us. We'd
like to share it with you:

"We have to give our daughters a
legacy of integrity and civic re-

sponsibility for them to inherit.
That's what it's all about."

Speakout attempted to get answers
from Theresa Cooke and Betty Gros.
We regret that these outspoken and
deeply cohcerned women were unavail-

of education has to be turned aroun@ble when we contacted them. We

Conditioning children to behave
and to identify only in & narrow
or set number of ways is pretty

much on the way out. She points out

that the athletic programs are
geared to boys. Girss are lncked

out. This may be changing, but not
fast enought"Feminists claim that

the greater maturity shown by girls

in the lower grades is generally
lost by Junior High. This loss is
tue to acculturation. I think it
would be interesting to test this

theory if we eliminated sexism in
the schools,"

7. Budget Reform in Albany: I'd
like to pass on this,

8. Obstacles with the Voters: In a
conservative area such as Colonie,

I was concerned with the woman whe

ee ee ee eee eee

urge voters in their districts te
contact their campaign headquarters
for information.

Most of all, we urge you to vote

and to encourage others to vote.
If you think about. it, that's what
our foremothers struggled for, and
in these times, what we must strug-
gle to preserve.

After looking at the candidated
from all parties, we at Speakout
urge you to elect these women cane
difates. Through them and they, with
our help, the Albany area will be
a fit place to grow up female.

Cynthis Montilla,
Sherry Sussman

=6=a
WOMEN'S POLITICAL, CAUCUS FUND-RAISER

ET

Seven local political candidates and women the vote.

a state senator gathered October 7, at a Women's Political Caucus of Albany
cocktail party in Albany to raise campaign County, like the Seneca Falls planning
funds and woo voters. committee, is a small but talented and

But unlike the average tuxedo-clad, determined crew. Headquartered at 393
"for he's a jolly good fellow" fundraiser, Hamilton Ave., (Phone 463-0477) the two-
this event honored women -~ seven outstand-year—old group includes six of the local
ing and courageous women reedy to initiate candidates, as well as three women acti-

anew era in tri-cities government. vely involved in government: Ann Borel,
Theresa Cooke, Fran Fanuele, Madonna legislative assistant on women to Con-
Ghandhi, Betty Gross, Ruby Hughes, Jane — stance Cook; Jane Small Sandford, Demo-
Ramos, Bernice Spitzer and their guest, cratic Committeewoman in Colonie and
State Senator Carol Bellamy, gave notice freasurer of the New York State WPC; and

that women in the 1970's are ready to fightJoanna Banthin-Stelzer, Democratic Com-
for seats in government across the country mitteewoman in Colonie.

and right here in the Albany area, Evelyn Goldstein, a founding member
Our seven local candidates represent of the group, describes their goal as
an unusual number of women running for "complete involvement of women from all

office in one area -~ each is making her economic, social, educational, and poli-
first political bid. And the Women's Pol- tical backgrounds in our political and
itical Caucus of Albany County, sponsor of governmental process",

the event, is also beginning to flex its

Tri-cities women are stepping from
organizational muscles, ;

behind the typewriters and mimeograph
October 7 was a sharing of the exper- machines in political offices and onto the

ience of women in politics ——- the excite- speaker's platforms. October 7, proved
ment, the frustration, the pride and the this,

determination. Candidates traded stories

("The city council introduced us as 'two

lovely ladies,'" "One man told me, 'It's

about time women ran for office.'") They

mingled with guests, explained their posi-

ticns and listened to local women voicing legislator (Ghandhi),

concern for such issues as mass transpor- But most importantly, we've found

taticn, lesbian liberation and the proposedthe spirit to keep trying.

women's center, Ruby Hughes: "If none of us win, we
As at all political functions, there should keep right on moving."

were speeches. Seven women unschooled in

. . Bernice Spitzer: "We'll be back
rhetoric end the technique of the sly run- again and again, Women can make a change
around gave refreshingly brief remarks, for the better,"

personal and to the point, Carol Bellamy
tied it all together, giving perspective Lois Uttley
on the current status of women in govern-
ment across the country: no women gov-
ernors, ne wonen in the U.S. Senate, 16
of /.55 in the House of Representatives, IS THE REVOLUTION CLOSER THAN WE THINK
6% of all. stete legislators in the United

States. Carol is herself one of only three,

women in the 60-member New York State ment office revealed the following: In

Senate, response to the question: Would the

For some of us, October 7, marked the country be better off if Nixon was either
local initiation of the first major fem- impeached or resigned? Seven persons
inist pols Sical movement since Seneca Fallsthought we would be better off, four

and the cxi.ve for the'vote. The suffra- thought things would be worse, and two
getts of 125 years ago has become the voted for assassination,

candicete of today,and she is backed by a
growing organization of the sort that won

With complete success, we will have
four new alderwomen in Albany (Fanuele,
Gross, Hughes and Ramos), the Albany City
Comptroller (Cooke), the Colonie town
clerk (Spitzer) and a County of Albany

7

recent survey taken at a state govern-

a,
, AN OPEN LETTER TO MY SISTERS

I've been meaning to thank my Albany
Sisters for some time. This month is the
best time to do so. It marks the second
anniversary of my birth.

I was born at Chancellor's Hall in

Albany in November, 1971. Nearly a thou-
sand women were there, but they didn't
realize the importance of the occasion for
me. Maybe they were also being delivered
into the air of feminist love, |

Shirley Chisholm was speaking. She
followed Bella Absug. Bella's words and
power startled me. I felt the walls of
society's uterus contracting. I was being
expelled into reality. I was born hearing
Shirley Chisholm announce her decision to
run for the Presidency,

I started to cry and shout. All the
myths were being cut away, They trailed
after me. No one was protecting me from
myself anymore. I was on my own!!

When Shirley finished, I looked around,
I saw women I had met before in college and

in the community. . I never thought much
about them, We were never open with each-
other. But they weren't the way I remem-
bered them. They acted differently. They
looked confident. They belonged here amo
all these other women who were awakening
to power,

My cousin, the family "libber" came
up from Long Island to attend this confer-
ence, She persuaded me to come. I. saw
Judy, my sophomore roommate, who put me in
touch with a C-R group. It took 25 years
and five days for that first meeting,

As I climbed the stairs to Dorothy's
house that Wednesday, I can't describe the
excitement I felt. There were fifteen
women there. As they spoke, their ages,
which I noticed right away, melted. We
were all so much alike. When it was my
turn to speak, I felt shakey and began to
ery. I felt all the hurt that was stored
up just pour out. I learned that it was
acceptable to feel and voice anger. Oh
God, it was great to tell these women, my
sisters, how I really felt,

It was amazing to me that these women
didn't put me down for not conforming, for
being angry, for not being "ladylike",
They didn't tolerate my attempts to be-
little my accomplishments. It was okay to
succeed and to be aggressive.

Thanks, sisters!

After that meeting, I went home and

read everything I could that dealt with the

movement. JI cursed my husband for all the
crimes that men had ever committed on
women,

I was no longer content to stay in
bed until four in the afternoon feeling
sorry for myself, Not when there were
women who hadn't seen the light! I
stalked the laundromats and shopping
centers with missionary zeal,

My family laughed at me. Now I was

a "women's lib freak". It was just a
phase I was going through. I lost some
"friends" who felt uncomfortable around
me. I don't seek out people who enjoy
putting me down anymore. If I can't male
them see how I feel, then trey've lost,
not me. POWER! CONFIDENCE! Thank you,
sisters. .

My marriage was in for some big
shocks. It's been two years, and even
though I've tried slipping back to "the
way things were before", I'm just not
the same, We were married under the
canopy of "Society's romantic lies" and
"You owe us an image." When we left the
canopy, there wasn't any solid ground to
walk on. We're still trying to make the

"8 marriage work, but there's always the

chance that it won't,

I don't think that marriage is un-
acceptable, only marriages based on other
people's lies, I don't dislike my hus-
band, but he's never going to be the
Prince Charming I was promised. There's
just no magic answer, The man I married

is a good person who's working at his own
self-discovery,

Keep at it, Brother!

I've been disillusioned with the
Movement, but it's usually when I've let
myself down. I've been angry at my
sisters, but usually that happens wien I
judge them by my standards, not their own.
I'M NOT GIVING UP! This movenent is my
source of life! I can take vacations
from the pressures of it, but I can't
leave it,

I am the Revolution.
my sisters. Join me.
world and make it ours!

I love you,
Let's change this

Sherry Sussman

Support your sisters, Vote on November 6,

=~ THE SECOND FACE

MANPOWER (sic) NON-MEETING OF PETER J. BRENNAN?

The reportedly armed U.S. Secretary Meanwhile, back at the Labor Dept,
of Labor, Peter J, Brennan, has shied awaySecretary of Labor Peter J. brennan
from meeting with unequivocally feminist has been pledging his support of
members of the National Organization for’ women's rights and equal opportunity,
Women (NOW), according to NOW president =—S In a statement released in recog-

Wilma Scott Heide. nition of Women's Week (8/26-31),
Ms. Heide and members of NOW's Com -he said:

pliance Task Force have again been refused "The adoption of the 19th Amend-
a private meeting with the Secretary to ment guaranteeing women the right
discuss "the continued ineffectiveness of tn vote signaled an historic event
enforcement of laws and executive orders in the history of this nation. It
banning sex and race discrimination under recognized a basic right for womens:
the jurisdiction of the Labor Secretary." a right that men already had. Since
The feminists were also outraged about the that time, women have been striving
"continued funding of sex-stereotyped job for another basic right: the right
training projects administered by the to equal access into the labor mare
Manpower (sic) Division of the U.S, Dep~ ket, to jobs, and pay, and advance=
artment of Labor." Ms. Heide pointed out, ment.

"These government programs train men for Great strides have been made :
higher paying jobs such as machine shop Legislation and Executive mandates
work while women are still guided to have secured additional rights for

traditionally lower paying jobs such as women workers. Much more remains to
office/clericals or career service in the be done to guarantee full employ~
health field," ment epportunity to women and enable
“Dlustrating how the double standardthem to advance according to their
works," the feminists said, "Secretary abilities. In this spirit, I wish
Brennan meets individually with labor, to take this opportuni ty to reaffirm

industry groups and private business my support of the Equal Rights
leaders (all male), but has chosen to hear Amendment,
from women through a single, projected The Department of Labor serves as

advisory committee representing a coalition’ advotate for women workers. The
of different women's groups. . Though this Department is responsible for admin-
committee includes NOW, NOW is a feminist istering landmark legislation assur~
organization which includes. men and is ing equal pay for equal work. It is
more insistent on fundamental changes thancharged with assuring affirmative
some other organizations," action by government contractors

Ms. Heide also recalled that on and empleyers engaged in Federally=
May 29, 1973, the Secretary promised this assisted construction to provide
coalition that Manpower would be’ changed’ equal jeb opportunity. The Women's
to Humanpower. To date, she said, there Bureau of the Department is the
is no evidence that this has been initi- single agency at the Federal level
ated or accomplish ad. exclusively coneerned with serving

"Because we're not even sure if the and promoting the interests of wo=
Secretary can type, we wonder if he and men. The Women's Bureau reviews.
other 'men in Labor' are upgrading their Federal government policies and pro-
typing skills through Manpower training," grams relating to women.

the NOW activists said. They also asked In order to carry out my respon

"Why does the pistol-packing Secretary sibilities as secretary of Labor, 1

fear to meet with Now?" have pledged a national partnership
Dian Terry with women. I intend to do all in

my power to turn rights into reality
Lael a aati ~~ and remove barriers to nontradition-
committee will be announced

al occupations for women in busing

shortly." ess, industry and government at all
The full text of Brennan's levels, I have promised to estab-

statement appears in the Sept. '73 lish an advisory committee on wo-

issue of Women and Work, “men to assist me in this task. This

Lois J. Uttley

) ~~

Women are travelling more new
than ever before. They are flying
everywhere to pursue their pro-
fessional and personal goals.

With this in mind, Speakout
has accepted with pride New Scot-~
land Travel, Ltd. as a new adver-
tiser. This agency is owned and

managed by two women (a rarity
this field); Renata H.V. Barker
and Judith C. Zacek. In an inter-
view with Mses. Barker and Zacek,
Speakout learned of their backe
grounds and what their business
offers our readers.

Ms. Zdacek has a Ph. D. and has
taught Russian and East European
History at colleges in California
and New York. When she moved te
Albany, she gave up trying to find
a teaching position and decided
to try a new field. Judith has
travelled in Europe and has cone
ducted group tours of Russia.

Ms. Barker has extensive expere
ience in all phases of the travel
husiness. She has worked in London,
New York City and has recently left
a position as manager of a travel
agency in Delmar. Renata has
decided to work for herself
rather than letting someone
else make money from her ex.
perience.

New Scotland Travel opened
its doors September 17th, It
is located hetween Quail and
Ontario Streets. To avoid the
hassel of getting bank leans
the women have financed the :
entire venture with their own
capital.

Obtaining permission to
represent the airlines is more
difficult than ene might think,
Approval frem the ATC & IATA
(professional associations),
granted only if the agent has
a minimum of two years exper-
ience in airline ticketing, $10,
000 in assets to assure client
protection, and liquid assets
te use as capital. The loca.
tion of the agen@y must also
meet with airline approval,

in

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decision to make one's travel plans
through an agent. The agent rece~-
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and airlines or steamship lines
based on the number of persons hanke
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desired. When an agent guarantees a
certain number of persons for a
particular "package", she receives
a reduced rate on the wholesale cost
of this package. She can then pass
on the savings to the client in the
form of reduced cost of accomoda-~
tions or more services. When a.
client makes travel arrangements
through an agent rather than a
particular airline, she is assured
of the most direct route instead ef
a route that will utilize the most
distance of a given carrier.

Agents also provide personal
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suggestions of what to see, what te
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= 1 On

ELECTRIC CITY GIRL'S ATHLETIC CLUB

For the Electric City Girl's Ath-
letic Club, equality of the sexes in
sports is much more than Billie Jean King
defeating Bobby Riggs in one tennis match,

Electric City is a determined and
hard-training group of athletes, but like
most women's sports teams, it has no
reliable financial support, Several mem-
bers of the 15-woman team are ready to run

in the National AAU Women's Cross-Country
Championship at Albuquerque, New Mexico,
in late November, Funds to pay for their
transportation and expenses, however, are
practically nonexistant.

As team coach Barbara J. Palm knows
so well, most money available for athe.
letics is controlled by men and funnelled
to boys’ sports teams. A member of the
Finance Committee of the National Women's
Track and Field Committee of the AAU, she

is constantly at work raising money for
overseas meets of the United States

women's teams. "Women athletes most often
pay their own way," she observes,

Ms, Palm, coach of SUNYA's women's
track and field team and of national
women's teams, sends the Electric City
Club to meets by organizing raffles and
candy sales. A few businessmen have come
to the team's aid from time to time, and
Ms. Palm has donated some of her own funds
as well as her time and knowledge,

So far, she has been remarkably suc~
cessful in operating the team on a shoe-
string budget: 30 Electric City runners
have been to the Nationals over the past
few years. ‘In addition, the club has
been running a regular schedule of meets
throughout New York State, with trans-
portation provided by parents and team
members themselves,

The club's athletes range in age
from ll to 22 years, heilting from
Schenectady, Albany, Old Chatham,
Middlebury and Ravena. All of them are
adept at selling candy bars and raffle
tickets.

the women to national-class competitions
in the mid—West.

Coach Palm has worked with some of
the best women athletes in the world:
she managed the U.S. Women's track team
to their indoor track meet win over the
Russian team at Virginia in 1972 and was
a coach/manager at the World University
Gemes in Moscow this past summer,

But the Electric City Club is her
pet project ... and an invaluable program
for Tri-Cities Women,

On a recent Thursday night, half a
dozen club members were out running
"hard half miles" around the SUNYA track,
in spite of a bitter chilling rain,
Parents waited inside to drive their
daughters home, And Palm talked about
the lack of money which is holding back
this group of women,

For the Electric City Girl's Ath-
letic Club, women's equality in athletics
means having the funds to provide for
every young woman athlete the training,
guidance and challenge of competition
she deserves,

Contributions to the club may be
Sent to 35 Natick Street, Albany, N.Y.,
12205. Further information may be ob-
tained by calling Ms. Palm at 457~4525,

_ Lois Uttley
¥

Woman with home and child -wants
to share same with another woman
with or without a child. Wishes
to share home expenses and child
responsibilities. Bethlehem
school district, Accessible to
bus lines and shopping, Can be
reached after 5:00 p.m. Call
Barbara at 439-3413.

eee
GIVE A MS. SUBSCRIPTION FOR THE

The Electric City Club provides for HOLIDAYS!!

its members a kind of training often un-
available to women elsewhere. Coach Palm
demands self-reliance from the rumners
and inspires them to their best. The
team's record so far this year, in its
tenth season, has been outstanding. Palm
would like to have funds enough to send

Rates through Speakout: $7.50 per
year. After January 31, we're
raising the price to $9. Your gift
also supports Speakout. Mail é¢hecks
to Speakout, P.O. Box 6165, Quail
Station, Albmy, N.Y. 12206.

7 a i ss a a aa a a e -

LETTERS TO SPEAKOUT:

(The views expressed in this column
are those of the writer and do not
necessarily reflect the opinions
of the Speakout staff.)

Dear Sisters,

Having only discovered Speakout
last June, thanks to Dorothy Bele
lick's generosity, I am saddened
by the prospect which 1 assume I
am correct in gathering from the
Gctober issue that this journal
is likely to fold in the near fute
urée In the same issue there is a
plea for material. Having very
strong feelings about our lncal
Women's Lib movement, from my. ewn
experience, I guess I'd better
speak out now, else hold my peacee
This is in answer both to the excel-
lent article by Diva Daims and
additionally to the mourning note
sounded by Paula, the impending
collapse being the. explanation. Lf
you're feeling unappreciated, Paula
welceme to the club! This is my
gripes

I was one of the founding members
of the university group, and was
active in it for over a year. At
that time, I was told by Gloria De
Sole at a party, that she heard that
I was dominating the group and was
not wanted in it by them anymore.

I left the party with my gut screa-
ming in pain, cried for an hour
when I got heme, and never went
backd
Loek at this, my sisters} Diva

Daims is complaining bitterly that
only the "strong"ones do anything,

and that the "weak" ones just sit
back and bake cookies. But look
what happens to a Person who is

advocating doing something and not
just belly-button gazing! The

"strong" ones throw her out, and

by the worst kind of gond old bitch
technique of talking behind the
back! No confrontation, no level-
ing, mere tale-bearing from other
nameless people, the worst kind of
meanness of the spirit from which

we have all suffered so badly all
our lives?

I am sayin
is the press

3

g that the real enemy
ure to drive people ine

t> line, no matter in whose name
it is Practiced, and in whose hee
half.

I am equally intimidated by

i ee

a knifing in the name of women's

lib than of male chauvinism, becau-
se at least there one can strike
back if need be} The only weapon I
Know is physical. I can fight phys-
ically with a man if need be. How
many women do you know who would
permit another woman to go at them

with no holds barred? And yet, this

is often the only appropriate re-

sponse to such bitchery as I fell

victim to.

I find this a betrayal of the
body and hence, of female reality.
I also find a great deal of hate
masquerading as love among our woe
mene I find hatred of their own
sexuality and capacity to love, of
their biological reality, including
that unmentionable quality, mater~
nalism, They seem to think this is
liberation. Jee-sus! That's like
Saying that only real men are gay!
Look, don't get me wrong. 1 think
lesbianism which is really loving
is as valid an expression as hetere
osexual love. But I mean LOVE! I
am damned if I am going to put down
love and its relationship to commu-
nity (the community of human beings
big and little) as anti-women's lib.
What a travesty of womanhood! It's
like what one of my kids at the
school does, going around with a
long block held out frontwise from
his fly and going pss} pssi at
everybody. A fake prick is not very
female’ Are we celebrating femin-
inity, or just emulation of male
chauvinism? What bullshit my sis-
ters{ I don't buy itl
It didn't surprise me when only
three people, or was it four, show
ed up for the Free School workshop
I gave at the Russell Sage Women's
Lib conference a couple eof years
ago. Women are like blacks from the
ghetto. What they want is not to be
free, autonomous in their own appr0-=
priate.style. No, what they want is
the freedom to copy the typical *
white male office werker with his
wife box in the suburbs! What in-
fantilism! When a woman really mar-~
ches to a different drummer, she is
ignored or shunned. There is no gen=
uine supportiveness of the work OF
women FOR women that I know about.
Certainly not of mine}
3 (continued)

Letters (continued) ~lie
I wonder how many people even
really know, or care, what we are
doing in the South End. I'd like
you to know, even if you didn't
bother to ask me, because we are

good at what we dof Our school is

Letters (continued)

"'T must admit that I have never
attended any Woman's Liberation meetings.
I think the main reason I and others have
shied away from attending is the fact that
in so many articles that have appeared in
actually unique and extraordinarily other publications (and even ene that

appeared in the last issue of Speakout )

NOT just for poor people! We get at there are definite connotations of the

least half our kids from perfectly

movement being a HATE MEN movement. Per—

ordinary middle class families. No= sonally speaking, some of the nicest people

body mugs or even rapes our kids
in the South End! Lots of families
live there and raise their kids
there. We have places for a few
more Kids, if you're interested.
AND, we are in dire straits finan-
cially, largely because we are suc~
ce. ‘ing so beautifully in doing
wi ut we want to dol Come visit us:
6 la Street, Albany. (call 434-30
7a If you believe in what we are
doing, please help us. Let us know
you know we are alive and working
very hard, will you?

Sisters, we need to help one anoe
ther, not bite one another's back-
sides! We very much need a Women's
Center where we can come for that
support. I need the kind of thing
I got from the Berkeley Women's
Health Collective people and from
the Esalen women. I met them at
workshops I attended this summer
at Berkeley md San Francisco, Wo-
men are sexual creatures and their
bodies are their centers. Too many
of us are emotionally dissociated |
from our bodies and are centered in
our heads. We need to get back to
our REAL centers. There is a fan-
tastic paperback called Getting
Clear, Body work for Women, by Anne
Kent Rush. The Paperback Booksmith
has copies, and I'm trying to get
more for the Unitarian bookshop,
There is so much richness in this
book, so much that to me is the
glery and uniqueness of being a
woman, not being willing OR ABLE,
to abandon any bit of it, that
reading it makes me proud to be a
weman, and even more determined tha
ever not to let ANYONE: man, woman,
traditionalist or women's libher,
take any of my heritage away from
me § Leve,

Mary Leue
(Next month Speakout plans to visit
Mary and her scheel. We urge our
readers te voice their responses.)

I know are men.

I'm sure most of the women in the
organization are not anti-men, but for
those who might be, this letter is for you.
Believing that all men are no good is just
like any other prejudice - an ignorance.
Without acceptance on both sides, we're
riding on a one-way street,

I am not so naive that I can say that
there are no male "pigs", but in the same
breath and in all honesty, I must say that
there are also women I would have no
qualms in referring to as "broads". They
are certainly not my sisters, We are
equal to men, but just as they are not
superior to us, neither are we to them.

Yes, I do compliment women who are
doing something to better themselves and
I see women's organizations as viable and
necessary, For me, I believe more strong-
ly in "Human Liberation", equality for
both sexes, better treatment for the
elderly, and the handicapped, and a gov-
ernment that is run for the people, not
in spite of it,

In closing, I would just like to
remind you that without her father, there
would be no Susan B, Anthony,"

Liz Sussman

"For people to unite, they must have
& common goal, One major goal, not many
small ones!

I find much too often, when I hear
women talking about a Women's Movement
or Women's Liberation, that the whole
conversation boils down to an attitude of
male—hating insecurity.

Encouraging self confidence and self
prile might be our common aim. We need

Mpride, yes, pride in the way we look, not

to impress men or women, but to impress
ourselves. When we think we are well-
dressed and in good health, we generate
a state of vibrations that cannot be ig-
nored. Therefore, we have confidence,

which is the beginning and the basis:
(continued page 13)

EEE

Letters (continued) ‘
for negotiating equal pay;
for living with our neighbors;
for liberating contraceptive ads;
for helping women and men to under-

stand what some of us unique women
are all about.

We'll get nowhere fast if we stoop
to what is equivalent to male chauvinisn!
We are far above pettiness (I hope),
We'll have no battle of the sexes if we
don't acknowledge such trivial attempts
at suppression. It takes two to fight.
Why give anyone the chance to fight?

When you feel strong and confident, there
is no opposition,
GET IT TOGETHER!"

Marilyn Rogers

ets e 1973

Dear Sisters:

I am at the Women's Political Caucus
fundraiser -~ enormously proud of our

intelligent and confident women candidates

But I am greatly disappointed in all

of you who didn't show up to support these

outstanding women,

Present are between 50 and 75 people
including the seven candidates, Carol
Bellamy and 12 men. Yet, over $80 was
spent on postage sending announcements of
this event to women,

I listen to seven spokeswomen for
our cause who need our financial support
and I know this affair is going to lose
money.

I think of Shirley Chisholm, who
still has an enormous debt from her
presidential campaign.

I hear Carol Bellamy remind us that

?

women are not treated differently than meNhypoglycemic

when it comes to paying the bills,
And I realize that if women are ever

going to participate equally in government sence

they need our dollars to combat the huge
bankrolls male candidates use to adver—
tize on radio and television,

If you "forget" to sent money to

these women candidates, or didn't have the

money to send, at least contribute your
vote on election day —- and bring your
friends to the polls with you!

Lois J. Uttley

»does not necessitate any medication,

HYPOGLYCEMIA: IS THIS WHAT'S GOT YOU DOWN?

Hypoglycemia is a series of symptoms,
NOT a disease, The symptoms, which usu-
ally appear in combination, can include
anything from craving for sweets to trem-
bling, muscle aches, nervousness, heart
palpitations, gastrointestinal symptoms,
and most prevalent, a general feeling of
weacness,

Many times, doctors suspect something
else and fail to test for hypoglycemia.
This may lead to long and costly treatment

both physical and mental, for the wrong
diagnosis.

In essence, hypoglycemia is low blood
sugar. Sort of the opposite of diabetes,
The ironic thing about the treatment of
hypoglycemia is that the patient has to

3

stay on a sugar-free diet. It doesn't
sound logical, but it works. The reason

for the sugar-free diet is that for people
with hypoglycemia, when glucose (the di-
gested form of sugar) is consumed, the

blood sugar level naturally rises, but it

then drops very rapidly, thus causing
‘these symptoms. Some patients have ex-
perienced extreme dizziness and some have
€ven blacked out,

Luckily, the treatment of hypoglycemia
Con=-
trol of the symptoms depends solely on
diet: small, frequent meals consisting of
high protein and low carbohydrate foods.
After being on the diet the patient will
usually find that in three months all

symptoms will either disappear or be
greatly lessened,

Unfortunately, many doctors do not

believe in the existance of hypoglycemia,

Patients have been treated for nearly
every other disease from ulcers, to car-
diac problems, to neuroses before their
condition was properly disg-
nosed and their symptoms disappeared.

The test that will confirm the pre-
of hypoglycemia is called a "Glucose
Tolerance Test", During this test the

patient will consume a certain amount of
glucose,

Marilyn Hamilton Light, Exec, Dir,

Research Society of the
Hypoglycemia Foundation

Box 95, Fleetwood
Mount Vernon, New York

Elizabeth Sussman

NEW SYSTEMS OF EDUCATION
Educational Redesign

-14—@ EDUCATION NEWS

Teacher Maternity Leave Up To
Court
The Supreme Court is weighing
the constitutionality of school board
@Y rules requiring pregnant teachers to
s our responsibility to keep gy on leave months before childbirth.

“Along with income taxes, change
is one of the few certainties of

life. Things are changing every d
and it!

up and have some say in the change
that oceurs.
The New York State Education Dew

Department has implemented a project

called PROJECT REDESIGN. The monies
to support this program are admin-
istered through the ESEA, Title III
Office. Some of the goals of Rede-~
sign are:

1. Bring about changes in educa-
tional methodology so that more ede
ucational effort is designed in
terms of responsiveness to student
needs rather than in terms of pre-
scribed cufricuaium.

2e Change educational management
so that it is increasingly geared
to assessing the future and setting
in motion programs to achieve def-.

inite goals rather than simply being

the caretaker of the school system.
3. Bring about changes. in the re-
lationships and patterns of opera-
tion among the various segments of
State educational system. That is,
making our regional services agen-
cies and our State Education Dept.
increasingly effective in providing

The case stemmed from twin challen-
ges brought by three teachers: Mrs.
Susan Cohen of Chesterfield County,
Virginia and Mrs. Jo Lafleur and Ms.
Ann Nelson of Cleveland. The Cleve-
land school board requires teachers
to begin maternity leave after the
fourth month of pregnancy. Chester-
field County requires it after 5 me.

School Board attorneys argued
that such regulations are necessary
to ensure continuity in the class-
roem. They centended that PREGNANCY
AUTOMATICALLY MAKES TEACHERS LESS
ABLE than their cclleagues hecause
such women are more fearful of phys-
ical injury and hecause they must °*
take time off for frequent visits
te the dector, J Ed. Note: many
types of illness require frequent
visits to a doctor. Are all teachers
made to take a leave if they go to
a doctor frequently? CeR md other
feminist groups might lork into the
rules of local school boards in the
Tri-city area. Speakout will publish
the results of such a surveye /

help and support to our local school

districts.

In grass roots terminology, Rede~
sign is a systematic process of
change involving TOTAL COMMUNITY in

re-examination of all aspects of the

local school system with the long
term purpose of improving it.
Although the program receives mo-
ney from the State Ed. Dept., the
major thrust of the energy and time
put into the program comes from the
people in the fields specifically,
thirteen members of tarious BOCES

staff members who act as consultants

to their own redesign districts,
These people guide and assist meme
bers of the community in planning

and implementing the necessary chan-

ges that their own region requires,
Not every district in N.Y. is a
Redesign district. This is done on

a volunteer basis and must be reques-

ted by the school boaré.

= Chris Reet

Redesiaqn Continued,

I believe the Redesign program
can be not only stimulating for
the students who will benefit from
it, but the parents and the commun-

ity whe are a part of it will ben-
efit as well.

Those interested in more infor~

mation on Project Redesign can
contacts

New York State Education Dept.

Attn. NYS Coordinator of Proew
ject Redesign

235-M EB, Washingten Ave.
Albany, N. Y. 12224

Learn about this pregram. You
can have a voice in the future!

Liz Sussman
————_=- --  — NS eee

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IMAGES OF WOMEN IN LONDON

ADVERTISING. in Lendon is awful. Cone and high wages) exists in which a

sumer, employment and education ad»
vertisements are sexually discrim-~
inating:

"I plan to spend the rest of my
life surrounded by money. I like
having it around me. I've always
been fascinated by money. I even
enjoy handing it out. There are
other things I enjoy about working
at the Midland, too. New friends
and customers. New interests out
of hours. And new equal pay, too.
It's my natural element."

says the fashionably beautiful fe-
male model.

This tube billboard bombards the
mass transit rush hour with the ime
age of a woman whose very core is
nothing but a senseless love of
money» Midland Bank uses this image
to justify its policy of hiring
women as tellers, as opposed to
managerial staff. This ad also ad-
mits that Midland Bank is another
company being forced into equal pay.
The equal pay act, passed in 1970,
comes into full-enforcement in 1975;

In my research into Midland Bank ..
policies, I requested job opportu-
nity information. I received two
booklets: one for men, one for woe
men. The former, entitled "A Career
at the Top", is geared to high pay-
ing managerial positions and the
benefits thereof. The latter, enti~-
tled "Wetve Got a Place for Yau at
Midland Bank", deals with secretare
ial and teller positions and stress
es social advantages, but makes no
mention of the benefits offered to
men.

There is no anti-discrimination
act which would forbid these prac-
tices, hence their advertisements
are legal. London's ads exhibit
deeply ingrained insults and mocks
women's impotent social status in
Britain.

MARITAL STATUS is a concern of every Was gran
firm q woman does business with. Te ef a fina

the visitor, this is a petty annoy=
ance, but it brands the British woe
man in her future dealings with a
company.

A hierarchy of benefits (social
security, loans, mortgages, credit,
training opportunities, promotions

- crimination a

man is eligible fer all of the ae
bove. On the other hand, a single
woman receives some of these benee
fits, but to the same extent a man
does. She cannot obtain a mortgage,
loans are impossible to ceme by,
promotions and high wages are rare
and Social Security benefits are
less than that of men. She can usu»
ally obtain a credit card in any
store. Her married counterpart, the
"Mrs." is not considered as an in-
dividual. She is at the base of the
hierarchy. Social benefits reach
her by way of her husband. She can-
not get a credit card at any shep
without her husband's financial
matters being on record. Though
this can be fought, most women obli-
ge and thus reinforce the store's
policy.
THE TERM "WOMAN" is not a popular
one in London. Most women consider
themselves "girls" until they marry
become pregnant, and are no longer
available to the "fellows". The
"fellow" or "bloke" is quite age-
less and carries no connotation af
Sexual ability,

sprinkled throughout Lendon are
several local wamen'ts groups that
affiliate themselves with the Wwo=
men's movement. They are unified
by means ef a newsletter and an
information centre. Wemen's liber~
atin is net an especially powerful
movement in Britain. Cases of dis-
tre handled by indivi~
dual groups. There are only a few
favorable publicity connections,

One blatant case of discrimina-

tion emerged at a local anti-dis-
crimination group, in which a mare
ried couple needed a bank loan. The
woman applied fer it, as she was
the more financially stable. She
Was turned down without an explanae
tion. Her husband then applied and
ted the loan on condition

ncial guarantor. The woman
became the guarantor, and the loan

Was secured. No explanation was
needed. -

WOMEN'S LIBERATI

viewed condescendingly in most news-

papers. It is therefore not unrea-
(continued page 18)

ON in London is

Feminists Take Note}
The Gallery of Crafts Is New Openl

A new store has opened in Albany.
Unlike most announcements, this is
caase Sor celokratien! This store
is different. @ts name is fhe Gal-
lery of Crafts and it is operated
and financed exclusively by women.

ty features hand crafted goods, non-

sexist children's toys and books.
The store is unique in Albany be-
cause, with the exception of its
fine selection of feminist bdéks,
all its offerings are hand made by
local craftspeople. These talented
people are now able to show their
work and can turn their skills and
artistic ability into extra money.
Working people who appreciate hand
crafted items, but whose schedules
do not allow for such creativity,
now have a place to purchase well
made crafts. The proprietors wel-
come new artisans' work and feel
that with a low commission, crafts
can be sold at prices that are both
representative of worth and reasone
able.

The Gallery is located on the cor-
ner of Lark and Lancaster Streets,

The lights and quiet activity ef the

store make the corner a nice place
to be. Old women stgp by, g£Bople

wave frem the bus, and area resi-~-
dents think that the corner has
been immensely improved.

The Gallery's hours are somewhat
limited, as the proprietors all
have full-time jobs. Lunch, even-
ings and Saturday hours are advere
tised. Generally that means stag-
gered lunch hours and after work.
Marg Straube and Anne Borel, two
of the owners assured me that if

you are patient and come by during

regular hours, or if you call ahead

for extended hours,"you will be
rewarded in finding one of the few
non-commercial business in tewn,
whese geeds are not only unique,
rut ef first quality." Stop by and
see for yourself.

Suggestion; Why net do yeur holiday
shepping here. You'll be supporting

your sisters and doing yourself a
favor.

~16~

THE
GALLERY OF
~ CRAFTS —

Corner of Lark & Lancaster Stse
Heurs: Lunch, Evenings, & Saturdays

SPECIALIZING IN’THE HANDICRAFT
OF AREA CITIZENS.

silk screen patchwork pillows

macrame enamel
pottery afghans
jewelry candles
ceramics wall hangings
weaving leaded glass

iren cand€e holders
Non-Sexist Children's Teys & Books

Special Orders taken on request
(Yeu want it? We can get it!)
434=—6459

Attention Sisters}

STRIKE QUT FOR
YOURSELF

Fantastic Business epportunity

for the INDEPENDENT person

9 = 10 am

Call Jan weekdays iB ios

370=1364

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~17—

. JOBS
Matthew Bender & Co. , 1275 Broad-=
way, Albany. 462-3331 Ext. 225.

Matthew Bender & Co. advertises
as an Equal Opportunity Employer,
and as such, solicits applications

from minority groups and women. Con-

tact Charles K. Fontane, Personnel
Manager or Donna J. Foy, Assistant
Manager to find out about openings
and to arrange appointments.
10/2/73 = Opening:
Senior Bad Debt Analystecredit
and collection. Starting salary
$132 per week. H.S. grad plus
1 year credit collection exper.

WMHT, Box 17, Schenectady, N.Y.
12301, 356-1700 —

WMHT also advertises as an Equal
Opportunity Employer. They do not
pay agency fees. Send resume in
advance of requesting appointment
for an interview. Mail to: Dorothy

F. Bell, Executive Assistant,
10/9/73 = Opening:
Secretary: accurate typist,
light dictation. Experience
desirable. Full benefits,
Rotterdam area.

Senator Karen Burstein, (516)

569-4991. .
Senator Burstein wants fulle
time help for the duration of
the Legislative Session,

Hudson Valley Community College,

TTOY, Ne Ye 2831100,
Contact John J. Crosselt, Personnel
Officer.

Egual Opportunity.Employer,
10/8/73: Opening: Maintenance
Programmer.

Let's give these employers a
chance to prove their expressed
openess to women. We'll never know
if women don't apply.

Georgia Gray of the Albany Chap-
ter of NOW maintains a list of job
openings as well as persons looking
for jobs.

If employers reject your appli-
cation on the grounds that you are
a woman, or that you are married,

or that you have children, there
is a very good possibility that
you can take them to court. For
more information regarding employ-
ments Rights contact;
Georgia Gray, Albany area NOW,
Box 6137, Albany, N.Y. 12206 or
the New York State Division of
Human Rights, 217 Lark Street,
Albany, N.Y. 12210. Call:474-2705

ee

_ Community Interest Courses
Hudson Valley Community College,
Troy, Ne. Y. 12180,

Know Your Car: Tues. 7=lOpm $25

self Defense For Women:
Tues. 7 = 9pm Fee $25

Job Hunting: from resume to inter-
view.

Wednesday, 7:30 = 9:30 pm Fee $25

Reading Improvement:
Thursday 7-= 9 pm Fee $25

For further information, call
283-0568 or 283-1000. The Office
of Continuing Education. These
courses are already under way.
New courses will be started and

Old ones repeated based on YOUR
demands.

Speakout is interested in
publishing courses of interest
to its readers. Other colleges,
schools and institutions are
invited to send information to
Speakouts c/o Christine Rent,
&71 Western Avenue, Albany, New “

—_. Fork, 12203

Stores, Boutiques
Please centact
shop in, show them
and tell them you'd like
sold there. Send us the

address of the firm, and we'll de

"the rest} UPPITY WOMEN UNITE!

a a a ae ee

NEWS FROM THE COALITION FOR A
FREE CHOICE

If you should try to contact
the Coalition at 184 Washington
Avenue, you will find that we
are no longer there. We felt
that the money spent for rent
and phone was being wasted now
that the Supreme Court decision
has temporarily guaranteed le-~
galized abortion. Since we
failed to communicate the very

real possibility that the right.

may be takeri away from us; our
purpose for maintaining the of-
fice seems no longer to exist,
We had hoped that by sharing
the office with Speakout, we
would still have a way that
people could contact us; but
Since they did not staff it on

a regular basis, there was often
no one there to answer the phone.
Therefore, after much discussion,
it seemed wiser to save the mon-

ey for a time and purpose when
it could be more effectively
spent, and to work from our
homes e

We will be counting on
women's groups and other ore
ganizations to refer to us
anyone who is interested in
abortion. With so much intere-
action between such groups,
the names of active Coalition
members are known by people in
each group.

At the end of September,
letters were sent out by the
Coalition to Superintendents
of schools in numerous counties
in this area of the state,

The purpose is to show why
Right to Life should not be
allowed to present their pro-
gram in public schools. The
letter included a list of fal-
lacies used in the anti-abor-
tion propaganda. As of this
writing, there has been no
response to our letter.

Jane Me Dwyer
Tels 861+8307

Error on page ig: Address of Mary

Leue's school: 8 Elm Street,
Phone: 434-3072)

——

IMAGES OF WOMEN continued m i
sonable that serious women's groups
avoid undue publicity.

The newspapers, advertising and
the state of legislation tend to
associate the term "Women's Liber-
ation" with castration and child
abandonment in the mindsonf many
married women. Perhaps this is why
they cling to their "Mrs." title.

"Women's Liberation" is respon-
sible for the growing concern of an
anti-discrimination act. The Tory
government has recently issued a
"consultative document" suggesting
legislation in the field of employ-=
ment. Although education is men=
tioned it is not dealt with legis-
latively. The act's usélessness
lies in its numerous loopholes, the
fields it has chosen to ignore, and
in the creation of an equal oppor-
tunities commission with no enfor-
cement powers. The EOC deals stric-
tly with industrial relations tribu-
nals, so its growth is limited to
employment. The powers of the EOC
are those of enquiry, the publish-
ing of results, and the power to
advise the government of appropriate
action.

At this pobint, public opinion
seems to favor this bill. Women's
groups are hard at work trying to
defeat the measure. If this legis=
lation does pass, it will be a sad
day for the women of England.

Nancy Hessler

a

Attention Hudson Valley Women's
Coalition!
Speakout has learned from Sandy
Eccli of Kingston of the cancella-
tion of Ms. Terri Francis' column
"Getting it Together" frem the
Sunday Freeman. This was the only
Black news column between Albany
and NYC. Reason gor cancellation:
"Paper Shortage." No Other features
were trimmed of discontinued.
Write to The Freeman that you will
take action!:
l= Non subscribers will refuse
to buy the Freeman untiliTerri's
column is reinstated;
2= Subscribers will cancel;
S= Boycott of the major adverti-~
sers. Fach company will receive a
_letter of notification

4— Last resort: Public Demonstra~
tion.

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CALENDAR AND ANNOUNGEMENTS

October 16-November 13: Exhibitien
by Lu Martinson's painting class
Dietel Library, Emma Willard School
Hours: 9 am to 9 pm.

Nove 1: NOW Meeting. Madison Avenue
Presbyteriam Church, Albany. 8pm

Nov. 5: Albany Welfare Rights Org.
meetings every Monday at Noon. 13
Trinity Place. Open to all.

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Volume III Number I January 1974

PAGE

1 Second Anniversary Editorial - Christine Root

2 Our Cover Artist - Interview by Christine Root

3 Rape Crisis

Ly Bits and Pieces of News and Legislation

5 Responses to Julie McCarthy's Article: Feminist
Asainst Abortion

6 Women's Studies Conference

7 Women"s Studies Course List (Supplement to Dec. Issue)

9-10 Arachne Weavers - Sharon Villines (Albert)

10 Jobs

ti Reflections on Jill Johnston's Talk ~ Carol Biernacki

LZ Mary Wollstonecraft by Eleanor Flexner - Book Review
by Cheryl Shenkle

13-14 Letters to Speakout

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1-4 State Capitol News
16 Hot Flashes from the Local Papers
i? Calendar and Announcements

WORKERS FOR THIS ISSUE: Laura Rosman, Carol Anne Ordway,
Phoebe Sheres, Christine Root,
Maggie Figliozzi, Rezsin Adams, Ann
McNab Simon, plus all those who
came to Speakout's stapling party
in a final push to get this issue
out in time.

COVER DESIGN BY DEBORAH SIMON (Interview with our artist
appears on page two.)

SPEAKOUT is published monthly. Subscriptions are {3.00 per
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page. Mail subscriptions to: P.O. Box 6165, Quail Station,
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SPEAKOUT is on file at the Women's History Research Center,
2325 Oak Street, Berkeley, California.

OUR SECOND ANNIVERSARY ISSUE

WE ARE TWO YEARS OLD TODAY AND STARTING OUR THIRD YEAR!

Where We Are-----

This is SPE/KOUT8S second
Sarye Over the past few months
SPE AKOUT:. "has lost: @11° of its
"anchorwomen”, Carol Biernacki,
Dorothy Bellick and Paula Corey
left in September . Sherry Sus-
man left us for a full-time job
and a chance to start a new life
in New York City. ( ** letter

from Sherry appears in the Letters
to the :ditor Section. We cer-
tainly do miss her )

When the Coalition For A Free
Choice decided that it could no
longer maintain the office at 184
Washington Aveenue , we had to
make the decision to close the
office or to find some way to pay
the entire .s65.00 a month rent
by ourselves. In oreder to pay
the rent we would have to take
in 22 new subscriptions each month
@ 3 dollars. apiece. This does
not include our other expenses:
paper, ink, stencils, cover, offic
supplies and POSTAGE, Old
SPEAKOUT staffers felt that we
should keep the office at all
costs saying that we always find
the money somehow,

We appeal to our readers.

IT IS ALL UP TO YOU. If we are

to contimue , we need workers and
VONEYe Right now SPEAKOUT is
operating out of this writer's
apartment with some of its files
kept in another womans basement.
We have to start running page two
of the issue before we have page
one written. If we could get

all of our articles written and
typed on time , “e could type all
of our stencils at once. We
could even have pages that ran
consecutively.

A WOMENS CENTER would be the
perfect place for SPEAKOUT. This
would place us in the midst of
feminist activities in the area,
Perhaps then we could truly live
up to our goal " to be a vehicle
for the exchange of information
of group and individual activities

Until then we struggle along---
each of us doing what we can,

We ask our readers
ARE YOU DOING
WHAT YOU CAN?7227

anniver

“THOSE. FACELESS PEOPLE

WHO PUT OUT EFCH: -1SSUE
now COii TO LIGHT
MAGGI FIGLIOZZI has just

started a P*°YING job which

is quite demanding of her time
and energy. So far she is
Still able to handle our Sub-
scriptions. If there is a
change of address ,please send
in the old mailing label and
the new address, Maggi will
take it from there.

LOIS UTTLEY, our SUNYA student
in residence,will receive a

well deserved three credits

for her work on SPE4KOUT this
fall. Lois is a combination
writer, mews reporter, mail coll
ector and cofllator,

PHOEBE SHERI:S is our only
typist who can go from scratch
to stencil We desperately need
someone to fill in while she
is working in the legislator
this January through April.

CHRYL SHE*KLE is our new
treasurer. Every organization
needs a person who volunteers
with a smile just when the

chips are down. Cheryl will drop
off stencils at 10;:00p.m.

and work on SP A‘KOUT after a 12
hour day at the office.

C*ROL SNN ORLWAY stopped byon
her way to a party and ended

up working on last month's
Vromens Center article all even-
ing.

CERISTINE ROOT is the world's
worst typist as can be seen
from this and several other
Pages in this issue, She is
hoping that someone will com-
plain and TAKE OVER TEF JOB.
At 12 words a minute SPE \KOUT
is a very long typing prop-
Osition

SPE AKOUT needs committed
women to get the issue out each
month. If you would like to be

. apant of this movement call Chri

Stine Root 463-8135

OUR ARTIST tHe"
Deborah Simon lives in Troy wit

h her sister, four cats, an
electric piano, three guitars

and a ukele. The ~imon living
room has been turned into a
studio where UVebbie does silk
screening and block printing.

An early interest in art led
Deborah to the Art Students
League. Obviously proud of her
sister's accomplishments, Ann
Simon volunteered the informate
ion that Deborah Simon had won
a scholarship at age thirteen
to study drawing and painting.

Well known artists in New York
City taught the classes at the
Art Students League . These
were Deborah's first formal
lessons.

Agnes Hart was the teacher
of the painting class which
Deborah chose. Deborah remem-=
bers her teacher as " older,
eccentric and incredibly sen-
sitive. " " She changed my
whole approagh to drawing. She
helped to bring out my sensi- .
tivity to lines and shapes. My
decision not to stay with
painting was made then. 1 now
notice color more and the move-
ments of shapes and lines strike
me harder."

We then asked Deborah if it
was just by chance that her
instructor was a woman. " YES.

The two veonle teaching the
class that I wanted to take were
both women..." Deborah chose
Agnes Hart because she liked her
delicate style and the spirit
whidh came through as she taughte
Independance was allowed in the
class. ( Today we micht call
this good vibes.)

For roughly two years Deborah
spent each weekend at the “Art
Students League. Thinking that
she might get more done on her
own, Deborah decided to work at
home without the lessons . The
rest of her high school years
turned out to be a dry period

without: the stimulation of League.

Then Deborah got into 8lock
printing with both wood cuts and
linolium. “ during high school
I got to A know the art teachers

and enjoyed using the school

materials, After my jundéor year
ib high school, |! took over the
family garage as my first and
only " art studio.” It was
really, really lonely out
there by myself but a nice
place to work. It was my first
chance to be alone while still
in my family home." ©

After high school, Leborah
went on to the University of
Hartford. Unfortunately Deb
picked the 4rt School of the
university but they didn't
pick her, They had too many
applicants to interview each
individually so drawings were to
be submitted. (ed. note Vould!
readers want to speculate how ma
ny women were passed over in
this mass production test of
creativity?)

Deborah feels that she is
now getting off the ground
with printmaking. " It is
like I can t get enough of it."

After learning of Empire
State Colleg. from her sister,
Deb moved to Troy and enrolled
as a student. "“ my mentor.

and I discussed my goals . “

| From the list of three local

artists given by her mentor
beb chose Sharon -\lbert. A resu
me showed that Sharon had a
degree in printmaking.

According To Deborah,"
through Empire State College
I can get together with Sharon
lz hours for the semester in
any combination of time. I usual
ly see her every liondayand
talk over what I8ve done and
how I can make it better. We tal
k about everything, Like how
I can get my work soldand ex-
hibited. Sharon doesn't take
each work and give it a grade. §
she tries to see how 18m work-
ing and where I'm going. I's gre
atl .”

Deborah Simon ended the
interview with the reflection
" It is interesting to look
back and see HOW INFLUENTIAL
WOMEN FAVE. BEEN IN MY. LIFE
AS AN AKTIST 2=<AGNES HART and
NOW SFARON ALBERT.

Christine Root

ALBANY WOMEN AGAINST RAPE:
CRISIS SERVICE

A NEW RAPE

A rape crisis service is being formed
in the Albany area by a group of women
from Capital District Women and women in
the local community. Goals include:

1. Setting up an emergency program

so that volunteers will be available

to accompany women to the hospitals
and, if they wish, to police after
they have been raped,

2. Te help prevent rape through

self-defense and awareness,

3. To lobby for more effective rape

laws.

After researching various ways of
combating the rape problem in our area,
our group met with several -influential
members of the community in the hope. that
they would be helpful in facilitating our
efforts. Newspapers were contacted and
agreed te stop publication of the names
of rape victims. Mayor Corning not only
expressed positive interest in cur cause
but alse set up a meeting for us with
Captain Sorenson of the Police Department,
We also met with physicians who run en-
ergency rooms in hespitals iin order to

improve the handling of victims by their
staffs.

We plan to have a 2h hour switchboard

so that rape victims will be able to call
any heur of the day or night and get a
sympathetic person to listen to her and
accompany her through the ordeal of coping
with decters and police, The group will
alse participate in self-defense sessions

beginning in January as part of our weekly

meetings. Persons interested in working

in any capacity with the group should econ

tact:
Albany Women Against Rape

P.O. Box8086 - Pine Station
Albany, New York

Linda Sternberg Katz
RAPE

The local chapter of NOW received the

following letter frem a coneerned husband
on the subject of rape,

Recently when my wife and I moved to
the Leisureville Apts., we were appalled
to hear that 17 young women were raped
over a pericd of less than six months,

In my amazement that 17 women were raped

the subject and I came across a NY Times

magazine which asked the question -

Q: IF YOU RAPE A WOMAN AND STEAL HER TV,
WHAT CAN THEY GET YOU FOR IN NEW
YORK?

A: STEALING HER TV.

NY TIMES JAN. 30, 1972, Magazine section,

The magazine went on to say:
IF YOU'RE GOING TO ROUGH UP A WOMAN, DON'T
STOP UNTIL YOU'VE RAPED HER; THEN THEY
CAN'T GET YOU ON THE ASSAULT.
IF YOU'RE GOING TO RAPE A WOMAN, DON'T
ROB HER; THEY MIGHT GET YOU ON THE THEFT
IF YOU'RE GOING TO ROB A WOMAN, YOU MIGHT
AS WELL RAPE HER, TOO; THE RAPE IS FREE.

The 1972 Uniform Crime Reports for
the United States, states on Page 12 that
in 1972 there was an estimated total of
46,430 forcible rapes.

In New Yerk the werd CORROBORATION
in the Penal Law ef NY State makes it
very difficult to convict anyone in New
York State. In 1972 the Legislature re~
laxed the corroboration in prosecutions
for sex offenses, but it did not go far
enough,

Several years ago, I recall seeing
in the newspapers a story about a four
year old girl who was taken to the roof-
top of one of the low income apartment
houses in the South End of Albany and
raped, That was simply revolting to my
mind,

I sincerely hope that your organiza—
tion demands that New York State go alceng
with 35 other States which have no corro-
boration requirements for sex cases.

I sincerely hope that your organi-
zation will leok at the new law signed
by Governor Reagan of Califrrmia in
September - if a woman is raped and mur-
dered, the accused gets the death penalty.
On this subject of rape I perscnally
think it's abcut time that we started to

feel compassion for the victim and not
the accused,

YOU MIGHT AS WELL RAPE HER TOO;
THE RAPE IS FREE}

in the apartment complex, I have researched

NATIONAL RAPE CENTER?

A National Rape Center Bill
(S. 2422) is beine sponsored by
Senator Mathias of Maryland, with
the assistance of NOW. The bill
would fund an extensive study of
rape: effectiveness of state
laws, attitudes, treatment of
women who have been raped, impact
on families, rapists! motivation,

homosexual rape in prisons, effect-

iveness of existing programs. It
would also provide funds for
properly trainine police and med-
ical personnel to respond sympa-
thetically to women who come to
them for assistance,

Obviously this legislation
won't attract overwhelming support.
If we want it, we are roing to
have to fight for it. WRITE!

SE FETE SESE FE SE TE TE SE EE SE HE SE HE SE SEE HE IE So SE FE SE SE SE He SEE

Robin Morran on the subject
Of BA cc5) hens att st —_—
There are many kinds of rape.
First there is physical rape:
RAPE IS IN NO WAY A. PHYSICAL ACT
it is an act of political terror-
ism. When white women are |
raped, they are raped by white
men 80 % of the time. .When
black women are raped they are
raped by black men 80 ’°% of the
time. However, there is one true
and indisputable fact: 100% of
the time women are raped by men!
That is why, as we all know, rape
is the only crime where the victim
is suilty until proven innocent.

Some more facts: Over 50%
of all rape cases occur in break=
ine and entering situations. This
destroys the "blind urce" myth
(innocent man cannot control him-
self when seductive woman walks
down the street.) Almost 40% of
all cases involve people who know
each other.

It is certainly a myth that
"all women want to be raped." (If
not, why would she have been" out
at night", wearins that "skirt",
"sweater", "dress", etc.)

Less than 40% of all rapes
are reported. The estimate is
that there is one rape every 9
minutes: Accordins to the FBI,,
there are three major crimes:

homocide, aggravated assault, and
rape. Rape is the only crime that
(in most states) needs a witness
for prosecution. It is interesting
that many rapes occur in the vic-
tim's home where it is difficult

to find a witness.

The first Rape Crisis Center
began in Washington, D.C. and was
staffed by women who had been
raped. They now provide complete
help for the women who come to
them. Some of their services in-
clude: a hot line phone service;
Support for the raped woman at the
hospital to make sure she is
treated in a humane, understanding
manner; guidance at the police
station (what questions the police
are required to ask, what is illegal
for them to ask -for instance, "did
you enjoy it?", how to prepare -
do not bathe away the evidence,
etc.); finding an attorney if the
woman chooses to press the case in
court; a place to stay; sympathetic
women to listen; consciousness
raising groups for rape victims;
help in finding a new apartment (if
the woman is fearful to return to
the place where the rape occurred) ;
referral for psychiatric help. In
short, the Rape Crisis Center offers
to women whatever they need, when-
ever they need it, from other women.

" Rave occurs any time there
is a sexual act between a man
and a woman where the woman
does not initiate the act out

of love and true desire. ANYTHING
SHORT OF THAT IS RAPR

FEE SE HAE HEE HE TE

HREEKEEE

Late news flash---The Albany
Area NOW meeting has been changed
to Monday JANUARY 7 8:00 p.m..
Due to the enerey crisis the
Madison Avenue Yhurch will be
open for meetings only on Sunday
and Monday evenings.

KEG BHI
Watch for news on the status
of the ERA in the next issue.

8 more in '74!

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WoW WV uf

Protest the Helms Amendment which

forbids the use of federal money
for abortion,

A RESPONSE TO "FEMINIST AGAINST ABORTION"
(which appeared in the December issue)

Ever since the abortion battle began
we have been waiting for some devious—
minded Right to Lifer to attempt the "re-
verse psychology" approach to abortion and
the Women's Movement....but what a shock
it was to receive such an article frem one
of our SpeakOut subscribers whe says she
cares deeply about women's rights,

If legal abortion is, as she says, a
plot by the male establishment to "dupe"

unwitting females; then why have we had to.

wait so long, and fight so hard to get it
and now — to keep it? Since the males are
in control, they could have done this ages
ago; or right now. And it is impossible
to overlook the multitude of female Right
to Lifers and associated "ladies" who are
obviously such willing and hard working
allies of the males, (Or could they also
have been duped into helping to dupe other
women?) ~ | |

Concerning the "little known" and
"minimized" risks of abortion. Hew can
they be — when Right to Life constantly
points out the risks, (either real or de-
liberately distorted), in every form of
propaganda? A woman who is willing to
undergo any surgical procedure does so
because she considers it necessary. (The
Women's Movement stands for self—deter-—
mination of women, not forcing or pro-
hibiting, )

We will disregard the pages devoted
to statistics-here and abroad, types ef
abortions, dangers, mortality, etc.,
(statistics are so tricky) and the "life
from the moment of conception" argument.
We have heard them all before, There is
one neteworthy statistic, not mentioned
by our writer: Early abortion is almost
eight. times safer than childbirth]: But
we must correct her misinformation about
Japan's discontinuing saline induction
early in the 50's because it was so dan-
gerous. The technique used in the U.S,
is not the same, and itis safer,

Way she asks, de we allow our sisters
lives to be threatened by legal abortion?
Because until now they have not only been
threatened, but destroyed, by ILLEGAL
abortions; just as they are wherever there
is no legal abortion, and especially in

countries where contraception is forbidden.

Postseript: In between writing and.
mailing this response, I spoke with

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Re aR ae ee

Janice Lee, medical student and member
of the Coalition Speaker's Bureau. She
tells me that Julie McCarthy, who wrote
this article, was a Right to Life Speaker
at the "Eighth Step Coffee House".

While no one is asking her to change
her personal anti-abortion beliefs, I
think Mrs, McCarthy should look at her
late abortion mortality statistics, and
remind herself that anyone who helps to
make it difficult for wemen to obtain
safe, early, legal abortions, must
accept the responsibility for the death
or injury ef those "sisters" about whom
she professes to care so much.

J.M. Dwyer

Speakout:

There used to be an old adage which
said that all a woman had to do to keep
from getting pregnant was to keep her
legs crossed. Unfortunately like most
old adages the grain of truth has been
lest in the complexitiés of life.

I am not unsympathetic to one of
Julie McCarthy's arguments against abor-
tion, To rally abortion as one of the
unifying forces behind feminism is in
fact a mistake which often costs the
movement good women, We must stop using
such issues as political bandaids to much
greater wounds,

Since we have yet to garner the
unity necessary te previde truly viable
solutions for all women who face un-
wanted pregnancy, individual women must
develep their own solutions. These 3
are worth consideration:

1. If you want to lay a man, carry rub-
bers. Insist that he use them. If he
won't, maybe he isn't worth it.

2. Break eut of the mother earth mold.
Do you really need the head trip of being
a walking incubator for .3 whole decades.
Stop sleeping with men. It may be
easier than you think, »

Obvicusly, my letter has avoided
such serious questicns as how a racist
seciety uses birth control against "un-
desirable" pecple, However, the issue
for me at this point is not "Feminist:

(Cont'd, on the next page)

for or against abortion?", or even
“Women: all for one and one for all?",
The issue is when will women stop screw-
ing around and solve the political at the
personal level.

Daughterchild

TORI BERRA HEHIEHHAH HEHE HSH ESHER SHH

Women's Studies Conference

A Women's Studies Conference en-
titled "Women and Post Secondary Educa-
tion" was held in Tarrytown, New York
October 24th through the 26th,

Feminist films were shown Wednesday
night. Included in the program were the
following: Anything You Want To Be, Grow-
ing Up Female, Woo Who? May Wilsen,
Living With Peter, Lavender, and Joyce
at 34.

Catherine Stimpson officially opened
the conference on Thursday with a dis-—
cussion of the tremendous growth of Women
Studies courses in American celleges and
universities,

Workshops followed in the afternoon.
Of particular interest te librarians, ad—
ministrators and scholars in attendance
was a workshop entitled "Library Re-
sources on Women" led by Christine Root
(currently SpeakOut editor) and Sara
Whaley editor of Wemen's Studies Abs’ ~>-c'
stracts. Distributed also were copies
of the abstracts.

A workshop running concurrently with
the resources workshop was the counseling
workshop chaired by Elizabeth Burns.
Somber in tone, this workshop revealed
that women are being hired reluctantly by
industry and this trend will continue un-
less strong pressures are brought to bear
upon business and industry.

Thursday night was another film show

ing, Gertrude Stein: When This you See.
Remember Me by Perry Miller Adato. Ms.
Adato, film director and producer of WNET
in New York City, was present and dis-
cussed filmmaking in general after Ger-
trude Stein. This forum provided an ex-
citing exchange of dialogue between
scholar and filmmaker, .

The conference ended with a panel
discussion on financial support for
Women's Studies Programs. Principal
speakers were Mariam Chamberlain, a pro-

gram officer in higher education and re-
search for the Ford Foundation and Daniel

Butler, vice-president of Jerold Panas
and Partners,

C. Montilla

Empire State College Ripe for Women's
Studies

Virginia Lester, associate dean of
administration at Hnpire State College,
explained the unique advantage the college
has over its sister institutions,

"The college has said its goal is to
help students to acquire learning skills
so that they can continue to be lifelong
learners", she explained. "Therefore, I
believe Empire State has avoided the pro-
blem of providing compensatory courses
about women and figuring out a way of ev-
entually incorporating them into the ac-
knowledged curriculum of a so-called
legitimate discipline."

Lester drew attention to the role of
the mentor which has been changed from
that of teacher to that of educational re-
source person for the student. This change
in focus gives the student the primary
voice in how he or she is to study. The
faculty and the curriculum committee con-
tribute to the student's educational op-
portunities, she notes, instead of con-
trolling them.

One of the challenges that the col-
lege accepted early in its development,
Lester commented, was that along with pro-
viding the freedom to pursue learning in
an unlimited way went the responsibility
to provide the kind of professional guid-
ance that assured substantive college-
level work.

Lester stated that the college gen-
erally takes the position stated in the
Carnegie Commission on Higher Education
report, Opportunities for Women in Higher
Education, "The movement to introduce
courses on women and interdisciplinary
women's studies programs should be en-
couraged by institutions of higher edu-
cation, at least on a transitional basis,
but these courses and programs should be
organized within existing disciplines and
not under separate departments of women's
studies,"

“SUPPLEMENT TO THE WOMEN'S STUDIES COURSE LIST

for the Winter, January and Spring Terms

Attached are descriptions of the Women's Studies courses that will be offered
at Russell Sage College and Skidmore College.
For more information about the courses, please contact the following:
Russell Sage — Joanna Banthin
270 — 2000
Skidmore College — Mary Lynn
584-5000, ext. 240
JANUARY TERM COURSES

Course ; Cre- Inst-

College* Dept. Number Course Title dits Day Time ructor
Russell Sage Spec, One

Studies J—11 Sexuality Now Unit Hardestyt

Description: The focus of the course is the experience of being female or
male in the seventies and relationships between men and women,
Physical, psychological, interpersonal and social aspects of
sexuality will be explored. This course is designed to give
information and to help students understand and define their

sexuality, .
Fine One
Russell Sage Arts J-12 Women in 18th Century Fngland Unit Mitchell

Description: A study of the various aspects of an 18th century Englishwoman's
life: her education, occupations, diversions and intrigues,
relation to men, status in society as revealed through costumes,
homes, literature, art, music and the theater of the period.

SPRING SEMESTER COURSES

Pols «

Russell Sage Sci. 21 Wemen in Politics 25 TTH 1:30 Banthin

Description: A consideration 6f "traditional" and "liberated" roles for
women in American politics. © Topics will include the "power
behind the throne." feminism as a political ideology, sociali-
zation, voting behavior, and women's political organizations

from the National Women's Suffrage League to the Women's
Political Caucus,

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Ferguson

Russell Sage Hist. 21 Women in Western Histor o5) MWF $ ton

Description: An investigation of the female experience in Europe and America
from the ancient world to the present, Topics discussed include
attitudes towards women and the circumstances of their lives.

Po -e@

Russell Sage Sci. 307 Internships:Program in Women in 3.5 ARRANGED Banthin
Politics -
Description: Placement with women in public office. In 1972-73, students
worked with the Women's Unit in the Office of the Governor,
State Senate, and State Assembly, All interns spend 10-12
hours a week "on the job." A final written report, research

project, or diary is required.

2 *

SPRING SEMESTER COURSES (Cont'd. )

Course Cre—

College Dept. Number Course Title Dits Day Time Instructor

Am.
Skidmere Studies 6 Women in American Culture i Unit MW 1L:30-3 Ms,
“Descriptien: An expleration and examination of the position and roles of

women in American society frem the settlement of New England
to the present. Materials frem history, literature, sociology,
art, will be used to study both individual and outstanding
women, and the roles available te women in general at different
stages of American development. The seminar will end with an

examination of the current feminist movement.

LT
Women in Literature:

Skidmore English 224 Wemen Writers 1 Unit Ms,Odarenko
Description: An exploratien of the notion and consequences of a "feminine
sensibility" in selected nevels by major women writers: Jane
Austen, the Brontes, Virginia Woolf, Anais Nin, and Doris
Lessing. Representative works by other women writers.

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WINTER TERM 1974 (JANUARY)

Skidmare Biolegy 22 Feminism and Science 1 Unit TBA Ms.DeSha
Description: The course delves into the image ef weman and hew this has led
to what is known as feminism. It will include a discussion
of successful wemen in academia, together with a study of the
problems and opportunities existing today for such individuals,

with emphasis in the area of science, (although not neces-
sarily limited to such, )

Skidmore English 2 Virginia Woolf _._1 Unit TBA Ms. Odarenko

Descriptien: Virginia Woolf as novelist, diarist, feminist, and critic,
Students will read selected short stories and six major novels;
Jacob's Room, Mrs. Dalloway, To. the Lightheuse, Orlando, The
Waves, The Years, Room of One's Own, Three Guineas, and selected
essays from The Common Readers. The questions raised by these
preliminary readings will be explered in the light of a number
of critical studies and the biographical material supplied by
Woolf's A Writers Diary, her husband's accounts, and the two-
volume work by her nephew Quentin Bell,

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ADDITIONAL SPEAKERS FOR THE WOMEN'S STUDIES SPEAKERS BUREAU

From Schenectady County Community College -
Linda D. Headley

Tepic: Women in Art; the Creative Experience

Allison Tracy
Topic: Career Decisionmaking: the Mature Woman and the College Experience

Nancy Thornton

Topic: She is a peet whose work reflects her personal concepts of the woman
as writer/artist,

Janey Seery
Topic: Women in American Literature

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ARACHNE

The Arachne weavers are women who
work in weaving and other forms of fibre
construction—-macrame, spinning, creative
. knitting and crochet, They came together
as weavers to have a forum for discussing
their work, developing a common impetus
for growing and learning new techniques.
They agreed to meet once a month and to
work on an assigned project. These pro-
jects were suggested by members in turn
and were designed to stimulate new ideas
by exploring weaving techniques, color
problems or types of fibres, The only
requirement for membership was completing
the project each month. Over the next
four or five years the group grew and ~
individuals strengthened their personal
directions, | |

Gradually the monthly project became
less important in giving members an im-
petus to learn or an idea for their work.
Working the project became accepted as
less important than just plain working,
Now, projects are suggested each month in
order to provide stimulation for learning
new techniques and to serve as a basis
for a shared experience, but are not re~
quired if other pieces are produced, The
meetings consist of each member presenting
her pieces from the last month for dis-
cussion and criticism. |

The basic emphasis of the group is
on each member's work. The meetings are
friendly, informal and often humorous but
have always avoided becoming coffee
socials, The group has also avoided turn-
ing their meetings into workshops or lec-
tures conducted by’ visiting artists,
Members attend weaving workshops and lec-—
tures held in the area but these do not
replace regular meetings, When indivi-

duals attend national and regional weaving studio has reinforced
conferences a portion of the next meeting the

is spent sharing the experience but it
never becomes the main focus.

