Wellington Women's Liberation Front

Date: 07 10 00 - 07 Oct 2000

From: YWCA of Wellington and Hutt Valley oral history project

By: Gill, Jennifer Mary, 1951-

Reference: OHInt-0590-5

Description: Jennifer Mary Gill was born in Lower Hutt in 1951. Talks about her parents, their marriage, and strong belief in education. Mentions relationship with brother, grandparents, and talks about school, Victoria University Wellington, and issues of the early seventies such as the Vietnam War, the Springboks rugby controversy and abortion. Mentions attending the founding meeting of Victoria's Women's Liberation Front. Talks about campus life, politics, flower power, hippiedom and the sense of freedom. Mentions her marriage in 1972, teaching, work for the Council of Organisations for Relief Services Overseas (CORSO), opening a Trade Aid shop, overseas travel and visiting CORSO projects in India, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Talks about working for Wellington's YWCA (Young Women's Christian Association) before and after it was influenced by feminism. Mentions the Willis St building, the shopper's creche, management style, and remaining a board member after the birth of her son. Talks about the contrasting views between older and younger board members, such as police use of YWCA building during the Springbok Tour 1981. Discusses YWCA board meetings and committees, concerns about the Nydia Bay camps, and minimal contact with the YMCA (Young Men's Christian Association). Compares YWCA with CORSO and the Roy McKenzie Foundation which she later worked for. Talks about Roy McKenzie's preparedness to address hard issues. Mentions Marion Wood's ability as national Director of YWCA. Talks about current position as Executive Director of Fulbright New Zealand, mentions the Wellington Regional Community Foundation. Talks about her life, children, feminism, and women's organisations that no longer exist. Interviewer(s) - Jill Abigail Accompanying material - Project release form, biographical information, CV. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-9081, 9082 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2872. 2 photocopies of photos, (one 1970's aged early twenties, one 1990's)

Date: 1964-1986

From: Devereux, Selwyn McDonald, 1908-1999 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-12910-2

Description: "Folder seven" contains internal party communications, letters, telegrams, hand written notes, meeting agendas and minutes, material relating to the National Anti-War Committee, a report on the Revolutionary Alliance , and copies of newspaper clippings. Dates are 1970 to 1972. "Folder eight" contains internal party communications, material relating to the U.S blockade of North Vietnam ports, anti-war leaflets and flyers, material relating to the Wellington Tenants Protection Association. Dates are 1972 to 1973. "Folder nine" contains material relating to the "defeat" of the party, newspaper clippings, internal communications, correspondence between the party and the Wellington branch of the N.Z China Society, pamphlets, drafts of protest material, a research paper titled "Theoretical Notes towards a materialist conception of ideological reproduction" by David Buxton, and Devereux's self-criticism and criticism of the party. Dates are 1972, and 1977. "Folder ten" contains newsletters, correspondence, submissions against the use of 2,4,5-t herbicide, two copies of the "te-hokioi Te-reo-ote-iwi-Maori" publication, VUW Young Socialists material, meeting minutes, and material relating to the Tenants Union. Also includes inter-party communications, and various opinions and thoughts. Dates are 1964, 1968, 1970, 1972, 1976 to 1977, 1980, 1982, and 1986. "Folder eleven" contains inter-party correspondence and letters, criticisms of Communist Review no. 7, leaflets about subjects including 2,4,5-t herbicide, and socialism, anti-apartheid material, and invitations to various political and community meetings. Folder also contains a paper annotated by someone referred to as "National Socialist", who has drawn a swastika. Dates are 1971 to 1974, and 1980. "Folder twelve" contains material relating to Women's Liberation Front, PYM Rabble publication, and 17 copies of various issues of "Advance Protest" publication by New Zealand Peace Council. Dates are 1966 to 1971. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Arrived to the library in cardboard folders, some of which had been replaced by Richard Hill. The folders were in a transit box. Quantity: 1 box(es) contains six folders. Transfers: Other folders from the transit box are at MS-Papers-12910-1. Processing information: The cardboard folders were disposed of by the Library and contents placed into acid-free folders. The acid-free folders were split across two archival boxes.

Date: [1966-1977]

From: Stewart, Keith, fl 1970-1997 : Ephemera relating to protest and student movements

Reference: MS-Papers-6142-2

Description: Includes newsletters, flyers and circulars for Wellington District Committee of the Communist Party of NZ re Vietnam War, price fixing and anti-working class legislation; July Antiwar Mobilisation Committee; NZ Carpenters and Related Trades' Industrial Union of Workers, Wellington Branch; NZ Spartacist League; A van der Schaaf, Te Reo Maori; SCM; Wellington Anarchist Congress; Wellington College Liberation Front; Women's Liberation Front; `Te Tao' from the Workers Action Movement (1966); and minutes and tactical newsletter for the Wellington Tenants' Union (1977) Other Titles - Te Tao (the spear); v2, n17, May-June-July 1966 Other Titles - Secondary Schools Newsheet (Aug 1970) Other Titles - Why Vietnam (ca 1969) Other Titles - The Price fixers (ca 1969) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1970

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

Reference: B-137-035

Description: Shows two instances of women's encroachment into the male domain: a woman insists on a drink in a "Men only" bar, and another woman insists on being given a present on Father's Day, because the day has been liberated to include women. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and letratone, 265 x 323 mm on sheet 320 x 402 mm.

Date: [ca 2 September 1970]

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1970/3762-F

Description: Women's Liberation Front members ordering a meal at New City Hotel lunch bar, Wellington, taken ca 2 September 1970 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm