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UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON

Vol. LXII, No. 42

Women's Liberation
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The resurgence of the women' struggle in the form of Women's
Liberation is a young movement.' A few small groups of radical
women began forming in 1967 and 19G8 to discuss their common
problems made conscious to them. by their experience in the civil
rights movement and in the urban white organizing undertaken by
white radical youth after the collapse of the civil, rights movement.
Marlene Dixon, a nationally prominent woman in Women's Lib,
who spoke at the UK Midwestern Women's Liberation Conference,
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elaborates on such experiences:
"Young women and girls risked their lives in the struggle to
create a just and humane society. They were 'beaten Tin demonstrations, they were arrested and they were often sexually.. mistreated.
They served time in jail, staffed the freedom houses, cranked the
mimeograph machines, washed the dishs, lov ed the men, and cared
for the children. Only to discover themselves absent from the steering committees, silent during meetings, jind ridiculed when they'
protested that they worked and risked Uieiriivcs in" organization?
in w hich they had little power to make decisions."
These women found that in a freedom struggle they were not
free. They developed an understanding of male chauvinism, i.e.,
male supremacy.
Through a coalition of these women, Women's Liberation was
born. Women's Liberation supports the fight for equal job and educational opportunity, repeal of abortion laws, and establishment of
day care centers, Hut its main focus is against
male chauvinism and the social and economic exploitation of all
women.
However, the women's movement began as, and remains, a grassroots movement. There are no national officers of Women's Libera
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tion and no officers within local groups. There has been a conscious
effort to avoid leader-followautltoritarianism which women found
so oppressive in New Left "participatory democracy" organizations.
Women's Lib has developed a new consciousness among the
radical movement in general, as well as proliferating to high school
women, woiking class women, middle class women, black women
and poor w omen. Each group is autonomous. Even within the same
.city there may be several groups which differ somewhat in philoso-ph-y
and tactics.
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In Lexington the Women's Lib group meets every other week for
a plenary. session which is broken down into small groups for general discussion. Tjie Lexington group is further divided into action
groups-abort- ion
counseling, legal rights, radical caucus and study
groups. There is;no one "platform" that women must subscribe to
in order to participate in Women's Lib.
Women's Lib Las spread to every major city in the United States
and almostjyyerfl university.
I "Women s Lib became a social movement as women
began to
realize that they were not alone in their personal problems,
A woman in Atlanta's Women's Lib describes the importance
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of the small group as a means of organization:
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"Liberation is a constant process and for a woman whose
'liberation involves in great part an end to her loneliness and isolation from other women, it would be both agonizing and impossible
without their support. And to provide this support, women have
organized the "small group" the strength of our movement, through
which women reach out to each other, grope together, grow together. It is our best means of raising consciousness, our most
effective organizing tool, and, at the same time, our most human
structure."

A Female Revolution

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2,

1970

Women in History: A Continuing Struggle

By KAREN BECKYVITH
at (nit ion arc not paid to the
ladies, wc arc determined to foment a revolution and

