AUSTRALIA

Scarlet Woman

193 Smith Street, Fitzroy VIC 3065, Australia; or 62 Regent Street, Chippendale, NSW 2008

A socialist feminist magazine which includes articles about women and health, the media, work, violence against women and many other issues. It also has regular book reviews, graphics and contact lists. Periodicity: March/September.

Womanspeak

P.O. Box 103, Spit Junction, NSW 2088

A feminist magazine which includes articles about Australian women and peace, women's groups, pornography, stories, poems, reviews of books, films, announcements, contact lists and photographs. Periodicity: Quarterly.

Refractory Girl

Women's House, 62 Regent Street, Chippendale, NSW 2008

A feminist journal which includes all kinds of articles. Each journal focusses on an issue such as 'Women and the State', 'Women's Studies and Women in Universities' or 'Women Writers'. It regularly has poems, reviews and graphics.

Hecate

P.O. Box 99, St. Lucia, QLD 4067

A women's interdisciplinary journal which is 'particularly interested in articles which employ a feminist, Marxist or other radical methodology to focus on the situation of women in relation to patriarchy and capitalism in any given area'. It also includes creative writing and graphics. Periodicity: Bi-annual.

Girls Own

P.O. Box 188, Wentworth Building, Sydney University, Sydney NSW 2006

A Sydney feminist newspaper which includes short articles about all facets of the Women's Liberation Movement. Also features stories by Aboriginal women, and international women's news. One article is also printed in a language other than English; other features are ads, letters and classifieds.

Lip

P.O. Box 139, Parkville VIC 3052

A glossy Australian feminist arts journal which includes articles about women artists, interviews, letters, photographs, original artwork and graphics.

Women And Development Newsletter

P.O. Box 151, Collingwood, VIC 3066

A newsletter edited and printed by members of the Women and Development Network of Australia on a rotational basis. The Network supports women's struggles for livelihood, justice, participation and peace especially in the Third World. Articles vary but include women's participation in the aid and development process. Aboriginal women's rights, Pacific feminism, women's networking internationally, women and poverty. It also regularly includes poems, book reviews, graphics and WADNA news. Periodicity: Quarterly, plus a monthly newsletter from the National Coordinator.

Lesbian News

193 Smith Street, Fitzroy, VIC 3065

A lesbian feminist magazine which includes letters, interviews, book reviews, articles, gay news including international news, community announcements, photographs, lists of publications and advertisements.

Lilith

P.O. BOX 154, Fitzroy, VIC 3065

A feminist women's history journal which includes articles with a diversity of theoretical feminist frameworks. It includes articles to stimulate debate and interest in the study of women's history. 'We want to reclaim women's lost past. We want to change visions of the past and the future'.

Grapevine

GPO Box K788, Perth, WA 6001

A Perth feminist newsletter produced by women for women only. It includes articles about peace, occasional articles about Third World women, cartoons, poems, local news, addresses of local women's groups and advertisements.

Melbourne Women's Liberation Newsletter

P.O. Box 46, North Fitzroy, VIC 3068

A Melbourne feminist newsletter which includes articles about health issues, peace, history of the Australian Women's Liberation Movement, women and the government, trade unions and international news. It also includes announcements of local events and letters.

Sydney Women's Liberation Magazine

62 Regent Street, Chippendale, NSW 2008

Liberation

234a Rundle Street, Adelaide, SA 5000

An Adelaide women's liberation newsletter.

Bluestocking

17 Short Street, Leichhardt, NSW 2040

A newsletter produced by the Australian Women in Education Coalition.

Sibyl

P.O. Box 168, Nedlands, WA 6009

A feminist magazine produced in Perth.

Ad Lib

C/- The Coming Out Show, ABC Box 9994, GPO Sydney 2000

A group of women working within the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, fighting against discriminatory language and imagery in broadcasting.

USA

Media Report To Women

C/o Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press, 3306 Ross Place, NW, Washington DC 20008

This monthly publication is packed full of information about the extent and progress of women's media nationally and internationally; facts about existing media (monitoring studies, statistics, etc.), about changes being made (legal actions, agreements negotiated between media and women's organisations, the founding of new periodicals and media business and products like films and records). Other publications of the Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press are: The Directory of Women's Media and Syllabus Source Book on Media and Women.