The adherernese to a basic stated,
group objective--developing and using
skills, working--is greatly responsible
for the success of the group. However,
other factors have played a major role:
the non-competitive sharing attitude of
the group, the wide spectrum of activi-
ties of individuals, and the support of
the Arts Center.

The group grew out of the efforts of
Janet Nyquist, a nationally known weaver,

__ing from home to home,

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WI

SAVERS

who teaches at the Arts Center. In her
teaching Jan emphasizes understanding and
learning creative craftsmanship as opp-
osed to following rules and practicing
patterns. She displays a zest for ex-
perimentation and creative learning and
accepts all types of weaving. A frequent
statement from her teaching is "It's not
great but it's a start, You can build

on it. That's what's important." This
attitude has given strong support to the
groups'openness and emphasis on working.

_Within the group, the range in age,
experience, and education as well as
time made available for weaving is quite
diverse, Several women teach and exhibit
as professional artists, some weave in
addition to other unrelated occupations,
and others weave in addition to poli-
tical and community activities. Almost

every woman in the group has a different
need and approach to weaving. This wide
range of objectives and individual char-
acteristics requires an atmosphere of
judging individuals by their merits.
This has maintained the non-competitive,
sharing atmosphere of the group. The
competitive attitude which destroys so
many groups can only exist when members
share or are expected to share the same
objectives and values.

The diversity of the members also
contributes to the variety of the monthly
projects, The members present project-
problems which vary a great deal in type
and complexity and the variety of sol-

.utions presented by the group is always
surprising and stimulating,

The Arts Center provides a meeting
place for the group and exhibits their
annual, juried show, Meeting in an art

the objectives of
group supporting the focus on crea-
tive work and avoiding a concern with
"refreshments" and the confusion of mov—
The facility is
also large enough to hold everyone (up
to 24) and display even quite large
hangings,

The presence of the Arts Center is
also important to the group in bringing
artists to the area for lectures and
workshops. The center handles the ar—
rangements and publicity, a task it is
equipped to handle and the artists are
available to the larger commmity. The

ARACHNE WEAVERS (Cont'd. )

weavers then benefit from the workshop would never have joined and thus never
without having been distracted from their developed their skills or made room in

central focus. their lives for their own work. If they
While the group is strong and its ex- haq attacked these issues without devel-

istence secure the way has not been smooth «oping skills they would either not exist
There have been problems and heated dis- a. a group or be non~productive. If dis-

cussions over issues such as limiting mem- erimination against women in the art mar-
bership because of difficulty in giving ket becomes an issue these women will have
everyone enough time, requiring projects not only the creative skills to compete

as well as other work, excluding members byt will also have learned some basic group
who fail to bring in work for even one organizing and protecting skills, not to
month and whether to meet in homes or the mention months of positive, productive

Arts Center. , experiences with each other,
The one problem which has never been

adequately resolved is the lack of critic- Sharon Villines (Albert )
ism in the group, Many members want con-

structive, critical discussions about theirjops opEN

work to a degree which the group has never” ~~

acheived, Other problems have been worked Hudson Valley Community College is an

through at one time and arisen again as theequal opportunity employer and as such

group changed. The solutions seem to be golicits applications from minority group
based more on "let's try this and see if itmembers and women.

works" than on a verbal, ideological basis.

Perhaps this explains the difficulty in 1. Instructor; Chemistry—temporary
achieving critical discussion--they require MS in Chemistry
some formulation on the part of individuals Apply Dr. Wiltshire
of a philosophy of aesthetics as well as a Hudson Valley Community
vocabulary. The group has not as yet dev- College, Troy, N.Y. 12180
eloped a vocabulary for such a discussion.
Given the stability and strength of the 2. Technician - Physics
group now and their history or working out HS graduate and AAS desired.
problems it is probable that it will re- 5 years experience
spond to the need for critical discussions Apply Mr. David Nichols, Chairman
as more members feel this need, Physics

AUTHOR'S COMMENT: This article is Hudson Valley Community College
about a group which is not feminist in the Troy, N.Y. 12180
strictest sense of the word, While the
group is composed of women it would not ex- 3, Counselor

clude men and while several members are
feminists, feminism has never been dealt
with as a group issue. But the group does

Masters in Guidance or Psychology
Apply te: Mr, Ralph O'Brien,
Vice President for

deal with the concerns of the women in- Student Affairs, Hudson
volved, accepting and helping them develop Valley Community College
their skills. It provides a forum fer an Troy, N.Y. 12180
expression of their creativity and an at-

mosphere for growing. The women are help- For Matthew Bender & Company

ful and concerned with sharing. They en- 1275 Broadway, Albany, N.Y.
courage each other to work and order their 462~3331, ext, 225

priorities in favor of weaving, Many fem

inists would criticize the group for not Packer, Warehouse & Shipping

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tion as women in the art, world" but they Two years high schcol

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strongly feminist stand most of the wemen

THLE 18 DEDICATED TO THI...» c-.-«.«

Jill, xosalyn v., Gretchen, Sunshine, Suzanne, Carol, Anne, Ayn,
Llertha Ann, Mildred Ann, Annie, Mildredan, Danny, Joyce, Jody,
hae, va, Auntie, Gwendolyn, Jo, Nancy, Georges, Nora, Eve, Mary,
Marie, Joris, Sally, Lis, R., Marilyn, Jane, Jane, Jame, Sharon,
sue, Sally Anne, Kathryn, Tish, Bulbul, Karen, Karin, P.K#, /lice,
Helena, Monique, 2ita, Wendy, Evie, Bunni, Thea, Maxine, Greta,
Ginda, Barbara, Margaret, Fmily, Besmilr, Mary Eliza Blue a’.
Lozen, Mina, Dorothy, Liza, Nikki, Erica, Erica, Jill, Jill,
iosalyn, Lee, Atticus, Diana, haureen, Martina, Joan, Lynn,Any,
Marianne, Rochelle, Marge, Sylvia, sylvia, sylvia, Adrienne,Jill,
Adrienne, Adrienne, Adrienne, Rosalyn, May, Elinor, Eleanor, Linda,
Diva, Lee, Jill, Carol. Carol, Mary W., Susan B., Rosalyn, xosalyn,
Gertrude, Sara, Betsy, Jo Ann, Jan, Cookie, Naomi, Mirian, lsabel,
Isabelle, IlS8abelle, Ilargaret, Martha h., Cathy, Clare, Leslie,
tobin, vaisy, Robin, .iobin, Emma, .iita Mae, Constance, Bernadette,
Rosa Carlo, Rebecca, Charlotte, inez, Florence, Faith, Hope,
Charity, Angela, Aphra, Eve, Phjllis, Carol, Jill, Esther, Alix,
Newlly, Carol, Carol, Carol, Mini, Yosano, Gloria, May Wilson,
Jackie, Ivy, Bonnie, Toni, Freda, sxamona, Brita, Ellen, Jean,
Bev., Lois, Norma, Georgette, Doris, Glenna, Dell, Judith, Lillian,
Pesgy, Ursula, Judith, Iliana, Elsa, Chris, Rosemary, Yolanda,
Lillie, Harriet, Muriel, Rae Jean, Martha, voris, Lee Darling,
Fraya, ®raya, Debbie, Phoebe, Carol, Carol, Andrea, Adrienne,
Andrea, Etta, Celia,.. Grace, Gina, pella, Blair, Minna, Roberta,
Mamie, Georgia, Dette,Cabrielle, kezin, Loretta, Lena, Edith,
Germaine, Patsy Patty, Pat, Patricia, Vivian, laine, Svetlana,
Modesto, Wania, Norma, Pearl, Jeanne, Jean, Gene, J., Jeanette,
Nguyen Thi Binh, Indira Gandhi, Golda Meir, Neuyen Thi, Inara,
Golda, golda, golda, golda, Sara, Lucinda, Anselina, Billie Jean,
Gael, Gail, gale, GALE, Cellestine, celestial. Celestial. CELESTIAL
GRACE, grace, ARY LOU, MARY LOU, MARY LOU, MARY LOU, MARY LOU,
patience, Patience, PATIENCE, wii). Jidd5 JIl),.3jii1, Carl.

fi

I should've known ne when I was you, thén J..would've been. ne:
i wish.I'd known you when I wasn't we and 1 would've been you.
If there aré as many winds ag there. are heads, there are ag

many loves as there are hearts. .iding the iuage as though it

were a breaking wave." Jill Johnson, Dec. 12, 1968

Marmalade Me

Mary Wollstonecraft
by Eleanor Flexner

Eleanor Flexner, a noted fe= .
male historian and author of Century
of Struggle, has written another
meuumont ar work in the history of
Women. Mary Wollstonecraft is typ-

Ms.

ical of Flexner's scholarly
approach. Her use of previously
unpublished letters, her extensive
bibliography and her critical
scrutiny of her sources is charact-
eristic of her writing.

The letters are particularly
relevant since they give the reader
a valuable insight into Mary's
thoughts and emotions during various
periods of her life. She becomes
alive and the reader comes to know
Mary intimately. They also give
credence to Ms. Flexner's sources,
Although she is a historian by
profession, she doesn't dwell on the
intellectual and political trends
of the time but mentions them only
in passing as they directly in-
fluence Mary's life.

Mary Wollstonecraft, author of
A Vindication of the Rights of
Woman was born in 1759 to a silk
weaver, the second of six children.
Mary's family was not as poor as
most; her father had “beenleft with
an inheritance adequaté to support
his family. However, because of his
restless and speculative nature, the
money Was soon squandered. Mary
then was forced to support herself -
and her family. She thus experien-
ced firsthand the discrimination
against women. Had her life been
different; had her father provided
an adequate living for his family,
perhaps Mary would never have writt-
en the Vindication. Her viewpoint,
then was shaped by her experiences,
not her education. Her formal
education was somewhat limited.
(although she did come in contact

with several of the profound thinkers

of the time). Mary witnessed the
poverty and debt of poor women who
could not support themselves since
few occupations were open to them.
If a woman did not marry she could
become a teacher, a governess for a
wealthy family or a companion for an
elderly woman. To becouwe a teacher

or a governess required education
that few could attain. Rich
woman fared nce’ better. "AT the
end of the social she (Mary)
witnessed the corruption brought
about by wealth and idleness of
women of a different class."

It is no small wonder then
that Mary reacted to these
conditions and argued in her
Vindication for public education
that would enable women to lead
productive and creative lives,
and an end to the second class
Citizenship to which women
were (and still are) relegated.
"What is so astonishing about the
Vindication is not that-Mary wrote
it, but that she was alone in
raising the issues tliat she *- ,

did..." This fact alone
makes her biography a must for
all people interested in the
history of the women's movement.
However, Ms. Flexner's study
is not limited to an emphasis on
Mary's demands for education and
broader opportunities for women,
she also emphasizes Mary's
emotional dilemma, Mary's
personal life doesn't appear to
be exemplary of an ardent feminist
when she wpites her lover that,
"the books sent to me are such as
we may read together; so I shall
not look into them till you return,
when you shall read, whilst I
mend iy stockings. .. Because
of a lifelong need for love and
affection which was denied her as
a child, Mary enters into two
unhappy relationships with men,
both of which cause her to attempt
Suicide. Finally, at the age of 38
She finds the type of relationship
She had bee: looking for. She
marries William Godwin, only to
die in childbirth Shortly after
their wedding.

Cheryl Shenkle

LETTERS TO SPEAKOUT

The views expressed in this column For us to achieve the kind of dir-
are those of the writer and do not neces- ected, productive activity we need to move
sarily reflect the opinions of the forward, we need to support someone while
SpeakOut Staff. ) they direct the effort and keep things
moving. Women have continually withheld

From time to time I hear about the monetary support from eachother while be-
discouragement of various women who are lieving or hoping that leaders, skilled
active in the women's movement and others organizers, writers and even typists (for
who would like to become active--com— goddess! sake) will drop from the skies

plaints of disorganization, disagreement. to volunteer their skills forever.

lack of action, no follow through, etc,
In the future I plan an article for

Sis—

terly has become synonymous with free,

What was that new left demand for "free
SpeakOut on a proposal for ways in which women"?

It's not sisterly to expect wom-

I think the movement could more effectiv— en to "put out" for the movement the way
ely structure itself, but one concern is they have to in order to exist in society.

basic to any type of structure.
a focus and we need leaders, Not a mind-
less missionary zeal but a few basic
clearly stated objectives. Not ego-trip-
ping heroine-earthmother—goddesses but
women who devote their basic energies to
keeping track, keeping up, and keeping
the store along with counseling and in-
spiring.

We need We are building a new way, remember?

Sharon Villines (Albert)

Dear SpeakOut,

I must express the rage I felt when
I read the article in last month's

SpeakOut entitled Feminist Against Abortion,

My anger is not directed against

As women start building skills as a Ms, McCarthy‘because of her views on

primary objective they fall away from
women's organizations——-feminist or other-
wise--for the same basic reason,
less lack of productivity and real per-
sonal support becomes a luxury they can
ill afford. This deprives the movement
of vital strength and developing women of
models. When women get serious about
themselves they move on. I feel this is
inevitable as long as the movement fails
to direct itself with more sensible or-
ganizational structures.

We need time to devote exclusively
to developing skills and to emotimal

support without hassles from organi za~
tional details.

We need our newsletter.
things not at the expense of other women,
and they are important enough to receive
the full-time attention of several women.
No one will provide a women's center for
use No one can afford to give the time
to developing and sustaining a tabloid
newsletter with wide circulation, No one
of us can become a full—time, no coffee
break, volunteer leader. We seem to have
ecieht on to societies catch-all rip-off
{ov women--volunteerism——but we haven't
yet seen it in ourselves. The movement
cennot continue to expect women to func-

tion on the basis of part-time volunteer
workers,

abortion, It is quite obvious to me that

her views on that subject are standard
The end-Right to Life,

My anger is directed against Ms,
McCarthy's daring to call herself a
feminist! What feminist would tell her
sisters that they have to be patient and
support eachother through their enforced
and unwanted pregnancies? I for one have
no mdre patience with those attitudes,
that dogma that forces a woman to go
through 9 months of carrying an unwanted
child. What happens to that child when
all the woman's resentments and rage at
being forced to bear it are enacted upon

We need a women's center.jt?
But we need these

My involvement with feminism and my
sincere belief in it and its issues is
firmly rooted in the idea that we must and
will support eachother's right to choice;
our desire to control our lives and our
bodies, I have feminist friends who do
not believe in abortion for themselves,
but do not deny the right ef other women
to choose to terminate an unwanted preg—
nancy, nor do they attempt te dictate to
or moralize to their sisters, They are
feminists against abortion, i

Ms. McCarthy is against abortion,
yes. A feminist, no!

Phoebe’ Sheres

LETTERS TO Speakout

Dear Mse

In preparing my work here at
Tarrant County Junior College, 1

ran across your periodical.

I wonder if I could be placed
on your complimentary mailing list
for future issuesv? I will be
using the periodical and then
passing it on to our teaching staf
as resource material for their
classes.

Thank you for this service,

Sincerely,
Me Dan NcLallen
Dean of Instruction

Although we were thrilled to

be used as resource material, we
had to send the following re-
sponse. COSTS are COSTSe.

Dear Mr. \NcLallen,

Thank you for your very kind
letter of October 1, 1973.

Unfortunately due to financial

problems SP=AKOUT can no longer
provide complimentary copies, Our
subscription rate is only .;3.00
for a whole year. i” hope that

you can see your way clear for
that small amount.

As a serials librarian in a
junior college mysalf, L know from
first hand experience that our
plight is shared by hundreds of

formerly free publications. Perhap

the college library would take .
a subscription,

We will send tha lutest issue
as a complimentary copy.

In Peace and Personhood,
Christine Root
for SPE AKOUT

Dear SPEAKOUT,
1 lived in Albany

years and felt very
politically.

for three
musch alone
L am very happy and

excited to learn that there is now

a women's paper being published
there. I wish you the best of
luck. Enclosed is $3.00 for a
year's subscription.

Y ours Truly, FranB .

Baltimore, Maryland

Sussman on the M.T.A.
The following are excerpts from

“a letter from former SPEAKOUT

staffer SHERRY SUSSIAN,.

Hi 1
The last issue was fantastic. I r
really loved it. It meant so

“much to get news and articles

from Albany. I've been missing
my Albany sisters.

New York is not yet fun city
for me. I'm too busy commuting in
and out of it.

I have been passing SPEAKOUT
around at my office. FANT’STIC
response. ivany of the people in
my training section either worked
or went to school in Albany. Two
were even active in the movement.

People in general have an
awareness and for the most part
an acceptance of feminist ideolog
There is no obvious sexism in the
office even though it runs
rampant in the training material.

I plan to write some stuff
and send it . By hte way, Lois
Uttley's article on Mary Leue
and the Free School was talked
about at the office. There are
some women who see Mary's article
as interesting and positive.
Others were sure that it just
brings us one step closer to

COMBENS SH»
he article by and about the

lesbian community was good,

On payday I will send up my
10,00 check for my monthly
contribution to the Women's
Center. Has anyone opened a
bank account yet to recieve
donations? Let me know where to
send the money.

Love to all my sisters. You
really make me feel good.

Love, Sherry

SPEAKOUT is sorry to report that
the building formerly occupied
by the Gryffon Film Socity has
been rented . The Women's Center
Committee is looking for a new
place, We have only heard a
rumor that Downtown Albany women
may have found a place for a
center. Pleas, Someone let us
Know what is happening in regard

" to the Women's Center,

-  Women,s Unit
Executive Chamber
State Capitol, Room 250
Albany, New York 12224

The Newy York State Women's Unit is
working to keep women informed
about the legislative process and
to keep state legislators awarw
of tae attitudes and needs of
women,

Again this year, the unit hopes
to serve organizations and individ
fals across the state by providing
a clearinghouse of information on
the progress of legislation. They
will also provide information about
hearings and special events which
occur during the session

A questionnaire was sent to all
Women's Unit contacts. If any of
our readers know of a group that
would be interested in receiving
the Women's Unit newsletter please
contact MS. DEBORAH BOTCH at the

above address. or call the unit
el : (518) 474-4904

In New York City Contact
Mx. PATRICIA HENLEY
22 West 55th Street
New York, New York 10019
Tel.: (212)IUdson2?-7030

COULD WE LOBBY TOO?

Here's some inspirational news
for all you lobbyists and would-be
lobbyists who missed the article
appearing in Time Magazine, Sept.
24, 1973(p. 60). The University
of California has a student lobby
which operates on an annual budget
of $50,000 supplied by the student
unions from each of the state's 9
university campuses. It is direc-
ted by 3 recent U.C. graduates.who
earn $(00/month, working for up to
2 years, with the assistance of 9
student interns, who work 10 weeks
in the Capitol with their «ent
paid and get academic crelit for
their service. Everyday the 12
lobbyists receive a list of pxo-
posed legislation in the senate or
assembly cated as oppose, favor or
watch. They try to get bills
which they oppose to be withdrawn
by their sponsors. Each month,
the lobby writes a summary of and
(continued in nert i,

Women _in the Legislature 1974

Congratulations to newly elec-

ted Elizabeth Connelly from Sta-

ten Island.

Ss

In the upcoming ses-
ion we have four women in the

Assembly anid three in the Senate,

XX Readers may

contact the women

in the legislature at these ad-
dressesses!

Elizabeth Connelly (61 A.D.)
C4 Benedict Avenue
Staten Island 10307

Constance &. Cook (128 A.D.)
Coy Glen Road
Ithaca, New York 14850

Estelle Diggs (78 A.9.)
5$2East 167th Street
Bron», New York 10456

Rosemary Gunning (37 A...)
1867 Gove Street
Brooklyn, New York 11237

Karen Burstein (9 S.D.)
€2 Causeway
Lawrenee, New York 11359

Carol Bellamy (23 S.D.)
273 Henry Street
Brooklyn, New York 11201

Mary Anne Krupsak (44 S.D.)
Snaper Avenue Extension
Canajoharie, New York 11317
LOBBY (continued) ....
their nosition on future bills.
To date the lobby has successfully
obtainej $1 million to evaluate ar!
and imnrove undergraduate coursess
and professors, $2 million in
State student aid to repvlace lost
Federal aid, and an additional $x$
$1.¢ million in student aid for
iovacee and $2.5 million for
| ; - 74 °

CAUCUS OL “OMEN'S RIGHTS AT SUNY
Join the COURS; work together to
impwove the status of all vomen
at SUNY. For information about
joining. contact Francine Frank
at the Jepartment of Hispanic
and Italian Studies, SUNY at
Albany, Albany NY 12222,

HOT FLASHES FROM THE LOCAL PAPERS

The Times Union no longer keeps seg-

regated want ads but take a look at the
ads —

Resident Couple
For large Apt. Complex. Man for

maintenance — lady to answer phone
and show apartments.

Secretary
Gal with good typing skills, 2
years work experience. Attorney

looking for person to train on IBM
and M&S, salary $120.00. Anton
Wood Assoe,

How do these want ads strike our
readers?

ee

SSNS

Woman Minister lists Sunday sermon topics
Rev. Barbara B. Gardner preaches at the

Gallupville and Delanson United Methodist
Churches on Sunday,

Waitress left out in the cold -— Times
Union, November 25, 1973.
One waitress at the Detroit airport
was fired and 10 others were suspended
Friday for wearing sweaters with their
mini-skirted uniforms after airport auth-
orities turned down the heat,
Coctail Lounge management said that
the waitresses could not wear sweaters
cr slacks because their shortsleeved,
mini-skirted uniforms were meant to be
"appealing" to male customers,

Times Union, Sunday Dec. 16 - Is Alimony

Equal, Too?

To the Editor: With the threatened
energy shortage and a possible cutback in
working hours and school hours, where does
aman with custody of two young boys turn?
Most people don't believe it is possible
for a man to have custody of the children
in a divorce action, but it is, and I
have had custody for almost five years,

We have been able to keep going so far
because we live with my father who is
retired. .

My children's mother holds a very
good job and is in a position to con-
tribute to their support but she doesn't,
She does exercise her visitation rights,

Why are the laws in New York State dif-
ferent for men and women when it comes to
divorce, custody of children and child
support? If the woman gets custody, the
man may have visitation rights but he
also is told in no uncertain terms that
he must pay some child support, Why,
then, doesn't the woman have to pay some
child support and the woman works, with
no one to support: besides herself?

I have been told that if I appeal
to Family Court the judge will just Laugh
at me, but I still feel that since the
children belong to both of us, then both
of us should support them. Do ény of
your readers know of anyone who has been
able to get the mother to share the ex-
pense of raising her own children?

Cohoes Name Submitted

_ Alimony is not mentioned by this
writer and yet the newspaper headlined
the letter "Is Alimony Faual, too?"
Child support is not alimony. Are there
SpeakOut readers who have experienced

the other side of the coin? Why not

write to the local papers and let them
hear from you.

GOOD NEws!

Stephentown has brought to office
its first woman as Town Supervisor, ac—
cording to a Times Union story. Ms,
Mor.ss' interest began five years ago when
her brother was listed as missing in
action in Vietnam, and she still wears
her MIA bracelet. She then decided it
was not fair to sit back and let somebody
else do something about today's problems.
A six week door to door campaign led to
her victory, Ms. Monos didn't think a

woman would be elected but hard work
seems to have paid off,

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CALENDAR AND EVENTS

January 1
Beginning of World Population Year.

January 7
Lesbians for Liberation Open House, Gay
Coumunity House 332 Hudson Awe., Albany

Capital District women Business Meeting,
Joan Schultz's residence, 352 State St.,
Alobany. ':00 p.m.

danuary 8

Lepislative Forum's opening session:
Governor Malcolm Wilson is expected to
speak. 10a.m.-l2p.m. Ghancellor's Hall,
Albany. Leniel Elepak, Dizz@tor,. state
educational performance review(inspector
general) will speek at luncheon following
meeting: 12:30, Dewitt Clinton Hotel,
Albany. Public welcome. Call 162-0801 for
informetion and luncheon reserwations

N.U.w. Business meetin;. Election of next
year's officers. 8:00 p.m. tiadison Ave.
Presbyterian Church, “lbany.

January 8- 10

League of women Voters Unit meetings to
plan national priorities for next 2 years.
Call 4yo-7649 for times and loeations.

January 10-

man Rights Coalition meets to plan
activities. 7:45 Shereton Towne motor Inn
Albany. For more information contact: Fr.
Peter touns, St. John the Bajtist,Albany,
472-998

January 13

"Women in Jewish Life- Obligations and
Opportunities". Dr. Gladys hosen. 8:30
Temple Israel, New Scotlend Awenue,Albeny

January 1h
Lesbians for Libcration Open House. Gay
Community House, 332 Hudson Ave.,Albeny.

Best night to observe comet ..ahotek

veers

January 15
Deadline for Speakout articles and
announcements.

January 16 & 17
AWAKE sponsors "Self Leiense for women"

wednesday or Thursday evening for 10 weeks
yl5. SUNYA women's Gym, 3rd floor. Contact
hllen Smith, 34 Danker Ave.,Albany,l59-

8393 for more information and reservations

danuary ay | |
"The Legally Independent woman" uathy
hatzelOn.me-l2;.m. Unitarian Church,
ington Ave., Albany.

Wash

January 18-20
N.O.w. Conference on warria;e and Divoree .
ror more information contact: Lebbie
Boteh, women's Unit, State Capitol, koom
250, #lbany h7b-4o0)

January el
Lesbiens for Liberation Open House

W.P.C.,.0.W. and Civil Liberties Union
co-sponsor. multi media presentation on
le;islative prioritics. Speckers inelude
Ann Borel, Judy Merrill end hoss Graham.
8:00 p.m. “irst rresbyterien Church, State
end Willett, Albeny.

First anniversary of Supreme Court's
@ecision on abortion

hitht to Life and Birth hight will be
holdin; a massive demonstretion end
lobb;ing, day in Washington D.C.

January 2)

Lecgue of Women Yoters weeting. "Land Use"
7330 aeme Union Presbyterian Church,
Guilderlend(houte 20) Beb; sitting
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MARCH 1974

SPEAKOUT : A FEMINIST NEWSJOURNAL
Volume III Number Tit

[ee es. ee ee ee

PAGE
1 Consciousness Raising
z Feminist: the meaning of theseenceptaaridthke:word
aS expressed in a letter by Wilma Scott Heide

3 Capital District Women and Protecti
ve Rul
: Guildlines for CR Resource People es for CR groups

Responsibilities for CR Resource People

6 P Changes: three poems by Carol Biernacki
¢- NOW One-to-One Committee Status Report on NY Legislation

9-10 Feminists Unite at Upcoming Conferences

11 Virginia Woolf: Feminist as Artist B
fe Betty Kemmer
12 Guilderland Citizens for a More Equelsports Proerem

13 Hot Flashes and Cold Chills
14=15 Letters to SPEAKQUT
16 Feminist Group News

7 Calendar of Events

i a a rr a a

WORKERS FOR THIS ISSUE:Betty Kemmer, ChristineRoot, Phoebe Sheres
Cheryl Shenkle, Margaret Figlozzi, Laura
Rosman, Marsha Barnes, Cyra Williams,
Dorothy Bellick, Rezsin Adams

Ss sss esses ssh SSS

COVER DESIGN by Deborah Simon

Consciousness Raising

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en ee ee ee eee ee eS ee ee ee ee

CONSCIOUSNESS RAISING.
‘Im our male-centered culture,
¢ it is @difficult fer weman te define
herself as a person. Practically
all ef the knowledge woman has ef
herself she has acquired from seme=
ene else = her husband, father, —
bess, advertising agencies, radie
and television programs. She has
never had the opportunity or reasen
te define herself er her own life,
_ When women set out to define
themselves and seek their ewn ¢:+
identities as peeple, they found
that there were really no rele re
models or presedents fer what they
were deing. The only resource ~
peeple they had were themselves, .
Women began to discover that
the feelings that they had about
themselves and the eppressien that
they were feeling was not theirs
alone = that ether-women had the
same feelings. Wemen began te fi
find support and strength in each
ether's feelings and experiences,
sonsciousness raising helps to
separateiwemdn from her social
conditioning and places her in gm ~
atmesphere of freedemcandnhemesty.
It attempts te redefine the t: 3°:
traditéenal and standard terms such
as woman, female, feminine in terms
of wemants ewn feelings and. expere
iences, and to stress the dignity
of womanhood,

—Betty Kemmer

SA SPSL ST SA SESE SP SE NP ND NP AP AP SESE XD -
SESE ESTES ES arsed er ie | Sir hie 1 er |r 1 heh

en Consciousness Raising from MB.
Magazine, July 1972:

"The important requirement fer a
rap greup is that the members be
serious about their desire fer life
changes, and that they respect that
need in each ether. Given the ine
timacy and willingness te make eur-

selves vulnerable that are necessary

fer conscicusness=raising, trust in
cenfidentiality is essential, ese |
especially when members know each
Other in outside contexts,"
"There should be no leader,
consciousness-raising: group is sp
specifically designed to eliminate
preexisting habits of passivity,
deminance, the need for outside ine
Struction er a hierarchy, even if

it is to take ef functional details,

If one or several members ef the.

——— ee ae ee ee oe

-women friends,

The.

greup dominate to a degree that |
keeps others from participating
fully, it is the responsibility of
each member to try te set the ba
balance straight."

It's important that. we speak
persenally and subjectively, and
specificalyy Generaliging, theor
-izing or talking in abstractions

is bound to misrepresent er alien
-ate seme member of the group to
whom those generalizatiens don't
apply. . |

"De not interrupt vhile another
woman is giving testimony. She
should be questioned only for claar
ification," . 1

"Don't give advice or judge a
woman's statements, After each
woman has spoken, there can be ti
time for qestiens and elaboration
but an attempt te question her *
facts or offer personal solution
is rarely called fer. In describ=
ing personal feelings and expere
ience, there is no right er wrong"

S72 SEMI NP NP SP ND SP ND MPa RIAL A ws ar 8P ap ve aA MA UP AP 4s
i ie ie ie kai aie ae Le ae Te oe ae a ae a

"Consciousness raising is an epp»
ertunity te be completely open and
honest with trusted and trusting
Lt iAis..a precess- ef
examining cemmon and uncommon
exper iencesednd@,::in‘ddtngrse, find
new meaning and direction in life,
It is a building of trust, an

eften painful but more eften rew
warding experience of shared ces
desires and mutual support which
can be found in no other setting.

We usually begin our invelvee-

ment with CR, and move on te other
activities. But it can be useful
te return to CR periodically for
rest and refreshment, to reaew our
Strength and eur eemmitment to
«ther women,"

Susan Chelius

"Consci@usness raising, conside

.ered in the manifestos useful as

an "impetus for personal change",
is a relief frem my obsessien with
suicide,"

CDW new member

hl a ee PSF SE SP NZ SPEND NA NP AD AP Op ae Ne <2
© RISTO SESESE SESE EE SEES eset sees

soplace is where she +r

wahts it," eBiize%3tt
~Elizabeth Anticaglia

A Housewife's Guide to Liberation

Yar hes

EXCERPT ’

S FROM AN OPEN LETTER TO GLENN W, FERGUSON, PRESIDENT UNIV, OF CONNECTICUT
FROM WILMA SCOTT HEIDE, PRESIDENT NOW

This letter is being written to share minority (whese menbére increase daily)

with you some informatien about the mean-
ing of the concept and the word, feminist.
According te the news media: you have
stated the word lacks precision in defini-
tion for you and you do not understand its
validity, let alene its necessity as a
bona fide occupational qualification for
the proposed Vice Presidency for Women's
Affairs at the University of Cannecticut.
A feminist is a person whe: believes
that women and men are primarily people;
knows that human rights must become in-

of women and men of all races, ages and
income levels whose view of the world
differs significahtly from the one gen-
erally taken for granted in society. The
cognitive minority nearly always forsees
the true knowledge of the future before
her/his contemporaries, A feminist is
committed to creating a society and cul-
ture that will move our values, beliefs,
behaviors from androcentric to gynandrous
(an equal balance of the female and male).
Thus, feminism and feminists should

divisible; is cemmitted to the equal rights be welcomed and required for University

and responsibilities of wemen and men,
girls and boys, in all aspects of life
within and outside the home — legally,
educationally, economically, politically,
religiously. Equality refers to status
and apportunities not Piolagy,.

A feminist knows discrimination ag-
ainst women is the serious symptem ef
sexism and produces its own censequent
problems. A feminist rejects sexism as
unhealthy because it sex rele stereotypes
girls and beys from the moment of birth in
ways that deny the individuality, civil
liberties, civil rights of both in insti-
tutienalized ways. A feminist knows that:
enly being a sperm donor excludes all
wemen; only being a human incubater or wet
nurse excludes all men. All other jobs
er occupational, social roles are learned
human roles, bar none,

A feminist knows all our social in-
stitutions including education at the el-
ementary, secondary, post secondary level
including the University ef Connecticut
are sexist and thus pathological. A
feminist knows that the present sexism

Vice Presidents and Presidents as well as
faculty and staff. Feminism is a bona
fide occupational qualification for every
human endeaver that affects people. To
the extent that a person or an institu-
tion is not feminist, then she/he and/or
the institution is sexist. Education is
too important to continue to be entrusted
te sexists, Mr. Ferguson, you reportedly
stated that to make "feminist a job cri-
terion cculd discriminate against people
who do not censider themselves feminists”.
Yeu are absolutely correct. It would
eliminate a non-feminist as not qualified.
To hire a non—feminist or sexist to aid
women would be at least equivalent to
hiring a racist to aid minority people.

% % % *

How women become feminists? For some
perhaps someone says something and Click!
Click! they see discrimination being
practiced against themselves. Through
reading feminist literature; Ms, Know
Press pamphlets. How do people come to
decide to reed feminist press and how do
they click on to discriminatian? For most

means our language, values, belief systems,wemen the feminist perspective develops

institutions and priorities are androcen-
tric, i.e. male—centered and male~oriented
and male-dominated. A feminist knows that
not only women and girls are devalued but
the so-called "feminine" traits (really
human traits) of nurturance, sensitivity,
compassion, and caring are privatized,
trivialized and considered not "masculine"
especially in the public domain.

A feminist knows the "Watergate
phenomenon" is but the predictable tip of
the iceberg of the pathological "white
masculine mystique" which is tragically
the central ethos of our society. A

feminist is part of the emerging cegnitive

slowly in small discussion groups knewn as
conscieusness-raising sessions,

SpceakOut is publishing Guidelines for
Resource People, Responsibilities for Re-
source Persons and Pretective Rules for
C~K in an effort to help the mang small
greups of women starting their own C-R
groups in the Capital Area, A Feminist
Press is necessary but C-R is still the
heart and soul of the movement. SpeakOut
grew out ef just such group efferts., We
must pay tribute to our heritage,

CAPITAL DISTRICT WOMEN

3

. A little about Capital District Women which struggled long and hard to arrive at

these guidelines.

Capital District Women began in the
summer of 19/0 as a small informal greup 1,
exploring the possibilities of the re-
awakening women's movement. We sought out.
and discussed the growing number of books
and magewine articles dealing with Women's2,
Liberation, We argued and agreed, and in
the process slowly began to define our
common experience as women. We discovered.
"sisterhood," the joy of knowing and
trusting other women. New members heard
about the greup through word of meuth or 3.
through the speaking engagements we took
cn as our major "action."

Today, Capital District Women is one
of many greups in the Tri- City area in-
velved with Women's Rights and Women's
Liberation. Although our membership has
grown substantially, and we have adepted
a slightly incre formal structure, we hold he
to our original ideal of openness and
flexibility. Our current membership
ranges in age from 19 to 76 and includes
beth married and single wemen, homemakers,
women who work outside the home and stu-
cents. Members express-divergent views:
there is no Capital District Women "line,"5,
Rather, we are hrought together by our
cemmon concern for the rele cf women in
contemporary society. We emphasize that .
the Women's Movement is net based en dogma 6
or rhetoric, but grows out of our own
experience,

Every six weeks, the entire member—
ship gathers to make major pelicy and F
business decisions, to report on the ac-
tivities of small groups, and to socialize.
We have no "efficers;" each member takes
her turn at leading meetings, recording
minutes or cbtaining up-to-date literature
fer distributicn te the group.

We meet in small groups fer our ~
weekly discussien or eenscicusness-raising
sessions. Since consclousness-raising
forms the core.of the Women's Liberation
Movement, we ask all new members to spend
at least six weeks in a CR group. Con-
sclousness—raising relates those frag—
mented, seemingly unrelated, problems in
cut individual lives to the general situa-
ticn of women. It identifies oppressive
conditions in women's lives in order to
develop effective political theery and
action. And, for each of us, conscious—
ness-raising provides support, ideas and
impetus for perscnal change,

8.

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SEES ENS EE GE OE EE TUE IO ERS

PROTECTIVE RULES FOR CONSCIOUSNESS—RAIS ING

Everyone in the entire group must. be
given a chance te participate before
the meeting ends.

When speaking, each woman must stick to
specifie instances of her life, rather
than generalizing, talking in abstrac-
tions or speaking of other's exper-
iences.

If questions are asked, they should be
to clarify further the epecifics of a
woman's statement, not to comment upon
her situation, interpret it for her, or
to judge it. Any questions or comments
should be exploratcry or supportive,
rather than critical or judgmental.

Everyone in the group must assume that
each woman knows best her own motiva-
tion and the incidents of her own life
and needs no help in interpretation.
This is judgment. We must never judge
a woman's statements,

After all women have spoken, the group
shall draw conclusions from the state-
ments given.

It is each woman's responsibility not
te interrupt not to monopolize the
conversation,

Everyene should take the responsibil-
ity to speak at some length at least
once during the meeting.

No more than-one conversation should
be going on at one time.

What eccurs within a C-R group should
be censidered confidential. If for any
reason a woman feels the need to.re-
count incidents or anecdotes, she must
not attach any names to these stories.

Each and every woman has an obligation

te speak up immediately if any of these
rules are brcken, This is not a matter

of ruceness but rather a protection fer
all the group.

These rules should be read before
every session of consciousness;-raising,

GUIDELINES FOR RESOURCE PEOPLE 3 4

Need help in establishing a CR group? Capital District Women has prepared
guidelines for its resweurce people (we are all leaders and followers together! )

A. Things which should be accomplished at the first meeting

1. Briefly define conscieusness—raising - its personal and political implications.
Mention that it is not a therapy group. We are not dealing with purely personal
problems, requiring personal solutions. Part of conscicusness-raising is to

learn to understand the political and social implications of the woman's exper-
ience,

2. Distribute copies of "Protective Rules fer Consciousness—Raising",

3. Get names and phone number of new women,

43. Discuss: a) length of commitment to consciousness-raising group (suggest at
lease @ weeks),
®) attendence at sessien: we should encourage a sense of responsibil-
ity to the group, and should agree to give priority to its meetings. Sugges-
tion: if three (er more in a larger group) can't make it, either cancel meet-
ing or change night. Agree to have one group member receive calls from any who

will be absent and eentact all group members if absence is above agreed-upon
number,

5, Discuss time limit for meetings (2 hours? 3 hours?). Group should decide,

6. It is useful to speak "round robin" around the circle, so that each woman has
a chance to indicate why she has come to Women's Liberation, what expectations

she has for the group, what fears, etc. The resturce person should probably go

first to set the tone for statements and indicate, by example, an appropriate
length for statements,

7.  Befere the end of the meeting, decide on a general topic for next week. Remind

everyone to bring dittoes ef "Pretective Rules", (But be sure to bring extras
te next meeting. )

&. Draw conclusions from wemen's statements,

B. Format for subsequent meetings
: Re—read list of "Protective Rules" each week.

2. Re-state the tcpic, hopefully decided upon at previous meeting. Introduce
questions on topic, having available a list of possibilities. e.g. Topic: Re-
laticnship between mother and daughter. Questions: What was your relationship
with your mother? How did you perceive her and how do you perceive her now?

3. "Round rebin" format is useful to continue, sO that each women has chance to =
speak,

4, Resource person has responsibility to encourage group to generalize commen or
uncommon conclusions,

5. At the end of the meeting, decide general topic fer next week, and leave time
te evaluate the sessien according to the "Protection Rules for C-R",

6. Someone should take responsibility to remind group of time, so there is eneugh
time to de 5 and 4,

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RESPONSIBILITIES FOR RESOURCE PERSON 5

Establishing Attitudes

You can establish right away an atmosphere which encourages supportive question-
ing of each other, accepting of one another.

Resource persons can set a model fcr being personal.

You can establish the attitude that the speaking up of a group member should not
be taken as a personal affront. — ;

Watch out for put—downs, interruptions, unsisterly behavior for ourselves and

others. Resource people should encourage the group to remind them if they fail.

Beware of elitism, leaving out some women who have less education, have read
less, etc,

Mederating People's Talking

The reseurce persen herself needs to strike halance between talking too much
and not talking enough, :

You should keep providing opportunities fer quiet or reluctant wemen to parti-
cipate, but without undue pushing,

You should try to keep a few people from dominating the group. This may require

a persenal out—of-group contact between the resource person and the dominating
person(s).

You should try to figure out whey a quiet persen is not participating (e.g. per-
haps due to fears, intimidation by education or experience cf other members?)

The reseurce person has the responsibility to follow-up (by phone, etc.) on some-

“one who is extremely quiet or on someone who has missed a meeting or two and

seems to be dropping out. (e.g. if a woman doesn't like her group, perhaps she —
could fit in another cne, ) | |

Eliciting Generalizations

You should cneourage the group to generalize from women's experience after all
women have spokén (nct after each woman speaks).

Conclusions may concern the ccmmon or uncommon aspects of experience.

You may have to "spoon—feed" conclusiens at first, including examples from
women's comments. 3 ia i

You have the respcnsibility of pointing cut "political" ramifications of con-
clusicns teward radicalizing new women's consciousness,

The resource person should take notes to help her remember points mentioned,

explcred er not explored, either for summarizing or for suggesting topics for
future discussion. (Be sure to explain why you are taking notes, )

CHANGES: THREE POEMS

Hemorrhage

Sometimes, I think that what's expected of me is some
Super Red-Cross Lady whipping out sponges and clamps
and pints of blood (all of her own type) from the
storehouses of emergency supplies she carries around

in what everyone thinks is merely an oversized handbag.

I who sleepwalk whole days am pleased, however, to discover
in my real life an occasional bandaid in the back of some forgotten
drawer.

Still, when called upon I will respond, if only the caller will deposit
two nickels (or is it three now), and dial the right area code.

February, 1974

For Yoko Ono zeroing In

le Get a Big rock. Why do circles look like holes?
Make it very heavy. And why do they look so empty?
Paint a red balloon on it. A screaming mouth? A trap door
Let the balloon float on a string. to nothing?
In black paint, write JOY Is A A keyhole to a greater void?

Red Balloon.
Circles should be positive.
Sign your name in small letters on it.We should paint them to look

Maybe just initial it. like Easter Eggs.
If you wish the rock could be very Or cover them with trees so they
small. look like

: hilis in Vermont.
Il. Take _your rock with the floating Or maybe they could be beunéing

baloon red balls.

to anextbion place. Give it to a friend Or the sun,
for: a’ week. Use it as door stop. — Or the meon,
The door can he opened (sic) or shut.
Try to notice where you are taking And vhy de mathematicians say

the rock. zeres equal nethinge
If all else fails, break the rock

into And why did a whele mevement

a thousand pieces. take it for their symbel.
If you can, pulverize it, and blow
the dust away. And why did they have te set it

en a little plus sign te give it
Try to blow it where earth is needed. the meanimg it _—— hade
ae

December, 1973 * * "Jenuary 1973
Carol Biernacki

NOW ONE-TO-ONE COMMITTEE ~ STATUS REPORT ON OUR PRIORITIES
ee

1. CREDIT
Will be assigned to Assembly Banking Com-
mittee, Lucio Russo, Chairman and to
Senate Banking Committee, Thomas McGowan,
Chairman ,
Amends Sec. 296 of the Executive Law, by
adding new subdivision 13. Prohibits dis-
crimination in the extension of credit by
banks, credit unions, investment companies,
issuers of credit cards, by reason of race,
creed, color, nutional erigin, sex, or
marital status, Governor Wilson, in his

state of the. state message, called for such

_ legislation, The Bill, when it does come
out will be sponsored by the respective

prespects for passage. _ . :
CALL TO ACTION: Write the governor and

Russo to ask when the credit bill will be
filed and indicate NOW's support,

2e RAPE
A&247 Suchin, DeCarlo, Jonas, Wemple,
Betros, Lopresta, T.J. Murphy, tL LA's

Velker, Roosa, Ress, Kremer, Gottfried,
Brewn, M.H. Miller, Meyer

THE ASSEMBLY UNANIMOUSLY PASSED THIS ONE
ON JAN. 14. The press attributed its pas-

sage to "growing strength and pressure frem

the womer.'s movement",
$7251 Giuffreda, Barclay, Bernstein, Dunne,
McFarland, Ohrenstein, Halperin, Geld,
Burstein, Ackerson, Flynn in Cedes Commit—
tee, H. Douglas Barclay, Chairmen,

Amends the penal law, in relation to ccrr-—
cboration of testimony in prosecution for
sex offenses, No lenger will rape he the
enly crime of vielence in which the vic-
tim's word alene is net enough evidence. to
make eut a prima facie case, |
CALL TO ACTION: Write your senator and
Senator Barclay and request a yes vote
when the bill gets to the fleor,

(Editors Note: This bill appeared on the
Senate calendar, January 3f, It should

come up for a vcte on Menday er Tuesday
Feb, 4 or 5.)

E5

3. MATERNITY DISABILITY PAYMENTS
A1286 Cook, Burrows, Russo, Bersani, Field,

in Assembly Labcr Committee, Joseph Reilly,
Chairman,

S2C41 Gokeman in Senate Labor Committee,
Norman Levey, Chairman. Amends Section
205-b, subdivision 3 of the Werkmen's
Compensation Law, to consider pregnancy as
a temporary total disability, with woman

_
ae |

entitled to all compensation due person
with temporary total disability and to
include the period of time during which
woman may not work immediately following
pregnancy. We do expect passage of this
bill and will keep you posted.

4. CONTRACEPTION

Several geod hills exist in this area,
Informed sources. believe that there is
some chance for passage of at least one
of the following: A3071 Goedman in
Senate Education Committee, Leon Guiffreda

; : - Chairman, A2910 Cook in Assembly Educa-
Banking Committees, thus assuring excellent

tion Committee, Constance Cook, Chair-
woman, Amends the education law, re-
pealing the prchibitiens against the sale
or distribution of contraceptives to
minors under 16, It wauld also be per-
missable te advertise and display contra-
ceptives and te sell them in stores in
addition te pharmacies.

A4371 Blumenthal in Health Committee,
Chester Hardt, Chairman, would remove

only restriction on sale to minors.
S77 Geld, S3649 DeHond.

Theugh not
companion bills to A4371, both would ac-
complish the same purpose.

ae JURY DULY

53967 Krupsak, Burstein, Bellamy, Judi-
clary Committee

Amends the Judiciary law to repeal cer-
tain provisions allowing wemen to claim
exemption and be dismissed frem serving
on jury duty. In addition to the bill
listed, there are several cthers which
would accomplish the same purpose. If
any start to move we will provide you
with proper numbers and call to action.

6. CHILD CARE .
Because money is so tight this year for
implementation of new types of programs,
we feel there is not teo much hope for
many of the child care bills that have
been filed.” Again we hope to raise con-
Scicusness to this issue and to reinforce
the concept. For these reasons, we jist
only the following child care bills:
S4075 Bellamy, Ohrenstein, Burstein,
Garcia, Gold, Krupsak, in Taxation Com-

mittee, Douglas Hudson, Chairman,

A5143 Blumenthal and A5543 Diggs in Ways
and Means Committee,
Chairman. . -_

Willis Stephens,

8

NOW One-to-One Committee Report (Cont'd. )

Amends Section 615 of the Tax Law, to allow John Marchi, Chairman, A4680 Passannante
perstnal income taxpayer to increase de- in Assembly Govermment Operations Com-

ductions from federal adjusted gross in- mittee, Donald Taylor, Chairman.

come by amount of expenses incurred fer Amends Article 15 of the Human Rights Law
care of children, when necessary for pre- of the Executive Law to prohibit discrim-
duction of income of either head of house- jnation on the basis of sexual orienta-

hald or spouse, who contributed te suppert tion in employment, housing and public
ef household, which amount shall not excee@accommodations. Two years ago Passannante

100% of wages of taxpayer. ) got this bill out of committee, but it

failed to pass the Assembly, 81-67. The
7. DIVORCH LAW REFORM

Senate version was amended. (That is what
A5839 Gettfried in Judiciary Committee, the "A" following the bill number means. )

Gordon Burrows, Chairman. This is the We feel that based on what happened two
N.O.W. Divorce bill and centains the fol- years ago with this bill, prospects are

lowing provisions: Legal recognition of fairly good for this year.
marriage as an equal partnership; manage~ |

ment and contrel ef own share of community jo, RQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT
preperty in marriage; equal division ef je will support the bill sponsored in

marital property; equal alimony and child unity by all the women legislators. As
support with cost of living increases; = this is an amendment to the state con-
legal fees awarded to a wife before trial stitution, this one must be refiled. As

ts retain attorney equal in ability and yet that has not happened, but when it
fees te attorney employed by husband; com— dees we will let you know. :

pulsory financial disclasure; compulscry Specifically the bill will propose an
payroll deduction; financial investigation amendment to Article One of the state con-
and enforcement bureau with autherity te stitution, in relation to providing

conduct pretrial investigatiens, subpoena equality of rights under law not be denied
all records of income and assets, and en- 4n account of sex, -
force support orders; new mutual consent
grounds for divorce; widow's right te half ForRMS OF ADDRESS
of all assets. We are looking for some a wee
action in this area, but do not have a Geverncr Malcolm Wilson
line of anything else definite. Capital Build? ag

Albany, New York 12224
8, COMPENSATION FOR HOMEMAKERS

A4593 Cook in Insurance Committee, John Senator or Assembly/man or weman
McCarthy, Chairman, Amends Section 671 Legislative Office Building

of the Insurance Law, to include in cem- Albany, New York 12224

putation ef insurance reparations result-
ing frem motor vehicle accident, amount 5 9 5: SO eNEpE e+ mess isK.aT Ace ATE
equal to value ef work which injured home- “At ee ee
maker would have performed for family had ygation Committe ~ ee :
hememaker not been injured, up te $1,000 Crimation in Education Administra-
per month for not mere than 3 years from tion in late November, there were
date of accident....,with value of werk no ranking women in the NY State

to include net only laboring services at Education Dept. Since that time
prevailing wages, but alsa amount for there have been two assistant
household management and creative effort

F : commissioners named: Marion Martin
usually associated with hememaking but ex- as Assistant Commissioner for Voc-
cluding his or her contribution to emo-

ational Rehabilation and Vivienne
tional well-being of family. This is one

y , Z Anderson as Assistant Commissioner
ef Ms. Cook's personal legislative prior-

for Instructional Services.
ities. Anne Borel will keep you posted Congratulations!

on developments as they occur.

Readers : please note the =
9. SEXUAL ORIENTATION CIVIL RIGHTS March 6 hearing on Discrimation

S4198A Goodman in Senate Finance Committee, Arainst Women in the Sale of
Insurance,

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FEMINISTS. UNITE. AT. UPCOMING CONFERENCES

LAW WOMEN'S CATICUS ©
Slbany Law School

On_the Way to a Feminist
Perspective in Academe

The Law Woments Caucus of Albany 9:00 A.M. - Registration & Coffee

Law School will snonsor a con-
ference on"\omen and the Law" on
February 43, 1974 at Albany Law
school, &0 New Scotland fvenue,

Albany, from 9:00 asm. to 4:20 p.m.

The conference will present a
series of workshops designed to
inform women about their leaal
rights, including workshops on

divorce, rape, housing and enploy-

ment. There will also be work-.
shops to show women how they can
Promote their interests through
legislation, politics and partici-

pation in the lenal profession.

A number of woments organizations
in the Cavital District will parti-
cinate in the conference including,

the Women's Political Cascua,
A oW eA eR a ot (Albany Women Aaqainst

Rape), Coalition for a Free Choice,

The Women's Unit in the Governor's
Orfice and the Union College
Women's Caucus. In addition,
Nancy S. Erickson, a New York
City attorney who hus recently
published a guicve for women on
divorce, will address the confer-
ence.

The public is invited and there
is no recistration fee. Child
care will be provided at the law
school and atte ipts will be made
to provide tra spnort«tion for any-
one who needs it.

FOR MORE INFOR} ATION CONTACT s

Joan Kohout 462-1511
Steering Committee

CUNY WOM='tS COALITION

end Annual Conference

Cc'Y Graduate Center

SS VY. 42 St., New York, New York

Saturcay, Warch 30, 1974
9:00 Ai o- 4:30 Palle

Feminist Psychology

9:30 A.s.Me — 12:00 Noon = 4 con-
current experiential workshops
concentrating on Women's Search
for Autonomy =- Coordinator:
Jacki C. Gordon, York Collece

Women and the Word

1:30 P.M. = 3:00 P.M. - 4 con-
current works: ops on Poetry, The
Novel, Speech, Feminist Criticism
- Coordinatons.. Jo Giltikin,
Staten Island Community College

Cross Cultural Views of Women

3:15 - 4:30 P.M. = Panel Discus-
Sion - panelists. from China, Latin
America, Germany, France - Coor-

dinator: Paulette Roy, Graduate
School

Continuous showing of the Feminist
Film; Women Talking, Directed by

_Midge Mackenzie, Edinburgh Film

Festival, 1972

REGISTRATION FORM

There is no Reaistration Fee
SN SSN

Contributions to The CUNY Women's
Coalition are welcome.

Send this form to Audrey Silva,
Women's Center, Queensborough.
Community College, Bayside,

New York 11364

Name
school

Address

Home Phone

School Phone

t

INTERNATIONAL /OMES'S DAY-MARCH 8

On March 8, liberated radio sta-
tion WBFO, Buffalo, New York plans
todevote 20 hours of their broad-
cast, time to celebrate Internation-
al Woman's Day. Women will be
covering all on-the-air duties as
well as technical and engineering.
Women make up approximately 40% of
the WBFO staff and hold positions
in all areas of responsibility--
program director, producer, exgi-
neer, program guide, coordinator,
announcer, librarian etc. WBFO
produces two woman"s programs on
a weekly basis - "\Joman Power" and
"Sappho",

WBFO hopes to include five or
so minute tapes from women's groups
outside the area and request tapes
from those interested as soon as
possible. Also in the programming
is a one-hour women's bibliography
and requests are made for group
biographies, history, activities

a, -_ eee . om ¢€

Basket ball
o: G ames
fF gs

and iscues of any publications,
which WBFO "certainly will use,"

a

PARTIAL TENTATIVE SCHEDULI

ee

2:00 THIS IS RADIO = phoner with
Meridel Le Seuer = history of IWD
-UN - International Woman's Year

1975

-~Lesbian experiences in Buffalo
and Toronto - a comparison

+*8:00 PRESENT TENSE Mona Schroeder
“Women and Economic Survival

-10:00 MOTHER OF US ALL performanc
performance of Gertrude
Stein's opera, by —

Robin Willoughby

10:30 - Women and the Arts

- live coffeehouse set
- women artists

ee a ee ee

£3
’ Weolf's endings, the reader need

REE OO OO Oe

VIRGINIA WOOLF: FEMINIST AS ARTIST

Reading Virginia Woelf's work
is definitely an emotienal exper=_
ienceé She ts a woman’ cencerned *
with wemants world, woman's reles,
woman's situatien md woman's devel
“opment and grewth as @ persone k
Her workoften points eut woman's
dilemma as a caged and contrelled
being = caged and controlled by man
and by society. Weman is frequently
unable to cheose her world and her
rele in society because she its not
given the freedem, educatien and

responsibility te de se. 3

The importance ef Virginia eet
Woolf's novels lies in her portrayal
9f relatienships and the frequent
inadequacy of human rehtienships =
relationships between men, women,
and between women ad men, Virginia
Woelf offers her readers much more
th an a nice stery with interesting
characterse Her readers are taken
inside ef the characters! minds te
discever the reasens for particular
actions and attitudes. The actien
and dialogue ef Virginia Woelfts
novels’are not important in them»
selves, hut serve as catalysts fer
the free flew of the characters!
thoughts and feelings,

Virginia Woolf subtlely examines
cenflicts between the sexes and *!

almest always effers her reader

an alternative in the ferm of an
androgynous character. There is

always a character completely unlike
the ether characters in mind and

temperment who serves as a kind of
relief and effers an alternative

te the usud male/female relations
ship hangeups by possessing an
androgyneus, or at least pw. rtially
androgynous, mind. In a sense, then
then, Virginia Woolf is offering

andregyny as a pessible solution to
many *f the cenflicts between the
SCXCS¢
It is refreshing to find an ..i

author who proposes seme kind of a
solution after se vehemetl¥lexplote
ing the pro blems = marriage,
metherhood, relations ips between
wemen, man's attitudes teward woman
as a person, weman's attitudes

teward her ewn sexe Virginia Weolf
leaves her readers with a sense
ef hope. Even though ene may feel
Strange after ene cf Virginia :.5e

enly recall the stopygandd nog a
thoughts and personalities ef
the characters and, threugh
cemparison, centrast and ceneli
flicting ideas, discover the ray
of hope that Virginia Woolf has
s@ cleverly planted there.

~Betty Kemmer

". «© « Il discovered that I sl.eulé
should do battle with a certain
phanteme And the Phantem was a
veman, and when I came te know
her better I called her after
the heroine ef a famous peem,
"The Angel in the House". « ¢«
She was intensely sympathetice
She was immensely charminge She
was utterly unselfish. She ex=
celled in the difficult arts ef
family life. If there was chick
“en, she took the leg; if there
was a draft, she sat°in it, Im
shert, she was so censtituted
that she never had a mind er a
will ef her own, but preferred
te sympathize with the minds’amd
wishes of others. Above all, I
need say it, she was puree e e
And when I came te write, I
encountered her with the very :
first werdse The shadew ef her
wngs fell en my page: I heard
the rustling ef her skirts in
the recms » eShe slipped behind
me end whispered « « eBe sympath
“etic, be tender; flatter: cece.
deceive; use all the arts and
wiles of ymur sexe Never let
anyone guess yeu have a mind ef
yeur own. Abeve all, be pure,
And she made as if te guide my
pene I now recerd the one act
for which I take some credit te
myself. « « I turned upen her
and caught her by threat, I d
my best te kill her, My excep,
if I were to-be had up ina
ceurt of law, would be that I
acted in self-defense, Had I

not killed her, she would have
killed me,"

—Virginia Woelf
"Prefessiens for Wemen"

//

THE GUILDERLAND CITIZENS FOR A
MORE EQUAL WOMEN'S SPORTS PROGRAM

The Guilderland Citizens for a
More Equal Women's Sports Program
had its first meeting on Jan. 31,
1974, About 30 people attended.
The organizers, Joan Floyd and
Charlotte O'Donnel, tried to get
together a group of interested
citizens who would study the pro-
blem of women's sports in the
schools, and make recommendations
to the Board of Education on how
they could come up with a more
equal share of the sports budget
for women's sports. About 30
people came to the first meeting.
About 15 High School women students
about 5-6 phys. ed. teachers, and
Mr. Fred Field, director of athle-
tics for Guilderland High School
and the chairman of the Suburban
Council Sports Program, and one
male, whose name escapes me.

This preliminary meeting was useful
as a tool to find out what kind of
sports program the system already
had, and to find out how much sup-
port there was from the faculty.
The two men at the meeting did
dominate, but provided very inter-
esting information, and a prelude
to the attitudes that would have
to be dealt with.

They seemed to feel that it was not
a good idea to go too fast. After
all, the boys program wes developed
over a long period of time, They
spent a lot of time explaining how
the boys program started. They
seemed to feel that since there was
not much money in the budget for
girls sports, that we should wait
until the district could come up
with more. A point was made that
they couldn't get coaches to coach
the girl's teams. It was dis-
covered that coaches to coach sir’
girl's teams are offered $100,
while coaches coaching boy's teams
got $800. Perhaps that is the
reason-.why_ it.is difficult to° find
coaches for the women's teams.

What is needed now is support.
The next meeting will be on Feb.
e8 at Charlotte O'Donnel's,.

People who don't live in Guilder-
land are also welcome. Some ideas
for action were suggested by the
group, including a booster club
for women's sports and attendance
at the gamer.

Anyone who is interested, please
call:

Charlotte O'Donnel
Shreve Gis *-
355-2973

Joan Floyd
612 Maywood Avenue
355-2925

Dorothy Bellick
1903 Evva Drive
355-8704

By Dorothy Bellick

’ aur Me LA | At AS A a ee ee Soar AP SP AP NP 2 Ot SP De Se
Se te hae Late Sate hee aie ton ote Lope ao a Gon one one oa Lone anc ie oe oe oar oa oe ome ome omc oe one foie on

EQUAL RIGHTS ADMENDMENT

The first six weeks of 1974 has
seen the ratification of the-Equal
Rights Amendment in three more
states. This brings the total to
35 - just five states short of the
number needed for adoption of the
HeReAe as the 27th amendment to
the U.S. Constitution.

The ratifications in these :.
States; Maine, Montana, (both re-
versals of earlier rejections with
~out intervening elections), and
Ohio, demonstrate the effective-..-
ness of pro E.R.Ae forces which
now seem to have major foe, Phyllis
Schlafly, on the run. Ms, Schlafly
leader ef the Stop E.R.A. forces,
based in Illinois no longer ex-
presses the same confidence she ¢#.
did last year that her efforts: ©
Will defeat the admendment,

Pat Keefer of Common Cause,
Washington coordinator for organ=
izations involved in the ratifi-
cation drive, predicts Louisiana
and Florida, at a minimum will
ratify this year.

Tracking of E.R.A. progress is
being continued as an intern pro-
ject for theHonorable Constance
Ee Cook. For further information
contact her office,

|

ted;

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Se ee eee ee

. HOT FLASHES AND COLD CHILLS ;

. From a broadsheet handed out at
last year's meeting of:the SUNY
Librarians Associatien -

-FOR MEN ONLY-
Go to Europe as Ship's Librarian
Aboard the S.U.N.Y. Maritime
College Training Ship.

The year before this notice
a woman had applied for this
(non-paying) job but despite
excellent qualifications was
not accepted.

Ever listen to the radio for a
few hours at a stretch? Here is
a sample of what is current-

From the local papers

5

MRS. WILSON TALKS TO PRESS
Knickerbocker News 12-20-73
" I think a wife's prinfipal

function in life is to be a sound
ing board for her husband,"
KEKEKKHHEKHKKHKHKHHK HE KHKKKHEKHKHKHKHKHKHKEX

LIVING CHILDREN DON'T COUNT
IN WAR OF THE ROSES

Knickerbocker News 1-25-74

While thousands of supporters
of a proposed constitutional amend-
ment.that would prohibit abortions
gathered on the steps of the Lavite
Capitol, to proclaim their love
for the unborn, their leaders were
demanding the return of bushels
of their roses that had been dis-
tributed to sick children at a

YOU ARE SIXTEEN, YOU ARE BEAUTIFULIMearby hospital.

~

AND YOU'RE MINE
YOU COME ON LIKE A DREAM, PEACHES

n**

Rid KKK

HEX

THAT'S THE WAY I'VE ALWAYS
HEARD IT SHOULD BE :

WILL YOU MARRY ME?

IT'S TIME FOR US TO RAISE

A FAMILY Oi OUR OWN....

KEKE E KH HE HEHEHE HH KH KHER HEK HH HH &
From the TODAY SHOW 12-24-1973

The New York Priest Vocatiens
Director was discussing the
hew recruitment program designed
by a Madison Avenue PR firm.

In response to criticism that
the Catholic Church had to resort
to Huckster Madison Avenue to
get people for the priesthood,
the Director replied " all we
are trying to do is to take good
MEN:; like we're doing."

Frank McGee then asked the
Director " What about the other
50% of the population? Why not
recruit priests from there? "

The Director answered "We
wouldn't want to speculate on
the future---women as spiritual
leaders? --- we're not there yet,"

HOW TRUE!

From the Bibles Gat. Seg **
.
s

From the Bible- Gal. 4:2

'" There is neither slave nor free
there is neither male nor female;

for you are all one in Christ
Jesus,!!

0 ee

" Those are living children;
they don't COUNT," one furious
woman organizer told: an astonished
secretary in the office of Senator
Jacob K. Javits. "We want the roses
back," |

Washington Children's Hospital
kept the roses, even after an
organizer,Mrs,. Broderick, called
the hospital and repeated her
demand. Kranz, the hospital's 1.3
director of public relations,

Said that the flowers had all
been distributed by the time of
Mrs. Broderick's call.

Kranz said that Mrs, Broderick
told him that it was " a horrible
thing" for Javitts to have done,
' I asked her what she wanted me
to do and she said send them back.
I said I couldn't unless she ex-
pected me to go around to every
floor and take them away from
every child and parent and em-
ploye that had one. It would be
ridiculous,"

Mrs. Broderick tell ide-
The roses were to be a tet :

Visible gesture of people's ¢oncern
for the youngest human beings. Any
way it is good to know that the
people at the children's hospital
were cheered by the roses sent to
Senator Javitts by New York people
who love children No reason he
Should get all the credit Since

he subverted the intention of the
gesture. As I understand his offic
told you they were used in a "cam
paign". I thought you might apprec-
late knowing about the Campaign."

LETTERS TO SPEAKOUT

(The views expressed in this
column are those of the writer and
do not necessarily reflect the
opinions of the Speakout staff.)

Deer Sisters,

"Speakout" sounds like a very
good, informative publication, I
read about it in "The New Womans
Catalog". I'd like to Know if. I
can purchase a single “repre-
sentative” -tyne issue and if so
for how much. Enclosed is a self-
addressed stamped envelope

Susan Ginslick .
Tucson, “rizona

Leer Speakout,

I work pert time as a proof
machine o>erator at a local bank,
In my work 1] take bundles of’
checks held together by rubber
bends through a mechine. AT this
time no effort is meade to re-
cycle the rubber bands. Would you
like them? ..(7 fNieticed in the ..
Feb, issue as an item in your
office suppbies budget.)

Honna Richardson
Clear

Sisters,

Enjoyed the January “nniver-
sery issue, which I saw over some-
one’s snoulder. . tnélosed tis .1i‘
for Jan. and the next 3 issues.

That should give me time to find
w for a year subscription.

Agree wholeheartedly with
letter (Chris Root's?) re wo-
men supporting a leader while she
works full-time and more. iiay-
be this. idea should be given more

serious consideration.

In Sisterhood,
Bonita Sanchz

Dear Friends

Thenk you for staying al ive
for two years- may you celebrate m
many more anniversaries}

Kathy Scholfield Zdeb

(4.

bear sisters,

I have thoughly enjoyed each
issue of Speakout during 1973.
Keep up the good work.

Miriam Klemper

Sisters,

Thank you for the effort it
must teke to put out such a sub-
stantial paver,

If sometime in the future
you do another listing of women's
studies courses, I am teaching
one for seniors at “iskayuna High
School. I will be happy to send
you detailed information. It's
title is "Women and Literature".

Martha Schultz

Dear Sisters,

The Committee for Long Prim
sPrisoner's Rights needs your
support. As women behind bars,
they must suffer not only the
degradation and isolation of
imprisonment, but must do so in
a system designed for the male
offender. As long term innjates,
they have neither the access to
rehabilitative programs and
priviledges granted short term
inmates, nor the knowledge that
the psychological barrenness with
which they contend daily will be
terminated in the near future.

Yet this group of women,
imprisioned at Bedford Hills
Correctional Institution, have
gathered the motivation and cou-
rage to organize md begin work
on projects to influence legis-
lation and correctiona adininiatra=
tion. ‘“lready the prison admini-
stration at Bedford }';lls has
seen the need for such an under-
teking end has granted permission
to the women to meet, organize,
and encourage outside participa‘?
tion. /t this time a position
Duper is being prep red to oute
line the inequities which they
face. Support is being gathered
from regional organizations to
enable the Committee to reach
goal; The promotion of eguit-
able sentencing practices and the
@éstablishment of realistic and

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meaningful correctional programs
for the female offender.

