Herland Newsletter : Sept. 1984
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- Herland Newsletter : Sept. 1984
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- The Herland Newsletter is the monthly publication of Herland Sister Resources, a womanist organization with a strong lesbian focus based in Oklahoma City.
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herland new letter
September 1984
a publication of Herland Bookstore, 1630 N.W. 19th Oklahoma City 73106
NATIVE AMERICAN WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN SHELTER _
al issues including holistic health, myths,
cultural values on family, peace ·
and time.
"There aren't a lot of Native Americans in
the shelters," Denman said. 11 In a traditional setting I have worked as an intake worker
and have had 20 minutes allotted to assign a
therapist. I have also worked in a non-traditional setting doing outreach to rural areas
and counseling on reservations. There, you
enter their schedule and your client may not
move at that pace."
"I believe in accomodation, 11 Denman said,
"and my environment is me. When a client
comes into my office they see rugs,-feathers,
beads and we may talk about t hat bef or e f illing out forms. As an Indian I don 1 t as k for
names first. I ask, ~here are you fr om and
what tribe are you from. I can usually tell
whether a client is traditional or progressive. I ask them where they are spiritually.
All these things will help me in counseling
and connecting them with other resources in
the community. 11
Especially important is whether a client
speaks another language and which came first,
according to Denman. If a clients first language is Ojibiwa, their thinking process will
be in Ojibiwa. In therapy, when you get on an
unconscious level, you may lose 30% of what's
being exchanged, Denman said.
"The symptoms of domest1c violence for Indians
are similar to . that of any other culture, but
what led up to it and what happens after is
different." Denman said.
"Searching for Solutions" is sponsored by the
Oklahoma Coalition on Domestic Violence and
Sexual Assault and the University of Oklahoma
Women!s Studies Program. The conference is
from 12:00 noon Thunsday, November 1 to 3:00
p.m. Saturday, November 3, 1984~ Members of
the OCDVSA may register for $15~00; non-members may register for $35.00; membership to
the OCDVSA is $15.00. Scholarships are available. Child ~are will be provided at no extra
charge. The conference is accessible to the
handicapped and sign language interpreters
will be provided.
·
comp~rative
The main difference in providing social services to people of other cultures than the
m?jor culture in this country is style, according to Kathy Denman, Coordinator of the
Indian Health Board Family Violence Program,
Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Denman is one of 38 presenters at Oklahoma's
first state-wide conference on domestic violence arid sexual assault, 11 Searching for Solutions.11 The conference is November 1-3, 1984,
at the Oklahoma Center for Continuing Education, Norman.
-"In styie, the way people process things,
communication can break down between different cultures, 11 Denman said in a telephone
interview. 11 As a therapist, I try to make the
services fit the client. Otherwise, they may
think there's something wrong with them if
they d6n't fit the services.~
According to a Black woman who is a member of
the minority task force for the Minnesota
Coalition on Domestic Violence, Blacks use a
more confrontive style, more up in the face.
That's the way they communicate, Denman explained.
"Native Americans are indirect," Denman said,
"and withdrawn into a slower pace and life- ·
style. An intake worker in a shelter for battered women needs to know that women from
different cultures have different reactions
and needs. Poverty, oppression, mistrust of
social services in general, confrontation with
intellectualism, (an example might be when a
therapist is explaining the cycle of violence
theory at a time whan the client is primarily
concerned with her five kids and feeding them)
creates barriers for the Indian woman who is
seeking a safe space and counseling. 11
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Denman will be presenting two workshops at
"Searching for Solutions. 11 In "A History of
Indian Victimization," she will describe
American history from a different perspective
to provide an understanding of how Indian values affect service provision to the Indian
community. 11 A Cultural Awareness of Indians 11
will nelp non-Indians understand basic cultur-
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cont. from p. 1
The pre-registration deadline is October 19.
Please mail checks payable to OCDVSA Conference, Central Registration Services, 1700 Asp
Avenue, Norman, OK 73037. Add $5.00 for onsite registration.
F~r additional information, contact the Women's
St~dies Program, University of Oklahoma, 601
Elm St., Room #530,. Norman, OK 73019, (405)
325-3481.
"Searching for Solutions" is funded by a grant
from the Chicago Resource Center.
A WOMEN'S COFFEEHOUSE AGAIN?
YES!
·year. Planning meetings have already begun
for the 2nd (and we hope annual) Women in
Film Festival.
The Women Artists League itself is open to
all people who support the continued growth
of Woman's creativity in whatever way it
manifests itself. WAL is currently having a
membership drive. Memberships are $2.50 for
students and $5.00 for non-students, The
money goes to fund WAL events. Such events
in the past have .included · pot-luck supp~rs,
Guest Artists and Talks on Women's Art History.
For more information call Teresa at 325-3481
or Michelle at 321-8220.
Herland Sister Resources is proud to announce
the return of the "coffeehouses" to be held
the last Friday of each month at Herland Bookstore.