"If particular care and

wc will not hold ourselves bound to obey any laws
in which wc have no voice or representation."
Abigail
Adams, 1776
Women had long been denied the rights of human
being. but did not become active until the lS30's
advent of abolitionism. This period was preceded by 50
years of working in factories and mills, where northern
women organized strikes, published newspapers, and
worked with men to improve labor conditions and pay.
This sort of activity for women was greatly frow ned upon
by the church, and as men formed local unions and
excluded women, the more educated women left the
mills and involved themselves in the larger struggle
for human equality.
Organizing experience in the labor camps left women
for the participation opportunities offered by
the abolitionists. Women were to listen and learn from
the men who held not only leadership positions, but
who also did all the speaking. At the World's
Convention in London, women staged a disruptive demonstration before they were removed to the
balcony of the convention hall, their "proper place."
As time parsed and women continued to demand their
rightful places in the movement, the abolitionists became
more tolerant. William Lloyd Carrison took up theques-tio- n
of women's rights, and women in the abolitionist
movement agreed to be less demanding so that the
slavery issue would not suffer.
At the time of the Civil War women were liberated
even more from the former social roles enforced by the
church. Women worked in battlefield hospitals and with
missions; northern women and
patriotic fund-raisiblack women in the South worked with the underground railroads. With men away at war, all women
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were forced to assume more responsibilities and were
able to recognize unrealized personal potentials.
Some women came to see tiie danger of the war
taking the spotlight and energies of activists from the
woman question. After the war, women found the
hjpocrisy of the alxjlitiouist.s overwhelming as they
pondered the difficulties of giving votes to blacks and
to women. The abolitionists recognized black men as
citizens, hesitated at recognizing white women as such,
and completely balked at the prospects of black women
voting.
Women then began to organize in earnest, as the
abolitionists deserted the women's rights issue. Numerous conventions were held. "The Revolution" appeared as a feminist newspaper. Men gathered at public
speeches made by women to try to prevent them from
speaking, and the religious leaders attempted to rationalize why women should struggle for the equality
of everyone but themselves.
Suffrage is the issue made much of by historians,
if it is mentioned at all, but suffrage was only, according to Margaret Fuller, the first step to opening society
up to more fundamental changes. Most feminists between 1830 and 1900 were married to men who shared
their egalitarian views, and saw marriage as legal
enforcement of slavery of women.
Jane Adams and Hull House are best known in
history books because caring for the poor and suffering
has been the accepted role of women, yet Mary
as early as 1790 was challenging Edmund
Burke's "Reflections" as sentimental ism for wasting
his sympathies on "the royal captives" in France during
the revolution and "the infringement of their property."
She called for redistribution of large estates and meaningful employment at reasonable wages provided for those
who desired it, in addition to demanding for women the
natural rights of human beings.
The first World War struck another blow to the
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Abortion:
By MARGARET
V EN D EL S DO RF

Sharon Wilson, a black woman from Louisville and a member
of J.O.M.O. (Junta of Militant
Organizations) spoke with members of Women's Liberation and
black women from the Black Student Union Oct. 29. The focus
of her presentation was on the
abortion issue and its relation to
racial genocide.
Sharon stated, "Women's Liberation is a forceful and dynamic
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woman's movement. Again, focus was removed to the
war as an issue, and followed by the depression and
World War II, the woman's movement was successfully
extinguished.
The era following the war was one where the American people were privatized, apathetic, and tired of coping
with international issues, and they desired only a happy
home, in the traditional sense. Couples began to marry
at earlier ages, and women left jobs and school to set up
housekeeping, because marriage was one of the few
social values that still held some meaning for them.
The confidence of independent women in their
began to falter as the theories of Freud developed
public popularity. Oedipal complexes and frustration
were supposedly the problems of children with inadequate mothers, and as psychoanalysis grew in acceptance,
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mother. Mothers
so did the value of being a
working outside the home were seen not only as
but detrimental to the personalities of their
children.
The idea of feminity in the subservience of women
to men was fostered by returning CIs. Anxious to get
married and begin living a stable and happy life, women
accepted the beliefs of returning CIs that the
Japanese and German women were indeed
more feminine than they.
As in other areas, women as well as men began
again to involve themselves in politics. Activism in
organizations like SNCC, Freedom Riders, and other
early 19G0's civil rights movements was not restricted
to males, although the modes of activism were definitely
discriminating. As in the abolition movement, women
involved themselves in the larger struggle only to realize
that the right they were fighting for didn't apply to
them. With this realization, they began to challenge
their male colleagues and eventually united with other
women to assert the rights they stniggled to achieve
for others.

gle. It is because this movement
is so important that it must deal

with its relationsliip to black
liberation and the cooptation of
its stand on abortion."
Sharon reported that legal
abortions on black women are
now being used as an opportunity to involuntarily sterilize black
women and poor women. "In Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx, New
York, over 10,000 black women
were involuntarily sterilized."
She explained that this practice
plus welfare stipulations that

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 190- 3"The home as now existing costs nearly three times what
.It involves the further waste of nearly half the
is necessary
world's labor. It does not fulfill its functions to the best advant.It maintains a low grade of womanhood, overworked or
age
lazy; it checks the social development of men as well as women,
and, most of all, children
Change this order. Set the woman
on her feet, as a free, intelligent, able human being, quite capable
of putting into this world more than she takes out, of being a
producer as well as a consumer. Put these poor antiquated domestic industries into the archives of past history; and let efficient modern industries take their place.

