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WHAT'S HAPPENING

August

The Dinner Party is open at 3130 Mayfield Road (corner of Lee Road) through August 16, daily noon to 10 p.m.; closed Tuesdays; $3 admission, $2 seniors.

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The film on the making of the Dinner Party, Right Out of History, will be shown at the Dinner Party exhibition site, 3130 Mayfield Road, from 1:30 to 7:30 every day except Tuesday. Musical entertainment at Jeanne & Lorraine's Tea Shop at the exhibit site every Friday at 7:30 p.m. Volunteers for docents (guides) training sessions are Thursdays, 7:00 p.m., or Saturdays, 11:00 a.m.

Open Forum discussions sponsored by Ohio-Chicago Art Project Incorporated, 3130 Mayfield Road, Cleveland Hts., at Jeanne & Lorraine's Tea Shop will cover the following topics:

July 29, 7:30 p.m. "The Dinner Party." How it has affected us. An opportunity to share your reactions and feelings about Judy Chicago's work.

August 5, 7:30 p.m. Discussion with members of Oven Productions and DCAP-The Future: Where Do We Go From Here in Support of Women Artists?

The Home-Like Birth Center of Booth Memorial Hospital will hold an open house tour at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, August 6. The Birth Center provides a warm, homey atmosphere where the entire family can participate in the birth process with the assurance that hospital care is immediately available. Families have an option of physician or certified nurse midwife delivery. For more information, call 692-3500.

A summer study course focusing on women's equity issues offered by the American Institute for Foreign Study, will be held in London August 8-22, including such topics as the British Women's Equal Opportunity Commission, unionization of women in Britain, women in print and in the media, women and health, and women in government. Participants will visit the Houses of Parliament, the Tower of London, St. Paul's Cathedral and H.M. Holloway Prison for Women. The program fee of $599 includes full board. tuition, lectures and field visits and certain sightseeing activities. Transportation to and from London is not included.

Further information is available through the American Institute for Foreign Study, 102 Greenwich Avenue, Greenwich, Conn. 06830, or from the local sponsor, WomenSpace, 696-3100.

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the job April 28. That forced GE to move the managers into neighboring buildings and to give them the token demotions. At the same time, GE took disciplinary action against 22 of those involved in the walkout.

Because of the publicity garnered by the secretary's case, other women have already filed reports that one of the unit managers in question harassed and abused them as well.

-The Guardian July 8, 1981

Cleveland Women Working is offering the following workshops to working women seeking skills for job survival:

Warning: Office Work May Be Hazardous to Your Health.

The Automated Office and Your Health. The pros and cons of new technology in the workplace. How are machines affecting the quality of our worklives? What does the future hold? Tuesday, August 11, 5:30-7:00 p.m., CWW office.

Strategies for a Safe and Health Office. The role of government agencies in promoting healthy and safe workplaces and an overview of your legal rights. Techniques for organizing on the job to pressure employers for improvements. Tuesday, August 18, 5:30-7:00 p.m., CWW office. Workshop fees: Workshop Series, $18 non-members, $10 members. Each Workshop, $5 non-members, $3 members. Workshop fees will cover cost of educational materials and refreshments. For further information on schedules and fees, contact CWW, 566-8511.

The 6th Michigan Womyn's Music Festival will be held August 13-16. 1981, near Hesperia, Michigan. Among the performers will be Terry Garthwaite, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Meg Christian, Orquestra Sorbrosita, Alive. Alix Dobkin, and many others. Ticket are based on a sliding scale and range from $10 for one day to $60 for the whole weekend. The price includes concerts, food, workshops, camping and parking space. Coldwater showers, drinking and portable toilets will be provided. For tickets or information, send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to: W.W.T.M.C., 1501 Lyons Street, Mt. Pleasant, MI 48858, or call (517) 772-0582.

The Augusta Festival, featuring traditional and contemporary folk music, will take place at Davis & Elkins College, Elkins, W.Va. 26241, August 14-16. Holly Near and Alice Gerrard will perform and conduct a song swap on women's music. Cost is $8 for weekend or $4.50 for one night. This includes concerts, craft fair, fiddle contest, quilt display, workshops, and more. For tickets or more information write the collage or call (304) 636-0006.

A N.O.W. Walkathon for ERA will take place on Saturday, August 22. Call Cathy, 382-2461, for further information.

An end of the Dinner Party Celebration will take place on Saturday, August 29, from 8:30 p.m. until ? at 3130 Mayfield Road, featuring the Rainsong & Mudslide Trio with Kate Thomas on drums. A disco dance will follow at approximately 10:30. Donation at the door $2.00. Cash bar. Sponsored by Oven Productions, the event is for women only.

September

The second annual West Coast Women's Music & Cultural Festival will take place September 10-13, 1981, at Camp Mather near Yosemite, CA. Performers and workshop leaders will include Meg Christian, Audre Lorde, Charlotte Bunch, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Kate Millet, Flo Kennedy, Teresa Trull and Ultra Violet. For more information; write to West Coast Women's Music & Cultural Festival, 1195 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94110, or call (415) 641-4892.

Education for Freedom of Choice in Ohio (EFCO) will sponsor a Raftje Drawing and Salad Supper Benefit on Saturday, September 12, at 2728 Lancashire, Cleveland Heights. Supper will be at 7:30 p.m., and a film, "So Many Voices: A Look at Abortion in America," narrated by Ed Asner and Tammy Grimes, will be shown at 8:30. Admission is $2.00, kids $.75. Child care provided. Please let us know you're coming. RSVP 621-8224.

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reorganizing and plans to re-release the Tassaway cup sometime in the future.

Menstrual extraction was developed in 1972 by women of the Los Angeles Feminist Women's Health Center. It is a women-invented, women-controlled procedure of removing the entire menstrual flow using a relatively simple vacuum apparatus. It can also be used for early abortion. If performed carelessly or by an untrained individual, this procedure can result in infection and damage to the uterus, and when performed too long after a missed period, can result in an incomplete abortion. There have not been any long-term studies of this method.

Finally, home remedies have been around as long as women have been menstruating. Many women still make their own tampons and pads out of surgical gauze, cotton strips, etc. One woman even claims to have such good muscle control that she holds her menstrual flow.until it is convenient to release it.

Friedman concludes that making tampon manufacturers more responsive to women's concerns is on-

ly a first step in being responsible consumers. We need to know more about menstruation and normal body functions in general, as well as the products that relate to them. For example, what about the contraceptive jellies, foams, and creams that women insert into their vaginas with the same unwitting trust? And what about those superabsorbent diapers that keep a baby's bottom dry for hours? "We need to learn to question the companies that ask us to entrust our bodies to them," Friedman asserts. "We need to know what substances we're inserting in our bodies. We need to know the risks we take when we insert those substances. We need to ask questions, and we have a right to expect honest answers".

The best solution to ensuring that women's products are safe for women is to participate actively in our own health needs. To Friedman, this means doing our own research and public health, and creating woman-owned, woman-controlled companies in which women set the priorities and choose the materials.

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