Mary Black and Susan Morgan will be the fea· tured entertainment for the first event, at
8:00 p.m. Friday, September 28, 1984.
Be there!
. NORMAN · WOMEN'S COMMUNITY NEWS
The good news this month is: Two Oklahoma University student organizations who sponsor
co11111unity events are back and planning to keep
up the good work. ·
The first, and oldest of the two groups (since
1976) is the Women's Studies Student Association.
The fr annual event, the Take Back the Night
March, will be expanded this fall into a weeklong series of seminars, workshops and street
theatre, culminating in .the rally and march.
They are also planning a Die-In as a protest
to the Nuclear Arms Race. More information
later on specifics of time arid place.
If you are interested in joining the Women's
Studies Student Association (open to non-students and students alike), and/or if you wish
to lend your help, support and participation
to their events, you can contact Teresa at
325-3481 or 321-8220.
The second organization returning to community
service is the Women Artists League (WAL). In
conjunction with the Women's Studies Student
Association (WSSA) they ~lanned and executed
the Women in Film Festival last spring. It was
such a success, boasting film series, speakers;
workshops, an art exhibition and poetry per~
formance, that WAL will be doing it again this
t~r~IUtf
WORKSHOPS FROM THE SUPPORT CENTER OF OKC
In September and October the Support Center
is offering six workshops in Lawton, Oklahoma City and Tulsa: Marketing and Public
Relations for the Organization of the 80 1 s,
Newsletters and Brochures~ Planning and Production, Private Foundation Research: Where
and How {o Find Funders, Grant Proposal
Writing, The Fund Raising Organization:
Planning and Organizing to Rai~e Money in
Your Community, and Asking for Support:
Tested Fund Raising Techniques.
Fees are $44,00 full day with lunch; $20.00 ·
half day without lunch. Write them at 525
·N.W. 13th, Oklahoma City, OK 73103 or call
'(405) 236-8133 for scheduling information.
A REVIEW BY TERESA D. LONG
My Sister's Hand in Mine: The Collected Works
of Jane Bowles. New York: Ecco Press. c. 1970
Jane Bowles. What do you say about the work .
or the person of Ja·ne. Bowles? That she was a
truant, eccentric writer of genius? A lover
and a walker on the tightrope of wild-life in
a dying culture? Yes. · Yes, you could say those
things, and, in fact, I will. Here are some
of the strange facts of Bowle's life: she was
~ c~ippled gypsy who wandered across Europe
and Northern Africa stunning society with her ·
marvelous stories and eccentric habits; she
was a writer who married a fellow writer, who
- lived with him and an Alerian witch in Algiers;
a writer whom Truman Capote, in his introduc~
tion to this edition of her work, called 11 that
. modern 1egend. 11 Whew! ·
Now let's proceed to her writings as collected
in this Ecco press edition. They consist of
one novel (Two Serious Ladies), one play (l..!:!.
.the Summer House) and 13 short stories. They
are as witty, as penetrating (pardon the expression) and as incandescent as you might
imagine such a person would write. The work
deals almost exclusively with women as Bowles
experienced them in all their enigma, wonder
and delight. The most dazzljng thing for me
about Bowle's work is the unbelievable situations her women get themselves into, merely by
· being -:curious and responsive to their environments. The psychological intricacies of human
behavior and the inexplicable workings of circumstances are .sardonically woven into plots
which are simultaneously tragic and hilariously funny. This is no mean task for a writer.
Of the works in the collection I most highly
recommend the novel, and the short stories:
"P.hin Pleassures: "Everything is Nice;'uA Day
in the O~en"and most especially,ttCamp Cataract:
This last story has one of the most unexpected
endings of all time. Until you get to it, you
have ho idea you're going to find out what
.
you find out. Its truly magi~~ This collection,
fine as it is, is made a classic by this one
piece alone. Try it .ciut for an evening of fun,
fantasy and revelation.
(to prohibit discrimination by schools that
receive federal funding) and other things
like ••• job openings:
The Oklahoma City Fire Department is actively ·
seeking applications for female fire fighters
duririg the first two weeks in September. Contact John Parasich, OKC Fire Training Center,
.850 N. Portland, 947-0771. Annual salary after
1 year, &17,434 (for only 10 working days per
month)
.LESBIAN SUPPORT GROUP MEETS
Herland Si~ter · Resources is proud to announce
the beginning of a Lesbian Support Group,
facilitated by psychologist Cassia Mealor.
Topics to be discussed will be decided by
the participants.
The first meeting is Thursday, September 13,
at 7:00 p.m. at Herland Bookstore (1630 N.W.
19th at Blackwelder). The session fee is ·$5.
per person and is payable at that time.
Call Mealor if you have any questions at
524-3017. (Due to a possible la ck of seating,
you may want to bring something to sit on.)
WOMEN: LET'S GET TOGETHER PROFESSIONALLY
The Oklahoma City Women's Political Caucus
is promoting the publication of The Woman's
- Directory to put women in touch with each
other in work-related needs as well as professional and home needs.
