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a publication of Herland Bookstore , 1630 N. W. 19th Okahoma City 73106

GLORIA STEI NEM SPEAKS I N STILLWATER

Gfl.YLE MARIE IN CONCERT IN OKC

"Women of the 80s - The Second Wave , " is
the topic for a speech by Gloria Steinem ,
founder and editor of Ms . magazine .

Gayle Marie , singer, songwriter and
pianist , will appear at the Oklahoma Art
Center ' s Artsannex, May 18, 1984 .

Steinem will speak Wednesday , March 14 ,
1984, at 8 : 00 p.m . in the Seretean Center
on the OSU campus. An autograph part will
follow the speech .

Opening the concert will be Mary , Black .

Tickets are $5 ; student $3 and are available from NOW, box 904, 040, Student Union
or Women in Communications, 206 Paul Miller
Bldg., OSU . In Oklahoma City, NOW, P . O. Box
21538 , OKC 73156 ; and Herland Bookstore .
Sponsored by NOW , Women in Communications ,
College of Arts and Sciences , OSU

Tickets are $10 and include wine and
cheese , coffee and tea , light snacks.
Advance tickets will be available April
1 , 1984 , from Herland Bookstore .
WOMEN IN FILM FESTIVAL IN NORMAN
The "Women in Film Festival" will be
held at OU April 12 - 16 , 1984 . Admission is free and all events are open to
the public . A $2 donation is requested
to cover the expense of child care.

MONDALE ENDORSED BY NOW
For the first time in the National Organization for Women ' s history , they have
endorsed a presidential candidate . The
decision was based on several criteria:
stand on women ' s issues , placement of
women in his campaign , electibility and
the energy and determination of the Mondale
staff to receive NOW ' s endorsement .
It was " a clear indication of their (the
Mondale campaign) regard for the power of
the women's vote and for the political
impact they believe NOW can have on this
campaign," said Judy Goldsmith, president
of NOW.
CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY COUNSELOR AVAILABLE
"One of my goals as I began my private
practice , was not to duplicate services ,
but to recognize specific needs in the
overall continuum of care/recovery for
chemical dependency, " said Karen Weldin ,
M. A. , C .A . c·.
She has begun aftercare groups for women ;
also f or gay men and women. Write Coury
Cente r, 308, N. W. Expressway, OKC 7311 2
or call (405) 842- 2423 for information.

Barbara Hammer , San Francisco , Gaylon
Emerzian , Chicago , and Deborah Rizzo ,
New York are the featured filmmakers .
They will be conducting workshops on
spirituality and filmmaking , Hollywood
film , studio and editing techniques, the
money chase , what is feminist film .
Other wo r kshop presenters are Dr . Carole
Hardeman , Jeanne Hollenbeck , Dr . Joanna
Rapf, and Kaiya Montaocean. Festival
events include an art exhibition , "Seeing
Women ," and poetry performance by Rizzo,
the Third Wave Group ; Terry Hauptman ,
Barbara Cleveland and Montaocean .
Over thirty films will be shown including
topics on Women of Color , mothering , disability , peace , health, aging , unions,
Lesbians , avante garde , documentary , video .
For pre- registration and information write
or call Women Artists' League , c/o Women's
Studies Program , 601 Elm St ., Room #530 ,
Norman , OK 73019, (405) 325- 3481 .
Sponsored by the Women Artists' League,
Women's Studies Student Association , Big
Red Art Club and Gri lle, Spe akers Bureau ,
Campus Film Series, OU

SPOUSAL RAPE LAW PASSES OK SENATE
Only in Oklahoma is a wife unable to seek
legal regress if she is raped by her hus band. The Oklahoma Senate voted recently
to make rape within marriage a criminal
act. The bill will go to the House of
Representatives for approval .
CALL FOR CENTRAL AMERICA WEEK
We need your voice for poetry readings
and music together in struggle . Call
Terry Hauptman at 364-3776 .
Central America Week is March 18 - 25 .
The poetry reading is Friday, March 23,
at 7:30 p ; m. in Dale Hall, Rm . 200, OU

'HERLAND NOW CARRIES NEWSPAPERS

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and is a lively source of news items of interest to lesbians ... a one-of-akind compilation of data covering the entire spectrum of contemporary
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-MAGAZINES FOR LIBRARIES

LESBIAN RAP GROUP STARTS IN NORMAN
If you're interested in attending a
Lesbian Rap Group, call 364-7522 .

