Volume One, Number Two: January/February 1971

Here is Volume One, Number Two of Women's Press, a grassroots feminist newspaper from Eugene, Oregon. On page one it says that it is the issue for January/February1971, but this may not be right. The collective published twelve different papers in its first volume.

Please note that the front-page article, "The Politics of Housework" by Pat Mainardi, was not original to Women's Press. According to the Chicago Women's Liberation Union Herstory Project, Pat Mainardi was a member of the New York radical feminist group Redstockings, which originally published this well-known essay in 1970. However, it looks as if the delightful drawings that accompany the piece are the original work of Women's Press graphic artist Karen daHinten.

Table of Contents (With Links to Articles):

• The Politics of Housework by Pat Mainardi -- Page 1 (continues on Pages 6 and 7).
• Editorials -- Page 2
• Letters  and short articles on sexism, abortion, Planned Parenthood -- Page 3
• Articles -- "Women Face Medical Indifference" -- Page 4
• Essay "Beauty and the Beast" and Poetry -- Page 5
• "Children's Corner" and articles on job-sharing and the Gay People's Alliance -- Page 8
• Articles: "Angela [Davis] Shackled" and "Karate" -- Page 9
• Interview with Jane Fonda by "Several Atlanta Women's Groups" -- Page 10
• Book Reviews -- Page 10
• Information and Classifieds -- Page 11
• "Woman Arrested in Riot" (Biography of Dr. Marie Equi) -- Page 12

Incidentally, if you've not heard of Marie Equi, she was a fascinating feminist, anarchist and abortion provider who lived from 1872-1952. Born in Massachusetts, she graduated from the University of Oregon Medical School in 1903. The Oregon History Project, the Oregon Encyclopedia, and Wikipedia all have biographies of Dr. Equi. According to the Oregon Encyclopedia,

With a courage and conviction unusual for her time, Equi openly enjoyed associations with other women that would readily be called "lesbian relationships" today. For fifteen years she lived with a niece of the Olympia Brewing Company founder, and she adopted an infant girl whom the two women raised.