Mail your listings now, $20.; more than one
category listing, $15. each. The deadline is
· September 25 so that publication will be mid
November and sales for Christmas buyers.
Choose your choice of listing category; alphabetically by first or last name or company
name.
Woman's Directory, OKC Women's Political
Caucus, P.O. Box 25212, OKC, OK 73125 or call
Linda at 942-5892.
AN EVENING WITH CAROL CASSELL
Men fail to . recognize that seduction to a
woman is not only a step on the way to an
erotic encounter but a confirmation that the
"Gender Gap" film featured by NOW
encounter is special. And women don't realize
that men aren'.t aware of this. 11 from Swept
The next OKC NOW meeting will screen the "Gen.:..
Awa~: \~h~ Women Fear Their Own Sexuality, by
der Gap" and discuss the support of local canCar-01 Cassell, Ph.D., 1984.
didates, Wednesday, September 12, at 7:00 p.m. .
. .
.
at the Oklahoma Blood Institute, 1001 N. Lincoln. Planned Parenthood Assoc1at1on of OKC is span.
soring a reception for Cassell and speech,
NOW can keep you posted on when and where the
"Why Women Confuse Love and Sex, 11 Fri day,
Mondale/Ferraro campaign headquarters is set
September 14, 6:00 p.m. at the Kirkpatrick
up; the status of the Civil Rights Act of 1984
Center. Call Arna at 528-0221 for more info.
11
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ITEMS OF INTEREST
Long after Sigmund Freud posed the question,
11
What do women want? 11 psychoana lys i sts sti 11
don't have the answer. Or at least that seemed
to be the case at the 73rd annual meeting of _
the American Psychoanalytic Association, held
in San Diego, CA. Where one doctor said: 11 The
riddle remains a riddle. 11
· (esbianism is one issue that seemed to be especially baffling to the analysists, who have
come up with a variety of theories on the origins of female homosexuality. One conference
attendee, Dr. Martha Kirkpatrick of Los Angeles
said the controversy over the competing theories is 11 stimulating, 11 but added, 11 it hardly
·allows one to feel secure that psychoanalysis
has a clear understanding of female sexual
development. 11
Kirkpatrick has done her own study of divorced
mothers, both heterosexual and lesbian, and
now theorizes that sexual preference in women
is most closely linked with a desire for emotional intimacy. She notes . lesbian mothers
reported that lack of closeness broke up their
marriages, while heterosexual mothers left .
their partners for reasons like alcoholism or
abuse.
(Her Say)
Margaret Cruikshank's lawsuit was settled
out of court on February 1, 1984. The University of San Francisco agreed to purge her
personnel file of all derogatory statements,
including, most significantly, the letter
saying she had been fired in December 1980
for malfeasance. She agreed to secrecy about
the financial settlement reached by her lawyers. and the 1awyers for the university. The
judge said she could not even characterize
the settlement. She is very pleased to have
avoided the trial, scheduled for February 6,
because her lesbianism had been an issue
during depositions in June 1983, and she did
not feel confident that a jury, even in San
Francisco, would return a fair verdict. Also,
the lawyers for USF told her lawyers that if
they lost a jury trial, they would appeal the
decision.
According to information from the Boston ·
Her~ld provided by th~ Rape C~isis Project
of the Women's Center in New Bedford, MA,
the victim of l.ast year's gang rape At :Bi g
Dan's bar has been forced to f l ee :her . home.
11
There was a fifth sentence in this case, 11
lawyer Scott Charnas told the Herald reporter
11 Life in exile for my client. 11 _
_ _
Harassment of both the woman and her extended
11
Veterans in Rochester, NY cancelled the city's family;11 the sight of tens of thousands of
116 annual Memorial Day parade rather than
people marching
to protest sentencing of the
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allow a women's peace group to march with them. rapists; and Linsubstantiated rumors" that
nwe don't want to play ball . ~ith them~ so we
people were taking up collections to hire an
pick up our ball and go home," said Michael
a~s~ssin all contributed t~ th~ woman's decision to flee, Charnas
. said.
- All she wanted
.
Dany l ys hyn, th e para de mars ha 1• Th e women, he
added, want to use the~arade for political gain.to do was take part in the proce~s, testify!
rhe group, Rochester Women 1 s Action for Peace,
and then r~turn to as no~ma'. a li~e as 11 possihad asked to march at the back of the parade
ble .. Unfortunately, that s impossible.
carrying banners; distributing leaflets and
.In mid-March, the woman, whose n~me had begiving away ballo.ons saying 11Teach Peace11 as a come known th~oughout the comm~nity, packed
way of memorializing the nation 1 s war dead.
up h~r two children and left.w~thout.a for11our group stands for curtailing the nation's
warding address. The Rape Crisis ProJect has
· military, not the nation 1 s defense, 11 said Hyla
set up~ Jane Doe fund to help pay for her
Sandgrund, a member of the peace group 11 We have relocation. T~ey may be reached at the New
enough weapons to destroy this planet.••
Bedford Women s Center, 252 Country St., New
Danylyshyn said the women wanted to use the
Bedford, MA 02740.
pa·rade to make po 1iti ca 1 statements contrary to
the veterans• philosophy.