Without such "free world"
Support, the Committee's chances
of success are limited; these wo-
men Simply lack the freedom of
movement necessary to promote
Social reform. if your organ-
ization is interested in partici-
pating in this movement or suppot-
ing this group, or simply dis-
covering what incarceration for
the long term female offender is
all about, please write:

Belinda Rodgers/doordinator
School of Oriminal Justice
Sel eliel chs
1400 ‘Jashington Ave.
ALbany, F.Y. iceee

OR
Virginia Holmes/Chatrperson
Long Term Prisoner's Rights

Committee

247 Harris Road
Bedford Hills, N.Y. 10507

Dear sisters,

This is not particularly a
feminist poem, but it is one that
expresses some part of my experi-
ence, pre-féminism, when I would
ride back and forth on the train
between Philly and Trenton, try-
ing to rum away from myseli.

I'd also like to thank you
all for SPEAKOUT...we need it here,
not only to pass along information
but also as a forum for the varity
of views encompassed by the woman's
movement in the Capital District.
Ye won't (can't) always agree,
but we cannot let that disagree-
ment drag us down. ve need each
other.

Vomanpower,
Andrea Lurie

COMMU TING

"All true wisdom is only found far

from men, out in the great solitude,

and it can be acquired only throgh
suffering."

Eskimo shaman, Ig jugarjuk,
to Rasmussen

15

I see you at the crossing
or three realities where
time is everyday the same
and train mind mazes
hide me,
(o, if I were a shaman, I'd
fly to the moon or ride the
backs of jaguars through the
jungles of my mind.)
Station after station condenses
on the glass
going nowhere but away and back
Im
shedding skins and sharing
knowing looks
with train people.
tt 2s
Bleeding mouths, rearlights at
dusk
on the train or off it doesn't
matter:
obscure metaphor unites us
monentarily.

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Cos o» FOR A Fluke CHOICE which stends for compulsor; ,regnancy as

the only elternative for a woman who iinds’
A,parantly the article "feminist

thet sne has unintentionally become prer=
against abortion" (Speekout, Lecember 1973)

nent. The women's wovemt hes a . reat many

wes not as Gistinctive as it first seemed.

difficulties to overcoue.To a Fublic thet
The Chice,o Tribune recentl; ran a .

still coes not understend its true sieaning
similer article b: a female doctor. The
the proliferation of these pseudo-feminist

extrewel, richt win, peper Christian
crou.s will appear to be a split in the

Crusece weekl; carried this same article
ovement. Nothins coule be further from

end one issue of the "National haz ht to
the truth- and it is extremel; important

Life News" carried two similar stories.
that tuis be announced lowdly and clrarly

Rhecently the Times Union ren an interview
in every possible manner.

with ea mele minister who seid he hed been
Jane Dwyer

an abortion counselor, but "hed to cet
out" luckil; for us)iic praised a ; roup

callec "teinmnists for Life", which he ALSANL wUuw'S PULLTECaL CAUCUS

cescribed es a coalition of women's sroups :
heception To Hoior N.Y. State's Female

opposec to abortion, who ere concerned Legislators

about len usin. women es sex objects and honday, March 25

then tellin: them to ;et abortions(sound anichts of Pythias

familiar :) Some of N.i. Stete's leedin: anti feminist.

Locall: ,"Ri- tt to Life" s,eakers teve lerislators are up for reelection tais .
begun referrins to ".omen's Lib" without <ezre How about some feminist coandidates
their usuel hostility. Now they include this years How about 1OU% Call sour
mention oi women whose husbends are trying local Caucus and si.n up? Albeny 463-077,
to force them to have ebortions. It looks Tro; 283-627 or Schenectady 377-7622
as if we cen now look forwerc to the ifirerivittitit
formation coi a "NY Feminists for Life" ThOL WOiuwi'dS PULiTICAL CALLUS
Obviousl; no trut Feminisis, who by The Tro, Caucus is be;innin; @ wouen's
definition belicve in self determination talent bank. Plecse send them the names

for women, would heve eny pert of anything end back; round of all wouen\ contd-calender)

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Se ee ee ee a

CALENDAR AUD ANNOUNCEMENTS

March 1

women's Cneter Committee. All interested
in workin: are invited. Toni Schiff's
home1621 New Scotland hd. Slin. erlends

erch

Oe ; : u
Lesbiens for Liberation,Gay “oimaunity
house, Hudson Ave. albany. 8:00 p.ii.

merch 5

Lepislatuve Forum "Power Versus Knviron-
mentel Concerns" Cowm. Janes Bbisrane and
Comm. Joseph Swidler.

102.m.e-12).m. Chancellor's Hall, Albany

arch 6

Albany NOW women in i.csistence icovements
in Bolivian minin, communitics. 8 p.m
For more info c:11 )3)-1712

March 6-7
Birch Ba:h will be chairine a Senate

Merch 18
les ians for Liberetion 8:00p.m. Cay Com-
munity House, Hucson Ave., Albany

March 19

Le; islative Forum "The Senior Citizen"
Director hhea Eckel, Evan Pritchard and
herbert srown 10e.m.-129.m. Chancellor's
hall. svervone invited

March 25
Lesbians for Liberation dp.m.
ity House, Hudson Ave. Albmy

Gay Commun

women's Political Caucus "heception to
Honor ..¥. State's Le-islators."!

Opeme Anichts of Pythias Lodze, 728 Medison
Ave. Albany. livervone welcome. Donation
reguested

March 26
Lerislative Forum "Delivery of Health
Care Services" Senator Tark: Lombardi,

Judiciary Comittee Heerine on the Pronos-Léwerd Lindsay, and Dr. Georse Graheu.

ed anti abortion amendments to the fedcrallOe.m, Chencellor's

constitution.-wWrite him your views-anti
feminists have already berun their e+. i
Campai: Ne

March §

DbADLIN FUR APRIL'S Spha.cuT. All it
takes is a »ostcard or phone call to
have your -roupy's events listed.

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werch ll

Lesbiens for Liveretion Gay Communit:
House. Hudson Ave. 6:00 pen.

Merch 12

Lerislative Forum"The New Drug Pro:ram"
Director Anthony Casliostio enc Comn.
Archibeld turrey. Chancellor's Hall

LO e.m.-l2p.m. kveryone invited

rierch ly
ochenectady NUw. 8p.ine Unitarian House,
L2k8eNcndell Ave. Schenectady

Hall, Albany. Evervone
welcome

March28
Schencetedy NOW 8 p.ii.e,Umiterian douse,
12hc wendell Ave. Schencetedy

March 31

ew lork Stete Philnaruonie will present

a concert in conjunction wit: the combined
cnoruses of the Trov musical arts. women's
cnorus) end the troy vocels(men's chorus)
For imore ino. call the nensseleer County
Council for the arts, 273-0552

Troy women's Politicel Caucus cont'd

Suitavle to serve on stcte or locel boards
anc eoimmissions or to run for office.

The Caucus hes unenimcusly pessed a
resolution czllinr for the impeachuent of
President Nixon end will be jgoinin: with
like minded ;rou;s in the eree.

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SPEAKOUT: A FEMINIST NEWSJOURNAL

Volume III Number 4 April 1974

1-2 Good News for Modern Woman
Daycare Protest/Women's Prayer
Women's Center Lives/Women's Studies/Jobs

International Women's Day

2

4

5

6 Albany Medical College Revisited

6-7 The Same Old Story Only Reverse the Sex...
8 Book Review

9 Landmark Supreme Court Case

10 Women's Wages--Carolyn F.R. Dissoway

11-13 Letters to SpeakOut

14 Hot Flashes Nationwide

15 Women's Center

16 Group News

17 Married Women's Financial Subservience--Hollie Hodge
18 Women's Political Caucus Convention

19 Calendar

en eee

WORKERS FOR THIS ISSUE: Christine Root, Laura Rosman, Carol
Anne Ordway, Phoebe Sheres, Margaret
Figliozzi, Rezsin Adams, Ann McNab
Simon, Lois Uttley» Betty Kemmer

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Mail subscriptions to: P.O. Box 6165, Quail Station, Albany,
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"But Jesus turned and said te them, 'Daughters ef Jerusalem,
den't weep fer me, but for yourselves and fer yeur children.ee

Fer if such things as this are dene te me, The Living Tree,
what will they do to yeu (Luke 28,31) 7° ™

RISE UP, O FREED IN CHRIST

Rise up, O men of God}

Prepare to heed yeur call;

Give heart and seul and mind and
strenght

To serve the LORD OF ALL,

Rise up, O women of God}
God's kingdem tarries long;
Bring in the day of humanhood
And end the night of wreng.

Rise up, @ freed in Christ}

The Church for yeu doth wait;

H er strenght unequal to her task
Rise up, and make her great}

Your freedom Christ has wen;

Y eur Frondage now is past.

The new creation usher in}

Rise up, O freed in Christ! Amen
~-=<new words by Christian women

(TunesRise up, O Men ef God

SPEAKOUT wishs to thank the
SISTERHOOD...for PERSONHOOD,
NOW task force on wemen and rele
igion for the above contribution.
Women are urged te get in teuch

with TF caerdinater Joyce Slayten

Mitchell, Wolcott, Verment 25680
(802) 888-4652 fer information
abeut women and religion projects
around the ceuntry. ~-e Readers
in the Albany may contact Chris
Roet for information/ideas
C/O Albany Area New, P.O, 6137
Albany, N.Y. 12206
Now Resolutions
1. The nature of woman includes

her spirituality. We intend te prein a certain way.

mete the acknowledgement and
acceptance of spirituality fer
all wemen.

Re Eliminate sexism in all
religious Institutions,

One way to implememt these
resdlutions is to read and study
scripture .« TRUST IN GOD,
SHE WILL. PROVIDE.

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Good News For Modern Woman

Christian churches are committed
to a message ef Goed News: that Ged
loves all men, wemen and children
equally,

Befere God, all are equal...
and yet Christian churches are
often sexist in their practices.
"Sexism" ike "racism" is a belief
in the inherent biolegical super-
iority ef a particular group and
its right to dominate the inferior
grogpe

The ordination of wemen is a
case in point. Many male clergy
presume to speak fer Ged and say
"Women cannot be ministers :
their place is in the home." Can
our leaders not see that this is
B lasphemy 7 Ged calls all peeple
to minister to the Werd. Wemen
are teld that their place is to
serve on church suppers and in
the Sunday Schools. Women are a
part of the Church but only in
Subservient positionse How can
this be Ged's will ? Equality
is a basic tenet of the Church.

According to Simone de Beauvoir
"Christian idealogy has contributed
to the oppression ef wemen." Over
the years Christian tradition has
been shaped around one sided ine
terpretations and isolated texts
from the Bible in order te create

an idealogy of subjection fer

women,

"Sexism" (like recism, com-

munism, and capitalism) is an
ideology: a set of ideas created
by men in order te shape reality
This particular
ideology was part of the Jewish
Hellenistic cultural context of
saint Paul's writing. Over the
centuries, the religieus instit-
utions of western society have
helped te make it "God's Law!
for many generations ef wemen.
In 1924 a missionary doctor,
Katherine Bushnell published
GOD'S WORD TO WOMEN; a brilliant

Goed News cent.

and devastating indictment of the
flagrant mistranslations from the
original Hebrew. According to
Dr,se Bushnell the Hebrew text in
Genesis 3:16 "Thou art turning

(that is from G
and he will ruldj* gr you " is a
prediction not ummand, Eve
was being warned against giving
her husband too much authority.
She had disebeyed God; and as
leng as she preferred to obey her
husband rather than God, her
life would be filled with un-
happiness.

Despite the fact that the

Bible was translated by men,
a careful reading of the New
Testament will show that Jesus
neither said nor did anything
which indicate that he advocated
treating women as intrinsically
inferior to men. On the contrary

Jesus willingly violated the soce

ial mores of his times te show
that he thought of wemen as
equal children of Ged.

JESUS WAS A FEMINIST3
He purpasely countered his
culture and gave full personhood
te women that they too might
hear the good news of God.

At a téme when Woman's only
value was bearing children, a
weman said to Jesus, "Blessed
is the wemb of your mother,"
but Jesus rejected the child-'
bearing reasen to be and replied
"BLESS HER INSTEAD BECAUSE SHE
HEARS THE WORD OF GOD AND KEEPS
IT(Luke 11:27-28),"

The Bible must be read with
a knowledge of the status of
women in Palestine during the
time of Jesus. Women were not
allowed to study scripture.

One firstecentury rabbi,Eliezer
stated "Rather the words of the
Torah be burned than entrusted to
a womaneee” Many thought that
women need not leave their
households except to go te the
synagogue.

The daily prayer of the Jews
was a threefold Thanksgiving:
Praised be te God that he has not
created me a Gentile; praised be
te God that he has nat created
me a womans; praised be to Ged
that he has not created me an

to thy husband)

ignorant man." But Paul in his
letter to the Galations said
"There is neither Jew ner Greek,
there is neither slave nor free,
there is neither mahe nor female
FOR YOU ARE ALL ONE IN CHRIST
JESUS ="

The fact that the overwhelmingly
negative attitude toward women in
Palestine is not reflected in the
Gospels underscores the great
religious importance Jesus
attached to his positive (er feminé
ist) attitude toward women.

PERSONALISM extended to WOMEN.

Even though it was considered
cbscenets teach scripture to women
Jesus did se . Mereover, women
became disciples of Jesus not only
in the sense of learning from.
Him, but also in the sense of fole
lowing Him in His travels "With
Him went the Twelve, as well as
certain women#=Mark 15.

Jesus did not subscribe to
the KIRCHE,KINDER,KUCHE philosephy.
Jesus quite directly rejected the
stereotype that the preper place
of all women is "in the Home",
during a visit to the house of
Martha and Mary( Luke 10;38).

Martha took the typical woman's
role and was distracted with much
serving. Mary took the supposedly
"male" role:"she sat at the Hard's
feet and listened to his teaching."

Martha apparently thought Mary
was out of place in choosing the ro
role of the "intellectual", for
she complained to Jesus. But
Jesus said" MARY HAS CHOSEN THE
BETTER PART AND IT IS NOT TO BE
TAKEN FROM HER."

Jesus's response was a refusal
to force all women into the
stereotype role for wemen «oe
that of serving man's physical need
needs. He treated Mary as a person
whose highest faculty is the
intellect,the spirit) who was
allowed to set her owm priorities.

From this evidence it should
be clear that Jesus vigorously :
premoted the dignity and equality
of’ women in the midst of a very
male-dominated society. Jesus
was a feminist and a very radical
onée Can his followers be any=
thing less?
weamnne—-De Imitatione Christi?

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DAYCARE PROTEST Fer if you have dene it unto
: | the least of these my brethen
On March 12 two bus loads of women you have done it unto me.
and children mostly from New York City
assembled at the Capitol to protest the Suffer the Little children
need for child care, Last year Nixon to come unto me.
cut the federal child care budget, leav- |
ing the states to fill the gap and thus The right to vote, or equal
far our Governor has not increased the civil rights, may be goed
state's child care budget, demands, but true emancipation
The demonstration.was planned by the begins neither at the polls
Bronx and Brooklyn N.O.W. chapters. nor in:the courts; It begins
The women set up a demonstration child IN WOMAN'S SOUL.
care center in a room that was original- Emma Goldman,1911
ly designed as a gymasium for the
legislators (thus illustrating their CELEBRATION FOR WOMEN
priorities). exe
Public child care is often viewed Everyone has a psem, or song
as a welfare mother's issue when in er verse that speaks to their
fact it affects all working women inner most being. Ceme and
(regardless of income). The major share this joy with one
objective of the protest then was to another on Sunday April 21a( 2pm)
raise the consciousness of the legis®@ We will meet at Ann Borel'ts*
lators to the need for universal child home, 150 Jay Street, Albany
care, Another objective was to lobby and proteed to the park in
for the Senate Bill 4075 (Bellamy, a living chain, We might
Burstein and Krupsak) which allows for ‘even break bread together
tax exemptions for child care, in the spirit of sisterheod.
The protest lasted for about two | Sponsored by the SISTERHOOD
hours, Many legislators came to see for PERSONHOOD, women and
and were impressed and supportive but religion TF of the Albany
the protestors received no definite Area chapter of NOW.
committments, :

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WOMEN'S PRAYER sse3¢

@ God, Creator, we thank you for making us women,
We thank you for women everwhere who love.

H elp us, the women of your world, to feel our oneness
with each other and with our brothers in the human familt.

When we realize that we are oppressed because we are wemen,
and not men, help us by the power of our sustainer,
your Holy Spirit, to free ourselves, without losing our souls
in bitterness. We believe your in the New Testament
that in your name and there is no male and female,
no man-kind or woman-kind, no man=hood or woman=hoods
Simply human-kind, simply your people. Hasten the day of
freedom when there will be no cppressed and no oppressors
and we will all be one, even as you are one. Awoman,

Rena Hansen,1971

. =, @ & -o8 ROS OS @.

Each weman is encouraged to speak personally in conscioussness
raising groups. The material on these pages is an expression of
the feelings and yearnings of Christian women in this second
wave of feminism. SPEAKOUT would also like to hear frem women
of other cultural and religious backgrounds. S@® much beauty
and richnes lies buried IN WOMAN'S SOUL. Rise up o freed in love, 3

THE WOMEN'S CENTER LIVES
-at least in the minds ef the
large number ef interested wemen

who attended a meeting .: held at

in life and drama. It wll ex=
plere women's sensibilities in

the crafts, painting aad sculpte
ure, peetry, literature, music and

Teni Schiff'ts house en Friday even= film and end with a brief study of

ing, March l.

This meeting served te bring
tegether wemen- interested in .
ergarizing a wemen's
Albay area.
ed te handle two ef the mest diffe

ficult and essential business aspectswill be an historical survey

build=
The

ef the wamen'ts center = the
ing and the financing ef it,

first greup will search fer a suite

able building to house the wemen'ts
center, and the second group will
contact peeple and women's ergm=
izations for financial suppert in
the form af pledges and donations.

seme exciting projects fer the
we “men's center were alse discuss=
ed. A women's skills bank . and
freqent cemmunity suppers fer
women were suggestedé The skills
bank is still in the planning
stages, but the cemmunity suppers
are hagpening! The first ene was
held en Friday, March 15, at the
Gay Cemmunity Cmter-em Hudse n
Avenue. It is heped that these
suppers will be held twice a month,

Anyone interested in mere in»
fermation abeut the wemen!s center
er in giving suppert in the ferm
ef time or maney, centact Teni
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The Cellege ef General Studies
and The Weme nts Studies Program
at SUNYA are effering two none
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The courses run for six weeks and
there is an instructional fee of
¢15 per course.

WOMEN'S CULTURE, te be taught
by Jeann Mattera, will be both
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will attempt to determine whether
er not there is such a thing as
woments culture and, if so, wat
it ise The course will cover such

topics as: matriarchal vs. patti-~-
archal myths of creation; anthre#

pelogical studies based on a study
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women; women's cultures such as
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wemem in contemporary cultures
This ceurse will be keld on Menday
evenings from 7:O00peme=S: SOP ome,

center fer the from April 1l1-May 6.
Cemmittees were f@ m=

FEMINIST POLITICAL THOUGHT, te

be taught by Freya Katz=Stoker,
deal-
ing with such writers as Mary Woll
stonecraft, John Stuart Mill, Ha
Harriet Tayler, Margaret Fuller,
Kate Millet, and Jill Johnsten,
It will explere the relatienship
between the insights ef feminist
thought and the concepts of pol»
itical theory.

This course will be held on
Tuesday evenings frem 7;30=-9;00p.m
April g=May 7.

For further infermation, cone
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INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY

International Women's Day, March 8
was celebrated in Albany with a

panel discussion on Women and the
Law, Sponsored by the Women's
International League for Peace

Freedon.

International Women's Day
began on March 8, 1857 when strik-
ing women textile workers marched
on the Lower East Side in New York
City to demand better working
conditions. In 1908 women needle
trade workers declared National
Women's Day in commemoration of
the 1857 warch. They marched .. -~
again to demand better working
conditions and the right to vote.
In Denmark in 1910 Clara Zetkin
leads the International Socialist
Congress in declaring March 8
International Women's Day.

Since that day women all over
the world have been marching to
demand better workin; conditions
and to celebrate this important
day in the history of women.

This year in Albany about 40
people attended a panel discussion
on Women and the Lay. The speakers
were Betty Taiman, chairwoman of
an ad hoc committee to establish
a halfway house for women alcohol-
ics; Joyde Holmes, a neighborhood
worker and a member of Legal Aid
Society; Carol Hausen, a volunteer
with Anchor and Thresholds pro-
grams at Albany County Jail and
Jan O'Kelly, a graduate of
hospitality house.

Betty Taiman discussed her
efforts in trying to establish a
desperacely needed halfway house
for women alcoholics. To ier
knowledge, tue only existing half-
way house in Ne, York is in
Syracuse. She stressed the neces-
sity for a residential type set-='
ting for these women while they're
recovering as the only alternative
at present is the Albany County
Jail.

Joyde Holies, the only black
female courtwatcher, discussed the
problems facing a woman in trouble
with the law. Under the no knock
arrest, many women are taken from
their homes, leaving their child-
ren unattended. Wot only do the

and

children suffer, but the woman also
isolated as no one comes to be

with her in the courtroom or visit
her in jail. Ms. Holmes urged
volunteers to come and give moral
Support to these women in their |"

time of need.

Carol Hausen, a jail volunteer
and counselor, also stressed the
need for help for women in the 5
county jail and in prison. There
are no rehabilitation programs for
women and thus, most of them lead
a lonely, boring existence.
Volunteers are needed to cone and
teach them skills. Ms. Hausen
stressed the need for community-
based prisons, benefitting the
woman and the community.

Jan O'Kelly, a graduate of
hospitality house ,/a community- based
halfway-house, discussed the
advantages of this type of penal
system. She compared herself to
her roommate, who was unfortunate
enough to spend three years in a
State Prison. Unlike her roommate,
Jan does not .ave a criminal record
and doesn't face the discrimination
faced by her roommate, Once you're
Convicted of a felony, you carry
that debt with you the rest of
your life even though it is
Supposedly paid by your prison
Sentence. Wat a waste of good
Womanpower', says Jan, referring to
tue fact that job possibilities are

Severely limted for the woman with
a Criminal record,
A Rare Treat from Television !

' Tell Me Where it Hurts a.
an original 90 minute drama by
Fay Kanin was broadcast jiarch 12
on C38. Tony award-winner Maureen
Stapleton gave a moving per form-
ance as the 46 year old woman who
JO1nS a Consciousness raising
Group and changes her life. The
meaning of sisterhood came across
Clearly as each woman in this CR
group turned to her sisters in the
Sroup for support and understand-
ing in time of personal crisis(hav-
ing a breast removed, leaving her
husband or getting a "job"' after
20 years as a housewife),

5

ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE

REVISITED

for the third vear in a row,
a group from Capital District
Yomen have given an hour talk on
female Sexuality to a class of 2nd
year Amc students takinz a course
in Human Sexuality. Linda Stern-
berg Katz coordinated the talk ior
CD] and introduced the six women
as each took her turn behind the
microphone. Sydney Peirce opened
the session with a factual but ~
humorous talk on sex-stereotypine.
Linda Katz discussed the pressures
ona girl to marry. -,Zlizabeth
Berger talked about childbearing,
and the need for change and under-

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social attitudes toward 7emale
Sexuality, one of the most re‘eal-~
ing things to do.is to examine
Some of the anti-abortion arzue-
ments. One is impressed with how
ridiculous they would sound if app-
lied to males. So let's take our
typical male medical student, who
On a one nizht stand picks up
sonorrhea, and think o* all the
reasons why we shouldn't treat hin.

Our basic theme will be that
those poor innocent bacteria are
just as much a part of God's crea-

standing on th part of the physiciantion as he is, and, as such, who

Christine talked on Rape and -was
loudly hissed when sre stated that
"all men are potential rapists."

Janice Lee's talk on abortion
is included in this issue 07 Speak-
Out. In future issues o. Speakout
we hope to print parts o: the other
speeches especially Diane's per-
Sonal and moving account of how
she feels as a lesbian, a woman,
a mother, but most of all a human
beings,

Two men spoke on how they
felt about "the male role" and how
they enjoyed the male role. One
man talked largely about why he
felt he would rather hire male
accountants: women are not willinz
to work nights, move with the com-
pany, not willing to take responsi-
bility or make decsions. A real
mind blower! It's always z00d to
remind ourselves that the battle
is just vegun. If we travel in
ieminist carcles o: friends, its
all too easy to think that they
represent the real world. A visit
to Albany Medical Center is a zood
way to reawaken one's self to
reality.

how dancerous V.D. is

is he to say they should be destry-
ed? They are God's creatures and
only he has the right to decide if
they should live or die. tell
him that since the male sex has an
inherent respect for life he would
never be able to forctive himself if
he destroyed these innocents.

I:' the man protests that he is
suffereing because of this afflic-
tion we will remind him that it
was his choice to engaze in the
sexual benavior that led to his
contractin: venereal desease, and
that furthermore he did not use a
Condom to prevent in’ection. He
therefore is alone responsible
and must take the responsibility by
suffering with his V.D. fe sugzsest
that since he did notthins to pre-
ent it, he actually had some psyce@
logical need to vet 7.D.

'e express concern that the
treating o° men for ’.D. will lead
to the moral decay of society,
Since once men know they can have
their /.D. treated they will not
have any motivation to control ther
sexual desires and the whole world
will become a brothel. le assure
him, however, that he is basically
& Zood boy who made a mistake, and
reassure him that we have his best
interest at heart. fe tell him ha
dange ours penicillin therapy is a
and show him pictures O° people
who have died from anaphylactic
Shock. 'e do not tell, of course,
ly é Te offer
Qin emotional and financial support
through this most trying time of His
live. And i* that is not enough,

Te

eee eee eee

. there is always welfare. j

Je could of course, take diftf-
erent positions. Ye could be vin-
dictive: if you can not control
vourseli, we will just have to cut
it orf. Or, we could be liberal
and admit that yes, this man is
suffering and should be treated,
but, since the situation definitely
in’ olveds his wife he must have

her permission.

as
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To try to realistically assess
some of the factors leading to un-
wanted pregnancy is an enormous
task, because one is dealinzs witn
a group that is not homogenous.

I realize that there are many situ-
ations and factors upon which [I
will not touch in this discussion.

In the first plane, a troman
who uses contracepti’es does not
always win the gambel, and the odds
against her are much hisher than
generally supposed. A recent Plan-
ned Parenthood study of couples
trying to pre ent pregnancy over
a fie year period showed that
fully one third failed. Such “ail-
ures are the result of impverfect
technology,or the failure of the
superhuman control required to say

"excuse me" when things hot.
wnen abortions first became
lesal, a number o* studies con-
cerning contraceptive usage by
abortion patients were done. It
became apparent that there was a

large group o: patients, who, al-
though willin, to tra el hali-way

across the country to haea pres~
nancy terminated, did nothing to
pre ent it. The usual view o: the
young, unmarried presnant woman is
well expressed in the following
quote from the Psychology of
Adolescence, by ijar‘in Powell;

"Certain exfreames in beha-ior
are oz:ten interpreted as co umon
indicators of disturbance. Pregnan
cv among adolescent girls is one
such pattern."

Amoug his conclusions are
that girls who seek agency support
are lmmature, and gre not zood
cancidates for assuming the mother
role: and that precnanc, is a
symptomatic act o*ten brought about
alisost unconsciously as a neurotic
solution during adolescence."

Again, imagine a female psyco-
logist saying the same thins about

her sexual partner. That carefully
controlled studies have railed to
document that young women who becor
pregnant are any more neurotic than
those who do not should come as a
surprise to no one.

To “ind the explanation one m&
must look at the sociological aspe-
cts of the Si tite Si 6n.. In her re-
cent book, Becomins an Unwed
liother , bradence Rains takes this

approach to the problem. ‘omen,
from early puberty, are faced with
the social expectatton that they
will be asexual beings. Je are
rorced to reconcile sexually re-
pressive standards, which we our-
sel es ha-e internalized, with our
own needs as people. is. Rains
round that the end result of this
dilemma is that youvns women pass
through an obligatory period dur-
ing which they are forced to represe
sent and siew themselves as virgins
while beha-ins otherwise. To actu-
ally plan to ha e sexual intercou-
rse requires a different sel”

lnage than women possess at this
Sta.e. To openly use a contracepst#
tive reveals to one's self and to
one's partner the desire to have
sexual relations. One can avoid
re'ealing this to the male by using
the vill, but the pill is only
obtainable through medical sources
which can only be located by ask-
ing around,i.e. revealing one's
intentions to one's peers.

The woman who uses a contra-
ceptive risks a much more nezati-e
de. inition by males, that of
Promiscuous Fenale, that does the
woman who takes no precautions and
can be defined as an innocent,
nalve girl who does not know enough
to prepare herself, Or’ a goed eirl
who made a mistake; or in other
words ani "emotionally disturbed
elirl who got precnant “or uncon-
Sious reasons" Notice that the
comuon denominator is a good, or
asexual girl - and a denial that
the pres nancy actually results
from a woman's attempts to satisfy
her sexual needs. Ms. Rains found
that those who have classically
dealt with unwed mothers, the nat-
ernity hones and organizations such
as Birthright, rein’orce these con-
ceptions, hence placing the woman
again in the situation where she is
most prone to pregnancy. It seems

that only when women abortion pat-
lents were counseled by -eminist
abortion counsellors in New York
City did they accept their needs
as people and begin using contra-
cepties.

when these attitudes sound so
ridiculous when applied to uen,
why is it that thev still persist?
It is because a woman's sexuality
is last on the list: following
the con ience of men, children,
and even iertilized eczs.

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cu

Janice Lee
BOOK REVIEV:; wary, Anti-lary by
Carol Anne Douglas

Off Our Backs, a Jasuinztoa,

D.C. based tromen's news journal
was "proud and happy" to publish
Carol Anne Douglas’ no el iary,
Anti-iJary, in its entirety in
their holiday issue. such an hon-
or seeus o-er done considering the
merits of the work. The efvect of
reading iis. Douglas' piece is more
like doing six weeks of CR with
hiary Flannery, an Irish Catholic
Girl of 22, who has becone entirely
irustrated with ter life. For
support she rewrites herself as
the original Jirgin ‘ary and we
are exposed to a 20th century
existentialists interpretation oz
the mother of Jesus Christ. It
has its good moments. ary speaks
oi the stagnation of a woman's
lite in Nazareth in a ne-er to
consumated marria;e. r. Douglas
cnows the feminist line tell and
it becomes almost humorous as we
lear liary o” Galilee philosophi-
ging: "Perhaps my sufvering is
be the lack o2 surfering, a nec-
essarily mediare way o% life", or
worrying about how she is hersel:
personally responsible for the
cruci.ictions itsel:. An histori-
cal sense o: the innate suilt all
women feel is gotten when the D3abe
is broucsht to the temple and Simon
in: orms the youn; mother: Your

pierced dy the

a.

tO

oim neart will be
sword". A potent feninist criti-
Cisin this, as it makes felt the :
way women see su: ferin: as a »vossi-
ble energy source for a congealing
life. Ms. Douglas’ feminist cri-

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ticism also comes throvgh in the -
relationship of religion to women
and tireir demeaned state when we
hear Lary challenging her son
Jesus on the concept of loving
God/fnen with “whole heart and
soul".

“rom this catharsis of
identi:yving wityh Vary, she,
mother of Jesus, we move to Mary's
potential suicide which she rejects
being essentially the lot of the
Yircin Mary herself. MThus true
to the hoped ror outcome ofCR,
the story of mary of Nazareth
pecomes an impetus for sotial
cnange and .ary Flannery opts for
blue denim and the formation of
a vornen's re olutionaty group
called the B/NC's (Blessed Virgin
Anti-iary's ex-Catolics?) out to
destroy all religious artwork
wuich is subversi’e to the free-
dot: o” women.

Newly into the feminist
wovenent, I approached the novel
as I did my first CR session;
suspiciously, and it was bene-
fical in the way CR vas - an opp-
ortunity to re-evaluate and assess
and possibly sort out social
discrimination from personal vro
blems which are the lot of us all.
It is here that lary Anti-jary
becomes most flawed. Jirs. Douslad
evaluation of and prospect for
the future is essentially anar-
chistic and if you will - anti-
human.

Possibly I am too negative,
but from the ‘antase point of a
possible new feminist Mary Tlann-
ery problem seems. to lack of
faith(not just religious) rather
than sexist oppression. Though
worth a perusal sor moments of
genuine insight and wit, 1’
Anti-~iiary is flawed by the same
things as tne feminist movement
ltsel?: loss of perspectie.
yoredoi, and lack of re-

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Pain,
cognition are hardly the woman's
lot alone.

Re ‘iew by Marsha

8

LANDMARK CASE
U.S. SUPREME COURT DECISION ON MANDATORY TERMINATION AND RETURN DATES IN PREGNANCY

Ls Fleur v. Cleveland Board of Education (No. 72~777)
Cohen v. Chesterfield County School Board (No. 72-1129)

January 21, 1974

THE FACTS: Je Carol LaFleur and Ann to penalize the pregnant teacher for de-

Flizabeth Nelson, junior high school

ciding to bear a child, overly restric-

teachers in Cleveland, became pregnant and tive maternity leave regulations can con-

wanted to continue teaching until the end
of the school year in 1971. Each was re-
quired to leave in March because of a
Board of Education policy requiring every
teacher to take unpaid maternity leave
beginning five months before the expected
date of birth, and establishing the time
of return to work at the beginning of the
next school semester after the child is
three months old,

Carol Cohen, a teacher in Virginia,
wanted to work until Aptil 1, 1971—-her
baby was due April 28. The schhol board
rejected that request. She then asked to
work until the end of the first semester,
January 21, 1971,

her request again. Its policy was that

pregnant teachers must leave work at least

four months before the expected due date.
Date of return to work was decided by a
written note from her doctor indicating

that she was physically fit for employment

THE ISSUE: This case was brought to
the Supreme Court under the Due Process
clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the
U.S. Constitution. ( Title Vit of the
Civil Rights Act cf 1964 is not involved
in this decision.) The question is
whether LaFleur and Cohen were deprived
of their Constitutional rights by manda-
tory termination dates for pregnancy
leave and by a mandatory requirement, in
the LaFleur case, that the child be three
months old before the mother can return
to work,

The school boards argued that manda-
tory leave was necessary for administra-—

tive efficiency, as well as te pretect the

safety and health of the teacher and her
unborn child,

THE DECISION: The Supreme Court
woted 7-2 that mandatory dates for mater-

nity leave and return are unconstitutienal

a ee ee

The school boare denied

stitute a heavy burden on the exercise

of these protected freedoms,? the Court
says. (2) Continuity of teachers in the

Classroem——administrative efficiency--_

is not served by the mandatory termina-

tion rules. The Court comments, "....

if continuity were the only goal, it seems
ironic that the Chesterfield County rule
forced Mrs. Cohen to leave work in mid-

. December 1970 rather than at the end of
the semester in January, as she requested,"
(3) It is undoubtedly necessary to keep
physically unfit teachers cut of the
classroom, but the mandatory rules "swee
too broadly." The Court says, "there is
no individualized determination by the
teacher's doctor—-or the school board's—-
as to any particular teacher's ability to
continue at her job. The rules contain
an irrebuttable presumption of physical
incompetency, and that presumption applies
~even when the medical evidence as to an
individual woman's physizal status might
be wholly to the contrary." Summing up
what the school boards may and may not
regulate, the Court says it's alright to
require a medical certificate or supple-
mental physical examination to determine
a teacher's fitness to work on an in-
dividualized basis...it's alright to say
a teacher may not return until the be-
ginning of the next semester after child-
birth, thereby ensuring continuity of
teachers in the classroom during a given
Semester, It's not alright to set a
mandatory date three months after child-
birth before the teacher may even be con-
sidered for return to work; she may be
physically fit before that time, and able
to teach if the next semester begins be-
fore the child is three months old. It's
not alright to make a blanket presumption

-that all teachers are physically unfit at
the end of the Ath or 5th month of preg-
nancy, but the Court might allow for a
mandatory termination at a firm date
"later in pregnancy" on the ground that

it might rationally serve the need for
administrative efficiency—-",

WOMAN'S

by

WAGES

Carolyn F. Re Dissosway

Charlie Parkhurst was dead, For
thirty years Charlie had lived and worked
in the west. At first driving stages on
trails from San Francisco. Charlie had
been the victim of highwaymen at least
twice. The first time Charlie had told
the robbers "I'll break even with you,"
the next time there was a gunfight and
Charlie mortally wounded the infamous
Sugarfoot. Charlie had a reputation for
dexterous handling of the stages and
horses, that meant goed pay. |

When the railroads began to cut into
the prefits frem stagedriving Charlie
Switched to lumbering, and got the top
pay. Rheumatism led Charlie to give up
lumbering and take to ranching. Again
Charlie showed unusual skills and made a
good living. When Charlie died in Jan-
uary of 1880 "his" friends discovered
that Charlie was a woman. The disguise
had worked for thirty years.

In February of 1882 in the Bowery
section ef New York City, Frances De Nyse
or Jennie Westbrook, was arrested and
convicted and sentenced to six months in
the workhouse. She had been dressed in
men's clothing, the charge against her
was that she had been practicing the
grossest immorality, that she had some
pamphlets in her possession which were
incriminating. The arresting officer
could not positively identify the papers
as having been hers. On writs of habeas
corpus and certiori her case was heard
by Justice Donahue. It was not illegal
for a woman to wear pants in public unless
she created a disturbance by doing so.

Ms. Westbrook said she could find
work more easily in men's attire,

In 1910 Florence Kelley reported
that fifty-six retail stores were paying
experienced saleswomen over eighteen years
_ of age six dollars per week. This was
progress, but, Ms. Kelley continued, a
study made by Ms. Ainsley's committee had
found that eight dollars a week were
needed to maintain a woman in health and
efficiency. Not all women had a father,
husband, brother, or lover to supplement
low wages. The result of low wages was
increased costs of maintaining hospitals
for tuberculoses patients and for the in-
sane and melancholy.

The myth that women need less than
men, that women have men, or aught to
have men who provide for them persists.
The misfortune is that so many women
believe in it. That so few women really
believe a woman does do work as well as
and a much as a man assigned to the same
job.

Women are encouraged to work when
there is a scarcity of males to do a job.
The large numbers. of women who held ad-
ministrative positions in libraries in
1950 (SpeakOut, Feb. 1974) may not re-
flect past success of those women com-
pared to more recent reverses, The data
may represent those women who were able
to get ahead during the Second World War
and immediate post-war era, when there
was a scarcity of trained men to take
jebs.. The decline in numbers may reflect
the preferences shown to veterans since
the war. This is not intended as a
criticism of the GI Bill, It is a state-
ment of facts. The Bill was intended to
show appreciation for the sacrifices made
by service men and women, to compensate
for the time they lost to their careers
during their time of service. In prac-
tice it has resulted in favoritism to
men, in education and employment.

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( The views in this cslumn de
not necessarily reflect the

opiniens ef the SPEAKOUT staff.)

Dear sisters,

The January issue is the first
one I've seen; I really liked it,
Thanks far being in Albany. I'm
just beginning te find myself
as an independent woman, a real

person. I need all the help
I can get. Wish I ceuld Send
mere money. Be well,

Cindy

Dear Cindy,

Yeur letter was like a Vale
entine. We hope that you will
find suppert among your feminist
friends. Capital District Women
NOW and other lecal greups are
made up ef women just like yeur-
self and always welceme new
sisters.

In Sisterhood, Chris Root
for all SPEAKOUT staff

Memorandum

This is the only issue we
Still have of those you listed
missing from your back files -
maybe semeene took them to read
them}

New Yerk State

Dept. of Civil Service Library

If anyene wants to read
SPEAKOUT se eagerly that they
would take it from the library
piease write to us and we will
send a free copy.

We hope that there is né one
who wants a subscription but
has not written because they can't
afford one,

veer pre ae. in the Albany area

please send SPEAKOUT to semeone
you think will benefit. Keep

up your good work.
Sincerely, Barbara Hastie

Dear SPEAKOUT,

In the preparation of articles

en rape and the proposed Women's
center in Albany, yeur magazine
has been an invaluable source of
information.

Mary Low ‘Simms;: TimessRecerd

a —————— ee

Dear SPEAKOUT,

The fellowing is a cepy of a
letter which I am sending to
the editor of the QUILL and to
the FACULTY NEWSLETTER at Russell
sage College.

" SPEAKOUT is a monthly fem-
inist journal published by a
group ef capital district wemen
It is a written and factual mag=
azine which contains information
about the women's movement in
this area, natienally and inter~
nationally, Recent issues con-
tained news about legislation,
women's studies courses (include
ing Russell Sagae@allege's )

a review ef recently published
Study " the Situation of Wemen
in the United Natiens" etc.

I was delighted whe I1 was
given a copy and remarked te
this person " the women at RSC
should know about this", 1 was
shocked to learn that Ms, Vaughn
had visited the campus to have
the journal made available in the
bookstore. She reported that the
" the male manager refused to
carry SPEAKOUT and was not civil
or palite about the refusal,"
Incidently, I have met Ms. Vaughn
and she ig a charming and grac-
ieus woman,

I have neticed that there is a
wide selection of magazines in the
bookstore: Sage women have access
to PLAYGIRL, full ef photes
ef nude men,penises prominately
displayed, COSMOPOLITAN, packed
with articles about hew to attract
@ man with your body and your
wiles and a variety of homemaking
magazines. Why net SPEAKOUT
which gave me a sense of pride
in myself as a woman and a feeling
ef excitement about the movement
te help all women beceme full
human beings.

Flerence Hardesty, R.N.,PHD
Asseciate Professor of Nursing
Russell Sage College

Sisters in the city of TRoY
may purchase SPEAKOUT at the
Book Bazaar , 264 River Street
in downtewn Troy,

Perhaps someday we will also
be allowed in the Sage cellege
bookstore,

lt.

EEE

Dear Speakout:

I became acquainted with your magi-
zine through my supervisor, Dolores
Barracano Schmidt, EO Coordinator at
SUNYA who is a subscriber to your maga-
zine and an active member of the “omen's
Rights movement.

In reading your mag: zine, I noticed
that you stated "black feminists formed
an org:nization." Yea! At last Black
Feminists have been recognized in the
Albany arew. At any rate, 1 thought I

would write and give you wiat little inforBleck Feminists resent these charges and

mation I have about the National Black
Feminist Organization as I am a merber
(and quite new at this). I hope the fol.
lowing will be of interest to you and
your readers.

The National Black feminist Organize-
tion is a new feminist organization.
Orgenized in August of 1973, its member-
ship (of over 1000) consists of women
of African descent (Puerto Rican Black,
Orient: 1 Black, etc.) which concern: it~
self with the specific needs of block
women: child care, minimum wages,abort-
ion reform and drug addiction listed as
their priority items of concern at this
point. :

Our first conference was held December
1-3, 1°73 in New York City. It was
estimatec that over 300 Black “Women from
California to Massachusetts
ed, and we received press coverzge from
the New York Times, as well as Newsweek
and Jet Magezine,

Highlights of this three dey confer-
ence were keynote addresses from
woman Shirley Chisolm and florence

Kennedy. Policy proposals ranging from

seeking Government money for the establishpy white r

ment of drug progrems run by Black
feminists for the exclusive treztuent of
Black women-addicts to mounting a camp-
eigen of "box-office womenecotts" of
recist, sexist films are being prepared.

I hope the above informetion end th: t
att»ched will be used by you end printed
in your next issue of SPEAKOUT.

Should you desire any additional

information, I can be reached et 457-8590.

Sincerely yours,
Ms. Ronnie Dyson |

|Z.

thet is both racist end sexist.

Were representyith the mal
woman,

Congress-pysbands.

“STATE ENT OF NATIONAL BLACK FEMINIST

ORGANIZATION

The. distorted. male-dominated media

image of the ‘lomen's Liberation Movement
has clouded the vital and revolutionary
importance of the movement to Third world
women, especially Black women. The
property of so called "white middle class"
women and only Bleck women seem involved
inthe. movement have been seen as "Sel-
ling out," "dividing the race", and an
assortment of nonsensical epithets.

are therefore establishing THi: NATION. L
BLick Fis ThIST O:GAnhIZsTIO“k, in order to
Hddress ourselves to the particular and
specific needs of the larger, but almost
cast «side half of the Black race in
Amerikka, the Black Woman.

Black women have sufferec cruelly in
this society from living the phenomenon
of being Black and female, in a country
There

has been very lit. le reel examination of
the damage it has caused on the lives and
in the hinds of black women. Because we
live in a patriarchy, we have allowed a
premium to be placed on Black male suffer-
ing. No one of us would minimize the pain
or hardship or the cruel and inhumane
trertivent experienced by Black men. But
history, past or present, rarely deals
icious abuse put upon the Black
We were seen as breeders by the
Masters; despised «nd historically poler-
ized fron/by the laster's wife; end looked
upon as castraters by our lovers and

The Bleck woman hes had to be
Strong, yet we are persecuted for having
Sulvived. We have been called "matriarchs
acists, and Black nationalists,
we have virtu lly no positive self-images
to vslidate our existence. Black women
want to be proud and dignified and free
from ell those false definitions of
besuty and womanhood thet are unrealistic
and unnaturel, lie, not white men or

Bl:ck men, must define our own self-image
as Black wonen and not fell into the iis-
take of being pleced upon the pedestal--
which is even being rejected by white
women. It has been hard for Bleck women
to emerge from the myri:d of distortéd
images that have portrayed ucs as grinning
Beulehs, castrating Sapphires and pancake
box Jemimahs, Ar Black Feminists we
realized the need to establish ourselves
as an independent Black Feminists

org nization. Our above ground presence

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will lend enormous credibility to the
current Women's Liberation Movement,
which unfortunately is not seen as the
serious political «nd economic revolut-
ionary force that it is. We also will
strengthen the current efforts of the
Black Liberation struggle in this country
by encouraging ell of the talents and
creativities of Black women to emerge,
strong and berutiful, no’ to feel guilty
or devisive, end essume positions of
leadership and honor in the Black
community. We will encourage the Black
community to stop falling into the trep
of the white male Left, utilizing women
only in terms of domestic or servile
needs. ‘We will remind the Bleck
Liberation lovaneni thet there con't be
liberation for half « race. We must
together, as a people, work to eliminate
racism from without the Black community
which is trying to destroy us as an
entire people, but we must remember that
sexism is vucstroyins ahd ‘crippling us
from within,

Dear Speakout:

Thanks for reprinting the torr-
ific news story about Senator vas°:
Javitts and tic auti-abortion
roses; tnat event revealcd so
mucno avout wao is really "sro-
lifei"

Your readers
know ho. they can
my puvlication, |.
Grapuy, wiudich sea7ea to°de a DOp=
WlaYr item at the recent Albany Lav
scuool confereiuce, and was first

may like to

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Even before I
card I nad decided
1974. Speakout.

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes I
enjoyed reading Speakout iore
than I can say.

Tne suort story in your.
latest prov.,it me to tears t
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HARVARD BANS A DISCRIMINATORY LAW FIRM FROM THE CAMPUS. When a recruit
-er frem Powers and Hall, a Boston law firm, allegedly told two female
law students that the firm wuld "notbe inclined" to hire women, the
Students filed complaints with the Massachusetts Commissien Against
Discrimination and the Harvard Law School Committee on Placement. The
firm currently refuses to answer queries from Harvard because the MCAP
investigation is not finished. Asa result, the scheol's placement
committee has decided the firm may not use Harvard's placement facile-

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WOMEN COLLEGE GRADUATES MAY GET "% PERCENT AS MANY JOBS AS MEN IN 1974
due to a sudden "upsurge" in corporate plans te hire women, according
te a survey dene by Northwestern University at a recent conference.

Of the 196 companies attending the conference, 140 reported that they
plan te hire 54 percent mere female college graduates in 1974. Women
with degrees in engineering and accounting will be most in demand.
Liberal arts students will fare best if they have taken business=relat

~ed courses, economics, math, science, and/or work=study programs in
business-related fields, -

THE AT&T AGREEMENT HELPS MEN AND HURTS WOMEN’, ACCORDING TO ITS CRITICS
The EEOC plans te look into the charge. Seme 4,000 men have taken .’.
jobs as telephene. operaters as a result’of last year's. agreement, but
enly about 1,400 wemen have meved into traditionally "male" jebs with
the phone cempany. Of particular concern is AT&T's failure to move
women into well-paid "outside craft" jebs where women now fill only 3
te 6 percent of job slots, according to EEOC figures. AT&T Personnel
Manager Dan Davis agrees the company is not meeting its goals to women
in outside crafts. He says"women don't like to get their hands dirtye
and many people see wemen as "inside workers," Further, he says women

take outside jobs and then quit, qite often because they didn't under-
stand the nature of the work or overlooked the werking cenditiens, ~

The situation will be examined nationwide by a special EEOC committee.

FIRMS CONTRACTING WITH MONTGOMERY COUNTY ,MD WILL LOSE THEIR CONTRACTS
IF THEY DISCRIMINATE. The Gounty Council has passed legisla tion eute

lawing sex discrimination in employment by county government contract}
Corse Sanctiens include loss of present centracts and, in an extreme
case, the possibility that a contractor will be declared ineligible
for contracts in the future. How about it Albany County Legislators?

CLERICAL WORKERS HAVE ORGANIZED IN. NEWCYORK CLTY:.t6" push for employ=
ment rights. Called "Women Office Workers" (WOW), the group has form=

ed as a result of a fall conference in New Yerk City, attended by some
450 peeple. WOW members have agreed on five main areas of efforte
erganizing, research, job consciousness-raising, a newsletter, ad

outreach for members. The group can be contacted at P.O, Bex 439,
Pla netarium Station, New York, N.Y. 1024,

WHEN TWO EMPLOYEES GET MARRIED, IT'S DISCRIMINATORY TO TERMINATE THE
WOMAN'S EMPLOYMENT, according to the EEOC, If the company does not

want to keep a husband-=wife team on the same payroll, the spouses
should decide which one will be terminated. If they can't ceme to a
decision, the EEOC has agreed that the employer may make a policy <7

decision to terminate the spouse with less job seniority. (EEOC decis=
ion 70453)¢

WOMEN IN RESEARCH HAVE ORGANIZED in Chicago to share special skills

and resources related te research, The majer purpyese of the group is
te alleviate the iselation of the weman in higher education, iy

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GROUP NEWS

LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS

In a newly-comple ted study of methods
of financing political campaigns, local
Leagues throughout the country agreed that
an adequate system of campaign finencing
should combine public funds and private
contributions. Members felt that such a
system should encourase small contribution
from the general public, using tex credits
and deductions...ePublic funds would be
financed throush an income tax check-off
with supplemental appropriations from
government. Xx..elhe monitoring and enfor-
cement of campaign financing law should be
vested in an independent body which is
adequately staffed and flunded..e A good
campaipn financing system should have as i
its roads, the Leasue believes, the
assurance of the public's rirht to know, +
the deterrence of corruption and undue |
influence, and the fostering of conditions
that permit candidates to compete more
fairly for public office...

The Stete Lerislature must be informed
that citizens want such reform now! Join

with the League of women Voters as we
let our 4ssemblymen end State Senetors
know that meaningful campaigh financing
law reform, coupled with adequate enforce.
ment, woulc be a major step toward imper-
ative increased citizen confidence in
government and politics.

r.G. Box 1502

Albeny, N.Y. 12201

EQeboReQebee rn eebice Bec Recebnbe
SUNYA wOMBNNS BIBLKATION

SUNYA now has a women's Center!
It is located at Stete quad, Cooper Hall
100
The Center is now open Monday, Wednesday,
and Friday from 2-lp.m. H ours will be
increased as more staffers are located.
Please come by.

Gk buSihetnReReheRabae
WOMEN'S ChNTLK

A site for the center has not been
located, but we mu t begin collecting
funds immediatel,. lease send a checkto:

Free Chbice of Potsdam has esteblish-
ed a revolving fund to priwide loads
for women needing an abortions. The
Coalition would like to know if Capital
“istrict “omen are interested in estab-
lishing such a fund for this area.

idward Golden, founder of hight to Life
had announced that he will be running
against Congressman Varlton King this
November.The Coalition will be wrking
on this campairn.

Birch Bayh of the Senate Judiciary ©
Committee recently held hearings on the
proposed cecnstitutional amendments to
prohibit abortions."The hearings were
devoted to airing religious views on
abortion...»There will be subsequent hear-
inss that po into medical and legal ques-
tions surrounding the rights, if any,

Of a fetusssese

The political as well as moral difficulty
faced by legislators was dramaticed by
the appearance of four “omen Catholic
cardinals. 1t was the first time iv.£0 ur
cardinals had testified together Before a
congressional body...The cardinals told
the subcommittee Gongress must pass a
law dictating that an unborn fetus cann-
not be sacrificed to save the life of a
breathing person.they insisted that abor-
tion must be prohibited under any cond-
dibion, even if it is necessary to save
the life of the mother.

"the Catholic Church decided in 1869 t
that the embryo is ensouled at the moment
of conception and therefore abortion is
murder...) The cardinals saw no contra -
diction in their position that it is
wrong to prevent a birth but perfectly
all right to condemn to death a living
person" Marianne Means limes Union 3/1h/7h

Coalition “or a Free Choice
348 Hudson Avenue
Albany, N.Y. 12210
Rebrbat abbas Rodecibe
WOMEN'S AMERTCAN ORT
Garage Sale

May 5
if you can donate any goods or work

hakinenGootzcitylOuStoninyton,Veorhecsvi pleade call Bayla Wilcove at 82-3552

vidle

MARRIED WOMEN'S FINANCIAL SUBSERVIENCE. .
7 Hellie Hedge

As you read and think about this,
please remember —- "That's the way we've
always done it," has no place in the
197C's, regardless of age bracket. These
are the years of expanded education, en-
lightenment and awareness fer both women

and men, The "lord and master-head of another and here also, each partner should
the heuse" routine has to be eliminated, have an equal bank account in their own

if marriage is to survive with any degree name, to save or de with as they please.

of happiness. The term "support" (in- They too retain their individuality and
dicates financial dependence ) also has to independence, and although the weman may
be eliminated, This word is a misnomer never work outside the home, she will never

and should have no place in marriage. be financially subservient and the man will
When a couple marries, they simply sub never be unduly burdened.

stitute ene career for anether. Whether Threugh education, the double stand-
a@ married woman warks in the home or eut- ard must be roeted out. It has to be a

side the heme, she rightfully should be = itv eo. mM ‘$
* . wo-way street." What is goed for one
financially independent. She should have is good for the ether, and if couples

her own bank account in her own name, CARE eneugh and allow each partner to
ee asked as te hew she grow without being hampered, marriage can
spenas 1b. be very rewarding.

if the wife and husband both work What do we do about the Intolerable
eutside the home, all domestic cheres Marriages? There is nothing unusual or

should be shared and household expenses are about them, and couples should never

shculd he shared alsa, in preportion te hesitate to admit them, either to them-

the wages each earns. A joint bank ac-  soives or their partners, More times than

count is acceptable fer these expenses, r+ h .
and the partners should alternate in the por’yrer veect tre Oe ee

budget keeping. This gives each a working; the h 69-9 h
knawledge of the account and doesn't bur- — eng — aati ne ome ts as

den one with all the responsibility. In .
re ‘ : walk away from an intolerable marriage?
addition to this, each partner sheuld She sags - she is trapped, and so ats

have an equal bank account in their own  jjods aleng in misery and frustration.

name. No matter how small the amount to This is what Married Wemen's Financial

start —- Do Il!.. These amounts should be giscervience is all about. All women and
increased as the earning power «f each en twake up" — it ceuld be Later than

partner advances. RESULT: Each partner yoy think, IT HAS HAPPENED TO OTHERS —

retains their individuality and indep- 7 yappENED TO ME — IT GOULD HAPPEN TO YOU.
encence, while sharing all the satisfac- Couples should plan ahead Tt is

tions, rewards and pleasures of marriage. petter to have financial independence and
It is more like "going steady" than living,9t need it, than to need it ane not have

in an "institution", The man will never . ,

Ban - © : it. No one knows what life has in store
be unduly burdened, neither will the wo- fo, them. We can all make mistakes, but
ma}. SNS be financially subservient. If 1, weman or man should pay for those mis-
you are geing to bicker over money, you takes fer the rest of their lives, Each

chose the wrong partner, and that's just ef us is entitled to our ow share of
your first mistake. You can discuss happiness.

without arguing. You can alse disagree HAPPY MARRIAGES BREAK ALL THE RULES
without being disagreeable.

Let's lock at the other side ef the INTOLERABLE MARRTACES BREAK ATI. THE
coin, which primarily affects ceuples in ‘TIES
their middle and older years, where the
woman is rearing or has completed rearing
a family and has always worked inside the
home. The following would apply, whether

there were children involved or not. A
certain portion of the man's earnings
should go into a jeint bank account for
household expenses and the budget kept
alternately by both partners, Here again,
couples have substituted one career for

Quotes from the February State
Wonen&Ss Political Caucus
Convention

MH Hoo ee ESE IE TE IE Se So 55 SESE SESE Se Ge SEE SER EE

“Wo've seem that bnving the vete
didn*t do it for use"=-State
Senator Mary Anno Krupaak

"Wo now know it was Nixom who
caused the Democrats to lose,
“Mot weriete” -— Bella Abzaug

"Sally Quinn has had her last
cnamee to be a feninist,"—-
member of Manhnttan WPC

“Pucrto Rican and black wonen
are sophisticated, tooe You
aon*t have to talk to me in
twoesvllable words."==— black
delegate fron Mamhattan

"Women politicians are ata creat

advantace this yeargwe look ana
scund differcnte Women politi-

cians are less pretentious, more

direct and more conpassionatc,"
-“- Ronnie Eldridee

"Win With Women We Mes Slogan of
nationwide campaign to put
worien in office

"Don*t let them mke a lady out
of youe"=— fiiriam Friedlander

"There are more black wonen than
Eleanor Holmes Norton," ==
Carolin Reed, NYC

"We have a right to Speak Out."
“= tiary Anne Krupsak
Ub tb He SE te He Sede GE EE de ec oe WoW HS Te eS

Wonen Mayor’s Colunn (!)

On April 1, Beatrice Denison
celebrates her first anniversary
of taking office as mayor of

Galway, NeYe (pope 207, in
Saratoga County).

Monticcllo, NeYe, has a noe
worn maycr!}

Congratulations to both those
communities and their mayors!

\%

Analysis

"Upstate women have keen
locked out of this conventions”
stated Albany*s Jane Small San-
ford in the last few moments of
February's NeYe State Women’s
Political Caucus Convention in
White Plains, Westchester’s
county Seate

Mse Sanférddwas commenting on
the geographical location of the
convention <- 140 miles from
Albany -- in the middle of tho
fuel crisis. For women fron
Buffalo and other distant cities,
attendance was vittually inpos~
Sible if money for plane fare
was lac!inte

At voting time on Sunday morn-
ing, only 7 delegates from coun=
ties north of Westches ster were
presont (of a total 44 voting).
Manhattan (30 minutes fron White
Plains) had 16 votese Not a
Single officer elected during
the session was from upstates

At the insistence of the up-=
Staterss an amendment to the
caucus*®s ty-laws was passedy
Stipulating that the convention
Site hence Fo rth be rotated a=
mong state regionse Newly-~elect—
ed state chairwoman Ross Grahan
of Manhattan WPC and the Albany
office of State Senator Manfred
@hrenstein, promised "to reverse
this down-stite trend within a
few nonthse" Upstate women will
be awaiting the fulfillnent of
this pledge. --Lois Je Uttlcy

Billie Jean Isbell's class at
SUNYA on Ethnography of Women
has been running the gamut fron
a quest-lecture cn wonen in the
Bolivian resistance to a discus-
Sion of child care in O6ninae

Remaining sessions (Wednesdays
from & 7:00-9:30 P.Me) are Apre
3, the dialectics of powers Apre
17, sexual symbols (8 peme, fol-=-
lowing exam); Apre 24, Sexual
Identity -- @n being a womans
May 1, panel discussions May &,
toward sex equality -- a look

at alternativese
FES HEH SS GE ESE HE SEE IE HE SEE HE EE HE EE EH EE

APRIL .CALSNDAR Ur LVENTS

April i,

April 15

Lesbieans for Liberation All women welcome Tesbieans for Liberation: weekly meeting
Gay Community House, 332 Hudson Ave.Albanyg pem. Gay Community House, 332 Hudson

April 2

Legislative Forum: kducation. Speaker
will be hegent Theodore Black. kveryone
Welcome. lOasme-L2p.m.Chancellor's Hall

B ook heview:"The heal Lece by Stephen
Birmingham. harmanus Bileecker Library.
12 noon. Bring your lunch

April 2-4

League of women Voters: Unit lieetings on
the Judicial System. tor times and
locations +. call 4h9-76)9 or 39-332

April 5

Women's Center:Those interested in a
Capitel Listrict women's Center are
invited to a women's feast-meeting
7pemeThe Free School, ulm. St. Albany
Bring food for the dinner

April 8
Lesbians for Liberation. 8pm. Gay
ity House, 332 Hudson Ave. Albany

Troy N.U.W.sPoster party and rap session
85.m. Intercultural Center hussell Sage.

April 9
Legislative Forum: Closing Meeting and
luncheon. For more info. call 162-0891

Book keview:"Gold of the Gods"by Van
Daniken. Harmanus Bleecker Library
Noon. Brine vour lune.

St. hose film Series: 3& 8 p.me"Cat
Ballou" St. Joseph's suditorium.

april 12

SFLAKOUL LLADLINE.Pleese send your artic-

les, announcements, etc so they will
reach us by the 12th.

April 1-21

Volunteer week. How does volunteerism
affect the status of women? ‘:

April is
Income Taxes due.
"No Taxation without hepresentation"

Ave. Albany. All women welcome

April 16
Noon Book heview. "Burr"by Gore Vidal.
Harmanus Bleecker Library. Bring lunch

4pril 17

SPLAKOUT iminTiNG:7:30 pem. Home of Betty
Kemmer,17B Old Hickory Lr. Apt 1A(loudon
Arms Apts}Call 136-8626 for directions.
Please Come.we really need more help

April 18

troy NOw: Kae victims will be discussing
their experiences.This meeting will be
limited to women.

April 21

Albany NOw: Women & Kkeligion Task force
wiil lead a celebrate as women Service in
washington Fark. Meet at Ann Borel's home
(150 Jay 4463-5195) then walk to park. Bring
poems, songs,et. to share as we all try

to get in touth with our spirituality.

Commun. Pyease call 434-1712 if you can play

guitar. 2 PeMe

April 23e& April 26

First Unitarian Church ‘ilm Series:will
we Survive Future Shock?" ‘three films
followed by a discussion Spm Albany

April 25
Troy Nuw:Call 355-670) for more information

Schenectady NOwsPanel discussion on hape.
Speakers will include Hadbey Mciinley, w
William Brown of School of Criminal
Justice SUNYA and Troy's rolice Commiss®
ioner .[t re cepccially in,.crfant that
we make the Commissioner understand the
actual situation and our feelin:s about
it. Please BL ThERE.8pmpTemple Beth El,
411 Hoosick St., Troy, N.Y.

April 30 & May 4

Unitarian Church Film Series:"kxploring
the Human Potential" Three tilms fadlawed
by a discussion. 8p.m. Unitarian Ch.Albay

April 29
Lesbians for Liberation 8pm Gay Community
House, 332 Hudson Ave. Albany

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SBEAKOUT: A FEMINIST JOURNAL

Volume III Nimber V ) = - May 1974
PAGE | * Aa :
3. National Women's Poetry Festival by Dorothy J, Holt
4. Women's Coalition Meets With Governor Wilson

: = by Judith Merrill
5 ' Albany Law Women's Caucus ey S. Kohout

eA Employment Discrimination by Joan 5. Kohout
& Coalition Lobbies in Albany by Judith Merrill ne
T Book Review: Work In America reviewed by Georgia Gray...
8 Democracy aa. Virginia - For Men Only

9-10 Bills Concerning Women acted upon by the New York State
Legislature in the 1974 session,

11-14 Short Story: Montreal, The Moon, and My Lai it
15 Letters to SPEAKOUT Eee > by Ellen Perreault

16 American Parade by Cheryl Shenkle .
Children of the Broken Dream

a ig RAPR a poem by Adrienne Rich
18 Group. News

19 Calendar of Events

WORKERS FOR THIS ISSUE: Betty Kemmer, Cheryl Shenkle,
Susan Lasher; Margaret Figlozzi,
laura Rosman, Rezsin Adams,

Georgia Gray

COVER DESIGN by Betty Kemmer

From: "Letter to Andrea" by Alta
BURN THIS AND MEMORIZE YOURSELF
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NATIONAL WOMEN'S POETRY FESTIVAL °
Last month, the first Nationa
Women's Poetry Festival took
place at the University of
Massachusetts at Amherst. It was
in progress from March 11th to
March 16th and consisted of
readings and workshops with the
guest poets. My friends and I
were fortunate enough to be able
to attend a part of it.
Adrienne Rich opened the
festival with a poem from The
Will to Change entitled "I Dream
I'm The Death of Orpheus", a poem
about a women who is confident
and aware, but "whose powers are
severely limited" because of .°-_.
society's discrimination of her--
&@ poem speculating unon the ;
prospect of unfulfilled potential
Ms. Rich also read some unpub-
lished poems, Among them was °
"From An Old House in America",
rich in imagery end sentiment.
She referred to the world as ©
"savagely fathered and unmothered!)
and rewealed her emotional growth
in confiding that she "cannot lie
with a man who fears her power,"
It wes appropriate thet she
should open the festival. She is
a seasoned woman, aware of pain,
who generates energy mereby by
her presence, ‘The last line she
read to us was: "Any woman's
death diminishes me" and the
emotional response was so electri-
fying that she shed teers at her
standing ovation. Her genuine |
affection and understanding of her
audience of young poets and in-—
terested observers wes ewident at
the workshop the following day.
She and Robin Morgan, the second
poet to read, were sources of
inspiration and advice to the
sisters. Ms. Morgan, complete - °
with incredible stage presence
and a witty tongue, opened with
‘Watergate Women", Robin Morgan's
poems are indictments. They are
meant to be sardonic because this
women is so ecutely aware of the
exploitation off women and she igs
impulsive enough to expound her
gut feelings without sublimating
her thoughts into intellectual
vhetoric. In "Jottings of a Fen-
inist Activist", she advised:
"If you can't stand the heat, step

down from the stake." Her con-
troversial poem cbout Ted Hughes
as opportunist in the exploita-
tion of dead Sylvia end his res=
ponsibility for her suicide drew
cat calls as well as applause, °
At the reading of "Arraignment",
the poem in cuestion, one ob= .
server yelled "garbage" while . ~
others were content that Ms.
Morgan had the courage to say
what so many have felt after
reading selections from Winter
Trees, Sylvia Plath"s last book
of poetry.

The size of the workshop Tues-
day morning necessitated a ques-=
tion and answer period instead of
individual guidance by the poets.
Questions about craft, develop-
ment, and philosophy were numer-
ous. Both Ms. Rich and Ms, .
Morgan advised us to save even
our bad poems because they ré-
present part of our struggle,
and are essentially autobiograph-
ical, The session ended with
Adrienne Rich embracing sis ters
who had so: much more to say to
her, She was a humble woman,
with an illuminating face remin-
iscent of pain, She and Ms.
Morgan appeared to be as inter=
ested in us as we were in them.

The black women poets whom we
heard that day am@ thé next were
clearly not feminists. It was
evident that théir racial struggle
took precerlence, Their poetry
reflected the perils of black
men instead of the power and
potental of the black women, and °
one of these poets, unfortunately,
wes Still feeling threatened by
the existence of white sis ters.
Audre Lorde was the exception,

4 feminist, she will succeed
Robig, Morgan as editor of Amazon

Quarterly.

We héard some younger poets
that day, Pineapple Whitcomb,
& young woman bor in Hawaii and
raised in Ohio, read poems re- |
flecting her work with handicapped
children in Haiti and her work
With children of the Shoshone
and Arapaho Indian tribes, Susan
Sherman read a poem from her new

book of poems With Anger/With Love
Z (continued on ps. 4 a

Peetry festival, Con't.

entitled The Plants", which had
the most beautiful contrasting
image of plants and people:

"...people unlike plants/find their

own places to root/ And what :
strange flowers/they sometimes
grow." This particular poem in

its entirety reflected the pain and

joy of discovering one's identity.

A significant aspect of the weck

long festivitiss was that this was
the first gathering of its kinf of
women artists. It gave women th e
opportunity to meet each other and
to share feelings and criticisms
about their poetry. They gathered
in groups after the professional
readings to become acquainted and
to share ideas that, in their

home towns, possibly had few in-
terested listeners,

Though isolation and introspect-—-
ion are’ the seeds from which poetry

sprouts,’ the gathering of these
thlLossoms, my Sisters, produced
an unforgettable bouquet.

