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Article: Humour played big part in early days of feminism
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- Sunday Star-Times
- Article date:
- May 31, 1998
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OUT of the ceiling came boxes of papers from my early days in
Women's Liberation, stored there nearly 20 years ago and not opened
since.
Bright-eyed academics are now re-interpreting the movement as
something it never was, criticising it for its narrowness. In the
media, feminism has been stigmatised as humourless and navel-
gazing.
What a different picture emerges from these old yellowing papers,
newsletters and posters. In Auckland, women's liberation groups had
links with the Progressive Youth Movement, Resistance Bookshop (the
first issues of Broadsheet were printed there), Polynesian Panthers
and Nga Tamatoa. There was a whole raft of local alternative
newspapers boasting names like ...