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turn to peer relations and cease to focus on the organization and our mobility in it. And with a lack of real power, we find the "bitchy boss", an individual who has advanced as far as she can in the organization (often first-line supervision), and whose power only flows to those below her in the structure, not upward to the men with real decision-making power. "

For women, getting into the power structure of organizations is akin to adapting to another culture

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with its own language, perspective, and code of behavior. I am sure that the planners of the conference would like those in attendance to believe that John Carroll University can start them on that process of adaptation. To adapt, however, means to

TMI Documentary (continued from page 7) energy has not yet been brought to the public's attention: the storage of fuel rods, the spent fuel which is a by-product of nuclear energy. They must be stored in water which circulates continuously to prevent evaporation because the fuel rods contain high amounts of radioactive materials which are incendiary. If one of these storage pools loses water, a fire would result and the gases given off by this fire would create "the worst possible disaster".

A documentary on Three Mile Island is more than timely and more than necessary. According to Robert K. Musil, Education Director of the SANE Education Fund, We Are the Guinea Pigs excels anything currently available on nuclear issues. It has been accepted for presentation at the 1980 Sidney Film Festival in Australia.

Clio's Musings

By Paula A. Copestick

In Ohio, May 28, 1851, Praces D. Gage presided over a Women's Suffrage Convention. In an extemporaneous speech, she declared, "Oh, if all women could be impressed with the importance of their own action, and with one united voice, speak out in their own behalf of humanity, they could create a revolution without armies, without bloodshed, that would do more to ameliorate the condition of mankind, to purify, elevate, ennoble humanity, than all that has been done by reformers in the last century." In the spirit of these words, Mrs. Casement of Painesville, Ohio organized, a State Association of Woman's Rights in her home in May, 1885. A list of officers included women who had made the enfranchisement of women their paramount work for many years.

While women worked hard for equal rights, Isadora Duncan, born May 27, 1878 in San Francisco, lived a life. dedicated to personal freedom. At

change. It is at this point that women need to consider whether to conform to the system or to change the system itself. If we take any cues from the expulsion of Midge Costanza or Bella Abzug from their so-called positions of influence, we can conclude that when the interests of women conflict with the interests of the power structure, women have to give in or get out.

Women who are now beginning to enter doors opened in the 1960's to non-traditional jobs, both blue-collar and white-collar, represent a new wave of immigrants into the "promised land" of the system. What these women find there, what conflicts and compromises they face, hold implications for all women. We need to look beyond issues of selfdetermination and how to enter the system. Women need to address the issue of the purposes of power in organizations and our place in them, if any. Whether we are employed by established corporations and institutions or not, they will affect our lives. We can despair and ignore the situation, or we can establish a feminist network in which women can exchange information, ideas, and support, and can focus on a direction as individuals and as a group.

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primarily accessible to white, middle-class women. This single issue strategy continues to haunt the reproductive rights movement today and allowed for an "Abortion Rights Action Week" with events cosponsored by such diverse groups as the Committee for Abortion Rights and Against Sterilization Abuse (CARASA) and Planned Parenthood. While -CARASA-has-been noted for its attempts to link-up with other struggles, Planned Parenthood is sponsored by the Rockefeller-funded International Planned Parenthood Foundation (IPPF)—a major proponent of sterilization abuse.

The fight to defeat the Klan strikes at the very foundation of the U.S. system, which is primarily held up by white supremacy. Thus, no revolutionary movement in the U.S. can succeed without taking up this fight. This fight has been at the heart of almost every significant upheaval and turning point in U.S. history and in fact gave rise to the current women's and lesbian and gay rights movement.

Forming feminist, lesbian and gay anti-racist organizations or joining anti-racist coalitions as visible feminists, lesbians and gay men is a necessary step in the building of radical, autonomous, multi-racial, feminist, lesbian and gay movements and at the same time provide support for national liberation struggles within and outside the current borders of the U.S.

the age of six she began teaching neighborhood children uninhibited, graceful and sensual styles of dancing. Later, she discarded conventional ballet skirts and danced in a Grecian tunic with ropes of roses around her waist and in her hair. In the dance, she proclaimed, "the body is no longer to be separated in the thought of women from the soul." Her personal freedom was reflected in deciding never to marry, never to put herself into any man's keeping, and to bear children as she pleased. Her life ended in a tragic accident, but her free spirit lives on in the Women's Movement.

References:

Stanton, E.C., Anthony, S.B., and Gage, M.J. History of Woman Suffrage, Vols. I and IV. Rochester, New York, 1881.

Stoddard, Hope. Famous American Women, New York: Thomas Y.. Crowell Co., 1970.