A few of us got together to talk, as women, about masturbation, because we felt that it is an important and much-neglected topic. Here is the resulting conversation:
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ADC: Working for the “Man”
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 126, March 4-17, 1971
“That man over there say that a woman needs to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helped me into carriages, or over mud puddles, or gives me a best …
Women Unite and Fight
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 126, March 4-17, 1971
Four Michigan women have filed a suit in U.S. District Court charging that the Automatic Retailers of America, Great Lakes Steel Division, discriminate against women by stabilizing them into job categories; in other words, freezing them into dead-end jobs. They …
Motor City Labor News
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 126, March 4-17, 1971
Motor City Labor News is a regular feature of the Fifth Estate. In this column we want to provide a space for people from different parts of the Detroit labor scene to exchange their experiences—experiences of the struggle to gain …
No forced sterilization
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 126, March 4-17, 1971
We know that sterilization was used as a technique of genocide by Nazi doctors. Today in the U.S. welfare mothers are being punished by forced sterilization. Often in New York, women must choose between sterilization or loss of welfare payments. …
Abortion: a nightmare, a relief
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 126, March 4-17, 1971
These are two interviews with women who experienced abortions. One was illegal, the other was a legal.
Abortion must be…
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 126, March 4-17, 1971
…Legal Michigan women will demonstrate in Lansing March 13 for one aspect of our liberation—the right to abortion. Our demands are: free and legal abortion on demand; no forced sterilization; repeal of all existing abortion laws.
Youth News
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 126, March 4-17, 1971
The second issue of the Youth News Service was sent out on February 25. The news packet was sent to some 43 high school and youth collectives who are putting out underground newspapers or are thinking of starting them.
Women’s work is never done
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 126, March 4-17, 1971
In this column we’d like to share with you some of the work and ideas of women in Detroit. There are many more things to be done, like starting your own rap group, theater group, women’s newspaper, child care center, …
In case of…
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 126, March 4-17, 1971
American Civil Liberties Union, 961-4662 Ad Hoc Citizens Committee, 923-0610 Centerhouse Switchboard, 399-9090 Community Reporter, 833-5085