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birth control must be used in order to receive welfare stipends
are being used as genocide
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against
"Black people are no longer
of any use to this capitalist system. It can use poor white people just as well, and since it is
black people who have become
political and a threat to the system, the system is trying to eradicate them."
Sharon felt strongly that all
women should have control over
their own bodies including the
right to abortion on demand.
"However, at this point in history, it is dangerous to push for
legalizing abortions when women
do not have control over hospitals and doctors."
She also stated that "often
when women are in labor or
drugged they are pressured into
signing their permission for sterilizationsupposedly 'for their
health."' She went on to point
out that it is difficult for women
to document these occurences
and few have enough money for
legal prosecution.
A woman from BSU and a
law student commented that
"even if a woman brought suit,
it is very difficult for a poor
black woman to win against a
white male
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AbOTtlOnS
By BARDARA

SUTHERLAND
Each year an estimated one
million abortions are performed
in the United States. Only 8,000
oftlic.se alxrtions are done legal
Iy; the remaining 902,000 are performed in violation of various
state laws prohibiting abortion.
And out of this number, an estimated 8,000 women die each year
as a result of illegal aljortions.
This number does not take into
consideration the number of
women who are permanently
maimed, physically and emotionally.
A group of women from the
Lexington Women's Liberation
have set up an abortion counseling service. The members of the
group feel that women whodesire
abortions should be able to have
them safely and legally. The abortion counselors have collected
names of doctors and clinics in
New York, where abortion is
legal. Women interested in obtaining a free pregnancy test or
in receiving abortion counseling
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should call Suzie at
or
Jane at
The following is an interview
with Nancy not her real name,
a UK senior who came to the
counseling service a month ago
and consequently went to a clinic
outside New York City. Nancy's
abortion was done with a vacuum
aspirator, a new device which
removes the fetus quickly and
painlessly. Nancy paid $205 for
her abortion, but since that time
the price for the clinic has gone
down to $200 to $230.
W.L.: Let's talk about why
you decided to get an abortion.
Nancy: Simply because it
'wasn't feasible to do anything
else. There was no way I could
have gone through with having
a child. I didn't want to get
married and I don't think that
I'm ready for the responsibility
of a child. Financially, therewas
no way I could do it. I want to
finish school, and having a child
would prevent that. There would
have been all sorts of problems
with my family. There was just
no way I could do it. I spent
the entire first month trying to
figure out ways that I could go
through with having the child. I
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thought about it from every perspective I could, and I couldn't
come up with a feasible solution.
So abortion was the only other
alternative.
W.L.: In what ways did you
try to find an abortionist?
Nancy: I asked people I knew.
I had a
couple of friends who
had had illegal abortions, and I
didn't want to go through what
they had gone through. I knew
of a few people who had had
very bad experiences with illegal
abortions. Then I talked with my
doctor, who recommended a
couple of places in New York
that were much more expensive
than I could afford. Finally I
just happened to be walking
through the Student Center, and
.saw the Women' Lib advertisement. So I called Suzie and she
gave me the number of the place
I finally went to.
W.L.: Would ou have had an
illegal abortion, had you not been
able to get one legally?
Nancy: Yes. In fact, I nearly
did. I had a friend who had had
an illegal abortion in Alabama,
and although it sounded much
worse than anything I wanted to
go through, I almost did go there;
to this man who isn't even a real
doctor. I was going to call him
the very night of the day that I
saw the Women's Lib ad.
W.L.: Did it ever occur to you
that if you had an illegal abortion, you might die?
Nancy: Yes. But there are
worse things than dying. I was
scared of the physical pain, because I had heard of such horrible things happening to people,
like my friend who aborted in a
gas station on the way home
from Alabama. But I felt I was
right in deciding to have an abortion, and I was going to do what
I'd decided to do, no matter what
I had to go through.
W.L.: Until you found a place
where you could have an inexpensive legal abortion, were you
going through a pretty difficult
emotional time?
Nancy: Well, you're going
through an emotional thing anyway, because throughout the
whole experfence you're telling
yourself how stupid it was that
you're pregnant to begin with.
So you have all these emotions
of remorse, regret, sadness, and
lots of confusion about your situation. And then the whole hassle
of plans to be made to go through
an abortion, and most people,
including my self, just don't know
where to turn for help. But luckily I did call Suzie and made
an appointment with that very
good clinic in New York.

