We would like to stress that in compiling this Guide, we were very concerned by the fact that almost all the documentation we collected and studied was by men (as you will see from the text).

As a feminist organisation, we feel it is very important that we as women should be dealing with a subject which above all affects us.

Until now, the women's movement has done little in this direction, even though there are groups dealing with breast feeding, consumerism in general, and the image of women in the mass media.

We would especially draw your attention, therefore, to the articles included in the section "Exploitation: whose world?" (page 23), and call on women and women's groups to deal with this problem which is central to our struggle - the problem of the mechanisms and value systems which make this still a male-dominated world.

Isis