COMING SOON

PLEXUS

HOLLY NEAR IN CONCERT IN FAYETTEVILLE
Holly Near, Redwood recording artists of
women '·s music from Oakland, California,
will appear in Fayetteville, Arkansas on
the University of Arkansas campus April
6, 1984.
1984 NATIONAL WOMEN ' S MUSIC FESTIVAL
The National Women's Music Festival will
be held in Bloomington, Indiana, May 2427. For information write : WIA/NWMF,
P . O. Box 5217, Bloomington, IN 47402
CAMPFEST '84
Campfest will be held in Alloway , New
Jersey over Memorial Day weekend (May
25-28) . The night stage will feature
nationally known musicians and the day
stage will provide ~ showcase of regional tanent o Campfest also presents a
recreational slant with volleyball, a
recreational room and movies . For more
information write: Campfest '84, P . O.
Box 30381, Philadelphia, PA 19103 .
Enclose SASE
NOTE - Gayle Marie will be at the NWMF
and Campfest . Let's catch her here in
Oklahoma City first!

( SAN FRANCISCO BAY AMA W OMEN'S NEWSPAPER )

SOJOURNER

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Opinions, and the Arts
"An unusually handsome and intelligentlywritten journal: serious, responsible, and
stimulating. "
-Adrienne Rich
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written and designed, and open to all points
10/view."
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ourl3th year
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poetry readings , coffeehouses ,
films/video showings, speakers,
slide shows . We work with other
individuals and organizations
to provide our community with
cultural and educational programs . We will be happy to talk
with you about your ideas and
can assist you with development ,
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HERLAND is a women ' s space , a
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Olivia , Lima Bean , Terrapin , Even
Keel , Women ' s Wax Works , Freedom ' s
Music , Sea Friends Records .

HERLAND also carries beautiful
jewelry and leather crafted by
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posters , t-shirts , postcards ,
photography , pottery, buttons &
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HERLAND is open Saturda y from
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HER LAND
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GROWING
LENDING
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FICTION

Aldridge, Sarah

OUTLANDER

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Outlander

by Jane Rule
All True Lovers
13 stories, 12 essays ~ssays
Cytherea s Breath
Madame Aurora
$6.95
224 pp.
JANE RULE
Tottie
ISBN 0-930044-17-7
Atwood, Margaret
Lady Oracle
More than 9,000 copies in print just three months after its
release. Outlander has been lavishly priased by all. Here
Life Before Man
are a few comments about this wonderful book:
Auel, Jean M.
The Clan of the Cave Bear
"Her accumulation of rough and fine distinctions has cohered
Austen, Jane
Emma
into extraordinary art."
- Barbara Baracks
Boucher, Sandy
The Notebooks of Leni Clare
Village Voice
Brown, Rosellen
The Autobiography of My Mother
"Both
stories
and
essays
share
a
clarity
of
thought
and clean
Cameron, Anne
The Journey
prose style that Rule backs up with compassion and complexChopin, Kate
The Awakening
ity. Outlander is a treat for all women."
- Robin Morgan
Cross, Amanda
The James Joyce Murder
MS Magazine
Douglas, Carol Anne
To the Cleveland Station
Lovers in the Present Afternoon "Jane Rule is a superb writer."
Joyce Bright I
Fleming, Kathleen
Mom, Guess What!
Forest Katherine V.
Curious Wine
".. . intelligence, clarity, restraint and good sense ."
Daughters of a Coral Dawn
- Library Journal
French, Marilyn
The Bleeding Heart
''The essays in this nonfiction/fict ion doubledecker keyed to •
The Women s Room
the lesbian image are short, to the point, admonitory, unabashedly clubby ... Among lesbian writings these are disGapen, Jane
Something Not Yet Ended . ..
_ Kirkus
tinctly more worthy of attention than most."
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins Herl and
Glasgow, Ell en
Barren Ground
The Company of Women
\ Fordan, Mary
Grumbach, Doris
Chamber Music
China Men
Kingston, Maxine Hong
Dusty Answer
Lehmann, Rosamond
Lessing, Doris
Briefing For a Descent Into Hell
The Marquise
The Memoirs of a Survivor
The Summer Before the Dark
and the Novice
Lynch, Lee
Toothpick House
by Victoria Ramstetter
Miner, Valerie
Movement
$4.95
ISBN 0-930044-16-99
Morgan, Claire
The Price of Salt
The first Lesbian Gothic! The romance and drama of the
Munro, Alice
Lives of Girls and Women
Gothic novel, wi.th one slight difference . . . the perspective is feminist and there is an all-Lesbian cast.
The Bell Jar
Plath, Sylvia
The Marquise and the Novice
Ramstetter, Victoria
Rule, Jane
Against the Season
Contract With the World
Outlander
This Is Not For You
Prism
Scott , Jane
Wives Who Love Women
by Valerie Taylor
The Formal Voice
Shelnutt, Eve
The Black and White Of It
Shockley, Ann Allen
168pp.
$6.95
Daughters of Earth
Smedley, Agnes
ISBN 0-930044-18-5
Bones and Kim
Strongin, Lynn
Love Stories By New Women
Swansea, Charleen, ed .
Valerie Taylor, autlwr of countless Lesbian paperback
classics including her earlier NAIAD title Love Image (to
Prism
Taylor, Valerie
be reprinted later this year) brings us a marvelous view of I
Return To Lesbos
women in their retirement y£ars in Prism.
A World Without Men
'Who said 'life begins at 40'7 For Eldora it began at 60,
A Woman Appeared To Me
Vivien, Renee
when she met Ann, a closeted dyke who had retired from
her job and traded the hustle of big city life for the solitude
Warner, Sylvia Townsend Lo 11 y Wi11 owes
of a small town to live out her remaining years. In her
Alimony or Death of the Clock previous novels Valerie Taylor described what it was like in
Watson, Lynn
our youth and middle years. Now she brings us a tender
West, Dorothy
The Living is Easy
story of two "mature" women who discover that love and
Wilson, Barbara
Walking On the Moon
sex and dreams are not just for the young."
Ambitious Women
- Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon
Wilson, Barbara Ellen
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HouselAnnie Heap.hy, cab driving baby butch •. lives a life
, of freedom in a shack on the Connecticut coast.
IHer dislike of "Yalies" and all they represent
extends to beautiful, self-~ossessed Victoria L?cke
I at first, and then they fall in love and both their
worlds change forever.

