Conference turris::womannotes-v1

    I've enjoyed Saavy. It has a good balance of articles pertaining
    to both the professional and personal aspects of lifestyle. 
    
    Ann

    I read New Directions for Women.  It is a feminist newspaper, with
    articles of interest to women of all kinds, such as the way women
    are treated in various foreign countries, health issues, relationship
    issues (straight and gay), legislation of interest to women,
    job/career related articles, advertisements for books and other
    periodicals, etc.
    
    If anyone would like, I'll mail or post the address when I get home.
    
    Kathleen

    Yes, I'm interested.  Please post the address!

    Sojourner is an excellent women's paper which is published in the
    Boston area (Cambridge, actually).  It is a monthly with a very
    feminist slant.  There is a calendar of events, listings of feminist
    and women-owned businesses.  Although it is a Boston area paper,
    it also carries national and international news.
    
    A year ago Sojourner almost stopped publishing because they were
    so low on $$.  A subscription is only $15/year, and it's well worth
    it.
    
    You can send for a subscription by writing to : Sojourner, 149 Albany
    Street, Cambridge. MA 02139.
    
    ****andrea****

    There is also a magazine called Sojourner which is put out
    by a Christian group in Washington D.C. It is an excellant
    - if some what depressing - reivew of issues like EL Salvador,
    poverty, nuclear power etc. (Don't be put off by the fact
    that it is put out by a Christian group if you are not - it
    is not conservative or evangelical by any means.)

re .0, "Mother Jones" 

I let my subscription lapse back in the fall, but they've been trying to get
me to renew since then, and still haven't stopped sending me issues.  

When I first saw the magazine, I thought it was a just bunch of flaming
radicals.  I changed my mind later on, and subscribed.  After getting it
for a couple of years, I reverted to my original feeling.

Now, I'm not against flaming radicals, but they do seem to get carried away
sometimes.  It's not the issues they raise, but how the report them.
The current issue has an article on kids' TV. They make some
good points, but I think that they overstate some things, and don't
represent some other things quite correctly.  This tends to support their
point a little more strongly, but it's not fair reporting.

They also tried cutesy little things for fund drives that I thought were
below that kind of magazine (I thought that I was reading TV Guide sometimes).

I'd like to find another magazine with a similar viewpoint, but with a more
balanced style.
					-- hs

    re .6 try .5 - I'll send you a back copy if you'd like.

	    [RE .6]:  The latest (September 1986) issue of _Mother_
	_Jones_ is the worst one I've ever seen, and I've been sub-
	scribing since 1979!
			<_Jym_>

I've been a subscriber for years (before that I had friends on the staff,
and got free copies.) The quality of writing, editing, photography, and
layout is universally tip-top. I can read every issue almost cover-to-cover. 

It's hard to do everything in a monthly with limited space, but Sojourner
does a good job. Personally I'd like to see more coverage of Lesbian issues
(which tend to get neglected in the male-dominated gay press) and more
participation from women of color, but you can't have everything.

Don.

	    [RE .9]:  _Sojourner_ is good.  I thought they did an es-
	pecially good job on the debate over the Dworkin/McKinnon porn-
	ography resolution.
	    The few issues of _Gay_Community_News_ I've seen didn't
	appear to be male-dominated.  I read a few issues during the
	Dworkin/McKinnon resolution debate.  (They were, unfortunately,
	very much on the side of Dworkin and McKinnon.)
			<_Jym_>
	P.S.:  Digression about Dworkin/McKinnon would be more approp-
	riate for the "Pornography" topic, or perhaps a new topic.

    The address for New Directions for Women is:
    
    108 West Palisade Ave.
    Englewood, NJ  17631
    
    (201) 568-0226
    
    The cost is $10 per year (6 issues), or $16 for a two year subscrption.
    
    Kathleen
    
    

	    _Gay_Community_News_ (see Reply #10) recently published
	the toll-free number Jerry Falwell has set up for pregnant
	women to call to be "counseled" not to have an abortion.
	    The last time Falwell had a toll-free number, some hacker
	wrote a program that dialed the number constantly.  This ran
	up $500,000 in phone bills.
	    I wonder if anybody would dream of doing that to this
	number?
			<_Jym_>

    RE: .12  (Jym)
    
    Of course, a woman who calls to be 'counseled' not to have an abortion
    probably doesn't want to have an abortion.  She wants to have someone
    to tell her that.  If she wanted to be told the other way, she would
    call an abortion clinic.  If she waned a more unbiased person to
    talk to, probably a mental health therapist would be a better choice.
    
    Kathleen

	    I put "counseled" in quotes because counseling involves
	helping someone figure out what they really want to do.  My
	understanding is that this toll-free number is being touted
	as a helpful place to call when undecided, but is actually
	an attempt to convince the woman not to have an abortion.
	    That's a trend these days:  anti-abortion groups creating
	groups with innocuous names that look like unbiased counsel-
	ing services.
			<_Jym_>

    re .13 and .14
    
    And then there was the group in Worcester downstairs from the Planned
    Parenthood office who had a sign on their door "PP", which stood
    for "Problem Pregnancy" (some $*#! super right-wing organization).  They'd
    get people coming into their office looking for Planned Parenthood and
    then use subtle tactics to detain them.  They wouldn't tell someone
    that it was not the Planned Parenthood office, but ask the woman if she
    wanted to see a film (Something like "The Silent Scream, I imagine") or
    some such rot.
    
    Does anyone know what came of this?  Was "PP" forced to close their
    little scheme or what?
    
    Maybe this all belongs in its own topic.

    	-Ellen

	    Yes, "PP" was one of the pioneers of these tactics.  I
	don't know if they're still in business.
			<_Jym_>

    (my opinion, of course...)
    
    Working Woman is Cosmo-with-a-briefcase
    
    Guess Ms. is going the same way
    
    --DE
    

    I'm with you, Dawn.  WW is painful to read.
    
    						=maggie

    So if I wanted to buy my (working) wife a subscription to one of
    these magazines, which one would you recommend?
    
    /Les

    I would recommend Boston Woman, which seems to have maintained a
    low-key (but firm) feminist stance, and minimized the blechy "how
    to get/keep a man" articles.  A female version of the New Yorker.
    
    Lee

    
    How about Sojourner?
    
    Justine

    Is SAVVY still around?
    
    I liked the issues I saw of it, but haven't noticed it
    on newsstands in a while...
    
    
    --DE
    

    Try _New Directions for Women_
    
    Elizabeth
    

    Hey, Cosmo did an article about my freshman advisor at MIT!
    (Vera Pless, mathematics wiz., worked in Project MAC)  
    Okay, so the article was also about other giants, like Kistiakowsky.  
    Back in '75.  We got to meet the reporter, she took him to lunch
    with us at Walker. (barf)
    
    So, you can find good things in unexpected places.