Broadsheet (magazine)

Not to be confused with Broadsheet (website).

Broadsheet
Broadsheet magazine cover from June 1985
FrequencyMonthly
FounderAnne Else and Sandra Coney
First issueJuly 1972 (1972-07)
Final issue1997
CountryNew Zealand
Based inAuckland

Broadsheet was a monthly New Zealand feminist magazine produced in Auckland from 1972 to 1997.[1] The magazine played a significant part in New Zealand women's activism.[1] It was to become one of the world's longest-lived feminist magazines.[2]

It was co-founded by Anne Else, Sandra Coney, Rosemary Ronald, and Kitty Wishart.[3][4] The magazine was "New Zealand's first feminist magazine focusing on women's issues and information sharing on a national and international level".[5]

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.[5]

Māori issues sometimes received considerable coverage in the magazine, which provoked "fierce exchanges in the letters pages".[1]

On 19 September 1992, the magazine and New Women's Press (NWP) celebrated a joint anniversary (Broadsheet's twentieth and NWP's tenth), with a Suffrage Day event in Auckland, attended by more than 200 women. The event was part of the Listener Women's Book Festival. Speakers included Pat Rosier, Sandra Coney, Wendy Harrex, Stephanie Johnson and Sheridan Keith.[6]

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 University of Auckland website.[7]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c Schrader, Ben (22 October 2014). "Story: Magazines and periodicals". Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
  2. ^ Daly, Carmel. "'Broadsheet Collective', Women Together". NZHistory. Retrieved 9 February 2019.
  3. ^ Rose, Jeremy (6 December 2009). "Influential Kiwis talk about their Influences". Radio New Zealand. Retrieved 7 May 2014.
  4. ^ Rosier, Pat (1982). Been Around for Quite a While: Twenty Years of Broadsheet Magazine. Auckland: New Women's Press. p. 10.
  5. ^ a b Auckland City Libraries, Broadsheet Collective, p 2
  6. ^ "The twentieth birthday of Broadsheet and the tenth of New Women's Press". Broadsheet Magazine. 196: 33. Summer 1992.
  7. ^ "1997". Broadsheet, New Zealand's Feminist Magazine 1972–1997. Retrieved 11 February 2021.

References

  • Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland City Libraries, Broadsheet Collective (PDF), NZMS 596
  • 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, NZHistory website.


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