Feminism is so misrepresented – having historical records available to all would allow some of the mischief making around this to be challenged directly.

This magazine provided a space for feminist views to be heard and debated, and thereby supported some major social change in this country. Having it digitised would ensure this particular record of Aotearoa’s feminist past is accessible to many.

This was an important part of my youth!

Women’s history is so often marginalised, so often passed over, because of course, it’s just women’s history. It would be good to see it being treated with respect.

Women`s history needs to be available to as many as pssible.Digitised ,it would be great .
Berill

to enable our young women to access the information that has laid the platform for them be more empowered in the world, it is important to know the grass roots and this is definitely grass roots.

This would make a special era of women’s social and political history more accessible, especially to young women who know little of the struggles feminist women have had in arousing consciousness about the need for better conditions for all women, and how Broadsheet gave voice to their aspirations.

Broadsheet came into being during a very important time of change for women, which has led to major changes in our entire society. For those younger women who were not a part of this change, Broadsheet is an important record. For those of us who were part of this, re-reading Broadsheet encourages us to recognize just how far we, and Society have come.
by eredwen, Thursday 11 March, 2010 20:20Hrs

Important to reflect both genders in history, and in the past men tend to be over-represented. And even listening to National Radio this morning, research shows that there’s been a 3:1 ratio of male characters to female in the movie industry since 1946.

So that women in the future can see where we’ve come from and where we could be heading with equal opportunities and as importantly, with equal respect.

These issues are still being debated and are still relevant to today, the battles fought by Broadsheet and the feminists of the 1970s have not all been won. It is essential that todays women are aware of the discussions that still concern them and of their intellectual and historical context…especially the NZ context.

Broadsheet provides an amazing archive of women’s writing during a time of significant social change; recording the challenges, political activism and hard-won gains. Some of us still hold small and incomplete collections, and a greater body of the 214 odd issues is available through places such as Auckland University. However, these days this wonderful repository is not so readily visible nor accessible. Having this fabulous herstorical resource digitalised would enable a wider audience to access the material, more easily, and preserve good women’s words for the cyber-feminisms of the day.
‘Take a kernel of political yearning. Plant solidly in a bed of enthusiasm and energy. Fertilise with liberal amounts of activism and debate, and water generously with sweat from brow of many women.’

This is an important part of our history and it is good to have easy access to the articles.

This magazine provided a space for feminist views to be heard and debated, and thereby supported some major social change in this country. Having it digitised would ensure this particular record of Aotearoa’s feminist past is accessible to many.
By Fran Cammock

We need this important information about feminism in this country to be readily accessible. Society seems to be slipping backwards, and the young women who didn’t experience the feminist movement, it would be good for them to be able to know just what we went thru to get the equal rights that they DO have. Equal rights wasn’t always there and they sure didn’t come without a fight!

Yes Yes Yes!!!

because it’s another part of New Zealand’s and Womens’ history.

Clancy Hunt

It was an important voice for women at the time of raising awareness of feminist issues in New Zealand and run by a collective of women for women.

I’m curious – does anyone know who holds the copyright?

what about pat and prue in kapiti? witchwork

this magazine represents the feminist voice of new zealand women, and it is a snapshot of what women were doing to try to achieve equality, making feminist( i.e. women’s) issues noticed and publicised.

This is my NO1 Priority.

For reference to thinking.

Womens history is often invisible, feminist history even more so…..and I imagine feminist history in New Zealand would be vulnerable to also becoming invisible or lost due to being inaccessible.
Broadsheet was started in part because there was nothing of it’s kind in other media between 1972 and 1992. As the memories of the women who took part in Broadsheet or who were active in womens issues (which are human issues) over that time get older and disappear, it would be nice to know their efforts and thinking, language and actions were able to be passed on when they themselves ceased to be able to do so.
It would be invaluable for men and women, students and young people to be able to access this period of NZ history in 2020 or 2050 or beyond, using digital data, which will be their ‘first language’ – and to access a history that is unlikely to be documented through a feminist and grass roots lens in quite the same way as Broadsheet was able to do.

a marvellous record of the womens’ movement and NZ society from the seventies onwards.

One of the best records of a major social movement of the twentieth century kept over an extended period.

Broadsheet stories (and even the advertisements) portray significant moments in New Zealand’s history. They are markers in the women’s movement (lesbian women in particular). Digitalisation would enable the stories and events of the time to be better preserved, and provide easy access to an important slice of New Zealand’s history. Preservation and access would reinforce our international status as being at the forefront of women’s issues.

Access to an important record of key discussions & issues involving NZ women’s social history and activism for equity and social justice during a period of significant social and structural changes for women.

incredibly important part of our lives and the future of our country

As a never-ending record of what women achieved and still achieving within daily life across the globe.

It is such a valuable reminder of an energetic and gutsy period in NZ women’s history.

Pauline Ray, Auckland

Long live Queen Boadicea (Boudica)

Women are missing from most histories, digitising this magazine will ensure the little history we do have of women is not lost.

Great magazine – would love to browse at home!

Heather

Would be an invaluable record to have online for students of New Zealand history, gender history, social history etc. Important part of our past, and one that needs to be accessible!

I was one of Broadsheet’s founders and a frequent contributor. I often need to look it up and it would be a enormous help to have it available online. It has been critically important to the women’s movement in New Zealand.

AnneE – are you able to help identify the copyright holders?