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Published by Herland Bookstore
Editor: Elaine Barton ..

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in honor of :Black Heritage Month .
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This is the first collection of Alice
Walker's nonfiction, representing the
views of a remarkable writer over a period of fifteen years. The pieces have appeared in a wide range of publications,
including Ms. magazine, the New York

THOSE
WHO
RIDE THE
NIGHT
WINDS
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NIKKI

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Times, The Black Scholar, The American
Scholar, Conditions, and Mother ]ones.

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Nikki Giovanni is our most widely read living
black poet, and in her most accessible collection
to date, we become aware of the poet as a human
being we can relate to, someone affected by and
concerned with events. Christina Robb of The
· Boston Globe has said recently of Nikki Giovanni, "She is a witness now, not a prophet.
Her voice is the voice of a brilliant friend who's
curious about everything you think of as everyday and who loves you like a sister but whom
you don't see very often, and who doesn't mind
telling you the whole ti::uth in a war?l way."

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The theme of her Pulitzer Prizewinning novel, The Color Purple, is the
subject of several essays here, including
the title piece: black women in relation
to their families, their mothers; to each
other; to black men; to white society and
the world at large. A number of other
essays discuss writing and writers - Zora
Neale Hurston, Jean Toomer, Flannery
O'Connor, among them - and Walker reflects on her own work. She also looks
back on the Civil Rights Movement, pays
a visit to the "new Cuba," and speaks out
on nuclear madness . Throughout the
volume she explores theories and practices of feminists and feminism. It is in
c ontemplating the limitations of both
that she coins a new word that expands
modern feminism by incorporating what
she calls the "womanist" tradition of ,
black women.
In the two concluding pieces, Walker
considers women writers as mothers and,
in a courageous memoir about a traumatic
accident in her childhood that blinded and
scarred one of her eyes, tells how her
young daughter helped her to recognize
herself as beautiful, whole; and free.
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·in honor of:Black Heritage Month
Maya Angelou
Cliff, Michelle
Davis, Angela
Giovanni, Nikki
Hansberry, Lorraine
Hooks, Bell
Hull, Gloria T.
Jordan, June
Lerner, Gerda
Larde, Audre
Moraga, Cherrie
Morrison, Toni

Naylor, Gloria
Prescod-Roberts,
Margaret
Roberts, J.R.
Shange, Ntozake
Shockley, Ann Allen
Smith, Barbara
Stadler, Quandra
Prettyman
Walker, Alice
Wallace, Michelle
West, Dorothy

Gather Together in My Name
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Claiming an Identity They Taught Me to Despise
Autobiography
Women, Race and Class
Gemini
Those Who Ride the Night Winds
To Be Young, Gifted and Black
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
But Some of Us Are Brave
Civil Wars
Black Women in White America: A Documentary
The Cancer Journals
Zami, A New Spelling of My Name
This Bridge Called My Back
The Bluest Eye
Song of Soloman
Sula
Tar Baby
The Women of Brewster Place
Black Women: Bringing It All Back Home
Black Lesbians: An Annotated Bibliography
A Daughter's Geography
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide
The Black and White of It
Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology
Out of Our Lives: A Selection of Contemporary
Black Fiction
The Color Purple
In Search of Our Mother's Garden
Meredian
Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman
The Living is Easy

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In her new book of poetry,
Ntozake Shange maps the expanding horizons of the black ima- \
gination today, from the indigo

