''Broadsheet'' was a monthly New Zealand feminist magazine produced in

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from 1972 to 1997. The magazine played a significant part in New Zealand women's activism. It was to become one of the world's longest-lived feminist magazines. It was co-founded by

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, Rosemary Ronald, and Kitty Wishart. The magazine was "New Zealand's first feminist magazine focusing on women's issues and information sharing on a national and international level".Auckland City Libraries, ''Broadsheet Collective'', p 2 The first issue was released in July 1972, and "consisted of twelve foolscap pages – stapled"; 200 copies were produced, which sold out. Before the second issue was published they had 50 paid subscribers.

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issues sometimes received considerable coverage in the magazine, which provoked "fierce exchanges in the letters pages". On 19 September 1992, the magazine and New Women's Press (NWP) celebrated a joint anniversary (''Broadsheets twentieth and NWP's tenth), with a Suffrage Day event in Auckland, attended by more than 200 women. The event was part of the ''

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'' Women's Book Festival. Speakers included Pat Rosier,

, Wendy Harrex, Stephanie Johnson and Sheridan Keith. The magazine is now an important source for the social history of the period, and the entire back catalogue of ''Broadsheet'' is available on the

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website.

Notes

References

* *Rosier, Pat (ed.), ''Been Around for Quite a While: Twenty Years of'' Broadsheet ''Magazine'', New Women's Press, Auckland, 1992 *Coney, Sandra, 'Broadsheet, Ten Years On', ''Broadsheet'', No. 101, July/August 1981, pp. 12–19 *Daly, Carmel, 'Broadsheet Collective 1972–1997', ''Women Together,'' NZHistor
website.

External links

Broadsheet, New Zealand’s Feminist Magazine, 1972–1997
The University of Auckland, online access (archive link of 5 August 2024)
Information about the 'Broadsheet Row'
at TheProw.org.nz
Broadsheet, New Zealand’s Feminist Magazine Goes Digital
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