Dorot J. Holt

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WOMEN'S COALITION MEETS WITH

GOVERNOR WILSON

Women representing a coalition
of feminist groups travelled to
Albany for an historic first meet-—
ing with Governor Wilson on.

April 16. 7s

Spokeswoman for the group,
Alice Heyman, Women's Political
Caucus, lost no time in bringing
to the chief executive's attention
the coalition's four lezislative
priorities: maternity dis ability
payments, child care funding,
heusehold technician's right ta
bargain collectively, and a state
Equal Rights Amendment,

Governor Wilson asked several
questions relating to disability
payments. In observing that pay-
ments. in observing that pay-
ments for disability are a part
of the Workman's Compensation Law,

eS

the governor recalled casting a- °~

vote in favor of that law as a
legislator,

In answer to his question con-
cerning the price of implementing
maternity disability payments, ~

Barbara Shack, New Y ork Civil

Libérties Union, assured him
that the per employee costs
would be minimal,

Regarding the coalition'"s
second priority, additional state
funds for child care, Governor
Wilson said, "There has been a
little confusion’‘over this — :
issue." However, he did not give
any indication one way or another
if more funds would be available.

He displayed interest in the
women's remarks on collective
bargaining for household tech-
nicians, but it was obvious that
the concept had never been in-
troduced to him before.

After hearing the feminist
case for a state Equal Rights
Amendment, the governor asked
if women would be giving up some
of their priviledges if the
laws were rewritten to conform
with mandates of such an amend
ment. Barbara Shack quickly
replied,"No, we want to extend
those priviledges to men, too."
Karlier in the:same day, at
@ public ceremony, Governor
Wilson signed into law a credit
bill, which prohibits lending
institutions from discriminating
on the basis of race, creed, color
color, national origin, sex or
marital status in the extension
of credit. The bill also em-
powers the Superintendent of
Banks to impose fines, award
compensatory damages, issue
cease and desist orders, or issue
orders requiring affirmative
action to effectuate an anti-
discrimination policy, after
complaints have boén filed and
conciliation fails.

Women's groups represented
at the bill signing and the mect
ing with the sovemor include
the following: Women's ~ Political
Caucus, Civil Libertics Union,
Black Feminist Organization,
Progressive Household Technicians
a da National Organization for
Women,

Associate Director of the
Women's Unit of the Governor's’
office, Virginia Cairns—Callan,
was in charge of arrangements
ty (continued on page 16)

L

ST

LAW' WOMEN'S CAUCUS

The Law Women's Caucus was .
founded at Albany Law School in
1971 in response to the desire of
women students te join together to
pressure the administration and
faculty to meet the. needs of the
women students. Early projects ine
cluding recruiting at wmen'ts
colleges and starting an athletic
program for women students. Indive
idual women lobbied on women's
issues at the legislature.

Last year the Caucus. broadened
its horizons and began to make
contacts with women outside of the
law school. A reception was spons=
ored fer women who were running for
political office, and members of
the caucus were encouraged to work.
on the campaigns of local women
candidates.

In February of this year the
Law Women's Caucus sponsored a
conference on Women and: the Law,
the purpose being to inform Capitel
District women ef their legal :"° *.
rights. Approximately 150 people
attended the conference, which
included workshops run by lawyers,
law students and local. women. The
Caucus hopes to repeat the confer~
ence next year since the response
indicated that there was a need
and interest in the legal problems
ef wmen in the Albany area.

Joan S. Kehout
EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION

It's almost impossible to chose
which area of the law has the great
est impact en wmen. Matrimonial
law affects many women in very

personal ways, and many women find
that their first visit to a lawe
yer occurs when they are considere
ing divorce er separation. In the
criminal law area, laws against
prostitution are unfairly enforced
against women, while the "John"
goes free. Yet, the laws in both.
of these areas could be changed

if women had thé economic and pol-
itical power to influence the state
legislatures. One way this power
can be ebtained is by placing
women in influential jobs with
decision-making responsibility.

s smatl company.

Women, however, have been kept out
ef these jobs.by the presence of

employment discrimination in hiring

promotion and wages.

Many women do not realize the
legal protections against employ-~
ment discrimination on the basis
of sex that are available. On
the federal level Title VII of the
1964 Civil Rights Act as amended
in 1972 prohibits discimination on
the basis ef sex unless sex is a
bona fide occupational qualifica-
tion for the job. There are very
few jebs which have bona fide
occupational qualifications, an
example being actor or actress.

Title VII establishes the
Equal Employment Opportunity Com-
missien to adminster the act, and
it is to that commission which a
woman should complain.if she sus-
pects sex discimination . On the
state level the Division of Human
Rights adminsters the State anti-
discrimination statute. Since the
EEOC defers to the state agency
for 60 days, the Division of Human.
Rights always has the first shot
at investigating a discrimination
case.

It is not as difficult as one
might think to show that an employ
er has been discriminating on the
basis of sex. When a charge of
discrimination is filed with the
EEOC: it. is sufficient ‘that the |
woman relate facts and incidents
which she suspects in good faith
resulted from discrimination by the.
employer. The EEOC can then in-
vestigate to see if the ‘suspicion
is warranted and may.examine the

employer's employment statistics,
speak to other employees and
examine internal office documents
that indicate discriminatien.

If it is proven that the empley
er did discriminate a woman may
receive a variety ef relief, in-.
Cluding back pay. The impact of
back pay awards en an employer
should not be underestimated, esp-
ecially if a group of women have
filed the complaint. A large
judgment against -an employer can »

be financially crippling for a-
(con't on page 6)

EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION, —
cont'd,

Women have a duty to keep their

employers honest, as well as a
responsibility to themselves and
to other women. Consequently,
women should speak up when they
suspect employment discrimination
and make use of the administrative

and judicial remedies which the
law provides,

Jean Se: Kohout

WOMEN'S COALITION LOBBIES IN ALBANY

A new chapter was written in
the annals of "herstory", when a
group of over 150 women from all
segments of society came to lobby
as a coalition in Albany on
March 22, The women were Black,
Puerto Rican, white, gay, straight
democrat, republician, liberal and
conservative, but they were united
as sisters in their lobbying
effort. And they were beautiful,

Women from the New York State
Women's Political Caucus, the
Progressive Household Technicians,
NOW, the Black Feminist Organizae
tion and the New York Civil
Liberties Union, at their press
conference, made the point clear
that sisterhood can be powerful,

"Our program is not radical;
it is only fair. I am sad that ««:
women in 1974 have to be lobbying
for their rights," said Ross
Graham, State Coordinator of the
Wemen's Political Caucus,

Barbara Weiner, Convenor of ~he«

ly

the Legislative Action Committee
ef the Women's Political Caucus,
focused attention upon the coal-
ition's 4 legislative priorities,
maternal disability benefit pay-
ments, budget restoration for
child care, access to contracept-
ives, and collective bargaining
for household technicians. She
asserted that women now have the
power to elect the people who can
transferm society into the femin-
ist ideal.

In announcing that a maternal
disability benefits bill had been
reported out of the Senate Labor
Committee just that morning, Alice

Heyman, Republican representative
to the Women's Political Caucus,
thanked Senator Roy Goodman,
sponsor of the bill, for his help.
She told the women that it was new
up to them to persuade their *-
individual legislators to vote

yes when the bill comes to the
floor for a vote.

Margaret Sloan, National
Chairperson of the Black Feminist
Organization, said that leaders of
the coalition had waited 45
minutes for a scheduled meeting
earlier in the day with one of
Governor's Wilson's legal’ ccunsels
whe never did keep the appodnt-
ment. She was unable to determine
whether the meeting was cancelled
because of legitimate scheduling
problems, or if the cancellation
had something to do with the kind
of ceealition being represented.

In the same vein, Carolyn
Reed, spokeswoman for the Pro-
gressive Household Technicians
observed that Assemblyman Riley,
chairman of the Labor Committee,
"seemed scared of us." She cont-
inued, "He hasn't seen anything
yet. And Seymour Posner says that
household workers don't vote.
Well, we'll shew him. We'll be
back and back!

Barbara Gaines, New York ..:
State Coalition lobbyist, conclud-
ed that women should not stop at
the legislature. They must go
out and question the candidates
for office on the issues, when
they are campaigning and trying to
win votes.

"Win With Women" is the
Women's Political Caucus slogan
for 1974. If all women in the
state are as together and deter-~
mined as those in the lobbying
coalition, that slogan will become
a political reality.

Look out, establishment
politicans, the women's revolution
has finally caught up with you}

Judith Merrill
b.

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‘ BOOK REJTG!: “ork in America,
Report o a Special Task Yorce to
the Secretary of Health, “@ducation

and Jal-are

Slliot Richardson, “orner
oecretar; of I,3.7. (among other
things) charged a spetial task
sorece to "
aud welvare problems from the per-
Sspecti.e of one of our fundamental
institutions - work". the vroduct
o. that examination is Jork in
Auwerica, a report that proceeds
-~rom a& general discussion o° work
to a look at sone o the »vroblens
workers <ace, to the social costs
Oo. a dissatis_ied workforce, to
sugcestions for inpro ing the
quality o: work
er mobility, and finally to an
analysis o. the welfare ‘ess!

and other knotty socio-economic
issues. |

fhe Boston Glove is quoted as
Saying that Work in Amorica ...uay
be one of the most important docu-
ments in recent years..." And it
just way well be.

There is ‘uch o° interest in
this report; and, as this is a
feminist journal I have chosen to
limit the scope of this review to
those things in the report that
relate directly to women and their
work.

One of the major premises o*
this report is that the quality of
one's working li.e is critical to
the quality of one's whole lice
and that we are paying a terrivly
hizh cost in terns of coupensatory
services to those whose physical
and mental strensh has been sapped
in trying
work. "The women's mo-enent has
focused consideralbe attention to
the role o* work in lite, and be-
cause of the kinds o
jobs women have held tradionally,
we can expect women to be sveakin~

out «ore forcasly on the quality o =

workinzs life,”

Jork in America is one of the
few reports or >.ooks that I have
core across that approaches the
issue 07 women and work as an

lnutegral vart o° its thesis rather
than assizsnin:, it the footnote or
arterthouzht status usually accorded 5
wowen and work,

The

exaiine health, education’e know that the housewicve

and enhancing work-"’are mothers

to cove with unfullrillins

dissatisfying

6. work o*fered is illustrated in
terms o* women. "Jork = an acti-
vity that prpduces somethinz of
value for other people. This dei-
nition broadens the scope o: what
we call work and vlaces it within
2 social context. It also implies
that there is a purnose to work.
is
really workinz, wether she is paid
or not; she is being productive
Or other people. Substitutizne
the children a woman cares “or does
not chanze the nature of her work,
only the others for wnom she is
productive." "“Acceptancé’ of this
definiton-of-work~by — the.
American vocabulary will help to
answer the question: "Should wel-

2e@ required to tak
a'jov'"; a question that is raised
and dealt with in this report.

The plicht of the woman in
the labor market and the obstacles
she encounters are also documented
in the revort.

ork in Anerica is both a
thoughtiul vresentation o* the sub-
jyect and a thousht provoking reports:
I It considers the institution o°
work in its totality and of‘ers
ideas and suz-estions for the
hunanistic resolution of many o-
the probleus it unco-ered during
the cour -e'o7 its examination o°

work in america, ~*~ -

_ reading this report as a
personnel worker and as a seminist
it seéns that it is well worth
the effort to experiment with
Some ot the sugzestions “or job
redesizn, worker Self-remeyval,
and others made by the Special
task Jorce, fe all have nothing
to lose but our Sterotypic *')
notions as to the ,alue of women's
work, our heart attacks and tens-
ion headaches, our feelinzs of
alienation of beings out o touch
the wel°are 'mess', our thains
lf you.cyvill.

“Without vork all life =0es
rotten. ‘But when vork is soulless,
live stitles and dies," Alberé

Cains.

seorgia H. Gray

rery deitinition

DEMOCRACY IN VIRGINIA - FOR TEN ,,Amendment speaking on the floor
ONLY (an editorial appearing of the House said, "Yesterday

in the March 1974 issue of THE there occured a legislative in-
WOMAN ACTIVIST, a women's news 7cident, the like of which I have

bulletin published in Falls Church,never before witnessed since I

Virginia, SPEAKOUT feels that thisfirst came to this house in 1960
editorial is important in under- - and the like of which I trust
Standing the status of the ERA in will never again be permitted by

one of the unratified southern ~ «this body as a part of our legis-
states. ) lative proceedings,"
"The civil rights fight to The men of the Virginia Assem=

bly publicly treat women like
"ladies", tolerate their differ-
ences as they would those of
children and proclaim their con=
cern about any lack of equal —
treatmnent---"We take gare of our
women." Privately, they resort
to a legislative tactic to defeat
the Equal Rights Amendment that ..
democratic process while consider- has never Bota ‘Uped and Maer PLOne
ing the rights of women, must have been held in reserve

At the time of the vote of the for their strongest and worst
House Privileges and Elections saat. Would Thomson, Major ty
Committee after makins the point eader of the House and the Offic
thet no further tos tinony would Office of Attorney General Miller

be heard, Chairman James Thomson have risked damage to their offic
(D. Ale: randria) ordered the 200 offices by using this unheard of

people out so that the committee legislative procedure for an

secure for women their equality
constitutionally has been drama~
tically brought into its powor
perspective for all to see by the
last minute secret tactic of —
Virginia men in power, flow degen-
erating it is to see the sons of
the Founding Fathers use their
legislative skill to subvert the

could receive and discuss in innocuous bill, Would they have
executive session a memo from the Come together to kill the Equal
Office of the Attorney General, Rights Amendment because they wer
The import of the memo was that were concerned about the integra-

men and women would be forced to u t10n of toliets. This action
use the same toliet facilities in Svsecsts thet it was the integra-
contradiction to the findings of t tion of their democracy that they

the Assembly - appointed Task want to stop.
Force that studied the effects of _ those in power have now con-
the Equal Rights Amendment. ‘The firmed what women have known all
power of the Majority Leader of along - that the Equal Rights
the House of Delegates and Chair— ‘Amendment will be a powerful in-"
man of the House P&E Comnittee, strument for the rights of wamen.
James Thomson and the Office of fhe men know this. The actions
the Attorney General Andrew Miller °f the Virginia men prove that
came together in the form of a they know this and they will vote
secret memo read to the 20-member 10F it only if their political
Committee in executive session future is at stake. And it is
just before the vote, up to the women to see that it is
A late survey by proponents of Lm L975. or 31% will. be democracy
the Equal Rights Amendment had in Virginia, for men only

indicated a close vote with 8 sure 2099099009300099009990900900090

for the ERA, 3 wavering and the

possibility of a 10 to 10 tie. Status of the Equal Rightd Amen-

After the executive session which dment:

discussed the secret memo, Chair-— 33 states have ratified the

man Thomson called for the vote amendment. The ratification

and it was 12 to 8 to kill the of 38 states is required for

Equal Rights Amendment. passage. Only five more
Dorothy MeDiarmid (D. Fairfax) states to gost!!!

chief proponont of the Equal Rights  Q

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BILLS CONCERNING WOMEN ACTED upon ®

BY THE N.&.S. LaGISLATURE IN THE
1974 SESSION: +
Assembly-3867 Reilly

Senate-3716 Pisani et.al,
Admends s, 296, Executive Law, to
make it unlawful discriminatory
practice for newspapers to print
publish, or circulate any employ—
ment advertisements which express
any limitations, specifications,
or discrimination as to age, race
creed, color national origin or
sex without first receiving:from
Smployer, omploymént agoncy, Labor
organizatiom or agent therefor,
requesting such advertisemet, cert
-ification from the Human Rights .
Division establishing it is based
upon bona fide occupational qual—
ification,

STATUS: Returned to Assembly Codes
Committee from 3rd reading,1/27/74

Assembly-8247 Suchin:
Senate-7/251 Givffreda = - eau
Repeals s. 130.15, adds 130.16, ~
admemds $.260.11, Penal Law, to
repeal prowisions requiring corro
-borating testimony
for certain sex offenses and to -:
enact new provisions prohibiting
convictions for consensual sodomy
or for any sex offense defincd h
herein of which lack of consent is
element but results Solely from .
incapacity to consent becauseof
alleged victim's age, mental -
defect, ‘or mental incapacity, or
attempt, unless testimony of -
alleged victim is supported by
evidence tending to establish that
attempt was made to engage alleged
victim im act at time of alleged
occurance and to connect defendant
with comission thereof,

‘STATUS: Passed assembly 1/14/74,

passed Senate 2/4/74 to governor}
Law. 2419/74

Assembly=4058 Thorp
Senate-1651 Goodman ,
Admends S. 296, Executive Law,
making unlawful discriminatory
practice to exclude or expal
firom membership in business, trade
or professional organizations a -
person because of his (her) race,
color, creed, natiomal Origin or

Sex; and to strike out reference

4 sent to

and. provisions regarding mémber-
ship of real estate boards, :
STATUS: Passed Assembly 1/28/74,
sent to Senate Finance,

Assembly-4374 Gincotta
Senate-3041 Bloom. ?
Admends s.130,25, Penal Law; to
make it affirmative defense, in
prosecution of person 21 years
or more for engaging in sexual
intercourse with female less ~
than 17, defined as rape, 3rd
degree, that defendant acted
under reasonable belief that fe-
male was 17 or more, but not .
based solely on’ physical appear
“ance of female, ‘
STATUS: Passed Senate 2/5/74,
enat to Codes Committee

Assembly-9359 Russo; et. al:
Senate-8509 MéGowan, et. al.
Amends s» 296,292, 296,297, adds
S;9-d, Banking Law, adds s. 286-
a, Executive Law, to make it un-
lawful, discriminatory practice
for creditor to discriminate,

- ON ground of race, creed, color
in. prosecution ™2tional origin, sex or marital

Status in credit transactions, *

including granting, withholding,
extending or renewing, or in
fixing of rates, terms or con-’
ditions of, any form of credit,

_ making of inquiry of applicant —

concerning capacity to bear
children or use or advocacy of
any form of birth control, or
family planning, refusal +o con-
Sider sources of applicants in-
come or to subject applicant's
income to automatic or unwarrant
ed discount; authorizes Super=
intendent of. Banks to enforce
provisions herein,

STATUS: Passed Assembly 2/19/74,
Sent to Senate Banks Committee

Senete-2475 Lewis :

fmends S.236,249 244, Domestic

Relations Law, to permit court
to direct

Spouse, instead of by. husband
for supporting other spouse, in-
Stead of wife, and to make com—
parable changes with respect to
bayments for custody and main-—
tenance of children,

STATUS: Passed Senate 2/25/74
Assembly Judiciary

I eee ee

BILLS, con't, ot

Assembly=2376 Silverman.

Amends si 170 of Domestic Relat—
ioms Law, to provide for grounds
for divorce written separation
agreememts need only be witnessed
by am attorney of New York, in-

stead. of the form required for re=—-

cording a deed,

STATUS: Passed Assembly 1/21/74
sent to Senate Judiciary

Senate-4558 ‘McGowan

Amends s,.2,‘Retirement and Social
Security Law, to define widow in
provisions relating to state’
employee's retirement system, as
surviving spouse of former member
of retirement system.
STATUS: Passed Senate 2/25/74
Recalled 2/27/74

é

given rubella test and result,
with requirement being dispensed
under certaim conditions,
STATUS: Passed Assembly 1/28/74
sent to Senate Judiciary

Assembly=4058 Thorp

Amends s.296, Executive Law, mak-
ing unlawful discriminatory pract
-ice to exclude or expel from
membership on business trade or
professional organizations’a
person because of his race, color
creed, national origin or sex;
and to strike out reference and
prowisions regarding wtembership
of real estate boards.

STATUS: Passed Assembly 1/28/74
sent to Senate Finance

Assembly=4397 Levy ;
Amends s,2311, Public Health Law,

Assembly-4402’ Riccio, et. al, :
Adds s.2302—a, Public Health Law,
amends s.,l3-a, b, Domestic Rela-

to make guilty of violation
punishable by fine of not less

tions Law to require that every
person making application for
marriage licerPe receiive such ex-=-
aminations or tests as may be
necessary and practicable for
detection of syphyllis and gon-
orrhea, including standard sero-
logic test for syphyllis, with
such tests to be performed by the
department or in New York City by
health services administration or
at approved laboratory; ‘makes
related provisions,

STATUS: Passed Assembly 2/25/74
sent to Senate Health Committee

Assembly=-1284 C.‘E. Cook

Adds s.680-s.682, Public Health
Law, to require that commissioner
develop programs to care and aid
women during pregnancy and for
one year after childbirth in state
and encou rage municipalities to
develop and shall assist them in
developing and administering,
local programs for aid and caré
to such women and their babies.
STATUS’: Reported and referred to
the Ways and Means Committee,
1/16/74

Assembly=—3536 Tlevy, et. al.
Adds s.13-b, Domestic Relations
Law, makinf it necessary that

than $50, nor more than ‘500,

whoever manufactures, sells or
distributes at wholesale in New
York instrument, recipe, drug or
medicine for prevention of con-
ception to any person unless such
is accompanied by statement,
supportable by current scientific
knowledge describing its effect—
iveness when used properly or
lack thereof in preventing

venereal disease,

STATUS: Passed Assembly 3/4/74,
sent to Senate Health Committee

Assembly-1661 €. E. Cook °

Amends s, 6811, Education, to
make it unlawful for person other
than registered pharmacy, to sell
or distribute instrument or arti
article, or recipe, drug or med-
icine for prevention of concept-.
ion and to strike out specific
reference to sale or distribution
by any person to minor under 16.

STATUS: January 22 Recom. w/enact
CL stricken

Assembly—4371° Blumenthal

Amends s,6811, Education Law, to
repeal provisions which limit
authority of licensed pharm _acist
to sell and distribute contracépt

“ine devises only +» persons 16
or over, STATUS: February 6-Ref,

female applicant for marriage‘be ¢.

B chgd. to education committees, -:

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Lying in the strange apartment, Donna and the dark girl beside
her had had nothing to do but listen for the signalling double knock,
for suspicious neighbors, for the liontreal police. Yet when the door
opened Monna panicked: what was happening in the next room? Had
there been a knock? The French girl's face showed she was, if any=
thing, more terrified: Donna still couldn't decide if she was 16 or
22 like herself. Could they have both missed the agreed-upon double
knock? Donna thought she'd.heard the lock tumbling, the door hadn't
been broken down, yet how had irs. Bisnet known to open it and why
wasn't she saying anything to whoever was there? ‘hat was happening.

Before either of them spoke, Mrs. Bisnet was beside the other.
bed, roughly pulling the girl up by the shoulder and rushing her into
the livingroom: -

"Nicole, vien-cet." and, to Donna, "Go pee!”

The command so stung her that Donna was in the bathroom before
she realized she hadn't looked around for the doctor. Had the Canae. 1
dian woman's voice really been harsher to her than to Nicole? As she
fumbled with the soap she told herself that it wasn't her fault that
she was an ,American, any more than that she was pregnant. None of
it was her fault. People were ready to make decisions for her - -
like that what she was doing now was wrong- -but she alone would have
to live with their decision. And they'd be cruel then, too; there'd
be no lessening of their contempt because she'd gone throught with it
out ot respect for their rules. lMobody cared and it was all so unfair

Though it seemed very important, she couldn't figure out if Mrs.
Bisnet had stopped being pleasant as soom as the »250 were handed over
to her. It hadn't seemed so; Donna remembered politely acting sur-
prised when the older woman had said her red hair was redly dyed, and
that she was 55. Their conversation hadn't been as intimate as hers
with Nicole, in french, had appeared to be; But that was only natural
And to Donna she'd been so Charmingly French, if impersonal, telling

her to have her fun when she was young as she herself had. Wow that

she was a grandmother was time enough to take this second job with

the doctor on her day off from Selling cosmetics in a department
store to save for her old age. Grandmother! God, she looked more
like a madame. That hair was garish. And what a job! Before she
hurried back to the bedroom Donna promised herself to just let them
keep the money and leare if he didn't look like a real doctor.

lirs. Bisnet's entry into the bedroom Seemed one continuous motion
with that of stuffing a vinyl bedpan under her and yanking up the
nightgown almost as Donna was lying down. Only as she lay back did

the back of a man standing at the dresser opposite the bed startle
her. ‘Jithout turning, he asked, .

"Parley-vous francais ou...”
"Not really, ah... no, no I don't."

"yell, we will speak English then. You are American. From
where?"

“Irondequoit, near Rochester." At least he Spoke English: Her
relief amused her; not that it meant anything, really. Though a
doctor would have to know English, probably, so would a cab drivef.
But it was still nice.

He had turned to face her, and was Walking toward her with a
hypodermic needle extended; he did not use an alcohol Swab. She

remembered reading that the usual brief Swipe with alcohol was more
for show than for its actual results, but still. Three times Donna
winced, hali smiling because it wasn't so bad after all, assuming the
punctures meant he had emptied the needle, so each new one was a
Surprise. And then he was slapping her: hand.

"Long time since your hand wes -Siapped, no?" He was laughing,
chuckling. He's nice, she thought, thank God! he's really nice. He
must be watching for loss of sensation - - everything will be all
right.

“Before I go to sleep, Doctor, I..." A look of concern or ©
something passed between the doctor and Mrs. Bisnet. Am TI being ar
difficult, she wondered? Can't I talk? “hat...

"You will not sleep." ‘hy did he look that way at Bisnet?

"oh, will, I just wanted to say thank you, Thank you,"

Actually he was raising welts with the Slapping, still trying
to locate a vein, and when he did, and the needle penetrated her hand,
her heartbeat slowed, her breath choked, and Donna became dizzy.

And scared. |

"Vadame, ouvrez la radio au programme des actralites. Plus
forte, Madamel'"

She was scared, but there was no pain, just a weirdky faint b
brushing against sensation as the operation began; only the too-loud,
still too-slow pulsebeat puunding in her ears kept her from relaxing
until suddenly fear gripped her stomach again. ‘what will he say when
he sees I'm not pregnant (because of course I couldn't be). The seen”
possibilities made her frantic. i've taken up his time; Bisnet saiq—-—_
he could only handle two girls ata time, and he can only do it once
a week unless he has another helper because she works. And I've
exposed him to risk. I'll give him the money, of course, ‘what, oh
what if he thinks I'm with the police/: He might panic, do anything.

that am I doing here, anyway. I don't belongs with his kind of people.
And he hates me anyway.

Instead,"This is your first pregnancy, no/"

"Yes.

The thought of how stupid it was sobered her. She'd never
doublted until that moment; the not knowing was too distressful go
she'd adjusted by believing the worst from the beginning. Donna
"Knew" before the vomiting started, before anyone, even the doctor,”
could "know." Until that moment when, like some of the survivors 6f
Nazi concentration camps, her mind played the survival trick of pre-
tending the intolerable wasn't really happening, or it was happening
to someone else and was, as such, very interesting, and only that.

The radio newscaster's voice strained under the tension as he
announced that the second U. S. lunar landing was a success -- or
would be, as soon as the recovery ships raced to the site. NASA,
indeed, was predicting a new level of accuracy: the Spacecraft was
speeding toward a target spot only a few miles from the primary re-
covery ship.

"Yaat do you think of your country's space program#" Ts he
trying to distract me, she wondered, and what is he saying#

"Oh, ah. The money -- so much. A lot of Americans feel that way
you know. That the money should go for other things."

"It is obscene to have this celebration, they have no shame. —
Is your President Nixon so stupid that he thinks thw world will for"
get the massacre.. because your camtrymen walk on the moon?"

"Vassacre?" All Donna could think of was the Sharon Tate murder
case, but that happened more than three months before, back in mid-
August. "Massacre -- what do you mean?’

"The killings at waht is called Pinkyille. Innocent little
children, women, old people. Hundreds of them, it is proved in the
photographs in the newspapers. It cannot be d@nied. And you can be
sure this was not the first or the only time. Uh, uh, no, there

have been others and will be until you Americans admit your guilt,
and leave."

Donna, sighing, ralized she hadn't’ read a mewspaper in weeks.
why was he taling about it anyway -- who cared? He cared, ooh -- she
better try to pay attention to hin.

"T didn't hear anything about a massacre. Jere Americans, were
soldiers involved? You know, with all that pressure, a few are bound
to get drunk or high on drugs, it can't be helped. It's a shame, but
it can't be helped in awar. And the other side does terrible things
too; then they use things for propaganda, they blow incidents up.'

"Little children, women, oldpeople .. . we were beliind you in
Yould ‘Yar II, all the world was behind you after Pearl Harbor, even
when you used the atomic bomb. But this. You have no right, you
have no reason, you have no conscience. ‘far means dollars; that's
all Americans care about."

His hand, Donna herself, were spattered with blood, and she was
becoming dizzy again, too dizzy to concentrate on Viet Nam. Mrs.
Bisnet had already left once to empty the bedpan; it would have to
be over soon -- there was so much stuff. She began to sit up, trying
both to see what was sluicing into the pan and to try to clear her
head to make this man understand. . Her moving frightened the other
two, and only made them more impatient with her (it seemed to her )
and lett her more confused. Bisnet took her hand, but the action
wasn't meant to sive comfort; she was obviously poised to pin Donna's
shoulders down if she gave any indication of moving again.

"But don't you see, those men aren't really killers. It's not
their nature, it's not their fault. If they hadn't been drafted they &
be farmers and mechanics and things, and you 'd never hear about then.
It's the situation itself, not whether you're American or “rench. ."

"The doctor will be through in a moment," Bisnet interrupted.
She sounded more tired than curt, really; Sonna was VEEY very tired,
too.

"Have you been to ‘Man and His Yorld'?" the doctor asked.

"Two years ago. I was surprised to see the ads for it. It's
still on, isn/t it."

"Many parts are. The government announced they were going to
close i but the people of iiontreal protested, and donated enough to
keep it open."

"They must be very proud of it." God, she was so tired.

"Yes, we hope to always have it."

There were a few minutes of silence in which he began to wipe
her off and seemed to.be getting ready to go into the next room to
nicole. And she. hadn't been able to make him see about the war.

"You know, ‘the govermnent couldn't pull out of Vet Nam just
like that, no matter how much we all hate the war. Nobody likes it.
But we've made promises, and if we left our allies would all be
killed. That would be a terrible’ thing, to leave them to pay the
price like that. The Americans are trapped there in a way, too.
It's not all that clear-cut and easy.’

"hat is the name of the department store in New York that has
a parade next weekend?" It was Bisnet again; these people were not
going to listen to her no matter what. -

"Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is this Thursday, if that's
what you mean.'

"Yes, I am taking my granddaughters there to see at this time.
My daughter has sixteen year old twins, you know; they have been
after me for several years to bring then. "' .

"T'd watch it on television from the hotel room. The crowds are
fantastic, they won't see a thing."

' Phey decorate all the store windows, too; that's what I'm

really going for. They don't do that here in Mintreal; I imagine it
is very beautiful." 14

Donna let that pass.’

We have a Thanksgiving in Canada, too; did you know that?

Ours is in October. It is a family day; the family goes to church
and them to dinner, there are no parades."

"Thanksgiving dinner is the main part of our holiday, too.

Do you have turkey and cranberries and pumpkin and mince pies?"

"No, nothing special. Everyone has their own." Bisnet sound-
ed hurt or put off, or somethinz. God! These people were really
ridiculous. I'm glad she's leavinz.

The doctor himself left shortly therea’ ter; $700 for Zorty-
five minutes. Two and a half hovrs later Donna left; all her money
and quarts o2 her blood to make sure she'd not be humiliated by
people like them again.

As she left she was struck by a beautiful and unreal-seeming
Sight. Across the street from the buil#ins was an elevated section
of highway arterial; in the steel wrapp9ngs of its concrete supports
the November sun, which was just setting, was reflected, its yellow
and orange-red tones intensified,. Beneath it, a group of Montreal
citizens stood at a bus stop. An athletic-looking, white haired
man wore a yellow windbreaker or snow jacket; a youth beside him
sampled potato chips from a yellow cellophane bag. There was, also,
a blond girl, her yellow hair snarling in the gray of her coat, and
a woman who carelessly held a shea’ of dried maigolds in a florists
wax paper horn.

They were beautiful, they belonged in a Truffaut movie frame.
And not a one of them cared about massacres or moon walks or een
abortions. And, yet, still, they were beautiful. She could see that
now, and she felt csrateful and generous; a life of limitlesss
possibilities filled with beautiful uncaring people seemed a sure ~’
thing. Not a one o them would stop her from doing any of it.

Ellen Perreault

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WRITEs#IN CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED TO HELP MAKE
SUSAN B. ANTHONY'S BIRTHDAY A NATIONAL HOLIDAY

Legislation has been introduced into Congress to memoralize a great
American woman. To help make February 15, Susan B, Anthony's birthday
a national legal holiday, specially designed post cards can be ordered
from the St. Louis Chapter of the National Orgnization for women (NOW)
P. O. Box 16132, St, Louis, MO 63105,

The post card, with Ms. Anthony's portrait on the front, can be
sent to Senators and Representatives and reads: "Yes} I strongly
urge that you support Bill HR 12850 making February 15, Susan B.
Anthony's birthday, a national holiday. You realize, of course, that
without her tireless devotion to the cause of woman suffrage, no
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LETTERS TO SPEAKQUT ' . Dear sisters -

ae A group of us involved in
Dear SPEAKOUT, ; ;
I just received my first two the women's movement in state

copies of SPEAKOUT. I wanted to college(Penn State) are attempt

: : -j ta get together a local

write to you right away but not am:

before I had read them six times, feminist mene Se ee Te oa re-
Congratulations — and more sources are limited an we are

power to you. If only I would wondering if you would be in-

Pac ~———! ‘ terested in an exchange of news
have had read something like this : .
20 years ago! My life ‘would have -letters, We especially want t

been different I'm sure. to know about up-coming events
Now that I know there are other (conventions, etc.).

women with the same sentiments At present, we will probably

as miné I feel so much more like be xeroxing our paper until we

living. At the age of 56, I can so‘licit patrons and adver-

just wanted to die, but Anes tisers, enabling us to utilize

have courage to at least guide my 2 Printed newspaper format.
16 year old daughter to live her Please let us know if you would

own image and make herself heard be interested in such an exchan

as is her right in whatever she exchange.

nay choose, Thank yous
TF have quite recently come in Diane Gates

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ossession
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would like very mitch for you to with our luck and best wishes.

see and read them, Pleabe een’ tre testy 1973

Thank you again for your very

informative and liberating ep targe os Sn R
—- ;
a saaeitaaiide -_ oe ma feminism and will include the
ae Palins | journal in my bibliography.
a he ae i por Br the remem ee ecuaen SEteod to
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To SPEAKOU?: thank yous

Ms. Lee's absurd comparison eee cen

of a pathological entity (gonorrhea sy = eats

+o a healthy fetus nti ty (go ea) on ee at Florida State

wonder at the quality of educatiion niversity

students are receiving at Albany Sisters:

Medical College, Please mail SPEAKOUT to

Medical students should be able Jeanne Leclair

to differentiate between simple 102 llth Street

bacteria and human life, Troy, New York 12180 ;
Sincerely yours, beginning with the May edition,
Julie McCarthy Bought April's in Troy and it's

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The American Parade

There may still: be hope fer that
vast wasteland known as TV. TV is

beginning to take women seriously,.

finally! The American Parade
shown on March .17th was the first
of a CBS bicentennial series «-
this particular one being dediew ::
cated to women. Mary Tyler Moore
hosted the program as it traced
the history of women from colonial
times, through the abolition of
slavery issue, the women's sufers -
frage struggle up to present day
and the fight for the Equal Rights
Amendment. The program presented
excerpts of speeches by some ef
our foremothers and a broad. over-
wiew of our hers*ory. |

The pregram was educational
and informative. It was good to
see that the wemen'ts movement is
getting more favorable exposure
by the media. The program, how-
ever, was done in geed taste,
meaning it was neneffensive and
uncendemning. It presented the
facts but made ne attempt te pass
judgment. (In my opinion, the
facts speak for themselves.) lI
suppose we cannet expect a male
dominated television station to
accept any responsibility for any
discriminatien against women.

We should, however, shew our
suppert for this program as it is
a step in the right direction,
Write to Eaton Cerporatien, the
American Parade, Cleveland, Ohio
44114 (sponsor of the program)
and to CBSeTV, CBS,Building,
Rockefeller Center, New York, New
York 10017. Whe knows maybe some
day TV will present us in a more
favorable light en every program
instead of just the occasional :
special edition!

Cheryl Shenkle

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HAVE YOU PLEDGED MONEY TO THE
WOMEN'S. CENTER, OR PLAN TO?
Money can be sent to-.3
Maxine Gootzeit
10 Stonington: ,
Voorheesville, New York

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WOMEN'S COALITION, con't.
for both the Bill signing’ and
meeting with the governor,

z= the caliber of interest in
women's issues by both the

_executive.and the legislative

branches of state government can
be taken as any indication, 1974
could, in fact, become the year
of "Win with Women,"

Judith Merrill

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CHILDREN OF THE BROKEN DREAM ;

Children of the Broken Dream,
a one-day workshop’on alterna=
tives in @ducation; will be held
on Saturday, May 4, 1974 from
9:00 asm. to 4:00p.m. in the’
assembly room, Campus Center, of
the State University of New York
at Albany. There will be a fee
f $5.00, Students will be
admitted without charge.

Guest participants forthis
workshop include:
Jonathan Kozol, author of Death
at an Early OG and Free Schools
He is presently putting together
a2 book dealing with political
and social transformation of
velues of sociéty within the
public schools,

Herb Snitzer, head of Lewis-—
Wadhams, one of the oldest and
best free schools in the country
child advocate, authgr of
Summerhill:A Lovins World and

Today is for Children; To: Tomorrow
Can Wait.

Jim Shields, professor of Found-
ations of Education at CCNY, is
concerned. with grappling direct-
ly with the issue of the relat-
ionship between social change
and humen need: how do we help
people meet their needs authen-
tically in ways that facilitate

rather than impede social har-
mony ?

ae Lehman, an editor of the

ew Schools’ iixchange Newsletter

ee ean atten ceueels att
over the country, bringing
them counsel and a sharing of
good educational "soft goods"
jams experiences -— a people lover

(continued on page 18)

From:

RAPE.

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by Adrienne Rich |
Diving Into the Wree

There is a cop who is both prowler and father:
he comes from your block, grew up with your brothers,

had certain ideals,

You hardly know him in his boots and silver badge,
on horseback, one hand touching his gun,

You hardly know him but you have to get to know hin:

he has access to the machinery

that could kill you,

He and his stallion clop like warlords among the trash,
hits ideals stand in the air, a frozen cloud Moa

from between his wunsmiling lips,

And so, when the time comes, you have to turn’to hin,
the maniac's sperm still greasing your thighs,

your mind whirling like crazy...
of having been forced,

And you see his blue’eyes,
whom you used to know,

his hand types out the details
and he wants :them all

grow narrow an

You have to confess
to him, you are guilty of thé crime |

the blue eyes of all the family
d glisten,

but the hysteria in your voice pleases him best.

You hardly know him but now he thi
he has taken down your worst mome

nt°

on a machine and filed it in’a file,

He knows; or thinks he knows;
he knows,

nks he knows you:

how much you imagined;
or thinks he knows, what you secretly wanted.

He has‘access to machinery that could get you’put away;

and if; in the sickening

light ofthe precinct, ’

and if, in the sickening light of the precinct,

your details sound like

Qa portrait of

will you swallow, will you deny them,
will you lie your way home?

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One has only to skim those old for-

gotten novels and listen to the
tone of voice in which they are

written to divine that the writter

was meeting criticism; she was

saying this by way of agg tression,

or that by way of conciliation,

She was admitting that she was "ag
"only a woman" or protesting that

She was "as good as a man"

And I thought of all the women's
novels that lie scattered, like -
pock-marked apples in an orchard,

about the secondhand bookshops

"]

your confessor,

in London, I+t was the flaw in
the Genter that had rotted °
them. She had altered her :
values in deference to the
opinion of others,
Virginia Woolf
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A feminist publishing house
has opened in London! T+ is
Called VIRAGO and is the first
of its kind in England, ,
Perhaps we will see moré work
by contempo. wy British wowen

GROUP.’ NEWS

TROY: WOMLN'S POLITICAL CAUCUS

Edward Golden, founder of the so called
"Right to Life" organization will be
running in the democratic primary for the
29th Congressional District. He will be
opposed by Frances Flynn and Bob Colgan.
The Caucus met with mr. Colgen and was very
favorcbly impressed. Bob Colgan is very
strong on ALL women's issuese In addition,
he supports totel national health insurence,
wage and price controls, removal of the oil
depletion allowance, a tax on excess oil
profits, governmental action to reduce
unémployment, and public financing of
political campaigns so as to permit the
poor and middle class to run for office.

Bob Colgan will be running a low key
campaign. He is looking for people to
help with his campaigner. If youwan hold
a "coffee klatsch" so he can meet more
people(there will be no money solici® ‘i. 6s
tations) or help in ANY other way, please
contact him at:

Bob Colgan
Box 266
Hillsdale, N.Y. 12529
518-325-6251
Troy WPC
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Troy, N.Y. 12180
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COALITION FOR A FREE CHOICE

Thc Coalition has again met with Cong6
ressman Sam Stratton. He still opposes any
constitutional amendmbent limit ing a
woman's right to obtain an abortion. How-
ever, he does consider it a matter which
should be decided by each state. humors
to the contrary,Stratton did not sign the
discharge petition to have Larry Hogan's
anti abortion amendment brought to the
floor for a vote.

Senator Birch Bayh will be holding
additional hearings on the various con-=
stitutional anti abortion amendments." ug
the .préseuré..on-his committec to support
these bills is extremely intense. Con-
eressional letters are now running 500

to 1 against abortion.That means we
have all got to write another set of
letters.

NEw YORK STATE NOW

Beginning this June New York State
N.O.W. will be publishing a statewide
magazine which will be received by all
N.C.ew. members. The flirst‘isswut,will
concentrate on education. Future issues
Will deal with child care, marriage
and divorce, empl:yment, and legis=
lation. Articles or outlines on these
topics shcould be sent to:

Joanne Schewik

27 Newton Ste

Fredonia, New York 1063
The magazine will be funded by adver-
tising. Anyone selling an ad will
receive a 12% commission and her/his
NOW chapter will receive a 3% commiss ion
Additional information end contracts
can be obtained from your local chapter

N.Y. N.O.W.
98 South Pine
Albany, N.Y.

WOMEN'S FALTH

Plans are beginning for a woman's
Fair to be held at the Capitel Steps
in late Spring. Current proposals in-
clude athletic games and contests.
More ideas and planners are needed.

If interested please contact Doris
Traschen, h.D.5, Troy, N.Y. , 283-627)

sv re @

WOMEN'S CoNTik
WOMEN'S CENTiR \
We are looking for an house in the
area west of the South Mall. If you
The response to the
con help please contact Toni schiff,
1621 New Scotland, Slingerlends

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tic Bargainsl 05 Washington Ave, Albany :

tel. 463-7135 May 18
Unitarian Society. "Come Celebrate Your-
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The Free Theater performs Medusa. ken-
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“we Lesbians for Liberation: Weekly meeting

May 5 Gay Community House, 322 Hudson Ave.
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Lesbiens for Liberetion: 8p.em. Gay Com- Albany
munity House, 322 Hudson Ave. Albany.

411 women welcome. kag &3

Troy N.O.W.: Business meeting. Kussell Troy N.O.W.? Marriage and Divorce. Call
Sage's Intercultural Genter. 8p.m. Liz Craiglow, 274-3930 for location
lay 7 & ll tay 27

Unitarian Society: The Search for Self Lesbians for Liberation: 8p.m. Gay Com=
Series"eyond Ourselves" will feature munity House, 322 Hudson Ave., Albany

3 films on meditation, yoga and mysticis mAll Women welcome
b-1l p.om., 405 Wabhington Avenue, Albany

June 2
May 8 Coalition For a Free Choice: will be
Albany N.U.We:"Filling out your income holding a beke sale at the Pinksterfest
tax and keeping records". NOW members in Washington Park. If you eam bake or
only. bp.em. Jane Senford's home: 393 Staff the table please call: 436-133) or
Hamilton Avenue.8 p.m. 861-8307.
May 10 June -
WelL.P.i'et Judge Bruce wright"Pre-trial Capital District Women: Monthly business
helezse and criminal Justice" 8p.m. meeting. Home of Jane Capadozi 8/p.m.
Albany Law School Auditorium, 80 New
Scotlend Avenue. Everyone invited. June 19 .

Albany N.O.W.: imployment. 8.m. Emmanual
May 13 Baptist Church.
Lesbians for Liberation: weekly meeting
8p.m.e Gay Community House, 322 Hudson :_ § . " . :

Ave., Albany, All women welcome
Anne Borel has a number of the original

May 1) "Cur Bodies Ourselves" for sale at 30¢
vickey Grcen and Mike Howard will speck  ©2¢hs She can be reached at 463-5195
about their 3 week trip to China. 8:30

pem. The Highth Step Coffee House,

1 Willett St. Albany. uveryone welcome

Unitarian Society:"In Search for Self"
series" "Come Celebrate Yourself"

There will be a film on Tibeten Buddhism
and one on the kselen institute.8 p.m.
405 Washington Avenue, Albany.l63-7135

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lez Women In Prison by Christine Root

3 Affirmative Action at Hartwick College by Neville Strumpf
4. SUNY¥A Women's Weekend by Sue Lasher

Suh Celebration !74 (Skidmore Weekend) by Sharon

5-6 What Happens “hen A Women Reports Rape? by Christine Root
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WOMEN IN PRISON

On Monday, April 2énd about 2@0 best place for the child and thus

people gathered at Trinity Metho«-
dist Church in Albany for the one
day Women in Prison Conference.

The film Women in Prison produced

try to place them with relatives
or in foster homes.

At Bedford Hills, the program

for women consists mainly of sew-

by Joe DeCola was used as an openering,.. Bedford:“dills has an industr-

to get people thinking about the
issue and moving to a feeling of
concern for these women. Having
the producer on hand to answer ©:
questions was a help to conference
participants. )
Some of us who work full time
di¢ manage to arrive in time for a
fine panel discussion. Unforte *
unately, there were many more quese
tions from the floor than time .o%
would allow. ‘WE
Jeyce Plecha, a former priwoner
whe spent a total of 22 months in
confinement at New York City's |
Correctional Institution at .°° -
Rilcer's Island and at the New York
State Correctional Facility for
Wemen at Bedford Hills, spoke on
the "Prisoner's Perspectives: of
the Prison Experience. Active as
a feminist and in the prison move-~
ment since her release, Ms. Plecha
is presently chairperson for the
ad hoc committee for Women In
Prison with the National Organiza-
tion for Women in New York City.
Barbara Swartz, director ef
the Women's Prison project based
at NYU Law School Clinical Law
Center, spoke an the "Rights of
Women Under Custody and Supervis~
ion". Ms. Swartz did an excellent
job.of pointing out the unigque
problems of Women prisoners.
Since there are fewer women prise*
oners and fewer facilities for
women prisoners, the closest prissen
is often quite far frpm a women's
home. This remoteness makes it
hard for her family and friends to
visit. What is even more shocking
is that 80% sf women in prison are
mothers and heads ef households.
Little children are allowed to stay
in the institutions with their —
mothers but nursery facilities are
deemed inadequate. Children are
kept in glass cells rather than in
group day care center arrangements.
Although the mothers want to be
with their children, most mothers
feel that the prison is net the

ial contract with the State to
make underpants and pyjamas for

the men's prisons. In Ms. Swartz!
opinion the prison is more cencern-
ed about meeting its contractual
ebligation with the State than in
providing for the educational and
vocational needs of the women

prisoners, :

‘Michael Stafford filled in for
his- boss, Senator John Dunne who
was tied up in the closing hours
ef the 1974 NY State Legislative
Session. Senator Dunne, former
chairpersen of the Senate Cemmittee
on Crime and Correction, was to
speak on "Legislation Concerning
Women in Prison". Mr. Stafford
said that there is "one bill in
the Codes Committee which is gcing
nowhere. Quoting the statistics
of 400 women at Bedford Hills
cempared to 14,000 men in New York
prisons. Mr. Stafford pointed out
that in terms ef numbers the
legislature just wouldn't consider
women in prison as a prierity.
Furthermore women in prison are
seen as less ef a threat to the
cemmunity than men and thus the
legislators are not metivated "te
move in this area of legislation.”

If passed the Arthur Eaves bill
would mandate "The warden in any
facility in which women are confin-
ed must be sure that women have
the same access to rehabilitative
services." Net much chance for
passage. Mr. Staffard feels that
"it will be four or five years(!)
before we get change.”

Professor Rita Warren, the enly
woman faculty member at the School
of Criminal Justice at SUNYA
spoke on "Alternatives to Incar-
ceration." Studies have shewn
that 83% of the women in prisen <
are eligible for community treat-
ment programs.(as cerpared with
65% eligibility of males.) Women
weuld live and work fe lead nermal
lives outside ef prison walls

while receiving needed services

1

Women In Prison, cont'd.

such as access to a project center.locked up by society in prison and
At the center the women would find sisters locked up by society's

recreational facilities, an :accred-other institutions come forward

ited school and “someone to talk
to." "There would be ready and
constant access to a worker

with a low caseload." :

At the present time in New Yorkwiil hepefully keep working.

State there is not a single group
home for girls operated by the
Division for Youth.
Norma White, Senior Parole
Officer at the NYS Correctional
Facility for Women at Bedford
Hills spoke on "Women and Parole."
Ms. White has worked in the area
of parole for fifteen years as
well as holding social work and
psychiatric social worker posite
ions. Young wmen often leave
prisons and go back to families
and find the same home situation
they couldn't deal with before
they went to prison. Families
find it difficult to believe in
them when the families have been
lied to’ and hurt so much before.
The women worry about clothing,
being able to handle a job if
they can find one, about money
until their first pay check
arrives, about all.the things we

would worry about it we were penni-

less and out of work. What struck
me about Ms. White's talk is that
women in prison have the very

same problems as women everywhere
are discovering as they talk to
each other in consciousness-rais-=
ing groups. For example, she
pointed out that ability does not
always show up on a standardized
test, that women need a chance at
something better (than what they
had before going to prison) in
order to be motivated to study

and train vocationally, that it is
hard to build up a women's self
esteem in an institution. (It ©
is hard in the institution of —
prison also of marriage, of work,
in the !nstitutions of everywhere.

and free themselves with the help

_ and support of sisters everywhere.

The conference broke up into
task oriented action groups which
All
who wished were invited to join
the participants for a Dutch treat
supper. A nice final touch for 2
conference which ‘,d like to praise
for having a nice sisterly and
brotherly spirit of helpfulness
throughout from registration,
cookies hore baked by men, coffee,
tea, water, lemonade previded and
each person donating what she/he
could. Somehow this writer cannot
help feeling that having the
conference organized by both con-
cerned women as well as men and
not by a paid government agency
made the difference between an
academic exercise and a sincere,
dedicated effort to help wmen
confined’ in our prisons.

Christine Root

For information about ongéing
projects contact:
Judith Hall or Belinda Rogers
Center for the Abolition ef
Prisons
SUNYA
1400 Washington Avenue
Albany, New York 12222
518 457-6124

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DIRECTOR WANTED FOR THE GIRLS .
INTRAMURAL AND INTRASCHOLASTIC
SPORTS PROGRAM AT THE Guilderland
Central School District

Duties include to develop a girls
sports program, hire coaches, etc.

This directorship wil} be coequal

)with the director of boys sports

To this writer building up woman's

Sele wpre et, teak ag that you are it is a part time position with
Wort. 3B IRS kt ies being proud of a salary of $1,000 a year.
yourseli and proud to be a woman

is the hardest and most important

task for women and is central to
the Woman's Movement. Sisters

Rie HE gy ee ee ClUlUlCtC(<‘“ ‘“‘‘“‘“((#(UN(CCS(OS(NUNSNO!;C#*
only 22.5% women.

» AFFIRMATIV® ACTION. « -HARTWICK
COLLEGE

During the osst aide dei, ne :
issue of sex tis serimin- tion has
become much more than a topic for ©
philosophiceal or moral debate. As
the result of ‘some si-mifice>nt
legislation inclidins the Bqusl
Pay Act.of: 1963, TitleVII of the
Civil; Rights’ Act of: 1964, nd
Executive Order 11246 from the
United States Commission on Civil
Rights in.197°, hirins policies |
are ‘beins chellengec throughout the
netion. It is no lonser necessary
for eny American vomen to accept
sex: discriminotion vhich limits: her
opportunities for a better job,
more ecucation, hicher pay, or
sreater responsibility.

There has been: a ereat deal of
confusion about the actual: defini-=
tion of Affirmative Action.» -Hovw-
ever, the United. States Commission
on Civil Rishts has defined it as
",.eSteps teken to remedy the
srossly disperate staffiine. and
recruitment petterns that: are the
present consequence of past dis-
crimination and to.prevent the,
occurrence of employment discrimi-
nation in the. future." Furthermore,
Executive Order 11246 from the
Commission includes in its,Hisher
Education guidelines, that ney eunie
versities must recruit. sromen 7
minority persons as actively: :
they hove recruited white me de
ond, "...must. modify or: supplenent
eoeerecruiting policies by vigorous
and systematic efforts. to locate
and. encourage tthe candi¢-cy of
qualified vomen and minorities,"

Earlier this year I vas involved
in mobilizing.a grass, roots orgeni-
zation of ‘Pacult ty and Adminis strom
tive Yomen for Affirmative Action
at Hartwick Collece, Cneonta,. New
york. Our primary objectives were
to criticrlly excmine the employ~
mont situation for vomen at Hart-
vick and to propose and iuplement
appropriate political stratezies to
improve the situation.

Ovr first task vas to gather con-
crete data about the enlployment
conditions for vomen at Hartwick
College. ,.Qur statistics clearly.
demonstrated a.disturbing doimyard
trend in the percentaze of .women
faculty over the past twenty years.
At the present time the faculty is

uy)

“versity faculty.

Five years a0,

30% of the faculty ‘ere vomen, and

fifteen years ago things were even
‘better,

31. 5%! . “Hartyvick is not
unique, however; a U.S. Office of
Education | study for the 1972-73
acedenic yerr disclosed that women
comprised only 22.5% of the nation's
254,930 full-time college and uni-
At this time we
have been unable to obtain _compar=
ative data about salaries for male
and femcle feculty, but the Depart-.
ment of He-lth, Education, and Wel-=
fare recently reported + that women
averased almost $2500 less then
their male counterperts.

Our second task vas to begin in=
forming the college community of
our findinzs. This meant discuss-
ions with the Board of Trustees,
the President, -nd the Dean of. the’
Collese. Politically, we also lmevw
thet it vas crucial for female
foculty to become as visible as
posible--e.%., speeking out at. fac-
ulty meetings and running for posi-

tions on key comnittees,.

Our thiré task vas to develop a
model proposal regarding a policy
of Affirmative Action and a job
description for en Affirmative Ac~
tion Officer. We ore presently at
the point there a committee, com
prised of: several of the orisina=:
tors of the cross roots group, is
working sith” the President of the
Colleze on this matter. The policy,
then completed, vill includé suide-
lines for the ecliminsetion of dis-
crimination in the recruitment,
hiring, end promotion of vomen and |
minority Sroups at Harttvick Collese

It appe rs inevitable that we.
will eventually h-ve our Affirna-
tive Action policy; however, by it-
self it will not immediately banish
the trodition-bound attitudes held
by meny employers about vomen. Un-
fortun- ‘tely, too many persons still
believe that omen h-ve not been
the victims of serious discrimina-
tion at all! It may take many years
and perhseps mony court battles
before vomen are finally regarded
as equally qualifiedc and as reliable
as their male colleagues with the
seme ecucational backsround.

3 --Neville Strumpf, M.S.,

R.N.
Instructor, Dept. of
Nursing

One of the most fascinating
things to come out of the Women's
Weekend at Albany State April 18-20
was the workshop on open marriage
led by Kay Reinartz and Rob Stitt.
These two people have developed an
extremely free form of marriage
which defies the definitions of
traditional marriage. They strive
not to present a "couple-front",
but instead to maintain the indiv-
iduality, interests and of course
the name of each,

Kay and Rob are able to enjoy
things when apart from each other,
a feat which more traditional
couples are hard put to understand.
Since Kay likes to dance and Rob
does not, Kay will find another
partner to take dancing classes wi

with. If Rob attends a function
connected with his profession,
Kay need not tag along. They try
to live apart for one month each
year.

In contrast to the many
couples who discard their opposite-
sex friends upon marrying. Kay and
Rob preserve those friendships
even * the point of sexual relae
tionships. In the typical reversal
that goes with increased self-aware
ness, Kay says that Rob's being
involved sexually wth another
woman is not threatening to her;
it is attempts by Rob to hide these
relationships which would be threa-
tening.

The hallmarks of open marriage
as Kay Reinartz and Rob Stitt live
it, are honesty, openness, a deep
sense Of commitment=- and the fact
that each is the other's favorite
roommate.

Sue Lasher

CELEBRATION '74: A Discovery of
Ourselves as Women

The 2nd and $rd weekends in
April saw the first major event
sponsored by the newly formed

Skidmore Women's Coalition,
Activities centered around thirteen
guest speakers and performers and

four films concerning themselves
primarily with the areas of women
in the arts, especially, theatre,

music, poetry, and film; women's
health, mental and physical; the
role of women in journalism;
women's studies and women in work;
lesbianism; and radical feminism.

In the area of the arts Barbara
Smith and Nahdine Stah performed
a repetoire of folk music relating
to various aspects of women's
experience at a wine and cheese
party, followed the next morning
by an intense yet lively theater
workshop lead by Sue Peorgelt and
Ellen Thompson from the New York
theatre group, It's Alright to Be
A Woman. The worksh¢p focused
around movement and sand exercises
designee to increase our awareness
of our own bodies and of how we
communicate with others and are
perceived by them.

During the second weekend
Robin Morgan, a feminist activist»
as well as poet, held a moving
poetry reading, and Alix Dobkin,
lead singer and songwriter of the
women's folk group Lavender Jane,
perfermed at a women's party.
Films were shown each weekend.

The first, Nelly Kaplan's A Very
Curious Girl, was followed by a
discussion led by Alan Brodie,
Betsy Davis, Gloria DeSole, Joanne
Linden and Marcy Pesner. The

other three films were The Smiling
Madame Beudet by Germaine Dulac,
Peyote Queen by Storm deMirsh and
Duet for Cannibals by Susan Sontag.

Tina Mandell, one of the
founders of a New York feminist
psychotherist collective led work-
sheps on women and sex-role stereo-
typing and women in psychetherapy,
and Judy Norsigian and Paula Doress
from the Boston Women's Health |
Book Collective which wrote Our
Bodies Ourselves, lead an informa-
tive and exciting outdoor worksheo
on women and their bodies.

Rap sessions were held by .ir
Chris Root from SpeakOut on womenss
journalism, by Nancy Hoffman, pro-
fesser at U. Mass's experimental
College of Public and Community
Service and cochairwoman of the
Modern Language Association's
Committee on the Status of Women,
on women's studies and working
women, by Alix Dobkin and Liza

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SUNY WOMEN'S WEEKEND |

ee a

Cowan on lesbianism, and by Robin
Morgan, on radical feminism.
The weekends served to provide

a vast amount of information,
useful to all and vital to women
in a society where their roles
are continually erpanding, and to
help foster the feelings of
community necessary to ease the
struggle of women searching for
their place in this challenging |
and exciting time of transition.

Sharon

WHAT HAPF*.NS WHEN A WOMAN REPORTS
A RAPE? Afsubjective and biased
(unfitting of an objective news-
paper reporter) account of the
"What happens when a woman reports

a rape"fprogram from a feminist
point of view.

What happens when three men and

cme woman, all busy professionals,
serve on a panel to talk about
when a woman reports a rape? The
three men speak and the moderator
asks if the woman would mind not
giving her talk "so that the busy
men will not leave before we have
a chance to question them." Such
was the case when the Troy chapter
of NOW sponsored a panel with Troy
Public Safety Commissioner <«°
O'Connor, Troy physician Marshall,
former district Attorney and now.
Judge Chon Cholakis and SUNYA
Professor Heidi McKinley, *eriz:.
Adrienne Rogers, moderator of the
panel, asked Heidi McKinley if

she wouldn't mind defering in
case Judge Cholakis, who had a
jury deciding a verdict, was
called out, Doctor Marshall might
be called to the hospital and

Mr. O'Connor also busy might be
called by a police emergency.

Hats off to Heidi who quietly
but sensibly suggested that the
momentum might be lost if she did
not give her talk along with the
other three. Since the question
and answer period lasted an hour
without all getting a chance to
ask their questions it seems
quite possible that Heidi's turn
to speak might never have come if

—”
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° CELEBRATION '74, cont'd.

the"busy men” had not said they
would wait for questions until
Heidi McKinley had presented her.
part of the panel talk. Sorry to
say but this little incident was
not recorded in P.J.Rader's
otherwise fine coverage of the x.
talk in the Times Record. -This
is the type of unintentional but
obvious slight which happens to
women all of the time. Let us
hope that feminists will not again
be a party to putting women down.

Moving beyond this feminist
faux pas of the night, the program
was well attended by at least one
hundred women and a sprinkling of
men. The good turn out may
indicate to the panel, community
interest and concern about the
growing number of rapes. ©

Mr. O'Connor gave a matter of
fact summary of police handling of
rape cases being careful to point
out that a significant number of
rape cases are questionable. In
50% of rape cases no suspect is
turned up. And turning up a
suspect basically is the police's
responsibility. Many were cone
cerned about Mr. O'Connor's
Statement that police training is
not as important as the selection
of good men, ,

Although Dr. Marshall threw
a bone to some feminists by
Stating that termination of
possible.pregnancy is done so that
abortions can be arranged if
necessary and desired, his ap-~
proach seems to project the image
of woman as body. For the psyche
of woman “if obviously hysterical":
tranquilizers, family doctor ref-
erral for supportive care or 24
hour psychiatric care at Samaritan
Hospital are available. It was
Suggested by an audience member
that all rape victims be referred
to a social worker or rape crisis
center for counseling, information
and support. Heidi McKinley sug-
gested that Dr. Marshall change
his statement,"V.D. is possible
if the rapist was a 'friend'" to
the use of the word acquaintance.
Your friend and mine - our rapist.
Another slip, perhaps, but an
indication of the way men think

Rape,cont'd.

about women who have been raped...

Chon Cholakis gave a detailed
account of the procedures a |

female. rape victim would have to
go through if she decides: to
report the incident to the police
and press charges against the

assailant. After, shall we say. = mean they are friends.)

if an arrest occurs, the victim
must tell her story in detail -
before the DA or Assistant DA ‘in
private, repeat the story in the
Courtroom during not only .the
preliminary hearing, but also the
Grand Jury trial as well as the:
actual trial before.:a jury. In
addition she will be: cross examin-~

ed in the preliminary. hearing and -

in the. trial by the defendant's
lawyer. The usual.tactic is to
discredit the woman. by trying to
show that she is of low moral
character, actually urged the
rapist by looking, acting, being.
seductive or that no actual rape
occurred. As Chon Cholakis put |
it "if she has been free with her
favors in the past, she may not °
have been raped.”

The defendant does not have
to testify against himself. Thus,
his moral character or past rape
trials are not open to cross

examination. Unless he has ‘been -

convicted of rape, the fact that
he has been tried cannot be:
mentioned in court.

Best chances for a rape
conviction would be with a victim
single, never married, or no
relationships with men other than
a husband, and no "indiscretions"

Heidi McKinley suggested a
number of myths about rape which
are commonly held, and brought
out a number of interesting facts
gleened from social research.
"Good Girls Don't Get Raped;

Bad Girls Shouldn't Comptain."
"The best way to get a man off is
to show that the woman. hitchhiked,
was divorced, or has hed Sex
without marriage. Mm

Prison officials have. stated
that convicted rapists are the
mest normal group°of guys: they' ve
ever had in prison. 3

A Police Captain yelled "Damn
womens —— making trouble." |

es

Many people think that all
rapes occur in dark allies or to
hitchhikers. Women Beware! Over
one third of all rapes occur by
men forcing themselves into women's
homes. Fifty percent of the men
Know the women. (That does not

Although Dr. Marshall was _

"thankful for the constitutional

system we have" and "is convinced
that the vast majority of (i.e.
4-5) cases have not been real
rapes (only alleged), only 1 out
of 10 rapes are reported and 1

out of 100 go to trail. Rape is

the fastest growing crime in our
country..

Heidi McKinley you are so
right. Rape is not sexual lust
but aggression.-- men against.
women. Men taught by society to
see women as conquests trying to
scare.

I'm sorry Mr. O'Connor I do
think police need. training and
selecting good men is not the
answer. I'm sorry Dr. Marshall
I'm not enthralled with the result .
of a constitutional and court
system that punishes the victim

and lets almost all the guilty

go free.

Christine Root

STOP RAPE is an excellent handbook
which deals: seriously and .
instructively with the issue of
rape. It .includes an inedepth
discussion of self-defense with
illustrations. Complied by _.
WOMEN AGAINST RAPE, the handbook
is available for 25¢ plus postage
(15¢ for single orders) from:

WOMEN AGAINST RAPE
16141 Marlowe
- Detroit, Michigan 48235

Coming Next tlonth:

"Story on eros" by Dorothy
Bellick.

"Women & Chil@ Care in China"

BOOK REVIEW
Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae 3rown
Published by Daughters, Inc.,
Plainfield, Vermont 05667,° Price:
£3.00 plus $, 35 postage

Sit down with this book when
you have’ an hour to yourself... It
reads quite quickly. You laugh ©
at the pranks the book's heroine.
Molly plays on her peers; you can
sympathize with her lack of cem-
munication with her mother; and.
you can sympathize with: her: frust-
rated attempts to bypass discrim-
ination of her womanhood. << -

This book seems to have two
levels = one is Molly ‘the Lesbian,
The other is Molly the Woman.

On the surface of Rubyfruit

Jungle, Molly's lesbianism seems
to be the entire focus of the

book, Molly's first true emotion-
al attachment is to a woman. She
is thrown out *#f college because
she admits to being a lesbian,

Her mother throws her out of the
house because she's a lesbian,

| But put the book down and
start thinking about Molly. She's
a smart girl + wise beyond her
years. She decides what she wants
and goes after it. Throughout

the book Molly keeps saying, "Be
what you ant, do what you want; ~
What does it- ‘matter what people
say"?7" Molly's lesbianism comes’
over not as perversion as it is
usually taken by this society,

but as her expression of her God=
given right to be what she is, to
do what she feels, even if'no

one else likes it. Molly refuses
to be packaged, labeled, and —
delivered to the world as Ma’ girl
She fights to be Molly,

Rubyfruit haunted me for days
afterward. I found myself twing=
ing vhen I compromised my convict-
ions and my ideals to avoid
hassles. My mind kept drifting
back to Molly's fight for indepen~

dence. I felt I had let my sister
down,

statement about Womens about
ing up Gay; about growing up
Woman, Every Feminist will find a
bit of herself in Molly; be she
straight or gay.

grow=

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"The subject of lesbianism is
very aerdinary; it's the question
of male domination. that makes

everybody angry."

leaward the Dyke and and eer Peems
by Judy Grahn :
published by Women's ness
Collective
5251 BroeAway

Oakland, California 94610
Price $1. 25

Judi Heitz
HOT FLASHES |

Pass The Cancer | |
In early February the AnePTEBh

Cancer Society announced that

women's magazines were the tobacco
industry's first target for
Cigarette ads after the '71 TV ban.
Black people's publications have
likewise been bombarded. The
society noted that women are smok-
ing more, as are young people,
particularly teenage girls. The
Statistics also disclosed that

the lung cancer rgte of death
among women has doubled in the
last ten years. Are you smoking
more and enjoying it less?... }

lReprinted from Majority Repott, |
May 2, 1974.

ONLY VIRGINS NEED APPLY

Fred Walters, principal of
Urbana High School, Ohio, ruled
senior Sharon Boldman ineligible
to become a cheerleader or run
for homecoming queen this year.
Ms. Boldman had an illegitimate
daughter March 23, 1973. Walters
ruled that only virgins can become
homecoming queen.1l

IMs. Magazine,

June, 1974.

This book makes a very positive The Speakout newsletter referred

to in the June issue of Ms.

was indeed this newsjournal. Hats
off to Chris Root for her excel-
lent job of feminist news report-

ing that enabled us to be bent foil
ed in Ms. Narazine.

GROUP NEWS

' TROY N.O.H.

Troy NOY is working with Troy's
Police Commissioner O'Connor to
develop an informational sheet on
rape that will be distributed to
all Troy. policemeny Commissioner
O'Connor has also offered to call
NOW whenever a rape is reported.