Killing Us Softly — Advertising's Image of Women

Cambridge Documentary Films, Inc., P.O. Box 385, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139

A half-hour 16mm colour film in which, using hundreds of advertisements from magazines, newspapers, album covers and storefront windows, the author has produced a concise and important analysis of a US$ 40 billion industry that preys on the fears and insecurities of every consumer.

Women Against Pornography Newsreport

358 West 47th Street, New York, New York

In their Newsreport, Women Against Pornography (WAP) bring news and information about action against pornography and violence against women in the media and about publications and resources useful in the fight against media violence against women. WAP has also produced educational materials, including audio-visuals, for use in schools and community groups.

Aegis: Magazine on Ending Violence Against Women

Feminist Alliance Against Rape, Box 21033, Washington, DC 20009

Pornography and abuse of women in the media are issues which are covered regularly in this quarterly feminist magazine, from a feminist perspective Aegis also contains information about women's actions in the USA against the abuse of women in pornography and the media.

Non-Sexist Child Development Project

Women's Action Alliance, 370 Lexington Avenue, New York, New York 10017, U.S.A.

As a result of their work in day care centres in New York City, the Women's Action Alliance developed a line of non-sexist, multi-racial educational toys and classroom materials for young children. They have also produced a curriculum guide, Non-Sexist Education for Young Children: A Practical Guide.

 

INTERNATIONAL

Isis International Resource Guide on Audio-Visuals for Women

Via Santa Maria dell'Anima 30, 00186 Rome

Women are creating alternative media and images through films, slides, tapes and videos all over the world. This Guide gives information about these resources and where they are available. The Guide will also recount the experiences of women's groups in producing and using audiovisuals. Publication date is early 1985.

Women and the Media

Women and Visual Images

Isis International Bulletins, No. 18 and 27

Available from Isis International, Via Santa Maria Dell'Anima 30, 00186 Rome, and Isis-WICCE, P.O. Box 2471, 1211 Geneva 2.

 

AFRICA

ZIMBABWE

Federation of Africa Media Women Newsletter

C/o Zimbabwe Inter-Africa News Agency, P.O. Box 8166, Causeway, Harare

The Federation of Africa Media Women was formed to provide a forum for joint planning and action, a channel through which media women can share news and information about development within the media and among media women.

Zimbabwe Publishing House Women's Series

P.O. Box BW 350, Borrowdale, Harare

Founded in 1981 as a channel through which Zimbabweans can speak of their own experiences, struggles, problems and triumphs, the Zimbabwe Publishing House (ZPH) is publishing a new series of books by and for women — Women of Africa. It will concentrate on three areas: handbooks designed for the extensive network of women's groups in Zimbabwe; creative writing; theory and research. This initiative will enable the women of Zimbabwe to develop their own images of themselves.

NIGERIA

Women in Nigeria

P.O. Box 253, Samaru, Kaduna State

Formally launched in April 1983, Women in Nigeria concentrates on consciousness-raising and sensitizing Nigerians to the issues of gender and class oppression. For this they use not only the written word, but also the media of television and radio. Persons outside Nigeria are invited to subscribe to the Women in Nigeria Newsletter, a regular publication, for communication and information about the organisation and its activities.

LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN

BARBADOS

Women and the Media

Women Speak: A Quarterly Newsletter about Caribbean Women, no. 12. October 1983. The Women and Development Unit (WAND), UWI Extra-Mural Department, Pinelands, St. Michael, Barbados.

CHILE

Unidad de Comunicacion Alternativa de la Mujer

(Women's Alternative Communication Unit) Casilla 16-637, Correo 9, Santiago

Created in 1981 as part of the Latin American Institute of Transnational Studies (ILET), the Women's Unit contributes to the creation of alternative media to counteract the perpetuation and dissemination of traditional stereotypes of women. It also distributes information which helps women to answer those questions affecting our daily lives, problems and needs. Activities of the Women's Unit include: Mujer-Ilet: a monthly publication of newsclippings and features from FEMPRESS; Mujer-Especiales: a quarterly dossier collecting articles on specific issues of interest to women; Women's Alternative Media Collection: pamphlets about women's alternative media in Latin America; and Radio Network: a collection of radio programmes produced by Latin American women.

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

Mujer-Tec

Apartado Poastal 284-9, Los Rios, Santo Domingo

An action and advocacy group, Mujer-Tec promotes community action through the media. It aims to train women in non-traditional jobs in communications, and encourage research that analyses, evaluates, and recommends changes in the field of communications as that field relates to women's struggle for equal participation in Dominican society. The organization also produces its own audio-visual materials.