W.L.: Tell me alx)ut the actual aljortion.
Nancy: The nurses ami doctors
were all very, very nice and very
understanding. For a change it
was nice to be with people who
weren't criticizing me and lecturing me all the time. They had
no moral or legal invectives to
throw at me. Before we start ed,
the doctor explained the procedure, even gave me a little anatomy lesson and told me exactly
what he was going to bexloing.
They talked to me throughout the
operation. I knew what was going
on all the time. The abortion
I
itself wasn't bad at all
could feel slight pressure from
time to time, but nothing that
you could call pain. It was all
over in a matter of a few minutes. Then afterwards I stayed in
a bed in the recovery room just
until I felt well enough to leave.
You might feel a little shaky or
weak, but that's all.

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W.L.: Were there any other
women at the clinic that day?
Nancy: Yes. Some of them
already had children and didn't
want any more, and then there
were others like me who were
unmarried. There was another
girl from Kentucky. Wediscussed
the problems we had had getting
there; the girl from Kentucky had
had as much trouble as I, and
she w as scared stiff. She was only
about sixteen y ears old, and y ou
can imagine what an illegal abortion would have been like for her.
W.L.: How did you feel while
the actual abortion was taking
place?
Nancy: I felt very relieved!
I was glad to be there, my worries
about the physical aspect had
been calmed. I was just glad it
was all going to be over with.
W.L.: Did they give you any
medication afterwards?

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Pregnancy

Nancy: Yes, they gavemepills
raising a child I didn't really
to keep me from bleeding a lot. want and that I would later reThey explained that the way it sent, because I think that he
was done, there was virtually would sense that, ami that's not a
no chance of infection, and there good atmosphere to raise an emotwas also no chance that the abor- ionally stable child
W.L.: Do you think that the
tion would be incomplete, which
is very important,
especially
experience strengthened or
when you think how many girls changed you in any way?
have incomplete abortions when
Nancy: Well, I'd always been
it is done illegal.
against the current abortion laws,
W.L.: Did ou ever have a and this experience gave me a
feeling that the child was really very personal reason for being
alive, really a child?
against them. I have much more
Nancy: Yes, that's why I of an idea what people have to
wanted to have it at first, bego through to get an abortion. It
cause I was aware that I had made me perhaps a little more
conceived a child, and I guess cynical of our society. I felt very
I wanted it. But I know rationalstrongly that I was being treated
ly that, child or not, I had to unjustly. I was in a situation
have an abortion. I have no moral that I didn't want to be in. I
qualms about abortion. I don't wanted out of itl And it was as
feel like a murderer. People who if someone else had limited my
are against abortion throw things course of action to one of two
like that at you "you're a things: getting married and
murderer. How could you kill having a child respectably, or not
your own child!" That's hard getting married and still having
to handle. The only thingyou can the child. And that wasn't what I
tell those people is that you wanted to do. And once having
think it's just as wrong to bring made my decision, there was just
an unwanted child into the world no place to turn. It's a horrible
as it is to have an abortion. Or feeling to be completely alone,
even worse, because there are not knowing what you can do,
enough people suffering now. I having made a decision and then
can't see any reason to have a have no way of carrying out that
child and then throw it off on decision. It's just another exsomebody and hope they give it a ample of how we have our lives
good home. I don't think that is controlled by others. I don't like
that at all.
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Ready or Not
I used to take the hand of pain
And shut the door
And not complain.
fused to hold my holler in
And puritan avoid the sin
Of gauch display
Knew it would pay me in the end
Knew they would sense the inner rend
My silence bore
And say that she was destined for
Nobility.
But not no more
Now you're going to hear from me.