A trained woman will then stay with
the rape victim to help her through
the immediate proceedings.

SCHENECTADY NOV

Representatives from Schenectady
NOW, the Family and iJomen's Advo-
cacy Service of S.C.A.P. and
Planned Parenthood of Schenectady
are planning 2 rape counseling
service, Anyone wishing to help
is invited to the weekly meetings,
held each Monday at 7:30 p.m. at
the Unitarian House, 1248 Wendell
Avenue, Schenectady.

COALITION FOR A FREE CHOICE

This month's Coalition column will
consist of a list of federal
legislators who must receive pro-
abortion mail. There is nothing of
more importance than pressuring
these men who can take away our
richt to leral abortions. We
are now VERY close to losing this
right...
1. House of Representatives

There are 2 different anti-
abortion efforts to force an anti-
abortion Constitutional amendment
to the floor, thus bypassing normal
committee procedures which neces-
sitate hearings,

Write to ;

Bep. Ray Madden

Chairman (sic) House Fule Comm.

Washington, D.C. 20515

Rep. James J. Delaney (Queens)
(only N.Y. member of Rules Com)

Your Congressperson

II. The Senate

The following New York Congress
men are reputed to have signed
a Petition to Discharge the Hogan
Constitutional Amendment from
the Judiciary Committee's - “. @

jurisdiction and to the floor for
a vote:

Rep. Mario Biagei--Bron*

Rep. James J, Delaney--Queens
Rep. Hamilton Fish Jr.--Dutchess
Rep. James R, Grover, Jr.-- °-
suffolk

Rep. Norman Lent--Nassau

Reps Angelo D, Roncallo--Nassau
Rep. Wm, F,. Walsh--Syracuse
Senator Birch Bayh, Chairman (sic)
Senate Subcommittee on Constit-
utional Amendments

Washington, D.C. 20510

Senator Javits

senator Buckley

WOMEN"S POLITICAL CAUCUS
Doris Trascher represented the

WPC before the New York State

Republician Platform Committee
hearing in Albany. She discussed:
1. Abortion in the context of
freedom of conscience and separas:*
tion of church and state.

2. The need for child care | 2
centers _

3. Opposition to legislation
preventing the "busing" of

children for integration.

4, The need for a truly compre-
hensive education bill.

5.. Equal funding for girls and
boys. sports and the availability

of all courses to all children
regardless of sex.

6. Need for general political
reform,

SPEAKOUT to exhibit in NYC

July 7-8-9 Betty Kemmer and
Chris Root will take SPEAKOUT to
the. NEW YORK,BOOK FAIR at the
New York Colisium, This event is
sponsored by the Friends of Books
and Comics and is being held in
conjunction with the annual meet-
ing of the Committee of Small
Magazines Editors and Publishers
( known as COSIIEP ), SPEAKOUT
will be meeting with the other
small press feminist magazines. |
Anyone wishing to join SPEAKOUT
in New York City for this event

ee ia call Betty Kemmer at
36-8626,

Dear Sisters and other kindred souls,

Bob, Georgia, Linda, Robin, and Rosemarie members of the Albany
Area Chapter of the National Organization ‘or Jomen, o:fer for your
praise and criticisu, your comments and suggestions, your information
these YELLO; PAGES. en

“or a long time now people have been saying "would't it be great
if we could compile a directory of thinzs in the Capital District
of use and importance to women...." ‘hen you. think of it, that is
a 31G project, and a lot of questions need to be answered, a lot of
research has to be done.. ell, we did not answer all of the questions
or do a hell of a lot of research; however we did do a fair amount
of hard work, and we did develope this bare bones, a skeleton that
needs to be fleshed out and given spirit.

Je limited our efforts to those areas where, at least, some
information could be gathered quickly, and where we had a little
personal interest and or knowledge.

ve found that we were unable to e.aluate some of the services
listed as to their posture towards women, although in some cases it
really does not matter das they are the only game in town. Speaking
0: tows, we also limited our scope pretty much to Albany because
that was what we were familiar with.. je also decided not to list in
this initial effort any individual practicioners of medicine, psych--
latry, counseling, or law, not being in the first place too aware
o. who is who, and secondly there could be some legal implications.

Those of us who worked on tuis project envisioned it as an on-
going, continuous effort --a fluid document, with the strong poss-
ibility os spino’‘s in such areas as employuent, daycare, health care,
feminist therapy, etc. te also foresee the input of many people -
we have no self-ser’ing interest in remaining in control of the

yellow paces; but will be clad to work as facilitators and coordin-
ators to see it throushits invancy..

hether this directory becomes a dead letter or a living document
depends mostly on the type of response we set from you, Je sincerely
and eagerly invite your reactions,comments, sussestions, and elbow
grease in improving both the form and content o these pages.

ve invite all interested persons to a meeting to be held on
dednesday, June 12, at 7P.i. at the tomanual Baptist Church, 275
State street ,Albany to react to this first listing and to formulate
plans and lay the groundwork for a bigger and better yellow pages.
Bring your comments and suggestions and yourselves; ahare your idees
as to what these yellow pages can and shoud be..Their only reason
for existing is to meet the needs and interests o women in Ehis area.

WOMEN'S GROUPS

This is a listing of groups which i® our opinion have
helped, and are helping, to further women's rights in the
area. There are undoubtedly some missing. Again, we —
hope to receive fecdback, information, and help in making
this list more thorough and inclusive.

American Association of University Women - Open to women
with Baccalaureate degree from AAUW approved colleges
or wniversities. They help women to continue their
intellectual growth and generally further the advance-
ment of women. Dr. Susan Smith 439-5143 ~

American Civil ‘Liberties Union- Women's Division.

Doris Trashen 283-6274
Albany Women Against Rape - Ellen Smith 459-8393
apital District Women —- Widely based group whose emphasis
is on consciousness raising. Ellen Smith 459-8393

Coalition for a Free Choice -Working to educate people
about abortion and contraception, and to prevent any
future restrictions on abortion rights.

Laura Rossman 457-1294 .

Law Women's Caucus — Women's group at Albany Law School’
working to aid women through legal means, and to
interest more women in the law profession.

Ff. ‘Goan 5S, Keuhout - ‘482-1511

League of Vomen Voters — Ann Branden 439-4332
Lesbians for liberation — 332 Hudson Avenue, Albany

National Organization for Women - Action oriented °
women's rights group. Anne Borel 434-1712

New York State Legislative Forum - Dedicated to
stimulating intersst through weekly public meetings
held during the legisltivé session; publishes

_ _Wweekly legislative review. Rezsin Adams 462-0891

Speakout —- Albany areg feminist news: journal
Betty Kemmer 436-8626 and Cheryl Shenkle 899-4121

Troy Women's Liberation - “Conducts weekly women's

radio program on WRPI. Blair Barrett 273-5949

Welfare Rights - Naney Johnson 436-8068

Women's Caucus - (SUNYA and Union Collego) Emphasis

on Pipe at ve raising. Laura 370-6113

Vomen's International League for Peace and Freedom -’
Working to establish by non-violent means peace,

f freedom and justice for all. Rezsin Adams 462-0891

Women's Political Caucus- Jane Sanford 463-0477

Zero Population Growth - Laure Rossman 457-1294

Newly formed chapters of NOjW:
Schenectady NOW ~ Ann Booth 399-5790
Troy NOW — Tic Craiglow 274-3930

ZLPLOYUENT
DISCRIMINATION IN &. {PLOYMENT Ol ACCOUNT OF SX IS AGAINST THE LA‘!
Jnere to file a complaint of sex discrimination:

It you are not getting equal pay for equal work and do not work for
the federal or state government, or a political subdivision, your
employer is in violation ot the 7AIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT 6f 1938

as amended by the ZQUAL PAY ACT of 1953, amended June, 1972: and
you should file a complaint with: |

United States Department of Labor
Gaployment Standards Administration.
lage-Hour Division | |

41 State Street, Room ™--106
Albany, New York - 12207
513-472-3596 © .

If you are denied employuent because of your Bex, if your employer
engages in practices which deprive you of equity on the job, if any
union or employment agency has discriminated against you because o_
your sex they are in violation of ‘the CIVIL RIGHTS ACT o. 1964,
TITLE VLi and the Ni? YORK STATE HUITAN RIGTS LAY and you should
contact: => ‘oe |

iqual Enployment Opportunity Commission
90 Church Street, 13th ~loor
New York, New York 10007
212-254-3837 ©

and 7 ; , :

The New York State Division o: Human Richts

217 Lark: Street iis .

Albany, New York .12210

518-474-2705 :

If your employer does business with the federal government and
practices sex discrimination it is in violation of EXECUTIV2 ORDER
11246 as amended by BXECUTIV2 ORD?R 11375, and you should contact:

The O° fice of Tederal Contract Compliance

United States Department of Labor |

14th Street and Constitution Ave. Ne We

Jashington De C. 20210

If you are nto sure iz any o: these azencies has jurisdiction over

your complaint, file anyway and let them make the determination ~-
it can not hurt. , fm

The Albany Chapter of the National Organization for Jomen tuployment
Task “orce is available to assist and Support any sister who “eels
Sie has been discriminated. against. Georcia Gray - 456-2612 is
task iorce coordinator.

dhat other information would you like to see included in khe yellow
pages related to employment? Let us-know,

3

DAY CARS
fhis is an arbitrary listing of some daycare centers in Albany.
A good deal more work needs to be done in this area so crucial to
women, especially women .who work outside the home.

DO'UNTOAN DAY CARS CENTER: 56 Orange St. 12210 453-6386 ‘This is
& non-pro-it center open irom 7:30A.i:.° to 5330P.2:., Monday thru
rYiday. Refferals are made by the Albany County Social Services
Department. . ao .

KGNJOOD DAYCARE CENTER AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER, INC. Kenwood
Academy Campus 12202 465-0404. This is a non-profit corporation
operated by Social Services and private runds, and it serves child-
ren vetween the ages of three and five from all social, racial: and
economic backgrounds. Open 8:30 A... to 5:00 P.i*,

MARTIN LUTHER KING,JR. DAY CARE CENTER 381 Hamilton 3t. 12210
462-1244 Provides day care for children 5 to 5 years old. Primarliy
cares for children of working parents, mothers rec iving job train-
ing. Referrals are made through the Albany County Social Services
Department. Open Monday thru “riday from 7:30 Asi. to 5:00P.1.

LASTSRSON DAY WURSSRY 115 Grand St. 12202 434-0339 provides

day care for the children of working parents, ages.3 to 10 years old.
It has a Nursery group and a school group. Starfed and operated by
the Eisters of Presentation.iSupport: United “und of Albany and §

service fees. It is open lionday thru Friday from 8:00A.M. to 5:30?P.h.
there 1s a sliding fee scale. : |

ROBIN CHILD CARS CENTER 20 Robin St. 12206°462-2712. Provides
day care for children 3 to 5 years old. Refferals are made through

the Albany County Social Services Dept. It is open ifon. thru =r.
7:30A.H. to 5:30 P.li.

ST. JOHN'S DAY CARE CENTER 45 so. erry St. 12202 465-4496 provides
day care for children 3 to 5 years old. Refferal are made through

the Albany County Social Services Dept. There is a sliding fee scale.
ilonday thru Friday 7:30A.M. to 5:00P.:77, Summer program available.

ST. PHILIP'S DAY CARE CENTZR 26 3o. Swan St. 12210 435-0477 pro-
vides day care for children 3 to > years old. Reerrals are made
through the Albany county Social Services Dept. /onday thru Friday
Tss0AsM. to 5:00P.7". oS1iding fee scale. )

SALVATION ARMY 22 Clinton Ave. 463-6578 txt. 8 Children 3, to.5-

TRINITY PLACE DHILD CARS CENTER 19 Trinity Place 12202 435-9560

Provides care for children ages 3 to 5. Referrals through the Albany
County social Services Dept. .on. thru ifle. 73 30AsMe- ~5230?P. hi,

UNIUGRSITY DAY CARE CENTER 221 ontario Ste Pierce Hall 12203 436-0184
Provides day care to students,staff, and faculty at SUNY-A and the
| general community. &:30A.1. - 2:350P i. Pee: 45 per day.

NOTS: Albany County Social Services Dept. 40 Howard St. 12207
449~2000
4

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Learnin’ about women-

fant to learn more about wonen= their contributions, their trials,
in the nast and nresent? “47 one. of these courses,

Inmates of Women in American Literature
Schenectad- Jount Gommun £47 GOLlle-e tlonecre lit course

Jashin“ton Avenue * ay ; | Shars/wk-LOweeks
achenectady ,it.77 42295 Mia Rei
345-6211

A study ot female characterizations in American Literature
from Gooner to if@iler including historical influences, Tonics include
female writers,male charac’ -erizations ,fe1ale/male relationshins,
miscesenation, yimate oF women in the media,

Women. in  iiterature
Siena Collere | 3 credits
Loudonville pilaf 12211
73503511 -

Roles | of women in Jestern Literature “rom classical to

~Molern »ineluding the evolving imate o£ women. and women as creators
of literature,

Joma n in Anticanity - (Slassics vent.) — iomen in Society (Soc. Dent,
Women in: Literture (ing eDent, ) Jomen in the jabor
omen in ‘listory Ciistory ente) _ Mevement(iconomics Dent,

SUITZ at Albany ‘ zenerally 3 credits

1490 Jashintton Avenue

Albany, iI...

4.573300

SWWA -offers an interdisciplinary second. field Se
women's Stu-liies ,inecludin: the above courses and others in various

denartments, Tor aia on a snecifiec course, contact tie annronriate
denartment, ) |

domen Authors in jiterature
Women Gharacters in iiterature
Autobiography and Social Inquiry

Skidmore Collese

iiorth Broadway

oaratoza,i'.7.

534-5000

IZ you don't see what you want, call and ask for the department
in which you think it mictht be offered, "re No such course is yet
available, find out why not and when it will be!

Bn NO ORE eT ee ee ee eS eee

DAY CARS

Brags

fhis is an arbitrary listing of some daycare centers in Albany.
A good deal more work needs to be done in this area so crucial to
women, especially women .who work outside the home.

DOWNTO.N DAY CARE CENTER: 56 Orange St. 12210 453-6386 This is
a non-pro-it center open :rom 7:30Ae::. to 5:30P.).., !onday thru
rriday. Refferals are made by the Albany County Social 3ervices
Department.

KiN/00D DAYCARY CENTER AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER, INC. Kenwood
Academy Campus 12202 465-0404. This is a non-profit corporation
operated by Social Services and private funds, and it serves child-
ren wetween the ages of three and five from all soclal, racial and
economic backgrounds. Open 8:30 Aw. to 5:00 Pi",

UARTIN LUTHER KING,JR. DAY CARE CENTER 381 Hamilton 3t. 12210
462-1244 pro-ides day care for children 53 to 5 years old. Primarliy
cares for children of working parents, mothers rec diving job train-
ing. Referrals are made through the Albany County Social Services
Department. Open onday thru “Yigay irem 7130 Awl. to 5:00P.1%.

PASTSRSON DAY NURSERY 115 Grand st. 12202 434-0339 Provides

day care for the children of working parents, ages 3 to 10 years old.
It has a Nursery group and @ school group. Starfed and operated by
the Tisters of Presentation. iSupport: United fund of Albany and 3

Service fees. It is open Monday thru friday from 8:00A.M. to $:30?P.h,.
There is a sliding fee scale.

ROBIN CHILD CARS CENTER 20 Robin St. 12206 462-2712 Provides

day care for children 3 to 5 years old. Refferals are made through
the Albany County Social Services Dept. It is open ‘fon. thru 7r.
1 2504 ths: tor 5:30 Poy,

ST. JOHN'S DAY CARE CENTER 45 So. Terry St. 12202 465-4496 Provides
day care for children 3 to 5 years old. Refferal are made through

the Albany County Social Services Dept. There is a sliding fee scale,
iionday thru Friday 7:30A.M. to 5sO0P. ii. sumer program available.

ST. PHILIP'S DAY CARE CENTER 26 3o. Swan St. 12210 436-0477 pro-
vides day care for children 3 to 5 years old. Reverrals are made

through the Albany county Social Services Dept. !onday thru Friday
(i:Z0Asiie to 5:00P.'. Sliding fee scale.

SALVATION ARY 22 Clinton Ave, 463-6578 Gxt. 8 Children >. Ch

TRINITY PLACE DHILD CAR® CENTER 19 Trinity Place 12202 435-9560

frovides care for children ages 3 to 5. Referrals through the Albany
County Social Ser:ices Dept. Wom. thru Frise 7+ 30a.u, =~ 5330P.i.

UNIVERSITY DAY CARE CENTER 221 ontario Ste Pierce Hall 12203 436-0184
Provides day care to students,staff, and faculty at SUNY-A and the
general community. &:30A.1. - 5:30P.3:. Fee: 4) per day.

NOTS: Albany County Social services Dept. 40 Howard St. 12207
449—~2000

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Learnin’ about’ women.

Jant to ‘Learn “tore about women= the! Yr coin tributions, their trials,
in the nast and nresent? “ry one. of. tiese courses,

imna‘tes of Women in American Literature

Schenectady Tounty GommuaLty Golleve - ionecrelit course
_Jashin<ton Avenue ) Zhrs/wik-1LO0wee'
Schenectady, Bhp.cc= bee OD .

345 @6211

‘A& study of female characterizations in American Literature
from Gooner to ifailer including historical influences, Tonics include
female write ers,male charac*erizations ,fenale/male relationshins,
miscesenation, imase ‘of women in the media.

ciate, -Women in Literature
Siena Céliete.—. ”- | 3 credits
Loudonville, il.¥.12211 |
735 —@3511 ae a ;

: Roles of women in Jestern literature Srom classical to
-moJern,including the evolving imate of women and women as’ creators
of literature, : | | so

Jomen in Antimity (Glassics vent. ) jiomen in Society (Soc. Dent. :
Women in Literture (ing eDept.): Jonen in the j.abor
Jomen in ccd i Clistory lente) Movement (sconomics ent,
SUITZ at Albany senerally 3 credits
14900 i macs Avemue |
Albany, i1.v. | ,
457.3300

SULA ofters an interciscinlinary seconc. field in
Women's studies, includin’: the above courses and others in various:

demartments, For details on a snecific course, contact the annronriate
denartment, :

Jomen Authors in Literature
Women Characters in literature
Autobiography and Social Inquiry

Sikidmore Colle<e

iiorth Broadway

oaratoza,l'.Z.

534—5000

IZ you don't see what you want, call and ask for the denartinent
in which you think it mictht be offered, "re no sich course is yet
available, ‘ find out why not and when it will be!

starting again-

“ake the world into your own hands, jant to yo back and get that
dinloma or start a new career? (ry these,

Emnire State provides individually tailored Learning vrovtrams in

gee eee ee ee
a variety ox. f1elds, including women's s:° cudies, to suit your needs and
your available time, ‘Yhere are two main facilities:

Albany Learnings denter Jaratoza Learnins enter
Unix : ) 20° ae Jnion Avenue

Jraper Jall bz ‘ Saratova Sporinss,:i.%.12366
135 .estern Avenue. the: 4 - 587=2100

Albany ,i?.2.12203 ise... ek. | 4

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The Uroan Genter of udson Valley Jommunity jollee: srovides
individually tallore< nro srams career counsellin; in a variety o£
areas, it is a tuition Eree yrogram offered to women and men over 13
years old, %jourses are offered mornin: 38,42 ternoons and ‘evenin;s in the
followins and other areas: ig ippiess iad ;

Adalt 3asic Jlucation ; “Be sosmetolosy

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‘Troy ,1le%ei21 20 |
233=@1100

The ivenins vivision of Russell 3ave hol Lee offers the onvortunity
to attain a bachelors or asters devtree im a number of fields through
part time stuly, You may. cursue a bachelors de: sree in any of the areas
below and more: errs 8, | ,

Zconomics sovernment ... wursing
Secioloty | Psycholozy .. Accountin«
anetLish Education

Amasters is offered in educAtion,

Albany Office Lroy CZfice
140 ew scotland Avenue 45 Terry Street
Albany ,'1..7.12203 Troy, ste 012130
465-5511 or 465-1551 270-2530

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WADICAL SasiV10gS

ALBANY COUNTY MALTA vaPAWiudiT-Souta gerry. and Green St. 436-0h01
Chest Awrays: ...i° 1-3 pm Th 50230 pm ;
Venereal disease testing and treatment-free and confidential: eekdays 9-11 am

1-3 pm | | swiGa-South i 2 G St
ALBANY COUNTY DEPT, OF BALL. HALT LivO,undigiuwL SdivIca-South rerry = Green Ste
436-112

i'ile of community health resources and social service groups. il=i 9=h pms
ALBALY iiDICAL CHi:TamilewScotland Ave. For clinic apptse 445-343
Clinics: Allerzy, arthritis, Cardiac, Cancer detection, Lermatology,
rertility, Jutrition, iisurology, Orthopedics, Pediatrics, Dental,
Cystic Fibrosis, Communication Disorders, Seizure, Surgery, Plastic
Surgery, Tumor, Abortion, Ob-Gyn, Evaluation, Family Practice, Medical
Well Baby. |
To obtain an appt. for the Medical clinic you must either have a
private physician (all you have to do is give his/her name) or
be referred from the Zvaluation clinic. oe
Fees based on ability to pay.
2) hour emergency roome
ALBANY PLANNED PARENTHO0D-225 Lark St. 43=2162, ; ’
Birth planning information, pregnancy tests, abortion referrals, venereal
disease testing, premarital consultations. 5 Rt
By appointment, Clinic hours: M=-Th evenings, Th afterncon, Fri. morning.
Teen clinic Weds, afternnon.
Fee based on ability to pay.
MEMORIAL HOSPITAL=Northern Blvd, 162-5661
General & specialty clinics; cancer detection. Emergency suite with full
time physicians,
REFER SWITCHBOAKD=-3)-1202
A clearinghouse for community agencies in all areas. They do some rape
counseling and can refer clients to some individuals who also do rape
counseling, =~ | , <<“
SOUTH END COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER=Clinton and Fourth 63=1169
General health services. Weekdays 6-9 pm, Sate 10-l) pm
Fees on a sliding scale up to $10,00
WASHINGTON PARK FREE MEDICAL CLINIC, INC. 407sHamilton 63-1083
General health services, venereal disease testing and treatment, pregnancy
testing and counseling. MwTh 7 pm until all are seen.

WHITNEY M. YOUNG JR. COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER 93 Livingston Ave. 465-4771
General health services, Free if you qualify (Medicaid eligible)
MUF 9=5 pms TTh 1-9 pm.

TRIeCITIES CHILDBIRTH INSTRUCTION-10 West Kelly Ave., Westwere 12203
Contact Paula Reich, 456-7708.
Tvelve rezistered nurses provide pre=- and post=-nstrl health in-
struction. Pees: Lamaze, $25; child care, $15. Sliding scale
based on ability to pay.

Be ee ee ke ee ee
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SELECTED MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES FOR ALBANY COUNTY

Alcoholism - Nepean

Albany Council on Alcoholism moved to St. Peter's sy ss |
St. Peter's Hospital Alcoholism Rehab.. Center (SPAR)... _ Ext. 315
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and Al- Teen ee oe A aeO
P.O. Box 7161, Capital Station’ — as “ombee a rags
Albany, N.Y.

Alcoholic Rehabilitation Clinic ey» alee»:
Albany Medical Center ts Ext. 3329
628 Madison Ave. ih |
Albany, N.Y. weicggol fete ibd ate
Al-Anon Family Groups 438-7493

West End Presbyterian Church
585 Central Ave.
Albany, N.Y.

Psychiatric Services -

Albany County Mentat Health Clinic. ee ee aaa «436-8481
175 Green St. wre, ays

Albany, N.Y. , ‘a lweh on
Albany Medical Center Hospital 472-7521 |

New Scotland Ave.
Albany, N.Y.

Albany Home For Children 463-4289
60 Academy Rd. Accepts referrals through = —- ob
Albany, N.Y. 12208 other social agencies or the court system.

Capital District Psychiatric Center — fe 47H 6415
4 Hollend Ave. ai
Albany, N.Y. 12208

Child Guidance. ieee en se —— yard, 189-3263
314 South Ménning Blvd. «Eh ot dh att
Albany, N.Y, 12208

Oswald D. Heck Memorial School 370-1315

500 Balltown Rd.

Schenectady, N.Y. 12304 — Developmental services for children
City of Albany: 133 Madison Ave. _ 1 ae 474-1791
South Albany County & Greene: 159 Delaware Ave. "ies 439-7661

Elsmere |
North Albany County: 15 Old Loudon Rd., Latham 785-3356
St. Peter's Hospital | | 438-7811

New Scotland Ave.
Albany, N.Y. 12208

Veteran's Administration Hospital 462-3311
Holland Ave.
Albany, N.Y.

Counseling Services -

Albany Diocese Health & Social Services 436-9749

(formerly Catholic Charities)

30 Frain St. Fak

Albany, N.Y. Services include adoption, assist unwed mothers,
family courts and poverty areas.

Albany Jewish Family Services 462-4291
291 State St.
Albany, N.Y.

Capital Area Council of Churches - 489-8447
810 Madison Ave.

Albany, N.Y. | |

Family & Children's Service of Albany, Inc. - 462-6531

15 South Lake Ave.
Albany, N.Y.

Planned parenthood - 463-5432
225 Lark St., Albany (Satellite clinic - 38 Catherine St.

Albany - Sheridan Hollow Comm. Ctr. j

Wed. 1:00 - 3:00 PM

Crisis Intervention -

Albany County Mental Health Clinic | | | 436-8481
175 Green St. ~ es igh
Albany, N.Y. : 24-hour emergency service

Albany Medical Center Emergency Service Jedi ‘slits s 462-7521
New Scotland Ave. oy ele
Albany, N.Y. :

FISH Organizations:
Provides emergency services , cea setelbdenaiibcats to medical
facilities, babysitting, meals, reading to blind, services

to elderly | pie |
Delmar, CLaxksvt'Lic: Madenbiavs or 439-3578
Guilderland . 3 | 462-6916
South Colonie = pence 869-7777
Ozanam Out-Reach Project | ee hla hed 472-9597
Lawrence St. | He, zie ;
Rensselaer, N.Y. Youth ages 13 and 19 can talk over problems.
Recovery, Inc. ° aaa aie tae i wn 377-3178

2918 Consaul Rd.
Schenectady, N.Y.

Refer Switchboard, Inc. | pee eee : 434-1203

332 Madison Ave. : “he L~ : Jit ee

Albany, N.Y. 24-hour telephone information service for youth
% ‘ ae :

Miscellaneous -

Association for Voluntary ‘Sterilization ©
14 West 40th St.
New York, New York

Child Abuse & Maltreatment Reporting _ (toll free) 1-800-342-3720
1450 Western Ave. ; pee > be !

Albany, N.Y.

Health Consumer Hotline PAGE? 250g e's gee. 474-3000
Health Information & Referral 436-4111

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ARTS A) CRAFTS:

There are nany women artists end crafts-
woron in the. areas . The Albany. Public
Library has done the sreat service of
compilins a directory called (very

solf-explanatorilv) Directory of
” © P= s : *

It will be avilable this summer at
all slbany Putlic branches for 31400.

= Cer 1069 “ew Scotland Toad .
any, 439-3428, offers n wide

variety of arts and craltts classes

plus seminars dealings with the artse

"he ts Conte woly “amas Campus
W3IS—7°°5, snn ivans Director,

offers various lectures and )
enonstrations dealins with the

artse
A ak of wtistory and Art 125
aashineton Avenue, Albany

NEZ-4495, barbara “Ovans, offers
classes in arts and crafts.

Rensselaer County Council For the arts

: 189 Secend Avenue, iIrsy, New York
| 257=0552, offers pettery, s¢€lver

jewelry design, painting classes for
children, creative mevement and other
anique and interesting crafts.

YeWeCeA. Albany, 55 Steuben Street, Albany, N.Y.
449~7184,

YoW.C.A. Troy, 1@ ist Street, Troy, NeYe,
272-5900

YeWeCeA., Schenectady, 13 State Street, Schenectady,
New York, 374-9136,

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Seneral self-imorovenent or just for fun-

fhé followins courses ae nart of adult education orosrams in
various hitch schools in’ the Tri-city area, Gourses are senerally 7
offered in a Snoring and #all term, although cone schools have a Summer
term, and usually require a full enrollment of 10 or i2, Fees listed
may be subject to chanve and are only ineludced to sive an indication
of cost. urther, information may be obtainec on snecific courses by
calling the numbers siven “or each nrosram,.

School “istricts | hk hina “dead es ee: ike ad) Fee:

a. ett Oe eee Obl f= Ietehee, | Auto itech, :
3ethlehem +> —_ arse id aT aa “4 His ~LO
4.39 04905 |
Solonie x ty b Judgeids: be ax 15
45961 220 : ‘
juilderland — a ee Judo, karate. So § an ae ee
§61-3591
Ravena-Soeymans Xteuw Physical Vitness X 42,50(Res)
756-2155 | 13,50 Cilon- )
Hiskayuna. - . [aes F6 —_s wae ETS ron Vary
393-6111 a a pels he fT %
Averill Park okie t® Jucio x 20
674-2251
liechanicville RY
654-9333

* “he starred ‘igh School iqiivaleney coirses are state-funded and
o<fered frée of charge, 39

+ Sethlehem also offers a course in Investments for the Laynerson,

The Jevish lonmunit- Center (43346651) and the YwCAa (449-7134),
both in Albany, also o7tfer courses in Judo and .¥O%a@eFees at the YA
are $15 and a $5 annual membershin fee, Fees at the Jia Wiich offers a

-

wide variety of cratts and recreation courses vary from around $20 to
C5
pre

CALENDER ANT. 4NNOUNCEMENTS

June 2

Aheuat binges Pack Sppritys Dem.
Washington Park, Albany (in lake-
house if it rains. ). The Coalition
will be holding a bakesale and the
Albany Caucus will be selling -
frozen ethnic foods to take home,
Come and meet craftswomen from the.
area.

June 3, 10, 17 !24

Lesbians for Liberation, Gay~
Community House, 332 Hudson Ave.,
Albany, 8 p.m. All women welcome.

June 4
Capital District '’omen's monthly ©
business meeting, 8 p.m.

June 7,8 &°9
Masculine Mystique, NOW Conference
NYC, Call Bob Fager for details,
June 13

NOW Albany Yellow Pares meeting,
Emmanuel Baptist Church, 275 State
ot., Altemy 7 Dem. Contact Robin
Gerber or Gecrpia Gray, 456-1612.

June 13
Schenectady NOW, Liz Craiglow will

demonstrate techniques of self

‘defense. 8 p.m., Unitarian House,

1248 Wendell Avenue, Schenectady.

J

Deadline for July: sematienits: Call
Chris Root 489- 2698.

June
Albany Area) 7p.m. Coffee hour

to welcome new members, 8 p.m.

Presentation by Employment Task
Force, Emmanuel Baptist Church,
Albany.

June 20 3
Speakout Work Session, Chris Root'a
865 Lancaster St., Albany.

June 25
Speakout ey needed. Contact
Chris Root, 489-2698. 1

J

Albany NOW pot luck picnic, 6 p.m,
Robin Gerberts, followed by NOW
business meeting, guests and new

. members welcome. Call Chris Root.

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Volume III ‘Yo. VII

T: A TEMINIST NEvSJOURNAL

July 1974

If I had been the white
working-class woman

wife wouan

mother woman
replica woman of 1y
mother-oman (she is all that)
years grinding upwards
feelins life grinding co:mwards
to a dead stop

may she be dead twice as long

as she lives, she needs the rest.

would be a comnitted iwonan
aa, not, that is to say,
an a wonan that comnits
commit the felony-Lovinz
wouen,

He eiH

I cownit misdencanors~-
My child is dirty and she
screams in public.

I comnit forgery.
I don't always sign the line

Lesbian, sometimes just ay mane,...

" . ‘ -
fron Because ‘Mourning Sickness
Is A Staple In My Country"

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SISTERHOOD IS ONLY POWERFUL \IEN JE MAKE

; -
An article from Phe Full Circle Collective

em 5S eeaew=st see ene = er eo eo eee ee wea rse mt asen ee wees ee
é = - “ 3

I an sitting at a desk in the office
I work at, notes cluttered in front of
me and thoughts cluttered inside wy
brain, Five days have sone by since my
first attempt to write and as far as
being any closer to a completed article,
I am no further than I was then,

I am the second person to make an
attempt with this article. Diane spent
as wany brain-pounding days as 5 dic
uatil her article caue tovether yet was
dissatisfied with what she wrote because
it dida't express what she really meant
to say. Jaye has written an article
which also appears in this issue and
Tony has shared her thoushts and has) *7+:
siven loving and much needed support.
This article and Jayve's article are the
first efforts vy the Full Circle Collec-
tive to share with other sisters (and
brothers if they read the articles)

sone of our perceptions and analysis of
where the .jonen's Movenent is at these
days.

Presently, there are three differ.
ent groups in Albany that are dealin:
with vital issues that concera wouen,
There is OW which deals with lesal
issues, Capital District Jomon which «2
deals with C,R, and women's studies, and
L.F.L. which deals with Lesbianisn,

There are also larse numbers of wonen who
are counectec with none of these sroups ©.
but who would also identity theaselves

as part of the Movement. There are also
larce numbers of wowen who are either
not yet aware of the movewent because
they have not been reached by individual
woucn, or Woneri's press, theatre music,
poetry, etc. or who, after learnin »
something of the movenent, have decided
that the woveaent docs not in any Way
acet their needs, Althouwh the lives of
SO tlany Women have been deeply touched
and alterec, the nuwber of wouen that

the movement has not reached is far
greater than those that have been rea-
ched, And the number of males that have
been reached is so winute as to hardly

be worth the space on this page,

This isolation, separation, and
alienation amons women is no surprise
given the culture that we live in and
given that it is the 70's and not the 50!s
During the middle and late 50's, the
Jonen's Movement seemed to avsolutalyv
erupt with passion, joy, vitality, - aad

an

IT THAT JAY: Se ee

urcency. Classisa, racism, sexisn,
chauvanisn, imperialisa, and whatever-
otherisms began to make sense in an
entirely new way, ‘e learned that the |
separation of people according to

sex, somal preference, race, national
boundaries, income, ase, and occupa-

tion were absurdly dangerous distortions

that served only only to encourace fear
suspicion, and paranoia among all of

us, thereby weakening and alienating

us, and strenethening them. "All of us"

refers to each individual who,is trapped

oy the superpower gaae. "Then refers

to people in vositions influential

chousi to manipulate the power zane.

These people are almost all males. "Thea"

also refers to all those values, beliefs,
wyths, morals, principles, and condi-

tLloning that throu h their institution-
alizations into church, state, and

family, trap, and senerate us into

destructive mind-sets, life styles, and
survival strussles,

Cont. on Page 3

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On The Rituals of Survival

"This above all, to refuse to
be a victin. Unless I can do that
I can do nothing. I have to recant,
sive.up the old belief that I an
powerless and because of it nothing
I can do will ever hurt anyone. A
lie which was always nore digastrous
than the truth would have been. The
word games, the winaing and losing
janes are finished; at the moment
there are no others but they will
have to be invented, withdrawing
is no longer possible and the al-
ternative is death,"

Surfacing

Marczaret Atwood

(who also wrote The Edible Joman)

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2 So we come back around +o the
Women's Movement which over the
years has exposed, attacked and
organized around the issues that
most deeply effect us, Each
woman who connects with a group
chooses one that most closely fits
her needs for growth and under—
standing. That group then, serves
as an island from which the per-
sonal—public-political battles

can be fought.

However, islands are isolated
and separate units that remain
that way until something connects
them. Providing ourselves with a
Women's Center and having bi- - —
monthly Women's Dinners were
supposed to be: connecting links >
to serve our varied needs and -to
bring us into closer contact with
each other. Very few women or
women's groups are now engaged in
any of the work that must be done
to create a functioning Women's
Center, and the number of women
that attend the dinners dwindles
with each dinner, It seems clear
that meither individual women nor
women's groups in Albany are ;
functioming as a collective unit.

It is impossible to function as
an effective movement when we
compartmentalize sisters into
categories that alienate us from
each other, Gay women are not the
enemy to straight women and «i. ~
straight womén are not the enemy
to gay women. Married women and
Single women are not the enemy . °
either, That kind of "I am super-

ior to you" or "I am more liberated

than thou" is a destructive mind
set that only serves to weaken the
movement internally and to slow us
down. This type of thinking is no
different than males thinking that
they are superior to females,:° 7%
whites superior to every else,
young supsrior to old, rich super-=
ior to poor, etc.

If we still haven't developed
constructive’ways of breaking down
our barriers, let us individually

i .

| | learn these skills the same as ‘

we would technical skills,
are as if not important.
Perhaps an other way of break
-ing down barriers is through
a tactic differént than we have
done in a while,
For example:
What if we rallied behind an
action that could connect tus
with large groups of people not
identified or connected with the
movement? These people might
become interested and then com-
mitted to that

that particular issue

because there is something '
identifiably positive for them.

The issue or action would not
be one that had to do with a
Specific issue that any existing
Albany women's group is present-
ly confronting nor would it
directly have to do with our
individual struggles, This way,
we would all be working together
for a common goal and im work
ing together we would hopefully
get to know each other and find
out that the barriers and diff-
erences we have let separate us
in the past were really mis-

They

conceptions and myths.

Perhaps we could approach a
media such as local television
and ask for what we as viewers
would like to see, Women's
theatre, skills and education
classes, poetry readings and
workshops, and so much more
could be available to all women

who had access to television.

Ideas would be shared with a
much larger group than now
exists; it seems only logical
that the movement would grow and
people would come to understand
their mis-conceptions about us.
We might ewen be able to influ-
ence enough people to join with
us to change the laws and break
down the myths that so greatly
oppress us,

Our dreams could become our
realities if only we would unite
in struggle and re-vitalize our

end as groups undergo the criticism movement so that it is effective

amd analysis necessary to do it.
Enough women in the movement have
have by now developed the ability ~
to observe, criticize and analize,
Let's share and help others to

influential and strong.
Sisterhood is only powerful
when-we make it that way.
-The full cifcle collective
(Diane, Jaye, Ruth, Tony)

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WHAT wAS IT Ik THE FIRST WAVE 3
OF sOMEN'S LIBTRATION THAT SPOKE
TO ALL iO“:

rea a Planned

I feel isolated, I sense a lull,
I miss the vitality and strength of a
unified, active movement for women's
liberation. + understand the necessity
and the value of individual women, as
well as women's groups, to seperate in
order to develop skills, to write, to
create, to push for lesislation and
sood health care. Je learned these
abilities and services should be ours
when our collective consciousness as
women of a new ase was raised. I under-
stand also the necessity and value of
all of us as women trying to forge a
new kind of personal relationship with
our sisters, lovers, and brothers to
immerse ourselves in intense personal
struggle. And I understand that as a
reaction to the rouzh times we now live

in, how easy it is for us to turn inward
and concentrate on our daily strugele to

love, live, and survive. The momentun
created by the women's movement of the
last five years is enough to support
us through our individual struggles
with awareness and confidence,

However, I beliéve wo have reached
a plateau. This in itself is not bad,
At no other time have the ideas of =: 1:

women's liberation had such wide-reachr. .
ing appeal. &t no other time have women ~

been as aware and affected by the wri-

tings of women as we are now; the voices

of women's liberation are daily echoed
in the mass media, But we cannot let

our past accomplishnents and visions
beomé stagnant, nor can we allow our-

selves to relax into a period of self~
satisfaction. Je must begin again the
search for a new vision and a new unity
just as our sisters in the past have
done.

To this end we are calling for a
donen's Conference to be held August
16, 17, 18 4m Albany, #.Y. “Je see this
conference as an apportunity to bring
together the enersis of wonen who are
now separated frou each other either
th#ough the necessities of individual
survival or throuzh a false feeling of
division as distinct interest groups.

de would pose the following questions as

as a bezinning for discussion at such
a conference:

Cont. ompaze 14.-

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LESBIANS FOR LIBERATION:
‘OPTIONS ROR: THE
{OMAN IDENTIFITD jOMAN

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FOS, eC ae eerste aS SSE one

example of how women in the Albany
area are continuing the struggle for

a more complete sense of fulfillment
of sisterhood, Since it begin last
September L®L has provided many women
with the support necessary to realize
and sustain a strongly feminist and/or/
both lesbian identity. The group has
achieved this by sponsoring weekly
Monday night meetins, a radio progran,
discussion panels, women's coffee-~
house, canpine trips, dances and a
variety of other activities. Throush
these various functions many women
have been given the opportunity to
enjoy and explore the options that a
woman-identifiec-woman lifestyle has
to offer, In addition there has been
much continuing cffort to. examine
those aspects of society that still
continue to oppress women, especially
those who are lesbian identified.
This suaaer LFL plans to continue
its celebration of wonen's culture by
explorins different areas of lesbian
art and literature. Through this
program and others we hope to learn

aych more about the ways in which won-

en have souzht to express their am
unique culture,

Lr is an onzoinz, open group that
welcones all women to its functions.
Any woman or group wishins more infor-
mation about the sroup or its
speakers bureau should contact

Lesbians for Liberation

bi Hudson Ave

Albany \.¥. 12210
or call 452-5133 on Mon. eves. Meetings
are held at 332 Hudson Ave. every
Monday at S p.m.

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"ioman's ego identity aust somehow
shivt and be woored upon what is

necessary for her own survival as

& strony indivicual....Such a shift

in the basic fonale eso implies a

frank passion for achievine the power

necessary to define oneself ”

Phyllis Chesler

‘GROUP NEWS

"T'4 A WOMAN"- WRPI
The new regime in student government

at WaPI is trying to force #5'M a Woman",
produccd by Troy Women's Libcration off
the air.Changing their dete and time to
tionday at 7:00-7:5 p.em.e is the least of
the harassment.The situation has becoine
a continual strussle. Une of WKPI's
‘Glaimb%is that’tho proprm doesn't .+. *
receive enough "fen mail". PLLASE, it is
essential that we FLOOD the station with
"fan mail" for this program.(sce Calendar
of Events for prosram schcdulc).

I's a Woman

whPI

Lounge 15

Troy, New York

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cCOALLTIONYRORWA FREE CHOICE

Onepfaréiin-the ’tobc! Répisls tuberhas
adjourncd withsutvpadeipgi ify .contraccp-
tive bis. Amoh}. themtwacta: miidlZhnac
*ponsorct iby" ASsembikytionrCook whitthe
would shave .alloogs someonelothtr them:n
pharmacist to sclh'contrecceptives;-as
Weld obuthe display of contraceptiwegesn
that, theyeould’ bc. pufchiscd sa thekt BM,
requcst that they be removed from their
hiding place. An Halpcrin bill tooproyvide
lists of family planning agencies to
thosesapplying for a marriage liccnse
passed the Senate but died in the
Assembly hkulcs Co.mittec.

Concern, the Catholic Church and
right to preenancy lobbyists preventcd
action on contraccjtion bills while
pusing through the Grune Bill. The Grune
Bill requires that all abortions perforn-
ed after the 20th week of prepnency
be done in an hospital and that two
doctors be present. The bill's passage
wes greatly aided by Governor Wilgon's
messe.e¢ Of speciel urgency.

in addition, "risht to Life"'s tax
free "educational" foundation is cele-
brating world Population Year as well as
an impending famine larger than any
known in past ages by sugpesting in its
June newslctter that oe —".°* now is the
time to consider leri®lation encoura. ing
people to have more children.

TROY 'S RAPE ChISIS CENTER

Troy's Rape Crisis .enter, organized by
Troy N.U.Ww.e will begin operation July 1.
The TroyrPolice .will dthmediately cell in
a counselor whenever a rape is reported.
“Thete' are‘currently about 20 counselors,
but more will be trained. For more infore=
mation or to volunteer your aid call
Liz Craiglow at37h=-3930

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ALBANY N.O.W.

The labor union tek forec is anxious
for input from womon interestcd in this
arcae Contact Robin Gerber 477-73).

Albany NOW is organizing people to work
with women in erea prisons. Call the Now
number for further information«':Jj3})-1712.
the Albany NOW Women's Yellow Pages,
which wes attached to last month's Speak-
Out is already in the process of creating
a morc inclusive and informative cdition.
Plo asc contact Georgia Gray=l56=1612 if
you. wish to participat« or offer suggest-
LONSeceMeee te GY gles Bay

"see I asked a man in prison once how h
he happened to be there, and he said he %:
had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if
he had stolen a reilroad he would be a
United States Senator."-Mother Jones.

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SUMMER 19

June: mWiszgivings, like ill-fitted shoes,
laaed wae throuch the first rituals.
the hollow of your throat, easy omen,
kept me posturing close to the door
until that tiny thrust tumbled ime.
caught mc in your full choregraphy.

July: we are so expensive, and so necessary.
my eyes are ‘dependent, locked into
this intricate skia, this rigid dancins.
suddenly you are detailed greon and gold.
your bruisec spice sharpens all senses,
Dlue air fills the curtains like sails.

August: wilky daim reveals us in modest ambush.
your takin cyes are birdlike, tremulous.
I have fox~dreans, I flash to snares,
to grawinz off whatever is held fast.
I wonder about new blood, new growth,
before your arus fold me back to sleep.

Mary
«Mea IRI aE IE aK 2 aK

T have found 2 roof to

alone to sit

hold me

Country Girls To fecol my om beauty
as the sun wassayes me

There are wouen who do not smile, as the tender bree
Until after. kisses tie
No one seons to cars and runs avay lauvhiny
Still they steal the: siile It teases me anc
from others lips; every leaf and bee feels
those who walk clad in zay colors special “rth its teasin;
soon Gisarrayed by a knowing Silence Today I an a tree
and &- sweet, smuz look of The sua is a golden chariot
self-~satisfaction. And oc is a woman
Lonely walks throuzh e¢laded tro3eds tho loves ie,
is no place for tne bevinner,
Strumiing her instrument in a ¢roup Maggie Stone
is not quite the saine thin,
as discovering a broken chord
after one has walked back into the roon 28 a SK OC a 2 2 a 9k 9g ak ak 2 ak

to wash ones hands
of the silent swiler's knowled¢e,

Carol Harp

"TN THE BEGINNING,

292 “Csyet ek see le

vs > ews]
p Rg ass Sy

AS JOHAN,"

Mothers and Amazons
tielen Diner

LADY SUG LADY BUG FLY AUAY PART I

1 a inch oe a ee

Love Coues
Love Gros
Everchan cin’
Less Charged
ifore Sure

os 8 04 8 Oe TS Eee

Your merry=“0-BeuAd FSs
Forever chasing that solden ring
souetines, aonentarily sot on me
And, ia that souletines, all the tine.
I silently wish to join ;you on the ride
Mut, I haven't sot the necessary cine,
To wake with your anber hair on the
pillow next to mine
Perhaos with some stray strands
touchin: we
Is more than I have
After wy journey of
‘tiles is doue
Yours is the box step I don't mind -..
following.

around

the richt to ask
a 10002: more

one, tio, three, four

one, two, three

one, tio

one

All my life I've been a boy-virl
And now I'll be with wonen

Gil
are the create
voices ainglin®:

— |

For thoy a
their muted
sou¢gs in a distance,

with

The softest of fur bides
my hand,

There is where I imit to press my
mouth

To explore with wy zealous

ton-ue

Jdhile you Giscover and lay clain

to we

me your country.

where I lay

Makin?

a PM 8 oe ae 8 Oo eee ee eee

yomagechild of the morning

I have only to love you

And you will forsvive we any
offense. \

Then tender-touch

You suckle we

And I aw your grateful prisoner

acrain,

ae

next col,

st of all mysteries and tri

There isn't much I can give you,
Bxcept nerhaps to let you take
voursolf aay,
It is the zift of parting,
That would zo souethiny like this in
the. movies.
"She lovec her snouch to let her
go."

MAX UELL CRICKET

8 4 9 ee Oe ee 8 Ce et een ee ence es ee cE

FOR NO.!, ALREADY YESTERDAY
They say I au very fracile now.

Mou",

God knows I fouvht it,

Foucht beins human.

Fousht bsins the delicate class object
that I am.

felass?".: No,

No sort of slass will serve a
metaphor for we,

Nor any sort of object.

I am wind, .a life force.

a vomb, a uothor,

Ane now I have aothered myself into

DS1Nns.

At first I thousht ayself still-born.

ed to slao the cries frou wy

throat, a chokin: gasp.
Silence,

Then, slowly, I unwrapped one arn

from ay side and aoved,

Then anothers

imidwited by lies, contradictions, jokes,
desertions, caresses, warath, love. of
me aud life forces that trillnot be
bought from Bride's mavagine,

Jor found. tosset away aside highways,
or dackroads

Nor junked finally at one last

burlesque of a carave sale.

IT'a sorry,

“le---chipped, worm, stained, half

lossed, © 3. . 3 3 Yet
is no Lunver availsste.

The omer can't bear to part with her,

Carol Harp

The Lady"s ‘histler

& phanton to the universal love son:;,

cannot let this Lady know

or rest

ia the aarked passionsof tradition.
Comfort her, hands at back,

cheeks red, but that is all, wother,
The Lady's whistler bre sathes,
Signs la time disappears,

rossurects, crics a saintly union.

I WALLUCINATE BLOOD

SS a ee eee

Taste her like a

and in a wave

aruz in my vein
feel hor flood:

(Irithing, Heathenously
I hallucinate blood)

Writhin:

Pouring vials of scorching
I drink wy blood, like a
and know it is her blood

acid throuch
man,

(maduan dreas of baths of blooc, goblets,
blood in which to droim eitics,
Vaupires and nacaen drink blood

Their blood is crusted like rust on 2 filthy
y

You kept aeeting my eyes
tne other night;
You'c never done that before;
I'am as close to you as I dare
to be,
Any closer and 3 te'd be
scared of each other
and I of «myself,
Peace for us dics not in love,
but ata distance,

Maggie Storie

at my mirror

“ay veins
like a madna

n
seas or

fountains,

relic)

Like lesbians scratchiny, biting each others! breasts

I strangle her rising vessels
Knowing they are wine, raging like boiling

_sweet draucht oka
ies useless 11 the

She is more than blooc- or less
Tewptress-Cuthroat
I an blood

hay fresh blood
ood

Sharon Stonekey

Min Ape. Ne ah en! agony
2 ei TIT Lora “mgs ° ies Vans 2 A
OF A SHORT DISTANCE RUNNER

SE ee ee

Entering the race late

Running against time, a near dist
opponent and he —_ Lf

Breathing hard and fast

she Lost

Janting to cry out: It's not fair

Until she reneabered just in time that

In this chase, the prize too had a

free will,

ant

WMazellL Cricket

"be slay

crabs
Report from the Trenches

ee ee

licewt bocd, Mnerts! sneaks TS
inf finitely Su} perior %
to narrow, toce-crunchin::

ond eae vital
-to the feminst body revolution,

T would Like to report that: a

eae we M5

ayia sneakers

a

Uy pon infiltrating
e Ci epartiacint SLOP
‘ten's shoe department

and cacounterin: a hostile eneny
shoe sales dude
amiec with a belt full

of prepackaved "chick" and "honey"!

1 whispered "Bill Bradley"

and while he
escaped

with a pair of converse sneakers
red, white, blue,

was in shock

June

Now in the collection of webs you've strung
In the tangles and damnations‘of jasper girls
I see you as you were and ere,

Invalid of the road

Sucking a stone you won't return

Years ago, we cavorted

consorted at night on rolling fields

where adults played by day

and on cemetaries together with spirits aroused

You nursed dead mice you found on the road
And I thought that poponee

But accept or forget | ew

our tangled clothes and mustard minds aliens
among the poka dots of home

Our hairs grew longer and shorter
and yours straightened aback

You came out loving jasper buds
Freedom abides and sanctions

‘But at your mother's funeral
who finally suecceéds with seconal
your anger was at the no smoking in the mortuary

we drenk that night
laugned that night
Diner slowly that night

And you're speeding again

Speeding agian not knowing where time was
where days passed

trashing in mirages

Cruising on deserts of barroom eyes

She speaks in the background still

Of the carrot you see, fixed spaces before your reach
so you're selling yourself now
scrapping flesh for a fee

How do I watch this last wound
As you hang on a stolen knife

-Sh,ron Stonekey

FOR DIANA AND ARTEMIS
{HO ALSO COME AS EVERY.JOMAN

If I were to touch your hand
again and again,
Ande walk feet placed apart,
thichs spread,
aad chant the words,
I would birth a child of us
anto being,
we would adore the child,
but Lt would not raise to thirty
and depart.
Forever a part of us,
we would nurse it. Both,
You and I,
siving it sustenance,
holding it to us,
bearing it tovsther.
TE DE IK Deak Oe ig oie 3
The soft wetness of you
opens to invite iwe in,
The edses smooth and hollow
widen for ae to enter,
myself wrapped round,
bathed in wetness and warnth,
2 Ba a ae He ae ok oe ok

If { must struccle to bring you out,

I will.

If + aust force uyself between your

legs, Iwill.
Forcin: ia to meet wvself, there

on the lip and rin of the wetness

fertile with us,

Aidening, idenias,
Pressing, Bearing down,
Forcing out all but the self,
I an screaming,

"T an",

And the I is both you and I,
the center,

held in our hands,

cupped together,

in the flovwins,

Carol Harp

HE AE DK IK I EE IE Bi aig DK 2x 3s Ik a Be as 2c Ie ok afk ok 3k ak aie ake afk a afk ake

Me Ie Hs 2 a I HRT 3k ak 2k 2Is Hi ae ak Dk ais 9 aig aie Dg aie aie ic aig at ae of kx

MR A 2 BA HS 3 2 Ra 2 2 FH 3 a a IK OK ag a ae ae

\O

COMING OUT OF TIE ANESTHESIA

I cannot remember her eyes
or the heart of her

(I only see your wide soft wet mouth)

You kiss the yellotrine bruises and
say it must have been awful

I have no recollection of pain
there is no scar

we looked, found nothing,

(I only see your hard narrow back)

Perhaps I was crugge

mis Tis ed

drazzed, sleepualking .

‘dreamt it up, made it up

a participant in madness

(I only hear you saying my name
again and again)

I remember tio scars on
the side of a face

suall haads, short fingers
& thin mouth hard

@ moon face red, nothin: else

(I only feel your breasts acainst
my face)
I knew the surgery was radical
when I gave ay ok, sizned ay life away
they warned me of my choice
a hack they said, a half-aad hack
I would be a participant in madness
they said,

(I only feel your tizht solid wet body)

I believed in miracles, withches brews
now they circle ic with other spells
ready to catch we should I fall

fam not cizzy I an not sick

I am in no pain

(I only feel you movine against we)

fou kiss the yellowins bruises
say it must have been awful

to be hurt that way no way

lay me back cently, brushing at
fadin: yollow circles

I cannot reaeaber her eyes
or the heart of her

(I only feel your wouan's hips
rocking mc softly) —
tle

: 40
n Somewhere there is a siren. Her gréén body is coveréd with scales. Her

face is bare. The undersides of her arms is a rosy colur. Sometimes she
begins to sing. the women say that of her song nothing is to be heard but
a dontinuous 0, That is why this song evokes for them...the zero or the
circle, the vulval ring,"

Monique Wittig Les Guerilleres

EAC 2 28 3 9k 9 2 98 28 aie 2k 2K ae Ika 9c a 2k 9K i 9K 2K 3k 2k akc 2k ak afc a ok ak ok fc ak ak ak ak ak ak 9k

é

(What can I do for you How can I kelp you, I who know
only women?)

You a baptist woman very young as befits a baptist woman
leaving high shcool,

You little innocent innocent

Ignorant of man-made ways ignorant
of the world (of men),

Silly girl you went where your father Miserly

sent you after beating his wife for your eighteen years
he sent you to a midwestern
college

to fall‘in love with a cowboy or a jock but
not, woman, not
to get pregnant.

(Why do I, who know only women, feel I could have warned
you about that?)

Married you are now to a cowboy or a jock a baby
growing in your disowned bower your frightened belly

blesses you with morning sickness as cherubs tie ribbands
in your hair ;

and piss on you,

-Maggie Stone

7 29K ae 0 ae 2 Ra SII KK 9K RCO aI IK ICS ae a oe ae ak ak agai a

Political Skeltons in the Closet?

At this spring's New York State
women"s Political Caucus convention
in White Plains, a lesbian caucus was
called. Signs in corridors and eleva- A hell of a lot of women don't
tors advertized the meeting, know how to or are afraid to relate to

Only two women showed up and one each other, jomen have to learn about
was a reporter! themselves and about each Other, about
alternatives, about their lives having
meaning....Wvomen want to relate to other
women, A lesbian can..... Before women
can understand their positions relative
to men, they must understand their
positions relative to one another."
from an interview with the women of
"Lavendar Jane" Off Our Backs April

Demystifying ‘Joman's Love

" if

--+, What's the big deal about
women loving women, aayway. It's no
mystery to us....

Nee ee eee ee eee EEE eee

11

CRAZY EMILY'S DILEMMA
eer AND
THE MYSTERY OF NOT SLIGHTLY
by
Sharon Stonekey

One night I was counting image patterns. and getting nowhere. Not
Slightly by Gertrude Stein was a play I was directing for a class.
carte e Stein rarely wrote in a coherent style and found adjectives
terribly boring, making my task very difficult indeed. The telephone

reng.’ It was my friend Crazy Emily who said in a very disturbed
voice, "Lilith has taken over."

"She has?" I replied,” "That's terrible."

"T'm so glad you know. What should I do about it?"
now what?" I asked,

"Who Lilith is." she replied. ° ; ee:

"To tell you the truth, Emily, I really don't know who...."

"Don't lie to me." she screamed and hung up. :

Crazy Emily is a very dear friend of mine, and more often than
not is in strange situations, Thinking nothing further about it,
I went, back to my desk and my plans for Not Slightly. I wondered
what Gertrude Stein meant by "Nine shall” combine Straichy and‘ purl
wilt and borrowed moans," and "I can scratch. Not it. Spool. She
meant it again," I wondered who "she" was and I began to think about
crazy Emily and Lilith, Crazy Emily was an English major so I
assumed that Lilith had something to do with a book she was reading. |

That night as all other nights before, my plans for Not Slightl
rested in confusion, The next day I went to tho librery to Look for
commentaries and production plans of other cirectors, Just for fun
I looked in the card catalogue under "Lilith," Lillith was not
there. She wasn't even in the subject index. Emily was wrong, I
concluded. Lilith had not taken over, I also’discovered that there
were no. commenteries on Not Slightly and that I was epparently the
first person ever to do @ production of it.

In desperation’ I went to talk to the professor of tho course,
"You see," I said, "I can't do the plans until I understand what
she's talking about, and Iém really lost. I mean, how would you

stage the lines, 'One day any day not to scareh within the wounded
operating sound’of.miserable stretches.!?"

"Don't worry," the professor said, “you'll figure it out."

My first rehersal is tomorrow, and I'm..."

‘Don't worry," the professor repeated.

The interview was obviously over. "Say," I said, you don't
happen’ to know who Lilith was?"

"No," she said, "who was she?"

"IT don't. know," .

"Ask Dr. Reigns. He's good at trivia."

"Okay," I said,

I went to Professor Reigns' office, continuing to wonder about
Gertrude Stein anc., Not Slightly. |

Li

Excuse me, sir," I said at tho coor. "Do you know who Lilith °
was?"

12

"Who?" he askedy’

"Lilith," I said. "I think she’was in literature."

"Oh," he said. She's a legend,’but I don't know much about her,
Try next'door, Will you excuse me, please?"

"Sure," I said. "Thanks."

"Excuse me," I said, "do you know anything about Lilith?"

"Sorry, Shakespeare,"’she apolorized.

"That's okay," I. said, "Shakespeare what?*-

iy field," she replied, Maybe next door.”

"Okay," I said. "Thanks,"

The third door was opén, and there’were three people discussing
something very seriously, "Excuse me," I said, “do you know any-
thing about the Lilith levend?"

"Can't you réad the sign on th: door?" one of them said absently
I read the sign, It said, "Ancieht anc: Medieval Literature,

"I'm sorry," I said, "not your field,huh?" They didn't hear me.

I went to the next door, “Excuse me," I said, Do you know any-
thing about the Lilith legend?" —

"Sorry, Dickenson," he replied.

"Right," I said and gave up the search. I went to my next class
and continued to womder about Gertrude Stein and my first’ rehersal
the next day. What would I tell the actor’who had to say," Alice, ~
why do I say blow noses. Alice I hear you. You are between there!

Later that day I went to see my shrink. "Do You know anything
about the Lilith lezend?" I asked,

"Didn't she have somethine to do with birth control?"

"I don't know," I said.

"It seems to me one of my Hebrew scholars was worried about her
a few years ago,"

I was happy with this knowledge, My Lilith investigation was
now near an end, My friend Eileen who prays for me on the Sabbath
and adamantly rearranges the Hebrew section in tho library from
right to left would know who Lilith was.

I went home that night and thought about "Politeness requires
neglecting plows, Po:itomess requires neglecting plows. Was
she kidcing? I thouvht. She must have been kidding. The phone
rang and it was Crazy Emily, - ,

"She wes hers an hourvcevo, jrst Lite last time," Crazy Emily
assured me. "Sam and I were making love, snd she came and we're
damn scared. What do you think we should do?" |

"Emily, I don't know, but 1811 find out," I said with new
concern. "I know somebody. Say, Emily, whet would you think if
I said to you, 'I mean to bury please her! ?" , ‘

"I'd think you had a problem," she said, and hung up. Exactly,
I thought. It must be about a serious problem, j

I called Eileen, "Hi, Ei, what's happening?" TIT said,

"Not much, what's with you?"

"I have’ this friend witha problem, Apparently everytime she
makes love, Lilith shows up. Docs thot mean anything to you?"

"Holly, I'm Orthodox, not Hasidic,"

"Well, do you know where I could find out?" :

"Well don't look in the library," she said angrily. "T decided:
those people didn't deserve to own those books. So they are here,"

"Can I come over and look at them?"
Rg El hay

12
"Sure," she said.
‘I went over to Eileen's dorm wondering what. Gertrude Stein meant
by, " i am I because my little dog knows me."
Everything in Eileen's room was arranged from right to left.
Mould you like some blueberry Mogen David?" she asked.
* "Sure." I said. j
"'T+'gs in a jahr zeit glass, but don'tworry about it" E Gidnl't
worry about it, and I began my research on the Lilith legend. ‘
After an hour, I called Crazy Emily. "Look Emily," I said,
"e111 you have to do the next time she comes is say 'Senoy, Sansenoy
and Samengeloff,' and she'll go away. She promised God she would.
Also, having something that says 'Avaunt thee Lilith, might help’
"Oh my God, thanks," Emily replied, relieved. "Look," she said
"you get something that says that, too."
I agreed.
The next morning I still had’no idea what Not Slightly was
about. 1 would have to fake it, and hope my actors had some idéas.
When I got to school I remembered what Crazy Emily had asked,
so I went to the bookstore to have a T-shirt made. :

'Execuse me," I said to the woman behind the counter, "I'd like
a small orange T-shirt that says 'Avaunt thee Lilith' ."

"Okay," she said finding my size. “Now what was that you
wanted on the front?" —

H'Avaunt thee Lilith!" I said, "A-V-A-U-N-T T-H-E-E- L-I-L-I-

7-H," She began making the shirt.

‘What does that mean?" she asked brushing her hair aside.
"Lilith was the first woman on Earth," I said, “according to
ancient Hebrew legends," |

"Oh," she said. ‘

"But she wouldn't let Adam lie on top of her, because she said
they were both made out of: dust and therefore were equal."

"Really?" she said. ”

"§o Lilith fled to the Dead Sea and became a witch, Then God
created Eve out Adam's rib so there wouldn't be any question who
was superior," ;

"Oh," she said, fixing’her skirt.

"In fact," I continued, "Lilith flies around at night and... cea

steals the excess semen when two people copulate and bears demon
children,"

"Oh," she said.
aan can have as many as thirty thousand demon children in one
nig an .

"Ts that right?" she’said.

, "She has orange hair, too, and She causes wet dreams. That's
why men don't like to sleep alone,"

"Uh-huh," she said.

"After Adam and Eve fell into sin, Adam promised God that he
would bevcelibate for one hundred and thirty years, Lilith came
and seduced him,’and he broke his promise."

"That's‘awful," she said. ‘

"T know, ‘and when God heard about it, he sent three prophets

named Senoy, Sensenoy, and Samengeloff to tell her to cut out
the funny business for ever,"

"That's good," she said.

44 “But Lilith forgets alot. If you remind her though she'll go /7
away. Remember that." I said.

"I will," she replied. ° |

"Sayine 'Avaunt thee Lilith' helps too. They say it at
Hasidic weddings." — ;

"Right," she said. —— :

"Do you have any kids?" I asked,.

"Two," she said nervously.

"Do they ever laugh for no reason?"

"Yes," she said.

"Lilith is tickling them," I said. "She doesn't like pregnant
women either, You can't see her. lly friend” Crazy Emily can see
her though, Everytime she copulates She eee.

“Are you active’in Hillel?" she interrupted.

"I'm not Jewish," -I. said.

"Oh," she replied.

"Is -it finished?" I askedJ-

"It is finished," she said.

"Thanks," I: said:

"Be careful, now," she said.

"Right," I said, ‘and 1 began to understand what Gertrude Stein |
meant when she said, "Being is repeating, " I went to the ladies
room and changed into my T-shirt.’ I took out my pen and wrote
on the wall, "Avaunt thee Lilith", right underneath . "The Holy
Grail.is. your knapsack so Fuck you,"

I began to tremble, thinking about. BSONERE: my actors. I. walk-
ed into the rehersal room. é

"New shirt, huh Holly?" ae

What does it mean?" another asked.

"It's a ball team," I said.

i. ‘"No, I mean the play." - ;
"Oh, the play's about Lilith," I said.

"Jho's Lilith?" another one asked,

"Lilith was the first woman on earth...." I began.

The production was a success, though I don't believe Not
Slightly was about Lilith. Maybe we'll never know. Be comforted

though, Gertrude Stein also said, So maybe I"m not I eeeree |
my little dog knows 9G wel!

Nomen's Conference Planned Cont,

A, What was it in the first wave of .

z. Jhat is the relationship
Women's Liberation that was visionary, between the original vision, where
that spoke to ALL women?

we are now, and where we want to be?
B, What divides women from éach other? F. The New Vision
1. objective conditions .

2. false consciousness
3. interest groups

C. what are women concemed with The full Circle Collective
doing how?
1{ daily lives, personal level Diane
2. in connection with groups Jaye
ie. The Movement. Ruth
D, Has the original vision been met? Tony
If yes then how do we carry it forward?
If no, how do we re-vitalize women's If you are interested in helping to
energies? plan the conference call Diane or

Ruth at 436-4943, Jaye 982-0412,
or Tony at 439-4013

DS ———————————————EeeEEeE———EE
GhOUP NiswS
WOMEN'S DAY

Women's Day will be cclebrated Sunday,
Aupust 25 in Washington Park, Albany
from 1@.m. to 6p.m. Tcntative plens
include track mects, tennis cames,
eymastics, ert exhibits, an anti parade
parade, and craft fair. a committee is
presently formine to plan for women's
Day. Theu will mect every Thursday
nicht at®p.m. at the wPC office( 393
Hamilton, Albany=- betwecn Lark. end Swan)
More women are needed, so please come to
our next meeting.

& & & & Ge &

SCiiiLCTADY N.U.W.

Sche. ectady v.O.Ww. is developin: a
Kape Crisis Center for Schenectedy.
Those interested mec.t every lionday nivht
at 8 pem. at the Schencctedy Unitarian
Center. for more information call
Gail Micheli 36-025).

New officers have been elected for
the comins yeare Ann Pooth and Martha
Schultz will serve as co=presidents.

Ms. Booth will coordinate the chapter's
activities with those of national NOW's.
Ms. Schultz will ,reside at meetings and
handle local affairs. Lince hichardson
Hart, vice president, will actrad: Liason

with+the newly formed sta ec organization.

Claire Pospisil is the secretary, and
Susan Lamanne the treasurer.

TKOY woMsN'S PULICITAL CAUCUS

1s
AN OPEN LiTTah TU TH whibN OF Naw YORK

Many articles and news items in recent
months have pointed out that creat "prog=
ress" being made by women in New York.
Again and again we have been told that
this was ‘our year' or 'our day has come'.
there may even be some among us who truly
believed that the legislature and the
stete and locel administrations were
dealing with our concerns and giving us
top priority.