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moods of Harlem streets to the
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sun-drenched colors of the Carib- f''" <~.:..;:n"'"'."'~2:" ,
bean, from passionate songs of
f'~~:c:·''~t}.:ids,, ~~~·~,"~<. ;;.:;p:-·;,~:.:.
pain and outrage to the tipsy
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cakewalks of love's exhilaration.
Out of the music of black speech
she create~ poems that fall over
your day hke a wash of azure,
words that dance, strut, cruise,
NTOZAKE SHANGE
weep, and shout with life and
power; songs to declare her
visions and map the geography
of life and beauty she would
claim for her daughter.
Ms. Shange once said that
poems should "fill you up with
something/cd make you swoon,
stop in yr tracks, change yr
mind, or make it up, a poem shd ·
happen to you like cold water or
a kiss"-perhaps the best description of her own work. Her new
book will further confirm her
reputation as one of our most
gifted writers, equally at home in
the theater, the novel, or poetry,
and always in her own, exuberant, magical voiCe.
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DAUGHTER'S
GEOGRAPHY

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in honor of:Black
Heritage
Month
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'civil Wars

A Zora Neale Hurs_ton reader

June Jordan

Blending personal experience and current events, Jordan writes with
power and passion about topics like the black woman, the Harlem riots,
Angola, rage, love, writing, and commitment "These essays prod us to think
of the politics of our time, not as cool intellectual calculation, but as
intensely felt outraged experiences."
-Frances Fox Piven
"Thorough and unwavering radicalism." -New York Times Book Review
June Jordan, author of fourteen books, is professor of English, State
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I University of New York ~t Stony Brook

I LOVE MYSELF

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WHEN I AM LAUGHING
... AND THEN AGAIN
WHEN I AM LOOKING
MEAN AND IMPRESSIVE
Zora Neale Hurston
Edited by Alice Walker
With an Introduction by
Mary Helen Washington
The most prolific black woman author from 1920 to 1950,
Hurston was praised for her writing and condemned for
her personality.:_her independence, arrogance, and audaciousness . This first anthology, with 14 superb examples
of her fiction.journalism, folklore , and autobiography,
rightfully establishes her as the intellectual and spiritual
leader of the next generation of black writers .

.BLACK
FOREMOTHERS

At last, the first comprehensive collection of work that
reveals the range of black women's history and their many
contributions to our society-in education, in political movements, in the church, in social movements; in music, in
' literature, in the theater and much more.
The editors have skillfully interwoven the works of over
twenty noted contributors from Alice Walker and Mary
Helen Washington to Michele Wallace and Elizabeth Higginbotham. Highlights include an extensive list of black women
I novelists; important statements on black feminism, racism
in higher education and in the women's movement; the
changing role of black women in the church; guidelines for
racism consciousness raising; and the politics of Black
women's studies.

Three Lives
Dorothy Sterling

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This book recovers from history the stories of three g~eat
black American women-Ellen Craft. the daring runaway
Georgia slave who used her freedom to serve the cause of
abolition; Ida B. Wells, the firebrand journalist whose
crusade against lynching awakened the conscience of a
nation; and Mary Church Terrell, a gifted and untiring
leader in the movements for suffrage, civil rights and
world peace.

Movement in Black

MOVEMENT

THE LIVING
IS EASY

IN BLACK·

A Novel
Dorothy West
With an Afterword by
' Adelaide M. Cromwell

COLLECTED POETRY
by PAT PARKER

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The Living Is Easy tells the story of Cleo Judson, daughter
of southern sharecroppers and wife of "black banana king"
who wants to become a member of Boston's early 20thcentury Black elite. Readers have long loved the wry and
ironic humor, even bitchiness of this novel originally
publishing in the 1940s and will continue to be challenged
by its moral and social complexity.

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COLLECTED POETRY
by Pat Parker
MOVEMENT IN BLACK makes as
powerfu I a statement now as it did when
it was first published by Diana Press in
1978. Audre Larde writes in the Foreword: "Parker's Black Woman's voice
rings true and deep and gentle, with an
iron echo. It is merciless and vulnerable
and far ranging . In her poems Parker
owns her weaknesses and she owns her
strengths, and she does not give up. Even
when she weeps, her words evoke that
real power which is core-born." With an
Int roduction by Judy Grahn, this edition
will be pr.inted from the original vers ion.

"They will not come
clothed in brown,
and swastikas. or
bearing chest heavy with
gleaming crosses.
The time and need

for ruses are over.
They will come
in business suits
to buy your homes

and bring bodies to
fill your jobs.

They will come in robes
to rehabilitate
and white coats
to subjugate
and where wi ll you be
when they .come?"

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Part of Herland Newsletter : Mar. 1984