Thanks to supporters who raised $30,000 to
11
They are strange, in a sense, that they do
make
sure it survived last year's arson
11
look different from other ladies that I know,
attack,
the Toronto Women's Bookstore was
Danylyshyn said of the women.
able
to
celebrate
its tenth anniversary in
City officials have said that according to an
11 beautiful new home. 11 The Body Politic
a
earlier decision, the vetetans could not hold
reports that bookstore fans packed a grand
the parade if they excluded the women.
opening at 73 Harbord Street, only a few
doors away from the building in which the
bookstore and the Morgenthaler abortion
clinic were housed before the firebombing
last July.
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IT'S AVAILABLE
. Women on the Job: Careers in the Electronic
Media, is a 31-page booklet describing carLavendar Horizons presents The People vs. The
eer possibilities in all aspects of ·the
.
Ku Klux.K~an, a stfrring 45 mi~ute slide tape
broadcast industry. Listed are more than 90
. by Patricia A. Gozemba and Marilyn L. Humphries occupations as well as sources for the securcreators of Woman-Lovirig Woman, documenting
ing of information on education, training
over a century of brave stories of resistance
and job placement. Free from the Women's
to the Ku Klux Klan. The production captures
Bureau, US Dept. of Labor, 200 Constitution
the stories of Fredrick Douglass, Ida B. Wells- Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20210
Barnett, W.E.B. Du Bois, Mary Church Terrell,
Mothers' Home Business Network: A Support
Jesse Daniel Ames, . Lillian Smith, Anne and Carl
System for Mothers Who Work From Home assists
Braden, Patrick O'Donnell, The · G~eerisboro 5 ·
.mothers
who choose home ·as their workplace.
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The Feminist Therapy Institute, Inc. is a new
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its first ti.t .1es: C1/entcis: Stori€s by ' Lat'inas
New titles from Sp1nsters Ink: Winter Passa9e
edited by Alma ,Gomez,·,cherri'e Moraga, and Mara ndvel by Judith McDaniel (native Oklahoman)
iana Romo-'carmo'na; Home GirlS: A. Brack ·Feminis set in Vermont in the 1970's. It's about
ist Antholo9·i~ edi~ed by Barbanr "Smith; .Narthe intersection of three women's lives, one a
ratives: Poems in ' the Tradition ' of BlackWomen
poet, one a painter, two are mothers, one diby Cheryl Clarke. This Bridge Called My Back:
vorced, one married, one a lesbian: We Didn~t
Writings of Radical Wome·n of Col or, ed itedby
Have .Much But We Sure Had Plenty, by Sherry
Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua is again .
Tflomas, a collection · of first person stories,
available.
based on interviews with farm women aged 45.
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90 from across America. Forthcoming in the
:Yours in Strug9le: Three Feminist Perspectives
fall: Here's· the Good News: Lesbians and Sex,
On Anti~Semitism and Racism, written by Elly
by Joann Gardner Loulan, a warm ana affirming
Bulkin, Minnie Bruce Pratt and Barbara Smith
book, exploring couple relationships, initiat- . is now available from Long Hall Press. Also
ing, :orgasm, taking responsibility for sexuality, available is The Women Who Hate Me, poems by
sexual misinformation, and other related topics; Dorothy Allison.
Also forthcoming, The Highest Apple, three
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essays
and It's Time: A Nuclear
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Novel, by
by Judy
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L. Bluejay.
BOOKS FOR THE FALL OF '84
New from Crossing Press, Sister Outsider,
and Speeches, by Audre Larde. This colTecffon contains fourteen essays and speeches,
several of them published for the first time,
that span almost a decade of her work. Included
are "Poetry is Not a Luxury, 11 11 Man Child: A
Black Lesbian Feminist's Response, 11 "Uses of
11
the Erotic: The Erotic as Power,11 "Eye to Eye:
Black Women, Hatred, and Anger, and others.
And, New Lesbian Writing, an anthology edited
by Margaret Cruikshank, includes poetry and
prose by 35 women and bibliography of recent
lesbian literature. Published by Grey Fox Press.
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Forthcoming in the fall from New Feminist Library
When .. Biology Became Destiny: Women in \~eimar
and Nazi Germany, edited by Renate Bridenthal,
Atina Grossman and Marion Kaplan.
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New upcoming titles frdm Naiad Press in the
fall: Katherine Forrest's third book, Amateur
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~' Jane Rule's The Young in One Another s
Arms, Sarah Schulman's The Sophie Horowitz
The. Feminist Press, which in 1981 re-issued
Paule Marshall's 1959 classic Brown Girl,
Brownstones, has just published Marshall's
newest collection of short stories, Reena and
Other Stories.