Let us not be fooled any longer. uct us
face the facts. |

An approximate 10% or less of our lesie
lative pricrity items have passed. And
of that number most dealt with situations
previously mandated by the courts, and
were therefore unavoidable. Neither
mejor party desisnated a women for any
state wide position. At the Democratic
convention a wo. an running for the
licutenant sovernor desipnation received
27% of the delerates' votes on the first
ballot, tut was subsequently abandoned by
ever 85% of her original supporters as
they made a mad scremble to an unknown
and unqualified MAN on the third ballot.
The top kepublican woman lerislator in
the state was »iven a quick kick in her
attempt to run for Coneress, and has
Been overlooked avein and a: ain in her
desire to be appointed to a judgeship.
Both ef thcse wmen were and are better
qualified than their opponents. But
they have a iajor disability in political
life-they are wOiiuN.

Is the messege clear cnough: How long
arc we soing to wait for favors handed
out with grcat reluctance by men of
cither party. How longs is it .oing to be

" before we realize that WwO:.EN working

The caucus is looking ior women to
develo, a questionaire and to interview
ca didates about their feminist positions
and activities.. The Caucus is also
looking for women interested in running
for‘ a pokitical office.s#leciion

Summer is the time to increase, not
decrease your letter writins. Congre s
should continue receiving lctters from
our side about all feminist concerns
such as daycare, family health clinics,
etc.':Also impeachment, environmental
protection, separation of church and
state, etc.

to;ether can elect wOiniN who will be
concerned with wOl.EN and their problems.
if you feel, as we do, that we cannot
weit any longer, contact the:

Committee to Llect iiary Anne Krupsak

Licutenaht Governor

393 Hmilton Street

Albeny, N.Y. 12210

telephone: 518-)63-0h77

CALENDAh OF EVENTS

July -

Schenectady N.OW: Informal discussion on

the EhA.Public welcome. 8p.m. Unitarian
House. ;

Lesbieans for Liberation: 8 p.m Gay
Community House, 332 Hudsm Ave. Alo any
All women welconic.

"I'm a woman" wkPL: "Women's Health and
Sex Education! Martha Newcomb, kN

July 3
Troy Women's Liberation 7:30 pem. First
Presbyterian Church, 5th Aye. Troy.
ror more information contact Carole
imalchy: 274-7967
* see end of next page

July B.
Women's Supper: Informel discussions of
women's issues ctc. Brins food to share
“F200 P20 Community House , 332 Hudson
Ave. Albany. All women welcoine

July 8

ochenectedy Now hape Crisés Ccnter:
Help plen Schenectedy's hape Crisis
Center. Members of boston's Cunter will
be trainin;. voluntcers. 8 p.m. at

the Schenectady Unitarian Center. #or
more information call Cail Micheli:

36-025)

Lesbians for Liberetion:3p.m. Community
House, 332 Hudson Ave. Albeny.

"T'm a Women" WRPI:A music program was
planned, but the stetion's male manare-
ment has forbidden the women to have
music.(Maybe they learned that the
Amazons played flutes daring: certain
ceremonies)

uly 10

an Women's Liberetion: 7: 30; first
Presbyterian Church, Troy. '

Jul Ses Bly see end of next pare

Ne aa NeU.we Council neeting. 98 So. Pine

Albany. All WOW members welcome. Yor
details eall bileen helly 438-5237

July 15 -
Schenectady tiOw “ape Gristis-Center:
&330 pem. Unitarian Center, Schencctady

Weekly planing session. Lveryone
interested is welcome

‘omen welcome

July 13

OE Noe oe,

Lesbians for Libcration, NUw, women's
Political Caucus: Mickey Green will speek
and: ‘show: slidessofsherif@ctnt trip to
China. The difcussiénewillcohcekn women's
issucs.!8rpimypnberst: ‘Presbyberianvthutch
Wilicttr nd. Sbéte: Strestsy /xlbany.The
public is invited.

July <7

Troy women's Liberation:7:30 First
Presbyterian Church, Troy. New members
welcome

July 18% See end of next page

Womeri's Supper: Bring food to share.
Discuss Albeny'sfuture Women's Center and
other feminist issues. 1399 Community
House, 332 Hudson Ave. Albany

July 21-22: .%. N&OW: Meeting of Eastern
Kk gionel Stete Coordinators. Syracuse, N.Y.
“AL1 NOW members welcomb..ator details
call Eileen Kelly:h38-5237

July 22

Lesbiens for Liberation: 7:30 p.m. Commun=

ity House, 332 Huden Ave. Albany.

Chenectady NOw's have Crises Center:
& peme irst Unitarian Church, Schenectady

"I 'mza -woman" WRPIsWelffhoR forebhci Poder
and Welfare: for.the Hich{200-7 :5

July 2h

Troy Women's Liberation 7:30 First Pres-
byterian Church, Troy.

Albany NOw:Presentation by 4nne Nelson
from Cornell University School of Indus-
tricl and Labor helations. For more
details contact: hobin Gerber- 477-1712

* July 25*Sed#. end of next page
uly 29

Schenectady Wow s hape Crisis Center:
8 peme Uniterian Church of Schenectady

Lesbieans for Liberation: 7:30, Commnity
House, 332 Hudson Ave, Albany

"T'm a Woman" WhPI a Woman's Political
Play.

uly 31

ae Women's Liberation 7:30 “irst Pres-
byterian Church, 5th Ave. Troy.

CALENDAR OF LVENTS

August 2

women's Su.persBring some food to share
and discuss the women's center, women's
“ay, and other issucs of importence to
feminists. 7 peme Community House, 332
Hudson Ave. Albany. All women welcome

August 5

Schenectady NOw's hape Crises Center
Meetins to work on formation of center
and trainins for counselors. for more
information call Gail Micheli 36-025)
8 pem. Unitarim Yocicty

Lesbians for Liberation: @pmmunity House
332 Hudson Ave., Albmy. All women
welcome.

"I'm a Woman" WkPIsliary Shelley and
brankenstein=- the psycholorical implicat-
ions of birth and abandonment.7-7:5

Aurust 7

eS an

Troy Women's Liberetion “irst Presbyterian

Church. New members welcome. Call: Carole
Mulchy: 27-7967.

August 8

women's Day Committee: Kelp is needed to
plen and develop Women's Day. 8p.m.

393 Hamilton Albany(between Lark and
Dove)

August 12

Schenectady Nawes Rkape Crises Center:

6 peme Unitarian Society of Schencetady

Lesbians for Liberation: &:30 Comunity
House, 332 Hudson Ave. Albany. 411 women
welcome.

I'm a Womm" whirl 7:00-7:h5

August 1h
roy women's Liberation: 7:30 First
Presbyterian Church, 5th Ave, Troy

Aurust 15
Women's Day Committee: 8p.m. 393 Hamilton
Albany. All women welcome

August 16

Women's Oupper: { Peme Community House
Brin: food to share. All women welcome

™|

14

August 19

Lesbians for Liberation: #%:30 pem. Com-
munity House, 332 Hudson Ave. Albany
All women welcome.

Schenectady NOW hape Crises Center:
rlanning and training session 8p.in.
Uniterian Society Schenectady.

"L'm a wow" WaPL: @:00-7:45p.m,

August 21
troy women's Liberation: 7:30 First Pres-
byterian Church. 4ifth Ave, Troy

August 22
women's Day Committee: Working meeting
8 pem. 393 Hamilton, Albeny

August 25

WOMaN'S DAY

Celebrate this milestone in the American
Feminist Movement! 10-6p.m. in Washington
Perk, Albmy. there will be tennis
matches, a track meet, anti parede parade,
crait bootus, book stzlls, ethnic foods,
guerilla theatre, speakers, and more.
Don't miss OUR DAY- and bring the entire
family.

August 26

Schenectady NOw Rape Crises Center:
Planning and training session. 8 p.m
Unitarien Society, Schenectady

Lesbiens for Liberction: 7:30 Community
House, 332 Hudson Ave. Alby

I'm a womm"WhPI 7:00-7:h)5

August 26
Troy Women's Liberation: 7:30 First Pres-
byterian Church, Troy.

septeinber 1-9

astern Kerional ».U.W. Conference:
Atlantic City, N.d. "Wonder women: N
hiyth America" For details call Sileen
Kelly 338-52 37

* 6 6 6 6 6 6

* July 4,11,18,25

women's Day Committee: Sessions to plan
women's Day. 8pm. 393 Hamilton, Albany
for more details call:h63-0)77

Contributions for

THE TRI CITY WOMEN'S CENTER

can be sent to:

*. waxdine Gootzeit, treasurer
10 Stonington Hill Road

Voorheesville, NY
12185

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SPEAKOUT: A FEMINIST JOURNAL

Vol, ITI No, VIII August/September 1974

Table of Contents

Page

1,2 Speakout and the New York Book Fair

2 Salute To Women, 1974 (Business and Professional
Women's Clubs)

3,4 New York Law on Women's Names

5,6 New York State Women's Unit Final Legislative
Report

6 Win With Women in '74-~Tri-County Women
Running For Office

7. Osweso Women's Center Press Release

7,9 New York Radical Feminists Press Release
(Politics of Motherhood)

8,9 Unisex Pronovn by Don Rickter

9 Women's Day 1974--—A Gathering of Ourselves

9 Speakout §.0.58. ’

10 Wonder Woman Conference, No Myth America

11,12 Masculine Mystique---One Man's Opinion by Bob Fager
12-14 Letters to Speakout

ke Friends of the Farmworkers by Anita Thayor
15 The Latecomer by Serah Aldridge

16 Hymn Writing Contest

16 New Group Forms in Delmar

Calendar and Announcenonts

Workers: Cheryl Shenkle, Betty Kemmer, Chris Root, Marzvie
Figliozzi, Rezgsin Adams, Laura Rosman

Cover Design by Debbie Simon, 779 Pawling Avenue, Troy, N.Y.

Speakout is published monthly. Subseriptions ars $3.50 per year,
35@ per issue. Advertising is $10.00 per quartor page. Mail
subscriptions to : Speakout, P. O. Box 6165, Quail Station, —-
Albany, New York 12206.

Speakout is on file at the Women's History Research Center,
2325 Oak Street, Berkcley, California. Spcakout is also a
member of COSMEP (Committee of Smell Magazine Editors and
Publishers )

. Speakout and the New York Book Fair es to

Books not, Bucks... ....:
Third World Publishing
Poetry above Profit.
Feminist Publishing |
Liberation Literature

All were found-dt-the New York Book
reir. ate

The New York Book Fair opened on
Ssuncey, July 7th at 2 p.m. at the
New York Cultural Center on Colum-
bus Circle. Well before the open-
ing time hundreds of people were
already inside and more were lining
up on the streets. The Fair was
open from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. on
Sunday and 10 a.m. till 10 p.m.
Monday and Tuesday. Over 4,000
people came on Sunday alone fol-
lowed by 3,000 on Monday and again
on Tuesday. — oe

As a result of the Book Fair
we have sent out approximately
seventy-five semple copies of
Speakout. But most of all we met
wonderful people. Hundreds of
women and men involved in the
struggle to provide an alternative
to commercial presses, And some
who are very well established in:
indeed. George Plimptdn stopped
by the Speakout booth to congrat-
ulate us on our fine job. Doris
Grumbach, an old friend and
former Albanian, now literary
editor of the New Republic asked
us to send her a copy for review.
Two tables away from us sat Len
Fulton, who edits the International
Directory of Small Presses and
Little Magazines. We talked to
Ann Pride of Know, Inc. and the
men and women of Alice James
Press and dozens more,

Poetry readings were held in
the Cultural Center auditorium
on Monday and Tuesday of the Fair.
Balloons were everywhere, and
people came in all types of dress,
All ages, shapes and colors. It
was exciting, exhilarating and
exhausting. Betty Kemmer, Chris.
Root, Bonnie Dawson and Cheryl

‘Wagner provided the womanpower

for our booth. The Second Annual
Book Fair will be in San Francisco
next July. Would any of our read-~

ers care to plan for a California
vacation with Speakout next summer?

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Books, Presses and People you may
want. to: know better 3

Alice James Books

138 Mt. Auburn St.

Cambridge, Mass, 02138

Alice’ James Books is a cooperative
with an emphasis on publishing
poetry by wmen. They. brought
their own press. Authors and all
share in running the press, pute
ting out the mailings and the.
general elbow grease.

Bootie saer Press
7a Ord Street .
San Francisco, Calif. 94114

Opening up libraries to community
and worker control, feminism and
children's literature through
their magazine, Booklegger. They
believe in the "dance of informa-
tion energy."

Daughters, Inc,
lainfield, Wermont 05667

"We publish women's novels only."

The Feminist Press
SUNY/ Old Westbury
Box 334

Old Westbury, N.Y. 11568

The Feminist Press is an educat~
ion and publishing group organized
to rediscover and recreate the
herstory and contributions of
women’ through biographies and
reprints and to challenge sex role
stereotypes in children's books.

Glide Publications
930 Ellis Street
San Francisco, Calif. 94102

Ruth Gottstien and Lela Murray of
Glide publish for the community
most in need of help=- the old,

the poor, the homosexual, women
and the Third World,

Know, Inc.

P. O. Box 86031.

Pittsburgh, Pa. 15221

Book Fair, cont'ds.

A great place for all types of
feminist pamphlets, especially
those 5 and 10 cent variety, ideal
for use in CR groups.

shameless Hussy Press
Box 424 .

San Lorenzo, California 94580

Alta,(the now famous feminist poet)

writes "I print and publish books
I need." Alta does her own printe
ing.

13th Moon

30 Seaman Avenue
New York, New York 10034

A woman's literary magazine feature
ing fiction, photographs, line
drawings, and reviews by women,

Violet Press
ee a Box 398
New York, New York 10909

Literature by and about lesbians
for all women.

And out of alphabetical order in
order to Spotlight -- a Bookstore
we missed as we needed all avail-
able. womanpower to maintain
Speakout's Book Fair table --

Labyris Books

33 Barrow Street

New York, New York 10014

Jane Lurie and friends maintain a
feminist bookstore in New York
City where all types of books and
journals by wmen are for sale --
in person or by mail order service.

We hope our readers will use these
addresses to write for more
information or publishers catalogs
or wnatever serves their needs.

Salute To Women == 1974

Michaél J. Howlett,
Secretary of State,

aches
and Jer: Ls

Jily 21625, with salutes ‘to «:::2°.-'
women's accomplishments in. 1974.

* "1974 may prove to be the
American women's year," said How-
lett in his address to delegates
representing BPW's 170,000 worke
ing women members. "More women
are running for public office this
year than ever before," he comment-
ed. "While progress may seem
slow for now, progress is being
made."

‘Progress waw also the theme of
President Jez:. L. McCarrey's speech
to her membership. Comparing the
12 resolutions of the first women's
rights convention in Seneca Falls,
New York to the demands of women
today, she said, "It is obvious
that women still have a way to go
to achieve full equality in our
society."

Miss McCarrey reiterated
BPW's commitment to ratification
of the Equal Rights Amendment and
forecast an important ERA fund
disclosure for Monday afternoon's
session. An insurance saleswoman
and financial planner for
Traveler's Insurance in Villa
Grove, Illinois, Miss McCarrey his
traveled throughout the nation
appearing at press conferences,
rallies and workshops on the
Equal Rights Amendment.

The BPW Convention will bring
Congresswoman Martha Griffiths of
Michigan to address its delegates
tomorrow afternoon... Also appeare
ing before the convention will be
U.S. Treasurer, Mrs. Francine
Neff; Mrs. Pat Hater, U.S. Repres-
entative to the UN Status of
Women Commissions; and Mr. William
McCurdy, President of the Sears-
Roebuck Foundation.

The National Federation of
Business and Professional Women's
Clubs, Inc. was established in 1919
to promote the interests of work-
ing women in all businesses and
professions. With local clubs in
each of the 50 states, the District
of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the
Virgin Islands, the organization is

McCarrey, President of the. ational open to working women of all

Federation of Business and Pro-
fessional Women's Clubs, Inc.
opened the S,000 delegate &974
BPW National Convention, meeting
in Chicago's Conrad Hilton Hotel

occupations, economic backgrounds
and political affiliation, It is
linked to the women of more than
50 other nations through the

nternatiopal Ped¢ ration of Buse
ness an rofess i ona omen.

2

See eee

NEW YORK LAW ON WOMEN'S NAMES

Under English common law, which upon marriage is section 412(3) of

.was brought to America by the
colonists,
name he or she wished, as long as
this was not done for a fraudulent
purpose (for example, to avoid
creditors). See Application of
Middleton, 60 Misc. 2d 1056, 304

N.Y.S. 2d 145 (1969); In re
Anonymous, 57 Misc. 2d 613,295
N.Y.S. 2d 834 (1968). This rule

applied to both men and women,
married and unmarried. It was the
general custom, however, for a
woman to change her name to her
husband's upon marriage, and this
custom persists even to the pres:
sent among a (diminishing)
majority of American wmen.
change of name is effected by
the wife using her husband's

The

after marriage,

about it? Simply stated,
surname and refraining from using does nothing.

the N.Y. Election Law, which
a person could use any reads as follows:

If the applicant is a woman
whose name is reported in the
third section of (the challenge]
report as having received a
license to marry, the board
shall ascertain whether she
has married and, if so,
whether she wishes to vote
under her married name.
Whether married or not, she
shall be permitted to vote
under her maiden name it
she prefers. « «
[emphasis added].

If a woman may keep her own name
how does me go

she

She continues to

her own name, for it is use which use her own name for all purposes
determines what a person's name is.and never uses her husband's name.
The custom of a woman taking People who are ignorant of the law
her husband's name upon marriage may challenge her right to retain
is so w despread that many people her own name, but if she stands
believe that it is required by firm, they will be forced to back

law; but it remains merely a down, because they will find no
custom except in those states in law on their side.

which the custom.“as been changed What if a woman wants to use

into law by statute or by judicial both names? This is permissible,

decision; for example, Hawaii but it is dangerous because of

(by statue) and apparently the Kayaloff case discussed above.

Alabama (by judicial decision -- Using a hyphenated name is also

see Forbush v. Wallace, 341 F. permissible, but this is not

Supp. 217 (M.D. Ala. 1971), aff'd recommended unless both spouses

per curiam, 415 U.S. 970 (1972). use the hyphenated name. If only
In New York there is no the wife uses the hyphenated name,

statute or judicial decision people tend to get confused and

requiring a woman to take her often erroneously conclude that

husband's name upon marriage. the first part of the hyphenated |
However, if she chooses to do so, name is actually the woman's

her husband's name becomes her middle name.
legal name and she ceases to be What is a woman takes her

Known by her maiden name. See husband's name when she gets
Chapman v. Phoenix Nat'l Bank, married and later decides that she

85 N.Y. 4357 (1861). If she uses would prefer to take back her
both names after her marriage, as own name? She need not get

some professional women do, the divorced or separated, and she

government apparently has a right need not go to court; she must

to choose wiich name it wishes merely start using her own name
her to use on official documents. again. In practical terms,

See In re Kayaloff, 9 F. Supp. this means she should go to her

176 (S.D.N.Y. 1934), bank and have her accounts changed
One New York statute which to her own name (if they refuse,
indicates that New York adheres .she can wi thdraw all her money and

to the common law rule that a deposit it in another bank).

woman may keep her maiden name Then she should notify all friends,

relatives and creditors, as well
as Social yl her employer,
Bu

the Motor Vehicle Bureau, Board
of Elections and all other persons
who might be interésted.' In
other words, she goes through the
Same process to switch from her
husband's name as she did when she
switched to his name... ._

If it is possible to do this
without going to court,. why is »

there a court procedure for change.
of name? All states have. statutory

change-of-name procedures. New

York's is found in Article 6 o° the

Civil Rights Law. These statutory
procedures are utilized primarily
by people who want to rid themsel-
ves or their children of. names
which are embarassing, overly

lengthy, or difficult to pronounce,

and who want the change to be
immediate and easily demonstrable,
Sometimes they are contemplating
foreign travel and wish to avoid
any delays with passports, visas,
and the like. Often, they are
recent immigrants who do not wish
to wait until they become
naturalized (at which time the
change of name may be. included
in the naturalization order),
may not know of their right to
change their names without court
permission, or they may. just want

the security of an official-looking

document. See Application of

Lipschutz, 178 Misc. 113, 32 N.Y.S.

2d 264 (1941), .
State statutory change-of-name

procedures do not change the common

law, but merely provide a method
for "formalizing" the change of
name. They are in addition to,
not substitutes for, the common
law name=change method. See
Application of Douglas, 60 Misce
&d 1057, 304 N.Y.S.2d 558 (1969);
in re Burstein, 69 Misc. 41, 124
N.Y;S. 989 (1910); Smith v. United
Sivtes Casualty Co., 197 N.Y. 420,
90 NeE. 947 (1910), The New York

statute, like most others, requires

a "petition" (formal, written
request) to the County Court (in
New York City, the Civil Court) or
to the Supreme Court and publica-~
tion in a newspaper (to notify
possible creditors). Since a
lawyer will generally charge over
a hundred dollars for this, if a

4
Se a ae

They

person does not know how to do it
herself, and since publication
costs may run into hundreds of
dollars, depending on which news-
paper is ‘involved, people should
at least attempt:an "informal"

name change before resorting to
‘this costly

cumbersome method. An

"informal" change is just as

"legal" as a change by court order.

Recent statute: Laws of 1973,
Ce (effective July 11, 1973)
adds new section 240 (a) to the
New York Domestic Relations Law;
",eany interlocutory or final
judgment or decree 4n divorce or
annulment action or proceeding
shall contain’. . . a provision

that the woman may resume the use

of her maiden name." - Presumably,
the ptrpose of this statute is
to make it clear that the judge
has no discretion as to whether
a woman may use her maiden name

after her marriage has been

terminated; the judgment or «..
decree shall (must) contain a
provision permitting her to do so.
In the past, judges have sometimes
refused to put such a provision

in the judgment or decree if the
divorce was granted on the basis
of any wrongdoing on the part of
the wife or if there were children
involved. There was no statutory
authorization for such refusal,
which was not only punitive, in
most cases, but also vidlated

the common law rule concerning
names. The new statute makes it
clear that such refusal is now
impermissible. The statute

thus conforms to the common law
rule concerning names.

For further information, see
Carlsson, Surnames of Married
Women and Legitimate Children,
17 N.Y. LAW FORUM 552 (1971) and
MacDougall, Married Women's
Common Law Right to Their Own
urnames, 1 WOMEN'S R°GHTS LAW

REPORTER 2 (Fall/Winter, 1972~73).

WOMEN'S LAW CENTER
1414 Avenue of the Americas
New York, New York

10019

N. Y. S. WOMEN'S UNIT FINAL
LEGISLATIVE REPORT JUNE 1974

BILLS PASSED AND SIGNED INTO LAW
DURING THE 1974 SESSION

CHILD CARE

$—7217 Law 4/9/74
Amends $404, Not+For=Profit Corpe
oration Law, adds S405, Business.
Corporation Law to require that
there be endorsed on or annexed
to every certificate of incorpe —
oration including emcng its corpe
oration pur_oses establishment or
operation of day care center for
children, approval of state board
of social welfare,

Langley

S=-10614 Senate Rules Committee
Law 6/15/74

Creates temporary commission on
child welfare of 13 appointees to
examine, evaluate and make recome
mendations. to Governor and Legis~=
lature, concerning scope, quality,
cost and effectiveness of services
now provided for children pursuant
to existing legislation, judicial
decisions and administrative
policies with commission to review
with particnlar care impact of
recent legislation in court dece
isions in child care field,
appropriates $100,000,

CREDIT

A=-9359 Russo, Cook, Gunning
Banks Committee

Adds S9=d, Banking Law, amends

consider sources of applicmt's
income or to subject applicamt 's
income to automatic or unwarranted
discount; authorizes superintend-~
ent of bank to enforce provisions
herein,

A-11636 Russo Rules Committee
Law 5/23/74

Amends S292, S296—a, Executive Law,
to extend definition of regulated
creditor in provisions prohibiting
certain discriminatory practices

to include credi.or which has
received organization certificate
from banking department.

CRIMINAL OFFENSES

A=8247 Suchin Law 2/19/74
Repeals $130.15, adds $130.16,
amends S260.,11, Penal Law, to
repeal provisions requiring corro-
borating testimony in prosecutions
for certain sex offenses, and to
enact new provisions prohibiting
convictions for consensual sodomy
o. for any sex offense defined
herein of which lack of consent

is element but results solely
from incapacity to consent because
of alleged victim's age, mental
defect or mental incapacity or
attempt, unless testimony of
alleged victim is supported by
evidence tending to establish that
attempt was made to engage alleged
victim in act at time of alleged
occurence and to conaect defendant

with commission thereof.

DOMESTIC RELATIONS

S290, S292, S296, S297, adds $286-a A.111098a Burrows Judiciary

Executive Law to make it unlawful
discriminatory practice for cred~
itor to discriminate on grounds of
race, creed, color, national
origin, sex or mariial status in
credit transactions, including
granting, withholding, extending
or renewing, or in fixing of
rates, terms or conditions of, any
form of credit, making of inquiry
of applicant concerning capacity
to bear children or use or advoce
acy of any form of birth control
or family planning, refusal to.

Committee Law 6/15/74

Amends S170, Domestic Relations
Law, to authorize spouse against
whom dévorce decree has been obtai-
ned, where decree, judgment or
agreement of separation was obtain-
ed or entered into before January
1, 1970, to institute proceeding
to recover, in addition to any
other rights provided by law,
amount equivalent to value of
economic and property rights of
which spouse was deprived by

virtue of such decree; makes relate:
ed provisions,

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LEGISLATIVE REPORT, cont'd.
‘Se103 Gold . Judiciary Committee
tai Law 6/74

Amends $111, Domestic Relations
Law, to strike out provision that
consent shall not be reguired of
parent who had been divcrced bee
cause of his or her adultery.

EMPLOYMENT

S-7130 Barclay Law 4/1/74 —
Amends $165, Military Law, .o |
prohibit restriction to appointment
of females as officers or warrant
officers or enlisting of females

in N.Y. Guard provided they: are
qualified under provisions hereof.

HEALTH

Aw4402ma Riccio, et al Heelth
Committee, Law 6/15/74

Amends Si3-a, b, Domestic Relations
Law, to provide that standard:
serological test must be given
marriage license applicant for
discovery of syphilis shall also be
laboratory test for discovery of
gonorrhea. .

HUMAN RIGHTS

S=8169 Barclay, Levy, et al
Corporation Committee, Law 4/9/74

Amends S40, $43, Religious Corpor-
ations Law, to make eligible to
vote at various meetings and electe#
ions of Protestant Episcopal Church
any qualified person of full age,
instead of male person of full age,
and to strike out provisions

making women eligible only whenever
permitted by canons of diocese and
when parish so determines.

REPRODUCTION & ITS OONTROL

A~1074304 “rune Law 6/15/74

Amends Article 41 of Public Health
Law by adding Title 5=a vhich
requires that an abortion perform =

ed after the 12th week of pregnancy

shall be performed. only in an

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and Assembly

follow ng November Election before
it becomes a part of the State

hospital and only on an inpatient
basis. When an abortion is to be
performed after the 20th week of
pregnancy, two physicians must be
in attendance.
A-90308a Passed Senate ad
| | Assembly

Concurrent Resolution of Senate

-- C.E. Cook proposing
anew section to Article I of the
New Yorax State Constitution to
reads:

Equality of Rights under the
law shall not be denied or
abridged by the State of New
York or any subdivision thereof
on account of sex.

This Resolution will have to be
approved again st the next Session
by the Senate and Assembly and
approved by the voters in the

Constitution, -

WIN WITH WOMEN IN !74

Rezsin Adams, Jane Sanford and
Diane Margiore of the 7th Ward
have filed petitions for Demo-
cratic Party Chairwomen, challenges.
ing the party choices in September

Tri-County Women's Committee to
elect Mary Anne Krupsak need

volunteers on primary day, Sept.
10th to poll voters. Interested

women should contact Jane Sanford,
$9S Hamilton St., 462-3446,

Also, Tri-County Women's Committee
to @lect Mary Anne Krupsak invites
you to a screening of "Adam's Rib"
starring Katherine Hepburn on
Friday, August 23rd in Schenectady
and on Saturday, August 24th in
Albany. Tickets are $3.00, For.
more information, call 463-0477,
Proceeds will go to Mary Anne
Krupsak3s campaign.

Oswego Women's Center
Press Release

In the early morning hours of
Sunday, June 23rd, the male
leader of the Central Committee of
Rochester's YOUTH AGAINST WAR AND
FASCISM (YAWF) received a "state
ment" from the REG RAG REGIME
(an underground Oswego feminist
collective) in the form of raw
eggs and flattened tires. The
boy, also a member of PRISONER'S
SOLIDARITY COMMITTEE AND CULA
(CENTER FOR UNITED LABOR ACTION),
had refused to cooperate in obtai-~
ning a divorce from a member of
the collective.

The tactic, often used by
collective, proves to be very
effective in dealing with male
politicos. Since these guys try
to appear "politically hip", they
tend to react defensively,
apolegetically, and cowardly.

For some odd reason, the boy
could not understand why he was
being @gged. Hampered by his
socialist ideology, he misinter~}
preted divorcee as a recognition
of State power. Amazing how
eggs, a nice symbol of wmen's
fertility, could do to change a
boy's mind.

the

Katie Allen
315 342421091]

New York Radical Feminists
Press Release

New York Radical Feminists
eponsored a conference entitled
"Politics of Motherhood" on
May 19, 1974, which revealed the
institution of motherhood as one
of the central coneerns of
feminism. In exploring the
effects of women's role as mother,
many other topics more widely
recognized as key feminist issues
were illuminated--marriage and the
family, sexuality, medical care
and psychiatry, and aging,

The conference began with a
Speak-Out, in which women spoke
out describing their own concerns
and experiences. After lunch,

a series of small workshops
explored in more detail the myths
and realities of motherhood,

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drawing upon: the thoughts and
feelings of each participant

‘through a consciousnesseraising

approach. |

The five hundred women who
attended the conference were of
all ages; all were daughters,
and many were mothers. The
strongest feelings expressed were
that the definition of motherhood
is seldom in the hands of mothers.
Pressured from childhood to see
motherhood as the inevitable
zenith of their lives, many
women became mothers with little
real knowledge of the enormous
impact it was to have on their
lives. Other women who want
children feel that as mothers they
would be asked to give up too
much of their lives in return for
being parents. As daughters,
women were saddened by their —
frequently painful relationships
with their mothers, and as |
mothers, they felt they were being
denied many of the real pleas-
ures of motherhood by society's
impact on them as mothers and
as women. The participants saw
little opportunity and no encour-
agement for a woman to structure
her mothering functions so as to
suit her own welfare and her
child's,

Many workshops, however,
ended with an optimistic
message; “We can regain control
Over our own lives, working
together to solwe:the immediate
problems like day care and
abortion, and then to find new
ways of relating to children
and to adults as unique individ-
uals rather than only as the
ragged roles we personify. Our
goal must be to obtain for our-
selves and our children the
growth of each of us to our full
powers and greatest joy in each
other,

The aim of the conference
was more clearly to define the

feminist issues, and in this it

only partly succeeded. There
was a sense of a beginning;

much work needs to be done before
we are free to be ourselves with
mothers and asZmothers. Several
continuing workshops were f ormed

Radical Feminists, cont'd.

to explore further their topics,
and New York Radical. .Feminists
will produce a book and | - ialg
tape based on the day's events. -
The conference organizers urge
other feminist groups to. consider
these issues, and they welcome
requests for further information
and assistance. A list of topics
discussed at the. conference -
follows:

To Have a Child or Not? Why do
women have children--maternal
instincts meascenistic trips. to -
give love? to get it? .to prove
their womanhood? — to satisfy their
husbands or parents? Can we lead
full lives without children?

with children?. How to. accept not
having a child? = Are. Pees
necessary? foe

age oh Sek toro ahs of 0
ion. Pregnancy, myths and réal- —
ities. Childbirth--methods and

experiences, providing alternate
ives. Post-partum depression.

Stages of Motherhood. Infancy--
fe changes, learning to be a

mother, fathers. Toddler--play-
grounds, day care, nursery
schools, "formative years."

Middle years=-back to work? baby-
sitters, socialization. Adoles-
cencee-mother as punching bag,
role of fathers, are mothers
obsolete? Adulthood--empty-nest
mothers, rewards and punishments,
is there life after motherhood?
Grandmothersas super-mother,.

Family Structtre,
home and at work,
Do grandparents have a role?
Divorce--single-parenting, split
custody, absentee mothers,
Lesbian mothers. IJilegitimacy.
Adoption. Step-mothers. Altere
native life styles--partnerships,
communes, collectives. Does the
nuclear family have a future?

Mothers at

Children and Society. Day care.
Welfare and low-income mothers.
Illegitimacy. Taking children
out into the world. Schools,
professionals, psychiatry and

_ special problems.

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Role of fathers sex,

mothers. Media impact on mothers
and on children, Children with
Mothers as
unpaid workers.-. Mothers as paid
workers, _ ieee

Mothers and Daughters. Ambivalence
and conflict, can it be resolved?
Does feminism help or widen the
gap? Why do we have such strong
feelings toward our mothers? How
do the mother/daughter roles
influence our adult relationships?
Lesbianism--mother/daughter as
lover. . What is "mothering"=--do .
we do it? do we. seek it or avoid |
it from others?) Do we affirm or
reject our potential to be mothers?
Motherhood and creativityenis
sublimation only for. men? Mothers
and guilt.
"Motherhood and Feminism. Do we
oys and girls differently?
What futures do we see for them?
How do we deal. with their
sexual ity and with our own?
Roles in. the family and in our

'heads--can we rear roleeless

children? Can a feminist be a
mother? A mother a feminist?
What is the future of motherhood?

SIE EEES
Unisex Pronoun

Why do we say"he" when refer
ring to a person in general? This
reflects the male dominance of
our culture and is inaccurate
half of the time.

I propose a new word "Xe"
(pronounced zee) meaning "he or
she", It is the aingular form of

"they! which is of indeterminate
"Xe": is not! sexless; ."it”

is the neuter pronoun, The objecte
ive case of the new pronoun is
"xen" (zen) and the possessive
"xes" (pronounced zez).

In November, 1971 Dr. Mary
Daly, professor. of theology et
Boston College, was the first
woman to give a Sunday sermon at
Harvard Memorial Church,

She denounced "sexist and
patthiarchal"religion and said "He
is not our God, nor can He be,
as ‘long as. Godts | image is male."

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‘Unisex Pronoun, cont'd.

If we use the pronoun "Xe" for

the Supreme Being of unknown sex, _

we avoid a patriarchal hierarchy.
This is of great concern to women
who are divinity students.

In addition to the use of
the new pronoune-which I'm serious
about--I propose that the husband
of Ms. Jane Smith be referred to
as Mrr. Jane Smith (Mrr. is
pronounced Murrer).. This illuste
rates a parallel situation for the
man who does not understand the
Rev. Ms. Stevens! point ("Call Me
My Name." March 15) about sub-
merging a person's identity.

Don Rickter

Arlington, Ma.
(Reprinted from the Unitarian
Universalist World).

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SPEAXOUT neead ad We just
don't have onough womanpower.,

The body of each issue is done
by three people each month — °
the same three people. Betty,
Cheryl and Chris select articles,
write, edit and type stencils.
All this is done ‘after working ~
a full 8 hour day at their jobs.
Maggie types the mailing labels™

, and Rezgsin runs off the stencils.

Leura does the calendar and
group news cach month. After
the issue is run off, it must

be stapled and labels for mailing
put on. Our stapling Mmarties"
usually consist of Betty, Cheryl
anc. Chris. We occaisionally
receive help from other women
inn thie, Sue has been a great
help: in. breparing copy and
stapling.

As you can see, our staff
is small - but not by choice.

We cannot go on with this small
a staff, September will bring
more responsibilities for us
aside from SPEAKOUT. We need
help. If we don't get it,
SPEAKOUT IS IN DANGER OF FOLDING

We are making a pléa to our
Sisters: PLEASE HELP!I!!! We ~«
need writers, typists, readers,
correspondence people, If °
you can donate even an hour,

WE NEED YOU!!}

If you are willing to help
in any way, please call Betty
“6 436-86 26 or Cheryl at

99-4121, The future of SPEAK
oun depends on the response we
receive, This iS also a chance
for our critics to help make
SPEAKOUT Better,

We would like to change our
format and structure, Again,
we need women to help us to
reorzanoze,. ‘

Sisters, we need your help
desperescly. If there is to be
a feminist journal in the area,
we needa concerned women to put
it out. As you know, Albany and
the surrounding area nedds a
vehicle for feminist expression
end communication,

Please help - we have done all

we can alone. It is now up to
you.

WONDER WOMAN CONFERENCE
NO MYTH, AMERICA

The Wonder Woman Conference:
No Myth, America is the theme for
the 1974 Eastern Regional Convent-
ion of the National Organization
for Women to be held in Atlantic

City, New. Jersey, September 6,7 & .

8. According to a N.O.W. brochure
the conference is being held in
the birthplace of the Mjyss America
Pageant and at the.same time as
that outdated segment of America,
The Wonder Woman Conference will
be a feminist statement on the
wonder of woman! The feminist
concept of woman as person cone: .-~
trasts sharply
al portrayal of woman as object.
Participants will have a
chance to meet Wonder Woman in
person and join her as she and
N.O.W. march on the Boardwalk of
Atlantic City. Congresswoman.
Bella Abzug, newly elected N.O.W.
President Karen DeCrow, Betty
Friedan and Florynce Kennedy are
featured speakers. Music will be
provided by the Women's Revelation
Rock Bank and an All Woman Drum
and Bugle Corps.
. Wonder Woman workshops will
explore the many facets of woman:
Thinkers theoretical femin-

ism, feminist phil-
osophy, herstory,
astrology, women
and the occult
monsexuality, bi-
sexuality, hetero-
sexuality, homosexe
uality

self defense, fem-
inist confrontation
verbal karate
carpentry, auto-
mechanics, crafts,
home repair
political, educat-~
ional, religious,
and legal leadere :
ship

organizing a chap-
ter, chapter com-=
munications, fund-
raising, parlia -
mentary procedure,
ros as agent for

€ «-

Lovers:

Warrior:

Builder and
Craftsperson:

Leaders:

. Organizer:

with the tradition=

of course.
ence is $15.00 if the registration

change, grievance
procedure
career workshops, |
employment discrim=
ination, feminist
entrepreneur, home-
maker .
. negotiating a marre-
iage contract,
women and men as
«- equal partners, fem-
ae childrearing,
children as people,
living free within
- the family
self help, abortion,
pliysical well being,
. independence, plum-
- age, rape, women
- alone, therapy, aging
+ beh prison
bict’ dancer, singer
-corposer, humorist,
women in the visual
“arts, dramatist

“Penviders

Feminist:
Family

Women :
in Controls

- Women 3
as Creator:’

Child care will be available,
The cost of the confer-

is received by August 15th, $20
after that date. Mail checks

payable to Eastern Regional Con-
vention to:

Mary Ann O'Connell
14 Maple Avenue

New Brunswick, N.J. 08902

Requests for accommodations
should be made early if you wish
to stay at the Convention Hotels:

Chalfonte/Haddon Hall Hotel,
Atlantic sity, NeJe 08404,

For information about a
possible group or bus from Albany,
contact Albany Area N.OcWe, *
43401712.

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Masculine Mystique Conference:

One Man's Opinion and demanded a reorganization of
' the seond day's program. If
It was a heavy, draining Warren had involved persons from
weekend during which my heart different backgrounds in organe
alternately was breken by the izing the conference, he probably
frustrations of unfulfilled wouldn't have been so badly hurt
expectations and was filled with by the confrontation. The sesond
joy from the open, caring people day he turned the chair over to a

I met. It was billed as the first friend; and if ever there was a
national conference on the mascul=- time for leadership it was at

ine mystique, but it didn't begin this point. The new chair did not
to live up to that promise. For cope with the intense feelings the

two days 350 of us, most of whom second day brought, and the

were not N.O.W. members and half conference came close to founder-~

of whom were women, struggled to ing on the shoals of discontent.

launch a men's liberation movement However, the strength of the

from a conference that was inade-~ conference was its participants

quate in concept and leadership, and some beautiful things happened.

However, it was also the largest The workshop I attended on :

gathering of gentle, concerned problems in facilitating CR groups

men and strong, patient women I*ve was excellent. In six hours,

ever met. Its participants were @ight strangers (7 men and 1 wma

a grass root strength that would bonded into a game-free group

not be denied expression, and dealt meaningfully with

The conference theme, that strategies for handling such

men are not "success abjects", topics as homosexuality, the use

was articulated in Warren Farrell's of power, giving support, bedy

opening remarks. Warren is a awareness, going public, joint
warm sincere man who heads N.O.W.'s men/women groups, and cR groups
Task Force on the Masculine for more aware persons.

Mystique. He undertook the huge Other examples of such

Job of organizing the conference strength came from deeply concern-

with few inputs from athers. The ed women and gay men. Repeatedly,

conference title served as an they challenged the conference to

umbrella for what Warren knows address its omissions of gays, —

best, i.e., how to establish and blacks, poor and even its lack of

facilitate CR groups. His courage to confront the anti-

experience with single sex groups feminist behavior of a couple of

and mixed groups is impressive. the conference's members. A

The agenda also included scheduled yomen's caucus cautioned wmen

demonstrations at the Playboy to depend on themselves for their

Cyub and N.Y. Life Insurance cwn liberation while selectively

Company because of their sexist supporting men's efforts to

practices. extricate themselves from the

But the conference participants foliéges of their own male culture.

had a level of consciousness In my epinion, the conference's
unanticipated by those who organ- flaws were extremely serious but

ized it. They wanted to discuss not fatal. It's strength lay in
the full spectrum of men's social those participants who were able

condition. They were angered to take a hard look at themselves
that the conference had a bias and then move ahead despite the
toward men who were middle-class, shertcomings. Although, I'm
white, hetrosexual, and oriented convinced there are things that

toward the nuclear family. men and women must do separately
Because they expected more from at present, I am deeply impressed
a first national conference, they with their demonstrated ability
felt misled and even discriminated to work together. A measure of

against. ments committment to their own

By the end of the first day, liberation will be how we capital-
the participents blew the whistle ize on what w6've learned and .

experignced at this conference.
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(Continued
Where should. men
I think we should take steps ih
our communities to raise.our con-
sciousness about how male culture
oppresses men and women, This

stique Conference

go from here?

means undertaking a serious pol-
itical analyshs of the relation- —
ship between our condition and the
economic, racial and social forces
that shape our lives. We need to
exchange information and develop

a body of literature which is open
to scrutiny. We must learn how to
support those who wish to move |
beyond personal solutions and into
the public domain in order to
change the social policies: and

_ practices which divide us from each
other, from women and. from our
children. The strength of such :. .
a movement builds on bonds dev-=
eloped at a local level, and it is
there that we should begin to help
our Phoenix bird rise from its

own ashes, _ ,

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. I am sure Hedi understood “~ 3
that this was my intention and
preoccunation; P.J. Rader, the
reporter, apparently did since
she did not see fit’to mention’
the incident. JI .am, of course,
sorry that anything I did could
have been construed as a put-
down of another woman, particul®
arly when the person is a very
good friend in addition to being
an ally in feminism.

LIBERTE, EQUALITE, SORITE.
. Adrienne Rogers

Dear Speakout,

Not. only did Christine Root
mis-spell the names of two panel
members discussing "What happens
when a women reports a rape?"
(Hedi and Con), but she also
falsely reported the words and
intentions of Adrienne Rogers,
moderator, Dr. Rogers never
asked Hedi McKinley if she would
mind not giving her talk, nor
did she indicate that men in -

general are busier than women,

. It was a fact that Con Cholakis

LETTERS TO SPEAKOU -

To the cditor: :

‘iL read with interest Chris
Root's account of the Troy: No'’
Chaptcr's,moetihg on rape
(SPEAKOUT June 1974) in which she
charecterizcs as "Faux. pas of the
night" my having asked Hedi
lecKinley if she wovld hold off so
that questions could be addressed
to the busy men on the panel,

. This was certainly not by
any cans intended as'a put—down
of Hedi. Let me make this apology
public, Please also let me ex-
plain the dilemma that went through
my head at the time,

I wes not interestcd in defer-—
ring to the “importance” of the men
in question as I was in being sure
they did not have an opportunity
to avoid being questioned on the
pretext of their"busy-ness", The
audience was clearly cager to put
questions to them, and it would
have been e shame if this oppor-=
tunity had been missed,

12

was expecting to be called away
any minute, and Dr. Rogers mere-~
ly asked if he might answer a
fow questions in the event that
he be called away during Hedi
MeKinley's talk. Such a slant-
ed and unjust article is not in
the intcrest of sisterhood.

Sinverely,
Joanne Westin

Dear Speakout:

Last week, July 3, I went to
my usual private gynecolorist,
Dr, Edward P. MeDonald on 765
Madison Avenue. I have been see
ing him yearly for the past two
years and. he has always been ~
nice and pretty understanding
for aman, On my July 3 visit
last week, I. told him that I ~
wanted to-change my birth con-
trol pills to another trand with
a lower estrogen level. I’had
recently read that my pill,
Ovulen-21, has .lme. of the

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éstrozen hormone, as opposed to
sofiecother pills which have’ only
-O5 of the estrogen hormone, My
doctor started naming various
Other braids I could use and as he
did this, I asked him about’ the
estrogen levels of each one. He
said tnat he did not have to tell
me this, He then told me that he
did not *‘want'to’set me as a.
pattent anymore because I did not
trust him. He told me to go to
another gynecologist. I told him
that it wasn't that I didn't trust
him - I was just concerned about
the pill. He again repeated that:
I should see another: gynecolorist.

If you would like, you may
print this letter in your next
copy of SPEAXOUT. Maybe other
women in the Albeny area would
like to know about this.

Sincerely,
Diane iargiore

Dear Sisters,

Please print this open letter
to Lueinda Cisler ib your next
issue, it is of the utmost
importance,

Mis. Cisler,

As a member off a militant ;
feminist orzanization, it has come
to my attention throuvh the
grapevine that you are enzazved in
a law suit with Random House and
the editor of SISTERHOOD IS POWER*
FUL. For obvious reasons this
suit will endanger: the livelihood
of the 5.1.P. Fund, the only fund
of its kind in existence to date,
Membors of our group were extremel
angered upon learning of your
actions. Since you are serious
in your intentions a viable

solution would be’to proceed throug

feminist channcls,

News of your malicious action is
spreading rapidly throughout the
country. I have a very strong
feeling that you ané your work will
be jeopardized by the entiro
feminist population unless a sol-
ution is found in the very near
future, Of course, another con-
Sideration would be to drop tho
entire prefabricated "male" law

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suit. Please give this consid-
eration. ;
In Militant Sistcrhood,
Marianne “Rubenstein
The RED RAG REGIE

Ms, Cisler,

I am saddened to learn of ° **”
your recent unwarrante: actio
azainst Random House and il !...)y
SISTERNOOD IS POWE. FUL. I find
it inconceivable that a feminist
or any other woman with an iota
of sensitivity or understanding
would jeopardizs an enterprise
so vital to her sisters, for
personal motives.

If a woman cares nothing for
the movement and if she dis-
assocites herself from other
women alons with disregarding
the tremendous amount of work
that has to be done to set
things right (the work that
SISTERHOOD IS POWERFUL has been
instrumental in nurturing) the
Situation is clear. Such
behavior could only come from a
ruthless opportunist out to
make a buck,

An individual like that could |
be dotrimental to the women's
movement, but I believe that
the strength of our sisters
would stop this individual be-
fore sh: or he could do further
damace. After all, sisterhood
is powerful,

Marca Gomez
We Are The Women Your
Father Warned You Against Theatre
Troupe

as <9
= an open letter

to Ms. Cisler

pS. luecinda Cisler:

It has come to my attontion
through tho "Feminist Grapevine"
that you are suinz Random House
and SISTERHOOD IS POWERFUL for
9300.000 wnder the guise of
plagarism, This fact is receiv-
ed by myself and by my feminist
colleagues throughout: the state
with much disapproval, shock,
and disgust.

(Continued on the next pace)

Lettors (Co 't)

I cannot possibly accept a:
"feminist " jeopardizing the
publication of the book which has
reached many American women,’as
well as jeopardizing to date,
the one of a kind fund establish-
ed to financially aid groups work
ing for womon,.

' Is there truth behind the
rumor that you stooped to hire
ale lawyers? Where did you
store your "feminist conscious-
ness" when doing this? If there
is any truth to your accusation
(which I doubt, how the hell can
a bibliography be plagerized?'.)
You should have enough intesrith
to pursue your complaint through
feminist channels, |

It secms that your intentions

are either opnvortunist or .....
malicious in nature. If I am
wrong in my theory, I am sure
that you will rethink your action
and cither 1) drop tho chargos
or ") drop your male lawyers and
announce your complaint through
feminist channels... If you do not
do this, I beg feminists across
the country, yea across the world
to interpret your actions
as an indication of your political
stance and boing; an opportunist,

ra e%

malicious person who jumped on the

feminist bandwagon for capital-
istic and professional gain,
Sisterhood is Powerful,
Gloria Grecnfield
Research Librarian
Alliance of Women Against
Repressive Education of

SeU.N.Y¥

Dear sisters,

30 we would like to bring special
thematic workshops to interested

ZrYoups )
We would also like to know
what your advertisine ratos

and deadlines are. Thank you.
Gerri Barist
Wemanrite Theatre Ensemble

Dear Sisters: gh

We are five women who have
been working tozether for two
yeers exploring our experiences
of growing up in a sexist society
We use theater as a tool for self
exploration and as a forun for
communicatins with others.

For tho: past year, we have *.:
been develeping a piece called
"Phe Cinderella Project". This
piece deals primarily with womans
roles in man's space — and the
weys in which we mutilate our-
selves in order to fit those
roles. In July we plan to begin
performing "The Cindcrella™ .
Project’ as a work-in-progress.
We are eager to share our work
with “you -- and to invite your
feedback on the themes of the
piece in a discussion/workshop
following the performance, |

We would like to bring this
program ro you. Our space
requiroimeonts are very flexable,
and our fee is based on contrib-
utions,

If you are interested in
talking with us about this pro-
grem or tho other programs
mentioned in our enclosed flyer
please contact:

a
cy

é

Womanrite Theater Ensemble
25 Prospect Place
Brooklyn, New York 11217

Enelosed are copies of a lettoror call

end flyer, which have bcen sent to

numerous. sroups in New York State,
We would like to know if it is
possible for ovr group to be
mentioned in your publication,
stressing:

1) that we are interested in
bringing our play to women's
Sroups,

2) One night a week our rehersals
and workshops are open to inter-
ested women; and

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21 2~868~3 330

We are Lookin:; forward to tho
possibility of working with you.
since ely,
Womanrite Theater Ensemble

(Editor's note: Women's groups
This group would provide us wrth
an enjoyable and profitable
experience. )

i CCCCi(titNCCC(C(wtétéNCOC(C(titNNCCOC(((NNN((((#(#(#é#é#4w#w#4w#wseeeeeheee errr
j Dear Speakout Rear: xs; best interests.

I thought a note in Speakout
would be a good way of reminding
@ lot of people about the contine
uing struggle of the United Farm
Workers union. Please pass the
word = Boycott non-UFW iceberg
lettuce, Californian grapes, and
all Gallo vines (including
Boone's Farm, Andre, and Paisano).

We have two reprints of special
interest to Speakout readers =
"The Women of the Boycott" from
the 2/23/74 Nation magazine and
an essay by Suni Paz,
writer and folk singer
Raza and Women."

We also have a 140 slide/15
minute slide show, "UFW 1973,"
that we are eager to share with
groups = large and small,

For more information or for
our current newsletter, please
call the Albany Friends of the
Farmworkers at 489-5022 after
4 p.m. or write us at P. O, Box
1982, Albany, New York 12201,

>» 0 "La

Viva La Causa}

Anita Thayer

Albany Friends of the
Farmworkers

The Latecomer by Sarah Aldridge

The story of two women of un-
like -temperarents and differing
backgrounds who come to recognize
their love for each other,

A love story set in the .
political turmoil of here and now,
yet written with the romantic
tone of yesterday.

Published by the Naiad Press
Distributed by:
The Ladder.
P. O, Box 5025
Washingtcn Station
Beno, Nevada 89503

Send $3.00 plus 25¢ for postage

a Latin song and handling

Press Release

The HudsoneMohawk Association
of Colleges & Universities recent-
ly published “Women's Periodicals"
a bibliography of the resources
available at Academic and public
libraries in New York State's
Capital District (copy attached).
The publication is significant
for both the locational information
it provides and as a representative
sample ¢f the variety of publica.
tions vhich have been published
for and about women,

Copies of the bibliography
are available for $1.00 per copy
by contacting:

HudsoneMohawk Association

of Colleges & Universities

849 New Loudon Road

Latham, New York 12110

Coming h:me from a summer spentTwo other booklets of possible

in research in Europe, Philippa
unexpectedly shares her stateroom
with Kay, a stranger, Philippa,
nearing forty, reserved, inexper~
ienced in close human relation-~
ships, and Kay, eight years young-
er, lively, gregarious, agonizing
over a frustrated love affair,
spend five days during their :
stormy Atlantic crossing learning
the key to each other's natures,

They believe that their arrival

in New York harbor will end their
brief friendship, but circumstance
intervenes, They meet again in
Washington, D.C., where Kay's
lover's career has led to possible
catastrophe for all involved,

It is Philippa who must act
as mediator for Kay. . . hiding
her own feelings to protect Kay''s
May's b

Marriage,
ame, £61 Kimberly,

interest to our readers ares

Women's Centers: Where Are Thev?
Project on the Status of Women,
Dr. Bernice Sandler, Director,

Association of American Colleges,

1818 R Street NW, Washington.D.C,.
Ns 3+ OR AB SS

Booklet for Women Who Wish To
e@tain their Own Names After
enter for A Woman's Own

Barrington,

Illinois $2.25

60010

WIN WITH WOMEN IN '74!

ANNOUNCING A HYMN: WRITING CONTEST

The Presbytery of Albany of sex only. We suggest that hymn
the United Presbyterian Church in writers be sensitive to this and
the U.S.A. is sponsoring a contestuse appropriate and inclusive words
for new hymns that use sexeinclus- when referring to the pe ple of
ive terminology that will speak tOGod, avoiding usages specific to

all members of the church. only one sex in all terminology.
AB Pine ope, The contest is designed to bring
The rules of the contest are; forth new ideas for words and music
1, Open to the public and also to raise our consciousness

Re Use of sexsinclusive term= to bring all people the word of
-inology when speaking of theGod through hymns.
people of God ‘

3. Hymns of any type, such as: REQUESTS FOR ADDITIONAL COPIES of
traditional, contemporary, these rules and other inquiries
children's hymns, hymns in may be directed to:

languages other than English, Hymn Writing Contest
hymns for special occasions, The Presbytery of Albany
etc. 601 Fifth Avenue

4, Both words and music must be Watervliet, N.Y- 12189

_ submitted, However, music
may be either original or
music.used in pxhlic domain, *

' 5. The criteria for judging

will be: a) theological A New Group Forms in Delmar
suitability, b) inclusive
language, c) speaks to all A notice in the local "Welcome

members of the congregation, Wagon” newsletter asking women who

d) suitability to be surj, were interested in‘ nsciousness

e) suitability for worship, Raising to call, stirred interest
6. Entries, if not copyrighted in at least fifteen women. Starte:

by author or composer, will ing in September there will be both

be. protected by Common Law a day group and an evening group.

Copyright and remain in Right now the group is in a forma-
possession of entrant tive stage struggling to find the

7. Copies of hymns canno®e® be best way to starte-consciousness
returned raising or action. Should they

8. The closing of the contest allow women to come to business
will be January 31, 1975 meetings who are fearful of "jump-

9. The winning hymns will be ing into a CR group right away."
published throughout the Women in the areas of Delmar,
whole church (United Elsmere, Slingerlands and Glenmont

Presbyterian Church in the who wish to learn more about this

U.S\sAs) , : new women's group, please contact
10, All entries are to be sube Jan Kelly, 65 Fernbank Avenue,

mitted to the Presbytery of Delmar, N.Y., 439-2233.

Albany, 601 Fifth Avenue, Speakout congratulates our

Watervliet, N.Y. 12189, to sisters in Delmar in their unique

the attention of the Hymn method of organizing a new group.

Writing Contest We wish them well as they struggle
11. Decisions of judges will be personally and collectively to
final, : | redefine what it means to be
a woman,

Rationales: at
In this day of heightened cons-

ciousness about the role of men WIN WITH WOMEN IN '74%
and women, there are many who may .
feel excluded by our terminology ° mi res) VOTEL |

in worship that is specific to one

4 GROUP NEWS AND CALENDAR

september 2 Labor Day

’ Suptember 18 }
lesbians for Liberation: Weckly meetines Peper id oe — eg
a os = ie wea es ien Has 5 a *é pla
ania ag gre aces aie w ty will be presented. kweryone is welcom,
: : end no admission will be cher.cd. 8 p.m.
ochcncctady Y.w.C.A.
a

Scptumbcr b

Troy women's Liberation: 7:30 First Pres- Scptcmber 20 a ,
bytcrian Church, 5th Ave. Troy. All #amer “omen's Dinner: Bring food to share and
women wolcome.¥or morc information cal] Send an ewning with other feminists.

Carol Mulchy 274-7967 7 peme 332 Hudson Awe. Albany.
Alpenyteiis0@w.:Labor Union Task Forec September 22

he he See: Pee ; Hudson Park Neighborhood Assoc: Street
mocting e: Ald. womtnige Lond, wonen ma high ae .
angind kines. of wine agesty Uae’ coe Festival. Craft Fair, ‘lea liarket, Auction
invited. ta. .distyssoprobloms;.nltcnnatives a maior’ PEERS EES 5 o—ndipaaageans
solutions and ideas. For further info. c ‘Live entertainment, activities for children
call Robin Corbcr 477-73 ioon to dark, Hudson Ave. Albany(below
- 8 24h Washington Park, between the Park end

fa

Scaies & ee eS ree ee oe info: 436-133) or
Women's Dinner.:Bring’:food to shirétahd:» _— —

meet with other-arbe Feminists. Commiiey 2. eS

ity.Housc, 332 Hadson:.Ave,- Albeny} Trp ms Soevomber 23 Autumn Besins

Ses oe 7-9 Lesbians for Liberation: “usiness liseting
N.O.W.: bastcrn Resional Conference. 8 poms 332 Hudson Ave. Albany. All women

"Wonder Womm :No Myth America" Coincidcs Welcome.
with iiss America Contest. Atlantic

City, NeJde For more information cell September 2 ee eee
tilecn Kelly :38-5237 Lesbians ior Liberation: business and

social mecting. 8 peme 332 Hudson Ave.

september 9 Albeny. All women welcoinc.
Lesbians ior Liberation: 6 p.m. 332

Hudson Avec, Albeny. 411 women welcoinc

Scptcmber 10
Primary Day:Support your local Feminists

(for information on specific candidates ALLANY WN Osis
contact Troy Political Caucus(283-627h) as
or Albany Political Geucus(63-0)77) Now that summcr is over Alban, NOW's Tagk

Foree activity will be incressin;. Any=
Capital Yistrict “omen: Business mecting onc wishing to work with NOW in the arcas
New members welcome.For time and location Of Hducation, eg Unions, Cg
wd Marriange end Yivorcc, Women in Sports
coll Phoebe ~hercs:)82-6728 : > : co « :
My q Child-care, Sexuality, hale hiystique ,
Women in tcligion, and mmy others may

Te ,
September 11 call the NOW phono- 1341712

Schenectady ...U.W.: Business icetine. 8

peme Yew. «A. Members only. & & & & &

September 16 | |
Lesbians for Liberetion:8.pem. Community COMMITTEE FOR: MARY ANN KRUPSAK

House, 332 Hudson Awe., Albany. All
woicn welcome.

More people are necded to work in their
wards to bring out the vote for Krupsak.

as Fleasc help-cail 463-5195 orh63-0h77
Septcmber 18 . ee ah ee ee
Schenectady N.L.wWe: "The Independent "SHE'S “OT JUST ON OF TH BOYS"
Funelcy or a Man has his Pride", a
fominist play will be presented.

Admission is frec, end =ll arc welcome.
8 pm. Schenectady YWCA.

COALITION rGk A bhi ChUiCh

Following arc some of the ANTI Abortion *
candidates running for’ Congressiet: *.. «.

28th district
Edward Breitcnbach(Republican), head of
Albany County 4icht to Life

2°th district
dward Golden{Dem) founder of"kight to
Lifé" Pres. of “ational RTL.
Joc tiartin(Dem)
Carleton Kine- incumbent. Uld foc
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Albany Women's Political Ceucus

Anyone who has not alreedy obtaindd a
copy of the results of our survey of arca
politicans can contact the Caucus: 393.
Hamilton Ave. Albeny, 463-0477

Three women- hegsin Adams, Diane Mar-'

giore and Jane Sanford= arc running as
keform Democrats in Albmy's 7th Ward.

Primery ‘Day, September 10. i:
VOTE. . FOR’: FEMINISTS

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CAR MAINTENANCs COURSE

Albany's Firestone Store will be con-

--ducting a frce car clinic for women.

General maintcnence and safcty will be
covered. hepsistration will be limited.
Course will be held on Tucsdays, Sept 10-
October 1, 7:00-9:30 p.m. 188 Central Ave.
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WOMLN'S P:.CdECT# C.L.U.

A new project on “omen and their concept
of their bodics is beginnins. If interest-
ed in working on this please contact
Doris Traschen: 283-6274

&

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& &
3hOY TROY? WOMEN! STPOLITEGALU CAUCUS

The caucus is developin; a questionaire
for the winners of September's primary.
if you are interested in helping with
this pleasc call 283-627h.

there arc a lot of anti Feminists
runnin;, for office. ost have the backing
of their party. OUK candidates necd help.

Bulk hate

U.f. Postage
PAID

Permit w 12

Albeny,; New York

Time Value

Eileen Kelly
98 S. Pine Ave.
Albany 12208

Please

VUTE ON :RIMAKY DAY: SuPTEMBsR kD

OCT
1974

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WERETHE ORIGINAL GUERRAS AND RESISTANCE FIGHTERS AGAINST OPPRESSION ——
PARTICULARLY THE OPPRESSION OF WOMEN -DOWNTHROUGHTHEAGES, WITCHES HAVE
AUWAYS BEEN WOMEN WHO DARED TO BE: GROOVY COURAGEOUS, AGGRESSIVE INTEL-
LI GENT NON-CONFORMIST, EXPLORATI VE CURIOUS, INDEPENDENT, SEXUALLY LIBERATED,

REVOLUTIONARY [HI PossiBLy EXPLAINS WHY AINE MILLION OF THEM HAVE BEEN BURNEDJ

ITCHES \NERE THE FIRST FRIENDLY HEADS AND DEALERS HEFIRST BiRtH} CONTROL PRACTITIONERS
| THE LIVI S OFTHE CULTURE
OF ALL- ONE IN WHICH MEN AND WOMEN UAL NL IN ATRULY COOPERATIVE
SOdEN ¥ BEFORE HIE DEATH DEALING SEXVAL,ECONOMIC AND SPIRITUAL REPRESSION OF THE

AIST PHALLIC SOCETY-100K OVERAN D D DesTROYWATORE FHUMAN SOUL Ty

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WITHIN YOURSELE YOU AREA WITCH. YoU MAKE VWROWN RULES YOU ARE EREE aD BEAT CUo
WHATEVER Is REPRESSIVE. SOLEY MALE-ORIENTED, GREEDY, PURITANICAL, AUTHORMARIAN— THOSE
ARE YOUR TARGETS. YOUR WEAPONS ARE TER, SATIRE EXPLOSIONS MAGIC S.

SIC, COSTUMES MASKS, CHAINS, STICKERS, STENCILS = DAINT, FILMS, TAN BOURING,
BRICKS, BROONS/GUNS, V00D00 DOLLS, CATS, “ANDLES, BELIS CHALK MAIL CLIPPINGS, HAND

RENADES, POISON RINGS, TAPE RECORDERS (ey INCEKISE — YOUR OWN BOUNDLESS
“BEAUTIFUL IMAGINATION. OUR POWERS COMES COMES FROM YOUR. OWN SELF AS A
WOMAN, AND IT Is ACTIVATED BY WORKING IN CONCERT WITH YOUR SISTETZS. THE POWER
OF THE COVEN IS MORE THAN THE SYM OF (TS INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS; BECAUSE IT Is
“TOGETHER. “ EXCERPT FROM STATEMENT BYTHE NEW YORK COVENS

AVAUNT: THEE LILITH

SPEAKOUT: A _ FEMINIST JOURNAL

Vol. III No, IX October 1974
Table of Contents

Page 1 Women of the Boycott S.Lasher & C.Root
2,3 Capital Women in Cable M,Gallagher
4% No Myth America C,.Root
5,6 Feminists's State of Union Message W.S.Heide
7  Housewife's Lament
8 Restaurants & Businesses Owned by Women
9  SUNYA - UL.Kuhn
10 From the Mail Bag
11 Letters to the Editor
12 New York State NOW ™
13 Women & Child Care in China: a book review  R.Sorriento
14 Calendar
15,16 Group News

Workers: Rezsin Adams, Carol Biernacki, Maggie Figliozzi,
Mary Gallagher, Anne Harrison, Betty Kemmer, Linda Kuhn,
Susan Lasher, Chris Root, Laura Rosman, Cheryl Shenkle,
Prioebe Shérés, Cheryl Wagner, Susan Walters, Janet Werner,
Jennifer Wolff.

Material for the Calendar should be submttted to Laura Rosman -
136413344 by the 10th of the month.

Anyone interested in doing a cover design, call Carol Biernacki -
765-946

Speakout is published monthly. Subscriptions are $3.50 per year,
35% per issue. Advertising is $10 per quarter page. Mail subscrip-
tions: Speakout, P.0.Box 6165, Quail Station, Albany, N.Y. 12206

Speakout is on file at the Women's History Research Center,
2325 Oak Street, Berkeley, California. Speakout is also a member
of COSMEP (Committee of Small Magazine Editors and Publishers)

Cover design by Pam Scola

THE WOMEN OF THE BOYCOT T

Albany Friends of the Farmworkers

Women Men Women
but especially women

" I really believe what the fem
inists stand for, there is an under-
current of discrimination against
women in our own organizatien, even
though Cesar goes out of his way
te see that women have leadership
positions,"

Dolores Huerta, V.P. UFW, AFL-CIO

Farm werker women have always
been invelved in the union from its
earliest days. Dolores Huerta, the
UFW vice president, has worked since
the 1950's to organize farm workers,
She is not alon¢. Women are active
as shop stewards and on the ranch
committees. / They work on the union
paper: El Malcriado. They negotiate
contracts, After agitation they
won day care at some ranches,

Many women have come East to work
on the boycott of grapes. The
women are walking the picket lines
along with men,

Farm worker women must struggle
agains’ two very real sources of
oppression: from the agribusinesses
that empley them and from the male
dominated society which affects us
all. And thus farm worker
women need our support.

Join the picket line every Thursday
ép.me te Sp.m. at Price Chopper
Madison and West Lawrence St., Albany,

If scab growers can sell their
grapes in the fall, our sisters will
still be on California Bicket lines
next year, So-—— Don't buy GRAPES,
NON-UFW ICEBURG LETTUCE or GALLO wine.

For more information write to
Kris Healey, ALBANY FRIENDS OF THE
FARM WORKERS, P.O. BOX 1982
ALBANY NY 12201

or call 489-5022 (4 to 10 p.m.)

HUELGAY

Albany's Very Own
Tireless
WOMAN OF THE BOYCOTT

Anita Thayer

In order to catch a bit of Anitas
personal low keyed style a person really
has to march with her on a picket line,
Or watch this shy couragous woman
stand in front of a large audience
to talk about her beloved cause:
the farm workers,

Anita recalls not eating grapes
at SUNYA during her freshman(sic)
year and even then telling friends
about the boycott in support of the
United Farm Workers. A friend in
Arizona active in the cause spurred
Anita to revitalize local support
and thus Anita became a co-founder of
the Albany Friends of the Farm Workers,
She served as chairperson of the
Albany group up until a three person
steering commbttee was formed in July
of this year,

Two of the high points she recalls
are the successful banning of grapes
from Shop Rite and the STOP THE GRAPES
concert at which Cesar Chavez appeared.

Although Anita has not been active
in an organized feminist group in
Albany she is very concerned about
her sisters especially poor women.
She sees child care as one of the major
areas of concern for women in our
society.—--and one in which she might
want to invest personal energy.

Anita had been thinking about law
school for a long time but has only
now enrolled this fall as a full time
student at Albany Law School... She
sees law as an adventure into a
whole new language and as an impor-
tant tool for social change, Anita
does not want to be a Bill Kuster
or a wall street type but would like
to work at extending people's democratic
rights in the areas of child care, min-
imum wages and reasonable rents and
making people aware of their rights.