Ways and Means
I knew ways to make them happy
What to say and how
I knew when to smile and listen
The resistance they allow
I knew how to really please 'em
I learned it well before
All I forgot to figure out
Was: what the devil for?

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When We A rc Liberated
When we are humanized
When we are liberated
We will no longer pretend.
will be individuals who
reason.
We will show emotion without
em harassment.
We will be strong in the knowledge of ourselves, in our own
strength.
We will express ourselves through
meaningful, fulfilling work.
We will not create false images
of ourselves to attract one
another.
We will be honest to ourselves
and to each other.
We will share responsibilities.
We will not hate.
We will be ourselves.
We will be equal, with opportunities and human rights for man
and womankind.
By Cathy Coldstein Tasman
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1970- -5

Women and Children Last: Day Care at UK?

By FRAN TOZZUTO
And

games, equipment, and instruction must be free of caste (sexual and racial) discrimination at
all levels . . . . " This is the first
in a list of demands made recently by the Southern Female
Rights Union in their Program
for Female Liberation. The immediate question is raises is: is
such clay care desirable andor
possible? We asked these questions of members of the Lexington
Women's Liberation group worke
for.the
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GEORGIA COLLINS
"We demand free,
public childcarc
Free and adequate care must he
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available on a
basis for
infants ami children of all ages,
regardless of parent's income or
An equal number
job statu
of females and males in all (staff)
at all levels . . .
positions
Trackcommunity control
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Is day-car- e
desirable?
"We do not believe there is a
conflict between Women's Lib
and good child care. We do not
believe that good child-carthat
is, the provision of protection,
guidance, and love which allow
and encourages a child's growth
and eventual independent involvement in the larger society,
can be purchased by sacrificing
women's equal need for growth

day-car-

CCEW Designed to Benefit Women

Continuing a College Education

and independent involvement in
the larger community. We believe
that an independently involved
and active adult is better suited
to rearing children than one
forced by someone else's idea of
'biological destiny' to see her
whole life in terms of her children and her husband. Whileyou
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ask if
is desirable, we
arc asking you and ourselves if
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tenements
'manned' by frustrated and isolated adult women are desirable
arrangements for raising the
young."
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even more
undesirable?
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"The spectre of

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and mn clay care centers
where cold efficiency takes precedence over warmth and affection, where conformity is valued
over the 'messy' variety of individual personalities, is as
to Women's Lib. as it
is to their detractors. The answer to this problem is not, however, to make a prisoner of the
mother and wife but to set out
to humanize the other institutions of this society. We believe
that various types of day-car- e
.centers, run by the parents themselves, can not oi Jy provide personal and continuing care by the
natural parent, but will in some
measure recover for our children
the benefits of the extended famcomily and the human-size- d
center as
munity. The day-car- e
envisioned by Women's Lib. will
not take over the responsibility
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Nancy said that she is presently
"drawing up tentative budgets

In April 1970, the President's
Task Force on Women's Rights

and Responsibilities

for some specific programs" such
as registration-da- y
day care,

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mended that "a national commitment to basic changes that
will bring women into the mainstream of American life" be made.
(Feminine Focus IV, Oct. 70)
Many women have already
made this commitment on their
own. The population explosion,
the lack of meaningful community in suburbia, the push for
equality' by America's largest
'minority' are sending numbers
of women with new consciousness 'back to school.' One way
or another the role of women in
this society is undergoing drastic changes.
Services such as the Center
for the Continuing Education of
Women (CCEW) are one way the
universities can fulfill their self
proclaimed obligation to enrich
' the
present lives of their students
and to help them prepare for the
future.