Pure Lust: Elemental Feminist.Philosoph,t, by
Mary Daly, published by Beacon Press, is a sister book to Gyn/Ecologt in Which she affirms
the institutions and t e vision of those of us
who have an axe to grind. With language that
is philosophical, poetic, playful, she puts into words what we've sensed all of our lives and
she expands our knowing and our naming as we are
taken further on the gyn/ecological voyage
through the "country of the strange." She suggests a double-sided nature for Pure ~ust which
she uses to reflect both the deadly dispassion
of patriarchal malevolence and evil which
breaks female be-ing and the vigorous, wonder/
wanderlusti1ng pure passion of journeying women.
Homripho~ia and Education: How
Name-Callin~, a special issue
'StOry.
to Deal With
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Books for C ildren Bulletin (Vol" 14~ no. 3
and 4) on homophobia, edited by Leonore Gordon. Articles by Barbara Smith ("Homophobia:
Why Bring it Up?"), Letty Cottin Progrebin
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Free Children"), Audre Larde ("There is No
Hierarchy of Oppressions"), Jan Goodman C'Out
of the Closet, but Paying the Price"), Leonore
Gordon ("What Do We Say ~~hen We Hear "Faggot"
?"), as well as bibliographies, resources and
lesson plans are included~ Single copies $3.50
from Council on Interracial Books for Children
1841 Broadway, New York, NY 10023.
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herland new letter
September 1984
a publication of Herland Bookstore, 1630 N.W. 19th Oklahoma City 73106
NATIVE AMERICAN WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN SHELTER _
al issues including holistic health, myths,
cultural values on family, peace ·
and time.
"There aren't a lot of Native Americans in
the shelters," Denman said. 11 In a traditional setting I have worked as an intake worker
and have had 20 minutes allotted to assign a
therapist. I have also worked in a non-traditional setting doing outreach to rural areas
and counseling on reservations. There, you
enter their schedule and your client may not
move at that pace."
"I believe in accomodation, 11 Denman said,
"and my environment is me. When a client
comes into my office they see rugs,-feathers,
beads and we may talk about t hat bef or e f illing out forms. As an Indian I don 1 t as k for
names first. I ask, ~here are you fr om and
what tribe are you from. I can usually tell
whether a client is traditional or progressive. I ask them where they are spiritually.
All these things will help me in counseling
and connecting them with other resources in
the community. 11
Especially important is whether a client
speaks another language and which came first,
according to Denman. If a clients first language is Ojibiwa, their thinking process will
be in Ojibiwa. In therapy, when you get on an
unconscious level, you may lose 30% of what's
being exchanged, Denman said.
"The symptoms of domest1c violence for Indians
are similar to . that of any other culture, but
what led up to it and what happens after is
different." Denman said.
"Searching for Solutions" is sponsored by the
Oklahoma Coalition on Domestic Violence and
Sexual Assault and the University of Oklahoma
Women!s Studies Program. The conference is
from 12:00 noon Thunsday, November 1 to 3:00
p.m. Saturday, November 3, 1984~ Members of
the OCDVSA may register for $15~00; non-members may register for $35.00; membership to
the OCDVSA is $15.00. Scholarships are available. Child ~are will be provided at no extra
charge. The conference is accessible to the
handicapped and sign language interpreters
will be provided.
·
comp~rative
The main difference in providing social services to people of other cultures than the
m?jor culture in this country is style, according to Kathy Denman, Coordinator of the
Indian Health Board Family Violence Program,
Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Denman is one of 38 presenters at Oklahoma's
first state-wide conference on domestic violence arid sexual assault, 11 Searching for Solutions.11 The conference is November 1-3, 1984,
at the Oklahoma Center for Continuing Education, Norman.
-"In styie, the way people process things,
communication can break down between different cultures, 11 Denman said in a telephone
interview. 11 As a therapist, I try to make the
services fit the client. Otherwise, they may
think there's something wrong with them if
they d6n't fit the services.~
According to a Black woman who is a member of
the minority task force for the Minnesota
Coalition on Domestic Violence, Blacks use a
more confrontive style, more up in the face.
That's the way they communicate, Denman explained.
"Native Americans are indirect," Denman said,
"and withdrawn into a slower pace and life- ·
style. An intake worker in a shelter for battered women needs to know that women from
different cultures have different reactions
and needs. Poverty, oppression, mistrust of
social services in general, confrontation with
intellectualism, (an example might be when a
therapist is explaining the cycle of violence
theory at a time whan the client is primarily
concerned with her five kids and feeding them)
creates barriers for the Indian woman who is
seeking a safe space and counseling. 11
!
Denman will be presenting two workshops at
"Searching for Solutions. 11 In "A History of
Indian Victimization," she will describe
American history from a different perspective
to provide an understanding of how Indian values affect service provision to the Indian
community. 11 A Cultural Awareness of Indians 11
will nelp non-Indians understand basic cultur-
..
cont. from p. 1
The pre-registration deadline is October 19.
