WOMEN'S HANDBOOK ON ITS WAY OUT
During its six year existence, Cleveland Women's Counsel has developed a comprehensive file of agencies and individuals offering services to women as well as information about how to use these services in self-empowering ways. These files include areas of concern to women such as Health, Housing, Divorce, Childcare, Mental Health and many others. For some time Cleveland feminists have wanted to make the information compiled by CWC, Rape Crisis Center, Women Together, and WomenSpace available to all women in Cleveland in the form of a directory and consumer guidebook. This dream is now a reality due to the efforts of Pat Hoornstra and Judy Gordon (who wrote the funding proposal) and representatives from the four sponsoring organizations mentioned above. The project has been funded by the Gund and Shubert foundations. The budget Includes money for the salaries of two researcher-editors, one office assistant, as well as printing and distributing expenses. The handbook board which consists of representatives from CWC, RCC, Women Together and WomenSpace, will contribute material as well as editorial input at weekly board meetings. The staff and board will collect and write fresh information as well as pull together already existing material,
The handbook will be available in Fall '77 and is intended for use by all women In the Greater Cleveland Area. Essentially, the handbook will be a guide to Cleveland area resources for women, with information about how to choose, evaluate and use them effectively.
The handbook will be distributed at Community Centers, Libraries, YWCA's, Women's Service Agencies, Hospitals as well as at com. mercial outlets. AGENCIES WISHING TO DISTRIBUTE THE HANDBOOK SHOULD CALL 791-2948.
The staff and board of the handbook hope to devise a way to publish updates regularly and to make the handbook project an ongoing and self-supporting one.
Boston, Minneapolis-St. Paul and San Francisco are among cities known to have published directories for women so there are some precedents. The staff and the board of the Cleveland Women's Handbook hope to produce something specifically useful to women in the Cleveland Area, keeping in mind the commonality of all women's experience.
In order to make the project an all-Clevelandwoman-made product and to encourage area women artists to take themselves seriously, the
handbook will include graphics and creative writing as well as accounts of personal experiences.
Other areas covered will be Aging, Violence Against Women, Sexuality, Employment, Money and Mothering. The bulk of the handbook will be brief agency and service descriptions and narrative material.
LOCAL WOMEN TO BE PUBLISHED
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The handbook staff and board want very much to reach feminists as well as women outside
the feminist community. Feeling that the handbook should be a practical guide as well as an educational tool, they want it to reach and be used by the women who need it the most.
WANTED: Original Material
The directory of women's resources, which will come out in the fall of '77 is now seeking original material by Cleveland women. The handbook is designed to be a guide and educational tool for women as well as an outlet for original graphics and creative writing by area women. It is hoped that payment for publication and the wide distribution of the directory will encourage contributors to take themselves more seriously as artists and writers.
The handbook will include sections dealing with issues relevant to women: Aging, Divorce, Employment, Mothering, Assertiveness, Sexuality, Health and Violence Against Women. The project Is being sponsored by four Feminist Service organizations: Cleveland Women's Counsel, Rape Crisis Center, Women Together, and WomenSpace,
"Graphics Photos and black and white
drawings will be needed. Artists whose work is used will be paid $5.00 per plece upon publication of the handbook.
**Each piece must be signed so that credit may be given.
**Each submission must be accompanied by the form below, filled out with name, current address and phone number.
**Poetry relating to the above topics will be considered. Contributing poets will be paid $5.00 per poem upon publication of the handbook. Each page must carry name and address of author. Enclose stamped, self-addressed envelope. DO NOT SEND YOUR ONLY COPY!
**Each section will include brief personal experiences or anecdotes relating to the themes covered in the handbook
The handbook staff is interested in the whole range of things women have experienced, learned and unlearned during the course of their lives, for ex ample: divorce, motherhood, widowhood, aging, working, being unemployed, being you and defin Ing sexuality. Each page must carry the name and address of the author. DO NOT SEND YOUR ONLY COPY.
SEND ART AND WRITTEN SUBMISSIONS TO
CLEVELAND WOMEN'S HANDBOOK c/o Cleveland Women's Counsel Box 18472
Cleveland Heights. Ohio 44118
'For Information call the handbook number 791-2948
CLIP AND ATTACH TO ART OR MANUSCRIPT Name -
FIRST
Address-
STREET
Phone -Title of Piece (if any) -
LAST
CITY
ZIP
'OR Drop Art and written submissions off at the Three of Cups, the women's bar and gathering place at 12814 Buckeye Rd. Large Portfolio marked "Women's Handbook Art" will be provided
What She Wants
WHAT SHE WANTS IS:
...a monthly news journal produced for all women. There is no subject unsuitable for our readers and therefore you will find articles on every tople from politics to poetry in each issue.
WHAT SHE WANTS is: .......equal and civil rights ..the
the
earnings based on our nood, merit and interest training, salaries and promotions we organize in unions and coalitions to advance
decent health can and health information sale effective birth central and to safe and
| ar roject motherhood
and express sexual proforanes without
freedom from prejudica
WSW always likes input from our readers in the form of letters. articles, Off My Breast, personal experiences.
WSW always likes to include new women on our staff who are willing to write, help with lay-out, organization, editorial, advertising, and selling--full time and part time.
WSW always likes new subscribers, distribution people, outlets for sales, and publicity.
WSW always needs information about what Cleveland women are doing. planning, thinking, writing, breaking up, putting together. WSW always needs YOU!!! Write us at:
What She Wants c/o Cleveland Women's Counsel P.O. Box 18472 Cleveland Heights, OH 44118
WE ARE
Laurel Brummet, Linda Caswall, Sarah Fitzsimmons, Sunny Fry, Cheryl Gould, Judy Gregory, Sandy Handley, Meredith Holmes, Marycatherine Krause, Victoria Lee, Barbara Louise, Carol Patterson, Valerie Robinson Barbara Reusch, Mary Walsh, Jackie Wessel, Maricia Ziegenbusch
This publication is on file with the International Women's History Archive now at the Special Collections Library. Northwestern Univ ersity, Evanston, Illinois 60201, on microfilm through June 1974 from the Women's History Research Center, 2325 Oak Street, Berkeley Cali fornia 94708.
YEARLY SUBSCRIPTION HATES Regular $6.00 Contributing $15.00
Sustaining $25.00
Institutional $15 00
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