RESOURCES AROUND THE WORLD
latin america
Center for the Rights of the Woman Av. Alvares Cabral 400 30.000 Belo Horizonte Brazil.
A center which began after the murder of two wives by their husbands at the initiative of a group of women. The aims of the Center are : to raise the consciousness of society regarding women's problems and issues (work laws, family laws, family planning, abortion etc.); to research subjects such as violence, the labour market, salaries as they affect women; to give legal and practical advice to women on e.g. custody of children, legislation, equal pay etc. and to help women organize to defend their rights.
FIRST LATIN AMERICAN AND CARRIBEAN FEMINIST ENCOUNTER
July, 1981
in Bogota, Colombia
The objective of this conference is to give Latin-American and Carribean women the opportunity to exchange experiences and opinions, to identify problems, and to evaluate the different practices which have developed, as well as to plan future tasks and projects.
Donations and requests for further information to:
Primer Encuentro Feminista Latinoamerica
Coordinadora Nacional
Apdo. Aero 59351 Bogota
Colombia
north america
Resources for Feminist Research Department of Sociology Ontario Institute for Studies in Education 252 Bloor Street West, Toronto, Canada M5 1V6
RFR is currently updating and expanding Its coverage of on-going research on women. They ask for details of research on any aspect of women's experience in society to be sent to them. Please list topic/title of research projects, together with a brief description. They are also looking for women who would like to review books in their own area of interest.
Off Our Backs
1724 20th St. NW
Washington DC 20009 USA
$12/yr. contributing sub.
$7/yr. regular sub.
$20/yr. businesses and institutions
(rates quoted are US, please write for overseas rates)
Many of our readers may already be familiar with this wonderful women's news journal. However, we'd like to make a point of mentioning OOB's international coverage. For example, the entire January 1980 issue. May 1980's interview with Madhu Kishwar of Manushi, Aug-Sept. 1980's article (printed in Spanish as well as English) on Argentine women, and October 1980's articles on the International Women's Conference in Copenhagen, and on Cuban women.
Wages for Housework
Box 38, Station E
Toronto, Ont. M6H 4E1
CANADA
A View from the Kitchen. Resources on the Value of Housework. A packet of information on the struggle to gain recognition for the value of housework. Packet includes: Taking What's Ours. Every women's Guide to Welfare and Student Aid; Wages for Housework Campaign Bulletins; Women and Work. A Study of the Canadian Housewife; and assorted news articles culled from Canadian newspapers.
Women Artists News
Box 4 3304/ Grand Central Station
NY, NY 10163
reg. sub. $7, institution $10 y r.
overseas add. $7.30 airmal ; $ 3.60 surface
Includes reviews on art shows, and a schedule of shows in t h e U.S. and Canada. Articles (in the summer 1980 issue) are on history of the women artists' movement — books on women's art history, feminist art in California, and feminist art education. However, Women Artists News is n o t restricted in scope t o North American news, the Summer 1980 issue also includes an article on "Women in the Italian Avant-Garde". Valuable publication for keeping women in the arts (or interested in the arts) in touch with what women artists are doing.
Announcing
FEMINIST ISSUES
The English-language edition of
QUESTIONS FEMINISTES
Editor-in-chief: Simone de Beauvoir
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FEMINIST ISSUES
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New Brunswick, NJ 08903 USA
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europe
Une Maison des Femmes a Paris ?
c/o F.M.A.
B.P. 370-75625 Paris Cedex 13
France.
An initiative by 24 women's groups in Paris at trying to raise money to obtain a women's centre in Paris. The aim of the collective is to create a space where all the different tendencies of the feminist movement can come together to share ideas and experiences and coordinate their projects. They need financial support which should be sent in the name of Berthellot , Genevieve, Post Office Account No. 1197913 K, Paris.
ILIS
c / o COC
Frederiksplein 14
Amsterdam
The Netherlands
ILIS (International Lesbian Information Secretariat) is a part of the IGA (International Association of Gay Women and Men) which has two aims : coordination of information flow on an international level, and the international coordination of political actions. ILIS is especially interested in contracting lesbians of third world and / or non-western countries. A conference is planned in late December in Amsterdam.
The Crane Bag
c/o 33 Anne Devlin Avenue
Rathfarnham, Dublin 14
Eire
Price: £2.50 (Ireland & U.K.)