Please mail checks payable to OCDVSA Conference, Central Registration Services, 1700 Asp
Avenue, Norman, OK 73037. Add $5.00 for onsite registration.
F~r additional information, contact the Women's
St~dies Program, University of Oklahoma, 601
Elm St., Room #530,. Norman, OK 73019, (405)
325-3481.
"Searching for Solutions" is funded by a grant
from the Chicago Resource Center.
A WOMEN'S COFFEEHOUSE AGAIN?
YES!
·year. Planning meetings have already begun
for the 2nd (and we hope annual) Women in
Film Festival.
The Women Artists League itself is open to
all people who support the continued growth
of Woman's creativity in whatever way it
manifests itself. WAL is currently having a
membership drive. Memberships are $2.50 for
students and $5.00 for non-students, The
money goes to fund WAL events. Such events
in the past have .included · pot-luck supp~rs,
Guest Artists and Talks on Women's Art History.
For more information call Teresa at 325-3481
or Michelle at 321-8220.
Herland Sister Resources is proud to announce
the return of the "coffeehouses" to be held
the last Friday of each month at Herland Bookstore.
Mary Black and Susan Morgan will be the fea· tured entertainment for the first event, at
8:00 p.m. Friday, September 28, 1984.
Be there!
. NORMAN · WOMEN'S COMMUNITY NEWS
The good news this month is: Two Oklahoma University student organizations who sponsor
co11111unity events are back and planning to keep
up the good work. ·
The first, and oldest of the two groups (since
1976) is the Women's Studies Student Association.
The fr annual event, the Take Back the Night
March, will be expanded this fall into a weeklong series of seminars, workshops and street
theatre, culminating in .the rally and march.
They are also planning a Die-In as a protest
to the Nuclear Arms Race. More information
later on specifics of time arid place.
If you are interested in joining the Women's
Studies Student Association (open to non-students and students alike), and/or if you wish
to lend your help, support and participation
to their events, you can contact Teresa at
325-3481 or 321-8220.
The second organization returning to community
service is the Women Artists League (WAL). In
conjunction with the Women's Studies Student
Association (WSSA) they ~lanned and executed
the Women in Film Festival last spring. It was
such a success, boasting film series, speakers;
workshops, an art exhibition and poetry per~
formance, that WAL will be doing it again this
t~r~IUtf
WORKSHOPS FROM THE SUPPORT CENTER OF OKC
In September and October the Support Center
is offering six workshops in Lawton, Oklahoma City and Tulsa: Marketing and Public
Relations for the Organization of the 80 1 s,
Newsletters and Brochures~ Planning and Production, Private Foundation Research: Where
and How {o Find Funders, Grant Proposal
Writing, The Fund Raising Organization:
Planning and Organizing to Rai~e Money in
Your Community, and Asking for Support:
Tested Fund Raising Techniques.
Fees are $44,00 full day with lunch; $20.00 ·
half day without lunch. Write them at 525
·N.W. 13th, Oklahoma City, OK 73103 or call
'(405) 236-8133 for scheduling information.
A REVIEW BY TERESA D. LONG
My Sister's Hand in Mine: The Collected Works
of Jane Bowles. New York: Ecco Press. c. 1970
Jane Bowles. What do you say about the work .
or the person of Ja·ne. Bowles? That she was a
truant, eccentric writer of genius? A lover
and a walker on the tightrope of wild-life in
a dying culture? Yes. · Yes, you could say those
things, and, in fact, I will. Here are some
of the strange facts of Bowle's life: she was
~ c~ippled gypsy who wandered across Europe
and Northern Africa stunning society with her ·
marvelous stories and eccentric habits; she
was a writer who married a fellow writer, who
- lived with him and an Alerian witch in Algiers;
a writer whom Truman Capote, in his introduc~
tion to this edition of her work, called 11 that
. modern 1egend. 11 Whew! ·
Now let's proceed to her writings as collected
in this Ecco press edition. They consist of
one novel (Two Serious Ladies), one play (l..!:!.
.the Summer House) and 13 short stories. They
are as witty, as penetrating (pardon the expression) and as incandescent as you might
imagine such a person would write. The work
deals almost exclusively with women as Bowles
experienced them in all their enigma, wonder
and delight. The most dazzljng thing for me
about Bowle's work is the unbelievable situations her women get themselves into, merely by
· being -:curious and responsive to their environments. The psychological intricacies of human
behavior and the inexplicable workings of circumstances are .sardonically woven into plots
which are simultaneously tragic and hilariously funny. This is no mean task for a writer.
Of the works in the collection I most highly
recommend the novel, and the short stories:
"P.hin Pleassures: "Everything is Nice;'uA Day
in the O~en"and most especially,ttCamp Cataract:
This last story has one of the most unexpected
endings of all time. Until you get to it, you
have ho idea you're going to find out what
.
you find out. Its truly magi~~ This collection,
fine as it is, is made a classic by this one
piece alone. Try it .ciut for an evening of fun,
fantasy and revelation.