Once in practice Anita hopes to
be self-supporting but still have time
left for the Friends of the Farm Worker .

for her husband and for her many
friends and interests,

GOOD LUCK ANITA

VIVA LA CAUSA,

CAPITAL WOMEN IN CABLE

Cable Television is an entirely new means of communication with capability of
supplying much more than retransmitting local and New York City commercial pro-
grams. Channels have been set astide for use by the local government, the schools
and the general public. Because the cable systems in Albany, Schenectady, and
troy all have the capacity for 30 channels, special interest groups can readily
lease a channel which is currently unused.

Why not a channel for those who do not really care to watch soap operas or
re-runs of "I Love Lucy?"

That's why Women in the Capital District are in the process of forming an
organization for the purpose of leasing a channel on local cable television systems
to provide alternative programming for the majority of the population: WOMEN,

Who is specaking today for the women of the Capital District who are vitally
inherested in the performing arts, the visual arts, literature, the sciences,
higher education, the environment, the rights of the consumer, the concerns of the
poor, child care, health care, volunteer service organizations, clubs, the social
services, home-making, hobbies, self-improvement and on and on?

Because we really care about all this,we plan to ask for a women's channel
on the local cable systems to produce alternative programming. And we will pro-

bably not succeed unless we are well organized, very determined, and fully rep-
resentative of the women in the Capital District area,

Capital Women in Cable urges all blacks and whites, Republicans, Democrats,
and Independents and all age groups - to join in this organizing effort to rep-
resent all women; to present programming designed to address the perceptions and
and needs of all women in our area. We seek support from professional, religious
volunteer services, and civic organizations, includiag business-women, educators,
labor representatives, leaders in the arts and homemakers, every woman.

To date there have been two meetings to organize the venture. The first took
place on August fifteenth of this year in Albany where a group of women met to ex-
change ideas about the concept of Women in Cable Television. The main speaker was
Carol Lynn Yellin, Chairperson of Women in Cable Inc. in Memphis, Tennessee. This
is where the idea of Women in Cable originated. The organization was formed there
in January of 1973 and consists of a profit making enterprise and a non-profit
affiliate. "The profit making enterprise leases the channel and gives one kalf of
the time on the channel for programming to WICC, the non-profit organization.
Members of Women in Cable are anxious to see a network of women's channels estab-
lished around the country, and have offered their expertise in aiding an organi-
gational attempt in the Capital District." (Minutes of the August 15 meeting.)

A second meeting was held in Albany on September 12. Approximately twenty-—
five women attended, Their purpose was to evaluate how far they had come with the
project and what further steps needed to he taken. The organization for the
Capital District is now divided into foux working committees investigating four
different areas involved in the project. One committee under the direction of
Heather Irwin is researching the legal aspects of the venture and hopes to obtain
the services of a female attorney to assist in this area of specialization. An-
other group headed by Gaul Rathburn is investigating the various means available
for financing the project. Funding could come from many different sources. One
possibility is for the women involved to incorporate into a profit making organi-
gation and sell stock to obtain capital. Funds can also come from Foundation
grants, and hopefully from some local women's organizations.

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production equipment.

CAPITAL WOMEN IN CABLE - Cont'd.

The -third group, organized by Roni
Lipton-Block, is working on programming
sources and available means of obtaining

is directing the fourth committee whose

main concern is publicity support and
membership.

The project can only be suc-
cessful if women in the Capital District
Area support it. Therefore, Women in
Cable seeks to enlist the aid of as many
local women's organizations as possible.

The publicity committee will endeavor to —

establish contact with varicus area wom-

en's groups and enlist their support. The

Committee. hopes to obtain a statement of
interest and support from as many of
these orggnizations as possible, This
particulagy statement would commit each
group to nothing more than declaring
their interest in the project. If the
venture is successful, area women's or-
ganizations would be able to use the
station at a regularly assigned time and
schedule programs of their specific
choice.

Women in Cable is dedicated to re-
presenting all «omen in the Capital Dis-
trict area--black, white, professional,
non-professional, and the like. The idea
of Women in Cable is to secure a Women's
Channel, produced and controlled by
women to meet the needs of all women in
the Capital District Area.

CWC Steering Committee: Roni Lipton-
Block, Sherry Harrington, Debikae S,
DeGear, Heather Irwin, Helene MacPherson,
Melinda Perrin, Gail Rathburn, Stephanie
Stewart, Gally Tolley.

Mary Gallagher
JAHRE HEHESHHE AIR GH RHA EAH EHSE ESHER HSE SHE

UNIONIZATION FIGHT
FEATURED ON WOMEN ALIVE:
SEGMENT SETTLED

There has been a noteworthy public
response to the airing om Woman Alive}
of the story of millworker Crystal Lee
Jordan's attempt to help unionize her
textile plant,aecording to the show's
producer,Joan Shigekawa. Ms. Shige
kawa. Ms. Shigekawasaid,: "There have
been many inquiries from both the

a a a it

Sherry Harrington °

press nd the public requesting an up-
date on the Crystal Lee Jordnfstory.
Many of the more than two thousand
letters received by Woman Alive! spec-
ificallyask\‘fér information on the
status of Crystal's battle to organ—
ize the millworkers,"

WNET/13 is currently seeking
funds to turn Woman Alive!, whose pilot
program was shown over the PublicBroad-
casting Service on June 19, 1974,‘ into
a regule’series.

After eleven yers of trying, org-

-anizers for the TextilesWorkers Union

of America have convinced a majority of
the workers at the J, P, Stevens Co.'s
plants in Roanoke Rapids, North Carc»
lina to unionize. Crystal Lee Jordaii.
was one ofthe key leders in this suc-
cesfull drive to bring the TWUA to J.P.
Stevens, the ntions second ligest tex-
tile company e Che

Ms, Jordan's struggle on behaf of
her fellow millworkers first received
national attention in the New York Times
magazine in August, 1973. ™“s. Jordayr:
has spent seventeen of her thirty-four
years Iboring in textile mills, working

six days a week under some of the most

Calg ao)

“labor practices still existing in
this country, A millworker's annusl in-
come is about $7,000 before deductions.

IN fact, Ms, Jordan has been dis—
missed by J. P. Stevens. She is now
suing her former employers, charging th
that her firing was a direct result of
her union activities. The compay denies
the allegbion, The suit is still in
court, with a decision expected by the
end of this year.

With funding obtained from the Cor—
poration for Public Broadcsting, the
Woma Alive$ pilot program, produced by
KERA-TV Dalls/ Fort Worth, in collabo- ©
ration with “s, Mgazine, focused on the
lives of today's women,asking what roles
they see for themselves, wht new demands
women are mking om their lives, and wht
chages have tken place since the women's
movement first began to capture the

«tention of people everywhere.

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NO MYTH cowardliness," Barbara also cited a
AMERICA study that showed "not a single les-=
bian thought of men as the superior

Seven women from the Albany area

"

made their way to Atlantic City Sept- sore
ember 7 for the Eastern Regional NOW Karen DeCrow summed it all up
cenference, "Can we afford politically to en-

Right from the start we were made compass lesbianism?? We can't afford
to feel at home. Arriving late net te,"
Friday evening without a hotel res-
ervation or place to stay Ann Simon Flo Kennedy quick wit was ever
and I wakked up to the information present, When asked by a Newsday
booth and asked about hospitality. reporter about the absence of black
The woman at the booth not onlkiy offer-e@ women in the movement and at the con-
ed to put us up but also to drive us ference Flo replied-——How many

te and fro. articles have appeared in Newsday about

the conference ~—=-compared to golf

To quote the local paper: "With and all of the rest of the balls?"
the WOMEN of NOW and the girls of
the Miss America Pageant, the people MORE QUOTES FROM FLO--—

ef Atlantic City are happy to see

the hotels filled," Welcome Y'all te suck city on

the Atlantic. I see that the media

It was no accident that the N@w is using its D&C stategy--- divide
conference and the Miss America and conquer.
Pageant coincided. Fran Kolb,
Eastern Regional NOW Officer, stated Let the media decide if we
that NOW hopes to previde an alter- burned jock straps with —- with the
native view of women as cheesecake men in them or not.

" our beauty is not just in our bodies,
My criticism is not with the

Karen DeCrow, President of National § women, PLAYBOY centerfold will pay
NOW, came to the conference fresh from as much as a PHD can earn in a whole
a meetinf with other Women leaders year.
and President Ford. Commenting on
the White House Ms. DeCrow feels that One of the best ways to stop rape
Nany of us that occupy it will find is to castrate a cop, -—=Put
it comfortable," pressure on the part of the body

to the point where that person

The bad news from President Ford becomes concerned about our comfort.
is that he does not agree with his Regardless of how minimal our
wife's stand on abortion. President power, we must apply it at the right
Ford said that it is a matter that points,
should go to the states,

If you break your leg and bust

Barbara Sloan, a leader of the your tit---- you can get a scholar-
National Black Feminists Organization, ship.

gave a ramblin but interesting talk
on NBFO and NOW, see

Barbara Love of Sappho Was a Saturday ,despite the drizzle, was
Right On Woman fame gave a very moving the scene of a rousing parade on
talk entitled "The Myth that Lesbian- the Boardwalk of over 2000 feminists.
ism Is the Achilles Heel of the Movement A sight to behold! And Satur-

" Independent=— that's what feminism is day night was the sisterhood event of

all about. Lesbians are independent the conference --— a dance to

and that is what people fear," the music of the DEADLY NIGHTSHADE,
" Feminity is all of those negative
traits like obedience, poverty and GC. Re

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AUGUST 26, 1974

A FEMINISTS'S STATE OF THE UNION MESSAGE
from Wilma Scott Heide*

The State of the Feminist Union is good! This 54th Anniversary of Ratification
of the constitutional amendment acknowledging women's right to vote, a thriving
movement of women, of feminists of both sexes, all ages, races and income levels is

viable and growing. Our diversity is our strength; we have commom cause in creat-
ing indivisible human rights.

The state of Unite@ States as a Union still suffers from the pathology of the
white masculinity game of "win" at any price as shown by the Watergate phenomena
and corporate machismo, Nixon's resignation alone will not end this pathology; he
was merely a visible symptom. Women increasingly reject the femininity game as an
anachronism that trivializes and privatizes our leadership and other talents,

Women, men and children are addressing the transcending humanity of us all via
feminism and it's no game.

Language, our tool of thought is moving from the sexism of man-glish to non-
sexist concepts so that every citizen will know that s/he is valued and included as
a person. Constitutional equality of the sexes needs only 5 more states to ratify
the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). While we have till March, 1979 to complete that
task, 1975 should do it. Should ratification not be a reality by 1976, the 200th

anniversary of this alleged democracy, activists need to plan a tea party that is
no tea party.

While electoral politics is not (yet) fully democratized and publically fin-
anced, we can insist that no public body, commission or board have a majority of
more than one of either sex and that child care experience be one valuable criterion
for such leadership roles addressed to our future, Education, while still sexist,
is becoming aware of the values of women's studies and the unbiased perspectives of

feminist research both on human behavior in general and the human potential of
both sexes and of our sexuality.

Though our spirituality has been dehumanized by misogynous religions, we know
that Eve was the first seeker after knowledge and that Jesus Christ represented the
compassionate and caring, the estensibly especial perogative of women. His cruci-
fixion represented the symbolic assassination of woman and the killing of the so-

called "feminine" expressions by men. The rebirth of feminism means that s/he is
risen to redefine and reassign power for life,

Economically, "Pa" Bell and a few other corporations are just beginning to get
the message that sex and race discrimination are expensive and that feminisnm/hun-
anism are good business, Hunan rights activists can make €.g. corporations and
foundations honest (they already state they're equal opportunity employers) and
further provide the moneyed folk with opportunities to put their money where their
mouth is by funding the important work of human rights activists and organizations

beyond tokenism, Otherside, Poverty's name will generally continue to be Woman
in this country which can afford enough for all.

*Natienal Vice President, Women's Coalition for the Third Century, WCTC
‘<4
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& FEMINIST'S STATE OF THE UNION MESSAGE - Cont'd,

Print and broadcast media have a long way to go to realistically serve the
public interest and comply with civil rights laws. The authentic pen and voice of
women as we are and can be is (just) beginning to be read and heard. We've hardly
scratched the surface and cleared our throats to state e.g. that rape of women is
even more serious than rape of our land and is no sport for aiy man. Rape is by
sick playboys (redundant?) who deserve incarcerated rehabilitation. Women must
have sporting chances to be self confident people in a society where we are safe

from predators. We will retain the right to choose and self-help the decisions
respecting our bodies.

We sanctify human life enough to provide children a right to a wanted life.
The U.N. Population Year and the Bucharest, Romania Congress this week must learn
and act on the feminist imperatives for quantity and quality population choices,
Procreational unemployment and underemployment hasn't a prayer without feminism.
We can and must cease public funding of sexism which is inherently proOnatalist.

Family planning may be too late at maturity for significant choices - the ballct
is all but marked consequent to conditioning.

We are divorcing ourselves from anti-human marriages and practices and creating
pro—human unions and alliances in marriage and community. These healthier unions
wil] strengthen the union that is now the Disunited States. We need a White House
Conference of (not on) Women to put our homemaking and other talents to work so
the ‘other half! of humanity, women, can issue some humane leadership from that

Capitol location, complete the American Revolution, and finally feel at home with
the democratic processes and results.

For some two centuries, this nation has been dedicated to a belief (not the
practice) that all men are created equal with inalienable rights to life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness. Women are not only excluded but alienated from this
immature, half-human concept. This nation will become a ‘has-been! unless it
adopts a commitment to national maturity. We must dedicate ourselves to the belief

that all persons are created equal with inalienable rights to life, liberty and
the pursuit of truth.

The Women's Coalition for the Third Century, *WC3C, is intent on completing the
American Revolution (note women includes men). We are committed to the empower-
ment of women. Coalition President Patricia Pudd Kepler notes we will issue, in
1976, a Declaration of Interdependence as a mature and realistic ideal for this
nation and all nations. The WC3C will meet in Boston on October 13 and 14 to

further develop the Coalition, the Declaration and other projects vis a vis the
American Bicentennial aad beyond.

The State of the Union of the U.S.A. is shakey. The healthy State of the
Feminist Union will stabilize this nation to become more fully human and thus com-
plete the behavioral Revolution that can be the United States of America.

*The Coalition includes: Federally Employed Women, the Grail, Leadership Con-
ference of Women Religious, Nationa] Organization of Black Feminists, National
Organization for Women, Nat'l. Assn. of Women Religious, Nat'l. Coalition of Amer-
ican Nuns, Nat'l. Women's Political Caucus, Women's Equity Action League, Profes-
sional Women's Caucus, the United Presbyterian Church, USA Gouncil of Women and
Church Employed Women.

Let me just say. We are wonder women. We are wonder men. We are wonder
children. That is no myth, America.

6

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HOUSEYVIF'S LAMINT

A lovely, moving song whcih was sung in a slightly different
version in the TV program Tell ite Jhere It Hurts, I watched this
made for TV movie last spring and again this fall amd feel that it
would be excellent as a "start" for a new CR group (of either young

or old) women,

I share it with you once again through the pages of SPEAKOUT as a
true "folk" song of woman k nd, Although I've nevereconsidered
myself a "housewife" I feel most women will see a bit of themselves
in their mind's eye as the song is sung,

Christine Root

HOUS2WIFS'S LAMENT

As I was a wancerin! I heard a conplaining

And saw an old woman the picture of gloom

She looked at the mud on her doorstep 'twas raining
And this was her song as she weilded her broom

CHORUS ¢

Life is a toil, love is a troulbe

Beauty will fade and riches will flee
Pleasures will dwindle and prices will double
And nothing is as I would wish it to be,

There's too much of sewing goes into a bonnet

There's too much of ironing goes into a shirt

There's nothing that pays for the time you spend on it
There's nothing that lasts us but trouble and dirt,

Last night in my dreams IT w-s standing forever
On a far little isle in the midst of the sea.
| My last chance for life was a ceaseless endeavor
To wipe off the waves as they swept over me,

But alas ‘twas no dream for ahead I behold it

I know f am helpless my fate to avert

She put down her broom and her apron she folded
She lay down and died and was buried It.

Je

Planning a trip to New York City? Pink Tea Cup
310 Bleecker St. at 7th Ave,

Why not stop in at the Women's Center? YU 9-8944
243 West 20th Street Soul food restaurant ra
Manhattan's lower West Side Open 24 hours Fri., Sat., Sun.
General open meeting every Wednesday at 6 a.m. til 2 p.m. other days.
5 peme Also special meetings and rap 7
sessions on weekends. La Fronde
Call 255-9802 when in the city. 605 Hudson St. at 12th St.
Staffed regularly from 2 til 6 p.m. 675-9839 7
Monday to Friday. "A varied Menu, moderate prices"
Literature for sale, "A Feminist's restaurant"

Telephone information and referral service.
: Pearl's Chinese Restaurant

How about Dinner? 149 W. 48th St.
586-1000
Two speakout staffers, Betty Kemner
and Chris Root, enjoyed dining at Mother Nan Wah
Courage, while taking a break from the 13 Doyers Street
New York Book Fair this July. A delicious WO 2-8650
meal—in-one bowl of shrimp salad cost Chinese tea lunches, In Chinatown.
$4.00. Both meat and vegetarian dishes
are available. Good vibes, Busy but Businesses:
friendly.
Backyard Natural Foods
Establishments owned and operated by 171 8th Avenue
Women =
The Barber is a Lady
Restaurants: 308 E. 7lst Street
734-9051
Mother Courage
West llth St. at Washington St. Gee, the Kids Need Clothes
Manhattan 150 W. 10th Street

Children's Clothing
Chez Brigitte

77 Greenwich Avenue Labyris Books

CH 3-95h2 33 Barrow Street
7h1-3460

Magda's Place Feminist book store

53 Grove Street

989-8987 Potter's Workshop
186 W. 4th Street

Letha's Kitchen 675-0106

201 W. 83rd Street

877-2744 Bottom Drawer

Natural Foods - 70 W. 7ist Atreet A)

Bakery and Restaurant 724-8107

Front Porch Books 'N' Things

"Soups and Bread" 34 E. 7th Street

209 E. 86th Street-534-9440 533-2320

253 W. llth Street-243-9262

2272 Broadway 874-8072

;

IRI es a ia NE I i at aa

women's Liberation at SUNY
women's Liberation Group of the
State University of New York at
Albany is making plans for an
exciting and fruitful fall.
Leading the group this year are
Andrea Carson, president; Marsha
Krassner, on camrus adminis-
trator (secretary); Lynn Ambrose
corresponding administrator
(secretary); «.onica Robinson,
Vice-president in charge of
Wonen' Center: Toni Greenberg,
vice-president in charge of
programming; Judy Daymont,
treasurer; and Judy Lilienfeld,
co-treasurer.

women's Liberation Group
will be sponsoring conscious-
ness raising groups. Being
stressed is the requirement
that each groun have at least
one person with exrerience along
these lines. This is so that
the groups will have some
direction and not turn into
bull sessions. To facilitate
this, women's Liberation
Group is tentatively planning
workshops to acquaint peonle
with conse iousness-raising
techniques.

There will now be awomen's
column to aprear in the Albany
Student Fress at least once
weekly, but hopefully in both
the Tuesday and Friday issues.
Various peo»le will contribute
to the column.

Another thing to keep an eye
out for are the get-togethers
to be held at the new Women's
Center. The Women's Center is
located at Cooper 100 on State
Quad. and consists of two small
rooms. The center is equipred
with a coffee cot and tare
recorder. There are tapes
available there which deal
with various women's issues,
and literature which can be
purchased or reéd.

~ This center will serve as a

rlace for the women's Liberation

Grour to hold meetings. And
between 3 and 5 every Friday
there will be a type of
informal mingle with female
professors who teach women's
study courses. The professors
Ya: iL.

will discuss what is being
offered in women's studies.
SUNY at Albany does offer a
second field in wonen's studies.
An examrle of the type of get-
together held there is the wine
and cheese mingle with Diva
Dames of the tnglish Department.
women's Liberation Group is
organizing a committee to inves-
tigate the situation with allezed
rapes and assaults on campus of
late. The committee will go to
the Campus Security Folice for
information on what is being done
and suggestions about what can
be done to prevent any further
trouble.

The group is also working on
Some ideas tha: are not de-
finite, but which they are hore-
ful will be worked out for this
year.

Being worked on, is a film
festival for this semester in
lieu of a Women's Weexend.

They are trying to get some top
notch women's films and would
like to h=ve discussions after
the movies. Also in the making
are self-help clinics to
instruct women in self-examin-
ation, and self defense clinics.

The Women's Liberation Group
is looking forward very much to
a weekend with SASU- the Student
Association of State Univer-
Sities. This will combine
information sharing to find
out what other state univer-
Sities are doing, lobbying,
and workshors.

All university woien are
welcome to these events and
men will be welcome to most
of them unless otherwise
Specified. The university
community is also invited to
find out what is being done
for women by this group.

(L.K.)

Don"t miss the statewide
CAUCUS ON WOMEN'S RIGHTS AT SUNY
conference this saturday at
SUNYA. OCTOBER 5, 1974

All SUNY faculty, staff and
students urged to attend.

Q

Speakout's Mail Bag

From Motoress Aid - From Tye Ladder

The National Organization for women The defunct Lesbian Feminist maga-
motorists-—-offers a brand new security. gine, "The Ladder," is publishing the
Motoress aid offers “ise Girl's (auto complete "Index to the Ladder", 1956 *
service) Price List. through 1972. This contains thousands

Motoress Aid Cares about women of articles, short stories, poems, and
drivers. "I didn't know how I dared news items about lesbians. There are

drive before I joined Motoress Aid," says hundreds of biographies of famous and
one of their members in theis promotional should-be-famous, lesbian women. It is

prochure. "Motoress Aid is really useful 265 pages and costs $10.00.
for a female as helpless about cars as

we," confesses another. A new lesbian novel, The Latecomer,
by Sarah Aldrigge, has been published
I've survived before and have a by Narad Press and is being distributed
feeling I'l] still survive without by"The Ladder." It is a paperback and
Motoress Aid. kei 5 costs $3.25 including postage.
CR.

Also, work is being completed on a
From Rensselaer County Council for the new edition of "The Lesbian in Literature,"

Arts a bibliography of all known literature
189 Second Street on lesbians available in the Inglish
Troy, New York language. It will be issued in 1975,

For class fees call 273-0552. costing $7.50 for advance publication

Highlights: orders only.

Weren in Literature - Oct. 3rd :
8 weeks—9:30-11:00 a.m. To receive any of these publications
Taught by Charlotte Goodman. send your name, address and a check or

money order payable to
Quilting and Quiltmaking-Oct. 7 "The Ladder"
10 weeks~9:30-12:30 p.m. P.O. Box 5025
Taught by Mary Miller. Washington Station

Reno, Nevada 89503

Heirloom Quilts-Oct. 7 If we-are successful in this, we may be
10 weeks—-12:30-3:00 pem. able to begin publishing "The Ladder"
Taught by Mary Miller again,

From the Final Exam-Secretarial Science-
Local Community College Q. 69. The col-
lege woman planning her future today
should consider primarily -

A. immediate employment until
marriage.

B, likelihood of continuance of
employment as well as marriage

C. the probability that she will
work until marriage and return to the
labor force after her children are of HAVE YOU HEARD?
school age.

From a NBC news report

The town of Fairplay, Colorado has

a mayor Ada tvans, who is both black
and female. The town has five
hundred residents, four hundred and
ninety-six of whom are white. The
residents did not find this unusual
and could not understand why they
were in the news.

Senator Barry Goldwater's reaction

to t.e possibility of a woman vice-
Unfortunately, Speakout does not know president? He said it's all right,

which of the three answers was considered 5. long as she can be home in time
correct by the teacher. But - it does
concern us that such a question is being

asked in an exam. I SEE RED

“Please print and use the same
name for all orders for your
household..." from the J.C. Penny

iC; company.

to fix dinner.

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and we would love to get more.

9-9— 7h,

Dear Ms. Root,

I very much enjoyed my first issue
of SPEAKOUT, It is informative and
well written, I was disturbed to
read that you are under staffed at
Speakout. Since I am a typist and
willing to help, I would very much
enjoy doing whatever needs to be done,

I do not own a car and I de not
drive and I do not know of anyene
near me who does that I know. I will
keep on looking and if I can solve my
transportation problem, I will be will-
ing to help,

I read the literature that you sent
me on NOW, I would very much like
to jein an organized movement, but
paying $15.00 "te work for female
equality": that's a lot of money to
pay for something that is mostly a
state ef mind. When you are only earn-
ing a typist's salary and are keeping
an apartment, it's a lot to pay.
Otherwise I would join,

Cont.
' I wish you much luck for the futur e
If you need any help: get in touch,

Sincerely,

Shirley Riffelbach

ed. note:

Thank you for your very sincere note,
Albany Area Now has a policy of never
turning away a member for lack of
funds. Please contact Chris Root
Membership Chatrone Albany NOW
P.O, Box 6137, Albany NY¥ 12206

Shirley lives in Troy. Can any
SPEAKOUT reader help out with the
transportation?

FRA BEER HEH HH EEE EHH EHS EHHREHESEHHEEeS

B= 28—7h,
Dear sisters,

I was glad to see the expose of a
local gynecologist on the letters pag e
of you Aug. issue. I am moved to share
with yeu a personal experience which
might also interest yeur readers,

In April 1973,Dr. Lorne Hall, 980
Western Ave, (who had been my gynecol-
ogist for about two years) inserted an
IUD for me. I was his last patient
on a Friday afternoon and when I got
into his office it was obvious that h e
was in a big rush to get out, The in-
sertion was extremely painful and he
was rough and impatient. (In fairness
I must say that he had never treated
me like that before.) He curtly told
me that if I should have difficulty over
the weekend not to call him- just go to
the hespital emergency room, The week=
end was hell, For months I did hav e
a lot of difficulty but would not go
back to Dr. Hall,

When another Gyn, removed the IUD
(painlessly) my dissillusionment with
Dr. Hall was complete. He had told me
he was inserting a Dalkon Shield and
gave me literature on it. Instead he
had used another device, a Saf-T~Coil
I do not know why he lied to me but
the entire episode seems to me to show
a shocking lack of respect for his
patient,

k Sincerely, Jenness Cortez

P.S. If we could expose enough of this

sert of thing :naming names :boycotting

the effenders— it would change things,
JC,

NOW

lEW YORK

"Liberty, Dquality,
Now" will serve as the
the New York State NOW
to be held in Alba y November 15,
16,17 at s-cracten* SNA TO a

President of the Albany NO\!
Chapter, £nne Borel,who is co-#
chairing arrangements for the
meeting with Diane Herrara, an-
nounced that “aren DeCrow of Syr-
acuse, recently elected president
of the national organization, wil
will speak,

Adoption of by-laws and elec-«
tion of officers for the coming -
year will highlight the agenda
of bes convention, eG

Aorkshops are scheduled in the
areas of religion, marriage and
divorce, masculine mystique, leg-=
islation, assertiveness training,
employment, sexuality, taxes,
child care, and education,

On the first evening of the
convention one to one legislative
committee members from all over
the state will meet to hammer out
a legislative program for the
coming 1974-75 session,

Mary Lou Simms, editor of the
lifestyle section of the Troy
Times Record, will conduct a
workshop on dealing effectively
with the media,

Child care will be available,
Registration fee is $5, For fur-
ther information contact Anne
Borel, 463-5195 or Diane EHerrara,
489-8045.

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Have you
c

theme for
convention

a =r 2

DEEN. ccccs

aE
“> tho enilcscats lournin: icssons on
the wack of Life cercal packuces ?
ft leokad like a groat innovation, a
wary of reaching wasscs of children and
thoir parcnts, vivid Lesson 12 came
oute Uncor the title “orain Builders"
the lesson states that C tue

Yone of
Nica things about our lanevase is that
thors are many vords to choose frome:
fox instance your "other" is also

l)a wife and 2)a foralc 3)a womn and
b)a ladye She nay bo a blonde or
oruncttec
at tho storoe"” Who wants to build
that sind of future breins???? 2?

Sisterhood:

and a sceretary or a checkur |

' UP FROM THE ASHES

September 17th marked the first
birthday of New Scotland Travel,Ltd.
owned and operated by Renata Barker
and Judy Zacek ( see SPEAKOUT, Nov.
1973). The agency has proven to be
a great success in far less time than
Renata and Judy had expected, but
there were moments during that year
when they wondered about their chances
of survival. Especially when their
building was struck by a major fire in
mid-June (at the peak of the travel
season), The fire caused severe
damage in the apartment above the agency
while the office itself was devastated
by the combined efforts of water and
smoke, Due to the extensive damage,
the women were forced to relocate
temporarily in another building on the
same block while their original lo-
cation was under repair,

New Scotland Travel has now re=

opened in their original location

at 269 New Scotland Avenue, Albany
between Ontario and Quail streets,
Business hours are from Gam. to ~
> Peme, Mondays — Fridays, and from
10 a.m. to 2 pom. on Saturdays.

Renata and Judy have been joined by
another experienced travel agent,
Dorothy Szymaszek, and the three
women are able to provide complete
ticketing services and travel
arrangements, domestic and foréign,
for individuals and groups, Why
not give your business to women ??

Re EE
DID YOU SEE...

Gene Shalit announcing the Caldecot t
picture book award for 1974? He -
gave the title, Duffy and the Devil,
correctly. He gave the author, Harve
Zemach, correctly. BUT he failed
entirely to mention, Margot Zemach ,
the illustrator and actual winner of
the award, HE SIMPLY NOTED THAT THE
PICTURES WERE DONE BY HARVE ZEMACH'S
WIFE! 2

HEE KK ORE HEE

HURRAH for MARY ANNE KRUPSAK ?
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Sidel, Ruth. Women and Child

Care in China, Penguin Books, $1.25
200 pgse

Ruth Sidel's Women and Child
Care in China is her account of
present conditions in China,
specifically those concerning
women. She does this by comparing
present Chinese society with the
past--the "bitter past" as it is
now called. As she states,
"Chinese women do not seem to see
the liberation of women in terms
of a conflict between men and
women. They see the conflict in
their society rather as one
between new ideas and remnants of
feudal thinking."

This feudal thinking of the
past resulted in powerless women

right on the premises. This
allows mothers who are still
nursing their children to continue
working while taking occasional
breaks to feed their babies. The
nursuries are structured so that
the children have periods in which
to sing, eat, nap, exercise,
play and receive instruction.
There is a spirit of co-operation;
the children learn to help each
other. Some day care centers
operate on a 24 hour basis.

Ruth Sidel returned from her
trip to China with a great deal
of praise for the social organ-
ization that she faund there.
She went expecting "to see a poor
country. .« « teeming cities with
beggars in the streets. We expect-_
ed to see a country with a strong

organized into a highly structured military presence, marching men,

authoritarian system. Marriages
were arranged with the intention
of producing male heirs; baby
girls were often drowned. Those
that did survive were subjected
to foot binding, a practice which
epitomizes the subjugation of
women. The oppression of women
was not class bound in feudal
Chinese society.

Change occured, of course,
with the Revolution. After 1949,
merriage laws were changed and
an emphasis was placed on raising
the literacy of women. Communes
established equal pay for equal
work.

Today women and men wear the
same style of clothing and women
weer no makeup. Sex is not a

commority in contemporary China.
Sincs education is encouraged,
marriage usvally occurs when both
pertners are in their late 20's,
There is iittle premarital sex.
Birth control is encouraged;

the piil anc tubal ligation seem
to ba the most

Verereai discase and prostitution

ave virtually been eliminated
from Chinese society.

The establishment of the
commune enabled women to combine
home life with productive labor,
especially since every commune
has day care facilities. These
facilities are available to all,
and many factories have centers

and a highly visible army.
we expected to see and be
alienated by a strong Mao cult
whose central ptrnose is the
glorification of the Chairman."
These negative expectations
soon becrme laudatory comments.
"What we found was a poor country
without beggars. People go about
their work with a purpose and
even a sense of mission. « « «
The army is present everywhere,
but as members of revolutionary
committees of all institutions
ef the society. . . . And Mae is
everywhere. But we came to feel
that his pictures, statues, quotes,
and poems are there not simply
to glorify a leader but to teach
a@ system of values as well."
Women in China have greatly
benefited from this new society.
There are still some advances to
be made--women are still often
the first to be laid eff from
their jobs. But the Chinese
women have learned how to fight

And

vopular forms used. their oppressors, and their

struggle will continue,

se
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Robin Sorriento

CALENDAR

Octobcr &

Loapuc of Women Voters"The Kole of the

County Executive in Brinsins ufficienty
and accountability to County Government
8-10 pene Campus Ccnter, College of St.
iosc, 20 Western Ave, Albany.

vl registration fec, or »lfor all 5 of

the sessions.

UCTUBL 3
Public hverin: by the Asscmbly Sclcct
Committcc on Child Abuse to consider a
bill which would creatc an Inspector-
Gencral for Children and I'emily Services.
10 aeme, Le; islative Uffice Bldp.,
Assembly Hecring toom C, 2nd floor. “or
more info end to scicdule an a. pesrancc
» please contact Lou; las Bushearev or
Jose Alfaro at 212-hv8-hbh5.

October
womcn's Dinner. Brin:, fuod to share.
73200, 332 Hudson Ave, Albany.

Cctobur 5

Caucus on “Women's ic hts at SUNYA:
otetewide confcurencce for all femalc

steff, students and faculty of the SUNY
systcme
October 6_

Awiki: A mecting to discuss formation of
Dunn's Home,

30-6650.

et

MT ae

October. 7°. ee oe
ry CeW. ‘Planhdicasceshobefor. thets:
year's program 8 perie home of Cynthia

ee at ote ALOT «
ye - 4 +? a7 Westin 5, £
Lesbians fig ‘Enda ‘AlL:aiomen vol

come 8 prime 332 ‘Hudsontaves, Albany

wes
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“pation “we ‘¥. Ries 4s eee”

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October § Gj

Leacuc of women ‘oters: Nnanavcment and
Accountebility of Your Tax Yollar Ljder
the Chartcr" Campus Centcr, Colluec of

Ste losc, 420 Western Ave. Albeny.

8-10 peine Yl registration fee

Uctobcr 1-18
Leaguc of women ‘otcrs week

October 1h

League of women Votcrs: wWinc & cheese
party. All are invited to attcnd.
opeekers will fceturc civic leaders end

promincnt officials 8300. p.m. All areca ..
residents «rc urpcd to come mect the Lea-
guce tor locetion please phone lierilyn
“othstcin, 439-2189.

October 15_
schencetady Nuw:Production of the feminist
— MWrthe Independent woman, or, # Man
: His rride" by Janc Holden. U p.m.
ox th sai: ody Nuwe kweryonce welcome no
admission charse.

Lersuc of Women ‘oters:"C.n the County and
Local municipalities work Torcthcr to Max-
imi zc Government Services for All <"

Campus Conter,Lolle,c of St. +“ose, 20
Western Aye. wl admission fec

October 16

Albeny i.Uewe"The feminist movement in
ecendinavia". 7 Ppeiile “mmanucl Baptist
Church, 275 statc St. AlbanyFor morc info-
rmation phone Kay heinartz at 38-8008
tveryone is welcome. No charec.

Albeny wPC:Candidetcs Night. Candidates

for County Trcasurcr, D.A. and Femily

Court Judse will speck and answer yucstions
Liveryone is welcome. No admission fcc.

7330 pem First Presbyterian Church, Albmy

Octobcr 18

2 rape crisis ones in Albany. At Hilda women's Dinner. Bring, .ood to share with
: Beyberry lide, Glenmont°ther Fuminists.7:00 p.em. 332 Hudson Aveo.

Uctober 22

Lea; uc of women Voters: "From Arrcst to
Ineci curation" anpus Unter, Collerc of
Ste hose, 420 western Ave. Alveny. 8 peme

wi. re. Letratiion i ce

wyetoor 26
"women end Creativity"Panclists will in-
clude “hirley Chisholm. 10 a.m. Vincentian

Institute. Lor more intormetion phonc

Phoebe Shercs 482-6728.

UCctobcr 21
Lesbiens for Liberation: 6:00 pem. 332
Hudson Avenuce 4lbeny. ALL women welcome

Uctobur 29
Leasuc of women Votcrs:"ways to uncreesc t
the LffUctivences of the Le: islature"

"The Citizen's hole in County Govt" UGeMe
College of St. eaeegriee western Ave. Alb.

Wee i nee im ra en i wiht § ates MiP A a

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GROUP NkWwWS

SCHENECTADY N.O.W.

On October 15, Schcncctady N.O.w. will

ALBANY N.C.W.

Albany Arca N.Uewe will sponsor the

makc its first attempt at raisin; the pub- statcwide N.U.w. confercnec on Nobembcr

lic's consciousness throu h its pcrforma-
nec of the notcd fuminist melodrama "the
Independent women, or,
by Jane Holden. This te a melodrama com-
plete with villien end hcroinc. A dis-
cussion period will follow thc play.
Let's make this the Feminist Happening
of the yearf Pleesc announcc this play at
all mecting you attcnd wmtil the 15th.
BC sure and comceand brins your non Fem=
inist acyuaintences for a little con-
sciousness raising.
October 15, 6300 p.em. at Schcncetady's
Y.weC.As on Washin; ton Ave. “or morc
informetion call “leirc Postisel 36-5 369
or 4nn Booth 399-5790.

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GUILDinLAND AhuA Cel. GROUP

A consciousness haisin;s Group for
"houscwives" ss currently formin;. Con-
sciousness raisins idcntifics the opp-
recessive conditions in women's lives. we'd
like to bring togeth-r women conecrncd
with their roles and strtus in contcmpor-
ery socicty. For more information call

355-870 or 456-8283

# * * * * *

ENCOURAGL CIRLS ORGANIZED SPCKTS

L.G.0.5. is an organization of studcnts

and adults intcrcsted in improving sirls!
sports in Guildcrlend. GUS works primars:
ily in the ficld of Hizh School intcr

scholastic athletics, but is elso conecrn-=

cd with improving end cxpending prorsremms
offercd by thc town of Guilderlend.

Charlotte O'Donnell and Joan Floyd,
EGOS co founders cnvision an arce wide -
girls sports group dedicated to equal
Opportunity for fcmalce athcletcs.

Thosc intcrcstcd in forming a similar
organization in thcir towns may call
Joan Floyd, 355-2925 tor assistenco.

a Men Has His Pride

16&17. The confcrence will be held at
the Sheraton Inn in Albany. Conference
activitics will include clcction of the
State NGw chairperson, discussion of by-
laws, workshops on Smployicnt, Marriage
and Divorce, Masculine Mystique, Scxual-
ity, heli:ion, Texces, National \.U.w.'s
or: 2niz: tion, and music by the Desdly
Nightshade. ‘urthcr information may be
obteincd from Dienc Herrara.

* * * * *
BuTobbeh LeaGui Or woi.uN VOTihS

The Bethlehem Unity of the Albany
County Leesuc of Women Votere will spon-
sor 2 Crndidatcs Night on October 30th,
8300 pei. at the Bethlchcm Public Library
on Delawerce Ave. Arca votcrs are urzcd
to attcnd and mect candidatcs for con-
eressional, stctc and county officc.
County races this year include Treesurcr,
District Attorncy, end Family Court Judge.

he mectin;, will be held in conjunction
with the Leacuc, the i.T.A.s and school
associations in the Town of Bcethlchem.

* % % % % % *
LEAGUE.WU.QS WO: VOLRKS"OF ALBANY * COUNTY

The League of women ‘oters of Albany
County w 11 hold a wince and checse party
on Monday, Uctobcr lth, 8:00 p.eme as a
kick-off to Leaguc of Womcn Voters Weck.
Arca residents are urged to come meet
the 4ea.uc. Foeaturcd speakers will in-
clude civic leaders end prominent
oificieals.

The Leaguc has made its impact felt m
most stron;ly on the local Level. The
now Alba. y County Chartcr which will co
into cffect in 1976, the 7 member clcectcd
school board in Albany City are both
cnd products of League study and action
programs. Kkcforms in the county legis=-
lature and county clection procedures
arc on-soing Lcesuc concerns. League
obscrvors sit in town, police and county
courts as part of a state-wide Leaguc
study on pre-trial proccdures that membos
describe as "fascinating". The Leapuc is
Open to all persons of voting asc. For
infol call Marge wilkcnson,869-0326

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ALBANY COUNTY wOiuiN'S POLITICAL CAUCUS

jn Albany County Candidates Ni-ht will
be held on October 16 at 7230 peine at the

First Presb terian “hurch, 362 Statc St.
Pre=published questions, as well as
written gucstions from the audicncc, will

be cnswercd by Thescsa Cooke and Jack Bar-

ner, cendidates for County Treasurer;
Ralph Smith and Sol Greenbers, candidates
for D.A., and Salvatore jmato and Phillip

Goffcy, candidates for Family Court JuCi Ce

An Albeny School Board Candidates N, cht,

co=sponsorcd by the Caucus and the League
of Women Voters, will be held on October
30, 7:30 pem. at the First Presbyterian
Church, 362 State St. Albeny.ucstions
from the audicnce will be answered by the

9 candidetces- Manny Abrookin, Beverly Ain=

spen, hobert Yoyl., Benyamin Carlend,
James Gallacher, Harold Greenstein, Sistei
Maryellcn Hermon, hobcrt Merces, U.Weslcy
surrick, and Bayla Wilcove.

Both mectin:.s are open to thc public,
end thre arc no admission chargcs.
Intcrestcd citizcns arc invitcd to submit
questions in advance to :wWomcen!'
aucus, 393 Hemilton St adeery, NaX «for
more. information call 463-077

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COALITION FOR A FREE CHolCk

A total ben on the use of any of the
funds allottcd to the Lcpartments of wig
Labor and HaW to "pay for or encourage"
ebortion= cxccpt in the rare instenccs in
which the opcretion is nuccssary to save
the life of the mothcr= was approved by
the Senate on September 17 as part of an
appropriations bill for the programs of
these agencics ior the current fiscal
care Lbpsnb#zkdwas introduccd on hosh
Hashonan because Scnator Jacob Javits had
announced his intention of leading an
cffort to table the amendment.

Meemwhile, thc House defcated en anti-
abortion rider by a 2-1 margin. The dif-
ference between the 2 bills will be recso-
lved by a Senate-House Conference. The
conferees will be drawn from the membcre
ship of the Senate & House Subcommittccs
on Labor-DiHLW appropriations

Scnatc Subcommittee on Labor & HW

_ Warrcn Magnuson Chm. Norris Cotton
John C. Stennis Thomas Lagleton
Alan Bible C19fford Casc
Hiram ong
Ldwerd Brookc
Ted Stcvens
hichard Schweiker

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Joscph hontoya
Ernest Hollings

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SPEAKOUT: A FEMINIST JOURNAL

Vol. III No. X NOVEMBER 1974

Table of Contents
Page
i Impressions of Women's Day — by Cheryl Shenkle
2 The Rape Crisis Center

3 COSMEP* Committee of Small Magazine Editors and Publishers
4.COSYEP / and News

™

5 A Poem by Doris Wright/ A New Book by and about Vietnamese Women
News of the Lesbian Mothers Defense Fund

6 A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words — Christine Root

7 Women in Transition— a Conference

8 Women in Bioscience — by Susan Lasher

9 & Report on School Personnel

10 Education in New York State

11 Education cont. / Now Honor Roll Knew the Score Before You Vote
12-17 Women's Political Caueus Questions and Answers ef Candidates
18 Letters

19 Group News
Cover Design by Pam Scola, SUNYA

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IMPRESSIONS OF WOMEN'S DAY

I hope our readers will ex-
cuse the delay in the printing of
this article. It was to appear
in the last issue, however, the
writer was sick with a viral
infection for almost three weeks
and was in no condition to
attempt any article.

If our readers will excuse
the delay perhaps they will also
excuse the lack of objectivity
of this article, the writer
having been a member of the
Women's pay Committee.

Women's Day 1974 was the
third Women's Day festival I
was directly involved in. My
first experience was in Indiana~
polis in 1970, For those of you
who are unfamiliar with the
Midwest, Indianapolis is a
rather large city, approximately
a half a million people and
very conservative. The entire
Midwest is very conservative and
Indianapolis, although a large
city, is no exception. Consider-
ing the size of the city, for
Women's Day 1970 the tunnout
was approximately 7-10 women.
These few women marched around
the center of the city carrying
various signs and singing chants.
We were upstaged, however, by a
40 year old stripper who was
handing out 20 year old pictures
of herself. We tried to approach
her but she wouldn't speak to
use. I think her manager warned
against it. Our quarrel was not
with her but we couldn't get
close enough ts explain. She
obviously was feeling very
threatened.

I first became aware that a
women's movement existed in
Albany at the Women's Day 1972,
I was very impressed with the
turnout after my experience in
the Mydwest.

I volunteered to work on the
Steering Committee for women's
Day 973 and it was a great
experience.; You have no idea
how much work and preparation
goes into a festival of this
kind untjl you've been on the
committees, The orqPnizers were ~
efficient, d&g'sand I

gff3. the ground.

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was very proud to be a part of

« the Committee.

Women's Day 1974 was differ-
ent. The first meeting started
out with many women present, all
excited and full of ideas for
Women's Day, ideas that were not
as conservative as last year.
Ideas like a lunar mother contest,
a kissing booth, bicycle workshop,
carpentry exhibit, a feminist
book shop, etc. But at each
successive meeting there were new
people and different ideas and
I was beginning to wonder if the
festival was ever going to get
. I lost some
of my enthusiasm because it seemed
as though women who had made
committments were not following
through. I dont't knew why this
happened. Cettainly the mod of
thes country was at an all time
low, with the Watergate scandal
and gas prices. Whatever the
reason Albany women didn't seem
too turned on about Women's Day.
Of course the festival did get
ofif the ground with a small
bees of hard working volunteers

which is usually the case in
any organization that gets things
done).

I missed a lot of the program
because I was womaning the Speak-
out table and the main informa-
tion bboth. I did see most of
the crafts and was very impressed.
The crafts were better and more
varied this year. Up,fortunately
the c&aftswomen didn't do too
well in sales. The speakers
were good, Mary Anne Krupsak: gave
her usuak firey speech. The
music was also better than last
year.

The only bad experience of
the day was the man who was sel-
ling his gargoyles and other anti-
feminist artwork. When asked to
leave he became ifatSe%e “nd put
a hex on two of the women. I'm
sure it ruined their whole day.

Sue Lasher who attenddd the
communual supper found it very
entertaining. There was plenty
of wholesome food for all who
attended and a photo replay of
the day's events as mealtime
entertainment.

Cos '

The Rape Crisis Center Lives! Committees have been forined to .
_ get the rape crisis center into op=
Yomen fron SUNYA, Albany Medical eration. SpeakOut readers who wish
Center, NOW, CDW and non-affiliated to work BR nay ee may contact
vromen trom 411 over the tri-cities the committee of their choice. |
met on Sunday, October 6, 3-2 nem. ~Medical-—Nancy Dudley (H) 482-4584

at the home of Hilda Dunne to dis- (0) 445-5299

cuss the hov-to's of establishing a Legzel-Amy Horvood (H)482-4610 |
rape crisis center in Albony. The Other Rape Crisis Centers-Linda
size ond enthusiasm of the sroup Kaboolian (H)4578§201

present bodes svell for the success Other Agencies (to visit the Y's

of the rape crisis center, and Planned Parenthood) —Hilda

Froya Katz-Stoker opened the meet- Dunne (H) 439- 6650
ing vith a discussion of existine a
rape crisis centers. Both Troy and

Schenectady'thave existing services. ¢' °° OF ITT’ YOR “@UN'S UNI®
schenect-dy's Rane Crisis Center is
sponsored by the Schenectady NOW Two Albenay vonen were need
chapter, with the cooperation of to sevve on the Nev = - State
Schenectady Planned Parenthood. Intexnetionc1 Women's Year CITY)
Troy NO has enlisted the coopera= Go:vitice, Ressin Ades, NY
tion of the Troy Police Department, resident, Yonents Intermetional
so that oll rapes vill be reported heague Lox becce anc Freedom -no.
to a Troy NOW Rene Crisis Center Dx. Eileen Kelly, NYS Coordinator
volunteer. Netvionel Organige,tion for Yomen.
What is a rape crisis service? A The IVY Comittee, chaired

good rape crisis service ‘ill pro- by Assemblywouen Gons tence E. Cook
vide medical, psychiatric and per- of Ithaca, recently hele its

sonal support to vomen "tho have been jniticl meevine at the Capitol
raped. The service should provide in Albany. ;

access to professional supnort of The eoals of Internationel
sympathetic doctors, psychiatrists Wonents Yonr, 1975, were set

end socicl vorkers. The aim is to forth in the United Nevions!

help the vomen, not necessarily to resolution of the Gener. Assembly
arrest the rapist. This is a major when Internctional Wouen's Year

distinction betvreen a rape crisis was proclaimed. They incluces

center and the police department. pronoting equelity between
Services cen be set up in a num- fjen anc wouen,

ber of different vays. Volunteers intesreting women into the

are needed for all types of vork but toteL social and economic

especially for counselors. One ~- 4 Cevelovnent of nations.

method of service is to provide a recognigine woments contrib=

24-hour telephone ensvrering service utions to the strengthening

which till tale calls and refer von of world peace.

en to trained counselors «ssigned to In the Con nLite sefs work in

be "on call." Another method vould furtherins these ,oels, it will

be to station trained counselors in also cooperate akihs the New York

x:local hospital for one or nore Siete Awwerican Revolution Bicen-+

hours during the afternoon or eve= teimisl Comiscion to assist in

ning. the developuent and implements tion
When the rape crisis center is in of programe commenorating the

operation, volunteers ‘7ill be historic contributions of New

treined to be counselors. Counsel- York State women, appropriately

ors vi1]1 usually ork in prirs of celebrating their cultural legacy

tivo women or one troman and one man. anc. seriously consiéeri ne the

Under no circumstences vill - team role of women in the horizon

be sent out without a voman. Coun- of the 20th century.

selors will be needed to take ‘romen | Deborsh Botch,

to hospitals and/or police sta ations, Public Information

and to acvise and console then ;

throuch the endless details involved | 3

in reporting & rope.

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COSMEP

Last Spring Speakout joined
the Committee of Small Magazine
Editors and Publishers in hores
of sharing information with other
small presses, getting ta know
other people (especially women) in
the alternative publishing bus-
iness, and finding solutions to
common problems. In July Betty
Kemmer and Chris Ront attended the
National Conference of COSMEP held
in New York City at Colutibia
University. We discussed problems
in distribution and funding.
Worksheps were held for these
presses that do their own perenee he
and for those who send their
material ta an outside printer.

Highlighting the conference
were the special get togethers

and meetings of the Women in COSMEP

There seems to be a growing fem-
inist awareness in small press
publishing. A Women's Cemmittee
has been formed within COSMEP
to deal with the special prablems
women encounter in getting their
work published, operating small
presses, putting out women's
periodicals and dealing with a
male dominated industry. There
has also been a feeling that
COSMEP was male oriented if net
dominated. The Last Report of
the Year for the COSMEP Women's
Committee written by Mardy Murphy
will clarify this further.
Librarians or others interested
can learn more about COSMEP by
subscribing to and reading the
COSMEP Newsletter. COSMEBP,Inc.,
P. O. Box 703, San Francisco,
California 94101,

We are pleased to announce that
Diane Kruchow was chosen as Chair

one of COSMEP'S Board af Directors.

Diane Kruchkow, 4 Bricher St.,
Newburyport, Mass. 01950. Ms.
Kruchew was the contact for last
year's Eastern Regional COSMEP
meeting.

LAST REPORT OF THE YEAR by Mardy
Murphy

Being a member at large of
the COSMEP Women's Committee is
similar to being a lost girl
scout--one has a feel for the

nature of the situation but one
can't find which of the many

knots sheuld be loosened firste

So I worked with the threads which
were the eéstset* for me to reach
and began to unravel some of the
mysteries of women writers. The
method I chose to use was the
interview which one may think of
as right over left and under and
left over right and under. I
suppose we may call these inter-
views a "widely random sample"--
a slip knot perhaps.

In May, Maya Angeleu was poet
in residence at Wichita State
University where she and I had the
opportunity to discuss a number
of issues. The interview centered
en three main questions: 1. What
contemporary women writers da
you like and why? 2. How would you
describe the discrimination you
have encountered in publishing?
and 3. What would you tell women
to do if slick magazines and major
publishing houses reject their
work? How do you feel about small
press magazines and the idea of
alternatives in print?

Maya's major work is an
autohiographical novel turned
play published by Rendom House
called I Know Why the Caged Bird
Sine-. Maya was quite forthright
about the importance of timing
in getting her works in print--
the time was right for a story
by a black woman about her own
life implanted from Illinois to
Arkansas, raped by black nen end
eusted by her own people for being
bright. Maya chose a large publ-
isher mainly because she was
unaware at the time of small
presses. Small mags which publish
the works of those who edit, print,
etc. the magazine themselves is
a historic process, an ongoing
System which the greatest and
worst writers in America have
perpetuated, we agreed. Women
writers have always been barred
from print and sometimes even from
the creative act of art itself.

It is when women as writers, edit-
ors, publishers, printers, etc.
become exclusive that they gain a
powerful voice, said Maya. But if
they do not move to the point of
énclusion--they are guilty of

COSMEP ,cont'd.

stagnation and the sefie oppression
they sought to eliminate. Social
and political movements often
serve as origins of creative
activity. Maya as a black woman.
is mainly concerned with the ~

developments of black women writers.

But in her own attempts to move
on to inclusion of white women and
all writers, she stresses to her-
self and others the-way in which
writers are alike rather than how
they are different. Differences
keep people apart, she said.

In later June, a Women's
Poetry Reading was held in Wichita.
The poets were Muriel Rukeyser,
Diane diPrima, Ramona Weeks and

Alta. The time for any discussions

between us was short but Muriel
had some definite input on the
status of women writers and small
magazines.

Muriel felt that little maga-

zines did not give enough attention

These interviews are not as

informative as they are subjective

and opinionated but the value of
the problems and criticisms of
some women writers ought to be
useful as a sounding board fér
the related experiences of all
writers.

The consensus of the women
interviewed felt that if there
are special circumstances surround
ing the poetry and «i tion of
women today, these circumstances
are due in part from the fact
that the majority of even small
press editors and publishers are
still unliberated men. Perhaps
the matching half of these
special circumstances is the
preponderance of certain types of
literature which these men want
to publish by women, i.e. sex
poems, bitchy voice poems, etc.

va x % *% x % % % %

to overall design--the relationship FRIENDS of the

of words to paper to graphics to
type of print, etc. She felt this
was the major problem, by the way,
of slicks too. When we talked

WOMEN'S CENTER

When sending to Maxine

Gootzeit on behalf of the Albany

about contemporary women's writing, Women's Center, please note

we focused on writers within the
women's movement and agreed that
these were some of the best
writers today. But Muriel spcke
of a “whining voice"which she
discovered in much of the movement
poetry. She and I both felt it
was time for womento move from
a negative perspective to a more
positive realistic one where the
voice gives readers the exper-
iences of the new worlds now
opening up to women for the first
time. The experience of change
is most often fearful but it does
not have to rest on the leathing
of a past which is indeed past.
AZZ the women poets at the
reading in Wichitia were diverse
personalities that presented quite
different types of poetic works,
but they all experienced a woman-
ly kind of kinship which connected
with the audience and produced a
successful and memorable event.
An attitude of respect of each
individual's style and subject,
we concluded, was the key to this
coming=-together.

whether the money is a one time
donation, or your monthly pledge.

send checks to:
Maxine Gootzeit
10 Stoneington
Voorheesville, N.Y.

% % % 3% * x *
FOR THE NEXT ISSUE.

SPLAKOUT would like to hear

from women who are going through
separations and divorces. We

can learn from each other. We
need to share our pain as well
as our joy.
ourselves: why did I marry in me
the first place? what did I lear_N
from my first marriage? what

would I do differently now?

We might each ask

Maxine Gootzeit would like

contributions for a special
memorial issue of SPEAXOUT
ynonoring Pat Gould. Please
send to the above address. ie

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HARD FOR EVEN GREAT QUEENS, MOTHER

by a would-be liberated daughter

It aches in me that she whom I adored once
(the central brilliant light to my small moth,
gueen-goddess throned in my child-towerloft)
cannot accept or like new growth rings in me =
she, so pleased once at each mental turn,
who helped so, formerly, that I might learn.

Why has she now this wish to blindfold vision
as if resenting that not seen her day,
as she would drag eyes back a mole's dark Wayeeee

That she should now exult to catch me scrubbing,
as if she'd knock from unchapped hands all books,
as but on woman drudging she would 100K..e.

Hard it appears for women, even great queens
who love us with their very inmost glow

to see those follow freer than themselves were.
For women all? (For her whom I love, though....)

Se. a4 iv
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VIETNAMESE WOMEN

The Vietnam Resource Center is
happy to announce the publication of a
new series of books on Vietnamese
women in modern times. Each is a
collection of translated stories and
chapters from novels, with analytical
introduction giving a detailed his-
torical background to the stories, The
intreduction will describe the material
situatien and social position of
Vietnamese women of different classes;
the stories show their responses to
their situation,

The first book, VIETNAMESE WOMEN
in SOCIETY and REVOLUTION: The
FRENCH COLONIAL PERIOD provides the
backscround necessary for understanding
the present Vietnamese revolution: the
degeneration of family and social life
under colonial exploitation, the
necessity of struggle to survive,

Vietnam Resource Center
Za Pleasant Street
aubridge, Mass, e2139

Cost § 2,25 direct from the Center

bd bel

Doris Wight

boc abee Wis. see's

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LESBIAN MOTHERS DEFENSE FUND

The Lesbian Mothers Defense Fund
was organized to help fight the harass-
ment and exorbitant costs that lesbian
mothers invariably face in trying to
retain custody of their children, The
Fund is especially concerned with
women who are poor and women who live
in rural areas of this counrty,

The Fund hopes to make possible:
the printing and distributeof guide—
lines and prevoous court cases, give
help with court costs, food, clothing,
lawyers fees etc,

Help insure lesbian mothers from all
parts of the country to receive fair
representation in court. Send money
in the form of memberships to:

LESBIAN MOTHERS NATIONAL DEFENSE FUND
1941 Division
Fnumclaw, WA 98002

Contributions of $2,00{or less
for those who cannot afford the fee}
will be accepted toward membership,

5

A&A PICTURE
is worth
A THOUSAND WORDS

Local groups might want to conside r
renting ene of these three films for
their next meeting, All three films
were produced by wemen and all three

deal with the personal struggles of
individual women.

WOMAN CANDIDATE,..,.

running for office is a victory
Flora Crater was the first woman to
run for a statewide office in Vire
ginia. This film is abeut her cam—
paign for Lt. @evezsnor; why she ran,
how she set up her campaign, the
activitiea and the responsibilities
of running for office, She dis-
cusses the role of women in politics
today and the special problems a
woman faces if she decides to be
a candidate,
lémm. color, 13 minutes
rental $20 & 2handling;purchase $200

MAKING IT

A woman rebuilds her life after
a divorce. At her office Charlene
Imhoff first discusses her profess-
ional work and why she chose to.
leave teaching and become an admin~
istrator. Later talking to the
camera at her home, she deals with
more personal aspects of her life;
the divorce, the problems of raising
four daughters alone, living on
a farm.

16m,B&W,11 minutes
rental $15 $2 handling; purchase $90

The producers suggest " high
school and college groups, family
life, womens groups" as possible
audiences.

INDIAN CONVERSATION

. Maria DiManto had lived all of
her life in an Eastern city.
Francis Levier had grown up on a
reservation and attended a boarding
schoel in South Dakota, In the film
they explore their own identies as
indians, their feelings of isolation
and alienation from living in a
city and thy talk about their hopes
for the fubure,

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. 19 Dove Street, )

This film is suitable for teenagers
and older. —
16mm, color
rental $20 $

13 minutes
2 handling; purchase $200

MAKING IT and INDIAN CONVERSATION
are films byy Lucy Ann Kerry. " As
an independent filmmaker, I have the
freedom to echosse what I film. These
films came into existence because, in
some way, the truth spoken by each of th
these people touched me emotionally.
Whether as a filmmaker, a mother, or
a teacher on an indian reservation
the difficult struggle each individual
faces in lifeto remain true to oneself
is a struggle we all share,"

All of these films are available
from
BLUE RIDGE FILMS
9003 Glenbrook Rd,
Fairfax, Virginia 22030

Order at least 4 weeks in advance,
Be sure to include exact date needed
and an alternate date,

LOCAL RESOURCES

Cynthia Montilla is very knowledge~
able and has done considerable research
about women in filmmaking, Contact
her for information and/or talks at
Russell Sage College Library, Troy NY.

Ann Simon is a good all around
contact, an excellent projectionist
and a "vet" of many film showings.
Ann may be reached at the Troy
Public Library, Childrens Dept.
Second St. Troy, NY,

The Upper Hudson Library Feder-
ation located in the basement of the
Albany Public Library at 19 Dove St.
has a number of films available to
community, church and civic groups
and individuals AT NO CHARGE ., The
Film Dept, can be reached from
9 asm. until 5:30 p.em. each weekday.
Unfortunately the film dept. is not
open saturdays, Sundays or evenings.
In addition to the films owned by the
Federation , users have access to the
New York State Library collection of
films by borrowing through the “ed
eration. ( sorry, only the film dept,
not the whole Federation , is at

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THE ASSOCIATION FOR HUMANIS? Ic PSYCHOLOGY PRESENTS

WOM'N IN TRANSITION
November 29, 30 ona December 1, 1974

For quite some time, ‘7omen (and some men) in the Association for
Hum-nistic Psycholozy have hod in mind a conference "*hich ‘7ould center
specifically around the chanzingz role at vromen in our society. Many of
us feel thot the vomen's movement as it continues to develop is per-
haps one of the most sisnificant revolutions in our history.

On November 29 thru December 1 at ASILOMAR in Monterey, we will offer a
conference which will be »rimarily seared to the INDIVIDUAL WOMAN trho
is in the act @ beginning to ex -plore her orm identity, to formulate
relevent fone sometimes irrelevant) questions =bout her life, to search

for new possibilities and alternstives, and trould like to shere her ex-
periences.

What is your impression of the freedoms, alternatives and possibilities
facilitated by t1e¢ “vomen's movement"? What hes been its effect on you

and those close to you? Has it influenced your life--rhether you vant-

ed it to or not? Is "“vomen's liber-tion" really "»erson liber->tion"?

Presentations and trorkshops will be offered in such areas as: Women
and family, Yomen and azing, Women in crisis, ‘Jomen in careers, educa—
tion, alternative life styles, medicine, religion, politics,. and ther-
APY.

We offer this confe-ence as a protective and supportive place to shore
your feelings end ideas and explore your ideas...formed and half
formec.

*If you vould like to shsre your srovth process trith
those ‘tho are ETOUINE.

*If you don't knovr exactly where you're at,

*or thought you vere where you tanted to be and are
nov besinning to onder,

*or feel as though you are sotisfied trhere you are,
but are sometimes threstened by the rhetoric of
your more “imprssioned" sisters...

eeo this is the place for you.

Steer

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Piease send me more complete informotion. cS)
I vould like to pass some of these informsetion sheets around.
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ADDRESS

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CITY : STATE _ oak 3

OCCUPATION /VOCATION

send tos Joan Cresson, AHP, 325 Ninth Street, San Francisco, Ca.
94105

( ) Please send me more inform=tion on AHP.

wOMEN IN BIOSCIENCE

As part of the American Phys-

iological Society meetings at
Albay State this last week, the
APS Task Force on Women in Phys-
lology held a round table dis-
cussion on women in science Tues-
day night, August 13. The four
speakers, led by chairperson Dr.
Elizabeth Tidball of George Wash-
ington Unerersity, came armed
with an impressive array of facts
to support treir claims of dis-
crimination.

The discussion revealed that
in 1970-71, women with two to

Department. One of their findings
is that women are underpaid an
average of 41500 per annum.

The reactions of the mostly
female audience to this barrage of
information was interesting. The
majority appeared to be in syn-
pathy with the speaker's view-
points. However, in a discussion
of the difficulties women in
science encounter in learning the
rules by which the male majority
plays, a female graduate student
stated that all we have to do is a
ask. A male grad added that he had
learned to play with all girlé
companions when young. (Not quite
the same sort of power structure,

four years experience in the bio- was it?) An older man cautioned ~~

logical sciences earned an aver-
age of »~8500. Men with equivalent
experience earned an average of
$10,900. At the other end of the
spectrum, those with thirty to
thirty-four years* experience
averaged $15,000 or 21,800 de-
pending on their sex. Women with
a Bachelor's degree in the bio-
sciences earned »90003 men with

a Bachelor’s earned 11,300.
There were Similar disparities at
the Master's, Doctorate, and
Professional (i.e., medical)
levels. These figures are from
American Science tianpower (sic),
1970, and the National Science
Foundation, 1971.

The unemployment rate among
doctoral bioscientists was equal-
ly revealing. The National Re-
search Council published data
this year which indicate that
between 1930 and 1972, the unen-
ployment rate for men was an in-
credibly low 0.6%, while the rate
for women was 4.6%, or almost
eight times as great. The AIBS
reports:. rates of 1.2 and 3.1%,
respectively, over an unstated
period.

that we should be sure that the
only reason women aren't treated
like men is discrimination, not
their lack of qualifications,lack
of aggressiveness, etc. It seems
that anvone acquainted with the
ridiculously stringent methods of
professional sttiistiefiaéhg would
have her/his mind set at ease in
this regard by the Berkley study.

The New York Keview of :-B66ks>5
in a hay 16 article entitled “The
Fight Over University women" by
Gertrude Ezorsky presented some
interesting data on women in bio-
science. Ezorsky points out that
the family rationalization, which
claims thet women do not work as
steadily as men because of their
family obligations,“might explain
why Some academic women become
less qualified than their male com
petitors but...cannot explain why
academic women equally qualified
with men are paid less and promot-
ed more slowly.“ However, a study
cited by Ezorsky found women los-
ing less time from jobs than men,
time loss for pregnency and child
care included. Women Phd's «re
also less likely to resign, snd ™.:
married Phd’s publish as many book

The speakers also stated a Univ-=ng articles as men Phd'’s; unmarr:

ersity of Michigan study called
The Higher, the Fewer. This is
reconumended reading for anyone
interested in the area, as is a
rigorous study done by Scott and
others at the Berkley Statistics

ried women Phd‘'s are slightly less
productive by these measures.

‘* Public Bhool’ Préfsssponal

Personnel FRsport:,. 1973-74

’

The New York State Education
Department's Public School Pro-
fessional Personnel Report. has
Some interesting statistics in
its 1975-74 issue. These figures
are based on data subiuitted by

all public glementary and secondary

schools in New York State,

The State Public School

Professional Personnel is comprised

of teaching and non-teaching
personnel. If we include both
groups, 43.3% of all the pro-

fessional personnel are men, 56.7%
a r)

are women. Yet a survey of non-
teaching professional personnel
which includes the high adiinis-
trative positions puts forth the
following statistics:
school Superintendent:
Median salary-333,000
93.7% male; 1.3% female
District Principal: :
Hg than, 87L87 8-83 980%) «
Director-Coordinator:
Median salary-%$22,000
71.94 male; 23.1% female
Elementary School Principal:
Median salary-.j24,000
81.2% male; 18.8% female
Jr. High School Principal:
Median salary-$26, 320
94.64 male; 5.4% female,

The following non-teaching
positions With their considerably
lower salaries continue to be
dominated by women:

Social Jorker:
Median salary-$18,150
25.9% male; 74.1% female
Nurse Teacher:
Median salary-{12, 500
0.3% male; 99.7% female
Dental Hygienist:
Median salary-$10.774
0.0% male; 100.0% female
Librarian:
Median salary- $14,316
10.0.5 male; 90.0% female

Data compiled on teaching
personnel indicates similiar
although not as outstanding dis-

crepancies, ‘The highrst pada dr.

the- teachers ‘included im the
report was the Technical Education
Teacher with a median salary of
17,635. 88.7% of these teachers
aew men; 11.3% are women,
Teachers of the lower grades and
special education classes are
predominately women(although the
majority of school principals in
these fields are men as we have
seen),
18.1% of the teachers are male,
81.9% are female. fiedian salary
is $13,000. i:edian Salary for

Teacher of the ixentally nandicapped |

is $12,550. 33.3% of these
teachers are male; 66.7% are fe- ~
male,

Cn the secondary level, the
discrepancies are not quite so
apparent but they are there,
Certain fields continue to be
dominated by males, particularly
the technical and scientific
fields. Some statistics are as
follows;

Industrial arts Teacher:
liedian salary-14,130
_ 98.5% male; 1.5% female
Science Teacher:

i.edian salary-13,800
Trade Education Teacher:

ledian Salary-14,423

87.46 hale} 13.6% female
The field of Home Economics con-
tinues to be dominated by females
with 96.4% of the teachers female,
and 3.6% male,

There is no significant
variation in the salaries of the
teachers in the different fields;
from the lower grades to the: sec-
ondary level,
variable was in the field of Tech-
nical Education whose statistics
have been quoted ina previous
paragraph,
liary Gallagher

In the Common Branch field,

The only significant

STATE OF NEW YORK
OFFICE OF EDUCATION PERFORMANCE
REVIEW

In releasing his latest report,
The Superintendent of Schools --
His Role, Background, and Salary"
Daniel Klepak, Director of the
State Office of Education Perform=
ance Review noted that "Not one of.
the 300 superintendents: studied
is a woman, even though more than
60 percent of teachers are women,
I find it hard to believe that
there are no qualified female cand-=
idates for these positions outside
of New York City."