$6.00 (overseas)
The title of the journal comes from an ancient legend which tells of Aoife who was transformed into a crane by her husband Manannan, god of the sea, as punishment for having stolen the secret alphabet by means of which he ruled over Ireland. She overcame the obstacles of that punishment and her repression by carrying the alphabet in a bag and communicating it to the Irish people by suspending the container in the sea. When the tide was full the secrets were visible. Thus Aoife made sure her voice was heard despite having been silenced.
This, the sixth issue of The Crane Bag focuses on the subject of woman in Ireland with particular reference t o the image she presents in society and whether that image is at variance with how she was seen in the past and how she would like to be seen in the 1980s.
The issue is broadly divided into two sections. The first dwells upon the significance of woman in early Irish literature and tradition and explores her role in the Church and State. The second part is primarily concerned with understanding the Cvork of women artists and writers and the image of women which certain male artists, such as Joyce and Brian Moore, portray .
Irish Women's Diary and Guide Book
Irish Feminist Information
45 Elmwood Avenue,
Ranelagh,
Dublin 6, Ireland, £ 1.99 (plus post).
The main emphasis of the diary this year is on health issues, with sections on the drug industry, medical profession and role of the government, the health service, women's work inside and outside the home, the reproductive cycle, violence against women, mental health, food and health, common health disorders and natural remedies, self help, child care and maternity leave, and many other sections. An important resource on health, as well as being a useful diary
Feminist Review
14 Summer BIdg.
Summer Street
London SEI, U.K.
£2 (US$5) per copy. Annual sub: U.K. £4.50 (£10.00 institutions); overseas surface mail £5.50 (institutions Europe £12, elsewhere £12.50); airmail Europe £7.50 (institutions Europe £13), elsewhere £9 (institutions £18).
Published three times a year by a collective of women based in London, with help from women and groups all over the country. Feminist Review is a journal "to develop the theory of women's liberation and to debate the political perspectives and strategy of the movement. It is to be a forum for work in progress and current research and debates in women's studies". No. 2 (1979) for instance, contains articles on women and the Cuban Revolution, matriarchy study group papers, and feminism, femininity and the Hayward Annual Exhibition. Good bibliography with each article.
asia
Manushi
cl/202, Lajpat Nagar
New Delhi-110024 India
c/o Madhu Kishwar
write for India rates
other than India rates:
US$15.00 individual
US$21.00 institutions
please add $1 if paying by check.
Manushi is a feminist journal published in Hindi and English editions by a collective of Indian women. A recent issue of Manushi (May-June 1980) carried reviews of books and films, poems, a survey report entitled 'The Media Game — Modernizing Oppression, a Report on the Big Business of 'Women's Magazines'"; and an article on Pandita Ramabai, a pioneer of the women's rights movement in modern India.
A large part of Manushi focuses on reports by women who recount stories of abuse (rape, murder, beatings) which either they themselves have experienced or which they have made a point of investigating in order that the occurrence not be successfully "hushed up".
An excellent source of information on the women's movement in India, see elsewhere in this bulletin for an excerpt.
International
Women's Employment
L'Emploi des Femmes
El empleo de las mujeres
International Labour Office
Geneva. 1980
Nine articles in a pull-out pack are short, new-story type presentations on different aspects of persistent inequality between men and women workers. Indeed, this is a press kit prepared for the Copenhagen Conference on Women (July 1980). The articles deal with protective legislation for women workers — a safeguard or discrimination ?; women's double workload; discrimination in employment opportunities for women; women in Eastern Europe; Latin America, China and India. A handy data pack which gives some nice statistics. In English, French or Spanish free from the ILO, Geneva, Switzerland.
CHANGE International Reports
Parnell House
25 Wilton Road
London SW1W 1 LW
CHANGE International Reports inform on the condition and status of women all over the world; they aim to reflect change, analysing its impact on the roles and lives of women, and to improve women's status and recognition. In this optic, for instance, the issue of September '80, by Khin Thitsa, -Providence and Prostitution : image and reality for women in Buddhist Thai — reports on women's condition in Thailand. The country is described as "having suffered modernisation without development" : so, the Thai woman, seen in Buddhist Tradition as "soft and passive", but also as "temptress", had nothing to gain by the superposing of the western female stereotype brought, in recent years, by contacts with USA Gl-men. A local proverb says : "man is paddy, women is rice". Since rice is to be consumed, prostitution in Thailand became an institution, widely advertised and exploited in western magazines and by western travel agencies. Interesting and useful to consult, particularly because of extensive bibliography.
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