(to prohibit discrimination by schools that
receive federal funding) and other things
like ••• job openings:
The Oklahoma City Fire Department is actively ·
seeking applications for female fire fighters
duririg the first two weeks in September. Contact John Parasich, OKC Fire Training Center,
.850 N. Portland, 947-0771. Annual salary after
1 year, &17,434 (for only 10 working days per
month)
.LESBIAN SUPPORT GROUP MEETS
Herland Si~ter · Resources is proud to announce
the beginning of a Lesbian Support Group,
facilitated by psychologist Cassia Mealor.
Topics to be discussed will be decided by
the participants.
The first meeting is Thursday, September 13,
at 7:00 p.m. at Herland Bookstore (1630 N.W.
19th at Blackwelder). The session fee is ·$5.
per person and is payable at that time.
Call Mealor if you have any questions at
524-3017. (Due to a possible la ck of seating,
you may want to bring something to sit on.)
WOMEN: LET'S GET TOGETHER PROFESSIONALLY
The Oklahoma City Women's Political Caucus
is promoting the publication of The Woman's
- Directory to put women in touch with each
other in work-related needs as well as professional and home needs.
Mail your listings now, $20.; more than one
category listing, $15. each. The deadline is
· September 25 so that publication will be mid
November and sales for Christmas buyers.
Choose your choice of listing category; alphabetically by first or last name or company
name.
Woman's Directory, OKC Women's Political
Caucus, P.O. Box 25212, OKC, OK 73125 or call
Linda at 942-5892.
AN EVENING WITH CAROL CASSELL
Men fail to . recognize that seduction to a
woman is not only a step on the way to an
erotic encounter but a confirmation that the
"Gender Gap" film featured by NOW
encounter is special. And women don't realize
that men aren'.t aware of this. 11 from Swept
The next OKC NOW meeting will screen the "Gen.:..
Awa~: \~h~ Women Fear Their Own Sexuality, by
der Gap" and discuss the support of local canCar-01 Cassell, Ph.D., 1984.
didates, Wednesday, September 12, at 7:00 p.m. .
. .
.
at the Oklahoma Blood Institute, 1001 N. Lincoln. Planned Parenthood Assoc1at1on of OKC is span.
soring a reception for Cassell and speech,
NOW can keep you posted on when and where the
"Why Women Confuse Love and Sex, 11 Fri day,
Mondale/Ferraro campaign headquarters is set
September 14, 6:00 p.m. at the Kirkpatrick
up; the status of the Civil Rights Act of 1984
Center. Call Arna at 528-0221 for more info.
11
. .
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Long after Sigmund Freud posed the question,
11
What do women want? 11 psychoana lys i sts sti 11
don't have the answer. Or at least that seemed
to be the case at the 73rd annual meeting of _
the American Psychoanalytic Association, held
in San Diego, CA. Where one doctor said: 11 The
riddle remains a riddle. 11
· (esbianism is one issue that seemed to be especially baffling to the analysists, who have
come up with a variety of theories on the origins of female homosexuality. One conference
attendee, Dr. Martha Kirkpatrick of Los Angeles
said the controversy over the competing theories is 11 stimulating, 11 but added, 11 it hardly
·allows one to feel secure that psychoanalysis
has a clear understanding of female sexual
development. 11
Kirkpatrick has done her own study of divorced
mothers, both heterosexual and lesbian, and
now theorizes that sexual preference in women
is most closely linked with a desire for emotional intimacy. She notes . lesbian mothers
reported that lack of closeness broke up their
marriages, while heterosexual mothers left .
their partners for reasons like alcoholism or
abuse.
(Her Say)
Margaret Cruikshank's lawsuit was settled
out of court on February 1, 1984. The University of San Francisco agreed to purge her
personnel file of all derogatory statements,
including, most significantly, the letter
saying she had been fired in December 1980
for malfeasance. She agreed to secrecy about
the financial settlement reached by her lawyers. and the 1awyers for the university. The
judge said she could not even characterize
the settlement. She is very pleased to have
avoided the trial, scheduled for February 6,
because her lesbianism had been an issue
during depositions in June 1983, and she did
not feel confident that a jury, even in San
Francisco, would return a fair verdict. Also,
the lawyers for USF told her lawyers that if
they lost a jury trial, they would appeal the
decision.
According to information from the Boston ·
Her~ld provided by th~ Rape C~isis Project
of the Women's Center in New Bedford, MA,
the victim of l.ast year's gang rape At :Bi g
Dan's bar has been forced to f l ee :her . home.