In addition to sexual discrim-
ination, inequitites in salaries
and educational en were
also uncovered. os

"we could not find a rational
statewide basis for school supere

intendents! salaries," the Director

said; "they appear to be paid

more on the basis of the location
of the school district than on any
other factor we studied." Genere
ally superintendents in the
Nassau-Suffolk region were the
highest paid, while those in the
Upper Mohawk Valley were the lowest
paid.

"Since students are the only
reason for schools, the number of
students should determine a supere
intendent's responsibility. Yet

there seems to be no direct rela#
tionship between enrollments and
salaries," said the Director.

The superintendent of the
second largest school district in
the state earns $37,000 per vear
and is responsible for 60,348
students. In contrast, the ten
highest paid superintendents are
responsibie for a total of 66,471
students, yet their earnings total
$459,840,

Superintendents interviewed
had educational backgrounds exclus-=
ively. This limited experience,
generally inadequate formal train-
ing in financial matters or labor
relations, and the de facto male-
only restriction, may result in
some of today's superintendents
not being the best available
people for running enterprises .-.::.
whose budgets total more than the
national expenditures of many
countries.

In view of these rsihtcns.,
The report calls upon the State
Education Department, responsible
for stat.wvide policies and stand~
ards, to take the following °° .*:
actions:

Immediately take effective
action to assure women equal
access to school superintend-
encies. School bards should
actively recruit female
candidates when superintend-
encies become vacant. (The
New York State Division of
Human Rights also has a
responsibility to assure
affirmative action.)

Establish a rational basis for
superintendents! salaries.

Initit.te legislation to allow
competent candidates in |
addition to educators to
compete for superintendencies.

Take steps, in cooperation
with universities, to assure
that graduate programs and
in-service training programs
are pertinent to current job
requirements.

This report was made available
to us by the New York State Womens
Unit, State Capital, Room 250,
Albany, New York 12224,

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The Feminist Press = ieee
News Release

Old Westbury, N.Y. == Educators
from school systems throughout the
country will gather November 21<#23
at the State University of New York
College at Old Westbury for the
nation's first conference on in-
service education and sex-role
stereotyping.

The event will be sponsored by
The Feminist Press with funds
provided by the Rockefeller Family
Fund. The conference will focus
on the socialization of girls
and boys and on the teaching of
history, social studies and
language arts.

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Feminist Press, cont'd.

"Response to conference invitae
tions has heen enthusiastic,"
according to Professor Florence
Howe, president of The Feminist
Press. "The need for school
systems to comply with impending
Title IX Guidelines on equal educa-=
tional opportunity for the sexes,"
she reports, "gives the conference
added urgency."

Nine school systems have ~*:«
already reported plans to send
delegations. These systems include
Seattle; Minneapolis; Dallas s
Boulder, Col.$¢ Kalamazoo, Mich.;
Baltimore; Teaneck, N.J.; Hanover,
N.H.e; and Manhasset, N.Y.

The conference is designed to
méet the needs of individuals
throughout the country whe have
written to The Feminist Press,
requesting new materials useful
in planning and teaching in-service
course@Se

Plenary sessions of the confere-
ence will feature research findings
on sex=role socialization, on the
images of women and men in history,
and on masculine and feminine
images in literature and language,
Model in-service classes and
programs will be presented at
workshops. In addition, particip-
ants will view new audio-visual
materials useful for ineservice
education.

A Feminist Press packet of
conference materials=-later to
be made available to the public=-
will be distributed to all those
attending the conference,

Established in 1970, The Fem-~
inist Press has combined publish-
ing and teaching, working with
teachers and administrators at
all levels of education to supply
new materials and curriculum.

Last fall, the Press began offering
its own courses on sex-role
stereotyping to Long Island and
New York City teachers at the
SUNY/College at Old Westbury,

Since December 1973, three such
courses have been funded by the
Rockefeller Family Fund. The

Press has offered ineservice

courses for the Glen Cove and
Manhasset systems as well.
fall,

This *
in addition to two courses

at Old Westbury, The Press is

..offering a new ineservice course

for the Garden City School System.

The November confertnce will
be limited to 200 participants.
There will be a modest fee for
registration, food and housing.
Individuals interested in
participating should write*to:
Conference Coordinator, The
Feminist Press, Box 334, Old West=
bury, N.Y. 11568. Applicants
should describe their relationship
to inwservice education and their
interest in developing new courses
in sex-role stereotyping, history,
or literature.

hy

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KNOW the SCORE
BEFORE YOU VOTE

Members of the New York
State Assembly and Senate have
been rated by the National Organ-
ization For Women according to
their votes on the following
issues:

abortion
ERA

contraception

Single sex businesses and
trade organizations

credit

protective laws

alimony

employment interviews

The results are:

ASSEMBLY
Schoharie C.D, Cocke 66%
Saratoga Droms 50%
Rensselaer Kelleher 50%
Albany Brown 66%
Schenectady Wemple 80%
ENATORS
Schenectady Krupsak 100%
Rensselaer Hudson 32%

Vv Senator Hudson has earned a
place on NOW'S DISHONOR ROLL.

BE SURE TO VOTE
5

>

on Nov.

The polls will be open from
6A.M. until 9PM,

(|

October 16, 1974

The WOMEN'S POLITICAL CAUCUS of ALBANY COUNTY sent the following
questions to all candidates for state and local office. Where no
response was received, it has been so indicated. In those few cases
where a statement was submitted rather than answers to the questions,

at least part of that statement has been quoted.

Answers have been rated on a scale of 0 - 10, with particular atten-
tion paid to innovative suggestions and specificity of answers.

Least acceptable answers were rated "0"; most acceptable were rated "10"

A copy of the complete answers, as received from the candidates, is
available at the Women's Political Caucus headquarters; a charge of
$1 will be made to cover cost of preparation.

Address inquiries to: WOMEN'S POLITICAL CAUCUS |
| 393 Hamilton St. |
Albany, New York 12210
(518) 463-0477

QUESTIONS

Summarize as specificdly as possible your position on the following
issues:

1. The right of women to choose whether or not to bear children,
2. The enactment of State and Federal Equal Rights Amendment.
3. The enactment of laws equalizing for women and men:

a) Costs and benefits in health and life insurance.

b) Pensions. |

ec) Profit sharing.
d) Severance pay.
e) Bonuses

f ) Maternity/paternity benefits of workmen’s compensation,
including job loss and seniority loss.

4, Child care 24 hour centers; tax deductions for child care and
housekeeping payments.

5. Revision of education laws to eliminate sex discrimination in
schools and its application to sports programs and shop and
homemaking courses in particular.

6. Enactment of laws prohibiting discrimination on the basis of
sex, sexual orientation and marital status in employment.

ve Bape;

a) Establishment of crisis centers under the aegis of the health
department,

b) Training of police and police women in particular, to deal
with rape victims.

c) Rehabilitation of rapists; i.e., parole, psychiatric care.

S. Programs for rehabilitation, education and other prebicus con
cerning women in prison, both local and other.

9. Ben

*

eal of laws limiting access to family planning information and

the sale of contraceptive devices.

as Repeal of sodomy laws and inclusion of sexual orientation in the
Human Rights Law,

SECTION II

What are you doing within your party to increase participation of women
in the political process? Have you institutel any programs during your
tenure of office that have benefitted women? What, if any, points in
your platform are specifically aimed at benefitting women’

SECTION IIT

Do you support:

a)

b)

section

Provisions for a women's public information project in local
preparations for the Bicentennial.

The definition of "family" as presently before the Albany
City Council.

Parole provisions for convicted rapists.
Adult education programs for the aged to learn new skills.
Veterans! preference for county and city jobs.

County-wide legislation to eliminate sex discrimination in
employment counselling,

The right of domestic workers to bargain collectively.

Revision of Social Security Law so that women are no longer
penalized for remarrying.

Preservation and revitalization of urban areas, using such
methods as homesteading, government funded rehabilitation

Of present buildings, etc.

IITt questions were answered "yes", "no", "undecided" or "no
answer"; (Y, N, Und,, N/A)

(R} Republican
(D) Democrat

(C) Conservative
(L) Liberal

Malcolm Wilson (BR & C), Governor, did not answer questions; statement’
on page 6

Ralph G. Caso (R & C), Lt. Governor, no response

Steven May (R), Comptroller,no response

Arthur Levitt (D & L), Comptroller, did not answer questions; state-
ment on page 6

Louis J, Lefkowitz (R & L), Attorney General, did not answer questions,
statement on page 6

Edward F. Campbell (C), Attorney General, no response
Barbara Keating (C), U. S. Senate, no response

Questions Carey Krupsak Javits Clark Hurd Abrams (D)
Governor Lt.Gov. US Senate US Senate Comptroller Attorney
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questions; statement on page 6

Edward A. Breitenbach (C), 28th Congressional District, no response
Carleton King (R), 29th Congressional District, no response

Ralph Smith Jr. (R),- District Attorney, Albany County, no response
Theresa Cooke (R), Treasurer, Albany County, did not answer questions;

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Charles D. Cook (R&C), 105th Assembly District; no response
Edward McDonough (D&L), 106th Assembly District; no response
Clark Wemple (R), 107th Assembly District, no response

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Malcolm Wilson (R), Governor:

"Since the Governor has been publicly making his position
clear, over the period of his 36 years in public office
on the major issues of the day, completion and return of
your questionaire seems somewhat unnecessary.

"For your information, I am enclosing a copy of Governor
Wilson's January Message to the 197 Legislature which
includes his specific views on numerous matters of special
interest to women,"

T. N. Hurd

Arthur Levitt (D & L), Comptroller: Did not feel the survey was ap-

plicable to his office; explained that women hold executive
positions in the Department of Audit and Control (11 women) ;
he has nominated three of them for the annual award of the
Am?rican Society for Public Administration; has taken special

action to eliminate discrimination in the state retirement
systen,.

Louis J. Lefkowitz (R & L), Attorney General: Stated that the survey

was directed toward candidates for the legislature, and covers

primarily subjects outside his jurisdiction. But states he

successfully led the fight for prohibitions against discrimi-

nation on the basis of sex in housing, places of public ac-
comodation and availability of credit by preparing and recom-
mending corrective bills, which were enacted by the Legisla-
ture; issued formal opinion to the State's Industrial Com-
missioner that those provisions of N.Y. State Labor Law and
pertinent regulations which restrict employment qpportunities

for women were superseded by Federal Civil Rights Act of 1964

and could no longer be enforced; Created within his office a

Bureau of Civil Rights; appointed a woman as his senior Ex-

; ecutive Assistant and a woman as Solicitor General of N.Y.
State (the State's second ranking legal officer); and has
other women in high level professional positionson his staff;
has continually encouraged the involvement of women in poli-
tics as candidates and has campaigned for them,

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Theresa Cooke (R), Albany County Treasurer: sent a long statement but
did not answer the specific questions put to her by the Caucus;
the four specific items in her statement that deal with the
concerns of women and on which she has either Spoken public-
ly, filed legal action or researched and presented alterna-
tives, are: l, segregated help-wanted ads, which discriminate
against women; 2. Discrimination against women with children
in hiring practices; case presented to Human Rights Commission
and won; 3. Discrimination against women in opportimities to
participate in the management of businesses which affect their

lives; 4, Discrimination in the home economics and indus-
trial arts curricula of our schools,

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I have enjoyed your letest
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e Can nonemexbers
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November? I think several
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se further information: since
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WOMEN'S POLITICAL CAUCUS ' ALBANY WOMEN AGAINST RAPE
ENDORS “MENTS
: = as AWARE has formed a number of
Ye endorse with great pride State committees to facilitate the open-
Senator Mary Anne Krupsak for Lt. ing of a rape crisis center in
Governor of New York. Albany. To join a committee or for

more information, please call
Congsressmon Huzh Carey, Democrat— Fraya Katz, 465-2084,
ic candidate for Governor, receives
our endorsement because he has pub=- * * * * * * ¥ * % ¥ ¥ ¥ H Hk KK

licly asserted his reliance on Sena-
tor Krupsek for odvice on matters DELMAR CONSCIOUSNESS RAISING

pertaining to women. GROUPS
Our endorsement of Ramsey Clark There are presently 4 CR groups
for the United States Senate is in Delmar, 2 day and 2 evening.

based upon his outstanding quelifi- New sroups are forming. Phone
cations and his sensitivity to vom—- Susan Nagel, 439-7994.
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member of t e Ney York State Lezis-—

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County Treasurer ve endorse Theresa Judy Lilienfeld at 482-5396.

Cooke, primarily becsuse she is a

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SPEAKOUT: A FEMINIST JOURNAL

Vole III No. X December 1974

Table of Contents
Page

1-2 Woman: A Creative Force In Society = by Mary Gallagher
and Susan Lasher

e Tri-City Women's Center = by Linda Kuhn
3 Against Rape..eA Book Review = by Janet Warner/ A.W.A.R.E.
4 Women Im Prison

5 "A Woman's Poem of Retribution" - by Alice Landfield

6-7 Your Lawyer and You and Your Problem = hy Mathilda Miller
Cuneo, Esquirer

8 Retention of Your Own Name
9Qmii Women's Studies
12 SUNYA Womem's Caucus = by Cheryl Wagner

13 Women's Counseling Collective/News of E.G.0.S. = by
Dorothy Bellick

14-15 N.O.W. Conference = Cheryl Shenkle

16 Capital Women in Cable/ Sambizanga...A Film Review = by
Susan Lasher

17-18 Letters to the Editor

19 Group News

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A ORBAPIVE PORCH IN SOCIETY

wiime-edntewence: WOWUEN: A CREAS
TIVE FORCE IN SOCIETY was held at
Vincentian Institute Auditorium on
saturday, October 26, co-sponsored
by the College of Saint Rose, the
sisters! Council of the Albany Dio-
cese, the Council of Churches of
Albany, and Church Women United of
| Albany, There were three reasons
for holding the. conference: to en=
gage in consciousness raising, to
share idess, and to rouse women to |
action,

The first specker was Congress—
woman Shirley Chisholm, Her rous-
ing spéech, on the topic "Womans
Creative Foree in Society",
by demolishing
about women and employment,
myths wer
work for pin money.
work because of pressing economic
need, ) 2)Working women take jobs
away from men supporting families,
(Many men are unemployed not be-—
cause of women but because they are
unskilled.) %3)Women have higher
rates of turnover end absenteeism.
(Not true.) 4)Women will eventually
Marry and have children. (Men lose
more time for hernics than women
lose for childbesring.) Ms.
Chisholm also pointed out that wom—
en form 38% of the work force cud
that women «re more under-repre=
sented on college faculties today
than they were in 1870,

Congresswomen Chisholm expressed
deep concern over the leck of recl
representetion the American people
heve in Congress. She feels that
most legislation that is passed.
does not deal with the renal issues
as they affect the people. When
asked if she felt women were less
corrupt than men in the field of
politics, Ms. Chisholm hesiteted to
make a
felt

A
began
a number of myths
The

as follows: 1)V'omen
(Over half

generalization, but said she

women have a tendency to enter
into politics with more of a commit
ment then men, and do not use game
playing to the extent that men do,

Yet women are grossly under—re pre—

sented in Congress and in the ne-

| tion's highest political offices,
Ms. Chisholm received a stending
ovation,

Shirley Chisholm's speech was

ae a

hood,

He
‘thet! "!

followed by & penel of three Won
en. The first, Aliێe Moberg-
Sarvery Spoke on the. topic "Women
Ag Minister". Ms, Moberg-Sarver
is an ordeinec Lutheran minister
aweiting her first call to @ con-
eregation, She stated that the
United Methodist Church has the
highest percentage of women minis-
ters. One percent of their minis-
ters ere women. Hence women in the
ministry face a totally sexist
institution, dominated completely
by males. The subordination of
women is ectually senctified by
the Church, whose hierarchy places
women in infgrior positions, ‘on-
en are conditioned to feel guilty
if they feel celled to semething
Other than the service of men and
children, ieee, wifehood, mother-
or sisterhood. Ms. Moberg=
Sorver feels that at the present
time, ell-her energy is directed
toward proving she hes a right to
be a minister, rather than actually
performing the duties of the min-
istrye

The second ee of the panel
was Lynn Cronin Simek, a film
meker and classicel humanities
teacher at St. Agnes School. She
spoke on "‘Yoman As Innovator",

Dr. Monica Schmidt, the third
panel specker, is a former college
president who now holds a high
administrative position in the
Washington State educational sys-
tem. Speaking on the topic "Wom-
an As SGM RLESSRGOr" , she said that
an administrator is Someone who
tells everyone “ whet to do.

Dr. Schmict stated that today there’
are tener female college presidents,
congressivoinen, and executives in
business and J ndustry than at eny
time in the past. She felt that

more discrimination erises fron

other women then from men and that
women are greatly in need of im-
proving their self-image so they
Will feel competent to enter ad-
ministration, « field heretofore
reserved for men,

Dr. Schmidt also told an emusing
creation story. It seems that God
created man, then stood back to
survey His (sic) work. "My God"
Seid, "I can do better than
80 he created woman.

‘Continued on pare 2

: VOMiNs

/. CREATIVE FORCE IN SOCIDTY

Continued from page 1
_ The most dynamic specker of the
d<y, Clara Maria Henning, is an
author and canon léiwyer in the
Catholic Church. She gave a
rich in quotes and punctueited by ©
her splendid: sense of humor.. She
mentioned that deacons could once

xcommunicate deeconesses, thet
women could not enter a church.
building during their menstrual

period, and thet the medievel Churcyill be a punch party.

permittea abortion up until the
seventh month of pregnancy, She
feels that women.should not be sete
isfied to receive only six of the
seven s:.crements, VYomen cennot
be ordeined.) She calls for reli-
gious end lay wemen of the Church
to orgenize and unite in an econom-
ic boycott of the Church to demand
equelity. If this fails, she feels
they should secede from the Church,
Ms. Henning rceéived « stending
ovation, | |
The multi-media experience put on
by Chryselis 74 was based on ¢
heckneyed, cutesy story about two
eeterpillars, combined with mater
isl from several other sources

speech

. ‘ ' ’

need for # meeting place for ares
feminists, have established the
Tri-City Yomen's Center. The goal
of the center is to »romote «
feeling of sisterhood and support
among women of the community, All
individuels and groups who are
oriented towsrds feminist goals
are invited to use the facilities
of the center, 7
December 8 there will be en open
house between 2 and 5. There will
be’e $2 optional donetion, and it
The pur-
pose of the open house will be to
see what kind of use can be made
of the center, The temporary
steering committee has mede the
following list of suggested uses:
a facihity for meetings, shered
office space, a clearinghouse for
information on feminist issues, a
hassle-free social gathering place
and space for feminist counselling.
V: rious feminist groups in the
area had been looking for space
for e« Woments Center for some time.
Jackie Imei saw the apartment <1
125 Lancaster and reelized that
it just might suit the purpose.
A decision hed to be made fast,
so a temporary steering committee

which didn't fit together very well,Was formed from members of ©

The result was yarticulerly dis-
appointing in view of the obvious
amount of effort put into-it,

Generclly, the progrem of October
26 was «good one. The-sveckers
were intelligent, committed women
who had much to share with their
aucience, JInceed, their dedication
to their ovn personel commitments
was itself « velusble experience
for those who attended the con-
ference.

——lieG,

end S.Le

KEEK KKEKK KKKEK KKK *%

NEW WOMEN'S CENTER
FOR TRI@CITY TOMEN

A Vomen's Center is currently
being organized at 128 Lancester
ot. in Albany, The statement of
purpose for this center, <«s drawn
up by the temporary steering
committee, states, "We, the Tri-
City Association, a temporar
steering committee, unaffilieted
and indevendent, recognizing the

2

Jackie's consciousness-reising
group, end they rented the apart-
ment as an UNAFFILIACTD, Su rie
RTE ENTITY.

The center is being supported
by pledges from groups end indiv-
idusls, as well as-funds that were
raised at Woments Dey. Anyone
wishing to make a donation should
contcct the treasurer:

Donna Higgins

339 State Street

flbany, New York: 12210
NOW has already donated a phone
line and snswering service to the
center, And in addition to dona—’
tions’ of money, donetions of rugs,
lamps, furniture, etc. in good
condition would be appreciated
and welcomed.

KHHEH KEG XXX HKKKNX
The VYoments Center open house
has been postponed, They are still
looking for one or two women to
live in the house. Interested
women should call Elizabeth

Berger at 459-2931.

KHEX
AGAINST RAPE

Andrea Medea and Kathleen Thompson, Against Rabe » New York: Farrar, Straus and
Giroux, 1974.

Against Rape should be read by every ‘ In its November issue, the Women's
woman, young or old who has ever been Magazine VIVA has published a rape

raped or merely harassed on a street. It questionnaire composed by the authors of
is a well written and easy to follew com— the book AGAINST RAPE. Ms. Medea and
mentary about this country's fastest grow- Ms, Thompson wish to gather more statis-
ing and most popular crime, rape. _ tical information about rape. If you
The authors believe that rape is simslhatve ever been raped and want to help,
ply the extreme product of our society's send in the questionnaire, anonymously
neurotic aggressive male against the help- if you so desire. Perhaps your exper-

less female. Our society’ glorifies the ience will help another sister.
"macho" male who thinks of women as ‘hae * * * * * * *

nothing more than a possession, often no .
more valued than his automobile or stereo. Albany Women Against Rape

“Women, on the other hand, are taught ‘to On Sunday November 10th a Legal
obey, to please, and above all not to '

cause trouble. This is society's view Workshop was held at the home of

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and it is this that makes every man a Fraya Katz. Mr. Marc Pellegrino
potential rapist and every woman a poten—- from the DA 's office talked about
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tial victim. the New York State Penal Code in

If you would like to learn more about regard to rape, sodomy and sexual
the rape epidemic in this country, who the abuse, Here are a few legal

rapist is and why he rapes; if you want points to remember:

to know why the laws protect the attacker :
and not the victim, if you have ever been A woman is defined as any woman
humkliated and intimidated by grasping not married to the actor.

hands on a subway er obscene advances, Therefore, a husband cannot
read AGAINST RAPE. You will discover _ legally RAPE HIS WIFE.

that there is a recourse and that no woman

should passively allow any man to invade A man can be brought to trial if
her privacy. he rapes his living partner.

For the weman who cannot afford ex- a
pensive courses in self-defense this book Consent does not need to be vocal.
can be a valuable reference. The authors

clearly describe simple defense tactics If there is no penetration; there |
accompanied with illustrations. It sets is no rape. (there could be attempt
forth a practical course of action for ed rape, sexual abuse or another
the rape victim. offense):
Keep this boék handy, Read it often
. and practice the self-defense tactics. Readers are welcome to check
It may someday save your self-respect ., the Penal Code for themselves
or life. by asking for this section of the
x * * * * * * McKinneys service at the New York
' State Libray or at local college
AWARE libraries.
At the AWARE business meeting
held at the home of Nancy Dudley It is encouraging to note the

on November 17 it was decided to large number of people (both men
rotate the chair at each monthly and women) who attended this meet-

AWARE meeting. Items for the ing, the varied backgrounds .
December meeting agenda should | ( nurse, librarian, social worker
be phoned in to David Nerens reading specialist and more) and
(1,65~208h). Items for January - the enthusiasm of those present to
should be phoned in to Nancy continue to work on this important
| Dudley (482-4584 evenings or . problem.
“445-5299 days). Je

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HAVE YOU THOUGHT OF THE THOUSANDS OF WOMEN IN JAILS AROUND THE WORLD, IN OUR OWN
COUNTRY, IN ALBANY? a

There are all sorts of women in jail today -—- young women and old, lonely
women and women with families waiting outside, innocent women, guilty women,
women who have not yet even been tried, 7

Political prisoners, prostitutes, petit larcenists.
Should women be in jail at all? |

Have you wondered if there is something you can do to help see that women are
receiving fair treatment in the courts? Are women receiving humane treatment in
the Jails? That their rights are respected? That they are being prepared to return
to their communities better able to cope with the problems that sent them to jail
in the first plaee? Are they learning skills? Are they getting education, ceun-
selling? Adequate medical care? Are they idle? How de they bear up under incar-
ceration? Do they have visiters? Are they able te leave jail for work, education,
personal reasons?

Do methers have a chance to see their children? Do they have a chance to make
decisions about their children? ;

There are ways you can learn about women in jail. You can-court-watch in
police and county courts. You can participate in programs at Albany County jail —~
counselling, visiting, helping women with their preblems cutside the jail, with
their families, places to live and work, and when they are released from jail.

You can support and work with community facilities for women referred from
the courts, or discharged from jail.

You can visit or write to a woman prisoner and write on her behalf.

Court-watchers: Augusta Beadenkopf 449-1'700
Thresholds program at the jail: Carol Hausen 482-3140 .
Anchor: Art Kirwin 463-6424

Community Referral Center: 465-7046

Legal Aid: Jodye Holmes 462-6765

Legal Rights Foundation: 434-7914

American Civil Liberties Union: 465-2494

Women's International League for Peacs & Freedom
eldest women's peace organization in the world

Albany Branch 462-0891 // 465-4653 // 449-1700
a aaa caer manana a banal
There's a new beok out~==— one we atl should read

WOMEN‘ IN PRISON by Kathryn Watterson Burkhart
_ $10.00 or free from your local librareeee!

" Babv, you gotta be the voice for us 'Cause according to society

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we win't got no voicese "

Im this book, Mss B urkhart gives women the rare cpportunity
to speak for themselves. " In noeholds-barred interviews the
women in the prison describe the shockingly inequitable and thor-
oughly antiquated justice system that sent them up, the psycho=
legically debilating patterns of prison life, and their poignant
dreams of a future which they doubt they will ever see."

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"A WOMAN'S POEM OF RETRIBUTION"

by Alice Landfield

And ence again in my life I‘m alene

I've got stened—-out neighbers in the dead end zone
There's an avenue out there ef hungry men
If you walk out smiling, you'll never smile again

Old men by the market place: Young men by the bars

And they pass their vulgar insults from the slewly moving cars
I wish I were invisible to walk alone and smile
Without them smiling back at me... Casanova-style

In silence screams my anger
In prayers I find some peace

In hatred I feel justice
But when will hating cease?

And the war goes on forever with such loathing an
fnd my anger builds and looks kill
&s men crumple into dust

In my bloed a tempest rages
My eyes become the scewer

And I lock them up in cages
Then I drown them in the sewer

They have ne right to.‘jeoporadize |
To dominate and criticize; To laughingly humiliate
Discriminate and degredate

Oppress, undress and then castrate!

They have no right to play their games
To defecate on Woman's name; To hurt and conquer;
Break and tame

It's always men who start the wars
And men necessitated whores

And only men commit rape

And men dictate this country's shape

While Women are supposed to be their slaves (minus their dignity)
Helpless, brain-—less, bodies without minds - Just a "womb" for all mankind
But time will bud the ripmed flower of Womanhood and Womanpewer

Wes — God will judge the fate of man and guide us with HER gentle hand

Drawing by Jennifer Wolff

YOUR LAYER AND YOU AND YOUR PROBLEM
By Mathilda Miller Cuneo, Esq.
en Pee watts
You and your husband have come to the parting of your ways. He said, "Get
yourself a lawyer."" You said, "But, I don't know any lawyers except our mutual
friend Bernie Smiley, I'11 see him," Husband says, "O.K., I saw him last week.

He'll take care of both of us and we'll save a lawyer's fee." And then the "fun"
begins.

You've already made a catastrophic mistake. Never — but never — be repre-
sented by a mutual friend who is, no doubt, your husband's business lawyer and

more his friend than yours and much more sympathetic. to your busband's position
than understanding of yours.

Selecting a Lawyer

You are best served by inquiring of the local bar association for a list of
attorneys who specialize in matrimonial and ‘family problems. If-you have any
friends who have been "through the mill", they, too, may recommend an attorney.
Caution - not your friend's boy-friend, husband, father, brother, mother or sister,
unless you check him or her out independently of the relationship.

The attorney who represents you in a marital breakup has your whole future
in the hollow of his or her hand. It is, therefore, essential that you keep your
wits about you and meet such a person in a mature and direct fashion. Don't be

afraid to ask questions concerning the lawyer's experience in matrimonial liti-
gation, i.e.:

How many years in the field?

Does the lawyer usually represent men or women?
What results has she or he obtained?

Can she or he refer you to any clients?

Of course, if the attorney is one who is well known in this area of law,
questions such as the above are probably unnecessary. Use your good judgment here
for lawyers become very sensitive about answering questions as a géneral rule.

You might have to proceed only on faith and on the basis of reputation.

Fees::

A very important consideration is that of compensation for the lawyer. Some
lawyers charge by the hour for office time and by the day for court time. If
lit: gation is imminent or existing, a lump sum retainer will, no doubt, be de-
mance te cover preliminary conferences, investigation, drawing of pleadings, etc.
Ii cosstble, be sure that you compensate your lawyer at the outset so that she or

he noe not look only to your husband for the fees. It stands to reason that if a
layeer is not paid, enthusiasm for the client's cause-is rather weak or non-exis~
ters. “nis is particularly true if there are negotiations for an agreement and

the whele vse is paid by the husband. You might find.yourself at the small end
of ithe _ a, In fact, your faith in your lawyer is severely shaken when you are

cone 5 of the fact that all fees are paid by your husband. You begin to wonder
vibeen } he "ite workizy for and you never feel completely comfortable with the results.
Don't be "penny ts ‘and pound foolish", If you have a goed lawyer - and you can
usiel ls tela shan a Be first conference -— pay your cwn way at least partially
ana Desk eastidech - “cat you are well represented. If you are so poor that you
esrmes par %% ob lecrrion “7 r toad your husband has all the assests of the family, then
you rave a> chetce bub to rely on the attorney's representing you to the best of

his abilivy even “heigl he must look to your husband and the court for his fee.

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YOUR LAWYER AND YOU AND YOUR PROBLEM (Cont'd. )

However, the atin, can be so important that it is advisible that even if you
must borrow the money from a member of your family or a good friend, you pay an
initial retainer to your attorney.

The First Conference

At the first cenference when yeu must make the decision to place your fate
in the hands of the person at the opposite side of the desk, don't hesitate to ask
any questions whatsoever about the matters which are troubling you. If the attor-
ney is evasive, impatient, arrogant, indirect or tries to impress you with his
importance - or sex appeal -— murmur a polite apology and make a fast exit. Above
all, don't adopt your attorney as a husband substitute and transfer to him either
your affections or resentments. Try to be objective - and keep your relationship
friendly but unemotional. If you wish to have a more personal relationship with
your lawyer — wait until your problem has been disposed of. It's much healthier
that way. If your lawyer makes personal advances -— repel them and change lawyers.
You can do that more readily if you've paid him with your own hard cash,

Expectations

Now, you have your lawyer. The matter proceeds either to agreement of liti-
gation or both. Don't expect too much in this day and age, especially if your
marriage is of short duration and there are no children. In fact, if you are also
working and have some assets don't expect anything. Judges are usually men. They
have not, as a rule, recognized that women do not yet receive equal pay for equal
work or employment in high paying jobs. In New York State where I practice, our
Court of Appeals only recently set a most discouraging pattern in awarding little
or no alimony in three such cases. Needless to say, the lower courts follow suit.
Prospects in these circumstances are, therefore, rather dim.

On the other hand, if you have had the fortitude to suffer with a bad marriage
for ten or more years and produced one or more children your chances of receiving
reasonable alimony are far greater in addition, of course, to child support.

In conclusion, it is important to remember that choosing your attorney is the
most difficult and significant step which you mst take in dissolving a marriage.
I hope that these few hints will be helpful to you. N.O.W. is on the right track
in plugging for the concept of marriage as an equal partnership, compensation and
secial security for the occupation of "housewife" so that wives need not be
beggars in pleading for alimony. The adoption of such egalitarian laws would also
minimize the need for matrimonial experts, myself included.

(Ms. Cuneo is a practicing family law attorney, former president of the
N.Y. Women's Bar association, former assistant corporation counsel of

N.Y.C. assigned to Family Ct. and a governor of the ‘merican Academy
of Matrimonial lawyers. )

We thank Deborah Botch of the Albany Area NOW Marriage and Divorce Task Force
for this article. Any reader wishing to work with NOW or who needs further infor-

mation may contact Deborah by writing to Albany Area NY NOW, P.O, Box 6137, Albany
New York 12206,

RETENTION OF OWN NAME

Both Terri Tepper and Priscilla Ruth MacDougall of N.O.W. and the Center
for a Women's Own Name have written us about proposed state legislation regarding
name change or retention, Terri explains, "most of it is very restrictive as
it provides for only some of the instances relevant to women who determine their
own names excluding many women and perhaps prohibiting many women from the right
of self-determination. . . (this) legislation should be carefully scrutinized
and discouraged, if common law rights are in any way abrogated." For further in-
formation write Terri Tepper, 261 Kimberly, Barrington, Dl. 60010

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Booklets and. Pamphlets

"Booklet for Women Who Widéh to Determine Their Own Name After niertingeMocaiptited

by The Center for a Women's Own Name, 261 Kimberly, Barrington, D1linois 60010.
$2.00. ,

"Recognition of Economic Contribution of Homemakers and Protection of Children
in Divorce Law and Practice" by Citizens! Advisory Council on the Status of Women.

January 1974, . Room. 1336, Rss ie of Labor Bldg., Washington, D.C. 20210. Single
copies free. ;

"Your Marriage, The Law and You - in New Jersey" by the United Presbyterian Church
in the U.S.A, Available from Presbyterian Distribution Service, 225 Varick St.,
New York 10014. Single copy 25¢.

"Separation and Divorce Handbook" by Suffolk Chapter, N.O .W. Write D. Van Buskirk,

13 Huyler Rd.,° Setauket, N.Y. 11733. Single copies 25¢ plus 10¢ postage. Bulk
rates available.

Books

O'Neil, Nene and George. SHIFTING GEARS: Finding Security in a Changing World.
M, Evans & Co., N.Y., Ne Y.C. 1974 - $7.95.

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WOMEN'S BIRTHDAY CALENDAR

This calendar published for the first time, in celebration
of Internationsl Women's Year includes;

Birthdates and occupations of over 450 women from
Bella Abzuz to Annie Oakley to Mai Zetterling.
Fomiliar quotations the way women vrould have written
them.

Graphic of "The Creation of Eve".

The calendar is done with black ink on heavy white paper
in poster form (23 x 35 inches).
Prices for the 1975 WOMEN'S BIRTHDAY CAL"NDAR are:

Individual copies. . . $1.50 (plus 50¢ for mailing
outside Atlanta area).

Bulk rate. .. Groups of 10... $9.00...
return privilege. . . postage paid.

Special rates for Women's sroups wishing to use
calendar for fund raising. .. Groups of 50. . . $25.00
postase paid.

>

Mail orders to: Carol. Venderschaar, The Art. Works, Inc.; 475 7:
Lekcshore Drive, N.E., Atlenta, . Bites -30307%. (Phone 404 37804072).

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WOMEN'S STUDIES AT THE STATE WNIVERSITY OF EW YORK AT ALBANY

women's Studies at the State University of New York at Albany
began in the fall of 1971 with a course on Vvomen in }todern Liter ture
offered through the School of General Studies with the encouragement
of that school- and as a result of the efforts of faculty from the
college of Arts and Sciences. he course Was enthusiastically recei-
ved by students, and it was praised highly in the student evaluations
coupleted at the end of the semester. iiany of these evaluations also
recomuended that more courses be offered in Women's Studies. subse=
quently, the course was made a regular part of the offerings in the
Department of English. and in the last two years has sustained multiple
Sections with high student enrollment each semester.

In the fall of 1972, the Albany chapter of the Caucus for Women's
Rights at SU'Y for ed a sub-committee to develop a Women's Studies
Program. Working with iiterested faculty as well as with student
groups, and with the support of the WomenIs Caucus, the Ad Hoc Commit-.
tee on women's Studies encouraged faculty in different departments to
develop new courses, gained departmental acceptance of these courses,
and guided the official ap»roval of these courses through the regular
university committees, Such new courses as \Jomen in European Histoyy,
History of Women in the Americas, Women in Antiquity, Ethnography oz
Women, Twentieth Century Spanish .Jomen Writers, and Women in Educa-
tion were put into the curriculum. Other courses were devises, to be
given on an occasional basis, usually under the special topics format.
These included Women in the Drama, Contemporary French Woien Authors,
Yhe Rhetoric of the Women's Rights iiovement, and Women in the Peace
Movement. The university administration supplied limited funds for
the new course development and for visiting speakers.

Women's Studies employs an "“untraditional" focus (sex differen-
tiation) and draws on disciplines in the humanities, social sciences,
and the professions, A second field in Women's Studies is considered
professionally valuable to perso.s, either women or mem planning
careers in law, government, journalism, social work, librarianship or
education, in areas where they would deal with women's problems or re-
Search on women. It also provides women with a view of the breadth of

women's achievements which encourages them to develop in any number of
creative and professional ways. :

In the spring of 1973, less than two years after the first iJo-
men's Studies course was offered at the State University of New York
at Albany, Women's Studies became an officially approved second field
(i.e., minor), and the then coordinator of the Ad Hoc Committee on
Women's Studies was appointed part-time as Director of Women's Studies.
The program has continued to expand its offerings, and in the spring
semester of 1975 will offer an inter disciplinary introductory course
(WSS 200 Perspectives on Women). In addition, eleven other courses

(listed above) will be offered, several of which are in the curriculum
for the first time.

Enrollments in eight courses offered during the fallm 1972, sem-
ester totaled some 285. For the fall, 1973, semester, combined enrol-
lisents in nine \iomen's Studies courses, several multi-sectioned, total=.
ed approxiuately 4 60. Enrollment in the eleven sections offered in
the fall, 1974, sewester exceed 400 students.

Student interest is increasing, and the basic student desire now
1s for a major in Jomen's Studies, which the committee is working on.

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WOMEN'S STUDIES AT SUNYA —

Courses to be offered in the spring semester of 1975:
WSS 200: Perspectives on Women — MWF — 11:10 ame Schulzz and staff

ENG 395: Bresentation of Social Roles in Literature - MF — 4:10 pem. Fetterley
MWF - 9:45 a.m. Daims —

ENG 361: Study of an Individual Author-British: Virginia Woolf - MWF -
3310 pitts Schulz

RCO 465: Sexual Bultitak and Small Group Process - : MF - i 10 pm. St. Clair
PEC 450: Women and Sport ~ TTH - 12:45 p.m. Palm
FRE 499 Women Writers in France - Time to be arranged, Hancock »

FDN 405: Wemen in Education - T —- 7:10-10:20 p.m. Petersen—Hardt
505:

SPN 344: Women in Hispanic Literature ~ TTH —- 9:45 a.m. Cohen
(Fnglish translation epen to Spanish majors. )

MAI 258: Wemen and Social Change — MW — 3:10 p.m. Harding

HIS 666B: Proseminar in Latin American History — Women in Latin American History -
W — 3:45 p.m. — 5:35 poem. Hahner

AMS LOOB: Male and Female in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century America ~
MWF —- 1:10 p.m. Birr

CLC 310: Women in Antiquity - TTH - 2:10 p.m. Barnard

A second field emphasis is available in Women's Studies. For information,
contact Joan Schulz, HU 344: 457-8441.

The Women's Studies Program at State University of New York at Albany,
offering a scend field in Women's Studies, is only two years old.

The pregram has received very little financial support from SUNYA, and .
right now one ef our most important needs is for a library of materials which
students frem SUNYA and elsewhere can use freely and efficiently.

What we would like from you is any books, journals, pamphlets or ee
relating to feminist and/or Women's Studies activities that you ean spare or
know you will no longer use.

If you have such materials, please send or deliver them to me, Joan Schulz,
436-0401.

HU 344, 457-8441

State University of New York at Albany

1400 Washington Ave, .

Albany, N.Y. 12222

If you have any materials you wish picked up, please call me, and I will.
make arrangements,

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WOMEN*tS STUDIES OFFERED BY AREA COLLEGES
during Spring Semester, 1975

College of St. Rose, Western Avenue, Albany. Spring term, Feb. 3 ~ May 21

# course: 1-9 no prerequisite
10-50 lower division
50 + upper division

Classics 18 — Wemen of the Homeric World
Spanish 52 — Women in Spanish Literature
Religion Studies 41 ~ Sanctity, Sanity & Sex

Check Registrar for times and place of course and registration date.
Union College, Schenectady. Spring term, March 31 - June ll.

FE (Freshman elective) 29 - Philosophical Implications of Women's Liberation
Literature ‘

FE 28 — Civil Disobedience

FE 21 - Powerful Women in Literature (offered only in winter)

FE 135- Women in Politics (offered in winter only ) *Also offered under course
#POS 183 :

On the whole, Union offers a wide range of Inglish courses. Check Registrar
for the time and place of course and date of registration.

RsPit., Troy.
55.215 — Contemporary Social Movements — prerequisite.

Check Registrar for time, place, beginning date of  OPUree, and viitsbratil cat
date.

‘Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs. Spring term, Feb. 5 - May 31

ENG 223 ~ Women in Literature - Female Characters
ENG 224 — Women in Literature - Female Authors

SOC 217 - Marriage & Family - prerequisite

SOC 204 — Women in Modern Society - prerequisite

SOC 341 - Population & Family Planning - prerequisite

Check Registrar for time, place of course, and date of registration,

Russell Sage, Troy |

- Women in Pelitics (. Political Seience Dept.)

Women in Western History (History Dept.)

Check Registrar for time, place of course, date of registration, and
beginning date of classes. Also check for additional courses,

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SUNYA WOMEN'S CAUCUS

On Thursday, November 21, the with the tremendous growth of the
Albany State Yomen's Caucus con-= women's movement, sexism has be-
ducted a discussion on sexism’ in come more subtle, However, some
the university, Various members of the episodes related by the’
of the SUNYA faculty, grad studentpanel and also by the, audience,
and undergrads participated in di=who were encouraged to contribute
scussions of sexism in textbooks, their stories, proved that plain
difficulties for women in gaining old blatent sexism is still’ around,
recognition in the classroom, and The stories were numerous, but
the attitudes of professors even here are a few. A physics prof,
touching upon problems with sed= who called on a woman for the "fe-
uctive instrutors, male viewpoint" of an equatione..
- Opening on a humourous note, du the prof, who told his colleague,
Judy Fetterly and Helen Hancock a doctoral candadate, that she was
presented two skits parodying sex=not Ph.D, material because she was
ist, pipe-in-big-mouth professors,not humble enough,..and the pro-'
Then more seriously, Helen Hancockfessor teaching architecture who,
spoke of the bias in textbooks, having reluctantly admitted women
from the basic faults in Webster'sto the class, have them easier
Collegiate Di¢tionary which de~ building assignments and preached
fines "womanly" as "roundly devel-that the female gender was of ee
oped,.a wife and mother", to the oourse primarily interested in
awful characterigations of women: building houses, while men were

in language textbooks,”'A french’ ‘naturally more inclined to office
conversation text sent to instruc-buildings and libraries...
tors this year for examination Time was running short when

contains a liating of work*vocab -Car6éline Voodbeck, a SUNY faculty
ulary, a separate chapter ‘for men membér brought up the subject of
and one ofr women, The Men's workprofessors who use their position
words were "to earn", "to build", to play sexual games with students,
"employ", "to saw" to name a few, A few women related their exper-
The women's words included "to 47 iences with men like these;
type", "wait oma table", "to be professors who use their position
on time","glamourous" and "to° - of relative power for ego gratif-
depend on", This chapter’was il -ication,

lustrated with waitresses, typists By the end of the period those
housewives and an airline steward=present still had many contrib-

CSSe utions to make to the forun,

Also pointed wut were significe put there will be other forums
ant omissions from supposedly on this subject in the future,
notable anthologies, For example:Check with the Women's Caucus for
The Norton Anthology of Literaturescheduling information,
used by English majors everywhere, _ % ox
and covers literature from the 14 “OMEN. IN PRANCE FESTIVAL

th, century to the present, hasn't November 24—_December 15
got one female entry until Emily
Dickinson, A text entitled Rep-=
resentative Men: Cult Heroes of
our Time, edited by one Theodore
Gross, had two females included,
The two were (of all people) Liz
Taylor and Jackie Onassis! |
A panel of three women, two un.
der grads and one grad student,
related incidents they'd collected
of prejudice against women in the
classroom, The point was made that

Of special interest to Speakout
readers ¢
Jednesday, December 11: Film-

Studies Program and Caucus for
Woments Rights at SUNYA, The
"Tomen in France" exhibit may be
seen at this time, 5 p.m,--
Agnes Varda film, Le Bonheur,
For further info, call: 457 =3375

12

Reception 3:30=—5 p.m, Art Galtey-
lery. Reception given by ‘Women's

PEWS OF E.G.0.85.

Che rlotte O'Donnell of E.G.0.*.
(Encourege Girls Organized Sports)
met last week with a committee of.
the American Association of Univer-
sity Women in Schenectady County.
They decided that they would hold a
meeting on December 2, with one
citizen from each school district
in the Suburban Council: Mohanassen,
Niskeyune, Shaker, Coionie, Shenen-
Gehowa, Bethlehem, Burnt Hills,
Guilderlend, and Scotic-Glenville.
They will discuss procedures for
upgradibg girls' sports in e-ch
high school.

The Guilcerlanc sports pro; ram
for girls was beefed up this year.

A Director of Women's Sports was
aaded to the budget. They also |
added a few teais and co:.ches to th
program this year, and of course
they hope to do better each year.
Two soccer teams played this fall, a
Varsity and.a Junior Varsity, each
with a coach. There will be volley-—
ball this. winter, also Varsity and
Junior Varsity each with a coach,
ana Versity and Junior Varsity bas-
ketball. A new method of hiring.
physical education teachers requires
th: t+ they consicer women who will
elso be availeble to coach girls'
sports teams. A new dynemite bes
ketball coach this yecr is Ms.
Jeenetta Hill, who of course is also
2 new physicel education teacher.
here will ve softball in the .

spring, « Varsity end Junior Varsity

few new uniforms for the girls!
teams. (They used to share the
uniforms, thet is, the basketball
players used them for their season,
and then the volleyball players,
and so forth.)

E.G¢cO.S. now consists of three
h: rd core workers and feels very
lonely.
h:ve not es yet come forward to
help us. The three of us along
with several other feminists in
Guilderland are talking ebout and
working on a wouen's studies course
for the High School. We need all
the help and support that we can
eet from the feminist community.
If you ere interested, plesse call
Joon Floyd-et 355-2925,

: ~-Dorothy

Bellick

¢

Weman's Ceunselling Cellective

The Weman's Counselling Collective

is preud te announce the Nevember
11 epening of its weman's switch-

roard and walk-in crisis center in

he Gay Community Heuse, 332

Hudsem Avenue (second fleer),
Albany. The telephome number is -.

462-6739. Heurs are frem 6:30 to.
8:30 pm Monday threugh Thursday,

with ether hours available hy

appointment.
The purpose ef the Cellective is

complete with a coech for each team, te previde fer any woman im any

new uniforms, and even benches for
spectators. »-There is « tennis team,
and they also heve new uniforms.
There is clso « gymnastics team.
There has been some controversy
brewing here in Guilderlend, as the
boys! soccer coach and the support-
ing perents' group were not too
happy with the girls' teams. They
felt thet the girls took money and
effort away from the voys! veams,

which they sey they h-d to work hard

to develop. This year the girls
were not invited to perticipste in

area, services previously difficult
to ebtaim. Their ultimate goal is
to eliminate time censuming pre-
cedures and dead-ends with which

wemem have so eften been canfront=-

ed im the past. The center effers
beth professional and peer (woman
te womam) counselling as well as
information om ether community ser-
vices amd agencies available te

womens. They hope te build am atmo-

sphere ef. support, empathy, and
guidance net now present im this
area's humam services, as well as

the awards banquet for the boy play-spreading the awaremess of wemen te

ers. A protest was
lines are arawn. E
feeling a false sen
we were able to get
Director of Women's

made, and the
.G.0.5. has been
se of. power -since

yports, and a,,
IZ

few coaches, &

existing agencies.

The Womam's Ceunselling Ccollec-
tivel:hopes to involve ail wemen's
groups im this area. Please keep
the switchboard informed of special
evemts amd services.

The parents of the players

New Yerk State NOW Cenference

Liberty, Equality, Sisterheoed,
was the theme for the State NOW
Cenference held #& the Sheraton
Inntowne in Albany, November 15-17.
Registratien was from 7 to 11 p.m.
Friday evening and the highlight
of the night was a legislative
brainstorming session. Most of the
activities started on Saturday
beginning with a speech by Karen
DeCrow, President ef NOW. Karen
gave a very infermal talk, relate
ing some of her experiences since
becoming NOW President. Hubert
Humphrey, Charles Percy, and
Jimmy Carter, among others coruterp-
lating the Democratic nomination
for President have been calling
asking for her suppert. NOW,
however, cannet endorse candidates
hecause of its tax exempt status.

The pwint was raised that perhaps
NOW should beceme more political
and relinquish its exempt status.
Karen alsa mentioned the distrih-
utinn ef NOW's budget. The annual
budget is appreximately $250,000
and of that, only a minimal amount
is alloted to legishtation. Another
inequity is that each state r c-
receives the same amount of money
eegardless of the number of NOW
members each state has.

Most ef the morning was
spent trying to adopt new By-laws’

for the State NOW organization,

The New Yerk Cuty Chapter present-
ed its own set of by-laws but

they were rejected by the general
body. <A pewer struggle was
evident throughout the. session
between Upstate and Downstate
members.

Some important resolutions
were passed, however, at the gen-
eral session. One resolution
surmitted by the Rochester chapter
requests NOW chapters to submit
demands to GovernorElect Carey
and Lt. Governor Elect Krupsak
to replace the present Human Rights
Commissioner and to demand an
in depth investigation of the -
Commission as it is discriminatory
and not meeting the needs of the
people.” . Dae

Another resolutien relating to
rape was passed. This resolution

tion on the victim's past sexual
conduct if such information is

net allowed on the defendant. Also
severe penalties were required

for convicted rapists. Also more
research and development into the
nature of rape. Psychiatric
treatment for rapists was initial-
ly included but the point was

made that the law could not require
someone to submit te psychiatric
treatment. Also the point was

made that a rapist is not necess-
arily a sick person but a normal
male openly venting his hostilities
against women.

A resolution on Women and
Religion also passed, demanding an
economic boycott and a withholding
of services from organized relig-
ions and related organizations
that practices oppressive acts
against women. It was also
suggested that women attend places
of worship and drop a note instead
of money in the collection plate
explaining their actions.

Several worksheps were alse
held during the afterneon. The
workshops were Masculine Mystique,
Media, Sexuality, Advertising,
Marriage & Divorce, Assertive -
Aggressive Behavior, Sports,
Religion, Employment, Child Care
and National & Chapter Organizas«.
tion.

The Masculine Mystique
workshop was well attended, approx-
imately 40 people, six of whem
were men; despite the decision ef
the National Board of NOW te
disband the Masculine Mystique
Task Force. The leader of the
workshép, Warren Farrell, is alse
the Chairperson of the Masculine
Mystique Task Ferce and has
written a book called The Liberate
ed Man published by Random Heuse.
In her speech, Karen DeCrew
expressed the opinion ef the
National Board as well as the
feelings of many members that -. «=
there is no place for a men's
auxiliary.

Warren Farrell’.agreed with |
Karen that men should be interest#
ed in other issues but does see
a need for a Masculine Mystique

would make it illegal for informa-!4 Task Férce. The Task Force -

> mS

Ee ee a ee

NOW Conference, cont'd.

addresses itself to the issue of
what is meant by masculinity and
feminity., It hopes to encourage
men's consciousness-raising groups
to reassess their attitudes and
motivations in terms of stereo-
typed sex role identities. Warren
Farrell sets up men's and women's
groups; they meet separately for

~a period of time and then met

joinly and them separately again
to evaluate their experiences.
sSomeone at the workshop made
the point that there is a place
in NOW for the Masculine
Mystique Task Force because men
constitute a minority in NOW
similiar ta the Black Caucus in
CongresSe
The Masculine Mystique Task
Force is a place for men to start,
to be encouraged by other men
and to gain confidence to move
into other areas which previously
they may nst have felt were their
concern, such as child care.

The turnout at the worksh6p
would seem to indicate that other
NOW members do see a place for
men in NOW.

Another excellent workshep
was the Women In Religion, led
by Christine Root. About 25 women
participated in a consciousness-
raising format each talking about
her own background, interests and
religious experiences. Most of
the women had had bad experiences
with organized religions. Many
saw feminism as the new réligion
The emphasis in NOW is to .-° °
encourage and recognize the
spiritual side of each woman
whether she chooses*bo.join an
organized religion or not.

Despite the fact that at the
beginning of the workshop there
was a general feeling that there
was ne such thing as spirituality
something did develep during the
session and everyone hugged each
other at the end and felt a
genuine feeling of sisterhood.

The day culminated in an
excellent guerrilla theater
presentation by the Rochester
Now followed by a dance with
The Deadly Nightside. For those

of you who haven't heard of this !°

ee ee Se tt”~—™”””COCOC “R=

group, they are three talented
female musicians. They play
everything from rock to bluegrass
to soul to folk using three
guitars, a fiddle, kazoos. They
played almost continuously for
almost three hours. It was
beautiful to see so many women
enjoying themselves, feeling very
comfortable dancing with each
other. |
The conference ended with a
speech by Margaret Sloan,
President, National Black Feminist
Organization, on Sunday. Margaret
Sloan's poignant speech was dirs
écted”™ to our false victories
and ott false sense of power.
How desperate are we for victory
that we can support a woman
for Governor who is against
abortion. (Obviously, referring
to 11a Grasso.) i

Her speech was very rambling
but the audience was intensely
interested and many of her
remarks were in the style ef
Flo Kennedy. She reprimanded
us because we're still apologize
ing for our anger. We must stop
internalizing our pain because
we have the potential to close
the country down. We've got to
realize the point of pain and
squeeze it, becBnse:..we asa
female caste are going to be
wiped out over false issues and
false struggles for power. Real
battles for pewer are not in
this roome All the conferences
in the world aren't going to
change what's happening outside.

Thooe were just a few of her
remarks in her forceful speech.
In an interview, she related the
founding of the National Black
Feminist Organization in which a
few women get together and called
a press conference announcing the
formation of their organizatione
After the press conference they
received about 200 calls and got
enouch women to hold a conference
and they held their first confer-
ence in. November of 1973.

For those of you whe didn't
make it, yeu missed a great
conference.

C. Shenkle
YOU ‘RE A WOMAN!

, ARE™ YOUS 45
--e-Interested in 1. alternative
TV programming, 2. producing, ©
3. keasing a Cable TV channel,
4. running around filming with

SAMBIZANGA

Sambizanga, a Portugese film di-
rested oy earl Maldororwas shown..
at SUNY Albany November 15 & 16 as

art of their Prize International

Poptapaks, 5. entertaining, 6. fun-€inema series. Winner of First

ding, 7. watching, 8. creating,

prize at the Carthage Film Festival,

9. acting, 10. directing, 11. com- Sambizanga tells the poignant story

municating, 12. fighting for your/
a cause, 13. BEING FULFILLED?

If you are interested in any
or all the above, then CAPITAL

WOMEN IN C’BLE is your organization

and you need to be a part of it}!
Won't you please check the —
appropriate areas below and return
tos; CAPIT/L WOMEN IN CABLE
Ms. Debikae S. DeGear
545 State Street 7
Albany, New York 12210

I want to: i
\ learn more about CWC first.
@be put on the mailing Tist.
Gbecome an active member.
Crepresent an ‘organization.
have a presentation given to
a group. ,
(J join the Steering Committee.
Obecome involved in __producing
programs, _— camera work,
__Script writing, _ funding,
__Ppublicity, _ everything.
C) become a stockholder in CWC.
(Hoffer my time and talents.

NAME
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AFFILIATION(S)
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ADDRESS
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PHONE

FOR FURTHER INFO: Call Roni Lipton®

Block at 403-2141 (office) or
463-0321 (home), or Stephenie
Stewart at 346-1145 (home),

of a black Angolan family caught up

in the revolutionary movement. The
father, Domingos “avier, is taken
from their hut in an early morning
police raid and thrown into prison.
The rest of the film centers around
Maria Xavier's attempts to locate
and free her husband from his bru-
tal tOrture and eventual death at
the hands of the police. The reac-
tion of the revolutionary movement
to Domingos' @rrest add death is
also portrayed. - .

_ Throughout the film, Ms.Mald-
oror maintains admirable control
over her cauera. From the rapidly
Changing close ups and medium shots
of Domingos! capture to the long
shots of Maria as she trudges from
one jail to another,the camera work
is top notch. The selections of ©
African music in the film are also
faultless, a ae _

There is deep social significance
in the film's portrayal of the pov-
erty and struggle of the Angolan
people. This reviewer, like others
in the theater, found her own prob-
lems minimized to the point of dis+
appearance, The impact is partic-
ularly great because Ms. Maldoror
makes sure that we realize the film
is no mere story, but something ac~
tually happening up until the im-
mediate past.

Sarah Maldoror's film Sambizanga

NEE Sc eR ARR St ERE

is one not to be missed,

c ‘
“We bet her

From The Auericen H ritece
Dicvionary, the Gefinition of
"womanish"; 1, chavacte istic

Of a woman; vwomanlike, 2, efifen-
inate and weak,

he cesinition -of mzniieh, how-
ever,ys Of or befitting a man. 2.
Reseubling a nans'A vouan impudent
ena wannish ¢rom/ Is not more
loethec then an effeuinate man."

Ea Gi la ial KS TO THY

DITOR

To the Editor:

Ye are plennins to edit a
SBY-ROLE AN ARUN SS HATDBOOK Lor
group leaders, for use in groups
addressing the issue ‘of sex-roles
in our society. It ‘ill have to
equally important aspects:

«, giving leaders or sr oups
(o11-female or mixed) some techn-
iques for lookin’ st gencer-
related behavior, atti tudes,
role identity;

b)oroviding a vehicle for
vromen group leaders to 2
end recocnition for the valusble
work they have been doing in
thie field.

As such, Lt 16
contribution to the field of
applied behavorisal science.
(Later editions micht featuré
technicues for all-male sroups,
those Cynamics and issues are
much different.) The first ed-
ition of the HANDBOOK till feat-
ure contributions trom the North
Bast rezion of the United States.

ee es LLY, ve are ipeking
for severel kincs of itenus
exercises, oOrisinated-or Ages opted
py the contributor, and used by
her, to help groups look at
sex-role issues; theory present—
ations or "lecturettes"; “ane case
histories of notable “bonbs"==
desions “hich backfired-—vith
analysis of reasons ‘hy.

For further information,
contact Judith D. Palmer, RFD 1,

Mast Road, rata Nev Hlempshire
O3G24; closin« ¢ acline for

receiving copy if January 4, 1975.

and

a feminist

Sincerely,

Carol Weiss-Heine,
PheDs

Judith D. Palmer,
Ph.D.

Dear Sisters,
SLGIPING BEAUTY, a lesbian

fairy tale is based on the fairy
tale of the same neme that ie
all read as kids - but this one
has oe surprise endinz!

The fairy tale caine out of
the author's realization that all
forms ot communication male the
lesbien invisible. After she
wrote it, dnother roman did - |

Bl

ain credit

hand calligraphy (printing), and.
a collective oz vromen printed it.
It's done on really nice purple
and yello:’ paper.

Particularly at this time of
year, when everyone is beginning
to tronder abour Chr ‘istaas/Chonulcah
Winter Solstice/Ne’ Year's gifts,
omen t7ould be interested to kno‘?
about the fairy tole. (It's
also eppropriate for birthdays,
bar mitzvahs, Valentine's Day,
even Mother's Day.

Here is the > price
information:

$1 per copy plus 254 for post-
ave & handling

>l per copy plus 90¢ for
postage & handling for oversees

75é per copy for 10 or more
copies & Te pay postage

60¢ per copy for bookstores &
‘Te pay postage

$2 per copy for institutions

If someone vrants a fairy tale
sent es a present, they can send
us the other person's address and
tre Will mail. it vith an enclosed
note.

Money should be sent to
Sleeping Beauty, PO Box 767,
Atlanta, Georgia 30501.

Thank you very mucn,
In sisterhood,

Vick

Decr Ecitor-—
7 edd &

-.

10/74.
native Menhettenite
recently hi ving moved to snother
bi; city--Goston, In N.Y.C., Il
worked at «= cuil, 9-5 office job
thet paid well, and lived comfort-
cebly. Here, Thin trying to survive
as e, street musicien (licensed)

enc am starving, but far better off
creatively Sperking. The move was
a drastic chenge in life-s tyles.
I've abendoned thet. life of stag-
nent, unfuljfilled, arudagery ené

am not pert of the circuitry any
more, JI write my own songs, sing,
end play guiter (doing this for

ten years). Being a street-singer
in Boston is herd, but being a won-

4 720 males the going even rougher.

+ ie Cantinued -on page fy i

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR _
Continued from pege |")

I've had some bad experiences with
ageressive males, They don't exam
ine the content and music of my
songs, but rether choose to "exeme
ine me" as a sexual object--(I'm
pissed off!) I've enclosed a poem
called "A Woman's Poem of Retribu-
tion" (and 2 others) reflective of
my feelings, I think it is an in-
portant statement of « woman glone
in the city--crying out to be
heard.

I would like it to be published
in your megazine,

If, for any reason you find it
unsuitable, I'd appreciete any
comments ebout it you can offer.

Thenk you for your time and
cooperation,

sincerely for freecon-
Ms, Alice Lencfield
599 Marlborough Street
Boston, Mass. O2115
Apt. LO

Dear Editor;
Befo:.e I
poetry in to

11/12/74
send eny more of my
you--would you please
let me know: "Does YOUR SUBLICA~
TION sUSLISH PORTRY?™ Tt is very
frustrating to go to the trouble of
writing out all my poems and then
having them sent beck to me with a
note thet says--"Good material, ut
our megazine does not publish poetry
any more." Also-~does » peakOut
deal with poens releting to subd-=
jects other than the Yomaen's or
Gay Liberation movement? Is it
strictly a feminist publication® If
it is, I will send only those poems
dealing with topics on thet subject.
Over a period of years I've collect—
ed many original poems and songs
that are intensely, strong state-
ments that sey much for me end I
would like to see them get the ex-
posure they neec, to make people
say--'hey,-that really tells it like
it isi{'--end not have my p»oems dis-
covered lying around buried in a
drawer somewhere after I die, to
have them printed, I need some
feedback fo6r the years I've tried
to express my feelings in prose and
rhyme--to find people identifying,
Or relating, or just getting a kick
out of what I say through my writ- \7,

ing. It's kind of discouraging
ne to get a response to an 8-page
Tetter asking for some direction
as to where, who, and how to go
about getting my poetry published.
I guess with such an over-abundance
of aspiring writers, ell with the
same goal in mind (success and/or
a responsive reedership) the need
for poetry is greatly diminishing.
But could you please help me steer
myself in the right direction?
Would you be so kind as to suggest
the name of a magazine that does
publish the writings of unknowns--
just getting started--if your
megazine doecn't. It would be
greatly appreciated. Also--wheat
is the average lensth of the poetry
submitted to you; some of my poems
are very short; others are longer.
Would you let me know a little
about SpeelkOut and what it's
geared for so I can supply a-pro=
priste material? Thank you for
your time and cooperetion.

Sincerely-

Ms. ‘lice Lendfield
Mditor's Note: Ms. Lancfield'’s
poem "A “oman'ts Poem of Retribue
tion" appeers on page of we
issue. SpeakOut sticks pretty
closely to feminist subjects,
publishing appropriate poems of
variec length, We thank Ms.
Landfield for her comments.

MMM
eI

HKG KH KEK KX

From the Editor
Hot Flesh

Mr. Charles Fair appearing on
the Today Show (11-19-74) stated
that "fem lib" like street crime
is with us now that the "age of
reason is gone.'! This gem is
from his new book

THE NEW NONSENSE
in which he talks about the end
of the rational consensus.

So much for rationality! It
sounds as if the book is
appropriately called the new
nonsense.

GROUP NEWS
Capital District Women

Any woman interested in joining
aC.R. greup on agism, please con~=
tact Jackie Imai at 861-6205. Any
weman interested in joining a more
generalized C.R. group please call
Susan Walters at 732-8014
Other contact women are: |
SpeakeérssBureau; Joan Peak456-0214
Leaders of Business Meeting: Susan
Walters 732-8014
Literature Table and Sales of "Free
To Be You and Me": Lois Chaber
Telephone Chain: Estelle Frankel
Publicity: Carol Harp Biernacki
Treasurer: Maxine Gootzeit

SEEenetaey Rape Crisis Center
The Rape Crisis Center is run
by Schenectady NOW's Rape Task
Force. The Sch4nectady and Rote
terdam Police Forces have agreed to
phone the center whenever a rape
is reported. Training sessions
have been completed, and the Center
is working through Ellis Hospital.
In addition, work has been divided
into specific areas:
Financial: Prim Oliver 393-9890
Speakers Bureau

Volunteer Support and Training
Political: Stephanie Stewart
Medical and Psychological:

Martha Schultz 37481102

Medical and’ P*éice

For more information or to work
with the center, call : Marthat.
Schultz, 374-1102

MARXISM AND FEMINISM STUDY GROUP
The class question, the sexwas-
caste question, oppression under
capitalism, under socialism, women
at work, er at home, imperialism,
witches, the ERA, Karen DeCrow,
Frederick Engels, Clara Zetkin. Any
or all or more of the above are
likely to come up at the Marxism
and Feminism study group. The
Study group was formed in order to
discuss some of the bittoad questions
which come up in the women's movee
ment, the cemmunist movement, and
other movements for social change.
We hope to avoid dry, abstract
discussions, mainly because they're
boring, and if they are very ab-
stract we are probably missing the
point. Ideally, we try to integ-

rate our experience with the read-
ing.

As w the group is made up of
m several tendencies withe
in men's movement. Some of

the women are Marxist, others are
not. We wa@lcome all wmen who are
interested, and we hope that womén
from various backgrounds and points
of view will join us. We think
diversity is great; we have more
to learn from each other that way.
To date we have completed a dise
cussion of Sheila Rowbotham's 1
"womens Resistance and Revolution
On Monday, December 9 at 7:30p.n.
Friends Meetinghouse, 727 Madison
Ave, we shall discuss "The Early
Development of the Family" by F.
Engels. For more information or
a copy of "the Fattmmy,.."(25¢) call
M. Green at 465-6874. —

SCHENECTADY N.O.W.

Dorothy Bellick is establishing
a Speakers Bureau about the ERA.
If you can speak or need a speaker,
call Dorothy at 355-8704, In
conjunction with this NOW is accu-
mulating literature about abortion
Please call Dorothy if you can help

N.O.W. is beginning procedings
for a legal complaint against ~=-9os2
those advertisers in. the Schenect-
ady Gazette who persist in using
sexist references and terms in :,,..
their ads. N.O.W. asks that every
one write letters to the Gazette
complaining about their misogynist
editorial and advertising policies
When you write don't forget that
they will not refer to any woman
without a Miss or Mrs. in frent
of her name.
Meetings: Wednesdays, December

4 and 18, 8:00 pem., Schenectady

YWCA 3

ALBANY WOMEN'S -P@bETICAL CAUCUS
Two new committees have been
formed; A Legislative Pregram
Committee to draw up top priority
legislation for the coming year,
and a Program Membership Yommittee
to encourage growth in members by
scheduling more public meetings.
The Legislative Committee will be
meeting with local legislators
to discuss women's issues at the
beginning of the 197% session.
The first event will be a recept-
! noring Lt. Governor Krupsak.
interested should call the
office, 463-0877.

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