Celebrates 10th anniversary
Women’s Press changes with the years
"Mother, what is a Feminist?"
“A Feminist, my daughter,
Is any woman now who cares
To think about her own affairs
As men don't think she
oughter."
— Alice Duer Miller, 1915
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By LESLIE FARRIS
Of the Emerald
Women's Press is celebrating
its 10th anniversary this week
end, making the Eugene pub
lication the second-oldest
feminist newspaper in the
country
The oldest, which is in Wash
ington, D C., is just three
months older.
Women's Press was first pub
lished in Eugene in December,
1970 The collectively-owned
newspaper now prints about
1,500 copies every two months.
Most of the 45-cent copies cir
culate in Eugene, but some
reach national and international
subscribers.
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Eight to 10 volunteer staff
members work out of a tiny of
fice at Grower’s Market. Anyone
can write for the newspaper,
although one staff member says
she has yet to receive an article
from a man
"We have a priority on articles
written by women, but it’s not a
policy,” says member Adrienne
Lauby. "It’s an open collective,
which means people can come
and go as they choose.”
She says current staff
members are veterans of about
three years. Because their work
for the paper is volunteer,
staffers usually have additional
jobs.
The members say the paper’s
content has changed a lot with
the decade’s passage.
Much of the material in 1970
was about how to relate better
to men. The issues discussed
reflected the concerns of a
largely heterosexual staff —
demands for safe birth control,
abortion rights and housework
sharing.
The paper’s constant change
is reflected in a recent letter
from a woman who said she
would subscribe "if you feel you
have room for straight women in
your readership.”
Whether lesbian or straight,
members of Women's Press say
they and their paper will be
more women-oriented in the
1980’s.
"We think that women are
ignored in the basic news
media,” Lauby says. "There
must be a great need for women
who want to be heard and other
women who want to read it. "
Lauby says publishing a
woman’s ideas and true
feelings, however unpolished,
can be more important than ad
hering to an abstract notion of
objective, professional jour
nalism. This philosophy largely
is responsible for the paper s
success, she says.
"Sometimes we print
somebody’s opinion that comes
just from the heart and not from
some expert position,” Lauby
says. "When people read that, I
think they sometimes get
validation. They say ‘I think that
way, I feel that way.’ ”
Another reason for the
paper’s success is a steady
supply of writers. The paper lets
people write what they care
about, something few estab
lished newspapers allow, Lauby
says.
"There're so many writers
and people-thinkers who don t
have a voice, and they're frus
trated.”
However, the Press will not
publish stories offending poor
people or minorities.
"We try to take people’s
problems very seriously," Lauby
says. "If we talk about poor
people we don’t treat it as a cute
feature story with a colored pic
ture ”
When the Eugene Register
Guard sends a reporter who’s
making a good wage to a poor
person’s home, Lauby says, the
reporter is bound to treat it as
“just another hard-luck story
that can be cured through the
American justice system.” The
Press’ approach is "We’ve
thought about this, here’s some
ideas about what can be done,
and here’s some people who
ought to be responsible but
aren’t.
“We very much want people
to get together and try to im
prove themselves and their si
tuation. That includes gay peo
ple, minorities and poor people.
“We want to change women’s
lives — and by extension, the
lives of us all — and that is the
first priority.”
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