Centro do Investigacion Para la Accion Femenina (CIPAF)

Calle Benigno Filomeno Rojas 307, Santo Domingo, D.N.

A Research Centre for Women's Action, CIPAF is a source of alternative media for women. Using cartoon style booklets, CIPAF produces a series of materials dealing with the lives and problems of women workers in factories, the fields and in the household. It raises issues of the sexual division of labour, discrimination and harassment on the job. It also conducts research and seminars.

COLOMBIA

Cine-Mujer

Apartado Aereo 2758, Bogota

A women's film organisation. Cine Mujer produces and distributes films and other audio-visuals which provide an alternative image of women, and seeks to contribute to the process of the education of women through film.

MEXICO

Colectivo Cine Mujer

(Women's Film Collective)

Angelas Negoechea, Penuri 19, Sede Casa Oyoacan, D.F. Mexico.

Since its establishment in 1974-75, this organisation has been active in the production of audio-visual material and the presentation of different images of women in the mass media. They have made films on abortion, rape, and domestic work, and have published a book on a meeting of working class women in Mexico.

 

ASIA AND THE PACIFIC

PHILIPPINES

The Depthnews Women's Features Service (DWFS)

Press Foundation of Asia, P.O. Box 1843, Manila

Started in Asia in July 1979. A network of independent women journalists, covering a range of subjects including non-traditional women's issues. The features are distributed to major newspapers in 12 Asian countries through the Depthnews agency of the Press Foundation of Asia.

Communications Foundation for Asia,

4226 Old Santa Mesa Street, Manila 2806

Offers short courses in developing communications techniques, film making, radio and television production, script writing, low cost media production, soap operas and puppetry.

MALAYSIA

The Asian and Pacific Institute for Broadcasting and Development (AIBD)

P.O. Box 1137, Pantai, Kuala Lumpur

Although not a women-specific group, has nevertheless led the way in concentrating attention on the need for more training courses and work experiences for women involved in media in the Asia/Pacific region.

Centre for Extension and Continuing Education

Dept. of Development Communications, Universiti Pertanian Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor

Offers courses in development effective extension activities for rural populations and training of trainers in communications, planning and evaluation.

The Consumers' Association Of Penang

27 Kelawei Road, Penang

The Consumers' Association of Penang (CAP) is an independent organisation involved in the protection of consumers' interests and needs. It works in the following areas: food, nutrition, housing, environmental balance, the quality of life and the problems of women.

NEW CALEDONIA

Pacific Women's Resource Bureau

P.O. Box D5, Noumea Cedex

Set up in 1981 by the South Pacific Commission with the objective of coordination and greater co-operation between the many international, regional and national agencies working on projects for women in the Pacific. It publishes a regular newsletter as a direct channel to the many women's organisations and groups in the region, and as a means of gathering arid disseminating information on all matters pertaining to women and development concerns.

PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Ofis Blong 01 Meri or Women's Office

P.O. Box 623, Nadi, Fiji; and Ofis Blong 01 Meri, P.O. Box 793, Lae

A service project of the world YWCA set up in 1981 to assist women in the Western Pacific, including Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Fiji, Kiribati and Tuvalu (Melanesia). The major purpose of Ofis is to facilitate better communications between one group and another, and one way of doing this is through its newsletter.

KOREA

Mass Communications Section, Research Institute for Developing Countries

Chingang University, Heuksuk-Dong, Youngdongpo-ku, Seoul.

Offers seminars and training programmes in mass media in social development and utilization of mass media in developing countries. Communication Training Centre, South Pacific Commission, P.O. Box 5082, Raiwaqa, Suva, Fiji.

Offers short courses in: training of trainers and materials development.

THAILAND

Friends Of Women

2/3 Soi Wang-Lang, Arunamarin Road, Bangkok 10700

An independent group made up of both men and women which seeks to understand the condition of women in Thai society, to set up women's groups, to provide services and counsel on women's rights, to do consciousness raising, to seek effective means to resolve problems concerning women and to encourage cooperation among groups and organisations with similar objectives. The group also brings out a quarterly magazine entitled the Friends of Women Magazine.

INDIA

Vimochana — Forum For Women's Rights

P.O. Box 4605, Bangalore 560 046

Vimochana works with women in the unorganised sector, organises poster exhibitions, street plays, films, slide shows, seminars and educational programmes. They also bring out a newsletter in Kannada and a bulletin in English called Sangharsh (struggle).