11
There was a fifth sentence in this case, 11
lawyer Scott Charnas told the Herald reporter
11 Life in exile for my client. 11 _
_ _
Harassment of both the woman and her extended
11
Veterans in Rochester, NY cancelled the city's family;11 the sight of tens of thousands of
116 annual Memorial Day parade rather than
people marching
to protest sentencing of the
11
allow a women's peace group to march with them. rapists; and Linsubstantiated rumors" that
nwe don't want to play ball . ~ith them~ so we
people were taking up collections to hire an
pick up our ball and go home," said Michael
a~s~ssin all contributed t~ th~ woman's decision to flee, Charnas
. said.
- All she wanted
.
Dany l ys hyn, th e para de mars ha 1• Th e women, he
added, want to use the~arade for political gain.to do was take part in the proce~s, testify!
rhe group, Rochester Women 1 s Action for Peace,
and then r~turn to as no~ma'. a li~e as 11 possihad asked to march at the back of the parade
ble .. Unfortunately, that s impossible.
carrying banners; distributing leaflets and
.In mid-March, the woman, whose n~me had begiving away ballo.ons saying 11Teach Peace11 as a come known th~oughout the comm~nity, packed
way of memorializing the nation 1 s war dead.
up h~r two children and left.w~thout.a for11our group stands for curtailing the nation's
warding address. The Rape Crisis ProJect has
· military, not the nation 1 s defense, 11 said Hyla
set up~ Jane Doe fund to help pay for her
Sandgrund, a member of the peace group 11 We have relocation. T~ey may be reached at the New
enough weapons to destroy this planet.••
Bedford Women s Center, 252 Country St., New
Danylyshyn said the women wanted to use the
Bedford, MA 02740.
pa·rade to make po 1iti ca 1 statements contrary to
the veterans• philosophy.
Thanks to supporters who raised $30,000 to
11
They are strange, in a sense, that they do
make
sure it survived last year's arson
11
look different from other ladies that I know,
attack,
the Toronto Women's Bookstore was
Danylyshyn said of the women.
able
to
celebrate
its tenth anniversary in
City officials have said that according to an
11 beautiful new home. 11 The Body Politic
a
earlier decision, the vetetans could not hold
reports that bookstore fans packed a grand
the parade if they excluded the women.
opening at 73 Harbord Street, only a few
doors away from the building in which the
bookstore and the Morgenthaler abortion
clinic were housed before the firebombing
last July.
0
IT'S AVAILABLE
. Women on the Job: Careers in the Electronic
Media, is a 31-page booklet describing carLavendar Horizons presents The People vs. The
eer possibilities in all aspects of ·the
.
Ku Klux.K~an, a stfrring 45 mi~ute slide tape
broadcast industry. Listed are more than 90
. by Patricia A. Gozemba and Marilyn L. Humphries occupations as well as sources for the securcreators of Woman-Lovirig Woman, documenting
ing of information on education, training
over a century of brave stories of resistance
and job placement. Free from the Women's
to the Ku Klux Klan. The production captures
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the stories of Fredrick Douglass, Ida B. Wells- Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20210
Barnett, W.E.B. Du Bois, Mary Church Terrell,
Mothers' Home Business Network: A Support
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Kitchen .Taqle .: . ~ome1,. .of.<Colqr ~ pre.s~ '.•ar:rnoupces
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New titles from Sp1nsters Ink: Winter Passa9e
edited by Alma ,Gomez,·,cherri'e Moraga, and Mara ndvel by Judith McDaniel (native Oklahoman)
iana Romo-'carmo'na; Home GirlS: A. Brack ·Feminis set in Vermont in the 1970's. It's about
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ratives: Poems in ' the Tradition ' of BlackWomen
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vorced, one married, one a lesbian: We Didn~t
Writings of Radical Wome·n of Col or, ed itedby
Have .Much But We Sure Had Plenty, by Sherry
Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua is again .
Tflomas, a collection · of first person stories,
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:Yours in Strug9le: Three Feminist Perspectives
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On Anti~Semitism and Racism, written by Elly
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Bulkin, Minnie Bruce Pratt and Barbara Smith
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sexual misinformation, and other related topics; Dorothy Allison.
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BOOKS FOR THE FALL OF '84
New from Crossing Press, Sister Outsider,
and Speeches, by Audre Larde. This colTecffon contains fourteen essays and speeches,
several of them published for the first time,
that span almost a decade of her work. Included
are "Poetry is Not a Luxury, 11 11 Man Child: A
Black Lesbian Feminist's Response, 11 "Uses of
11
the Erotic: The Erotic as Power,11 "Eye to Eye:
Black Women, Hatred, and Anger, and others.
And, New Lesbian Writing, an anthology edited
by Margaret Cruikshank, includes poetry and
prose by 35 women and bibliography of recent
lesbian literature. Published by Grey Fox Press.
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Forthcoming in the fall from New Feminist Library
When .. Biology Became Destiny: Women in \~eimar
and Nazi Germany, edited by Renate Bridenthal,
Atina Grossman and Marion Kaplan.
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Brownstones, has just published Marshall's
newest collection of short stories, Reena and
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Pure Lust: Elemental Feminist.Philosoph,t, by
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the institutions and t e vision of those of us
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