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Interview with Miriam Saphira
- Date
- 23 Apr 1994
- By
- Saphira, Miriam Edna (Dr), 1941-
- Reference
- OHInt-0086/04
- Description
Miriam Saphira outlines her community involvement beginning with the Inglewood Country Girls' Club. Discusses her experiences on the local kindergarten committee and her concern about the smacking of children which led to working in the Justice Department dealing with the sexual abuse of children through working with prostitutes and male offenders. Talks about her reasons for going to university to become a psychologist and a counsellor; contact with feminism through the University creche; meeting Sandra Coney; joining Auckland Womens' Liberation Movement and her strong belief in children's rights.
Mentions full-time work for Broadsheet magazine.Discusses her publications `The sexual abuse of children' and `Amazon mothers'. Describes the research for her PhD on children's understanding of sexual orientation. Describes reaction to sexual abuse statistics. Discusses the NZ Womens Weekly questionnaires on rape, domestic violence and sexual abuse and obtaining funding for groups such as Rape Crisis Centres. Gives views on issues in the welfare of women, abortion, health information, day-care and parent-child relationships, especially in a sole parenting situation. Talks about being Secretary General of the International Lesbian and Gay Association. Discusses attacks on her work and herself as a lesbian. Describes work as mananger of Manawai, the special Service (NZCYPS) in Hamilton including video interviews with children for court evidence. Outlines her work on the Trust Board of the NZ Aids Foundation. Discusses the lack of positive information for young people coming out as lesbian or gay and talks about suicide. Mentions the use of ECT, drug therapy, lobotomy and rape she has encountered in counselling lesbians. Outlines positive changes and the role of anit-discrimination legislation.
Talks about her book `Stopping child abuse', ways of rearing boys, programmes in school and sexual abuse of people with disabilities.
Venue - Hamilton : 1993
Interviewer(s) - Penny Ehrhardt
Venue - Manawai Social Support Services, Hamilton
Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-006390; OHC-006391
Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration.
Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 1485.
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- Part of
- Women in Welfare Work Oral History Project.
- Format
- 2 C60 cassette(s), 1 printed abstract(s), 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration, Oral histories
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Interview Miriam Saphira, printed abstract
Date: 23 Apr 1994
From: Women in Welfare Work Oral History Project.
Reference: OHA-1485
Description: Interviewer(s) - Penny Ehrhardt Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 1485.
Interview Miriam Saphira, tape one
Date: 23 Apr 1994
From: Women in Welfare Work Oral History Project.
Reference: OHC-006390
Description: Interviewer(s) - Penny Ehrhardt Arrangement: Tape sequence - 1 of 2 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s).
Interview Miriam Saphira, tape two
Date: 23 Apr 1994
From: Women in Welfare Work Oral History Project.
Reference: OHC-006391
Description: Interviewer(s) - Penny Ehrhardt Arrangement: Tape sequence - 2 of 2 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s).