regular publications, a special advisory committee, programs and
discussions of interest to women
resuming their education. She
sees "increased space allocation
in a covenient location" as cru
cial for many important but low
budget services.
Ray agreed that day care is
"the major concern of the woman
returning to school." She "suggested that many problems could
be solved by the women themselves w ith a place to meet, plan,
and cooperatively care for one
another's children during the
school day.
Ray receives several calls a
day from women. Some have
heard of the Donovan Program
but are "not sure they are old
enough to qualify." Most are
unaware of the variety of programs UK offers. Practically all
With tremendous personal need a boost in confidence that
their desire to "contribute to socenergy, one secretary, and a modest budget, Celia Zyzniewski ran iety" is not only respected but
UK's CCEW from its inception needed. And, Ray added, the Uniin 19G6 until her departure in versity is often unaware of those
women's needs for flexible schMarch, 1970. In
of this year, Nancy Ray, Assisteduling and individualized proant Dean of Students, was asked grams. 'We can start by helping
to take on the program along them find "understanding" adwith her duties as administratvisors, Ray said.
More than 130 universities
ive advisor to numerous student
across the country have made a
organizations.
In an October interview, commitment to programs for the
Nancy Ray described her task as continuing education of women.
three-folto keep the CCEW Ray cited the University of Michprogram alive by continuing to igan's CCEW as an excellent exoffer counsel to returning women, ample of an exciting and proto increase women's awareness gressive program. Michigan's
of this service, and to secure a CCEW is currently offering merit
commitment from the University scholarships and emergency
on women, a
grants, teach-in- s
enabling CCEW to expand its services and improve their quality. Student Wives Evening Program
d:

Quiz on Women in History
Do you know who these women are and what part
they played in history?
A. Emma Coldman
B. Margaret Sanger
C. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
D. Fannie Lou Hamer
E. Sarah Crimke
F. Harriet Tubman
1. Political activist who championed the liberation of
women and revolt of workers, and in 1919 was deported
to Russia as a "criminal anarchist."
2. Known as "Moses," she became responsible for the
escape of thousands of slaves on the Underground Railroad.
3. She and her sister were among the first woman to
speak out for women's rights, demanding to be allowed
full and equal participation in the Abolitionist Movement in the 1830' s.
4. As a major figure in the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, she led her party's refusal to accept a
compromise offer of two seats at the Democratic National Convention in 1964.
5. Voluntary motherhood was her cause and through
great personal suffering she set up the first birth control
clinics ever to exist in the U.S.
6. As a result of their experience in the Abolitionist
Movement, she and Lucretia Mott called the first
women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York,
1843, and she issued her "Declaration of Sentiments"
all
discussing the oppression of women in 6-- facets of life.
Answers:
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of basic undergraduate course offerings and is working closely
with state agencies such as the
'State Civil Service Professional
e
Project. Ray pointed
to Catherine Spalding College in
Louisville which provides day
care and courses tailored for the
mature woman, as an example of
what is being done closer to
home.
What are the chances for such
lively CCEW' programs at UK?
Ray said that funds and commitment were imperative but emphasized that "the determining
factor in any program is the expressed interest" of those in need
of such a program. In the end,
Ray said, it depends . . . "on how
many women use the services
of the Center, on how many women use my time."
Part-Tim-

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for the ihild's development but
will serve as a means by which

socially and mentally active parents can share the carrying out of
this responsibility with each
either."
What is Women's Liberation
doing to set up such centers?
"Women's Lib. does not see
e
cenitself as running a
ter at this time, but instead
they have assembled a group of
parents from the campus community who are ready to wou
together in a center for their own
children. Women's Lib. as such
is making every effort to help
this group secure the necessary
facilities. This parent group is
ready and able to share the rental and running costs of such a
facility and many of the fathers
and mothers have the kind of
flexible schedules which will allow them to participate in the
care of the children. We recognize that many groups of parents
in this society could not foot
even the minimal costs of shared
rent and could not share actively
in the care of the children for
their jobs or lack of them do not
presently permit it. We feel that
these parents need free day care
and a.jeal hand in running the
center their children attend."
"How would your center be
run?
"By the parents themselves,
with a rotating board of directors. Costs would be shared, we
expect them to run about $10 per
month, and priority would be
given to the child's individual
needs.
day-car-

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