Reaching Out

7, Manohar Mahal 252 Moghul Lane, Mahim, Bombay 400 016

Among the activities of this group are the production of a women's calendar and a pictorial desk diary devoted to the struggles of working class women.

Maitrayi

1, Mallika Makrand Society, Veer Sawarkar Road, Mahim, Bombay 400 016

Maitrayi is a bulletin which provides resources and reference material as well as publishes thoughts and debates within the women's movement. It brings together scattered news items on women from regional and English language dailies and information about women's groups, struggles, books, etc.

Manushi

C1/202, Lajpat Nagar, New Delhi 110 024

Manushi is a journal about women and society, brought out by an all-women group. It is a non-profit venture, financed through subscriptions and donations from individuals. It is a monthly journal brought out alternatively in English and Hindi.

Ahmedabad Women's Action Group

C/o 5, Professor's Colony, Ahmedabad-380 009

AWAG undertakes protest action against negative images of women in media; monitors school texts, stage plays, radio and TV programmes for sexism; organises exhibitions and publishes researched studies on all the above, as part of conscientization.

Audio-Visual Education Resource Centre

Indian Education Society, Hindu Colony, Napoo Road, Dadar, Bombay, 400 014

AVEHI has a lending library of audio-visual educational aids on several issues related to development, including women's issues.

Skills Cultural Centre

1, Elliot Beach, Besant Nagar, Madras 600 090

SKILLS is a collective of persons from creative and media backgrounds that seeks toexplore and generate fresh attitudes to cultural and media forms from a non-commercial base of education. It is bound by a common concern regarding the failure of developmental efforts to provide people with the tools and methods of communication for projecting their problems and needs, and for exploring their creativity. It has conducted several workshops with development, activist and women's groups on alternative communication — methods, messages, and techniques.

Astha

Xavier Institute of Communications, Mahapalika Marg, Bombay 400 001

ASTHA is a unit of the Xavier Institute of Communications, working on group media for development. It has produced several slide-tape shows on development and women's issues. It also publishes a quarterly news bulletin in English with a Marathi section, called CONCERN-ASTHA.

Yugantar

4, Jairam Ave, Shastri Nagar, Madras 600 020

Yugantar is a group of four (three women, one man) which has been making films on different struggles and organisations of women. So far Yugantar has made four films on: the oppression and organisation of women who work as part-time housemaids in Pune; the struggle of women tobacco processors; marital violence and suicide; and women's involvement in the struggles against deforestation in Uttar Pradesh, India

Cendit

D-1, Soami Nagar, New Delhi 110 017

Centre for Development of Instructional Technology is a non-profit society concerned with the role of communication in development. In addition to general video programmes on development CENDIT has produced several programmes on women's issues. It has been actively associated with the use of media in women's action and provides training to activists in video production, poster making, production of slide-tape shows, etc.

Kali For Women

N-84, Panchshila Park, New Delhi 110 017

Kali For Women is a professional, non-profit society, concerned primarily with publishing Third World studies on women. Its objective is to increase the body of knowledge on women in the Third World, to give voice to such knowledge as already exists, and to provide a forum for women writers, creative and academic. It has initiated various publishing programmes aimed at producing reasonably priced published material in the social sciences and humanities, general non-fiction, and fiction. Kali also intends to publish literacy and post-literacy material produced by women for women.

SRI LANKA

Voice Of Women

1, Jayakontha Lane, Kirula Road, Colombo 5

Kantha Handa (Voice of Women) is a group of women who have been active since 1978. They publish Voice of Women — a journal for women's liberation — in Sinhala, Tamil and English as a quarterly. They provide documentation and library services on women's issues. In September 1983, Kantha Handa began Colombo's first Women's House to help women displaced in the ethnic riots of July 1983. Kantha Handa also organises seminars, symposia and workshops on women's issues, and have published a survey on women workers in Free Trade Zones.

PAKISTAN

Women's Action Forum

P.O. Box 3287, Gulberg, Lahore

A women's group that is involved in campaigning against sexist laws in Pakistan, WAF organises seminars, mass meetings, consciousness-raising campaigns. It is involved in experimenting with alternative media forms and works through the use of film, cassettes and theatre towards improving the image of women in the media. WAF is also working to create women's solidarity nationally and internationally.