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Take Back the Night August 2, 1980

Cleveland Women Take Back the Night started in a woman's kitchen. Inspired by a article in What She Wants about the Boston march in 1978, she talked on the phone and in person with several women as she cooked supper for her family. Soon a small group of women met regularly around her table, planning strategy and clarifying their demands. More women joined. Their input was immediately welcomed. No leaders emerged.

As we began to address the issue of violence against women, the reality of unequal personal power became clear: The rapist is larger than his victim, and he is often armed. Battering husbands and boyfriends are much the same. Poor women cannot get an abortion because they haven't got enough money. All our lives we are told that women are inferior, our concerns are unimportant, we must be passive and accept the violence, the humiliation, the

Clio's Musings

The first organized labor strike by women in American labor history happened in December 1828, in Dover, New Hampshire. Several hundred disgruntled millwomen of the Cocheco Manufacturing Company paraded the streets with banners and flags, and shot off gunpowder. They protested, according to Wertheimer, a cut in pay from 58 to 53 cents a day; a 121⁄2 cent fine for coming in one SECOND late; the forbidding of any talking on the job; the giving of "disgraceful" discharges for undefined "debaucheries"; the requirement of church at-

lack of self-identity and power which are imposed on

us.

We did not want to continue these things in our committee. We did not want to be cliquish and make distinctions between "old" and "new" members, "officers" and others, "leaders" and "followers." We inspired dignity in one another. We didn't tell each other what to do. We saw what needed to be done. We took responsibility and we did it.

The Take Back the Night Committee is open to all women. We have no "stars," no "experts," and no "veterans. We welcome women to join us. If you disagree with our politics, join us and change us. We hope to include more women in our planning for the march next summer.

Women will take back the night across the nation on August 2, 1980. Any woman who is interested in joining Cleveland's Take Back the Night Committee, please call 321-6889.

-by Paula Copestick

tendance; and the specification of a fourteen-day notice in order to leave the mill "honorably." After the millowners advertised for several hundred "better behaved women," the strikers went back to work without their demands realized, figuring a miserable job was better than none at all.

Wertheimer, Barbara Mayer. We Were There: The Story of Working Women in America. New York: Pantheon Books, 1977.

Strong Wimmin (continued from p. 6)

Princess Marie d'Orleans in her Studio (1833), by Ary Scheffer. Marie was the daughter of King LouisPhilippe of France (her mother was not mentioned). 'She showed exceptional talent in art at an early age. Because she was royalty, she received drawing and sculpture lessons and became a favorite student of Scheffer. She died at age 26, and Scheffer assembled 'all her works and exhibited them in a room in his apartment.

The bronze statue of St. Joan, sculpted by Princess Marie d'Orleans, is located right next to Marie's portrait by Sheffer. The sculpture is 14 to 16 inches high and shows St. Joan holding a sword. Her gloves and

helmet are on a tree trunk nearby. This is an extremely sensitive work by a womon who appreciated a great womon of early France. The statue is on loan and should be viewed as soon as possible.

This painting, done when Marie was 20, shows her with several of her sculptures, including a model of St. Joan of Arc, which is the next work to be considered.

Joye Gulley is a lesbian feminist completing a degree in art at Cleveland State University.

Beverly Stamp is a lesbian feminist who became interested in lesbian/feminist art while visiting several art museums in Europe during a three-month trip last

summer.

Fewer and Later

(HerSay)-One out of 10 American women aged 18 to 34 is clecting to have no childrer during her lifetime, according to a survey by the Bureau released in November.

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The Bureau also found that American women, when they do have children, are waiting longer than they did 10 and 20 years ago, with the birth of a first child coming two years after marriage. That is six months longer than it was in the 1970's, and ten months longer than in the 1960's.

The study also found that nearly one-third of married women aged 18 to 34 return to work within a

year after having a child, and 41 percent are either working or looking for a job when the child is two years old. '

The survey found that women of higher educational levels, and those women who are more careeroriented, are more likely to remain childless or have small families than women with less education.