Women for Aotearoa records.

Collection — Carton: R043761127

Identifier: MSS-Archives-2023/04

Staff Only

Content Description

The collection includes Includes correspondence, minute books, scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings, printed flyers and serials.

The records relate to the activities of the feminist group Women for Aotearoa during the early 1980s, including opposition to the 1983 royal tour of New Zealand by the Prince and Princess of Wales. Other papers relate to the group's stand on Maori sovereignty and the Treaty of Waitangi.Collection includes copies of thr women's liberation newspaper Bitches, witches and dykesandBroadsheet, and a set of interviews by Gay Simkin recorded on cassette tapes with accompanying typed transcripts.

Dates

ca 1980-1984

Creator

Women For Aotearoa (Organization)

Conditions Governing Access

Not restricted

Biographical / Historical

Women for Aotearoa was formed in Ponsonby, Auckland, in August 1982 when ten women with a variety of feminist backgrounds met to discuss Donna Awatere's recent Broadsheet article on Maori sovereignty. At the meeting were were Marvin Allen, Margaret Crozier, Camille Guy, Wendy Harrex, Joce Jesson, Alison Jones, Jill Newall, Gay Simpkin, Kitty Wishart and Jenefer Wright. Seven of those women Alison, Camille, Gay, Jenefer, Jill, Joce and Marvin continued to meet regularily until 1984 and less often until 1990.

See: Simpkin, G. (1994). Women for Aotearoa: Feminism and Maori Sovereignty. Hecate, 20(2), 226.